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I've always preferred Bulk Up/Shed Skin Scrafty, personally, especially with all the bloody special attackers he can set up on, but I think Scrafty's a very anti-meta pokemon, and being able to run at least two very effective sets is a very nice advantage for him.

Despite losing chomp, I don't predict an enormous shift in the metagame. For the most part, the votes have tended to enforce the status quo unless something is so overwhelmingly powerful that everyone hates it like Skymin or Blaziken or Garchomp. I have my doubts people will even remember they...

An entire suspect test of people bitching about Sand Veil instead of whether or not we should get rid of them this time, that's how. :/

It'd be a pretty huge double standard if we allowed Rough Skin Garchomp back but not Blaze Blaziken. I would not get my hopes up. Good riddance to Garchomp, but disappointed nothing else got banned and finding it a little lulzy that people are more scared of Thunderous than they are of...

Lightningrod would've actually been a really good option for Jolteon, even a straight-up upgrade on Volt Switch. It would keep its electric immunity, but grab a quick specs boost every time it switched in to take an electric hit for something else... Although that would put it in competition...

Mismagius also makes a good partner for Bisharp, although sadly Bisharp's IDEAL partner is Gengar, a tier too high to use with him. Bisharp is one of the only pokemon in the game that x4 resists Ghost and Dark moves, Mismagius's only weaknesses, while Mismagius is immune to ground and...

I gather from the people I play with that it's not a failure of understanding; people that hold ideals of what is the right way to win hold them because the alternative proposed isn't just odious to them, it tends to be delivered in this exact kind of insulting, condescending tone. It's one...

Wow. A suspect round where I wouldn't be sad at all if every single suspect got banned. I don't know if that's happened before.

I guess I won't be too bothered about the fate of weather, but I don't think I'd mind a clear skies meta. I'm worried it's going to open a big can of worms if the weathers are thrown out of balance, though, hopefully that won't happen. I'd like to see Garchomp go, simply because people's...

I suppose so, although I am still 100% in favor of banning Latios forever. Hell, I'm not so keen on Latias being around and that thing's in danger of dropping to UU. There is a point there, but the problem is getting to the point that they threaten it gives Lugia a free turn or two to either...

Why would Lugia be needed to stop a Cloyster sweep? Or Thunderus, for that matter? It has five teammates for a reason, a big one of them being so it switches in at its leisure against things that can't take advantage of its weaknesses very well. I pointed out that Lugia switches in very well...

...make enormous strategic blunders with it. The Lugia player is infinitely more likely to switch in on the likes of Virizion and Breloom, who sh*t themselves in terror of it, than he is to switch in on various pokemon that are either already set up or can hit Lugia absurdly hard right off the...

I think Manaphy can get his second chance if Drizzle goes, but I'm still not sold on this whole "let's try out Lugia" thing. It just seems like bringing that kinda stuff down is exacerbating the power creep that a lot of people don't like, and it seems like it's still pandering excessively to...

The only way I could see Quick Feet being handy to Jolteon would be if it got Electro Ball, but it doesn't. That being the case, giving up its immunity and subjecting it to status for speed is a poor decision.

...becomes alarmingly inconsistent. I doubt it would take the metagame by storm, but it is an incredibly irritating move that was banned in case some ***hole spammed it and got really lucky like the computer does in Black and White. Minimize and Double Team are not very strong, and you admit...

...Sacred Sword. Aside from Garchomp, something I brought up a long time ago matters: If you're having so much trouble with UU Sand Veilers, use a ****ing Mold Breaker. Hell, more than half the things that get Sand Veil OR Snow Cloak get their asses handed to them by PINSIR, and you have...

I'm sorry if my response seemed particularly scathing, it wasn't meant to be directed at anyone in particular. I was just pointing out the word crops up a lot. That said, I still think that excessive luck is a very subjective matter, and still believe the problem is Garchomp and not Sand...

Right. Kneecap six to ten decent-but-not-great pokemon because one pokemon breaks an ability. That makes perfect sense. I really hate hearing people whine about this ability because "it's uncompetitive". Well, I guess we ought to ban Super Luck, then, because the hell if I want a crit to to...

I disagree. I feel that treating an ability that breaks Garchomp and only Garchomp in specific circumstances as the problem instead of Garchomp itself is giving Garchomp special treatment because people don't want to look reactionary. Garchomp is no longer broken for the reasons it was broken...

Wait, weren't we having a HUGE debate a while back about how Blaziken as a whole was banned because one of its abilities breaks it hard, even if the other doesn't? If Sand Veil Garchomp is considered broken, logic would dictate a complete Garchomp ban instead of a Sand Veil or Sand Veil...