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Fully anticipating being clowned for my take here but here goes: I think there is a risk Sample Teams have lost sight of what they were originally intended to be - an intro to the tier for new players - and have shifted into a different purpose, almost eclipsing the need for players to learn...

ABR Hail peng hail Import :abomasnow::gliscor::forretress::blissey::latios::reuniclus: Introduction: Hi! This is a hail team I've been using and sharing around friends for a lot of the last year. Its a pretty solid example of a modern Hail "stall" team, up until a few years ago believed to be...

I will be mostly referring to BW OU in this post as its where I'm most familiar, but this will be pertinent for DPP OU + other Classic gens also. Proposal - Bring back flexible tiering policy in classic gens, let the playerbase decide on more nuanced action that is tailored to their metagame...

Format of tour: This is a 1 day BWOU showdown between Fakes and Team World. Eligibility will be based on whether or not you are Fakes. Line-up: Fakes vs blunder - 2pm Eastern on Smog Tours Fakes vs Gilbert arenas - 2pm Eastern on Smog Tours Fakes vs BLJ mario - 2pm Eastern on Smog Tours Fakes...

See title. Acupressure is a cheesy move with the ability to double evasion ~14% of the time. In isolation this doesn't look too bad, but every time it doesn't call an Evasion boost it can instead call defense, special defense, or speed boosts which make it easier to get follow-up evasion boosts...

[OVERVIEW] Blessed with the ability Magic Guard, Clefable is a serviceable support Pokemon in BW OU with an immunity to the widespread residual damage sources in the tier. In a metagame defined by permanent sand and rain-boosted Scald, Clefable differentiates itself from other special walls...

Man on the Moon a.k.a. Monai's favourite team ||||| Introduction: Magic Guard Clefable is a hugely influential and centralising force in almost every singles metagame where it is permitted, invalidating passive mons the world over as a Normal-type in Gen 4 OU and then with newfound...

Hi all - in case you missed it, BW OU Council is suggesting tiering action on Gems in this Policy Review thread: Here! Aiming to assess support for tiering action on Gems vs individual Gem users. If you are unbadged but wish to share your thoughts, please see the thread below for a guide to...

The BW OU Council has recently been discussing the items Gems, and would like to invite the playerbase at large to give their thoughts on these items in BW Overused specifically. At this time, we ask you to hold your thoughts regarding Gems in BW lower tiers. Type-specific Gems are an item...

New Light <importable> New Light is a team I first built in mid 2021, and have gradually optimised over the last year, and yes, that is a Base Rotom you're looking at. This isn't a joke. People in the BW community know me as a bit of an Alakazam obsessive, and there is some truth in that. I...

Spinblocker Appreciation Month Introduction: Right, so anyone who has remotely followed my tournament appearances / laddering / discord rants knows that for the last 6 months, I've been exploring the use of spinblockers in BW OU. Being Halloween month, this seemed like an appropriate time to...

but everybody calls me GIORGIO paste here Hi all, I've been vocal recently about the lack of RMTs available for old generations, resulting in huge gaps of undocumented metagame history, so decided to put my money where my mouth is and actually contribute - hopefully this will inspire some...

[OVERVIEW] The face of BW OU Counteracts rain so mega splashable even if sand not specifically beneficial Pursuit trap / anti-magic guard Facilitates teams based around residual damage, puts 10s of scary mons on a timer from the beginning of the game [SET] name: ChopleTar move 1: Pursuit move...

Two (Eon) Tickets to Paradise Introduction: I've been away a while. And in that time RMTs went out of fashion, but are now, once again, en vogue. Full circle. Having not written a Team Report in almost 7 years, I delved into my teambuilder to pick out something cool that would be worthy of a...

Introduction, Its been a while. I've been out of this game for ages but I'm not gonna be sentimental because my name likely isn't recognisable around here too much now. This is the team I've been using for what little I've played of the ass generation known as XY. I haven't used it anywhere near...

l'odeur de bite //Intro So I quit mons in like December but have had a couple of weeks with nothing happening recently, so this is the first team I've built since then. The core of the team is just standard bulky offense (Tyranitar + Keldeo + Acro Scizor) but its been working pretty well for me...

buttom of the ocket Table of Contents: Preface Team Building Under the Microscope Hippowdon Forretress Zapdos Jellicent Tangrowth Jirachi Importables Conclusion introductionPreface Okay, firstly I apologize for the length of this. It wasn't too bad before Harsha started writing...

Trapping Trapping has been an irritating strategy since ADV, where Dugtrio and Magneton teams were (and still are) popular. Although it was comparatively rare throughout DPP, trapping returned to full strength in BW1, particularly due to the introduction of shiny new dragons to abuse with...

v1 v2 emma stone <3 Hi. I need to stop RMTing every half-decent team I make, I waste far too much time writing these things. Also I don't really expect anyone to read this intro, its massively tl;dr and is mostly moaning about the suspect ladder. This is the team that I used throughout the...

Aerodactyl [Overview] Hasn't really gained anything itself (move tutor-wise) from BW2. Hurricane resistance and Base 130 Speed make it decent in a metagame full of Tornadus-T. insert generic quake-edge comment Taunt + Roost can allow it to dismantle certain stall cores. With Max Speed...