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Welcome to SM Fight Night!
This is a bi-monthly event where two chosen players will face each other in a best-of-three set of SM OU, with the winner claiming the rotational "featured team" slot on the official samples page...
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Ferrothorn is an incredibly effective defensive presence in the tier, thanks to its incredible dual typing, great bulk, and intensive arsenal of utility moves, including Stealth Rock, Leech Seed, and the rare Spikes. Finding easy setup opportunities against the many Pokemon it...
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Mega Tyranitar is an incredibly potent and forcing threat that more than rounds itself out with its absurd bulk and support capabilities with Sand Stream and its access to Stealth Rock and the strongest unboosted Pursuit in the tier. With its already great bulk bolstered by sand's...
hi, i'm zinnias, i'm a SM OU player and I make laddering and tournament vids. i heard i have a really nice voice for helping people to sleep if you're into that too. here is my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@zinnias114
i recorded my stour tour set this week, please come and check it out
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On paper, Thundurus-T is one of the tier's apex predators, boasting an absurd Special Attack stat and the coveted Nasty Plot to soup up its STAB and coverage options to the next level. It doesn't have an overly difficult time finding that opportunity either, with its defensive typing...
as we see in this image, i'm using a sub kyu-b with freeze shock second slot and ice beam fourth slot. where's the confusion? just tick z-power and click slot 2 to use your z-move!
uhm excuse me what the fuck? i click z-power and then click slot 2, as i'm regularly used to. and...
now i'm...
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Tapu Koko is the main power source for many of the amped-up offense teams in the tier; its signature Electric Surge ability supercharges both its own Thunderbolt and Volt Switch and its teammates' Electric-type attacks drastically, linking up well with the likes of Thunder Punch Mega...
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Toxapex is unlike its fellow contenders for the best Pokemon in the tier; what it lacks in set diversity and flashy options, it makes up with its sheer streamlined efficiency in soaking up attacks from huge threats and sinisterly tiring out the opposing team with its bag of tricks...
What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
Showdown auto-scuffing Pokemon's IVs for no real reason in SM OU. When loading sample spreads for hidden power users, PS can give you suboptimal IVs. It gives you the actual IVs needed to use the Hidden Power Fire, but if it is...
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Excadrill is an incredibly versatile Pokemon, with a typing laden with useful resistances and immunities to pivot around and check various Electric- and Fairy-types, great Attack stat and STAB combination to hit large swaths of the tier and consistently clean up games, and a utility...
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Clefable fits perfectly into the tier with its simply superb utility movepool, helpful typing, and incredible ability in Magic Guard making it a nuisance for any team. It finds countless entry points by absorbing status and weak attacks from defensive Pokemon like Chansey and...
Merry Christmas, SM, I'm looking to bring back the Secret Santa event that was held here a couple years ago. I'll be trying to run it the same as it was before; here's how to participate.
Sign up to participate before the deadline of Saturday, December 14th
Before the deadline ends, DM me...
Hey SM Community, there is another round of analyses ready for reservation. It's been a busy year for SM smogon analyses, with 32 unique Pokemon receiving full or partial updates to their analyses. I'm putting some more that are available to reserve by posting in this thread. Once a member of QC...
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name: Assault Vest
move 1: Fleur Cannon
move 2: Ice Beam / Energy Ball / Iron Head
move 3: Hidden Power Fire / Focus Blast
move 4: Volt Switch
item: Assault Vest
ability: Soul-Heart
nature: Calm
evs: 248 HP / 72 Def / 188 SpD
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Moves
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Fleur Cannon is a crucial...
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With its great Speed, decent bulk, and superb utility toolkit, Tornadus-T is one of the best pivots in the tier, fitting on a wide variety of teams. It provides teams with consistent entry hazard removal with Defog thanks to its perfect-fitting ability in Regenerator, and it can...
stole from excal
SM Rising Stars
Welcome to the first edition of the tournament for SM OU players wanting a last chance to show what they've got before SPL, called SM Rising Stars.
16 players among the sign-ups will be invited to participate. A group of players will be handpicked and I will...
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Chansey's unbelievable bulk is metagame-defining, shaping the tier's special attackers around it and carrying the stall archetype on its back. Devastating threats like Ash-Greninja, Mega Alakazam, Volcarona, and Mega Charizard Y all fall under the same umbrella of being stumped by...