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I mentioned a while back in the UU speculation thread about the possible sticky webbers of the tier. Since Galvantula's stayed in OU, pretty much everything I said is still valid so I thought I'd rewrite it here. (I'm not even going to try and argue a case for Ariados and Kriketune) Leavanny is...

I think people prefer water types because they are far easier to build a core around. For instance, Slowbro can switch on water moves aimed at Infernape all day and Infernape would appreciate finding his way in on a bug, grass or dark attack. I've tried building a team around Hippowdon in UU and...

You're damn right a dark type could. Mandibuzz is frequently on teams and will rip that core apart with taunt (on base 80 speed). Talonflame, another major threat, will do a number on it being able to 2HKO both with Brave Bird and set-up on Trevenant and can volturn with Rotom-W to whittle them...

I believe you might like the Greninja / Galvantula cores that were talked about a while back in the thread. I personally can't see the value in Greninja (except for the ghost/dark resistance it can't use very well and protean trolling).

Slowbro'll get more overall bulk by investing in health than either of its defences. Yes you'll get more physical or special bulk by investing in defence or special defence but it's probably not worth it without max health first. 248 health gives you 393 HP, which is 1 over a number divisible by...

You got me interested Chou, so I decided to look up exactly how much better Slowking's movepool is. Things in Slowking's extra movepool in order of awesome: Dragon Tail - the Slows don't get Roar or Whirlwind, but also one a few valid utility moves for an Assault Vest set. (Very tempting) Power...

Eh, scald's a direct attacking move that just has a chance of burn and since burn is my favourite status, I'd like more of a guarantee my opponent has it. I'm likely gonna toy with Jellicent's movepool a bit, but Hex has good synergy with how burn happy it is and only has a ~21% power drop (For...

I personally play "Neo" stall. I prefer to avoid focusing on one method of attrition and instead run sand, burn, toxic, stealth rocks and leech seed (seeds are my personal favourite) all on the same team. I often miss not having spikes against slower teams, against faster ones I'd much rather...

So I've been interested in UU and I've been wanting to make an effective core. Unfortunately, I've been wanting to build it around Hippowdon the only (hilariously) UU pokémon in my OU team. Mono-ground doesn't exactly have a lot of options for type synergy and Hippowdon's sandstream makes...

My fellow students and I have joke running around about Ferrothorn. That being Ferrothorn haunts water types to no end. I was under the impression it single handedly booted Suicune out of OU as Suicune's niché of setting up as the last pokémon on a team against stall teams was dead. Still...

Definitely. 0 SpA Whimsicott Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Hydreigon: 256-304 (65.9 - 78.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO If rocks are up, Whimsicott does pretty well vs Dragonite. 0 SpA Whimsicott Moonblast vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Dragonite: 168-198 (51.8 - 61.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+ Atk Dragonite...

However, the fact they gave Whimsicott an immunity which is extremely abusable with its playstyle. Whimsicott switching in on any dragon move can be fatal except for extremespeed dragonite. You don't even need moonblast. Hence my preferred Whimsicott set: Dragon Hunter @ Leftovers Impish...

Yeah... Fun fact about Leavanny. It doesn't learn sticky web, Sewaddle does. Sewaddle doesn't learn knock off, Leavanny does, it's a move tutor move. In short, it's an illegal move combo. Same with Heal Bell. Masquerain suffers from a similar problem in that its preevo is the one that learns...

So... Call me crazy, but with Galvantula being what appears to be the OU sticky webber it might not end up being available to use in UU. With, as it's been stated earlier, all the grounded game in UU sticky web is a hell of a lot more threatening (which further justifies Galvantula in OU). With...

No responses in over 24 hours, so I've tried sprucing up the initial post to improve readability and maybe a few things I think I could have said better. Bumpity bump bump?

So, I've been lurking on Smogon since 4th gen and now that X and Y have made pokémon breeding a bajillion times easier, I've decided to get into competitive proper. With infinite Sun no longer a thing, I figured I'd try my hand at a paradigm I'm not used to. While I'm used to the doubles...

I think you might have a problem November Blue. You're suggesting Mega Banette for just about everything, but it has several problems. The biggest being it cannot come in on something and mega evolve to land a prankster speed Will-o-wisp or Thunder Wave. It lacks the defences to pull off a...

I feel that Mega Kangaskhan has enough power to justify a ban. Firstly, as has been mentioned many times previous, rocky helmet abuse to put her into KO range for your team's priority user is practically the only reliable countermeasure. No variant of Kangaskhan can OHKO any sane variant of...

Moody's just not worth discussing unless it suddenly realises that evasion is not a status it should affect. Unless that happens, it's not even good for joking around with hackmons.

From my experience with Mega Gengar there hasn't been much trouble. Because, put simply, I was paranoid about Mega Alakazam to the point where half my team could coincidentally counter Mega Gengar. I've been caught out by Shadow Tag maybe twice? Which was entirely because I forgot Mega Gengar...