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I did, thanks for your input. I would, but one of my two initial conditions was not to use Hidden Power, and Serperior's offense is kinda crap without it. As is, Serp serves as a pivot for the majority of the game, only staying in for a turn to use Glare or Synthesis. I actually had a full HP...

This is my second RMT thread; the last one got no responses for whatever reason. As before, I'm aiming to make a team that's easy to breed in-game. That means no legendaries (hence "atheist") and no Hidden Powers. Went with bulky offense because HO is too luck-based for my taste and I find stall...

New to the ORAS metagame but did fairly well in XY OU way back when, say, Aegislash was still a thing. I believe on the ladder I peaked somewhere in the teens, but that's in the past and now I'm looking to get into ORAS OU. Now, my approach is a little different from last time. Rather than...

Lucarionite: Ban Genesect: Ban Deoxys-S: Do Not Ban

I'm not sure if it's a bug on Pokemon Showdown, but using Defog against an Espeon does NOT remove its screens.

Except if you "predict" U-turn and switch, the switch happens before the U-turn. The U-turner doesn't have to predict a switch, they get to see it happen and react accordingly.

There has been no statistics done here by anyone, so lay off the pseudo-intellectualism, please. We'd need overly specific data to construct arguments based on statistics, and so far I haven't seen any from either side, so it's not a matter of innumeracy. What has been going on is casual game...

It seems to me that your not wanting to ban Genesect is more of an emotional consequence over a result of a logical proof, because said "logic" has been debunked over and over but you still either repeat the same argument (there's prediction on both sides therefore it is not overpowered), erect...

Eh, I personally tried out Rotom-H as a Genesect counter, and the problem is that since you can't actually catch the damn thing, your counter has to be able to able to switch in multiple times, in which case x2 Stealth Rock damage, along with the small but non-zero damage from U-turn, quickly...

The structure is the same but the payoffs are vastly different. I know you were just bringing up one example out of many, but Thundurus, specifically, encounters a significant hiccup if it tries to use Volt Switch, because a ground-type stops the switch AND its STAB move AND Thunder Wave. It...

Which is why I agreed with your analysis. In fact I'm still not sure whether you're against banning it or not. Yes, hyperbolic statements about Genesect are, well, just hyperbole. Its ability to evade its counters while threatening most non-specially defensive pokes, and even some specially...

Mega Lucario is easy to pin down as being banworthy because although it has multiple sets, it really does one thing, which is sweep. All you have to do is look at its merits as a sweeper and you've got the whole picture. What I fear is that Genesect, despite being equally banworthy, is going to...

To be fair, Talonflame has the strongest instant priority by a significant margin. Azumarill and Scizor can't really compare. That said, the argument for banning Talonflame is rather weak. By that logic, Endeavor Aron is the most broken thing ever, because OMG IT TOTALLY BYPASSES ALL 6 STATS...

Seeing as how Rotom-W is everywhere these days, I was thinking of a hard counter for it. Obviously dragons and grass types can wall it, but with volt switch you're just losing momentum, while ground types fear Will-O-Wisp and Hydro Pump. So I came up with this surprise Seismitoad set...

On Pokemon Showdown, Knock Off has been removing my Aegislash's Weakness Policy without activating it. With Knock Off being a fairly common move these days, this has turned me off of Weakness Policy Aegislash. Is this a bug with Showdown?

Assuming that's actually "Donphan", it already had Play Rough pre-bank.

Is there a specific reason for that EV spread? On Klefki, 8 HP EVs provides more physical and special bulk than 4 Def and 4 SpD EVs.

If you get parahaxed 10 out of 15 times, as in that replay, it doesn't matter what your opponent is running on their Klefki. You would have died anyway.

I think he thinks we think that crits ignore positive stat boosts. We know they don't.