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Yeah, gren is ridiculous atm. I've even been having some success with some 'niche' sets like PuP/water shuriken. After a PuP or two, water shuriken becomes an incredibly threatening priority move that many people don't see coming, as they don't realize that water shuriken HAS priority. It...

While I don't think this will be a permanent situation, for now I don't think lando should move up to S. As of right now, a lot of teams are running mons with ice moves that are designed to revenge mega salamence, such as banded weavile's ice shard, or scarf greninja w/ice beam. I see something...

That's why his set is a LURE. It's not supposed to be a standard set; That's the whole point. And it's not just a lure for ferrothorn, either. This set handles a different set of pokemon than standard AV/CB azumarills can altogether. This set is effective at dealing with more defensive 'mons...

This is very interesting. I have also noticed that ferro has become a widespread problem in the ORAS meta, but I was dealing with it with one of my new favorite toys in the combo of drain punch chesnaught/mega sabelye, who together spit on most anything ferro wants to do while still being a...

Honestly, slurpuff is interesting. I doubt it'll even get an OU ranking, but at least it seems viable now with drain punch. However, I doubt it'll ever see much use, as I think azumarill does indeed outclass it in a lot of key areas. In fact, on the subject of azumarill, I've noticed myself how...

Yeah, with all of the new moves gren is getting in ORAS, I'm starting to notice shades of the same descriptions as a lot of banned pokemon. With it's new movepool, there's no way to tell if it's running special, physical, or mixed, and if you guess wrong you can easily lose 2-3 pokemon in a...

Totally agree about Weavile. It's a great answer to a lot of the new threats that are coming out. Weavile's always had an interesting niche being able to handle a lot of top tier threats, and since that list now includes a lot of shiny new toys that everyone wants to try out, I definitely...

Okay, it appears I have to clear something up. I never claimed that a 4x weakness in and of itself was a death sentence that makes a pokemon unusable. However, when that 4x weakness is to a common, powerful, and easily spammed type like water, that's a whole other story. The point isn't that 4x...

Okay, let's be serious about WHY camerupt has a bad defensive typing. When is the last time you saw a team in OU that didn't have a strong water attack AND a strong ground attack? Seriously, look at the freaking viability list for one second and just shudder at how many of the best and most used...

Tricky, but I'll give it an honest shot. My opinion of them as of right now would be: 1. Salamence. The obvious powerhouse that we all know will wreck lives and destroy worlds. 2. Sabelye. The dark horse that people NEED to understand how amazing it is. 3. Slowbro. The other super-popular mega...

Thanks for the considerate response, I do appreciate it. But before this becomes any kind of back and forth about DNite vs. Char-X, I never meant to DIRECTLY compare DNite w/ Char-X, just point out that if we agreed rocks were enough reason to drop something then technically we'd have to drop...

Dragonite's DD set isn't the only one it has. It also sports a NASTY banded set that can punch big holes in things early to mid game, or sweep w/extremespeed late game, multiscale or no multiscale. And it's not like needing hazards gone is an instant rank drop, either. Char-X is S rank, and it...

Venusaur is something to consider... but I am definitely not getting rid of breloom. Breloom has won matches for me 6-0 on occasion and I just can't deny those kind of results. No matter what kind of match i'm in, 'loom always puts in work, either slamming threats with mach punch/bullet seed...

Okay, small update: Since I'm still minus a mega, i've been kicking a few things around, and I was hoping for some of your guys' opinions. I think I need to replace dragonite and excadrill. I'm thinking of Replacing excadrill w/ scarf lando, as kind of a 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' kind of...

Added, thanks for pointing that out, hadn't noticed i forgot that when i updated.

Wow, I got a lot of rates today, thanks everyone! So, after taking everyone's suggestions into consideration, I have made a few decisions. First, I had actually already switched azumarill to banded over AV, so yeah; Everyone who suggested that was spot on, I was hurting for power and the extra...

Indeed, Audino is likely to end up with banette in the 'if it didn't take up a mega slot it'd be kinda viable' category. Sure, it could be useful... but as people have said, so can clefable, sylveon, and florges, and they don't take up your mega slot. I doubt audino is ever going to see serious...

Ah, beedrill. I don't know what gamefreak was thinking, actually, except maybe that they chose it completely at random, or they're just gearing up to mega every pokemon and they chose one with a really low dex number? Either way, we're left with one bizarre mega evolved pokemon on our hands. If...

I had been kicking the idea of SD around, so I'll definitely try that for a while now. I'll probably go ahead and switch loom to Jolly then, as well, since I won't be needing the nature boost from Adamant.

I'll chip in a bit in Weavile's favor. I'm not sure it's necessary to raise it a rank or not, but I'll go ahead and put my two cents in on some of it's more useful capabilities. Weavile's main niche for me is as a stall destroyer. Stuff like slowbro/mew/cresselia that are common on stall teams...