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It's not the first time. There was one point in Gen III where Sceptile, Blaziken and Swampert were all in OU.

I haven't posted here in maybe 10+ years, but I really have to say this because I've been seeing this falsely repeated on here, YouTube, 4chan, Reddit, everywhere I go, and I can't bear it anymore seeing people repeat this and getting hundreds of likes or upvotes. Sleep clause and freeze clause...

I reckon we're misunderstanding how it works. This seems a bit too radical I think. Someone should hack a Pokemon with lopsided stats, like Chansey, at L.100 and feed it candies and see what happens. I reckon there's going to be a multiplier involved. So for example it might take 2 candies to...

I've been using defensive Regigigas, and it's decent (certainly NOT unviable/E Rank like most people insist...). It's enormous 110/110/110 bulk allows it to spam parafusion (Confuse Ray is good for forcing switches) and Knock Off easily, and survive almost anything I want it to (which makes it a...

I don't know, but probably soon, they usually take a few days to come out. Honestly, they come out a lot quicker now than they used to. I remember a few years ago it was often around the 10th of the month that we'd get them.

It's not. At the end of the day this is a viability ranking list, and you're not going to do well in PU at all if you use a Slaking. I've battled Slaking on the ladder before and it never accomplishes anything, usually just OHKOs stuff with Retaliate or Return, then I switch something else in...

Slaking isn't viable at all. Yeah he's fast, has good bulk and OHKOs a small portion of the metagame, but Truant makes him useless on anything that has Protect or Substitute. That alone makes him not viable, hence E-rank. Not to mention everybody knows you will switch on the 2nd turn, so it's a...

Are there any that are actually getting significant usage though (I haven't been seeing any personally)? If not, I don't see the point. Perhaps when the PU usage stats come out if there are some useless NFEs in the top 100 it could be added, but I think everybody already knows stuff like Kirlia...

I didn't realize I was top 10 on the ladder until I saw this! One Pokemon I've been using is Regigigas. 110/110/110 defenses with just one weakness is quite nice, and its main selling point imo, so it's best to capitalize on the defensive stats. Regigigas's major flaw is it's weird movepool...

That's 7 Pokemon you listed, and some of them like Scyther, even with access to a move as amazing as Knock Off, aren't exactly top tier threats. It is a very spammable move, but it depends on the Pokemon using it. Some Pokemon have the stats and type combo to spam the move easily (e.g. Bisharp...

I've tried using both Shuckle and Leavanny for Sticky Web, and Leavanny was very poor in comparison. Shuckle is leagues better, it can also use Stealth Rock, it can use Mental Herb as a hold item instead of Focus Sash since it already has Sturdy, it can often come back in later in the match to...

I thought about the Sandstorm + Leftovers thing a lot, and I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference. Blissey does have another advantage though, in that it takes weak special attacks like Scalds and Charge Beams better, since it can often recover off a significant amount of their damage...

Well, Combusken gets Speed Boost + Baton Pass now, and it has a much better type combo, better defenses and better offenses (due to having access to stronger STAB moves). The main downside to Combusken is that things can still out-speed it after one or even two Speed Boosts, whilst Ninjask...

I used Chansey extensively as well, and it was a great Pokemon that I enjoyed using. Keeping her at high health (i.e. over 60% if possible) was always one of my priorities, but it was by no means easy to keep her on high health. Even if an opponent *only* deals 40% per turn to Chansey, it can...

I've used Doublade a bit as well, and whilst it's true that it still has good defense without Eviolite, usually if you've lost Eviolite it's because you've taken a super-effective Knock Off, so you'll be low on HP, which means the high defense might not mean as much. It's different to, say...

I've seen quite a lot of Uxie in RU tbh, but I think Mesprit is likely to drop. Also, I noticed with the 1760 stats, there were some major fluctuations between this month's and last month's UU stats (probably a combination of a new metagame, a smaller pool of players having more influence, and...

Really? There's almost 40 Swift Swim Pokemon, and most of them are terrible, regardless of what Swift Swim boosts they get. Kingdra, Ludicolo and Kabutops aren't "pretty much every swift swimmer". Do you think Swift Swim Mantine, Qwilfish, Poliwrath, Golduck, Armaldo, Beartic, Lumineon, etc...

Thanks for the stats as always! RU is set to start this month apparently. What stats will be used for making RU? There's UU stats and UU beta stats for this month, will just the UU stats be used, or both of them? Also, there isn't 3 months worth of 1760 stats, so will just this month's be used...

I think it gets the Speed Boost + Baton Pass combo this gen. Whilst in gen V it could only have one or the other.

It was actually amazing in the 1st generation. It's been good in every generation tbh.