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I'm not seeing Hyper Voice anywhere in Aurorus's moves. Care to correct me? And furthermore it's hard to run more than 2 priority users on a single team just logically speaking. Furthermore who the hell cares how difficult it is to get in LO suicide range? It's not like Aurorus really has any...

Aurorus basically only has 2-3 real attacking moves anyway, so you waste basically nothing by filling in with whatever other garbage situational moves you prefer. 4MSS syndrome is NOT an issue for this Pokemon. A lack of viable moves is more accurately what it suffers from.

Which is why you run Life Orb. You save Hyper Beam for those rare situations where the recoil actually kills you. Assuming you're saving him for cleanup, it's not a completely unreasonable situation.

Porygon Z also suffered from 4MSS, which is a problem Aurorus really doesn't have. So why not Hyper Beam given Aurorus really only cares about having two main attacking moves anyway. Porygon Z literally can't run Hyper Beam because it needs at least three attacking moves to not be easily...

I am honestly shocked nobody suggested a Rock Polish Life Orb set. Moves are like: Nature Power Thunderbolt Hyper Beam Rock Polish The main tricky part is getting this in safely, which shouldn't be super hard due to naturally high base HP, but it requires you to eliminate stuff like priority...

The point of Metagross isn't so much to take hits though since he lacks reliable recovery. The point of Metagross is similar to that of Scizor, where the point of using both is to take advantage of strong offensive movepools. Thus the Steel type changes don't really hurt him especially if...

This is what I think personally. Because Tyranitar and Hippowdown are inherently strong competitive Pokemon independent of most teams, they will become the most dominant weather users, and thus the metagame will be more sandstorm oriented much like in 4th Gen. Furthermore, it's not...

Blissey is one of the most braindead and stupid Pokemon in this game. But I appreciate what it does because to be frank, I realized that Special Attackers in Pokemon are even dumber for competitive Pokemon in general. Especially when you factor stuff like Alakazam, Keldeo, and Hidden Power...

Back when I was a kid, Alakazam was the shit in Gen 1. Then I thought about how stupid of a design he was given how limited his counterplay is, and thus began to hate him with a passion. Alakazam and all glass cannon special attackers like him are honestly the bane of competitive Pokemon. No...

1) What metagames do you think were the best, subjectively? I only started playing BW OU in recent months, so I don't really know how to answer "which meta is best or worst". 2) What were your least favorite metagames? See above. 3) What are your personal highlights of BW? Mamoswine lead...

ggs to sasu. He beat me 2-0. Legit stuff.

I've been waiting for a reply from you. I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to play you in Smogon Tournament 7

Posting because I PMed both you and Jackal and haven't gotten a response on the status of my match. I haven't received any notification from sasu in the meantime.

I would like to participate in this.

Aside from the fact that Abomasnow has its niche for hail teams, has anyone explored what Abomasnow is capable of outside of hail teams? Growth was stated to be +2 attacking stats under the sun for example, and Abomasnow does get both Wood Hammer and Solarbeam. It's only a shame then that...

If Rock Tomb actually had more accuracy, I would suggest it over Stone Edge, but alas. The only moves worth using besides Bullet Seed, Spore, and Mach Punch are Ankle Sweep and Force Palm. Threatening a 1HKO on Shandera that switches in with Stone Edge is probably a higher priority, but no...

Life Orb Technician Breloom has a small chance of killing 4th gen Bulky Gyarados with 5 hits of Bullet Seed. A guaranteed 5HKO if Stealth Rock is in play, and the chance of a 4HKO is there as well. Garchomp with no defense investment gets flat out 4HKOed by Bullet Seed no matter the...

So it seems the main thing about Perversity is that it's a nice bonus if your opponent uses stat lowering moves, and in some situations it helps make Shuckle harder to kill. Boosting sweepers are a worry, but at least you have Encore (which did get nerfed unfortunately). Also, imagine the...

Pair this dude up with Calm Mind Shanderra/Goth Pokemon or even something like Charge Beam Magnezone (assuming you're trapping a Steel without a ground move). Make sure your opponent doesn't have a Scarf Ditto. And you're probably good to go.

Using Sturdy means investing in Special Defense is a much lower priority basically. Steelix isn't surviving more than two hits against any respectable special attacker without both investment and switching in on a resistance. By using Sturdy, you can better focus on stats that Steelix actually...