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Offensive core volcarona + ________ (fill in the blank) I like the idea of Conk here. Physical fighting type with knock off to pressure Chansey, can eat status for volcarona also. This core would hate Azumarill and doubles up on flying weakness. Hawlucha is of particular concern but I think...

if you’re going to run corv alongside excadrill, especially since you are stacking Hazards - you don’t need him for Defog. Bulk up with brave bird or iron head gives you a potential secondary win condition For what is otherwise a pretty defensive team without really giving up anything else. Or...

My bad, I was thinking of the bulk up set

Instead of Rotom, why not Cinderace? if you’re running corviknight alongside excadrill (which I realize you swapped out), why not run iron defense+body press? what purpose does Toxapex serve on this team besides toxic spikes? You don’t need haze because you have whirlwind on Hippowdon, as an...

With Dracovish gone, I’ve been playing a lot of Sand balance built around the defensive backbone of Ferrothorn, Wishport Clefable and Hippowdon. Feels great. Hippowdon has already been discussed in this thread, but it is so such a good mon in this meta as a physical wall stopping Cinderace and...

Hmm. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that scarf Hydreigon is useless against spdef wishport clefable... you have other mons. U-turn into the specs Aegislash that you’re probably running imo. This two mon core is still really strong. I’ve also found scarf Hydreigon to be quite useful as a check...

I’ve used swords dance and choice band and I actually like the mon a lot in the current meta but every time he gets a kill, if the opponent has a duggy, he’s gone. Soooooo... ask again when duggy/AT is banned i guess.

Potential one liner here but it needs to be said: home didn’t change anything when it comes to AT/Dugtrio and anyone pretending otherwise is frankly just making a dumb argument. If you were going to take action on duggy before home, there is nothing stopping you from doing so now and there...

i ran into someone running special ebelt the other day and have been messing around with this set... Kyurem @ Expert Belt Ability: Pressure EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Psychic - Ice Beam - Draco Meteor - Earth Power this probably isn’t the most optimized set but...

I’m really liking SD ebelt terrakion. Fake the choice item and then surprise for a KO or set up. It’s completely invalidated by Duggy though.

Zeraora @ Expert Belt Ability: Volt Absorb EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Hasty Nature - Plasma Fists - Play Rough - Volt Switch - ??? what 4th move are you guys running and why? I was thinking grass knot but I’m not really sold on it’s usefulness tbh.

Funny thing: I put conk on my team and he’s doing well for me, But I haven’t ran into a single HO Cloyster team since I put him on there lol.

How are you guys dealing with Cloyster as balance? Specifically, I’m using a corviknight/Seismitoad/rotom-h (scarf) core and I flat out lose at team preview if my opponent has two brain cells. edit: I swapped goon out for Bisharp. I am still going to lose mons to get the kill but it’s better...

I honestly think Diglett and Trapinch are mostly irrelevant to the conversation anyway from an OU perspective but that doesn’t change that the ability AT itself is highly uncompetitive and broken in the OU metagame. Dugtrio without AT is... a sand team mon? Maybe it has some other niche? Leaving...

Bad mons being propped up by an OP ability is evidence that the ability should be banned rather than the mon (in this case obviously it’s AT vs dugtrio, Diglett, Trapinch). I think we’ve been through this enough to know how a suspect will end. I support a quick ban on arena trap.

I can’t help but feel like many of the teams I construct end up weak to toxapex cores. I THINK I have it just fine but toxapex with support abusing regenerate and haze and all that fun stuff just feels very difficult to overcome. what are your favorite toxapex killers right now?

With the relatively limited pool of Pokémon available I feel like mons like dracovish and dugtrio are a much bigger influence on the meta than they would be in a national dex meta and that influence is not positive (so much so that dugtrio was already banned previously because of it)...

I’ve been saying this since the dynamax ban but the CM set you want to be running is this: Clefable @ Leftovers Ability: Magic Guard EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Bold Nature - Moonblast - Calm Mind - Flamethrower - Moonlight It’s walled by Toxapex and gastrodon and is forced out by many of...

Can we talk about deacovish again? I don’t feel like this mon is particularly threatening with nearly every team running a water immunity BUT THAT IS THE PROBLEM. I find myself having to run a water immunity like toad on every team. This is ridiculous. I would rather run any number of mons on...

It depends. If the opponent is running some kind of HO you can predict the lead for sticky webs or screens, for example. Other times throwing out a mon that has a good matchup vs several opposing mons is likely to force a switch to a key target that you need to eliminate sooner rather than...