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Raging Bolt is insane as an anti sun tech while also being a bulky tank. Having them set up sun for your boosts and spamming dracos and priority make the matchup hard to lose. (Playing in the 1600s-1700s currently) What are the favorite sets for this guy? I’ve been using calm mind lefties with...

Lol no they are just responding to trends in that meta and we get the ripple effects. They don’t give a literal fuck about smogon. You can trace every change to either vgc or bss trends other than the transfer moves, which they just removed because they saw them as pointless

Bro that is insane. They are literally just trying to make hazards stronger in the official 3v3 singles metagame on cartridge. That format is incredibly popular in Japan.

I’m calling it now that bulky hydrapple utilizing dragon breath will be a thing. 30% paralysis is nothing to take lightly. A shame that terapagos probably won’t last in the tier since it’s unlikely the forms will be tiered separately. OU could really use a bulky unpredictable spinner like that...

Well water type psychic noise is so much better than psychic type version. Primarina can absolutely run a CM stallbreaker niche with this new tool. Rest/CM/water type psychic noise/moonblast is that insane? Either way hatterene is the clear best user of psychic noise

Does this mean it isn’t possible to tier both forms separately? That sucks if so. Is the stellar form only accessed when it terastalizes? I guess that does make it less scary than if it was able to access those stats normally. I also highly doubt calm mind stored power is the move for it. That...

For terapagos, I really hope the 600bst version stays OU and the 700bst version stays ubers. a big bulky rapid spinner with a better multi scale seems like a great addition to OU. I would expect it to run rapid spin, toxic, stealth rock, scorching sands? or something to reliably hit gholdengo...

I’ve always loved munkidori’s playstyle and I think psychic noise is a really neat boost for it. Sadly not enough for OU viability just yet, but it’s got a legit stallbreaker niche now. clicking psychic noise with munkidori both prevents healing for 2 turns and has a 30% toxic chance. That’s an...

Got to mid 1700’s & top 500 really simply with this team (under the name Buster Bashzone). I’d say this is solid against most of the meta, gotta play smart against wellspring tho. I was struggling much more before the firepon ban because balance was hard back then...

No doubt in my mind that kingambit is the most pressing issue in the tier. The ease of using screens post-dlc is lowkey a huge buff for kingambit. ursaluna-bm is next up in my opinion. I’ve been using a semi-spdef scizor to kiiiinda take a hit or two and try to CC back. It’s not a good defense...

A bit more on calcs, the community really should have caught on to this during Ursaluna’s introduction. You can post any number of insane calcs for that mon and compare them to mons as broken as firepon, but without context they mean very little. 252+ Atk Guts Ursaluna Facade (140 BP) vs. 252...

God I really think calcs are like the least valuable way to prove a point, this entire post makes it clear how easily it can be manipulated by somebody to say some shit like alolatales isn’t viable. (Talking about ant’s calcs, yours shows exactly how everything changes when the bias is removed)...

There are 100% balance teams running around with ninetales-A plus one setup sweeper & gliscor. I thought it looked like a goofy build first time I saw it on ladder, but lost because I couldn’t kill gliscor under veil. super anecdotal 1600ish gameplay rn, but I do think it’s a bit silly to act...

Dude you literally complained about smogon’s system like 3 days ago EDIT: Found the proof Good to see you calling out your own bad faith takes now I guess lol

Then just run tusk. speaking of tusk, booster energy offensive feels better than ever. I’ve been running this set and it does so fucking much (no surprise lol, everybody already knew tusk is good). Maybe the most well positioned tusk option in the meta rn? Great Tusk @ Booster Energy...

Like drop giratina to OU :smogthink:

The two in the sample teams post I quoted?

It’s more like, if you play smart, gholdengo doesn’t actually ruin a corvi players chances at removing hazards because U-turn exists. going into gholdengo everytime a corvi might defog is gonna lose you the game.

All of this gholdengo conversation when there are so many great hazard stack teams that don’t even run gholdengo lol. Should that not be a clear sign that he isn’t the target??

Just wanted to say this guy’s posts are always so smart, level-headed, and contain well supported arguments. Should be the definitive darkrai posts on this thread in my opinion.