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Iron Treads does check Archaludon but your team offers Archaludon a free switch on your pokemon that can't do anything back and now what? Many rain team have Archaludon / Raging Bolt so Iron Treads is your Raging Bolt check and its damage is mid. Glimmora isn't keeping Focus Sash in mid-game to...

Techno Blast set was legit in past generations, even you know Genesect had Douse Drive and you can't switch Heatran so you have to find another plan against Genesect. Download allows Genesect to pick what can come in on pokemon that was good Genesect checks and smash them. Genesect and...

If you think Genesect would be fine in OU, you are crazy. Genesect has multiple good sets like CB, Scarf, special sets and Techno Blast, Genesect have no hard counters. Genesect has been banned since BW for the same reasons: too fast, hit really hard and very unpredictable.

I said 'comfortably' so they all can't switch on Gliscor comfortably. Hatterene can't switch on EQ / Knock Off, sub CM enam can't switch on Toxic and sub zama can't switch on Toxic. Amoonguss is a free Spikes for Gliscor and can't do anything back. Weezing-G is C rank on viability ranking but...

Gliscor's spikes set is not passive because Toxic / EQ is covering like 95% of the metagame, especially it can have Knock Off to remove HDB if it want to. We have a very few pokemon that can switch on standard Gliscor comfortably is Gliscor (it's the best counter we have), Clefable and...

Corviknight is a passive defog pokemon, it can taken advantage very easily. Gliscor can get Spikes up as Corviknight switch in. Then, Gliscor can switch out for Gholdengo / Zapdos / Iron Moth / other dangerous pokemon as Corviknight used Defog. Corviknight has to switch out for something that...

To be fair, like all banned pokemon this gens are blatantly broken and probably most of them are still broken without Tera regardless. OU council done a pretty good jobs with quickban and suspect test pokemon this gens, they are very responsive to the community. The meta trend is just completely...

Thundurus-T can't even switch into Gliscor unless you predict it's going to use EQ. Gliscor can use Knock off or Toxic on Thundurus-T switch in, now what? Gliscor makes half the tier become useless or not good pokemon and Gliscor forced Great Tusk to run Ice Spinner. Gliscor still beat Ice...

This metagame is miserable to play, the hazard control in this metagame is shithole. The best teams this metagame is hyper offense and balance/stall/bulky offense team with 5/6 pokemon that have HDB. Gliscor set up Spikes as Corviknight come in. Gliscor switch out for Corviknight answer while...

Daily reminder: people said the same thing about stall during Chien-Pao's suspect test and it's actually false. The "counterplays" involves used a very specific pokemon or burn our own Tera on bulky pokemon to contain Chien-Pao. The usage of defensive pokemon dropped after Chien-Pao banned.

Naganadel in USUM was probably hilariously broken as Flutter Mane. Naganadel forced you to use extremely specific 'counters' like SPDEF Heatran / Assault Vest Tyranitar / Chansey because Naganadel can 6-0 teams. However, SPDEF Heatran and Chansey literally lose 1v1 to Naganadel if Naganadel used...

Gastrodon gets U-turn'd + hazard entry, it takes about 25% damage chips and will be force to switch out after U-turn'd without using recover. Despite Dragapult have a 100 SpA base, it's still hit really hard because we have a lack of good counterplays for it. Dragapult has a massive effect on...

There aren't any "good" Dragapult answer, the best you can get from Dragapult check is spdef Clefable. Every Dragapult checks have huge flaws against Dragapult; - Blissey = get U-turn'd and lost to sub + DD unless it has Shadow Ball or Ice Beam. - Mandibuzz = get U-turn'd, it easily takes a...

I am a filthy casual VGC player. I am thrilled with the Genesect and Naganadel bans. Naganadel was most ridiculous OU pokemon. Let's say you have Hydreigon who is a good wallbreakers. However, you give it poison typing instead of dark typing, higher speed base and Beast Boost ability. Not only...

I've been playing a lot of UU games lately, I will highlight the problematic threats right now: Scolipede is holy shit broken. It's lack of offensive and defensive counterplay; Scolipede is limited to Skarmory, Palossand and Galarian Weezing. Skarmory is the only defensive counter, it can...

As a VGC player, I've been keen with UU but I've been so busy with the university (the semester just finished so I have a lot of free time at the moment). June's tier shifts and unban pokemon are crazy. I've been building hyper offense teams with Grimmsnarl in UU and see how it's going. I feel...

Guts-boosted CC is fucking spammable, it's one of the top pokemon in SS we don't want to switch in because it can 2HKO the entire metagame (I am not even exaggeration). Let's say that Hippowdon switches into Conkeldurr's Facade/Knock Off without stats drop, it will do nothing back to Conkeldurr...

Conkeldurr can run 252 speed EVs, it's always outspeed Hippowdon. Conkeldurr learn Close Combat this generation, it can 1v1 Hippowdon because it can 2HKO with Close Combat. It can just run Close Combat and doesn't have to use Drain Punch anymore because Clefable would use Wish and Teleport...

Do you realise that Dragapult learns Beat up? Fake out isn't working against Dragapult + Dynamaxing Terrakion, Dragapult has incredible support movepool to support Terrakion. You should watch Kiichi vs Kaori game that Ezrael highlight that game, it's full of fucking trash with random Ally Switch...

The East is still better with 6 solid teams with some flaws than last years ago where we had only Cavs with LeBron and Celtics. Bottom 8 teams in East are so bad, Nets will be a good team with KD and Kyrie next season. I am not a fan of Utah Jazz. I watched them and their offensive, defensive...