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i'm not super invested in tera blast specifically but i think the burden of proof being asked to ban it its completely ridiculous. like, are we really suggesting that even if EIGHT whole pokemon were banned for tera blast sets it still wouldn't get touched? why even have move bans at that point...

nerfing steel sounds like a bad idea to me, having so many resists condensed into one type is healthy for the game and makes defensive play easier. my only grief with steel is that its supposed to be weak offensively but then there's a lot of steels who are just extremely powerful sweepers...

this is a crazy thing to say, alolatails isn't even a top 5 ice type. i really don't get how the idea of a water type with ice beam being better was ever true given just how strong spamming stab moves tends to be

i think rock is the worst type mostly because it lacks a strong identity. like, bugs and psychics make up for their middling typing by having a lot of standout moves, ice types have incredible offensive prowess that shore up their weak defenses, normal types tend to have enormous movepools, but...

i can see why frlg would be boring to some but i always enjoyed them just for being really solid entries in the series. good variety of mons, decent difficulty and level curve, and the non-linear nature of kanto gives it a lot of replay value. rby definitely has its charm and i can enjoy playing...

yeah, hard agree with that. i do feel like the physical speial split gave people a fixation on every single mon having perfect spammable stabs, which is why they think early gens feel bad to play. gen 3 does a pretty good job of ensuring mons have good options to play with that are varied and...

i'm not sure how much of a hot take it is, but gen 3 is by far my favorite gen to play casually. i like all the gens (except 6) but gen 3 feels like it hits a really good balance where the games have a solid amount of difficulty to keep you engaged but with a good chunk of variety in mons. this...

i always found the idea of media 'predicting' things to be a kinda insulting way of analyzing. for instance, the ideas from 1984 still being relevant today should show that it's a good critique of authoritarianism. the idea that it was trying to predict anything makes it come off like the...

weavile is quite good in ou afaik, and this isn't even accounting for mons like iron bundle and baxcalibur who were good enough to be full on banned from the tier. yes there are a lot of waters in just about every tier but at least in ou none of them really run ice moves, which proves my point...

i think having stab on one of the best offensive types is plenty enough. i see the thing about water types with ice moves outclassing actual ice types fairly often but i can't think of a real example of this, meanwhile there's plenty of good ice types who make strong use of their stabs

i feel like thats the least interesting way to handle them as there's already plenty of mons who moves consist of stab(s) + random mediocre coverage. it's like the main indicator of a forgettable throwaway mon personally i always really liked the rom hack idea (i forget where it came from) of...

agreed, i think hms are fundamentally a cool concept that just wasn't given enough thought over the generations. its cool to have your mons help you on your adventure, and in gen 1, aside from flash, they were fine moves and most mons didnt learn 4 useful moves anyways. but then, despite...

this will likely not be considered, but it feels like a move ban would be more appropriate here. if a mon is overall fine but has a signature that's a bit cheesy and annoying, them it'd be more fitting to get rid of that move than the mon altogether, so that the punishment better fits the crime...

for may, it's clear that the intent was just that she's more of a casual trainer who just battles for fun and cares more about the pokedex, so it explains why the teams are weird and unoptimized. it is pretty funny though that they wrote brendan to be more of a tryhard who keeps calling you weak...

i think palafin is probably pretty broken but it doesn't hurt to suspect it, it was barely given a chance to stay in ou and was banned before a lot of stuff that's easily more broken imo (chi yu, annihilape, shed tail, etc). it'd be interesting to see how it fares in a metagame much more...

i infiltrated smogon hq and found out they let finch vote ban an extra 20 times because its his birthday. stay aware ️

i feel like body press is kinda perfectly designed tbh. enough bp to be threatening but not broken, a typing that is good offensively but has plenty of counterplay on top of not usually being stab for its users, and an interesting gimmick that creates new sets for defensive mons. i feel like it...

i would support more signature move bans but i feel like there has to be explicit criteria for when a move ban is considered over a mon ban. like i think it makes sense to do it in the case of something like houndstone where the mon is obviously awful and just has a move that would be broken on...

even if ferrothorn isnt in gen 9 hes definitely looking up from hell and crying tears of joy at how his spikestacking legacy lives on without him

even if the dip in players is indicative of a bad meta, i don't see how it's the council's fault. they've been more than willing to suspect and ban in accordance to the community's wishes. if there's a silent majority of tera/gambit/whatever haters who just dont do surveys im not really sure how...