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In my experience Clefable is a bit of a front runner - It's good if you're already ahead but isn't going to turn a game around for you. Kinda like a high floor low ceiling pokemon.

I have had a game with Sandslash as my last mon against a fully paralyzed team, but first it has to face down a full HP starmie. Managed the sand attack - Swords - EQ - EQ without getting hit (blizzard missed twice). I didn't end up winning because of course Tauros came in next on full health...

Yeah the thing that makes farfetch'd unique I think is swords plus agility but it's so weak. If I want to run sand attack I'm probably putting it on something like Jolteon to spread paralysis (force out an incoming pokemon due to accuracy drops). Maybe Sandslash is the next best candidate...

Hitmonlee looks fun in concept but like you said no psychics. Also the whole like a bunch of neutral stab special moves will 2HKO it, with neutral specials often dealing just under 50% anyway. My vibe is to get it to work you need to already be winning and there's a higher than normal chance it...

From the perspective of someone that just plays ladder games. I played everything that isn't in trash (Or Porygon) on ladder, basically until I got 2 losses with each pokemon. So most of the games are below 1200 but that's my level so whatever. That just makes my opinions janky lol. Ranks within...

Kinda dumb question - If given a choice which pokemon do you think is the "best" to have put to sleep by the opponent ? Been running through the non-OU pokemon on the ladder and Hypno is like just bulky enough that it has a decent chance to wake up later on in the game. Vaporeon has also awoken...

I use these analysis as my jumping on point for working out what I want to do with a pokemon. For example when I saw rest listed as an option for Articuno I did a ladder run with it as a conventional sweeper then another with I guess "Bulky-Cuno". Yesterday I used RNG and landed on Persian to do...

I mean as a low ladder grunt my opinion probably doesn't count for much but how about like surely for a strategy to be uncompetitive the pokemon that enable that strategy should be considered like OU staples ? Something that attracts me to OU is the lack of rules. Are wrap teams placing like...

I mean I only play super low level meme ladder games, trying to play every worthwhile fully evolved pokemon. But since this is the jank thread I'd say You always need to gameplan for how to beat Tauros. You always need to gameplan for how to beat Chansey. You do not, necessarily, need to...

I mean if you played freeze clause without mods surely if it occurred would you not just restart an entirely new battle at that point ? I mean if I was organiser I would play it like that and as a player just accept that as the best solution. Same goes for dig/fly glitch.

As a ladder grunt that probably never plays a tournament Generally the further away from the cartridges the less good things are Sleep and freeze clause are fine because you could imagine them being like "house rules". Both rules are necessary because otherwise sleep is devastating and freeze...

Been trying to play through every fully evolved mon that isn't entirely outclassed by something else, or too frail to use (with a couple of exceptions). A few times (especially with weak sleeper mons for example Parasect) I've tried leading with ice queen freeze Chansey but it rarely seems to...

A few things that for whatever reason are on my mind 1) Mirror Move is a "flying" type move. Does that mean the user always gets stab ? For instance, Starmie uses thunderbolt against Fearow, Fearow uses mirror move, uses thunderbolt, does Fearow get stab thunderbolt ? 2) Related, does mirror...

Is there some tournament where players play like a best of 3 first match RBY OU, second match RBY tradebacks, third match Stadium ? Like "RBY format championship" or something ?

Honestly, pick a year to "imitate" and stick with it. Like "if it was possible in 98" logic. Makes things a lot easier to understand. We can have tradeback DV's but not tradeback moves, seems a bit unintuitive.

What's the general consensus on subsplosion etiquette ? I used substitute on the same turn an opponent used explosion on me. This obviously results in me taking 25% damage and their pokemon stays alive. They then proceeded to basically wait out until I KO'd their pokemon This surprised me...

Why do 448 of the top 500 players on ladder have an elo of either 1500 or 1499 ? Has elo deflation occurred ? Is there no activity clause ?

Gengars main problem in my view is 4 moveslot syndrome. So why not go for a stall set with metronome as your only attacking move https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen1ou-1831970632

Just some general other observations....... Lead Flareon generally baits out Earthquake users, Rhydon in particular, which in turn can enable Articuno/Eggy/Tangela basically a free switch in. Tangela is high risk high reward. I think you need to run rest/mega drain/growth and either sleep or...

While I think Ninetales does slightly better in the Jynx matchup than Flareon, I think Flareon does better or evens against Starmie/Alakazam/anything thats speed isn't below Ninetales but above Flareons. Flareon takes hits a little better and dishes out just enough more damage to make up for the...