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Lugia seems kind of whack. Having it's STABs walled by just steel is quite bad bad with guys like Ghold, Gambit or even Electro spam Arch potentially coming in for free, needing to run boots, probably needing tera to get some coverage, 90 base offenses, underwhelming movepool, only 8pp on...

Check :archaludon: Archaludon high defense can take any hit and Stamina trivializes multi-hit moves making it's Body Press deal massive damage. Archaludon @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Stamina Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 104 SpA / 56 Spe Bold Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Flash Cannon - Draco...

How about Tera Dark Bullet proof Kommo-o Changing to Dark makes you immune to Psysho boost. And because Shadow Ball and Focus Blast are bullet moves, you're immune to them as well. Kommo-o @ Throat Spray Ability: Bulletproof Tera Type: Dark EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Naive Nature -...

I don't think Ghold is at entirely fault like it used to in DLC1. Now there are so many ways to keep hazards up without Ghold. Zapdos and H-Samurott pivoting cores that constantly keep hazards, Deo-Speed suicide leads that keep hazards up via hyper offense pressure, Gliscor doesn't need spin...

This definitely could use a deeper insight, but after a week or so, this is how I feel about the meta. The tier is not so unbalanced because there's so many mons that threatens each other and one could have a hard time determining if a mon is broken because of all the counterplay and checks in...

I think all of this was to speed up 1v1 matches on cartridge. Singles on cart take way longer than this optimized simulator, specially in older gens. I recall in gen 8 it was a common complaint in singles battles that people would run fat defensive and force ties by timer-stalling to avoid...

Terapagos looks like box legendary caliber Pokemon to me. it's very tera-reliant but it has 700 base stats when tera, it's so fat it can set up multiple boosts on anything, specially prior to tera with Tera Shell and leftovers. At +1 it outspeeds everything that isn't scarfed or is D-speed, it's...

Oh this meta is gonna be fun.

What the heck, Triple Axel Meowsca is overkill. This was already hard to check with banded protean thunder punch for Corv, Low kick for Gambit, U-turn for Rilla. Does this thing even have switch ins anymore? Dnite, Zapdos and Amoongus were it's common answers.

So how do you people feel about tera now that the DLC1 experience is coming to a closure?

Bit late but. :manaphy: 4, people think this is a 3 or lower but that's because Waterpon is Manaphy's current biggest road block and outclasses it as a water type because fits in teams easier because Waterpon supports teams while Manaphy requires support. Tail Glow/3 attacks has almost no switch...

The sus mushroom is probably it's hardest counter, but is not very good currently.

IMO Roaring Moon was always lowkey broken, the reason it even fell to UU was because Kingbambit out-busted it as the tier's top Dark type and Bax outclassed it as the tier's top dragon dancer. Now that Bax is gone RM reclaimed a top spot in OU with ease.

I got the feeling Rain was on it's way to UU and I'm pretty sure this is all on Waterpon. I don't think Waterpon is that busted but a Pokemon who kills an entire playstyle deserves to have their presence in the tier questioned.

For real, even if it dodged the ban, Gambit should be in surveys because all of it's checks it only got worse with the DLC. Cinderace, Tusk, Moltres, H-Samurott, Dozo, Lando > all threatened by Waterpon and Manaphy.

I'll try to rationalize what makes :Ogerpon-Hearthflame: so good. Firepon's Fire/Grass dual type is very synergetic. It's a Grass type that doesn't get wall by Steels and also a Fire type that doesn't get wall by Rock or Waters, this combination allows Firepon to hit most things for at least...

Also Mold Breaker ignores Unaware, so Firepon eats Dozo with Grass moves and +2 Knock off hits Skeledirge, 2 of the most dedicated phys walls in the meta after Zama and Corvy. Mold Breaker also ignores Multi Scale so even Dnite can't switch well on Play Rough. Booster Iron Moth is a good answer...

Life Orb is not a remarkable item but I'd like to point out it currently works really well for Battle Bond Greninja, because it just needs a KO to get all the +1 boosts it doesn't have to risk it's frail bulk to set up on an attack so it has the option to start sweeping at full. +1 and Life Orb...

Scizor stonks going down

Aurora Veil is the new Shed Tail. It enables the same set ups from the orthworm/cyclizar era but making Bax twice as busted.