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The first paragraph is close to my thoughts. I think the zamazenta is a symptom of what is really wrong and that is the overwhelming use of physical offense(hustle). Zamazenta hits both sides of the problem as an abuser of physical offense(hustle) and defending against it, just like your example...

Why is full physical spam bad for the meta. It makes the game 1 dimensional only having to worry about defense and attack stats. Zamazenta is the only true pokemon that checks 93% of physical teams(honchkrow). Wo-chien needs tera to be decent and tablets of ruin does not do enough to buff its...

Mew is interesting because of its great move pool. However its ability is not the greatest and relies on your opponent. Currently with purifying salt available, a much better ability, synchronize is just not great. With purifying salt available teams are carrying less status which also harms the...

Under used Leads I want to look at some uncommon leads that are under used in the current meta. Some I think could be big risers at some point as they have really good potential and others offer some opening for new strategies. Azelf is my first under used pokemon, as of July is ranked 66th on...

I lean more for a keeping zama around. Edit just to explain my thoughts a bit. I think zama brings balance into the tier. It prevents full physical spam. It forces these teams to take a special attacker for example proygon/basculegion-f as an adaptability user. It also promotes teams to have a...

I ran this for a long time about a year ago. It is not great and is really match up fishing + rng. I ended up having the most success with sticky webs because you need a +2 advantage badly to beat scarfers like zama or flutter mane sun or dragapult. This way I could run thunder with compound...

Removing Zamazenta sends Hustle stocks to the moon more so than guts imo. We already have a hard enough time living 1 steel sunstrike/stone edge/dragon darts with zamazenta available. Byleths stone edge spam for example https://pokepast.es/954224955df76f29 would be absolutely dominate, with the...

I want to bring up a point you might be missing and that is the bulk that Uber/Legendary pokemon provide. Take a look at the list you stated, then go look at finnegans berry team with giratina, vnmmz teams he listed giratina, palkia, dialga, terapagos, Byleths team with zamazenta, solegaleo, my...

Back again this time to talk about anger shell. I think I have used anger shell more than 90% of the player base logging well over 150 games using klawf my favorite crab pokemon. This little guys ability in my opinion is missed used in the meta heavily. I often see it being used on team with...

Hello I have been keeping track of my win/loss percentage against the most common adaptability users and found the data pretty interesting. I have logged almost 50 games against each of them over the last couple of months total of 585 games played. This data was collected using multiple...

Hello everyone, A previous reply I did about the damage formula people seemed to find interesting, so I think I am going to do a breakdown a couple parts weekly with how multiple abilities stack . To start off this series we have level and power. Hopefully this helps people understand pokemon a...

This is about to really get nerdy in the numbers but hopefully this can help people understand ability buffs a bit more. Your damage multipliers are not a great way to represent damage formula and it is off. As the buffs are affecting different stats. Hustle and any atk boosts do not affect...

I tried so hard to make iron thorns work on a skill link team. The problem is that it lacks speed so much. It needs plus 2 speed to outrun common threats like zama/dragapult/flutter. The best success I have had is running anger shell or weak armor with it hoping no sheer force. Sticky webs is...

Chloroblast does function as a recoil move in testing it is affected by rock head and reckless. Looking at some wikis they say it is others not. Also steel beam is not considered a recoil move even though it has the same effect as chloroblast.

Been staring at the banned and restricted list lately well building teams. Below are a few mons I would like to petition the council to look at and possibly test as either restricted or free. Regieleki needs to be suspected tested again. Its most common paired mons have all been removed or...

Hello Everyone, Back again with another team built around a core I stole from Arkieus of houndstone, garganacal, wo-chien, and heatran. I ended up changing the sweepers used and added a piece that is under looked on stall/setup teams. I was able to hit an elo rating of 1559 and making it into...

Fluffy is a massive deal in the meta game and having a fluffy answer is a big deal. Abilities that ignore fluffy: long reach, and mold breaker Items: Punching gloves only for punching moves does not include sucker punch Moves: Sunsteel Strike, Poltergeist, Feint, Petal Dance, Ice Shard, Bullet...

What type of bug are you reporting? OM What is the bug? The other metagame is shared power. The combination of rock head plus chloroblast. It causes the self damage not to happen but chloroblast is not supposed to be recoil damage. It is supposed to be like steel beam and not affected by...

Hello Everyone, I have also been using purifying salt in combination with unaware like Civanna. I was able to hit a rank of 1514 using it. https://pokepast.es/2381b7854f1ed65d The two stars of the show are skeledirge and clodsire. Each being a specialist for defeating physical or special...

Prankster is already restricted and the only prankster mon with any phasing is Murkrow which is extremely frail.