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I get it, everyone is free to do what they want. And I really don't want to start any arguments or anything. But why are we still trying to shoehorn the 4th (and 5th) gen metagames into the current one? Or rather, the other way around. I like the tiering system, and it was great when it was...

Banning Aegislash because Starmie isn't viable anymore is the worst argument I've heard, and if the powers that be allow that as the reason for banning Aegislash, it will be very apparent that they have already made up their minds. I love Starmie as much as the next guy, but the meta has...

This is not an argument. Hindsight is always 20/20. Saying that the outcomes may have been different if the player had made a different play is applicable to every battle, otherwise every battle would be decided from the team preview.

But by the same token, he was able to ladder to a respectable rating himself with all of these so called "dead weight" counters. This tells me that either baton pass isn't as hard to play around as it is being portrayed when proper team building is employed, or these counters that have been...

Thank you. It was buried a couple times, and I had thought of those pokes, just wanted to confirm. And this slope seems to be getting increasingly slippery and subjective as the posts pile up. And those kinds are impossible to argue. To whoever out was that took the time to reply earlier...

Can someone explain why banning protect plus speed boost is or isn't a good idea? I don't mean to sound pushy, I legitimately want to know. Speed boost is cheap, I'll concede that, and I didn't come here just to argue. I've mentioned it a couple times and It's gone completely untouched by...

I hate the notion being put forth "I shouldn't have to carry a poke designated as a baton pass counter". Why not? You can't limit the meta based on making team building easier for you. Besides, with as many setup sweepers as there are in the tier, these pokes are far from dead weight. I run a...

Instead of directing our energy toward arguing about whether something is broken or we just don't like it, why don't we try alternate options? I mean, if it turns out that the only stop in the entire meta is mega alakazam, sure, something is wrong. But if we apply this energy to building...

Nicely put, I think one of the things that makes it so bad is that it goes against what we've been taught. The way to beat it is to set up immediately or just come hard charging right out of the gate, and this is counter intuitive. We've been trained to NOT setup early game, and this thinking...

Imagine how ungodly broken this would be if blaziken was allowed. Wow. Has looking into banning speed boost plus protect or speed boost plus sub been looked at? I don't really advocate a nerf, but it seems like this would limit scolipede's free boost, making it much less of a guarantee that he...

The iron Kenyan laying it down. Well said, completely agree, but quoting that message would incinerate my phone. Honestly, I look at baton pass chains like a giant, long, drawn out setup sweeper. Usually you have one or two of them on a team, but on this team there is only one, and it's the...

The issue I have with this is that "counter" means switching in. The best counter to BP teams is leading properly. Of course nothing switches into a Baton pass chain five turns down the line, but all you have to do is lead with a good poke and you'll be able to, as the great Fleetwood Mac...

I'm sure its in here, but the National Park in HGSS is one of the best video game pieces of music there is. And I know a lot of people don't like Gen 4 (Its my favorite as far as storyline and in game), but man, overall I think it had the best music of all of the games. Whoever wrote and...

Breeding 9 perfect Togepis across three different natures with nasty plot in less than a day while starting with one 3 IV pokemon. I was beside myself at how fast that went.

Its fairly minor, but seeing as Sticky Web is now a thing, Galvantula wants nothing to do with Rotom-H. Levitate will protect it from the speed drop, and a good prediction or even a bait on the switch will essentially lose the opponent the Galvantula or will prevent them from getting up the...

Bingo. With a Magic Guard and/or Steel Type, there's a good chance that even if Ttar can't stay in for the 5 turns, you can easily go into Clefable to set up a Wish or a Forretress to keep the Hazards flowing (Or something of the sort). I love the auto weather "nerf". It will help alleviate the...

^^This. This guy is sitting right next to Tentacruel on my list of Pokes that I have no idea how to include on my team, but also have no idea how I can't. With Steel losing the Ghost resistance and the appearance of fairies (and Poison to counter fairies), this guy's typing was just one...

They just traded two resistances for an attacking strength and one resistance. However, I think the former outweighs the latter. The real thing that got a buff was Ghost, practically nothing resists that now. Dark or normal is going to be a must on a lot of teams, and the ubiquity of fighting is...

Seems like to me, the mon I keep having a more and more difficult time keeping off my team is Tentacruel. Not to say that I don't already love it, which I do, but it got a huge buff in relation to fairy types, which are almost all special based, and it has naturally good speed, and while it...

This set is really good. Immediately started breeding toward it as soon as I learned about Curse and Harvest. With a cleric and Toxic Spikes support, can just punch major indirect damage holes faster than the opponent can Roost them off. And a base 110 attack means that if you get behind an...