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Very cool team, but Gambit seems like a huge threat if it gets an SD up. What’s your main way of taking it down?

I’m struggling to find consistency. The variance between Tera blast and the amount of mons that decide their own checks seems overwhelming.It feels like there’s still many games decided by one mistake or one bad para.

Care to elaborate why you’re feeling more positive about the tier. Feels like every game comes down to guessing Tera on the dragonite/Kingambit/Kyurem, and praying. Tera blast has added such extreme variance to the tier I’m surprised the council is so complacent about it.

I’m nominating Ogerpon-W to be moved up to S- rank. It fits well as an offensive, defensive, and utility Mon on most playstyles. Between SD, Knock, Play Rough, U-turn, encore, and spikes you can tailor fit how it works for your team. I think we’re starting to see more of the range it has to...

Is there any movement on Tera blast being tested? It feels like Dnite has become the new Roaring Moon, except there are like 9 viable sets.

Seeing HO rise again is disappointing tbh. Makes me feel like the meta is regressing a bit.

Is there any shot Dragonite is suspected? There are like 8 viable sets right now and it’s just a guessing game to see which one it is. Whoever said Tera isn’t a guessing game, that’s just not true. I recently lost to Tera ghost Tera blast-low kick-encore. That doesn’t even feel like pokemon...

What do you do for your HO match ups? I’ve lost to Kommo-O like 6 times lol

Interesting. A lot of those mons I really just associate with offense rather than balance. I’ve been using a lot of the boots spam samples and they seem like they all have trouble breaking while also not having enough defense muster to handle more offensive styles. For instance, if specs Kyurem...

Thanks for the in depth response, this is very helpful. I’ve been seeing a lot of DD Kyu around 1600-1700 lately. I guess my concern with balance is offense has such an easy time wearing down their very thin checks, so if Ting has to stop Kyurem or Ghold, Moth can then take it out now that it’s...

Can someone explain to me why high level players are saying balance is a good playstyle right now? Is their perspective skewed by tournament play? I find that Tera fairy Ghold and Kyurem, especially the DD+ Tera or DD+earth power variants just tear through teams. Typically it’s hard to fit an...

Does anyone have suggestions for handling mixed DD Kyurem on balanace? I’ve been running the core of unaware clef, weavile, Zama, and Ting to try and blanket cover it. But earthpower tears clef apart after Tera steel.

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Thanks. I find Lu usually loses the match up if its bulky Ghold or Gambit will get seriously chunked.

What are some good answers for balance to use to Tera fairy Gholdengo? It’s pretty cracked. I find it can muscle past most of its usual checks with Tera fairy dazzling gleam+NP. I’ve had limited success with Iron Crown, but against webs it’s useless

Does anyone have tips for getting into the 1800s consistently? I’ve done it once or twice before but immediately go on a horrible losing streak back down to 1500 after. I have been on the cusp for like two years and try to use consistent teams, watch replays, etc, but can’t seem to make the jump.

I can generally ID specs Kyu and DD Kyu pretty easily. What are you looking for that tells you it’s a subtect or mixed set? I also want to say “simply outplay by positioning” isn’t a good or helpful point. I agree that balance doesn’t need to have a positive match up into everything, and that...

I appreciate you linking those, I will check them out. I will say I noticed that XavGB and does not mention freeze in his analysis at all and StormZone is rather dismissive of it outside of the sub protect set, the status is something I feel puts Kyu over the edge. The strongest arguments for...

I’m going to start this up again: Kyurem needs to be banned. The amount of guess work and luck it requires to beat it is too much for the tier. Especially for any sort of balance team. See turn 23: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2338312745 There are always ways you can play...