I deliberately have at least one min speed monster to help turn the tables in my favor when this gets summoned.
Like Ivy said, you can counter this by minspeeding your mons. It’s not a draw, having lower speed is a strategy.
I am aware of all this, but since there is no ladder for metronome battles I see it as a draw. Because even if I min IV/EV one mons speed they could still just have a mon with lower base stat speed and make it pointless. Not to mention how rare Perish Song is I am not that worried about it that I would wanna lower IVs for it. As for the timer.... why not just set up metronome battles to automatically force each side to use their only available move every turn. I mean honestly there is no thought process involved and if anyone ever wants to slowly go over what happened, there is a chat box with all the info, and replays. I would support automatic Metronome casts.
Speed hardly matters in this metagame so I think it’s a good tradeoff to use minspeed on at least one of your mons. Also, using lower base speed mons would count as a valid strategy for countering perish song, although I really wouldn’t intentionally use a slow mon to counter perish song.
I would agree if the strat I am using didn't have the potential to easily OHKO mons out the gate on lucky metronome results. (even if rare) I do agree tho, that generally speaking speed is probably the worst stat in this meta, however I am really loving +/- M. Ampharos right now and I like being able to assure acting before my enemy just for that potential to kill them before the game even really begins lol.
I honestly wasn't a fan of Ampharos at all before this build haha. You should feel proud that it is getting some real lime light haha. I might even look into it competitive uses in other formats too. I used to love OU/Ubers and I am tempted to look into UU with Mews recent decent into UU. So I may even look into putting Ampharos on real teams in the future depending where it falls in the tier list.
Aroma Veil is nice for this as well, because it isn't one-use and affects both Pokemon.
I thought of that myself, but I personally think Aroma Veil is a waste of an ability choice. The taunt effect is rare enough, that the single use is all you really need.
Meh, true. (Starry's the Electric type, not the Ghost type, though.) I was just so sick of Perish Song that I did that. You could always just put the OU Magic Bounce on it and call it a day, but mehhhh. Or go for Magic Guard, that's always nice to have. Or Technician. Or Sheer Force. Speaking of which, I should try those.
This is just my hypothesis but... maybe the target was Kakuna, and because Kakuna got hit Synchro could hit all the other Pokemon too... I suggest asking the team who looks into SM battle mechanics, maybe they would know.
Who're they? Because I doubt the primary target was Kakuna, given how Mets works... Then again, what do I know XD
Update: It's apparently a bug that Synchronoise just doesn't work right when called by Metronome. The more you know!
specially weak (Sunkern) @ Sticky Barb
Ability: Drought
Level: 1
Hidden Power: Ghost
EVs: 252 Spe
Naive Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 0 Def / 0 SpA / 0 SpD
- Metronome
physically weak (Sunkern) @ Sticky Barb
Ability: Solar Power
Level: 1
Shiny: Yes
Hidden Power: Ghost
EVs: 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 0 Def / 0 SpA / 0 SpD
- Metronome