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Resource Simple Questions, Simple Answers Thread (read the op before posting a thread)
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As far as I know, Dugtrio's role on stall teams is keeping threats such as Heatran, Tyranitar, Toxapex, Chansey, and others from roaming around freely who would otherwise greatly trouble stall team itself (Heatran 2HKOs Mega Sableye with Magma Storm with residual damage, Tyranitar breaks havoc with Choice Band, and Toxapex basically sits there and spams Scald to deplete Mega Sableye's Recover PP and negatively affect its general longevity). Also according to my experience, Dugtrio also trapped and revenge killed Mega Charizard X which is one of the most infamous threat to stall teams that lack Quagsire, and this is something Mega Tyranitar and Weavile is not capable of doing.
I think nothing else in OU can handle aforementioned threats at the same time as Dugtrio does, and probably SPL team will face its demise if Dugtrio ends up getting banned in suspect. If I am wrong, hopefully a mod or someone with more knowledge will post a better response but this is all I know.
this might be more of an om question but is there a post about a no mega and no z crystal meta? I remember last gen there was one for no mega so I was just curious.
Yes, stall is currently the strongest archetype and the higher up the ladder you go the more common stall will be. Rain teams work well up until about 1500+. When Arena Trap is banned this is likely to change though.
How come Kyurem-B is OU but Kyurem-W is ubers? Is lack of physical ice STAB that weakening for it?
Just that, KyuW have the always reliable Ice Beam to make use of its great SpA, but KyuB doesn't even learn Ice Punch, that force it to run mixed or run Z-Freeze Shock to have a physical Ice STAB.
There was a tournament with no Z-Crystals allowed and at the time only a few megas were out but IDK if that's gonna happen again. I haven't heard as many complaints regarding Z-Moves as I did with Mega Evos back in the day. I think people are beginning to accept the idea that GF is adding broken elements to the game and that we'll just have to get used to them.
What's the EV spread for mixed defensive Celesteela, and what do those EV's do?
Celesteela @ Leftovers
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 HP / 132 Def / 124 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Heavy Slam
- Flamethrower
252 SpA Choice Specs Tapu Lele Hidden Power Fire vs. 252 HP / 124 SpD Celesteela: 172-204 (43.2 - 51.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tapu Lele Psychic vs. 252 HP / 124 SpD Celesteela in Psychic Terrain: 145-171 (36.4 - 42.9%) -- 98.6% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
The rest is dumped to Def to help it tanking hits from mons like M-Pinsir, Chomp, Lando-T, Zyg, etc :)
Is Staraptor the least viable or should I be looking at other mons like the Z-Fly abusers or Mega Pinsir? Is there a hopeful minimal niche for the BirBL?
This can probably help with both questions.
Having momentum usually means that you are the one with the upper hand in a specific situation because you are forcing the opponent to switch out, otherwise they may lose an important member of their team. Therefore, you can either predict their switch and U-Turn / Volt-Switch out into an answer of your own(or double-switch, but it's riskier), thus keeping momentum, or go for the safe play and avoid over-predicting. Such situations are most of the time a win-win scenario for whoever "has momentum".
I hope that was helpful enough. If anyone finds something wrong with my explanation, feel free to correct me.
EDIT:It doesn't really say what "having momentum" means. Whoops...
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where is the thread with stats from OU/suspect test. It usually looks like a table with a bunch of pokemon, percentages, then there's a chart indicating items used with % and moveset with %
In layman's terms, you have the control of the game. Having the opponent do what you want them to do.
I have never seen Raptor in this meta, and that's because it's not good. As a breaker, Pinsir-Mega is much better. It has powerful STAB priority, decent bulk, SD and better speed. On teams that already have a mega, Gyarados can also break past many walls and is bulkier, has a better typing and has DD.
Long story short, Mega Evolutions cannot be on a lower tier than the Base Pokemon, so it's OU because base Latios is OU.
The opposite can happen, though.
In the situation you're describing, Latios-Mega would be labeled as "OU by technicality". TBH I'm not certain why it hasn't been labeled as such.
No because in the case you would play BL as a tier (if i'm not wrong you can do this in a server) you shouldn't do that
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It means Smogon Premier League, the league where that stall team originated from and was popularized.
But BL is a banlist -- that's literally what BL stands for. Wasn't the idea for making BL a tier shot down multiple times since it's just UU but with all the banned 'mon, making an incredibly unbalanced meta right out of the gate?
Yeah, i only supposed a gamemode that is more fun than serious