Post any quick questions here about team help, the tier, etc.
edit: don't ask if / what we are quickbanning stuff tho.
edit: don't ask if / what we are quickbanning stuff tho.
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Not yet, its a good scarfer and a decent wallbreaker, but there are more threats we need to look at before coming to heracross. It's too soon to look into relatively lesser threats right now.
any thoughts on quickbanning druddigon?
Are any potencial Pokemon for a suspect test or ban on the radar?
So are y'all adopting UU's model of suspecting? Or a variation of that?
I don't think Necrozma is the main threat of the tier. There are more problematic things than Necrozma actually like Crawdaunt, Kyurem, Lucario even Venomoth which is great with Z Bug Buzz.
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Probably a bit too soon to ask, but any prediction on when you will be creating a viability ranking thread?
This likely won't happen until we get through some of the quickbans as the meta will be shifting quite a bit within the next 2-4 weeks.
While I'm not a tier leader, to my knowledge Baton Pass is currently banned.
I believe a few have mentioned this over the past month or so, but I'm pretty sure that even tho it's banned currently, it'll be revisted at some point since Beta has started and we're able to begin making our own tiering decisions.
Yo, since this part of the forum is now new plus the fact that I've never played in the RU tier in a serious manner, I've decided to get into it this Gen. With that being said, I do have a few question that I would like to be answered, as I am new to the RU tier.
1. What makes the RU tier different from the tier that are aboves us?
2. Why should I play this Tier alongside my main tier, OU and Ubers?
3. How large or small is the size of the RU tiers' community?
4. Lastly, What kind of play-styles were dominant last Gen, and which will stay as the superior styles while others die out to newer predicted styles?
1. What makes the RU tier different from the tier that are aboves us?
2. Why should I play this Tier alongside my main tier, OU and Ubers?
3. How large or small is the size of the RU tiers' community?
4. Lastly, What kind of play-styles were dominant last Gen, and which will stay as the superior styles while others die out to newer predicted styles?
With Darmanitan and Entei gone, what are some other good sun abusers? I know of the grass types(Venusaur, Victreebel, Executor, and I guess Leafeon and Sawbuck), but is like Emboar, Houndoom and Heliolisk the only other mons that benefit from Sun?
http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/victreebel/
http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/victreebel/
As somebody who has regularly played UU since BW2 and started playing RU last year, one of the best parts is that it is more variable. Some lower mons can be viable, too. So ypu have a lot more options and niches to fill.
Drizzle got banned in UU because there were too many good abusers, and instead of banning them they banned Drizzle instead. I assume it's the same logic here.
1. The fact that we worship Alomomola as the God. Jokes aside, RU has more variety than the above tiers
2. Because this tier is fun and balanced!!!
3. RU has a relatively smaller community compared to UU, but if you're active in RU room and discord you'd be known and appreciated easily
4. Last gen the best playstyle was imo balance, especially Alomomola / Venusaur, there were RegiMola cores too, as well as Esavalier being a God. It's too early to say which playstyle will be dominant in SM RU, but for now, offense seems to be very good (mainly due to the number of threats), but balance and stall will be equally good in the long run (at least that's what we're hoping)
They were banned by UU. It's possible that baton pass will be revisited, but I find it very unlikely that drizzle will be revisited so long as Kingdra is here. Drizzle was already extremely powerful in Alpha before UU banned it and that was without Kingdra
Cause questions similar to it keep getting asked: yes we will be quick banning things. No, I can't tell you if x pokemon will be quickbanned.
If you want to post about things you think are potentially issues in the current meta, please make a quality post in the current NP thread, thank you :).
This is the one Druddigon joke I'm allowing in this thread unless its posted by TROP. Keep that in mind.
If you want to post about things you think are potentially issues in the current meta, please make a quality post in the current NP thread, thank you :).
Where can I find the usage statistic?
Here's the February RU Stats and here's the February UU Stats. Everything in the UU stats at or below 3.41% usage is legal in RU Beta with the exception of Pokemon banned by UU (such as Thundurus and Staraptor) and Pokemon already quickbanned here in RU (Suicune is the only one thus far, but expect more soon)
Besides knock off, is there any reason to use z-splash over a physical critdra set?
Critdra works best on a Special set due to its ability to abuse Draco Meteor without minding the Special Attack Drop. If you'd really want a physical set, you would probably be better off using a Dragon Dance set, coupled with Waterfall, Outrage and either Substitute or Rest with Leftovers and Chesto Berry, respectively. I don't feel Z-Splash is that workable from what I seen, unless you use Rain. Even then, rain teams could probably a better mon to use the Z-slot such as Omastar or a Memento user.