Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v4

nvm then im canceling it
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At this point, I am assuming what's coming is that Smogon was invited to participate in a IRL game event. If it has nothing to do with the meta but content creators are still excited about it, this is almost certainly what it is. And given people in the know have been hyping it up as epic, it must be a pretty well-known event as otherwise the hype wouldn't be warranted.
 
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At this point, I am assuming what's coming is that Smogon was invited to participate in a IRL game event. If it has nothing to do with the meta but content creators are still excited about it, this is almost certainly what it is. And given people in the know have been hyping it up as epic, it must be a pretty well-known event as otherwise the hype wouldn't be warranted.
Irl? How many of us go outside be honest
 
Dragonite @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Atk / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Dragon Tail
- Roost
- Earthquake

Why is this set not used? It was on CTC's keldeo team a while back and it seems like a really good tool for balance teams in general, compressing strong priority and phasing? Especially in gen 9 because having a priority user and phaser is mandatory on balance to not lose to cheese (usually 1 of each isn't even enough lol). Also solid wellspring answer which every balance team needs.
Today I bring the idea, what if heavy duty boots were banned?
If this where gen 8 this would be an idea worth considering, but removing boots in gen 9 would be CATASTROPHIC. Balance teams are already by far the worst they've ever been lmao, but without boots the only good playstyles would be HO and BO. Not to mention pretty much all the good defoggers lost the move this gen. Also I'm pretty sure hamurott would be banned within 24 hours
 
Everything interesting has been declined i assume the hype is way overblown and Finch is due many haha reacts on announcement. I hope I'm wrong
I suspect you’ll be wrong. The excitement will be pooled up to overflowing levels with this one. There are like five hundred thousand different directions it can go from an outsider POV right now, so don’t bother shopping around for different opinions and just wait for Thursday
 
I suspect you’ll be wrong. The excitement will be pooled up to overflowing levels with this one. There are like five hundred thousand different directions it can go from an outsider POV right now, so don’t bother shopping around for different opinions and just wait for Thursday
there are too many turns of phrase in this post, my bar-puzzle brain is screaming that this has to be a hint
 
Dragonite @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Atk / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Dragon Tail
- Roost
- Earthquake

Why is this set not used? It was on CTC's keldeo team a while back and it seems like a really good tool for balance teams in general, compressing strong priority and phasing? Especially in gen 9 because having a priority user and phaser is mandatory on balance to not lose to cheese (usually 1 of each isn't even enough lol). Also solid wellspring answer which every balance team needs.
It's a good set, but it only works on a very narrow spectrum of teams (bootspam spikestack balance) and those same teams can also fit different dragonite sets that might try to dd+roost+espeed+eq,try to fit encore, or dd/eq/ice spinner/roost w/Tera ground, etc etc.

dnite in general is definitely uptrending rn with its dd possibilities being explored more with sets like tera blast flying, stone edge, tera ground eq, and the classic scale shot+fire punch+encore w/Tera fire re-emerging as well. Turns out that fast setup+tera is pretty busted.
 
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