I don't lol
Highest player density by a huge margin means the weirdest people congregate here. I think I've talked about this before, but players of lower tiers or older gens sorta filter themselves by being there to begin with since current OU is the "default" level of play and everything else is based on it. OU is where everyone who doesn't filter themselves ends up, so naturally, that means you have the largest amount of weirdos per square inch. They're good both for laughing at and for coming up with cool strats and meta developments I wouldn't have thought of. Sometimes both!
I prefer OU because I have an extreme dislike for the official formats and OU is the default/most populated Smogon tier. There's some others I have passing interest in (UU, RU) and some OMs I find interesting (AAA, random OMs of the month), but OU is by far the largest of Smogon's tiers, so I might as well play it.
Do not slander the lord's name in vain (Lord venomoth). But honestly I agree, as ferrothorn is one of my top 5 favourite pokemon.
I pretty much only play with mons I actively enjoy using; namely "strong" lines which feel like they were still intended within the reasonable idea of game balance. Which is why I really don't enjoy using Legendaries/Paradoxes, they feel way too intentionally over-tuned for using them to feel like a meaningful accomplishment.
It's not a slight against how good those mons are in the lower tiers. I know Venomoth started doing some serious work once it got Quiver Dance. I just visually like the appeal of big coolguy tough looking mons with bigger numbers.
i'm guessing there's some fucked-up eldritch tangle of code that no one can figure out how to chop through to get to the 3d model files. you have to remember, this is game freak, the entire game is made of spaghetti code
Hey don't worry, I was just joking about the slander. I do get the appeal of those mons and I do completely agree as my monkey brain goes "bigger numbers = cooler".
This question is better meant for the Custom 3D Animated Renders thread (its in Smeargle Studio) but to answer, they're working on it. Slowly, but they have an actual team working on making quality models now. A couple of Gen 9 mons actually got their 3D models recently (Scovillain and Arboliva lines) so progress is still happening, but it likely won't be complete until 2024.
unaware clodsire will force the tera on it. it cant 2hko you with tera blast or rack up boosts with fiery dance. and you deal about 40% with eq after it tera grounds. Usually its enough to scare moth out once it realises it cant kill you, which then wastes the booster energy
I'm big on OU for a couple reasons (not the favorite mon part. most of my favorites are bad):
yeah, those are pretty much the same reasons i like the tier. you can just do so much more here than you can in other tiers. even ubers and ag feel more constrained because of how unbalanced they are by their very nature. in ou, you can run banded spidops and if you're good enough and have the right kind of team support you can make it workI'm big on OU for a couple reasons (not the favorite mon part. most of my favorites are bad ):
First, I do vibe the most with the power level; I really enjoy piloting highly proactive and uniquely powerful Pokemon as it can be really rewarding in some contexts, or just satisfying in others.
The second and main reason actually comes down to the role compression seen in OU-level Pokemon. There are many top-tier Pokemon that gain insane usage through their ability to be splashable and blanket check many things; think Landorus-T, Zapdos, Great Tusk, etc. Because so many OU-caliber Pokemon can fundamentally be good glues by proxy of a great all-around profile, it's far easier for me as a builder to experiment with unexplored cores and Pokemon in OU where I can fill the necessities of a well-rounded team by having a few insanely reliable glue picks that can cover me to some degree in most matchups and leverage some experimentation. Top-tier glues can and do exist in any tier, but in OU, the power level is generally more dynamic and there are holistically more options to cover different weaknesses depending on what you're experimenting with.
To show you what I mean, and why I love OU over other tiers, here's an example of a team I built, and how/why I built it the way I did:
This is a team where I wanted to experiment with SD Sneasler and SD Rillaboom on the same team, since SD Rillaboom can be an absurdly good mid-game breaker that just so happens to help overwhelm Sneasler's most common checks. I also wanted to use Sash Ceruledge on this team since it, too, can be a great midgame breaker that also aids in the Clefable, Iron Moth, and Iron Valiant matchups, and AV Samurott is also a treat to use (and I wanted to mess with it too now that it has Flip Turn).
Zapdos and Great Tusk allow me to make a fun yet interesting team like this more freely because they just cover everything to some extent, and make this kind of structure able to actually do something at a higher elo. I've been hovering around 1800-1900 with this team while it was still being tinkered with. For reference: Great Tusk is removal, a decent offensive threat that blanket checks most physical threats of the tier, and Zapdos's all-around great defensive typing covers me into most things in general while granting me a good Special attacker, easy status spreading, and offensive pivoting. These two Pokemon are amazing and are glues that bind this team together in a way that makes it actually able to work because they're able to generally do a lot that's necessary to make a consistent team.
TL;DR: OU's power level is just ripe enough for me to enjoy more easily, but that power level in addition to being enjoyable to mess around in, leverages more interesting teambuilding and tier experimentation/growth by providing the format with higher-quality glues.
in my defense i felt this way for p much all of last gen where i was only council for like...... 2 weeks near the end
I prefer tinted lens bc u just run stab and coverage is optional
Skill swap is literally ass vs Gliscor, it just switches out into something else that doesn't mind Ribombee and is back to normal. Something Ribombee can do to it, which I don't see people talking about much, is Switcheroo Spcs or Scarf onto it
protect gliscor is really common, also toxic damage can rack up really quickly given how gliscor loves to switch in (and stay in) on weaker mons and physical attacker
you guys have been doing a fantastic job. first tera suspect was way too early, but i can't put the blame on the council alone there—a bunch of very loud and very angry people were demanding something be done about tera immediately or else (even though none of them actually ended up getting reqs). the volc decision was a little impulsive but i think it produced the right result in the end so i can't fault you guys for that either. aside from those, i solidly agree with all the tiering action that's been done so far. this gen has needed more action than any before it and the council has stepped up to the challenge in a major way. i give you guys shit sometimes but believe me when i say you have the official daddybuzzwole seal of approval, and i don't give that out to just anyone
Who on earth is clicking protect while toxic is hurting them? The point is, Gliscor doesn't care about Skill Swap, it just switches out and gets Poison Heal back
mb, I wasn't specific enough. they click protect to block switcheroo from stealing toxic orb before poison heal activation and to avoid stun spore. Also, that one turn that gliscor takes 40% instead of healing 12% could be important if you play well because that's pretty significant chip.
It's true, I do this when I use Gliscor because the problem isn't losing the orb, it's gaining a choice item. It could be important but with how early Ribombee usually comes out it's usually not 40% (that's a Lot of toxic turns!) and usually relatively easy for Gliscor to get that HP back
I'm proposing a potential later game scenario, but yeah, that makes sense. I was really thinking of how I toxic'd a clef before and switch gweezing in and the clef lost 40%. It was really funny
Except for the 205 people who voted Action
the whiners and the voters were two separate groups of people. there was virtually no overlap
Those who did vote action overwhelmingly voted for tera on preview rather than an outright ban. Whether you like it or not, tera would still be here regardless if a couple votes went in the other direction, it would just be a small modification. When the next suspect happens after the release of DLC2, put your money where your mouth is, get reqs, and vote ban. The arguments can stop. There's a reason there was a whole thread dedicated to it and a reason it is locked. Everything that has needed to be said has been said.
