Recent content by Askeia

Ok listen up... Specs Blizzard under Hail and Trick Room. For real though, would Frosmoth be a decent option for Trick Room if you are running Slowking as the setter? It's a decent Ground resist who get a boost with Snow, with access to a very strong Blizzard and also sets up Aurora Veil for you...

Watch any high rank game with Corviknight and it happens all the time. U-turn into Garchomp or Ting-Lu, click Spikes as Gholdengo is forced to switched out. Repeat once or twice and you are already ahead on hazards against the spike stacking team. Gholdengo is coming in at most twice before it...

So Gholdengo is the only spinblocker that loses to the 2 best spinners in the tier and that's a strain on teambuilding? Gholdengo doesn't even always beat Corviknight because everything it does is telegraphed. U-turn out a few times on it and you can just Defog once your own hazards wear it down...

There are only 4 Ghost types in OU, and you listed half of them in the "except" category, which doesn't really say anything about Gholdengo's "so much better" spinblocking ability. Gholdengo is literally weak to the 2 best spinners and has to carry balloon AND them not carrying Knock Off to stop...

If Spikes is the problem, suspect Spikes, if it's not a problem, then neither is Gholdengo. The low amount of defoggers relative to the high amount of Spike users is 100% the problem here, not Gholdengo. Corviknight is literally the only thing that Gholdengo stops that other Ghosts don't. Ban...

If I'm Steel RM, I will never choose to Iron Head a Breloom because I'm never going to assume Breloom's Tera typing is Rock in the first place. If their only check to Steel RM is Breloom, then I'm more than satisfied to lose my Booster Energy to keep my RM alive 100% of the time. If I'm Flying...

There are 8 options for you, but only 2 options for them because they are aware of their own Tera type. If they are Flying, they Acro you. If they are Steel, they switch out. If you Tera Rock, you win 50% of the time, and the other 50% of the time you just made a Tera Rock Breloom, grats. If...

The irony in pro-Tera citing gen 8 stall wars as boring is that in the long term, keeping Tera around is what will actually kill HO and put stall on top of the leaderboard once offensive Tera abusers inevitably get suspect banned and stall starts optimizing around it. All the examples for...

Really late to the new gen party, but I've been abusing resist berries with Terastalisation to double down on picking up surprise KOs with several mons, especially Roaring Moon. Booster Energy on DD sets is common enough that many players just assume you are choiced if they don't see the...

Triple Water Stall I initially built the team with VinCune as the centerpiece, removing whatever could potentially get in its sweep. Quagsire and Azumarill were originally inserted as ways to eat Electric and Grass attacks for VinCune respectively, but even without VinCune, those 2 are just...

Icy Wind

Personally when I use Scizor on a team, it's usually for dealing with things like Alakazam and Gengar, which only the sets with a boosting item can do reliably. Gonna vote for Bulky CB because it feels like it meet its intended purpose rather than just being a surprise factor.

Dracovish is literally anything but prediction reliant. Unless the opponent has Seismitoad, you just press Fishous Rend on anything, and something is dying. And even if they do have Seismitoad, you can press Fishous Rend anyway. At worst you are just facing a Seismitoad who you can easily switch...

Minor nitpick. Doesn’t everyone call Mount Fuji Fujisan rather than Fuji Yama?

Seen a lot of discussion about No Guard for 25g, but what about No Guard for 25f instead? Fire and Ground both have a number of strong moves with imperfect accuracy, which already makes No Guard an attractive pick. It allows us to get raw power without just being a simple damage boosting ability...