Recent content by PlatEspresso

Really curious what it's usage was pre-Home/Regieleki. If eleki really came in for 1 day, boosted it's usage exactly 0.6% and left that'd be hysterical

Mega Evolution was never on the table for a ban, the mega stones were basically their own pokemon. While Mega Mawile was Uber in gen 6, Mawile itself stayed in PU. Universal mechanics can be used by any pokemon rather than being pokemon specific, such as Z Moves and gen 5's gems (the latter...

home doesn't port moves

Lmao bye regieleki, the fastest pokemon gets the fastest quickban

Cool special stats, unfortunately Sucker Punch 252+ Atk Life Orb Tadbulb Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Hoopa: 296-354 (98.3 - 117.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock Above is Sucker Punch's weakest user having really good odds to one shot Hoopa with it (98.3% rockless). This is obviously a...

Decidueye-H has a lot of good points, but the competition drowns it out and it can't compete in the OU meta. The low speed is absolutely devestating for it, even copying Decidueye-A's speed would let it move faster than Moon and Tornadus-T with choice scarf, probably more. Tailwind does give it...

H-Decidueye is my favorite Hisuian and it could be really cool with Choice Scarf. Triple Arrows is an exceptional move, Scrappy makes it extra spammable, definitely not coping until it drops down to RUBL

There's a dedicated stall for the items, so you're guaranteed to see at least 1 every in game day for the relevant legendaries/mythicals in your boxes. Rotom's catalogue was the only item that required this prior to home I suggest either getting Arceus' 17 plates out of the way first or saving...

Any trying to run Calm Mind have to cope with Cute Charm, which has the side effect of making it low-key optimal to have mostly female pokemon if you can choose (other genies being one such exception). Superpower contrary is better as a side set, it has a lot of problems such as only slightly...

Remember they're in no way permanent additions, more of a "let's see how this goes" test. If you find them too much to handle, try another tier while you wait for a quickban/suspect or two. Maybe not Ubers, they've got tera Arceus and Zac-C to deal with

Home's maintenance ends around 6am UTC on the 30th (for the first entry wave), roughly 15 hours from now. Presumably Smogon will open the gates on OU/Ubers at a similar time

Very excited for the first OU box legends since Kyu-B gens 5-7. Crowned is worse in some aspects, it's much more passive than Choice sets and adds more common weaknesses like Ground, Fighting and Fire. Bulkier Zam sets would probably prefer vest or leftovers to stack bulk on both sides or get...

The near unanimous ban of Single Strike gets me thinking about Rapid. It gained the same new powerful tools as Single, it's very much worth keeping an eye on

To be expected when Spectrier, aka tera reliant Flutter Mane, was unanimously banned

The most similar pokemon to Ursaluna is probably Conkeldurr; Exactly 140 attack, high HP and Def, Guts and low speed. Conk could tear teams apart with stab Drain Punch, Facade, Knock Off, even some priority in Mach Punch. All that stuff sounds scary on paper, but Conk was UU in Gen 8. Turns out...