Recent content by tr8orsrequiem

If it isn't in VGC they actively do not give a shit and do not think it should be used at all.

Same corpo shit as VGC then, just a different flavour. They want us to play their shitty formats to milk us for cash just like any other big corporation would.

They know. It's not a coincidence we got a metric fuckload of different ways to set up hazards, more mons getting spikes in their movepools, and stuff like Gholdengo all at the same time. My semi-unironic conspiracy theory is that Game Freak is actively trying to kill off singles so we all go...

VGC has lots of rules Smogon doesn't and all of them are dogshit. I genuinely don't know why people are so fucking insistent on trying to make singles more like whatever shitshow VGC happens to be at the moment- its rules are 1. designed (if you want to call it that) for a metagame so...

Are all team-styles viable here (i.e. HO, bulky offense, balance, semi-stall, stall), or is it more of an HO-centric meta like OU is?

HStack/webs are always gonna be good because of how this generation functions, sure, but I don't see that as an excuse to not deal with them being extremely centralizing markedly due to a mon that completely prevents any form of hazard removal with effectively zero risk and zero effort required...

There is precedence, but keep in mind that X&Y was a decade ago at this point. I was also more focused on the current metagame where, as things stand, stall is just never going to be a defining meta staple, and almost certainly won't for the rest of the generation. This is why I have advocated...

This forum needs a serious quality improvement. I genuinely can't believe I'm seeing people bitch and moan and whine about stall in a meta so inherently and fundamentally biased against it- the shit people are saying lately is almost literally "smogon love stal!!!!!!11!!1" tier nonsense. Stall...

This upcoming ban better be Gholdengo or I'm gonna go insane, this mon has committed far too many war crimes to be allowed in the tier.

Can we deal with Gholdengo next so that defensive play might have the faintest chance in hell of being viable again? The hazard metagame isn't even remotely fixed with Gliscor gone.

This is an insane statement. Most walls are going to not want to take strong SE hits unless they're straight up stallmons like Blissey. Even then, Corv still can take strong SE physical hits, if not very many of them.

The pattern is not "forfeit cheese", it's that stall is one of the few consistent playstyles that prevents you from getting rolled by the genuinely stupid amount of obscenely powerful offensive mons. Plenty of suspect alts (and honestly what I would assume to be the majority) are running full...

People like you gotta stop treating stall as if it's some kind of invalid playstyle. This toxic ass attitude has been a constant problem in this community for decades. You can dislike it, and you can call it boring to play against, but acting as if stall players are somehow worse at the game...

I will be attempting to get reqs this suspect, given my recent improvement to being able to hang around the mid 1600s somewhat consistently (even if that likely still isn't good enough to get reqs.) I just hope a Gholdengo suspect will be done shortly after this Gliscor suspect ends.