Recent content by Tyrith

An important point is that the fact that Tera exists means that this concept is probably not going away. One generation could be a fluke, but two in a row means that the choices made now need to be done in light that Gen 10 is likely to have another open ended generational mechanic. For better...

The question is which Pokemon become useless - the ones drop through the bottom tier, or the ones that get stuck in 3.7% usage purgatory and the large banlists that result because lower tiers lose a lot of their utility Pokemon and checks to higher tiers. There's at least the possibility of...

The one thing I find really curious is that Raichu-A wasn't even on the slate. E-Terrain was the only of the Terrain/Weather archtypes that was left untouched, so I'll be interested to see if it can take a premier position in the meta for a bit. E-Terrain's two big sweepers do share a weakness...

If Zard was sun’s only top notch abuser it’d be one thing. It can be killed, although it’s obv very strong. Killing Zard gets you a date with Shriftry or Helio though, and that’s where the problem is with sun. There are enough high quality abusers, and sun builds in a counter to its most common...

Tiers have seen time and time again that banning the abusers just doesn't solve the problem unless the abusers are completely irreplaceable. So banning Raichu-A fixes E-Terrain but banning Shiftry doesn't solve sun, because sun still has Zard, Heliolisk, and other Chlorophyll users. They might...

As far as I can tell, the point of a higher tier cutoff is that once all this stuff flushes through the system, there will be more stability on the whole because it will be harder for Pokemon to rise due to some passing trend in the tier above them. There's obviously a lot of instability right...

List seems eminently reasonable as a starting point. The stuff that wrecks metas are Pokemon that are too fast to be faster than and too strong to take two hits from. Sand Rush Dracozolt and Scarf Blacephalon are both very difficult to counter without packing specific checks and are just...