Recent content by wrink

Gentle. Disagreeing is natural, but there's no need to get impolite about this. I think it's reasonable to want an ND metagame without dynamax, but given that pretty much every tier except AG has banned it, saying that AG is the only choice for 20% of the user base and that no discussion of...

in that case, what alternative do we have?

but it's not just "Run Ditto", we've listed over a dozen viable solutions on this page: counter-maxing, sub stalling, status crippling, protect stalling, debuffing, immunity walling, hamboning, leeda'hosen wearin', scotsman-from-samurai-jack-quotin'... ill stop now. and what if we just want to...

if that many pokemon can abuse it then how are things unbalanced? if everyone's equally powerful isn't that what you call balance?

I agree with you that dynamaxing does completely re-orient the meta, but it doesn't change the fact that banning it altogether with no alternative puts players who want to use it in a dilemma. Perhaps its not my place to make suggestions since im far below the GXE cutoff, but instead of voting...

I'm not sure I follow. If you're referring to the first part of my response, are you suggesting banning a character, or a whole playstyle you don't like? I don't mean to be rude, but were you using a different username then? I looked up your history on showdown and you didn't seem to have...

Then shouldn't you ban the specific fighter instead of banning the entire mechanic that makes him broken? what playstyles become busted? Before dynamax was a thing, stall teams were completely busted. A team with Ferrothorn, Toxapex, and a selection of others from chansey, clefable, rotom-wash...

How so?

But don't both players have that option? I agree that beast boost and moxie are significantly harder to control in combination, but isn't that the whole reason we have banlists to prevent pokemon from dominating the metagame? Also, aren't there ways to shut down a dynamax abuser? Countering...

I'm curious why it is that people think Dynamax is overwhelmingly broken. It's not like only certain pokemon or only certain teams can dynamax. Any pokemon can do it, and pretty much any physical pokemon that can learn fighting moves or any special pokemon that can use poison moves can use it...

Is there any chance of getting a version of National Dex OU that keeps Dynamax and Gigantomax? I'm glad the National Dex meta kept Mega Evolutions and Z moves, but it still feels like we're slashing features if we cut Dynamax and Gigantomax just because it tunes the game towards offense instead...

can I ask one last question? when you say + will be a pet mod, do you mean its going to be individual user-to-user challenges only? if so, im not sure shutting down this conversation is fair. the entire goal of the discussion is to remove subjectivity from the rules so that it can be a metagame

what about variable power moves like return and frustration? dude, the entire reason we're having this ND+ discussion is because there are a number of people who aren't happy with with moves and megas being cut. you don't have to play it if you don't want to, but please stop trying to shut...

you're right, it's not, but even if nobody cares about z moves, return frustration hidden power and pursuit still are still in demand. if we make an ND meta, the choices are cutting them, which is against the spirit of ND, adapting them, which is pet mod territory unless we can find a rule that...

is there an issue with just making cut and new moves unusable as max and z moves respectively? i keep asking that question and keep not getting an answer. we need national dex+ versions of all official metagames for the people who want to play them and to be honest? im not even sure they...