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https://pokepast.es/70fef99e8b590123 make this team in a day or two, almost got to 1600 at one point. Terra fire Slither Wing can 1hko max defense corv after steal rocks, and can 1hko most corvs from 100%. Terra poison ting-lu is extremely hard for the opponent to break if they don't have ground...

I agree with this take, and it's the main reasons why I think that trying Tera Type on Preview should be tried and then if that doesn't work just ban it.

Maybe this is just me, but I think that OU should be more hesitant to ban things. The question for terra and the hypothetical gen 10 gimmick should not be "do we like this", terra is in the game even if you hate it. The question is if it's uncompetitive.

I'm glad pivot specs sshocks is getting the attention it deserves.

it's incredible and obnoxious and I love/hate it

It's not bad, I got an espeon team to 1550 or so, it's just not incredible.

Umbreon lost toxic, which was a big part of its kit last gen. Espeon is ok, but there are usually better options. Most of the hazard setters in the meta can abuse it switching in pretty easily.

Loving the discussion here. 1. I prefer Balance= Bulky Offense > Stall > Hyper Offense, but right now the viability is just about flipped. 2 stall got a few more unawares to work with, and Hyperoffense got a small pokedex's worth of new threats. Look for Ting Lu, it will very likely be a...

Lol, complex baton pass bans is its own can of worms.

Ever since the bundle/palafin ban, not really. Gholdengo will probably get suspected at some point and Terra currently has a whole thread for discussing tiering action.

I know that I shouldn't expect every commenter to read through the entire massive thread before they post, but it's pretty funny seeing someone go "hey did you guys know Gholdengo is really good? Hazard stack gholdengo is really strong!"

Yeah I agree with your point, I'm just always out here to defend my son Aegislash from the haters. Also aegislash in gen 6 was fun and I will die on this hill-

Sword and Shield also outsold every other pokemon game with online play, so I am not surprised that it was also the most played online. I am skeptical that people were dissatisfied with OU and left to play VGC as the primary reason why VGC had an increased playerbase. In what way? It was a fun...

to be fair to Aegislash, he was nerfed by like a full 40BST points and was still too strong for UU.

1) wrong thread 2) if you're gonna talk about a replay then send the replay 3) Notice how terra team sheets would have changed this. Maybe you would have prepared a different terra type than ghost on your kingambit or had another mon that could deal with the sub before you sucker punch, but...

Do people think gen 8 was bad or stale? Gen 8 was better than gen 7 imo, except for the brief period where we unfortunately allowed dynamax. Polls seemed to support me on this one, so I'm surprised to see so much gen 8 hate around here.

People keep saying this, and it's just not true. Baton pass wasn't banned because passing a substitute was overpowered, it was banned because of non-interactive full-team baton pass strategies which were absurdly matchup fishy. Shed tail obviously does not have this problem, if shed tail is...

If this is true then a suspect test should reveal it, but it at least feels worth trying I think.

Aldaron's proposal was a disaster and has shaped the way the council sees complex bans. As for the Blaziken example, banning a component of a mon+a mon would be a complex ban, and the equivalent here would be e.g. banning terastalize only on dragapult and roaring moon. A terra team sheet mod is...