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lol don't be afraid of having "bad" takes, people crave 'em as long as they're reasoned enough to be interesting. Anyway Zapdos kicks ass, but it's easy to take its presence for granted, so I can see where the "Zapdos isn't actually that good" take comes from. Here's how I see it though...

Thoughts on Thunder on GrowthJolt? It needs 2 boosts with Tbolt vs just 1 with Thunder to threaten a 3hko on Lax, although when it 2HKOs you back, that does seem like an awfully hollow threat. The other thing might be para procs on RoarKou, but it seems most people nowadays (rightfully imo) hate...

Cool team! If you truly want to shoo away spiker leads, HP Fire is always an option. But that’s probably overkill. HP water is worth a look for preventing Golem from spinning on you once Forry has blown up. Plus it might draw in Egg which Marowak wants to see paralyzed. Yep, that’s the...

Odd take: I unironically think the main problem with them is that their raw stats just completely invalidate Nidoking. Naturally, this extends to things like Gengar, Exeggutor, and in Ho-oh's case, Jynx. But in my head it's called the "Nidoking line" - Pokemon which are good enough to hang when...

I just hope we get some cool goofball tricks out of this. And that all games actually end.

That's a pretty "old school" Forry set. The original idea was to use HP Bug to keep Starmie from spinning, but it seems you've re-appropriated it as a way to punish Jynx & Egg leads. Cool! I love Magcargo here. Always had a soft spot for janky Snorlax checks, even if I was always too...

Cool thread. I hadn't followed UU too closely, so was unaware that Haunter is apparently now the Normal resist du jour. To be honest, I always had trouble justifying any of them other than Magneton back in the day when Dodrio was considered a bigger issue and Granbull was still in the process of...

The key sticking point seems to be that Ttar doesn't have any slam dunk matchups. That said, the matchups where it makes things "favorably complicated" are pretty broadly distributed and hit some of the key players: Snorlax, Zapdos, Gengar, Exeggutor, and Jynx are among those. There isn't much...

Late to the party but Growl only gets 61 PP in GSC, not 64.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/gsc-uu-viability-ranking-thread.3636234/ It's A rank in the current UU viability rankings for what that's worth. There isn't really much place for it in OU, though. Put simply, OU viability radiates outward from Snorlax, Zapdos, and Cloyster. Slowking not...

I think the key question to answer with Tauros has always been when you switch it in. At least in OU where OHKO moves are banned. Clearly, it's pretty dangerous offensively. It's basically fast Mixlax in that regard, albeit without the relatively important surprise factor. However, just as it...

A robust Spikes game paired with Nidoking and/or Thunder Zapdos is probably contemporary GSC's most common and consistent offensive plan. You generally also have 2 Explosions to work with, but you don't lean on them as hard (or have as many of them) as some of those older explosion teams do...

GSC QC incoming: "Or explode on it" is often a last-ditch or endgame maneuver, particularly because of the logical hook you set up in the first clause: Curse raises Snorlax's defenses to heights that render even the mighty Explosion unable to kill it. I get that in practice, it's also a useful...

Giga Drain is kinda nice to really wrest spikes control from relatively popular cloy + golem teams. You lose a resource in the vs Forry matchup, but it gives you a one-poke spikes game solution that puts an otherwise well-regarded 2-poke solution in a real pickle. Granted, Toxic alone can do...

Getting Spikes offense to break a stall without spikes is a good idea, but I wonder if simply being scummy and playing for crits and freezes is good enough. You could even run 2 flying-types naturally enough to have a drawing resource in case the casino is stacked in favor of the house.

Username: Jorgen Timezone: UTC+1 Tiers played: OU, dabbler in Ubers and UU Activity issues?: Dec 19 - Jan 8 will be tough. Availability should be better than it was the last time I tried to get back into this (moved across the dang Atlantic yeesh). If picked, mostly expecting a support / backup...

To highlight what I think is the most important part of Siatam's answer: The matchup against Nidoking is key, especially in today's metagame. HP Grass transforms that from a good to a bad matchup, which actually screws up a lot of builds. Quag is the only reason to really consider HP Grass over...

Ah, cool. Just to be clear, Twinneedle poison does *not* bypass "check if target is Poison-type", correct? The rest is super clear to me, thanks.

How exactly do Twineedle poison and Tri Attack status work? These two moves break the rules to a certain extent, being able to hit Pokemon with statuses they should normally be immune to. But are there limits? Are they both able to status anything of any type? Does they lack the ability to...

Yow. Electrode's Explosion is even worse than I thought. However, being faster than and capable of targeting Raikou is still worth something, albeit not much, and of course that something has huge opportunity costs tied to it. I'd still take Gengar over it any day if Explosion were its only...