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7 has a bit too much variance sometimes in terms of team styles/mus but aside from that it's generally a good meta and most people like it

OUBL would probably be viable in Natdex nowadays, as there are enough Ubers pushed into C/D rank that it could reasonably be a separate tier (base Kyogre, base Groudon, Mewtwo, Palkia, Lugia for example), but in regular OU it would just be an obnoxious format akin to the first day of a new...

Assuming Lando gets Defog back with DLC2, which is a decently educated guess to make, no chance it would stay UU for long (esp with new tools like Taunt and weird NP sets)

How well is Garganacl doing in the meta rn? Out of the titans of preHOME/HOME it seems to be the one I've heard about/seen the least since DLC began

Are multiple suspects out of the question nowadays? I remember back in XY there were a few times where multiple things were tested at once (Deo-S and Deo-D for example), but I only started using smogon again during the beginning of this gen

Manaphy or Waterpon probably. People ignored the latter a bit just because of how ridiculous Firepon is.

Even when bax was in the spotlight it was probably the second most talked abt thing once people discovered how the masks work

Kinda reminds me of Cofagrigus in ORAS in that way. Being able to deny more abilities than Mold Breaker does is so good; its statline isn't terrible but having to sacrifice your Ground immunity to run NG sucks so bad when every team has at least one ground type. Being weak to Make it Rain...

almost all of these "CrEEpY youtube channels" are either legitimately mentally ill people or ARGs made by 12 year olds, and the 1 percent that arent either of those things are people doing illegal or borderline illegal shit

agree, pokemon probably has the best turn based battle mechanics system ever developed imo (with mainline SMT a close second fuck modern persona and the social sim shit) and there was really no reason to change it for a game that was closer to a main series pokemon game than the spinoffs (more...

I support this, not only because it'd end this discussion, but also because it was cool when Darkrai was a top 10 mon in Ubers. (besides, unlike in OU, the speed creep in Ubers has actually been large enough that it wouldn't be as terrifying of a setup sweeper, even w tera)

Because it's on the survey, meaning it's a distinct possibility that the council doesn't consider to be too insane (why they didnt put skymin on there, or ridiculous things like giraA or arc bug)

I don't think Kyurem made it on the initial banlist they voted on for BW, but I could be wrong. It's somewhere buried in the Policy Review archives I'm pretty sure

the same principle has applied to broken mons that have been banned previously though, including post HOME volc (tera ground had different answers than tera water). sure it can't run all of knock/thunderbolt/psyshock/moonblast/cc/cm/sd/encore/trick/gimmicky tera blast stuff on one set, but the...

Sure, if those Dark-types are Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu. It's notably faster and/or stronger than other offensive Dark types such as Meow and Gambit (which most already think is broken anyway), and it has setup opportunities and insane coverage. Speed creep is real, but 125 unboosted is still enough...

Look at their stats side by side and get back to me

I remember that, but between those two voting slates, a number of council members (chiefly among them Finch) strongly stated that they thought Volc was broken and a problem. Pretty sure those opinions, which released before the actual vote, can be found as justification on the radar page

this possiblity crossed my mind but tbf the council hasnt really done that at all this gen. anyone who saw the volc ban as coming out of left field wasnt really looking, as they made it fairly clear they wanted to do that like half a week before the ban. manaphy and firepon havent been discussed...

Good riddance to Bax; it deserved it during HOME, and DLC has made the decision even clearer. Sure you could argue that it made Ting Lu + Zapdos builds a little less obnoxious, but people rejected this kind of reasoning for Gambit (even if it was not banned) so. Idk how some people fnd it...

Probably because most of the discussion has been around A-tales' capacity to enable this stuff, as Abomasnow Veil teams were more of a gimmick than anything (despite a number of broken setup sweepers existing before DLC1). ATales has a pretty good speed tier, even for Gen 9, it gets Encore, and...