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As the resident lurker "Pro-ban, ban-happy, change change change 25/8", I'm happy to see the suspect going out for UrsaBlood. I'm also just chiming in to see more people talking about a possible suspect on hazards. Personally, I think that we should be talking about the numbers. Yes, this is...

Just want to say that this is amazing. A++ quality content.

Has anyone had any success with Sinistcha? I'm not really sure it has any niche, but with sorta comparable stats to glim and ghold as well as three (fighting, normal, fire) immunities, or a pseudo-regenerator ability, I was wondering if it does anything in OU? EDIT: I misread Hospitality, which...

Oh and as for everyone else: Thank you for a really good, insightful conversation. Honestly, it makes sense when you put in perspective. "Diversity for the sake of diversity" is something I think is great, but you (collectively all) are right: It wouldn't shore up (eyyy Palossand where you at?)...

Just commenting on this one to say that I'm not "begging for an item clause." I'm curious, and I stand by my statement from last year that Stealth Rocks should have been banned five generations ago. But we're not here about that. Also VGC pre-legendaries is and always will be a better metagame...

Hi! I'm here to raise more anarchy and ask: 1. How many "broken" pokemon are deemed such due to items? How many Garmanitans, Kyurems, Urshifus, and other mons die because fat isn't thicc enough to tank banded blows anymore? Given that the game has pivoted to a far more fishy aggro style, is it...

Okay, I'm not going to waste time responding to the myriad of very well-thought out responses as well as the clever memes and insightful data. I don't think I can add anything else useful to your discussions. I am wrong, and you convinced me. Metas change and evolve with new material. I'd...

Not sure if this is the place to mention this, but I honestly think rulings should be permanent. So a No Ban on Tera means it is never suspected again. And if people don't like it? Do what I do, and stop playing. Complaining about something being broken doesn't make it broken. Tera is...

^ Everyone complaining about Tera should adhere to this logic as well. If you don't like Tera, just go play another format! Or just run Covert Cloak!

Correct. Moving on. "Ubers has a different metagame than OU" quote Finchinator(?) from a post either pre-home or last generation (pretty sure it was finch, but I don't care to go back and check). I know this would fundamentally change "what OU is", but it is the only way to completely cut...

There's an easy solution to fighting power creep in OU: Accept Ubers as a real format. Make OU answer to the same tiering it imposes on UU. Make every Pokemon with a 4.52% stat in Uber BANNED from OU. That's how you fix tiering and balance out the roster. You lose all of the completely asinine...

Let me preface this by making a blanket statement that I will not be debating: It is, and always will continue to be my personal opinion that Role Compression and Excessive Versatility makes a pokemon inherently unhealthy for a metagame. Landorus-T and now Great Tusk are the de-facto examples of...

Just going to chime in with my two cents as a player who refuses to play OU to this day: The format isn't fun, because it isn't "OU". This format for the past three generations has been "Ubers Lite" and like all Lite beverages, they are not desirable. Gen 8 in particular is an atrocious example...

Sun setter Great Tusk @ Heat Rock Ability: Protosynthesis Tera Type: Fighting EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe Impish Nature - Sunny Day - Body Press - Knock Off/Earthquake - Rapid Spin/ Stealth Rock Are you sick of trying to use Torkoal? Wouldn't you rather compress that role into The Best...

I know i said it on April Fool's but i think the council should discuss implementing tera types on team preview. That's what VGC does. I doubt it solves losing to a well-timed tera, but it makes it far less of an uncompetitive guessing game. Sure you "know" what the tera type is, because no one...

I'm actually happily surprised. It's good that the metagame is finding ways to adapt and grow outside of just using the de facto "only" options. Kingambit's rise definitely seems to reflect that. Also, strongly agree that Great Tusk has a strictly better design over Lando-Terrible

The greatest April Fool's prank would be if those QB were real, and played off like a prank. Or if they just banned Hazards for a day to see what the meta would be like without them. Or if they implemented a team preview for tera types (a functionality which exists on showdown, because that's an...

Right, I guess I was wondering why they aren't viable? Like I can sort of see why, but I was wondering if anyone has tried it (so I don't have to lol)

So, I don't know anything about the RU meta right now, but I wanted to ask/throw out some ideas that seem okay on paper (but they might be awful). The first is Pupitar. A specially defensive one with eviolite is resistant/immune to all of Toxtricity's STAB (including tera boomburst). I don't...