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So how is Floatzel doing? It's my favorite pokemon

Alolan Ninetales just used a Fire Blast on me despite the teambuilder saying it's illegal http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-483780178

I was thinking something like this: Incineroar @ Leftovers Ability: Intimidate EVs: 252 Atk /4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Substitute - Swords Dance - Flame Charge/ Flare Blitz - Throat Chop Basically you come in on something passive or something that doesn't break your sub at -1...

Yeah I see your point. I'm not talking about dedicating whole thread for it, but rather give it a quick mention under pokemon vr thread. It takes like 5 seconds to do. I honestly forgot that new players don't really care about this stuff, but it still would help pokemon veterans that are getting...

A bit off the topic, but what do you guys think about implementing playstyles viability ranking under pokemon vr thread? I feel like this would help new players getting familiar with the tier and possibly prevent toxic+protect on random mons like Rhydon on low ladder. When I started playing...

Yeah honestly stall is pretty bad right now. The only thing that makes stall not completely unviable is M-Audino, but it does better at balance anyway. Meta is much more offensive with Skuntank and Shiftry dropping and stallbreakers/taunt users such as Floatzel, Samurott and Skuntank seeing a...

If it gets a rock polish up it can outspeed and beat Jolt, Noivern, Durant lacking x scissor, Lee, and Doom. Also Flygon has 75% chance to die after rocks. Melo gets 2hkoed and can't ohko Torterra. Alomomola can't really stall it : 252 Atk Life Orb Torterra Wood Hammer vs. 120 HP / 136 Def...

Hey, wasn't Torterra B rank in the previous viability ranking thread? I feel like it should be in B+ since Aboma, Cress, and Whimsicott were all huge threats to him and now they are gone.

I'm probably stupid for using that but nasty plot set works well for me and has ability to deal with steel (heat wave) and rock types (giga drain). Giga drain also kills Swamperts and keeps Crobat healthy. Really underrated set imo.

Okay, I have a lot of free time lately so here are my thoughts about some mons: Jolteon from Unranked to B-/B. I'm suprised that no one have mentioned it yet. Now with Raikou gone Jolt has almost no competition except Heliolisk. That's the reason why i want to compare these two. First of all...

Serperior to C+/B-/B rank- I have used Serperior for a couple of battles and it was pretty nice, but definetely not as good as people thought when its HA was announced. Its speed is really decent and contrary with leaf storm gives it fast set up. However Serperior has exact same problem as M...

That's probably the best thing about Flygon so I had to glorify it a little bit.

I've meant that its typing pairs up really well with defog. Crobat is obviously a better defoger with access to a few more supportive moves like taunt and better typing, but Flygon still can fit better in teams really weak to rocks and/or electric types. 100 attack is not that bad, but still...

In my opinion Flygon really deserves B- , but for a diffenent reason. It seems to be the best defoger in this tier just cause it's typing gives it SR resistance and ability gives it immunity to web and spikes. As a scarfer it also performs very well because it's able to outspeed and kill most of...

Now that M Alakazam is gone and Rachi is leaving I can agree with Crobat moving to S. The only real threats to Crobat at this moment are M Aero, scarfers and maybe sash Alakazam. It's perfect support mon which can completely shut down annoing tanks like CroCune and Blissey. Even the most popular...

And that's exactly why I said max B-. Emboar has some good offensive versatility which allows him to outspeed a lot of things with a scarf and/or OHKO or 2HKO almost every pokemon. Maybe B- is too good for Emboar but seriously try to name 3 counters for him.

Sorry I put head smash instead of flare blitz. Flare Blitz 2HKOs Lando- T after rocks. I'm sure Emboar will be on OU viability ranking, but I would give it max B-.

Checks and counters aren't the same thing "Pokémon A checks Pokémon B if, when Pokémon A is given a free switch into Pokémon B, Pokémon A can win every time, even under the worst case scenario, without factoring in hax."

But you said "Will Emboar have a place in OU? Discuss!" and that's exacly what i did. So I can agree, Rotom- W isn't a good check but emboar isn't able to 2HKO Lando- T anyway: -1 252 Atk Choice Band Reckless Emboar Head Smash vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Landorus-T: 146-172 (38.2 - 45%) -- guaranteed...

Well, I don't think Emboar is an OU material. It will definitely be a powerhouse in UU but in OU there seems to be a lot of checks for him like Latis, Mamoswine, Talonflame and Rotom- W. The only real counter seems to be Lando-T. I'm not a fan of wild charge so I'd prefer having life orb and...