Man, if only we had ice types!
How is the Ice typing helping with Thunder Clap or Draco Meteor falling on their heads?
Man if only it didn't have a special electric version of sucker punch
no :)
ive been saying that for ages while every1 was laughing at me rookie took u long enough to realise, its not even worth laddering unless youre incredibly consistent, then kudos to you that guy who took the -35 ragequit after (understandably XD)
It is not, it is helping with scaring the raging bolt.
That has been used, it was one of the better counters to archaludon as it could take a draco in a pinch and ko it back with earth power. Special Lando-T is interesting, but you should use e-quake on the grass knot set to actually threaten bolt after it calm minds. If you want to get extra quirky, use nasty plot to threaten a sweep.
Last month, there were 1,880,968 battles in OU, that is almost 2 million. This month, if we are saying it is dying, might have maybe 1 million, which I say is very generous for your narrative and is more likely somewhere around 1.4 million if we are being realistic. The ladder is not dying, it just has a bit less traffic, that's all. The amount of battles will eb and flow constantly. Last months statistics is up from 1069916 battles in December.
Wouldn't the mixed EVs that it would need for that make it incapable at doing its job? (I mean running earthquake)
0 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 64 HP / 28 Def Raging Bolt: 312-368 (76.6 - 90.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
No, because for some godforsaken reason it has base 145 attack, and as such could run it with no EVs. Its special attack isn't bad, either, at iirc 90 or so, which, while not great in today's meta, is plenty servicable with Nasty Plot and a free turn.
huh. Cool.
It has 105 sp.Attack, which is still great. I wouldn't reccomend special landorus, but it can be used.
right....my bad let me just rephrase that, it starts to get dead at the higher ends of the ladder, i was quite competitive when i last played this seriously and always tried to get up there on the ladder, i only returned recently cos i got nostalgia when pokeaims videos kept popping in my feed when i hadnt even played for many years and told myself ill just be a casual now, but tbh i still have a bit of that competitive mentality inside of me :) its a lot tougher to climb the ladder to the very top like say top 50 to 10. if youre content just being a casual & enjoying the game then theres absolutely no problems the games still alive and well, whoevers playing ou format these days should know high elo games are a lot rarer now and ud have to be very consistent to climb to the top collecting +5/6s and taking a -35/40 if u lose XD this is the last ill talk about this anyways
if there is so many battles going on its weird that the matchmaker is putting battlers of such different skill levels together. unless its not based on elo but in that case it shouldnt take such big points off people if you lose to someone lower than you.
I doubt that is true, but I can see why you don't like ladder right now. I would bet that once arch is banned/when the new broken thing is discovered that then the high ladder will be more active. Also, you have a long way to go, you are about in the 100ish range, so you have more to achieve. I know the struggle as a month ago I was so close to getting top 100 in Doubles OU, which I am very close to getting again.
Idk why, it probably is because it prioritises speed, which means that you get a game quicker but have to face opponents worse then you. There is probably some complex system that is a combination of relative elo and time, where the longer you wait the broader the Elo distance it is to find another player. If that makes any sense.
OhhhhhhhhhhhhThis is by smogon rules, which uses 6v6 singles. There is also Doubles OU which is basically VGC, but with bans. The second link is for talk on VGC, which you can play on showdown as well.
6v6 singles isn't offical, that is true, but we use an emulator called showdown in which 6v6 singles is the main format.
I checked and you are correct. Idk why I thought there was an extra r in there, but the more you know. Like I can easily spell all the ultra beasts names (nihilego, Buzzwole, Pheromosa, Xurkitree, Kartana, Celesteela, Guzzlord, Stakataka, Blacephalon, poipole, Naganadel), but can't even spell an ostrich's name.
+1 252+ SpA Protosynthesis Raging Bolt Dragon Pulse vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Gastrodon: 253-298 (59.3 - 69.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
I should clarify that Doubles OU is a bit more than just VGC with bans. It also is a 6v6 format, there’s no VGC timer, and it also allows certain Pokémon that VGC doesn’t like most of the mythicals and base Kyurem. In past gens, it also allowed for transfer moves just like other Smogon formats, but Scarlet and Violet nuked those lol
don't worry about it, a lot of people get confused about smogon's place in the competitive world when they first encounter it because we're by far the biggest competitive community around. even most of the vgc players you see in official play will at the very least be using showdown in some measure, for testing out strategies, practicing more efficiently than they can on cartridge, or just building sets to import into pkhex (it's no secret, every cartridge player uses it)
It hasn't been updated on the site just yet, but still, I think you will encounter it for a while after once the site updates. Rain won't get too much worse with arch's ban, though there will be a noticeable drop in power. We might just have to wait for bolt's ban for it to get better.
