Damn, imagine getting that much of a chip on your shoulder over Pokemon forum arguments about Darkrai, deeply cringe ass toddler behaviour lol
Skarm has seen success lately. Due to access to Spikes and Whirlwind, it can rack up hazard chip while keeping many physical attackers out with Whirlwind, making progress. Whirlwind is also especially useful for eliminating Booster Energy boosts which can come in clutch. It’s been seen in defensive cores with Ting-Lu to check a majority of the metagame. Balance teams are surprisingly good in the meta, with several older options like Skeledirge, Mola, and Ting-Lu, in addition to some new options like defensive Gfire, and Hydrapple to work with.
unfortunately cincino has wasted pottential due to its defences.
From the games I've played on low ladder and spectated on high ladder it my observations have been it isn't anything special vs balance (which I am running and I am seeing a lot of on high ladder already) as well as Ting-Lu/Zapdos structures which are also already resurging. What cores do you see as particularly threatened by Darkrai? No way to raise speed, middling power unboosted (and boosted) and frailness are all pretty tough hurdles to overcome ime, it does some work for sure but isn't a balance breaker in the capacity that say Rillaboom Ghold or Wellspring were capable of
I think "mid" by definition is a good descriptor for Darkrai in OU, it has a purpose and does work but really is not anything special. People in the internet just act like mid means bad when it means mid. It's a perfectly fine OU Mon I think it'll land somewhere in the B area, and probably keep making its 4.52%
A little bit, but mostly because of Deoxys-S being on most people’s radars and ironically being more like Darkrai than Darkrai with its nasty plot set.
Another reason for Skarm's popularity is Sturdy + whirlwind which is a one time anti-bullshit card that you kind of need in new metas where every new pokemon can just come in, use booster energy and sweep your ass in 1 turn of setup.
I'd say yes... but only because THIS THING
is still running around OU."Yeah man, I got my feelings hurt really bad back then because the anti-Darkrai people were so mean. I know it's par for the course for every conversation in the forums to get heated and here in particular, but those guys were just the worst. And look! They were wrong! Look how above it all I am! Look at how YOU are the one malding right now!"
Give it a month and a Deoxys-Speed ban or two. Right now new toy syndrome is hitting hard and people need some time to remember Kingambit is still completely busted.
Its a rather cold take, Kingambit should have been banned many months ago.
Corv is below Skarm on the early viability list. Even discarding Gholdengo, corv is a do nothing passive wall that over relies on uturn to not thud into teams, making it very exploitable. Skarm has better physical bulk, sturdy, and a fantastic tool in spikes. It sure as fuck isn’t outclassed by a whole assortment of setters. It is one of those great spike setters.
have you considered running Skill Link as an ability so you can use an actual item? Or even just go all in on hazard clearing and pivoting and run tidy up/knock/u-turn/tail slap, given that it gets two of the best moves in the game that maushold just doesn't.
have you considered that this would mean not using technician, which would drop it’s offensive capabilities from slightly above mid to piss poor?
Almost all rodents are known for having high reproduction rates, which is the concept of population bomb, Cinccino is a Chinchilla so a rodent, while their reproduction rate is not as high as those of rats, mice or rabbits its still quite high. It would make sense for most rodent mons to eventually learn population bomb unless they really wanna keep it exclussive in Maushold... Raticate, Pikachu, Cinderace, Lopunny, Bidoof, Furret... Among others, specially the normal types would make sense if they learnt it.Just going to say... move design? Yeah, it would be good forto get it but it wouldn't make any sense. What's the population? Its hair? The only exception is
, but that's a different thing.
The description of pop bomb says it's a familial attack, that's staying on maushold unless some other aggregate family mon drops. It's because it's a whole swarming attack, all those other mons dont really make sense. It's not implications of actually having a high birth rate, it's just a group attack. ~~also rabbits aren't rodents they're a seperate thing~~. Anyways, what do you all think about a hydrapple-clef-skarm dragon/fairy/steel core? I think it could do some work on balance teams, I think it has some real promise.
The viability list in general does usually make accurate predictions, but you also get stuff like Articuno-G being considered highly because of early day showcase.
