I always see some "no skill" kind of things while I'm playing SV Ubers/NDU and occasionally OU. I was wondering what everyone hates the most, and I tried to put the most goofy ahh strategies from Ubers/OU I could find on here.
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What's everyone's least favorite strat?
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DaRotomMachine
I COULD BE BANNED!
you forgot Endure+Reversal
Calling in a drone strike on your opponent's house is an extremely broken strategy with little to no counterplay (not every team can afford to run an air defense system to deal with enemy drone attacks) and I am very disappointed that the OU council hasn't moved on this issue in so long. Drone strikes should be immediately quickbanned to Ubers.
Stall easily. Why the fuck would I want to play a match where you bring 6 weak blobs and switch between them over and over again for 50+ turns?
DaRotomMachine
I COULD BE BANNED!
read your signature prety obvious
Als VOlcarona is a weak blob? :(
Volcarona’s not a wall it’s a set up sweeper.
And on that team it’s used as a set up sweeper.
That was an interesting team, not sure how it would do against someone familiar with it, but it would catch a lot of people out.
I see voting for rocks+webs as the most annoying strat as an admission of inferiority to the best web+rock setter, shuckle.
I think I'm less annoyed about shuck/rbee/araquanid/galv or even basc itself than last respects, which was absolutely a mistake
Depends on what format I'm playing. In randbats having a blissey/scream tail feels like a cheat code and alongside any half-decent physical tank can easily win the game. In VGC, trick room Farigiraf in combination with indeedee feels insanely oppressive and nigh-impossible to counter even if you know exactly what your opponent will do. In OU, both kingambit and gholdengo feel stupid and brainless both to face and to use, I sincerely wish both of them were banned regardless of how objectively banworthy they are. In free-for-all, shed tail cyclizar and mortal spin glimmora/pgas pecharunt feel so incredibly cheesy, even more so than in regular play because you can't guarantee a free turn with attacks coming in from all sides. In randbats mayhem (which is an incredibly fun format that you should play), in which all abilities are shared and every pokemon's BST is rounded to 600, intimidate feels unfun to fight even more than other broken abilities like Tinted Lens or Speed Boost because it slows down the game to a standstill, especially when paired with an ability like Regenerator or Multiscale.
I wrote these for OU or Ubers, depending on what's legal.
I love how Koraidon is just considered as a strat
It is accurate though
It is accurate though
anything involving gravity is annoying
Glacialisk on hail/snow teams capable of spamming arctic blaze with 0 drawbacks is probably the worst offender. 50% chance to burn on its own is just stupid not even considering the 30% freeze chance. id argue it's worth a ban alone with access to snowcaster but the ND OU tier leaders are morons that don't seem to agree
added, can't believe i forgot to put this in the poll it was so obvious
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Im using my first message ever, after 6 years of roaming these forums. Just to let everyone know. I hate rain.
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