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I feel like pondering the nature and point of NDUU so early in the generation's life is a bit silly. It's only been a month of the tier existing after all. I also fail to see how banning is a bandaid situation when for the purposes of the ladder in NDUU it's hardly different than a Pokemon...
IMO the path the meta would take was split between banning tera or banning the (many) things that can abuse it until hopefully reaching something resembling a balanced metagame. I don't personally think it's sustainable but we'll just have to see how it plays out.
Thank god, some of these mons were incredibly irritating to deal with on such a constant basis. Between the bans from tiering shifts and now this I can't say I really have too many complaints about the tier. In terms of the watchlist I pretty much agree with most things there other than Manaphy...
Is there going to be a suspect test for Tera for UU since OU just barely scraped by without banning it? I feel like Tera has been ruining UU way more than OU to a certain point.
So it's just an issue of Showdown stats reading Greninja with Battle Bond as Ash-Gren because it assumes it can still turn into it when it should just be Greninja? That makes sense I guess, I was pretty confused when Ash-Gren showed up on the usage stats. Can't say I'm sad to see the frog go...
Gen 9 might honestly be one of the absolute worst gens in terms of move cuts. Almost everything that got removed from a moveset felt like there was 0 reason for it to have been removed at all, it's very frustrating.
Thank god for some of these usage bans for Natdex UU, seems like the meta is actually gonna be somewhat playable now. Happy New Year, and have fun with Chansey and Blissey in SV RU :)
It is honestly kind of ridiculous that Annihilape is allowed in this tier. I hope he is one of the first bans once NDUU starts dealing those out, he is way too restrictive without a lot of good counterplay moreso here than in OU, and he spirals out of control more consistently. Have not had half...
Mega Swampert ban hype is kind of silly, even if we assume rain is broken (I'm split on it myself) he isn't even a top 5 issue in terms of rain, especially with how many checks for it are floating around. Something like Greninja continues to be a lot more immediately annoying imo.
Annihilape is...
There's some in the SM sprite thread that still aren't implemented (from what I've seen) even though they were posted a year ago, any reason why/any ETA on that?
So it's based more on the official release of the Hisui mons rather than them being in the game already (just not accessible without home)? I do think it's an interesting (but somewhat understandable) precedent that we're fine grabbing movepool changes from Pokemon that are in the game but...
Saying "god forbid" is hardly making a big deal compared to you basically giving me the start of a shonen rival monologue about power. I just personally think having fun should always come before winning in any hobby, don't know why that idea seemed bad enough for you to personally reply with...