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Zarude takes little skill to use. Turn 1 Tera Poison Bulk Up + Turn 2 Trailblaze 6-0 Kleavor / Araquanid HOs (even at high ladder) and Red Card Mimikyu is unreliable as the item does not activate when it gets Knocked Off. Trailblaze is the last straw that broke the monkey's back because other...
:swampert::rotom-heat::zarude::gardevoir::slither wing::cyclizar:
TLDR
Played more than 500 games with this team during RULT, don't intend to participate in the tour myself but I have fun nevertheless. Just VoltTurn into Gardevoir and spam Moonblast.
Summary
:swampert::rotom-heat: Swampert...
:iron leaves::iron jugulis: I would like to see these Paradox mons quickbanned by the end of the month should there be any more slates. Iron Jugulis outspeeds many mons after Booster Energy and is able to run a plethora of sets to overwhelm its would-be checks, from Tera Ground Earth Power to...
Quick thoughts after playing 20+ games:
:haxorus: Quickban this asap, counterplay to this thing is close to zero. Offense gets shredded by DD / Scale Shot, and often have to react by using priority moves like ESpeed or Ice Shard, and even that is not enough since Haxorus can simply Tera Steel...
I would like to request my username changed to shooting star, it is still thematically linked to my favourite pokemon Jirachi, and it's my name on discord. The account with the username I want was last seen in 2010 and has only 1 visible post.
yep - nya
Here are some quick thoughts about the current meta.
:chesnaught: Chesnaught is underrated in the current meta. It beats relevant spinners such as Iron Treads and Quaquaval lacking Brave Bird while setting up Spikes in return, counters Sludge Bomb Amoonguss, checks meta-defining physical...
Except that they didn't vote for Action in the first place? Action and No Action are mutually exclusive events, you cannot have both. This is akin to voting for "no, but actually yes", which is to say the least undemocratic.
I trawled through the voting records for the Terastallization suspect...
I have no strong opinion on how busted Terastallization is, except that the previous voting format is in my opinion flawed because it gives voters in favour of no action more power in manipulating the final outcome of the vote. If we follow the previous format, and the outcome look something...
And we should keep it this way. I honestly do not quite get why some people are so afraid that their metagame staples get so-called stolen by higher tiers? If a Pokemon is good in OU, it should stay in OU. The only flaw of the usage-based system is unviable Pokemon rising to higher tiers due to...