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Just stopping by to say I appreciate seeing a council take their time to get the community involved without quickbanning. As for the panicky\hysterical demands for the ban to go through, I really dont see how taking a week or two to implement to fix it will have a negative impact. Lets let the...
Just making a driveby post from a longtime lurker. Warning, Opinions ahead.
I was very excited to see Freedom Cup initial, as the initial release week of SV OU was one of the best and definitly most fun metagames of pokemon that ever existed. Of course, the anti-fun police wont have any of...
My first impressions of the metagame from a week of play after playing Gen8 AG only for 6 months. Dont have much accomplishments besides hitting top 100 every day on new names which means borderline nothing, other than being experienced at swatting evasion boosting and baton passing. I did play...
Been playing on the ladder for six months with no tourny experience. I focus on consistency against the ladder and just use YEN+Ditto+2 defensive mons. Basically I just stall or stall-break until my opponent loses patience and my ditto used Zacian\Caly-S to sweep them out. Ive gotten half a...
This is just the drive by opinion of someone who rarely posts on the site and only plays ladder, but I do find it quite dissapointing the VR ranks are filled with bog standard OU pokes. My initial inclination was to build a team using only CAP mons and this did fine against others doing the...