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Nothing has no weaknesses, the following each have exactly one weakness: Normal/Psychic/Ghost Normal/Ghost/Dark Normal/Ghost/Fairy Water/Electric/Bug Water/Ground/Fairy Water/Flying/Steel Electric/Poison/Dark Electric/Flying/Steel Grass/Steel/Fairy Poison/Ghost/Dark Poison/Dragon/Steel...

Crabominable at least has an interesting design backstory going for it. It's a yeti crab (a deep sea crab in real life) only obtainable by going to the top of a high peak in the Alola region (c.f. Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the world with its base far below sea level, in Hawaii); the...

shouldn't fluffy, huge power and pure power grant access to all physical moves, given that fur coat does?

how is lando-i usable pre-bank? is this a bug/exploit? http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-479288169 sorry if this is the wrong place for this

Marowak-Alola puts in so much work in the pre-bank meta. Pretty much nothing available walls it. Checking threats like Xurkitree, Tapu Koko and Pheromosa is the icing on the cake. Also, I saw someone using Aegi on the pre-bank ladder, is that allowed? Forgot to save replay unfortunately

uhh no, it's a 50/50. someone posted a replay a while back. e:

if the four moveslot clause is added, assault vest with only one attacking move will probably become the norm (outside sheddy). with that in mind, this will be useful: Accelgor @ Assault Vest Ability: Sticky Hold EVs: 252 HP / 252 Spe / 4 Atk Jolly Nature - Knock Off - Recover - Rest - Me First

stat spread: 125/115/55/155/105/65 Sunflora (Houndour) @ Life Orb Ability: Chlorophyll EVs: 36 Atk / 244 SpA / 228 Spe Rash Nature - Fire Blast - Sucker Punch / Dark Pulse - Solar Beam / Earth Power - Growth / Destiny Bond Been looking into sun, this seems like a fun mixed sweeper. Speed...

someone implied otherwise, so it's not entirely clear... is it possible to use standard abilities? stuff like gw talon and prankster thund will probably be helpful against the rampant setup users.

well, yeah, they can switch, hence my suggestion of trapper gengar and hazards. hazard stall isn't really endless battle forcing, no matter how passive. server timeouts could be an issue though, along with the team being hella tedious to ladder with. that clause seems to run into complex ban...

Here's a cool core. Chesnaught @ Leftovers Ability: Spiky Shield EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def Impish Nature - Synthesis - Wood Hammer - Swords Dance - Drain Punch Golurk @ Leftovers Ability: Protect EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD Careful Nature - Earthquake - Magic...

Yeah I'm aware, but the assist team could also afford to slot a magic room trademarker to deal with rocky helmet, couldn't they? It's a cycle of styling and counterstyling that you can't really puzzle out by theorising; we'd need to see it playing out. Either way i think we're agreed that...

^Stealth rock tho. I'm going to stop repeating myself about this now, it's surely not helping anyone. Moving on, does anyone know if the effect of Mist persists after switching out? If so it's probably the best way of dealing with that screech ttar set for defensive builds, as well as having...

Yeah there seem to be at least several ways to beat the strat at team preview basically. Could only imagine it'd be annoying to lose to, though. Edit: at least one, that is: Protect/Detect (trademarked on at least two, preferably not hazard weak team members). Maybe Static, Flame Body and...

Your clause isn't sufficient to prevent the infinite u-turn thing, the same thing can be achieved with one assist user and one copycat user.