Recent content by Venomben

Hey, its been a while. I've gotten relatively used to the meta now (emphasis on relatively) but I also dropped off on activity cuz of tennis season (hi ADVANTAGE). Anyhow one of the main things that I want to bring up is ice cream. Vanilluxe -- S Why? Well lets start with the obvious. Specs...

Player Name: Venomben Tiers Played: ORAS/SM/USUM Timezone: EST Availability: (Guarenteed) After 7pm weekdays, all day weekends and I'm usually pretty active in the NU chat :3 and forums

Usually I write big nominations but today I'm only having 2: Scrafty: B --> A- So scrafty is sitting at B right now, and I understand its speed tier is downright laughable, but its defenses are nice enough I would argue it deserves at least B+ but I'm gonna take it a step further and say A-...

Look, I have been a strong advocate against the banning of sneasel; however I will admit most of the points I typically use in arguments were brought up and pretty successfully refuted. I still hold that sneasel is very tough to get in and loses to priority and can be as much a guessing game...

Ooooh, this new discussion jawn looks like fun... Uxie: I like this mon a lot due to its highly variable movepool so its frustrating to admit that its relatively useless in this meta. Sneasel heavily hampers its existance and while it has a cool niche of heal bell and setting up rocks...

Any might have been too broad or vague of a term but let me point out that there are a lot of pokemon that check it, especially with the rise of Incinium Incineroar but even something nifty like switching in hitmonlee makes sneasel pay. Defensive mons like scrafty, maudino, aromatise, steelix...

Oh, yipee, this debate again. Look, I'm relatively new and don't entirely understand the definition of a "healthy meta" or junk like that but I've been laddering and playing in tournaments as much as possible to see where this whole "ban sneasel" vs "ban slowbro" vs "stay the course" debate is...

Just curious but like, where are the calcs for a steelix EQ or Rhydon EQ? If you want to say lanturn offensively checks cuz water beats ground/rock, fine but just as a point: So its nice and does lots of damage but also dies instantly and cant even switch out if you lead with it. Sure, water...

Hey, there's a forum page specifically for unmeta mons (not necesarily meme sets but sets that have an uncommon niche) which would benefit from this post :) This is the link: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/nu-creative-underrated-sets-thread.3609222/

Nlt3 Venomben

Also as far as potential Blastoise placement is concerned; it only has 2 sets, is outclassed by many bulky water types, can only run well on stall/balanced teams (tho that is the meta) and generally is not that great...which is disappointing cuz its my favorite starter. I'd say a solid B would...

So as far as rankings in my experience are concerned I have to say they are pretty solid... I believe Hariyama should move up solely based on major bulk and resistance to a ton of threats, making it very splashable. It has an unfortunate speed tier, but variance in its sets and bulk and threat...

Yo, just wanted to say thanks, I'm still exploring the forums (though I've been a long-time showdown fan) so I might say some stuff in the incorrect threads n junk but its super awesome that people respond nicely instead of getting frustrated that I'm a noob :)

Hi, I'm up pretty late but I'm also teambuilding so ya know, grind n all. Anyhow, I just wanted to make a few comments (non specific so don't @ me) but here I go (Also I understand a person can only do so much so I'll delegate priority to whomever would be working on this stuff but I'll...

Ok, not to be a butt munch or anything but I actually found the answer which is the following link: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sun-moon-nu-analysis-discussion.3608853/#post-7707841 Which goes to the analysis discussion of NU Pokemon, aka the Dex entries. So, hooray, I answered my...