His Eminence Lord Poppington II
proverb:the fish who eats most dies still too
Research Week - Ubers Edition!
Hello there.
I'm going to revive Research Week ! For all you guys who visited the old Stark Uber sub forums would surely know and know how it works. Its a good way to try out new things in the metagame and since Ubers is the most diverse metagame for obvious reasons there are probably quite a few Pokemon with great potential in the metagame who have yet to be discovered. A lot like 4th Ubers Lucario say.
Research Week attempts to investigate Pokemon who have potential, be it in stats, movepool, or supporting their team, to serve as an innovative choice in today's metagame. These are Pokemon that, for the most part, remain relatively untested. I've selected 1 Pokemon I feel, with help from everyone else, could see use as they fill a particular niche. Perhaps the title is a bit of a misnomer; in fact, this installment (and perhaps future ones) of Research Week will continue as long as the discussion does, and that's where you all come in.
If you have anything to say about any of these Pokemon, please post about them! It doesn't matter if you've used them or have just faced them in battle, anything is fine (but please, do try them). Just be sure to back up your posts with good competitive reasoning!
Some rules:
-Be open-minded and feel free to suggest or test anything, you never know it might revolutionize the metagame.(or if it is, back up your reasoning).
-Test it! Get crazy. This is the one time where I'm going to encourage being gimmicky. (Dracoyoshi8 9.9)
-Don't just think of the Pokemon itself, think of what it does well for a team and what the team needs to support it.
-Don't suggest Pokemon in this thread, PM me or VM me or find me and maybe I'll include it in the next one!
-Feel free to post teams you've made (provided you've done at least some preliminary testing with them), ideas, and replays in this thread.
The Pokemon to research:
Abomasnow! The only full evolved summoner of hail available braves the treacherous terrains of Ubers. It boasts a fantastic 7 weaknesses, a mighty 60 base speed, and mixed attacking stats not exceeding 100. However, it possesses a STAB Ice Shard, access to Leech Seed, a resistance to Water and Electric attacks, and a neutrality to Ice ones, allowing it to switch into non-specs versions of Kyogre without much difficulty. I want you guys not to only to investigate Abomasnow as an individual Pokemon, but hail as a playstyle. See if you can make it work!
Written by barry4ever