Recent content by ultimatellama

That's certainly true. Having top tier players deciding whether or not anything is OU is great for top tier play, but leaves the vast majority of all smogonauts out in the cold. Let's face it, most of us on here will never hit the leaderboards. We're just not that good. That said, is it fair...

smart guy, whoever said that. Obviously, I don't actually reccomend banning everything OU and up, I'm just pointing out that because of the way the game was designed, we'll always have balancing issues. I actually agree that the existence of an 'Ubers' tier is silly, because as we're seeing now...

The problem is that we're trying to implement an arbitrary tiering system to 'balance' a game which wasn't created with balance in mind. As soon as we define what can be allowed where, people will experiment and eventually come up with 'the best' sets. This means that very quickly in every...

There's no need to remake any previous games to introduce Light as an element, just force everyone to buy Black and White to play with the new pokemon. It'd be a very Nintendo-esque move, though I agree adding a new element would drastically split the metagame into Pre and Post B&W. Light as...

Well, a new gen is bound to destroy the current metagame anyway. If they're gonna introduce a new type, now's the time to do it.

I also voted Mew. It's got awesome (untapped) potential, and seeing the same sets running around with such a versatile pokemon makes for easier prediction and a more boring metagame. Let's shake things up - it's the point of these Research Weeks after all!

Well, I guess for me it's lack of experience. I can totally see the appeal and of course there's strategy galore to be had I'm sure, but I'd be battling out of my comfort zone. Not that that's a bad thing, mind. Broadening horizons is always good and battling skills like prediction and such are...

With those IVs and duclops's awesome defences, you have a wicked tank. EV spread I reccomend is 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 Sp. Def for a general all-purpose 'switches into anything' beast. Seeing as how you're impish though, I'm gonna amend that to: 252 HP / 6 Atk / 252 Def Have you got access...

Mach Punch/Stone Edge is a viable combo with nice coverage, but U-Turn is strongly recommended. It lets your ape get a hit and run off dealing damage and switching out to something that can deal with whatever your ape can't. It's also a nice move for a predicted switch-in. You get to deal some...

Only Attack and Special Defense

This is exactly the problem. I'm not gonna argue definitions of Ubers here, we all know it's intended as a ban-list, but every time you ban something there, you shake up the metagame so hard that other stuff rises to the top and appears 'broken'. Then you end up moving stuff that isn't really...

The issue here is NOT (believe it or not) whether Mence should be tested. I have no problem with a fair test to see if it's broken or not in the OU metagame. The problem comes with implementing the results of the testing. Now that Latias is gone, Mence has lost a potential counter so it's a...

Preach. Playing in any metagame, but OU in particular requires you to think long and hard about the extant threats when crafting your team. Since entry hazards are everywhere, you'll probably want a rapid spinner. Likewise, if you're setting up entry hazards, a spin-blocker is advisable. Those...

Absolutely. What's been done is...well, it's certainly very clever, but the press seems to be heralding it as the greatest leap forwards ever etc.... DNA already knows how to replicate, so they've not done anything 'new' just made old stuff do the same thing as it was always designed to do...