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It's easier to purge. Opposing evasion boosts can only be bypassed/purged by the likes of Aura Sphere, Swift, Haze, and Perish Song. Roar/Whirlwind and Encore check accuracy like most other attacking moves, so your options are to either run one of the few rare moves that have little viability...

Tournaments have always been about the players more than the spectators, I don't really mind if a change makes for a worse spectating experience since that should never really be a factor in the first place. Also, if something's competitively impactless yet fun to build and pilot, why NOT bend...

literally just made a post about it in the VR, but it's a testament to the positivity of the current state of the tier that little to no people complain about matchup fishing being forced a la ORAS:volcarona:, yet overall perceived viability of all non-niche pokemon are in such dispute that...

Due to the nature of the data being worked with, basically the entirety of B tier is trying to distinguish sliiightly different shades of grey, and A tier's not much better, so absolute placement has significantly less value than in other vapi VRs. Basically everything B3 or above is a Good™...

Could I get a slight modification to "Taliheim"? sure--mari

I personally see no reason to try to make a good tier better via anything that risks making it worse. The pool of viable pokemon is large, the frequency of high tier pokemon is high enough to guard from matchup fishing via stabilizing team structures and tempering expectations, and low enough to...

Been out of touch with the meta for a good while, but it looks like the trend is still to build inherently chip-resistant teams over running removal or attempting to enable more vulnerable mons. With this in mind, is Hail currently a useable idea? And if so, what's the general way that hail gets...

I've been out of the OU loop for a while. What are good pokemon / shells for a more punish-based playstyle? I find I prefer to play defensive and set the opponent up to make their own mistakes, then taking that inch and stretching it as far as I possibly can... I don't think you can really do...

honestly, I think this thing has only one viable set in OU: Tinkaton @ Leftovers Ability: Mold Breaker EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD Careful Nature - Gigaton Hammer - Stealth Rock - Thunder Wave - Knock Off / Foul Play (EVs are unoptimized) Mold Breaker makes Gholdengo its bitch. Can...

if you'll allow me to be slightly off-topic for a second, if you responded to TPP's prompt: What do you define "Competitive" as, relating to Q. #9? I'd have to imagine that five different responders would have five different interpretations of the term's application; my application, for...

I should really be approaching this tomorrow with a coffee in hand, but I don't feel like waiting so meh I don't believe Terastallization is inherently uncompetitive (overpowered, though, possibly.) It can be very easily broken down into a single two-part question, each turn, which itself is an...

Bit late on this, but IMO I don't believe a universal mechanic being centralizing is a bad thing - hell, in any actively-designed/balanced game, universal mechanics are supposed to be what defines the game! Of course, lv100 6v6 Singles isn't exactly either, but if we're capable of proving that...

Imagine gen 4 infernape, except sand doesn't really exist, and it resists rocks, and it doesn't need to run LO on mixed sets, and outspeeds the 110+115 speed tiers, only at the cost of losing U-Turn. As much as I adore its visual design on a personal level, I just don't see this thing staying...

Shed Tail's problematic aspect, to me, isn't in its generic theory. It's the fact that it only needs to work once. When building a team around a sweeper (or two), the goal is to create a checkmate scenario. The easier it is to achieve that checkmate, the better, be it from grooming the...

Forgive me if I'm misremembering policy, but what's preventing us from re-evaluating prior bans as new contexts develop? I bring this up because in the case of Houndstone, doing so would allow banning it until Home releases, and if Last Respects is deemed banworthy, Houndstone can simultaneously...

while I havent really played much of the ladder yet, when it comes to bans, it's worth noting that just because something can be handled doesn't make it banworthy. The real answer to ask not "Can I handle this Pokemon?", it's "Can I handle this Pokemon in tandem with every other relevant threat...

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The concept of dropping Ubers is not disapproved of, dropping Ubers for the sake of dropping Ubers is. If you wish to seriously argue that a suspect for an Uber should take place, then for each specific Pokemon, provide in-depth arguments detailing why their introduction to the tier will not...