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Snaquaza

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Obviously Mold Breaker but you can't run Mold Breaker on everything solely for Lugia. That's why Fur Coat is better to stay banned.
Status, Super Effective Special Hits, Hazards or extreme power (Refrige Kyurem, Drizzle Kyogre/Palkia)
 

shrang

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Contrary - personally I thought it might have been manageable until I was reminded of Rayquaza, since it can use V-Create AND Draco Meteor (Also Victini with V-Create and Overheat), so it's probably a bit too much. I still want to see it tested though, maybe in NFEs or something "nerfed" like that.
Fur Coat - Again, I wouldn't mind seeing it tested in NFEs, but Fur Coat Chansey sounds like it would be retarded as fuck, so we'll probably skip that one.
 
Contrary - personally I thought it might have been manageable until I was reminded of Rayquaza, since it can use V-Create AND Draco Meteor (Also Victini with V-Create and Overheat), so it's probably a bit too much. I still want to see it tested though, maybe in NFEs or something "nerfed" like that.
Fur Coat - Again, I wouldn't mind seeing it tested in NFEs, but Fur Coat Chansey sounds like it would be retarded as fuck, so we'll probably skip that one.
NFE-exclusive abilities seems like complex banning. To be honest, we should actually test Fur Coat on everyone imo. We have outrageous physical attackers.
 
Something interesting I noticed is chlorophyll banded Rampardos. With a set of Superpower/Outrage/Stone Edge/Iron Head (note that you can replace iron head with crunch for deoxys-d, though everyone's just gonna use deo-a anyways, you lose out on xerneas too), it OHKO's EVERY "banned-from-ou" pokemon in the tier after rocks barring:

2HKO'd
Physically defensive Xerneas (73% minimum with iron head)
Physically defensive Giratina (65% minimum with outrage)
Mewtwo X (73% minimum with outrage)
Arceus-Ghost (although everyone uses normal anyways)(62% min with stone edge)
Physically defensive Kyogre (61% minimum with stone edge)

Safe Switch-in
Groudon
thats it

Not to mention it eats up Arceus's extremespeeds (non tough claws + life orb though) and OHKO's back.
 
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shrang

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NFE-exclusive abilities seems like complex banning. To be honest, we should actually test Fur Coat on everyone imo. We have outrageous physical attackers.
That's ok. It's not going to be an official metagame any time soon, so we can do whatever we want with it, so I don't mind complex banning here.
 

Rotosect

Banned deucer.
Contrary users can be countered with Unaware, which is a damn good ability anyway so it wouldn't be a liability for a team.
As for Fur Coat, most ubers are special attackers and most walls who could make use of it have a large number of specially-based weaknesses, so I don't think it would have the same impact it had in OU.
 
Preiliminary funlist:

guts ekiller
aerilate/download rayQ
sturdy deoS
magic guard deoA (sash is intact bitches)
multiscale xern
filter giratina
regenerator blissey/dialga/palk/insert check here
 

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In ABCAB Ubers, Drought Dialga was pretty amazing. I wonder if that would carry over to here.

Also, you guys these 2 monsters that have both been held back by their abilities for the longest time and I think they warrant more discussion:

110 HP / 160 Atk / 110 Def / 80 SpA / 110 SpD / 100 Spe
BST: 670
Potential abilities: Guts (oml), Adaptability, Prankster (it has nice defenses and a decent support pool), Regenerator, Poison Heal, other ones I haven't thought of yet


150 HP / 160 Atk / 100 Def / 95 SpA / 65 SpD / 100 Spe
BST: 670
Potential abilities: basically the same as above except Prankster
Also, there is a one time defense berry against e-killer:


Chilan Berry
Description: If held by a Pokemon, it halves the damage taken from any Normal-type attack.
This meta is gonna be fun :)
 

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Just something that came into my mind recently - Magnet Pull. I notice it's not banned yet, although I wonder if it should be. It might not be AS bad as Arena Trap and Shadow Tag, but you can probably still deal some pretty evil things with it. Something like:

Darkrai @ Leftovers
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Nature: Timid
- Dark Void
- Substitute
- Nasty Plot
- Dark Pulse

If your opponent has any Steel-types not named Aegislash you can just turn them into immediate setup fodder and laugh. Obviously, stuff like this might be offset by Unaware mons and stuff like that, but it looks pretty exploitable. Even without setup mons like this, just having Magnet Pull on a Pokemon that beats pretty much every Steel is a vast improvement from what we have now (Magnezone can't really trap like Dialga, Jirachi and Heatran very well). Something like Magnet Pull Heatran pretty much stomps any Steel-type not named Aegislash.
 
For the sake of being based, Swords Dance Aeriliate Arceus-Flying. Bulk>Rayquaza
you can't have aerilate Arceus-Flying. If any arceus form doesn't have the ability multitype and a plate, the arceus's type automatically defaults to normal
 

PISTOLERO

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So Arceus-Normal is stupid in this tier:

Arceus @ Toxic Orb
200 HP / 252 Atk / 56 Spe (outspeeds Adamant Rayquaza)
Adamant Nature

-Extremespeed
-Shadow Force
-Facade
-Swords Dance

RIP everything, you can't even burn it anymore AND it gets passive healing every turn
 

Inspirited

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LustrousPalkia there are checks to it actually I have been using this recently:


Terrakion @ Expert Belt
Ability: Chlorophyll / Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant nature
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Substitute / Taunt / Stealth Rock

I have used Chlorophyll with sub much more than the other variants just because Scarf Drought Dialga is so good. Expert Belt ensures the KO on Arceus without having to use the inefficient combination of Life Orb + Substitute or being worn down by Life Orb in general. It is also able to get enough Damage on GeoXern that Ray can come in and revenge kill it if need be. This was a really random Pokemon I decided to throw onto my first AAA Ubers team, but it has been working out stellar so far and I feel like I can safely recommend it to anyone.

shrang also has a Regirock that is used to check E-Killer and Ray. I didn't know the exact EVs unfortunately but I saw it work and it was marvelous.

Edit: shrang is also a ninja :P
 

Monte Cristo

Banned deucer.
r.i.p landoge's intimidate niche :(


Terrakion @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Defiant / Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant nature
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide

This should be used along with Aroma Veil Deoxys-S/D or Tinted Lens/Adaptabillity/Protean Deo-A because it keeps pretty much every good defogger in check and threatens the ever so annoying fridge spin excadrill. Adamant Nature because what even relevant outspeed Jolly?
252+ Atk Sky Plate Aerilate Rayquaza Extreme Speed vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Terrakion: 271-321 (83.9 - 99.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
you need to sac something but it's cool.
Mold Breaker as a slash because FUCK FUR COAT.
also check ekiller or whatever :J.


Terrakion @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate / Regenerator / Drizzle / Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 160 HP / 96 Spe
Timid / Modest nature
- Thunderbolt / Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Volt Switch
- Shadow Ball / Rest

This is kind of a cool niche check to Rayquaza, comes in on SD (and EQ if Levitate, espeed if regenerator / NC cause switching into espeed multiple times w/o recovery is shaky) Rest for Natural Cure, Thunder for Drizzle, Volt Switch for all but specifically Regen. The HP EVs live a +2 Jolly sky plate espeed from rayquaza and only has a 20% chance to die from adamant w/o rocks. So yeah, cool ray check.

So yeah, cool ray and arc checks, sorry low word count, I don't really need words though, these are self explanatory niche mons
 

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In ABCAB Ubers, Drought Dialga was pretty amazing. I wonder if that would carry over to here.

Also, you guys these 2 monsters that have both been held back by their abilities for the longest time and I think they warrant more discussion:

110 HP / 160 Atk / 110 Def / 80 SpA / 110 SpD / 100 Spe
BST: 670
Potential abilities: Guts (oml), Adaptability, Prankster (it has nice defenses and a decent support pool), Regenerator, Poison Heal, other ones I haven't thought of yet


150 HP / 160 Atk / 100 Def / 95 SpA / 65 SpD / 100 Spe
BST: 670
Potential abilities: basically the same as above except Prankster
Also, there is a one time defense berry against e-killer:


Chilan Berry
Description: If held by a Pokemon, it halves the damage taken from any Normal-type attack.
This meta is gonna be fun :)
I think Regigigas and Slaking would best utilize offensive abilities such as Tough Claws, Defiant, Glaciate, (for the Gira forms and Lugia), Guts+Toxic Orb, and Quick Feet+Toxic Orb. More potential for Slaking IMO, as it has a more vast movepool and can utilize Sheer Force, which gives it the ability to run mixed sets that essentially grant it 160/124/100 offenses.

EDIT: Anyone think of good use for the ability Multitype yet? Maybe turn some Pokemon into Mono-Type for beneficial purposes, such as Ho-Oh into Mono-Flying to get rid of that nasty 4x rock weakness (although it will miss STAB Sacred Fire), or something similar to that?
 
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Pikachuun

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I think Regigigas and Slaking would best utilize offensive abilities such as Tough Claws, Defiant, Glaciate, (for the Gira forms and Lugia), Guts+Toxic Orb, and Quick Feet+Toxic Orb. More potential for Slaking IMO, as it has a more vast movepool and can utilize Sheer Force, which gives it the ability to run mixed sets that essentially grant it 160/124/100 offenses.

EDIT: Anyone think of good use for the ability Multitype yet? Maybe turn some Pokemon into Mono-Type for beneficial purposes, such as Ho-Oh into Mono-Flying to get rid of that nasty 4x rock weakness (although it will miss STAB Sacred Fire), or something similar to that?
Firstly, you'd be surprised how much PH is used over Guts/Quick Feet in Balanced Hackmons because the passive recovery is amazing. Secondly, Multitype is an arceus-only thing :c
 

Thugly Duckling

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Is this an official tier? I was talking to the Mods in the Other Metagames room on PS and they were telling me things like Regigigas being banned and stuff. I'm just a little confused if AAA Ubers has a ladder or not, or if it is simply something we can play on PS through Custom Game challenges.
 
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