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another thing to watch out for is a drizzle team with thundurus using thunder because thunder has 100% accuracy in the rain and it deals a lot more damage than t-bolt.
and with tornadus the most common things I've seen are tailwind users, sub stallers and the flying gem and acrobatics combo |
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Nah, probably not that strange at the musketeer trio. Terrakion is such priority bait that very few people can use it effectively and when they do it's hard to do so - though it is a fantastic Choice item user. Both Choice Band and Choice Scarf are very good on it. Cobalion is hardly used at all because its base 129 stat (Terrakion's is Attack, Virizion's is Special Defense) isn't nearly as useful as the other two. Virizion is actually the one with the biggest niche - its typing lends itself to be a great bulky water check in general, absorbing hits from literally every bulky water and then spamming Calm Mind in their face. Regardless, it's generally not used as much because it's still really frail defensively (from the physical aspect). I dunno, I'm just not really that surprised that you don't see them that much. |
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Dragonite is a little harder because of Multi-Scale. Icicle Spear and Double Chop are probably the easiest ways to break it, although Mamo's Icicle Crash and Specs Latios' Draco Meteor outright OHKO those with little bulk investment anyway. There are other ones too but Multi-Scale is what makes Nite really effective. |
so i thought this would be an interesting topic: what do you think is the biggest change from 4th gen OU to 5th gen? i assume it could be anything, to an extent. seeing as one could say all of the 5th gen pokemon or dream world abilities, you may only reply with one pokemon/ability/item/etc (or weather) that you think changed the metagame the most.
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Definitely weather. It's caused a lot of issues when it comes to tiering and banning threats. I guess Dream World in general, since that's what started it. Other things from Dream World that I feel are notable (besides Ninetales and Toed) are Mirror Bounce Espeon, Multi Scale Dragonite, and Sheer Force Nidoking (although he's less noticeable). I personally really like it, because it keeps us away from the "spam dragons/steels" that Gen 4 became with Platinum, which was honestly the most boring thing to play.
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Can I just say Dream World? It's given a lot of Pokémon new life, like Espeon, Dragonite, Politoed, Ninetales... while some of them aren't useful at all, new abilities for old Pokémon can completely change how effective they are (in the case of say Politoed) or just like making them this much better like Mamoswine and Thick Fat. AND THEN you have things like Regenerate/ion (I can never remember what it is) Slowbro/Tangrowth - those abilities made those Pokémon much much much better. And there are still things yet to be released - Ditto breaking the revenge-killing game, anyone? I dunno, I think the Dream World totally changed our perspectives on why exactly some things are good, and how other things just need that liiiiittle nudge in an ability or a moveset or something to make it great.
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Im actually going to nominate Smeargle, Gorebyss and Huntail OR Espeon next round because smashpassing is unable to be banned (even though it received a MASS amount of nominations) as its "too complex" so those pokes are gonna have to go to prevent this bs lol. @ Garchomp/Blaziken alt abilities in OU: Cant do it as its a massive double standard if we let chomp back and not Blaze and too complex. Which is silly imo. If it improves the game, why not do it, even if it is "2 complex" ? Speaking of "too complex" arguments, anyone else think this only applies when you have an exceedingly small brain ? "ONOES, BLAZE BLAZIKEN IS ALLOWED BUT SPEED BOOST ISNT ?!?!?! MY BRAIN CANNOT FATHOM THIS AAAAA" lol ~~ Quote:
Anywho, Thundurus counters; Unaware Quagsire, Swampert, SP.Def Blissey, P2 (Eviolite and Priority Traced T-Wave ftw), Sp.Def Jirachi and electrics (Vire, Eelektross and Raikou etc) seem to be the best things that check it. Anything faster such as Scarfers work wonders. As always the amazing Mamoswine proves to be an awesome switch into it. The biggest change; imo is the fall of Heavy Stall. Its literally impossible to do now after it dominating for 3 gens. Whilst stall still exists in some forms (semi stall, elf stall etc) your classic Skarm, Bliss, Hippow stuff is extremely hard to do now. |
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Yeah id like to see Genesect banned. Heatran and Chansey are the only thing that really walls it well tbh. :/ Though i doubt Heatran is going to want to take Douse Drive Techno Blasts or even Download T-Bolts. ~~
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Keldeo is another Pokemon who I'd like to see banned. 2 of the 4 types that hit it for super effective damage [Electric, Psychic] are primarily comprised of special moves, which can easily be absorbed after a few Calm Minds. Secret Sword makes Blissey and Chansey susceptible to its attacks, so the list of Pokemon that wall it is narrowed down to Cresselia and maybe a few others that I'm forgetting, as I type this.
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Pssssh, I use Psyshock for Keldeo. :)
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For those of you who care:
1. I forbid the use of my guides etc as they will be reserved for people who actually appreciate. 2. Goodbye, i wont be coming back. |
well let's let this thread get to a point where we can start discussing things again
who has seen this? i think it's a really interesting concept but something that you'd have to build -entirely- new teams for. you'd think that removing hax would be as simple as removing crit chances but that's really removing every kind of luck there is at all. plus a lot of things will be less good - notably jirachi, but outrage users beware: "Outrage always lasts two turns and lowers the user's Atk and SpA 2 stages when it ends." i mean, it sounds really really interesting and something that would be hard to get into at the same time because of all the new restrictions you'd have to get used to. on the plus side, things like stone bad and focus miss will be a lot easier to use but focus blast also is a drop in spA.... idk, it's so weird! a whole new metagame, even. what are your thoughts on a server like this and what do you think you'd use on your team if you battled on it? discuss gogogogo!!! |
It's a neat idea for sure, but I'd refrain from playing it because I have no problems with the current metagame. Sure, luck becomes annoying, but I figure "so what". I never ladder though, so it's probably just an opinion that formed because I just casual battle and hax never gets to me.
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It doesn't really appeal to me much especially because no moves ever miss (though of course they had to do that to eliminate luck). It's really just a whole new game and it's kind of impossible to speculate :o. It is good that players who despise luck have a place to play though.
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i did say i would have liked it with just no critical hits on the server, but it does seem interesting with the changes. i may make a team for that metagame when the server is up. nothing else to mention about it...i'm not really against it since it's just a side metagame.
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Awesome. :)
I'll definitely at least be trying it out, it'll let me use lots of sets that were pretty unavailable before because of certain things (Like Dynamicpunch Machamp completely outclassing Guts Close Combat). |
Ok Spartan, look. You linked to pornography. There are two locations for the rules (a sticky here in CBC, and one on the server itself). It alerts you upon logging in that you can read the rules with a /rule command. In pink text by the way also highlighted by the *** on either side. Also, when is pornography ever OK to post? Your argument seems to revolve around the idea that you didn't know the rules, but no pornography shouldn't even have to be said as it's a general rule of any forum that isn't...adult-oriented.
Regardless, this conversation is better suited for PM or VM. To put this thread back on track: The whole Thunder / Blizzard / etc dropping respective stats is basically a D-meteor thing, making those moves rely on STAB it seems. Thundurus could be fun to run Specs on with Thunder. Tornadus would be the same, but with Hurricane. |
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Well Thundurus and Tornadus both have base 125 Special Attack, making those STABs do extremely high damage, must like Latios (but he has 130 Special Attack). It would certainly be easier to resist than a dragon type stab I guess.
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