Speaking of bans, Pheromosa is being suspected on Showdown.
Speaking of Roach Queens, have a vote:
Pheramosa: Keep Banned or release?
Aegislash: Ban or keep unbanned?
Vote now.
Ban aegis
Ban phero, greninja, and mega metagross cause Fuck it yoloswag1884
Ban Z-moves unban Lunatone
Get out.
Free Mega Ray-Ray
Never played against phero
Hits hard on both sides, has Ice Beam to stop a lot of usual counters, dies to a stiff breeze, outspeeds most of the meta, but ironically is free to Talonflame and Aegislash and a bunch of other Ghosts.
Only thing you need to know about pheramosa is Ash greninja kills it with water shuriken 100% of the time.
Blaze Blaziken is now rebanned on Showdown.
That was probably the weakest April Fool’s prank ever.
Not surprised considering where it comes from.
Someone fell for it though
It’s beedrill tiem
Time for Mawile to save us from Tapu hell, then get banned again…
mawile is honestly pretty okay. it’s speed kills it and priority is heavily nerfed. it’s not mega metagross. it’s super viable but not the monster it was last gen
mega medicham scares me
In lieu of no one voting (and in two cases not voting seriously), I’m keeping Pheromosa banned but Aegislash unbanned.
Anyway, stay tuned for tournament news!
Actually I was looking forward to teambuilding with it, but it needs a lot of support. It faces a lot of threats in the metagame, namely Tapus and Mega Sableye. Did a bunch of calcs and many OU staples can take a hit and OHKO it back;. It’s still incredibly powerful but it resides in a precarious speed tier with fragile defenses so so we’ll see…
Mega Lopunny is definitely going to be a metagame changer though.
No Mega Mawile is the same but OU has about 10 Past Gen level Uber mons running around for some reason.
electric terrain seems to be the best partner as the only thing that will not be 2HKO’d in OU is tapu bulu. Zen/HJK/Tpunch 2HKOs everythinng.
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 240 HP / 176+ Def Garchomp: 309-364 (74.1 - 87.2%) – guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 248 HP / 212+ Def Tangrowth: 246-291 (61 - 72.2%) – guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 248 HP / 44 Def Amoonguss: 245-288 (56.8 - 66.8%) – guaranteed 2HKO after Black Sludge recovery
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Mew: 194-228 (48 - 56.4%) – guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
-1 252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 140-165 (43.8 - 51.7%) – guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Clefable: 170-201 (43.1 - 51%) – 53.1% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega High Jump Kick vs. 248 HP / 192 Def Tapu Fini: 146-172 (42.5 - 50.1%) – 37.1% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
holy fuck this thing hits hard
i never feel truly threatened by it this gen. Last gen it would murk everything. This gen isn’t the case
@Mood4food77 This is under the assumption something is switching in to be 2HKO’d. 1v1 there’s not a lot it can stay in on without prior damage.
Por ejemplo:
0 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Medicham-Mega: 154-183 (59 - 70.1%) – guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
With a HJK it’s taking an additional ~32% from Rocky Helmet and Rough Skin which is potentially fatal.
0 SpA Tapu Fini Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Medicham-Mega: 224-266 (85.8 - 101.9%) – 50% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
Thunderpunch doesn’t OHKO either.
Also bear in mind your calcs are from Adamant Mega Medicham which means he can’t speed tie with base 100 mons in the tier and gets outspeed by + nature ones like Tapu Lele. It’s also an additional ghost weak to any team (a noticeable issue in OU) with the only usable priority being a non-STAB Bulletpunch.
Mega Medicham needs heavy slow Volturn support and prediction to maintain its survival, which other Megas in the tier don’t have to worry about. This isn’t saying Mega Medicham can’t wallbreak or threaten, it’s a matter if that alone warrants a Mega slot in the era of Tapus, Mawile, and Z-nukes.