Niggas try to run Amphoros like a typical run of the mill dragon, Ampharos wasn’t designed to outspeed the base 100 speed tier yet niggas are running agility on Mega Amphoros.
Tbh though I think this is a case where regular pokemon> Mega
That’s that “everything has to sweep” mentality.
rotom-w is pretty irritating, I’m not really a fan of anything that ends up on basically every team(looking at you older generations scizor!).
Leave my boy Scizor alone :arazz:
he at least ahd the decency to fall over dead to fire attacks, unlike our boy rotom which is just a dick about all kinds of damage.
Rotom W IS the new Scizor. He’s on every team because he’s a utility counter to everything.
However Scizor is pretty centralizing his damn self. The only reason I run fire attacks for real is because of Scizor.
I’m more afraid of ferrothorn than scizor, but that is because i run gyarados
but yeah hitting ferro/scizor/mega scizor/forretress for 4x is fun.
my favorite gimmick overheat talonflame with -spAtk and no EVs with expert belt ohkos em all every time except max HP max spDef ferrothorn where it’ll do 95-102%
it also OHKOs avalugg w/o spDef investment because it hits from special side, so it’s a nice surprise
Not Mega Venusaur! :bgrin:
If you run Gyarados then you should be afraid of Rotom lol. That dude straight murders gyarados.
i said i wasn’t afraid of scizor because i run gyarados.
and my current plan is to DD when they switch to rotomW, then mega evolve and EQ vs rotomW. it’s fun.
Speaking of Scizor, I want to run him with a scarf.
Have niggas thinking “Oh Heatran can definitely take care of him, he’s faster!”
“Superpower”.
And U-Turn out of places like a Genesect.
I want to try to make a team that is based around being annoying and stalling. Haven’t done that one yet. Requires too much thinking…
Or how about I should create a team that only comes from one generation?
I’ll try that first.
**PokeBattle: A New Competitive-Battling Simulator
**
They probably could’ve shaved about 15 minutes off that video if they just came out and said “Hey, we’re making a Competitive Pokemon Community based on King of Fighters Ranbats.”
I like the idea, but I do question having a guy with ties to that one place on the development team. This BlueKirby fellow does sound like he has a good head on his shoulders, though…
I will give it a chance if it is really like they say and team building and laddering become a ratio-based points system with the kinds of pokes you use determining the amount of points you earn per win. I don’t like that you can’t run say a Mewtwo while laddering initially*(I would make it so you would have to run a bunch of weak guys like Raticate and such alongside it and your points take a massive hit, and disallow them in Tournaments)*, but it sounds like they are at least willing to allow the actual community to decide these things in the long run.
Either way, it already sounds 1000x better than what we have coming out of that other place. Hopefully they can implement a way that I can run Evasion and Moody too without everyone crying foul, but that may be wishing for too much right now…
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no one but you thinks moody and evasion could be somewhat balanced, gtfo with that shit
I REFUSE TO CARRY STOMP JUST TO HIT YOUR MINIMIZING BLISSEY
Fix’d for you, bro.
We’ll never know if they’re balanced because everyone is scared to try them despite the laundry list of counters and checks.
i’m not the only who thinks blaziken and mega lucario are broke (one turn sweeps are sure fun…)
but seriously, this is what moody and evasion moves do, unless you carry one of the shitty never miss moves on all your pokemon, you get swept, and moody takes that to the extreme since it also gives other boosts, i have heard no one but you want them
also, just because something has counters doesn’t mean it’s healthy for the metagame, moody and evasion cause centralization of the metagame (actually, moody doesn’t, it just wrecks anything and everything), causing roughly 1/4 of all moves to be an evasion beating move is bad
it’s similar if we let ho-oh run throughout standard play, yes it’s beatable, there are counters, but god damn that thing centralizes the fuck out of it all, causing players to run 3 SR setters and a strong water type
blaziken has 1 surefire counter and 1 surefire non-SR counter (azumarill and talonflame) but seriously, if you don’t run them, a competent player will sweep your ass with blaziken
mega gengar was just…dumb, no counters and you had to guess what he was running, guess wrong and half your team is gone, similar to mew in early gens, sets have counters but too many viable options to try and guess and if you guess wrong, you lose
mega kangaskhan is basically an uber legendary, has counters but takes way too much effort to try and stop
mega lucario is too fast for the amount of damage it does, seriously, tentacruel counters it but that’s about it, your best bet is to hope he doesn’t have extreme speed and revenge kill it, runs train after 1 turn
yes everything has counters, hell, fucking parasect walls the living shit out of kyogre but are we ever going to let kyogre be in standard play?
This…wasn’t supposed to spark another argument… 
My bad… My support of a reduced/ban less metagame inherently causes controversy. I’ll never back off my position, so its a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and a Smogon-less metagame.
I’ve been trying to post less, but sometimes I’ll see something that sparks my interest, or is so asinine, I can’t help but respond.