thanks for the help! is CC cinderace enough for hazard control or should I add a spinner?
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If you want to be really safe against hazards, or you are running mons that love no hazards, then go for another, otherwise, ace is enough
When would the next "reserve a pokemon" thread appear for the DLC?
I generally like running it alongside Tusk, but as someone else said it's really dependent on your team
Probably a day or a few days after the start of the DLC meta
What is the "German 6" or German Bax?
oh thats literally the team ive been using LMAO
I think you mean Cind/Bax/Tusk/GKing/Gambit/Enam but yeah
Yea no double Bax LMAO, Gambit
How has regidrago been eating with terastalization and earth power? those are massive buffs!
still too one dimensional to be very consistent; it is fringe viable with some potential, but there are more regular options out there
I don't think it makes much splash in OU since its main niche in high power Dragon moves is contested by Baxcalibur, who doesn't have a lot of its other pitfalls like low bulk and lack of boosting.
I imagine it might pull something off in lower tiers where its more powerful-relatively to compensate the one-dimensional build, but OU's a hard climb for it.
I don't know where to ask what if questions but what if shuckle got body press? would that be broken or would shuckle still be miserable.
Giving a deeply flawed mon like Shuckle exactly one useful offensive move - especially Fighting, which has to deal with both an immunity and lots of other strong Fighting attacks, so every team is prepared for it - makes it better for lower tiers, but still worthless in OU. Too slow, too easy to play around, and if it ever comes back, it'd probably lose a bunch of utility moves.
Is there a list of good weather control mons for OU? I'm struggling against sun and walking wake, and am trying to figure out good options. 
I don't see any options listed in https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-ou-role-compendium.3713852/
I don't see any options listed in https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-ou-role-compendium.3713852/
Is there a list of good weather control mons for OU? I'm struggling against sun and walking wake, and am trying to figure out good options.
I don't see any options listed in https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-ou-role-compendium.3713852/
Slowking and
Glowking can use Chilly Reception to start a snowstorm to disrupt Sun and are in general the most splashable and easy to use weather disruptors. You could of course also use a different weather team of your own with
Pelipper or
Abomasnow. Unfortunately neither of the Sand setters are particularly viable at the moment.
Hi, where would I find the list of the exact usage stats of each pokemon for august, as shown here?
is there just lists for the top 135 or is there a version for all pokemon? I want to see what noivern got.
You can see more stats, like Pokemon beyond the top 135, leads, and movesets, here: https://www.smogon.com/stats/
Information about those statistics are in this thread.
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This is obviously a subjective question but how necessary is it to have a Scarf user on bulky offense in the current meta? My background is primarily in SM and it feels almost mandatory to run a Scarfer on BO in that tier to not get run over by many of the very fast threats like Mega-Lop, Ash-Gren, Mega-Zam, etc. However, I felt like in SS it wasn't as necessary to have a Scarfer on BO, possibly due to the decreased power level of the tier; I also remember John W saying during SS that you really just needed something Torn-T's speed or faster. I also feel like Scarfs aren't as common in SV as SM, and I'm sure that's partially due to Booster Energy, but that obviously can't be used repeatedly as a form of speed control. So, I was wondering if BO teams can be fine without a Scarfer in SV if they have a fast mon (like Dragapult or something) and/or strong priority attacks, or should you really try to fit a Scarf mon? This was the only BO sample team I saw that didn't have a Scarf.
While not 100% necessary like you shown, it is really recommended, to put the offensive pressure and to counter opposing offensive pressure, try to do either a scarfer or a booster energy mon, if that mon outspeed timid/jolly Dragapult (421) and can do more than just that, I think its a good choice
What is the winrate statistic, what is it used for and what does a 100% winrate on a pokemon say?