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Post in this thread if you meet the requirements needed to vote on Cloyster. The requirements are as follows: All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! BW OU ladder on a fresh alt* (see below note) with the following format: "BWC (Nick)." You must meet the listed format in order to...

Hello gamers, In response to the discussion amongst the BW OU Hub, SPL XV BW Discussion, and BW OU Tiering Discussion threads, the council has decided to call for a Cloyster retest. We recognize how the previous multi-pronged suspect may have skewed results, and players across the board have...

council has already discussed that we can’t just ban sand force since it’s pretty incoherent for tiering policy just to preserve a pokemon. this won’t be an option unfortunately.

it feels that there are several folks across the board, myself included, that view the metagame presently as undesirable. as soulwind noted, there is an incongruence between offensive and defensive strategies. we are forced into balanced structures to be consistent -- god knows i've tried to...

SoulWind how do you feel about the prospect of a spikes ban/limitation?

latios and sd excadrill are the most broken elements of the tier. i don't think any of us have the wherewithal to solve the bw balancing conundrum if we really decide to pluck out all the broken elements. i view thundurus a similar vein to volcarona: consistently oppressive, can hugely swing...

won vs soulwind, gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-752762?p2

won vs nalorium, gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-748342

won vs watashi, gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-746589?p2 thanks peng for the team structure! my goat

won vs eeveon, gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-744413

won vs rewer, gg https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen5ou-740757