Small note, not only good in rain or sun, but if someone wants to use Galarian Slowking to change the weather, Raging Bolt can take advantage of Weather Ball Ice and have pseudo Bolt-Beam coverage.
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Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v4 [Volcarona Banned]
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Just wanted to say thanks MattC (Banned) , waffle04 , Bold School & TurquoiseLink for the helpful/good replies to my post.
Archaludon is banned from SV OU following a 76% majority vote: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...s-round-10-voting.3736818/page-6#post-9984934
Game Freak continuing the trend of broken Gen 9 Pokémon. How many Gen 9 Pokémon have been banned now?
It's gonna happen. The other dragons are on a timer
Honestly, I might use Duraludon over it. Duraludon, while not able to pull the same Electro Shot shenanigans, it is however able to pull Heavy Slam with Heavy Metal, and Body Press is still good thanks to access to Eviolite. They’re both just as good Overall, Arch doesn’t need to be banned
gj everybody
gj everybody
Duraludon @ Eviolite
Ability: Heavy Metal
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Body Press
- Heavy Slam
- Draco Meteor
- Tera Blast
:P
London Bridge (Archaludon) has fallen down. What day to be alive
Honestly, I might use Duraludon over it. Duraludon, while not able to pull the same Electro Shot shenanigans, it is however able to pull Heavy Slam with Heavy Metal, and Body Press is still good thanks to access to Eviolite. They’re both just as good
Overall, Arch doesn’t need to be banned
Overall, Arch doesn’t need to be banned
Good work guys
Let’s suspect Sun next…. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2061474993
Remember when people said it was gonna be RU? Good times.
And now Rain sucks again... which Sun spam is going to happen now.
Gouging Fire is probably next.
And now Rain sucks again... which Sun spam is going to happen now.
Gouging Fire is probably next.
Honestly Rain is still not bad its just not as brainless at the moment.
I don't mind Gouging Fire being next but I think I speak for a decent amount of people when I say Raging Bolt is a menace that needs to be on trial.
not sure if this is what you're insinuating, but in case it is: evio doesnt boost body press
It'd be interesting to see if now that Archaludon is banned, rain becomes worse and sun becomes more predominant. The latter would benefit GG greatly so...
Either way I don't mind Archaludon leaving, that means 1 less problem for Dnite in the tier
Either way I don't mind Archaludon leaving, that means 1 less problem for Dnite in the tier
Maybe it’s just because I played with Ampharos half the time I used Arch Rain, but playing Weather takes quite some navigation (unless you’re playing Sun vs. Stall. Gouging Fire wins all day). Although it is easier with Rain since there’s so many pivot moves. Torkoal needs U-Turn.
Gliscor was carrying me in my failed suspect run, surpised landorus is still meta with a pokemon like it around
finchinator said:
its a copypasta. please do not use duraludon