Honestly sounds kind of cool, I'd be willing to give it a try. TIL it also gets recover, which is great.
I don’t play sand but ill definitely try out the status team. Can I possibly have a team with the kings rock zapdos? That sounds incredibly fun. In the meanwhile I’m going to try to fit the kings rock zapdos in here instead of toxapex or gholdengo.
Lol yeah forgot about that ban. They’ve gotten rid of pretty much any item with evasiveness or flinch buffs I’m pretty sure. For good reason as well. I’ll settle for the Jirachi. Time to troll my friend… muahahahahahaha
lol fire spin curse dirge without using Tera.Tera Fairy Kyurem.
Wait….
lol it was a joke and I didn’t think it would really work in reality but we can dream lol. But in actuality blissey is a good check if you figure out that it’s a special Kyurem. To physical Kyurem I think fairy types are the way to go. A niche check is banded scizor with bullet punch as well.
Tera Fairy Kyurem.
Man I was just about to post the lil gal
The problem with Blissey is it is often too passive, allowing Kyurem to Sub and fish for freezes, or Spec to blow just enough holes into Blissey to keep you on your feet.
Avalugg-H is actually my second favorite pokemon of this generation, and it's actually a good spinner in OU... IF you're willing to always use tera on it. It has phenomenal physical bulk (Better than pechurant, which yall were going on and on about), a great stab combo backed by good coverage in EQ/Strong Jaw Crunch, recovery, and 2 decent abilities. Its flaw are obviously very clear: it very literally dies to ember (252 SpA Choice Specs Solar Power Charizard Ember vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Tera Ghost Avalugg-Hisui in Sun: 421-496 (106.8 - 125.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO), has slow speed, and can sometimes struggle to switch in to boosted physical mons like Wogerpon, but if you can find a way around those, it's great!
im sorry finch thy second, but the goat, kyurem has full possession of OU
it's less weird when you consider that the sleep clause discussion happens multiple times per gen, but it only tends to pick up steam either right before/after a gen starts or when nothing else in the meta is going on. this is the first time that sleep is showing itself as an active problem instead of just "yeah it's uncompetitive but kinda niche". now people are waking up to exactly how bullshit sleep is and even the niche sleepmons are picking up statistically significant amounts of usage. i'd wager that lower tiers and even earlier gens are going to be starting to see similar trends; although darkrai and valiant don't exist outside of gen 9 ou (and ubers), something like, say, red card amoonguss doesn't magically become less ridiculous by being in uu, or by being in gen 8 or 7 for that matter
Let me explain why I think a hypnosis ban is a good first step out of two. It's the only truly inaccurate sleep move with distribution on good pokemon (No patrick, sleep powder is not inaccurate) and is also the only one to be causing problems. There's genuinely nothing more to it than that. I'm fully aware that it could be a bad move, but if it is, just like, ban sleep as a whole?
The more I play the more I think Kyurem and Darkrai both just need to go. If people want to keep Darkrai but get rid of sleep, I guess that’s fine, but it’s really the only abuser of Hypnosis.
I know nothing about doubles, but weren't both of those significantly less strong than in singles? From what I've heard BP isn't great for vgc formats and dynamax was relatively healthy.
I’m p sure they’re talking about BP Singles
Baton Pass I was talking about for singles, and Dynamax being more “balanced” for doubles is a meme stemming from Dynamax being legal in VGC and VGC players having to suck it up.
If you really wanted to be full accelerationist, you'd go with DNB Darkrai and remove Sleep Clause.
