ThinkNicer

Put Power Whip on Gyarados instead of eq and it will sweep a lot easier. You have magnezone to get rid of walls that gyarados struggles with. Put leftovers on ferro, it doesnt need rocky helmet and it needs recovery. Get rid of sludge bomb on gengar, it doesnt do anything. Use substitute or protect in stead. You can probably use a physical wall like max defense reuniclus and another sweeper that benefits from the removal of skarm/ferrothorn. Like SD Scizor or Scarf ttar.

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All these teams look way too cool

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The picks aren't completely random. It's based on usage/popularity as well.

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Seems like you guys need some kind of viability rankings to keep discussions going, poggers

Give me that Infiltrator Crobat so I can Swag my own shit through Protect. Now that's just flexing.

At a glance it looks like a standard Tailwind team. But there are a lot of interesting choices. I think you should still opt for Fire Punch on Ttar, or maybe Hammer Arm on Meta to hit stuff like Bronzong and Ferrothorn. Not many people will allow Salamence to hit those steel types. Hammer Arm also improves your matchup against TR somewhat as you can start lowering your speed.

Aaand closed. @Bearminatorcan you give it a lock?

Like 23h left for sign ups.

I don't really know what Olderman is talking about, but the team looks alright. A few things to maybe think about: - Timid Volc outspeeds a lot more things without a boost. You have to keep in mind that sometimes you can't QD, in those instances Modest is a liability. - When using Volc, I like to rely on Defog more than spin. Spin can be blocked more easily. For more offensive teams you could definitely use spin though. - What is Protect on Exca for? Also we don't have Mold Breaker yet. - Mixed Garchomp really dislikes having Scarf. Especially with rocks. Either use Focus Sash for lead Rocks or LO for good wallbreaking. Alternatively you could put SR on Ferro and switch Chomp for scarf Hydra with Uturn. But I feel like your team could struggle a lot against something like Blissey. All in all, it's a standard looking team. It'll work fine.

@Quilerr, @Stelian, @DaftCoolio, @Artemiseta, @camilo7 Tagging you guys because I don't see either you or your co in the discord server yet. That'll be important for picking a time for the draft.

Go back to the darkest depths whence you came from, Kudasai. Begone!

Jesus christ. Can staff kill off OU next so we can get some good tournaments?

Pretty sure im still waiting on you to accept pog

Welp, this event is already over.

Now you spent a stupid amount of time on making swords?

One week left to sign up. If you've signed up make sure to join the discord as the draft will be scheduled there.

People crying about the tournament not being 128 seats when the queue has like 80/64 players. What a fucking joke. I think this only confirmed what the devs have been thinking, sorry to say.

Bump

How do people think we played tiers when they were all unofficial lol. Refs just have to be more careful that banned Pokemon are not used. And make it very clear what the banned moves + mons are. Using them is an auto DQ

I did hint to something like this in the TC post I made but nothing has really been done with it yet. Edit: some tc members are active in the viability rank discord tho

As far as I know Kyu doesn't actually touch developing. Even if he did, claiming that the devs don't value pvp is ridiculous. Sure they have their strange ways of going about it, but more than half their developing time is probably used on things that directly have to do with pvp. Breeding being a big one, and of course the whole matchmaking system which is one of the best updates we've got so far. Then they're also thinking of how to implement HA and Legendaries. Devs have to strike a fine balance between a playable MMO and competitive Pokemon, in the end things will look very different than a simulator. The balance is fairly good right now, a lot better than 2013 that's for sure. I don't think it's right to descredit the work they put into the competitive aspect of this game based on this. Removing the LC tier in the end means that there won't be official tournies for it anymore. Everything else stays the same. And most of the official tours were funded by Yetto anyway. LC is maybe in the best place rn, you can do the tiering unofficially, and you have the amazing Einstein tours that will provide a good environment for LC for the coming year. If it was ever going to grow, it should now.

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