Robofiend
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It's not only about Scizor and UU itself, it's about OU as well. Nothing's been done about those tiers and that's why they are so goddamn shit, stagnant and hardly playable.
Lack of UU officials is another thing though.
Tiering is never going to be the same since Senile left, as much as he was a scumbag he was doing a pretty good job with that, plus the usage-based tiering is just disgusting in our pokemmo meta, we had unique tiering system that was actually working, now we got broken tiers that are hardly playable unless you love 100+ turn stall battles that usually last like 1h+.
First, don't act like any of these metas were that enjoyable. Remember old UU where every team was Blast/Steelix/Plume/Fearow/Haunter? Old OU where every match was Salamence/Snorlax/Vaporen/Heracross/Weezing/etc.? Old NU? OU when we had Curselax or Dragonite or UU with Chansey in it? These metagames weren't fun or balanced, they were super centralized and sometimes even more stally than what we're dealing with now. While I do miss having Senile around, the inherent (and absurd) limitations of this game (no legendaries because fuck you, no Life Orb because fuck you, etc.) are really the enemy here, not the departure of Senile.
Usage based tiering is admittedly meh but remember that was Senile's idea more than anything - the fact that you're now praising him and complaining about usage-based tiering is the definition of talking out of both sides of your mouth.
I think that the split is more to blame than anything, it resulted in some pokes being incredibly powerful (the Dragons, Snorlax, Scizor, Charizard, Gengar) and lots of other things becoming relatively useless and offenseless because of their poor coverage. That said, OU and UU have improved in variance since the ban train started moving.
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Guer get that 7-0 and rage on these niggas
I will not lie and say shittname is gonna be easy
Kek
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I won good match
use your anger #lions
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I love dis thread, Sweet for most underrated/best buy
lol JJ he got like 2 wins tho... was he free?
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So i had the idea for giving out awards at the end of the PSL season (kinda like oscars, where they are divided into categories) and i discussed it with Orange. Ill be your host for this years PSL honors, this thread is here to create categories (i.e best rap album of 2015). Ill update the OP with the suggested categories and people that would be nominated for each category. Currently, winning gives nothing but bragging rights, but i may be able to find someone to make quality sigs showing off the award.
Nomination Categories
Auctions
Most Disappointing Buy:
Eloyriptor
XPLOZ
robofiend (i went for a lot, considering I went 4-3 instead of 7-0 like last season WTB SV Gliscor)
Best Buy:
walplayer
Gunthug
Spaint (5K)
Giantpipe
Bluebreath
Qbeertje (2.5k)
SweeT
Most Surprising sell back:
Skump
Frexa
Most Dissapointing Retained Player:
John / Imabetheverybest
Best Team Auctions:
Manager of the Season:
Vorred
Lion
Linken
Greck
Forf
Kanzo
Inarin
Eggplant
Seasonal Play
[spoiler]
Biggest Breakout Player:
Hassan
Spaint
Qbeertje
Most Hyped up Match:
robo vs frexas
DoctorPBC vs OldKeith
Bowser vs Zebra
Raaidn vs Zebra
Hassan vs Isaac
Most Clutch Win of the Season:
Raaidn vs Zebra - the shit talk
Biggest Upset:
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Shit Talk
[spoiler]
Best Shit-talk:
Vorred
Biggest scumbag:
BurntZebra
Kyzukun
Qbeertje
GBush
Frexas (for abandoning team, being a rager)
OldKeith (for moaning about VGC and then doing ok anyway)
Worst Shit-talk Mistake:
Raaidn (talked a lot of shit about zeeb only to get dunked on that one week)
that time I thought I beat Frex and GG"d him then he froze my Zapdos and fucking won
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thats all i have so far, suggest more (and people to go under them)
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Has 4mss pretty bad with taunt. It has to have heal bell to not get screwed by Chansey toxic on the switch
Taunt Skarm OP
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dat empoleon set so fgt, it ruined like 3 matches this week for me by critting CM rachi
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gligar or hoppip prlly
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For the record, I'm skeptical that Trapinch will really become a problem since Chansey isn't *that* useful a lot of the time outside of checking Toxic stall.
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Can you give me an idea of how to easily beat Chansey?
Ursaring does a good job, as does Heracross. Metagross is a common way to stop Toxic Stall, Gardevoir can Mean Look trap it, Rhydon is bulky enough to swap in safely and abuse Chansey/Weezing core and even Gyarados can come in and start DD boosting (or run CB) to blast it. Flygon can perform a similar job.
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Yeah and that's Chansey. Look at this from my point of view: if people are reaching for Trapinch to deal with Chansey, something is obviously very wrong
I understand what you're saying, but let me give you a more convincing example.
Recently Shadow Tag was banned in ORAS, mostly because of Gothitelle. Goth was great for trapping Clefable, Heatran, Ferrothorn, and a ton of other walls, allowing stall (and even offense) teams a guaranteed way to break down cores. Clefable/Heatran wasn't the problem, despite being really useful and common, there are tons of ways to beat these pokemon outside of Goth (the same idea is true for Chansey). Gothitelle was deemed the problem because it was flat out uncompetitive.
I think you'd have trouble convincing the rest of TC that Chansey should be banned instead of Trapinch - there are loads of things that abuse it as is and it's not necessary to have Trapinch to beat it, otherwise we would have already banned Chansey for having overly specific counters.
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I wasn't entirely serious about the AT ban, but I don't think it's fair to say "if X traps Y then it's Y that's broken". Magneton traps Skarmory & Forretress but neither are really broken, they're just good and they exist. The problem would come from people relying heavily on Trapinch to build their teams and win conditions - if the entire metagame is set up around the execution of one strategy then something is very wrong.
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tfw Raaidn secretly as knowledgable about global politics as the average Alabama resident lmao
edit: this is the irony I was talking about when everyone freaked on zeeb for posting a hitler quote yet says nothing about blatant bigotry towards Muslims
- ShadowGary, Tritios, DaftCoolio and 3 others
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cant WW the last poke, then pp stall (dont know who wins that) also can forgo milkdrink/healbell for rest so you can firepunch (i think she gets that). Although there is something to be said for the ability to support the team and set up sweep.
But i guess skarm does carry toxic often and can out do the healbell. So that would suck
Not to mention that everything in OU carries Toxic
Edit: Rest Skarm, Any Dusclops/Haunter and probably Gyara/Arc/Metagross combo can just stall you out.
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Old saying says "Not every muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a muslim"
>US Army drone bombing Afghani civilians to death in their homes under the auspices of "counter terrorism"
>Not terrorism because they're not Muslim
- ShadowGary, Kanzo, OrangeManiac and 2 others
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U dont think that its just underrated? I mean a few curses and Skarmory could WW you out of battle again
- KaynineXL and ShadowGary
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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen4ou-319950814
lions hype
really haxy match, but I did have cb nape in the slot to nuke cune once it slept
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Not sure why we dropped Aggron. While it has little use, it literally shits on two of the top threats in the UU metagame Kangaskhan (Toxic immunity, resistance to DE, and is tickled by Fire Punch) and Swellow. It can also destroy Cradily if you pack Iron Tail and it has decent speed for a bulky Choice Band user.
True, but Kangaskhan does have courses of action against Aggron (as do other attackers). EQ and Brick Break (not sure why you'd run Brick Break) do a solid chunk of damage to Aggron. It's still weak to Surf and only really boasts neutral fire damage over Steelix. Altaria hits it hard with EQ as well. I'd prefer Steelix when it's all said and done - neutral/resisted damage from Cradily, doesn't take as much damage from Kanga, almost the same resist profile.
OU Viability Thread
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Wasn't saying you're wrong necessarily, I'm just saying you have to be careful of Heracross/Blaze teams when building a team with lots of Normal types. I'd like to hear recommendations for Miltank ratings
Why nitpick instead of nominating Rhydon for a rank? :)
TL;DR just nominate things for rankings, guys