DrButler

Never said that para is guaranteed, but being able to spam bodyslam without any risk is a way to support your sweepers longterm. wp Milo seems to be the only reliable one tho and id ofc want to run the most reliable one. mb, but thats why i said it sounds instead of it is. The core of every norlax set is bodyslam. Nobody would run lax without bodyslam, people wouldnt give a fk if it didnt have fire blast or surf available tho. I dont see where lax gets hindered tbh. Sure it loses the ability to counter its checks/counters, but it still provides team support and has the ability to turn battles around being a rng magnet. Did i say you were wrong? In ou it actually is considering that the only viable ghost type is dusclops, thats what i didnt like about that comparison, or analogy if you want so. Thats not true and i think it should be obvious that i dont think that way. I mentioned that theres too much lax has to offer several times, so im not gonna discuss that point again. I cant think of a poke that provides as much as lax does atm. Bulk to take on special sweepers, damage, late game sweeping potential, possibility of spreading haxes, recovery and wall breaking.

1. It can, but i feel like this is a point that can be controlled pretty safely, so ill just treat it as a "no". But it supports your sweepers by paralayzing enemy pokes by spamming slams. 2. It doesnt simply wall them, it threatens them while doing so. Jolteon has to run swagger to be safe, its not the most effective set (in terms of sweeping, it is the most effective in the lax meta - hope you understand what i mean, im not a native english speaker), but its the only safe one, which enables it to stay at a decent 22% usage. Starmie (27%, it wouldnt hit those 27% without being able to spin obviously) can hit 16 recover pp at max, while pursuit has 20 base pp. You can bring it in to spin, when you face the lax you have to start by using recover. If Lax slams you can switch "safely", otherwise its could be a cb lax and the star has a timer on it. -> 0 Atk Snorlax Body Slam vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Starmie: 60-72 (35.9 - 43.1%) -- 96.3% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery (careful and no att investment...). cb lax already mentioned. if you get those spdef reductions going or celebrate a critfest you can defeat lax, but im pretty sure nobody wants to rely on that amount of rng, so you can render a pretty common spinner that even puts on a decent amount of special pressure useless,by running. Zam doesnt even need to be mentioned, altough it has insane stats - pursuit lax completely shits on it. Running bands it cant run substitute to scout possible pursuit sets that would at least enable safe switches - Zams out, same for espeon (#diversity). So it walls special sweepers and while threatening them, can support your sweepers by clicking buttons and use special sweepers to hide behind substitutes. Lax walls special sweepers while it doesnt even have to shift momentum. when running chansey you almost always give up momentum to take a hit. 3. with the amount of people souting opposing teams in officials (yes, i know. its a fundamental and individual skill of a competitive player to have other people scout stuff) it does. Lax has such a versatile movepool that you automatically gain an advantage against people in smaller teams with smaller comp pools. You could argue that thats possible for every single poke around, which would be true. The thing that disturbs me with lax is that it already has a stupid amount of impact on teambuilding being the most impactful pokemon in the current meta. 4. i dont know if you still follow recent officials lately, but you cant deny that those parahaxes have an insane impact on the flows of a battle. As mentioned in 1, the support those haxes offer are insane. Ofc other people can proide too (looking at you chansey), but theres a high chance that you give up momentum in order to do so. Lax doesnt guarantee the para, but it has a 30% to do so without any risk involved. 5. depends, as somebody mentioned milotic + skarm seems to be pretty safe. i dont wanna be forced to run those 2 every single battle to be sure that lax doesnt 1v6 tho. its versatility doesnt single handedly beat opposing teams, but in order to avoid those cases it harshly cuts diversity. 6. the only people being able to answer that question are people who have access to usage statistics, so i think this point will be discussed very subejective(ly?) anyway, i would say yes. i, and i doubt i am the only person feeling that way, worry about lax the most. the problem is its versatility + bodyslam. other physical sweepers have safe counters or checks, lax doesnt. i know that rng is part of it, but laxes pool and the amount of rng it is able to provide forces me to run comps i dont want to run. if you watch recent officials it will probably be lax who has the biggest impact in games most of the times. as i said, this is my subjective point of view and the only way of pin pointing if it does are statistcs, which i simply cant provide. 7. not sure about that one tbh. i mean stamie had 27% usage, so people dont abuse cb pursuit to hard atm i guess. zam and espeon arent played too much lately, which i would think is related to pursuit lax. well, at least thats my reason to let zam guard the box. starmie has a better stand against pursuit, because the only set threatening it is the cb one. i think with forre we have another very strong spinner tho, so i wouldnt say that pursuit hurts spinning too much. zam and espeon are pretty sad, but those 2 dont justify calling pursuit on lax unhealthy. i mean lax is even one of the better pursuit pokes to face, due to its base speed allowing you to get another hit out. 8. nope 9. i didnt play in a meta where any of them have been around and since i dont play dubs i wont bother wasting time on them - i pass. 10. cant think of any poke that does, so that question seems to be a "no, it doesnt" - "see, lax is healthy"- case. No idea if you provoke on purpose, but that "Is it because its popular right now?" part sounds fkn arrogant. Snorlax only being able to rely on bodyslam is a worst case scenario, that worst case doesnt even sound too bad tho, because it can still provide team support by spreading paralyze and it can still wall special sweepers. I mean lets assume you run bodyslam + fireblast. Do you mind your opponent running a rhydon? I wouldnt because lax can still deliver what i mentioned above and covering your lax lacking surf is easier than covering an opposing lax running surf when you want to counter it with rhydon. "...limits snorlax in a lot of different ways."... Poor lax, that limitation really seems tu hurt considering those 41%. So we should all run haze milotics now? Theres things that sound more exciting than lax and milo sitting at 41%. #diversity I also dont know how you can consider milo a hard counter. Two pokes looking at each other for 30 turns doesnt have anything to do with counterplay being involved. Is is easier to say an argument is invalid than not even offering valid arguments and just denying. I mean before considering running bold magnetons (hello fire blast btw) id stop playing ou. Even if it doesnt run fire attacks it deals more dmg to you than you can deal to lax. Shifting evs towards HP doesnt change anything and lax can still run substitute, so your twave, ye. 0 SpA Snorlax Surf vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Magneton: 34-41 (27.2 - 32.8%) -- 85.6% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery Your lame poli NU comparison also doesnt seem like a valid argument, because theres multiple reasons people want lax to be gone, not just bodyslam and NU having several ghost types that are viable and OU having one doesnt help defending bodyslam either.

my bad, didnt notice. theres people who dont have chat open tho, because most ppl are toxic af.

i dont think that god was inolved, but gz nonetheless.

the amount of: ..."dont give a fuck"... is strong in this one. did i hurt your feelings princess?

you´re welcome

my bad, was pointless. keep it up you lovely little trolls.

sry, did i attack your boyfriend? i might be a kid behind a screen that tries to be something on the internet, because i aint as cool as those meme spamming cool kids, maybe im just triggered by all this toxicity in the community, who knows.

could it be that "uguu" is your favourite word and and that you spend most of your time spamming useless bs in the forums?

and who are you?

k, makes sense. tried to quit several times ymself, maybe you have more luck. gl in the future

they must have been really good friends when contact broke up and they didnt care, my bad lol.

why would you give your stuff to random greedy fucks, who already have more than they can chew and didnt give a fuck about you, instead of reinvesting it into the community? I mean hey, its your decision, but lets be honest. Most of the peeps posting here now want something valuable for free and once they got it they dont give a damn about you (again), thats why i´m curious. i mean if you dont care what happens ingame just release stuff or give it to the people close to you, newbies, whatever, but why would you reward people for that selfish scummy attitude? since you seem to be wiling to have a farewell chat i thought id ask.

Oh, you´re that dude that calls other people fgts when he loses. Hi there and since you seem to need it: <3

did that, thanks :) and the ot dex? anyway, thanks guys :)

so i could basically use the rod on the same tiles over and over again and hope for them to spawn?

Hi folks, after 6 hours searching for a feebas, without finding one, i have a few questions somebody might be able to answer. - Does the system wor like the original ones in the actual games? - Does leaving the area or changing channels affect the 6 spots feebas can spawn for me? regards and thx in advance

id appreciate that too, but nothing we can decide. so either adapt to it or switch tiers.

I dont like weezing, but it made me think of Dusclops again, since Trick and haze/WoW. I´ll consider Rhy and Medi too, thx :)

Title bascially gives it away. Not complaining, but what has changed to justify Lax being OU now? Id like to understand the reasoning behind it, because i cant imagine its due to shed hull and orb. Did anything else change - how did the meta shift to make Lax balanced? And: What are the best ways to deal with it, without losing one spot for lax only? Thx in advance

DrButler