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Ayooo the dog is gone *insert crab rave gif here* Anyways the tier is develop quite a bit with this change and I'm looking forward to it a lot. No more shoving Glowking/Pex/Unaware mons or a combo of checks to Zama on teams anymore just to feel totally safe. A fair amount of mons get better...

Zamazenta: Ban

These calcs depend on an entire playstyle to even function, needing both rain or sun. While rain is pretty strong right now, a lot of that has more to do with Mega Swampert and Archaludon anchoring it well as the former provides good pivoting and anti-offense in one slot while Archaludon...

Got uh... got a link to that? Would love to see it (big salty kong fan here) Also speaking of Garganacl, wow it feels like it's been on fire lately. It's been surging in prevalence and usage, and it feels like it's only possibly gonna get to be more so if people keep exploring it as they have...

You know how terribly disingenuous it is to go to an OM which has wildly different metagame and power levels and go "see X is banned here. Clearly broken!!!" is? And as was pointed out above me, other abilities that are normally meager in standard metagames are also banned there. S0 please if...

Archaludon while not required on rain, is a powerful presence there. It doesn't have to be splashable when the playstyle it does fit on, it's very good there. It's not the easiest pokemon to handle once it gets going. It also brings really useful defensive utility to rain not unlike another...

Not really? Levitate is huge in a generation where Spikes are more prevalent than ever, which allows it to run non boots items and thus be less affected by hazards in general outside of rocks. Latios also packs longevity if it ops to run it in Recover which gives it invaluable defensive utility...

That's really debatable. They control different aspects of the hazard game, but I'd argue keeping hazards off your side while simultaneously pushing them onto the opponent is more useful at once than denying defog. Sure you also block skill swap but that is such a specific and niche interaction...

Right, but in exchange it doesn't block hazards which is why I called it a side grade. I guess it's arguable whether it is that or an upgrade but I'd consider it a sidegrade since they have different specific strengths over each other.

Good as Gold is a sidegrade Magic Bounce. It's a terrific ability but acting like it's broken is silly. And yeah, banning Ghold won't create more removal tools. The best removal in the tier has ways to beat it consistently when played well, and Corv isn't made entirely useless like some people...

Ehhh I wouldn't say you ever had to do that for sun back then. There were ways around it. Specifically for Koko I wouldn't agree. Natdex player here and we have it, but it's not really broken. Very good standalone, and ETerrain teams are good options but they aren't really an issue because...

It's true and somewhat makes me sad we don't got no Koko this gen (I also miss Fini and to some extent Bulu, who would be useful in curbing Wellspring). Crown is great both on and against Electric Terrain teams (or teams with Electric Terrain of some kind). It's honestly one of the most...

Sorry but this is a really comical overexaggeration. SamH is a great boots user which means lol @ those spikes and rocks. TSpikes mainly come from Glimmora whcih isn't even used on as many Gholdengo teams as before (and get soaked up by teammates anyways so). I know you love to shout your hate...

Since the last bit of your comment was already nicely covered by another comment, I'll just touch on this. Iron Defense sets have some of the biggest influence in the teambuilder for this tier, and it has very few true counters. I covered this in my own comment, but only Pex, Skeledirge and...

Ehhhhh.... Zama is probably the best of those offensive checks simply because it is so naturally physically bulky but it takes just one crit and it's no longer a good switch in. This is especially nasty if it happens on the first switch in, and if Zama burned its +1 from Dauntless earlier then...

And again, I'll just say I don't at all agree. We don't actually have a lot of BE that boost speed, just Iron Valiant and Boulder (the latter being fishy and rather underwhelming) and the former being plenty balanced. Roaring Moon boosts speed through a move, and its strength is balanced by its...

I'd like to specially highlight the list of checks that omarsgarciav brought up (thanks for putting that together btw) because it highlights a major reason why Zamazenta is such a problem pokemon as of late. While I voted to ban Wellspring (and would always vote ban but that's not relevant)...

Confirming as ND9DWG Mo. Went pretty alright for once. Saw a fair amount of random Manaphy rain so that was fun (not). confirmed - :swablu:

Not particularly honestly. Outside stabs+Triple Axel, Meow actually is very lacking in hard hitting moves. The next best thing is Play Rough but that's best used to amplify its stabs as coverage. Dropping Knock Off just isn't desirable.

Personally I'll never quite understand the cries to suspect this mon. Yes it's strong, yes it's good at making progress and yes it can often force at least one trade in any given game, but at least from personal experience it's pretty rare to actually sweep teams itself. One of its biggest...