https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/bw-ou-gems-volcarona-cloyster.3704372/page-2#post-9271563
Gemmy bros... it's coal....
Gems are now banned from BW OU
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/bw-ou-gems-volcarona-cloyster.3704372/page-2#post-9271563
Gemmy bros... it's coal....
ill use them anyway
Cloyster really mindbreaks the smogonhomosexuals
cope
>Pedophile fanfic meta
Why should I care OP?
Just want to point out that the best and most knowldgeable BW player of all time voted to ban nothing, with banning gems being his lowest ranked option.
They are basically Z move and Z moves are cancer, so good call.
Reminder gems were fine for 12 years and this is only happening because nu gen players can't build and just spam the same boring reuniclus spikes teams which happen to be weak to literally any gimmick out there. At this point they'll ban abomasnow in a few years kek
>Latios is still legal
>drizzle is still legal
Will they finally at long last fix this shitty meta?
Drizzle is bw's soul kys nu-shitter
>drizzle is bw's soul
Yes, spamming specs Keldeo and Thundy-T thunders while being forced to run three fricking checks for Latios is soul.
Disgusting.
moron shitter 95% of the time there's not enough space to put a specs keldeo in your rain team. You can't usually even fit scarf
Oh it's not soul, but it's BW OU's soul. quite different
yeah I truly think gimmicks mindbroke smogon in the end
I never thought I'd say that but we need to go back to the original BW OU
before all complex bans bullshit
and then rebuild from there.
We have to revert to 2015. BW was meant to be a tier dominated by bulky offense. There's enough tools to account for everything in the builder but shitty ORAS players wanted to force optimised balance structures which can only do 1 thing right and lose to literally every gimmick the tier has
Reminder people who voted to ban gems and Cloyster spam teams like Tyranitar/Reuniclus/Gastrodon/Skarmory/Alakazam/Gliscor with NO ICE RESISTS WHATSOVER.
In the discussion thread finchinator talked about Heatran not being able to check Cloyster due to gems existing. FRICKING HEATRAN who gets smashed by Razor shell anyway
>finchinator
I don't know the Smogon lore, why do I always see this name in these ban threads?
He's been on the forums since he was 13 and they've groomed him into their leader. Now he's the head of the OU council and is pretty much the one who gets the ultimate say in how the meta is played.
Think of him like N, except somehow even more autistic.
It seems like he always bans stuff he loses to based on these threads.
Hyper autist who the de facto dictator of smogon. Nearly everything he wants banned is gone within a month
Did they seriously vote on meme sweepers like Cloyster and Volcarona before shit actual broken shit like Latios and Alakazam?
Yes, that is after all the absolute state of smogongays.
Smogon utterly despises sweeping.
>tfw my hitmonlee and ambipom are illegal
Good the things were oppressive.
Now they just need to ban paralyze because of how luck based and uncompetitive it is and then meta will better balanced.
you're memeing, r-right?
and that you can use on each Pokémon instead of one per battle
>gems are exclusive to gen 5
>now are banned from gen 5 smogon
>gen 5 VGC is no longer supported
Cool, so I guess we can just never use gems in competitive ever again.
Would gems with new gen mechanics be broken? They're on par with a Life Orb boost now.
Aren't gems just weaker z-moves?
Weaker Z moves that keep the secondary effects.
Gen
Bumping this gem
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Thinking back on gen 5, I was a moronic shitter when it came to comp teams but I remember one time striking gold building a team a team that carried me to 1800 elo (I'd normally have 1300)
As far as I can remember, I had T-tar/Gengar/Latias/Heatran but I can't for the life of me remember the last two pokemon. I just had fun fricking people over with sand/burn/confuse ray/magma storm.
What two mons would have likely filled the slots?
Skarmory and gastrodon/another bulky water
The age of Coal is uppon us