Is this bait or genuinely moronic? >unusable garbage gets giga walled by great tusk >speed tie >fails to KO
252 Atk Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 186-218 (61.7 - 72.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO >Ogerpon gets all it's HP back with horn leech which actually KO
0 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Horn Leech vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Lycanroc-Dusk: 320-380 (109.9 - 130.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
>252 Atk Life Orb Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 242-283 (80.1 - 93.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Adamant barely has a chance to OHKO, but then you're running Adamant and get outsped by other 110s who are running Jolly >252+ Atk Life Orb Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 265-312 (87.7 - 103.3%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
give me a break, the gorilla was raping shit just a few years ago
basically grass and fire stab + a free +1 attack is insane
couple that with swords dance, trail blaze, mold breaker to kill heatran, etc and it is just really really strong and hard to defend against
Makes sense. Seems like it's just the perfect storm
>Grassy Surge + Grassy Glide >Contrary + Leaf Storm >Regenerator
All 3 of those mons have something big going for them to compensate for the lackluster typing.
Ogerpon really doesn't.
Yeah, it can get a +1 speed, but using up your tera for that is a pretty big opportunity cost.
basically grass and fire stab + a free +1 attack is insane
couple that with swords dance, trail blaze, mold breaker to kill heatran, etc and it is just really really strong and hard to defend against
If you're letting it set up and not bringing a flying, rock, or poison move you deserve to lose. you don't have to bring any pokemon just a strong move that is super effective against it
ok so it uses swords dance and then what
what flying rock or poison type outspeeds it and one shots it
8 months ago
Anonymous
252 Atk Gale Wings Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 330-390 (109.2 - 129.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
8 months ago
Anonymous
*teras* :3333
8 months ago
Anonymous
Congrats, now you can use Flash Fire!
8 months ago
Anonymous
252+ Atk Choice Band Gale Wings Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera: 271-321 (90 - 106.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
moron xD
8 months ago
Anonymous
>boomer rocks
Nice self report, now we all know you don't play the game
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Choice Band Talonflame
Good job switching on rocks, which by the way breaks your gale wings, making adamant Talonflame slower than Ogrepon
8 months ago
Anonymous
>jolly Oger has 350 speed >adamant Talon has 351
stay in school
8 months ago
Anonymous
Now add +1 speed from Trailblaze.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>randomly giving it boosts
add +1 speed to Talonflame from Flame Charge 😉
8 months ago
Anonymous
Ah yes, your banded Brave Bird Talonflame has already set up a Flame Charge.
8 months ago
Anonymous
yep, just like your Oger got a free Trailblaze turn out of nowhere, and will swap out the move mid-match if it suddenly needs fairy or ground coverage
8 months ago
Anonymous
the ogerpon who can use 4 moves while out, yes. Not the one who's locked into a single move. Also, it's funny that you think it's hard for Oger to get a Trailblaze up.
8 months ago
Anonymous
oh damn, i guess something is not broken if you are forced to run a pokemon on your team if you lose
all DPP teams should run weavile, then garchomp is balanced
8 months ago
Anonymous
>name one counter >NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!
This is the exact same thing anti-Lando spergs do.
Dondozo, Clefable, and Skeledirge run Unaware as wincons with Torch Song, Calm Mind, and Curse. Even the Regenerator mons can't do much when the offensive Pokemon just deal 50%+ to even Toxapex.
8 months ago
Anonymous
okay now explain Garganacl
Kingambit also seems like it would be a good last resort on stall in the same vein as Dugtrio
Aside from Volc, not much. I am excited to see that they're taking the calls for Darkrai to be tested seriously.
Volcarona absolutely had to go because of Tera. It's always been on the verge of being too strong, only being held back by its typing, but with the advent of Heavy Duty Boots and Terastallization, Volcarona is downright unstoppable.
8 months ago
Anonymous
It should have at least been a suspect test instead of a quickban.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah but you know 100% it would have been voted to ban.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I thought that about Gambit, and yet here we are.
No more quickbans (for now)
I'm betting either Bloodsaluna, Tera, an Uber Drop, or Gholdengho.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Volcarona should've been suspected.
If they had suspected it and it had been banned, I don't think it would've been an issue.
But it wasn't even on the radar. It getting quickbanned was a surprise.
And the reason was "unprecedented write-in support". Or in other words, Finch got 6-0'd by Volcarona and suddenly found 81 million votes to ban it in his closet.
8 months ago
Anonymous
i think the surveys the council have been doing are a good way to prevent people from saying these quickbans are random at least
8 months ago
Anonymous
Volcarona was not on the survey and received exactly zero support from the council when it was brought up on the ban slate a week prior
It's a broken mon but the ban was conducted in flagrant opposition to all tiering precedent, both traditionally and for SV
8 months ago
Anonymous
>nah bro trust me it wasn't MY decision even though I voted for it because it was The Council's decision
I've been saying that this is just a way for the council members to absolve themselves of personal responsibility despite blatantly acting in their own interests and clearly I was right. This is why I'm a monarchist btw
8 months ago
Anonymous
Anon Volcarona was not the problem, not even with Tera, even if it wasn't that fun to play against it. On the other hand
Volcarona
Honestly iron bundle should be unbanned too
>iron bundle
was a great hit. Maybe with the second DLC it won't be as broken and could get resuspeected but right now it's still busted.
It is time to creat a tier between ubers and OU, things like volc, bax, iron bundle, flutter, iron moth, iron valiant, kingambit, gholdengo, rape ape and palafin can hang in there, there are enough mons to justify another tier
I was just thinking the same thing. The amount of shit that's been banned for reasons other than being a moronicly overpowered legendary is kind of silly at this point, and OU is a pretty artificial metagame. Something very hands-off, but without Zacian and pals, is called for.
What's the cutoff for Ubers that drop to OU+? If we're just using viability, then to have Flutter drop we'd also be dropping shit like Eternatus, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, and multiple Arceus types. Similarly, if we go by usage, then in order to have Flutter we'd have literally every uber but Rayquaza, Groudon, Mirai, Korai, Crowncian, Origin Giratina, Kyogre, and Normal, Ground, and Fairy Arceus.
If we're using just the D Tier Ubers list, the ones that are banned from OU but suck ass in Ubers, then we still get both Dialga, Zacian-Hero, and 9 Arceus forms.
Unban everything with a BST below 601.
Start testing everything above that. Nothing can be banned, only unbanned.
This is a better solution, but I'm sure there are some issues I don't see.
>9 Arceus forms
Arceus itself is EXTREMELY overpowered. The only reason the "bad" forms are bad is because there's zero reason to use them over a better form. If Arceus-bug were the only Arceus form in the game, it would be MUCH higher ranked.
First ever non-mythical grass type to be banned from OU.
Meanwhile Bug and Ice has had half a dozen.
Really goes to show that grass is actually the worst type.
It's almost like this is a single player RPG for children, and a "competitive metagame" is a serious (and by design unbalanced) afterthought when you have hundreds of pokemon that can each learn around 100 moves, can hold tens of different items, and has a new gimmick to drastically change combat every generation.
Like, kingambit clearly isn't a legendary but holy frick do you have to do the equivalent of dancing the conga with a leg behind in your ear in order to deal with it
>kg comes in >have to guess if it will sucker punch or swords dance if I swich to a fighting time >guess wrong >lol you lose lmao
Not to fricking mention a 3+ supreme overlord sucker punch hits fricking hard even fighting types
all comments like this are fricking moronic
You are imagining a fantasy scenario where your ONE CHECK never took any hazards chip, any uturn chip, any burns, etc
also
252+ SpA Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Vacuum Wave vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Kingambit: 228-272 (66.8 - 79.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
And you're always imagining scenarios where your supposedly broken uncounterable mons are in the best sitautions imaginable with full hp, boosts, 10 moves in its set, 3 items and 4 tera types at once
8 months ago
Anonymous
that is not true and the fact you have to exaggerate just proves im right
8 months ago
Anonymous
Verlisify always makes it a point to remind viewers this is how smogonhomosexuals argue.
8 months ago
Anonymous
This so much, we should go to ladder to a random battle and then only take 1 situation to determine is the Pokemon broken or not.
*Tusk with 0 (zero) EVs and Kingambit had time to set up Swords Dance and is also the last pokemon on the opponent's team
8 months ago
Anonymous
yes. gambit being the last pokemon alive on the team is one of the most common scenarios in all of scarlet violet OU
have you just never played the tier before?
Is there anything in OU that can even check Hearthflame defensively? Even max defense Moltres takes a considerable amount. >+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Moltres: 143-169 (37.2 - 44%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
give me one good argument against a tier between OU and Ubers that doesn't boild down to >durr no one would play it
OU is so fricking cancer right now, the DLC was a breath of fresh air, now it is back to running into sun + nu-suicune + dengo + tusk + gambit every game
Ogerpon is easily countered with flying type moves. Smoggies are just shit at the game. There's a reason why they're not winning money from VGC after all, and that's because they're losers who suck at the game.
+1 252 Atk Baxcalibur Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera: 312-372 (103.6 - 123.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Ogerpon can't even 2HKO it because Baxcalibur has already tera'd into a fire resistant type.
I think they were too quick to quick ban it, just like with Volcarona, I think they should've just done a regular community vote, there was no need to go full on dictatorial
I'll use her anyways, because who lets a bunch of nobody paedos in some pretentious fake "council" dictate how I enjoy a game I didn't pay good money for?
I want a format that replicates the old battle facilities in terms of legality, which OU at least started as, ubers feels like a totally different world
there are no battle facilities in sv so it would be, as people would put it, a made-up fanfiction meta >you shouldn't ban my favorite pokemon >but ban that one, that's good >why? uhhh... because reasons >cries of fanfiction meta float through the air
and we're back to where we started
play ubers or ag if you don't like bans and aren't a hypocrite
all the stuff that gets banned ends up being shit in ubers. people that like using those pokemon have no place to use them (volcarona). there needs to be a tier between ou and ubers where these mons would have a home.
There's zero reason to have a ban list that has so many non-box legends, OU should be the strongest Pokemon that aren't obviously designed to be overpowered.
Well in that format they are overpowered so they get banned from standard play
Your argument is the same as when people b***hed about speed boost Blaziken, that thing was broken on introduction and yet people where angry they could only use it in ubers
Hell there where even people with your same argument when mega Gengar and khangaskan were banned
OU is the end of standard play, there is no usage for tiering about it, as it stands ogerpon/volcarona are too good for the pool in standard play so it gets the boot, if you like that design a lot just play it in ubers
And before you b***h about me playing favorites volcarona is my favourite bug in all its forms, and it sucks that tera and boots got it banned but I'm not going to cry about a new tier where it has no fricking purpose other than arbitrary banning of broken stuff among other broken stuff just to play my favourite bug
>Your argument is the same as when people b***hed about speed boost Blaziken
No it isn't. My problem is too many non restricted/"special" Pokemon are banned to ubers period, not that "I can't use Ogerpon in OU and it sucks in ubers"
Standard play is being defined at a level that doesn't reflect the standard power level of this generation in order to artificially prop up Pokemon and playstyles that can't actually be competitive.
Wuh oh! Time for another rousing round of "/vp/ doesn't know what the frick they're talking about because they don't play any form of Pokemon PvP and will simply talk out of their asses for (You)s!" episode!
Wuh oh! Time for another rousing round of "The Smogon council circlejerk thinks it's infallible and decides to quickban a mon each week before giving the meta any time to settle, then moving on to a new totally undefeatable one" episode!
Fanfiction meta
and?
Hey verlisify
>hates smogon
>hate Nintendo VGC
what does he even like about pokemon?
Jerking off
Where I can find any porn featuring his fursona BTW?
Esix has nothing, that's why I'm asking
Remember that time he admitted to never playing a gen 5 game despite having a burning hatred for it.
fippy bippy
It's better than VGC though
Smoggies have permission to use my faciIity’s rules, first to drop 3 mons is the Ioser
kek I remember when morons here said Ogerpon was shit and would drop to UU a few days ago
If that was before the mask boost was discovered I could understand.
>Lycanroc used Accelerock!
Why are smoggies so stupid?
Is this bait or genuinely moronic?
>unusable garbage gets giga walled by great tusk
>speed tie
>fails to KO
252 Atk Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 186-218 (61.7 - 72.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
>Ogerpon gets all it's HP back with horn leech which actually KO
0 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Horn Leech vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Lycanroc-Dusk: 320-380 (109.9 - 130.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
>what is play rough
>what is life orb
You? Lost
252 Atk Life Orb Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Play Rough vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Great Tusk: 185-218 (42.6 - 50.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
0 Atk Great Tusk Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Lycanroc-Dusk: 386-456 (132.6 - 156.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
>252 Atk Life Orb Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 242-283 (80.1 - 93.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Adamant barely has a chance to OHKO, but then you're running Adamant and get outsped by other 110s who are running Jolly
>252+ Atk Life Orb Tough Claws Lycanroc-Dusk Accelerock vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 265-312 (87.7 - 103.3%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
I was right. I accept your concession, your mother, your sister, and your wife
accept deez nuts in ya mouth
very nice adamant life orb. unfortunately,
>252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Grassy Glide vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Lycanroc-Dusk in Grassy Terrain: 378-446 (129.4 - 152.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
*tera dragon*
when was grassy terrain set up?
The turn before you switched Lycanroc in, obviously.
"Pokemon used (weak supereffective attack)" is Pokemon's equivalent to Yugioh's "just draw the out" meme. Nobody uses them seriously.
>guaranteed 2HKO
just use two lycanrocs, what's the problem
Why is only the fire one banned? Are the others not as good? I would've thought the grass one with the speed increase would be better.
Because monograss is dogshit?
give me a break, the gorilla was raping shit just a few years ago
Makes sense. Seems like it's just the perfect storm
Rillaboom? Serperior? Tangrowth?
>dogshit without grassy glide
>dogshit
>stall garbage
>Grassy Surge + Grassy Glide
>Contrary + Leaf Storm
>Regenerator
All 3 of those mons have something big going for them to compensate for the lackluster typing.
Ogerpon really doesn't.
Yeah, it can get a +1 speed, but using up your tera for that is a pretty big opportunity cost.
basically grass and fire stab + a free +1 attack is insane
couple that with swords dance, trail blaze, mold breaker to kill heatran, etc and it is just really really strong and hard to defend against
just use a flying move
i know you are trolling but it is not as simple as just use a flying mon with more than 110 base speed, or a slower mon with a scarf
There is a difference between putting a counter on your team to check a weakness and NEEDING to run something or you lose
One punishes you for not building correctly, the other gives you only one team to build
If you're letting it set up and not bringing a flying, rock, or poison move you deserve to lose. you don't have to bring any pokemon just a strong move that is super effective against it
ok so it uses swords dance and then what
what flying rock or poison type outspeeds it and one shots it
252 Atk Gale Wings Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 330-390 (109.2 - 129.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
*teras* :3333
Congrats, now you can use Flash Fire!
252+ Atk Choice Band Gale Wings Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera: 271-321 (90 - 106.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
moron xD
>boomer rocks
Nice self report, now we all know you don't play the game
>Choice Band Talonflame
Good job switching on rocks, which by the way breaks your gale wings, making adamant Talonflame slower than Ogrepon
>jolly Oger has 350 speed
>adamant Talon has 351
stay in school
Now add +1 speed from Trailblaze.
>randomly giving it boosts
add +1 speed to Talonflame from Flame Charge 😉
Ah yes, your banded Brave Bird Talonflame has already set up a Flame Charge.
yep, just like your Oger got a free Trailblaze turn out of nowhere, and will swap out the move mid-match if it suddenly needs fairy or ground coverage
the ogerpon who can use 4 moves while out, yes. Not the one who's locked into a single move. Also, it's funny that you think it's hard for Oger to get a Trailblaze up.
oh damn, i guess something is not broken if you are forced to run a pokemon on your team if you lose
all DPP teams should run weavile, then garchomp is balanced
>name one counter
>NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!
This is the exact same thing anti-Lando spergs do.
>le smug wannabe smogon retort
you'll never break 1600, stay humble
>no counterargument
thanks
do smogonBlack folk really think Garchomp is broken in DPP? holy shit they're so bad at the game
yes and yes
lt’s as simpIe as not letting Ogrepon getting a free switch-in.
Or rock, or poison.
name One(1) good flying move on a mon that outspeeds Ogerpon.
acrobatics unburden hawlucha
Acrobatics on unburden Sneedler
>not using Ability Shield Heatran to counter it
*stomping tantrum*
*tera grass*
And yet, when I'm banned from Ganker, nobody cares...
why the frick do competitive pussies ban shit instead of fricking banning it?
Flash Fire
it has mold breaker
T-Grass Heatran w/ Ability Shield
oh ok now your heatran has no recovery and you have to waste your very valuable tera to counter one mon
that's not a sign of being overpowered at all
>T-Grass
Bug would be better in this match up.
Werid, isn't bug the worst type? Interesting
It resists fighting as well as ground
https://pokemondb.net/ability/mold-breaker
>Veluza has this
But /vp/ told me it was a shitmon
It is. Why would you use it over Sharpness?
No fricking way bros...
Furret's off to tidy up AG.
FurretChads..
bros zacian isnt op just use quagsire lolz
Zacian is hot trash since the BST and Intrepid nerf. Once DLC2 hits, base form will likely get tested for OU.
Straight to PU kkkkk
WE WILL BAN EVERYTHING UNTIL STALL IS VIABLE,
stall isn't even good in SV you are creating a strawman
you're a wojak poster so this isn't surprising
>stall isn't even good in SV
This is why we will ban everything until stall is good.
Stall won't ever be good in Scarlet and Violet. Defense is dead. The more hyper your offense, the better your team.
hmm I don't know about that, we are hitting a critical mass of regenerator + unware pokémon
Dondozo, Clefable, and Skeledirge run Unaware as wincons with Torch Song, Calm Mind, and Curse. Even the Regenerator mons can't do much when the offensive Pokemon just deal 50%+ to even Toxapex.
okay now explain Garganacl
Kingambit also seems like it would be a good last resort on stall in the same vein as Dugtrio
what have they banned that should not have been banned then
Aside from Volc, not much. I am excited to see that they're taking the calls for Darkrai to be tested seriously.
Volcarona
Honestly iron bundle should be unbanned too
Volcarona absolutely had to go because of Tera. It's always been on the verge of being too strong, only being held back by its typing, but with the advent of Heavy Duty Boots and Terastallization, Volcarona is downright unstoppable.
It should have at least been a suspect test instead of a quickban.
Yeah but you know 100% it would have been voted to ban.
I thought that about Gambit, and yet here we are.
I'm betting either Bloodsaluna, Tera, an Uber Drop, or Gholdengho.
Volcarona should've been suspected.
If they had suspected it and it had been banned, I don't think it would've been an issue.
But it wasn't even on the radar. It getting quickbanned was a surprise.
And the reason was "unprecedented write-in support". Or in other words, Finch got 6-0'd by Volcarona and suddenly found 81 million votes to ban it in his closet.
i think the surveys the council have been doing are a good way to prevent people from saying these quickbans are random at least
Volcarona was not on the survey and received exactly zero support from the council when it was brought up on the ban slate a week prior
It's a broken mon but the ban was conducted in flagrant opposition to all tiering precedent, both traditionally and for SV
>nah bro trust me it wasn't MY decision even though I voted for it because it was The Council's decision
I've been saying that this is just a way for the council members to absolve themselves of personal responsibility despite blatantly acting in their own interests and clearly I was right.
This is why I'm a monarchist btw
Anon Volcarona was not the problem, not even with Tera, even if it wasn't that fun to play against it. On the other hand
>iron bundle
was a great hit. Maybe with the second DLC it won't be as broken and could get resuspeected but right now it's still busted.
That's why he said UNTIL it's viable.
The DLC has not even been out for a week and they've banned multiple fricking things
They've banned Baxcalibur and one form of Ogerpon. Everyone was running a weather team to just not worry about Ogerpon.
why was zigzagoon banned?
+6 252+ Atk Tera Normal Zigzagoon Extreme Speed vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Landorus-Therian on a critical hit: 430-506 (112.5 - 132.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Smogon players are still losing to belly drum starts?
yes, they banned Linoone from gen3uu this year out of nowhere
No more quickbans (for now)
>Not quickbanning Manaphy or Veil in general
>Quickbans two of the most counterable things in existence
What the autism?
It is time to creat a tier between ubers and OU, things like volc, bax, iron bundle, flutter, iron moth, iron valiant, kingambit, gholdengo, rape ape and palafin can hang in there, there are enough mons to justify another tier
moron, that would just be OU before the bans. The same OU the playerbase deemed unplayable. Nobody would touch that tier.
No c**t, you could drop the shitty ubers to the tier too, like Arceus bug, zamazenta, giratina, genesect etc
I was just thinking the same thing. The amount of shit that's been banned for reasons other than being a moronicly overpowered legendary is kind of silly at this point, and OU is a pretty artificial metagame. Something very hands-off, but without Zacian and pals, is called for.
What's the cutoff for Ubers that drop to OU+? If we're just using viability, then to have Flutter drop we'd also be dropping shit like Eternatus, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, and multiple Arceus types. Similarly, if we go by usage, then in order to have Flutter we'd have literally every uber but Rayquaza, Groudon, Mirai, Korai, Crowncian, Origin Giratina, Kyogre, and Normal, Ground, and Fairy Arceus.
Ok maybe not flutter, but surely the same tier shouldn't be the home of kyogre and fricking zamazenta crown
If we're using just the D Tier Ubers list, the ones that are banned from OU but suck ass in Ubers, then we still get both Dialga, Zacian-Hero, and 9 Arceus forms.
This is a better solution, but I'm sure there are some issues I don't see.
>9 Arceus forms
Arceus itself is EXTREMELY overpowered. The only reason the "bad" forms are bad is because there's zero reason to use them over a better form. If Arceus-bug were the only Arceus form in the game, it would be MUCH higher ranked.
Unban everything with a BST below 601.
Start testing everything above that. Nothing can be banned, only unbanned.
There's no need for that, Uber is OU banlist
Ubers isn't a tier but they gave it its own banlist anyway. They can absolutely make a format that's between OU and Ubers.
Whats the point of it?
OU is the end of standard play, the fact that people play ubers doesn't change that
If something is banned from OU and you want to play it just play it in ubers
Why does ubers exist? Just play AG.
Why does PU exist? Just play NU.
Why wouId you ban something to OU if it’s going to make everything obsolete?
OUBL lets go
The only good switch in to it I found was Physically Defensive Heatran tera Dragon running Power Gem
ahem
Math checks out, but also requires you to run a rain team also you have to make sure they didn't put Rocks up.
just because you have plip on your team doesn't mean you have to run a rain team
just cull the fire types that it is detrimental for and you're golden
First ever non-mythical grass type to be banned from OU.
Meanwhile Bug and Ice has had half a dozen.
Really goes to show that grass is actually the worst type.
they keep banning shit but the meta game isn't becoming more balanced. when will they realize that's not the solution?
Too afraid to ban Tera
It's almost like this is a single player RPG for children, and a "competitive metagame" is a serious (and by design unbalanced) afterthought when you have hundreds of pokemon that can each learn around 100 moves, can hold tens of different items, and has a new gimmick to drastically change combat every generation.
Saying Pokemon is designed to be a single player RPG is to be even more delusional than Smogongays
Like, kingambit clearly isn't a legendary but holy frick do you have to do the equivalent of dancing the conga with a leg behind in your ear in order to deal with it
>4x weakness to fighting
>kg comes in
>have to guess if it will sucker punch or swords dance if I swich to a fighting time
>guess wrong
>lol you lose lmao
Not to fricking mention a 3+ supreme overlord sucker punch hits fricking hard even fighting types
>Ursa-B used Vacuum Wave!
g fricking g
all comments like this are fricking moronic
You are imagining a fantasy scenario where your ONE CHECK never took any hazards chip, any uturn chip, any burns, etc
also
252+ SpA Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Vacuum Wave vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Kingambit: 228-272 (66.8 - 79.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
And you're always imagining scenarios where your supposedly broken uncounterable mons are in the best sitautions imaginable with full hp, boosts, 10 moves in its set, 3 items and 4 tera types at once
that is not true and the fact you have to exaggerate just proves im right
Verlisify always makes it a point to remind viewers this is how smogonhomosexuals argue.
This so much, we should go to ladder to a random battle and then only take 1 situation to determine is the Pokemon broken or not.
>+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Great Tusk: 153-180 (41.2 - 48.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
>+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Conkeldurr: 202-238 (57.5 - 67.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after burn damage
>+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Iron Valiant: 105-124 (36.3 - 42.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
>>+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Great Tusk: 153-180 (41.2 - 48.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
>almost 50% on tusk is balanced
lol
lmao even
*Tusk with 0 (zero) EVs and Kingambit had time to set up Swords Dance and is also the last pokemon on the opponent's team
yes. gambit being the last pokemon alive on the team is one of the most common scenarios in all of scarlet violet OU
have you just never played the tier before?
what are you talking about gambit is a fairy/flying type
Dipplin murders that loser pokemon instantly, get real
Dipplin kills hearthflame ogerpon. Smogontards will falter in it's unwavering BULK.
Kieran-sama...
Fanfic
Is there anything in OU that can even check Hearthflame defensively? Even max defense Moltres takes a considerable amount.
>+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Moltres: 143-169 (37.2 - 44%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Pelipper
Doesn't it get 2hko by power whip/hammer after chip?
It takes neutral from stab grass
it OHKO's with hydro pump
How the frick does Peliper ohko something that fast on the switch?
Peliper is fricked
Ubers is OU+
If you like the Pokémon play it in ubers, that's the end of it
let alone this isn't even considering sun
or swords dance
or just using knock off
give me one good argument against a tier between OU and Ubers that doesn't boild down to
>durr no one would play it
OU is so fricking cancer right now, the DLC was a breath of fresh air, now it is back to running into sun + nu-suicune + dengo + tusk + gambit every game
Because there are only like 10 Pokemon in Ubers who would be in the lower tier.
Shame, but whatever. I enjoyed the freelo from countering Ogertards with CHADonator
For me, it was Glimmora
Power Gem 1 shot them every time
>using this ugly shitter to finally climb to 1200
my condolences
turtonator isn't even in the fricking game
>What if... in generation 10, we gave 'mons +4 to hit things with?
kigambit is not balanced at all stop trying to defend it, ban this shit RIGHT NOW.
https://x.com/Stunfisk_Sub/status/1705404790124269577?s=20
Ogerpon is easily countered with flying type moves. Smoggies are just shit at the game. There's a reason why they're not winning money from VGC after all, and that's because they're losers who suck at the game.
What flying mon is switching in on it?
It is no coincidence that Baxcalibur and Ogerpon-Hearthflame both fricks Stall up and got banned for it.
Bax only fricks stall if hes running choice band wich 95% of them were using dice
gee if only there was a hard counter that got boosted by fire type attacks and could kill ogerpon in one hit with that atk boost
+1 252 Atk Baxcalibur Ice Shard vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Hearthflame: 124-147 (41.1 - 48.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+1 252 Atk Baxcalibur Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera: 312-372 (103.6 - 123.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Ogerpon can't even 2HKO it because Baxcalibur has already tera'd into a fire resistant type.
>because Baxcalibur has already tera'd into a fire resistant type.
the most common type for Bax WAS dragon
Ogerpon carries Play Rough
they're gonna ban alolan ninetales next
>even though A-Ninetales is in favor of stall
Riiiiiight...
its more in favor of HO thoughever
no one stalls with snow and Aurora Veil
it’s used to make a sweeper impossible to kill
I think they were too quick to quick ban it, just like with Volcarona, I think they should've just done a regular community vote, there was no need to go full on dictatorial
I'll use her anyways, because who lets a bunch of nobody paedos in some pretentious fake "council" dictate how I enjoy a game I didn't pay good money for?
>Computer, do an area retinal scan of aII smoggies on council for any raciaI tendencies.
Smoggy
Council
…Is full of boomers, Master.
i really don't understand why the people complaining about ou don't just play in ubers or ag
I want a format that replicates the old battle facilities in terms of legality, which OU at least started as, ubers feels like a totally different world
there are no battle facilities in sv so it would be, as people would put it, a made-up fanfiction meta
>you shouldn't ban my favorite pokemon
>but ban that one, that's good
>why? uhhh... because reasons
>cries of fanfiction meta float through the air
and we're back to where we started
play ubers or ag if you don't like bans and aren't a hypocrite
Use Shift in your meta, homosexual Black person or get rid of the canceI button.
I really don’t understand why the people complaining about Flutter Mane Ogerpon Bax etc don’t just play in UU
all the stuff that gets banned ends up being shit in ubers. people that like using those pokemon have no place to use them (volcarona). there needs to be a tier between ou and ubers where these mons would have a home.
>there needs to be a tier between ou and ubers where these mons would have a home
Ubers is a banlist deal with it
There's zero reason to have a ban list that has so many non-box legends, OU should be the strongest Pokemon that aren't obviously designed to be overpowered.
Well in that format they are overpowered so they get banned from standard play
Your argument is the same as when people b***hed about speed boost Blaziken, that thing was broken on introduction and yet people where angry they could only use it in ubers
Hell there where even people with your same argument when mega Gengar and khangaskan were banned
OU is the end of standard play, there is no usage for tiering about it, as it stands ogerpon/volcarona are too good for the pool in standard play so it gets the boot, if you like that design a lot just play it in ubers
And before you b***h about me playing favorites volcarona is my favourite bug in all its forms, and it sucks that tera and boots got it banned but I'm not going to cry about a new tier where it has no fricking purpose other than arbitrary banning of broken stuff among other broken stuff just to play my favourite bug
>Your argument is the same as when people b***hed about speed boost Blaziken
No it isn't. My problem is too many non restricted/"special" Pokemon are banned to ubers period, not that "I can't use Ogerpon in OU and it sucks in ubers"
Standard play is being defined at a level that doesn't reflect the standard power level of this generation in order to artificially prop up Pokemon and playstyles that can't actually be competitive.
But not Walking Wake!
Wuh oh! Time for another rousing round of "/vp/ doesn't know what the frick they're talking about because they don't play any form of Pokemon PvP and will simply talk out of their asses for (You)s!" episode!
Wuh oh! Time for another rousing round of "The Smogon council circlejerk thinks it's infallible and decides to quickban a mon each week before giving the meta any time to settle, then moving on to a new totally undefeatable one" episode!
>can only repeat what I just said because he's a 3rd world chimp who learned English from Indian YouTubers
so boring yawn
Oh shit, better switch out!