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Can we have some non-retarded discussion on the prospect of Gengarite going to ubers in smogon 6v6 singles?
Personally in the current pokebank metagame I haven't had any trouble at all with mega gengar, and I have yet to make a set for gengar that is as powerful as a lot of the smogon council members purport. Yes, I do agree that gengar can take a huge bite out of stall teams, and eliminate some of the checks to one of your sweepers. You simply cant refute the fact that gengar has the movepool, power and ability to safely mega evolve, and execute a huge portion of the metagame. But I disagree that this is game breaking. Firstly, there exists nearly no sweepers that exclusively have checks and counters that gengar can single handedly floor. I have heard examples such as dragonite, and lucario, but in both cases mega gengar just doesnt have the moveslots and power to beat down the checks of these pokemon as I have been told. I have exhaustively tested gengar mega in tandem with dragonite, and the fact is that you can still play around dragonite even if landorus-therian, hippowdon and such are caught with their pants down. Aggressive stealth rocks, priority, playing your choiced pokemon very carefully to not net dragonite a free turn, aggressive anti hazards with a focus sash user in the pocket, scarfed pokemon along with keeping the pressure on dragonite to only dragon dance once. Continued.
