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Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:46:11 No.31305563 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>31305587 >>31305622 >>31305626 >>31305664 >>31309371

>Smogon decide to give Primarina an OU analysis, but not Decidueye
>Primarina and Decidueye ended up in the same viability ranking at C-
>blacklists Decidueye from OU discussion
>ban Baton Pass from UU, thus removing its most effective set
Really stimulates your neurons...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:47:07 No.31305574 Report

Quoted By: >>31306217 >>31309170

>ban Baton Pass from UU

??????

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:47:56 No.31305587 Report

Quoted By: >>31305600

>>31305563
DECIDUKEKS BTFO

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:48:48 No.31305600 Report

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>>31305587
I believe this post is exemplifying salt in the face of Decidueye fans' relative victory, friendo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:48:58 No.31305604 Report

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Not really, I don't really hate any pokemon, but Primarina is one really ugly pokemon, so I never had plans to use it. Especially since Azumarill exists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:50:10 No.31305622 Report

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>>31305563
>blacklists Decidueye from OU discussion
You know exactly why this was done if you've seen owlfags here or at their forums. And BP ban was because of Necrozma/Scolipede dominating the high ladder.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:50:14 No.31305626 Report

Quoted By: >>31305784

>>31305563
>ban Baton Pass from UU, thus removing its most effective set
Hilariously this is why it ended up in low OU.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:51:13 No.31305635 Report

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>OU D rank is filled with "I-it's good in Trick Room" memes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:52:49 No.31305663 Report

Quoted By: >>31305729 >>31305755

What are Decidueye and Primarina's OU niches anyway?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:52:49 No.31305664 Report

Quoted By: >>31308691

>>31305563
>Decidueye thread on smogon has 13 pages of mostly shitters acting like their owl is great
>Primarina thread has 5 pages of people who are actually realistic about their mon not being all that viable
Really makes you think

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:55:46 No.31305729 Report

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>>31305663
Special tank wallbreaker and baton passer/defoger

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:57:15 No.31305755 Report

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>>31305663
Mainly a Baton passer/defogger
Bulky Specs

Primarina could really use Moonlight..

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 21:59:33 No.31305784 Report

Quoted By: >>31305813 >>31305843

>>31305626
What? Decidueye is UU and most likely dropping

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:00:56 No.31305813 Report

Quoted By: >>31309214 >>31309595

>>31305784
It has a niche in OU so it's in the viability rankings. It doesn't have the usage to be legit OU though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:01:44 No.31305831 Report

Quoted By: >>31310254

>tfw tigerfag
It'll be good.
In Doubles UU.
When it gets Intimidate.
;_;

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:02:31 No.31305843 Report

Quoted By: >>31305974 >>31309638

>>31305784
I wonder which will drop from UU first, the anchor, the owl or the dominatrix.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:08:58 No.31305974 Report

Quoted By: >>31306003 >>31306071

>>31305843
Tsareena, then Decidueye. Dhelmise might stay or not but it would fall last.
I'm not even sure how Tsareena got the usage to be UU in the first place, it's pretty shit. With BP banned Decidueye lost its biggest gimmick. Dhelmise is a decent spinner, but no recovery hurts it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:10:38 No.31306003 Report

Quoted By: >>31306032 >>31309532

>>31305974
>High Jump Kick, Trop Kick, Protect, Rapid Spin
You'll be begging for her to step on your balls sooner or later

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:12:17 No.31306032 Report

Quoted By: >>31306175

>>31306003
>protect
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:13:49 No.31306071 Report

Quoted By: >>31308660

>>31305974
I'm honestly banking on Dhelmise. The fact that it has no recovery while the other two do really hurts it when it comes to removing hazards, plus Scizor just gets in on it for free. But at the same time, the fact that it's an anchor might get people to try to make it work anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:18:56 No.31306175 Report

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>>31306032
Mainly for scouting, but you can change protect to uturn if that's what you prefer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jan 2017 22:21:01 No.31306217 Report

Quoted By: >>31312939

>>31305574
Speed Boost Scolipede and Ninjask are UU. Basically it became "BP to my sweeper" the meta

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:05:02 No.31308121 Report

Quoted By: >>31308677

>ban BP from UU
I just laugh every time I'm reminded Smogon exists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:39:30 No.31308660 Report

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>>31306071
Choice Band Dhelmise is stupid and fun. Assault Vest is too. I hope it finda a niche and doesn't end up in the hell that is BL2.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:40:22 No.31308677 Report

Quoted By: >>31308776 >>31308828 >>31309956 >>31310191

>>31308121
Watch this
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-110739069

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:41:07 No.31308691 Report

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>>31305664
Literally salty fag hiding what he really wants to say about the owl.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:47:26 No.31308776 Report

Quoted By: >>31308824

>>31308677
What the fuck, why does nobody run taunt anymore?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:50:24 No.31308824 Report

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>>31308776
Espeon has magic bounce, anon. It cannot be taunted.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:50:48 No.31308828 Report

Quoted By: >>31308881

>>31308677
Is this supposed to somehow be worse than 100+ turn Stall games

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:54:13 No.31308881 Report

Quoted By: >>31308916 >>31308950

>>31308828
Those are two 2000+ elo players. One running a dedicated baton pass team, and the other a dedicated anti baton pass team. If a 2000+ elo player with a team specifically made to counter that strategy can't beat it, then it is fair to say shits broken.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:56:13 No.31308916 Report

Quoted By: >>31308961 >>31308963

>>31308881
>Based on the results of this single match between two individuals we can safely conclude this strategy is "broken" for an entire format

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:58:25 No.31308950 Report

Quoted By: >>31309767

>>31308881
>It has been established that you do not deserve to beat me, therefore I refuse to continue

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:59:04 No.31308961 Report

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>>31308916
I mean, almost everyone who's actually played against a skilled BP player agrees it's broken.
But you probably don't play a Smogon format at all, so....

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 00:59:20 No.31308963 Report

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>>31308916
>one match
Nigga, BP teams made up the entire high ladder when it wasn't banned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:10:51 No.31309170 Report

Quoted By: >>31309378

>>31305574
Necrozma is Scolipede's partner in crime, specially in UU. Can stack a lot of boosts with Iron Defense/Calm Mind and has Stored Power.

Also, apparently no one runs haze anymore there. Might have something to do the new (old) toy syndrome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:13:21 No.31309214 Report

Quoted By: >>31309256

>>31305813
Is there something in OU that Deci can realistically trap and kill? Genuinely curious, 'cause the other day one tried to trap my Modest M-Venu and it ended up dying spectacularly in return.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:16:09 No.31309256 Report

Quoted By: >>31309495

>>31309214
Slobro, really bad Fini sets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:24:44 No.31309371 Report

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>>31305563
Decidueye was boycotted by smogon, aka the biased media. So Decidueye is like Trump and Primarina is like Shillary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:25:10 No.31309378 Report

Quoted By: >>31309472

>>31309170
>Also, apparently no one runs haze anymore there
Well maybe they should then. Smogon players are mostly fucking retarded. Many of them are not even considering adapting to the metagame because they KNOW that if something powerful becomes common, they can just whine about it and eventually it will be banned. Thus, people just wait until the thing bothering them is gone and then they can keep using the same teams. The metagame never evolves anywhere because the playerbase knows that they can just ask things to be banned instead of adapting to threats.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:30:14 No.31309464 Report

Quoted By: >>31309806

Only Golisopod is blacklisted from discussion right now though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:30:28 No.31309472 Report

Quoted By: >>31309546 >>31309660 >>31309794

>>31309378
Adding to this: there doesn't seem to be any problems like this on Battle Spot. There you have all the threats like M-Salamence (the Pokemon that was quickbanned before the release of SM due to being some kind of unstoppable mythical beast), Baton Pass and evasion all running around freely, yet the players seem to be doing just fine. You don't even see Baton Pass or M-Salamence dominating the Battle Spot ladder even though Smogon thinks both are too powerful to be allowed in any standard metagame. I wonder why that is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:31:44 No.31309495 Report

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>>31309256
Slowbro would rather not stay vs the Pokemon with two SE STABs,

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:34:31 No.31309532 Report

Quoted By: >>31309549

>>31306003
>begging for the ugliest, worst-designed Grass type to step on your balls
???

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:35:42 No.31309546 Report

Quoted By: >>31309606

>>31309472
The only thing keeping M-Mence from being the most used mega in ORAS BS is the fact that Mega Kang and Mega Gengar are equally broken and the fact that Garchomp is also everywhere.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:35:47 No.31309549 Report

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>>31309532
>having shit taste in grass types

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:38:44 No.31309595 Report

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>>31305813

It does not have a niche others don't do better.
Shut the fuck about your shitty owl. Its usage comes entirely from popularity and not from merit. It's this gen's RU Ambipom.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:39:21 No.31309606 Report

Quoted By: >>31309671 >>31310213

>>31309546
In other words, M-Salamence isn't dominating the metagame because there are equally powerful Pokemon that can be used against it because they aren't banned, just like it should be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:40:57 No.31309638 Report

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>>31305843
Probably Anchor. It has to compete with the other two who have recovery.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:42:31 No.31309660 Report

Quoted By:

>>31309472
>3v3 is the same as 6v6

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:43:08 No.31309671 Report

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>>31309606
Just three equally broken Pokemon that keep the metagame from having more variation.
If you wanna have a centralized meta so much play GSC, Snorlax is mandatory to use there.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:50:23 No.31309767 Report

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>>31308950
Nice meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:51:38 No.31309794 Report

Quoted By:

>>31309472

Battle spot is filled with terrible players and little kids who have no idea what they're doing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 01:52:21 No.31309806 Report

Quoted By: >>31310105

>>31309464
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:00:00 No.31309956 Report

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>>31308677
Dennis was the one that suggested the current baton pass clause if people weren't aware.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:09:24 No.31310105 Report

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>>31309806
Because it's not actually that good. It's OverUsed by "ya boi" shitheads, like how Owlfags actually OverUsed their dumb owl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:14:40 No.31310191 Report

Quoted By: >>31310301

>>31308677
>replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-110739069
>defog user
>haze user
>shadow tag pokemon
>defog user can carry taunt
>chansey had neither toxic nor stealth rock
He deserved the L desu senpai

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:15:47 No.31310213 Report

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>>31309606
>broken shit isn't as broken around other broken shit
So keep it in Ubers, where it belongs, and it can go be broken among it's also broken peers, where it's relatively less broken. It's why the tier fucking exists, because shit like that breaks OU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:19:10 No.31310254 Report

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>>31305831
In the meantime, enjoy RU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:21:34 No.31310301 Report

Quoted By: >>31310326

>>31310191
>taunt
>vs Espeon
>Shadow Tag
>vs Baton Pass
>Stealth Rock and Toxic
>vs Espeon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:22:50 No.31310326 Report

Quoted By: >>31310346 >>31310398

>>31310301
I'm honestly surprised smogon hasn't banned magic bounce mons altogether yet

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:23:55 No.31310346 Report

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>>31310326
Diancie Xatu and Espeon aren't broken though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 02:26:26 No.31310398 Report

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>>31310326
Only M-Sable is a truly broken user, and he can be 2HKO'd by a decent amount of common OU rockmons, and needs to be lead in order to stop them effectively, making him open to certain counter leads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jan 2017 05:33:38 No.31312939 Report

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>>31306217
That was very common in gen 4 OU and we all managed to survive somehow. Probably because Magic Bounce didn't exist back then and sashes were ruined by Sandstorm, which was on almost every single team.

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