Recent content by Moyashi

Being S isn’t just about being threatening, but also the overall value you bring to a team, consistency and general splashability. Ting-Lu is a critical defensive presence that provides huge role compression for teams and fits on nearly any style, Zamazenta similarly provides role compression...

It can’t tech a Tera blast that beats every check at once and most teams have at least two checks minimum to it that slow it down a lot. It’s not as unpredictable with Tera since it doesn’t really have as many useful non standard choices these days, outside of the three mentioned...

Garganacl isn’t just a Salt Cure machine, it’s able to function as a wincon as well between various versions of ID and Curse sets which are very potent once key threats are removed and the opponent can no longer damage it significantly. It’s generally able to soft check many set physical set up...

Without a boosting item, Meow is actually quite underwhelming damage wise and doesn’t even OHKO Garganacl with Flower Trick. It doesn’t comfortably enter on Wellspring because of the risk of U-Turn as well as how much it takes from even resisted Ivy Cudgel. Scarf simply is too much of a set that...

We saw Manaphy mentioned back then because it was a lower power level meta and quite early on. There’s a reason it died out on survey write ins and isn’t really seen much, or thought about much right now. Manaphy struggles with the speed tier and not being very scary unboosted, which makes it...

Volc and gouging were decisively banned (gouging was literally like 90%+, extremely rare one sided vote) which makes it hard for me to take this seriously when you suggest freeing either, especially the latter. And as for Lugia and Giratina, they’re uber fat CM sweepers that handpick already...

Galar-Slowking has a much more useful typing that gives it more offensive and defensive oomph. Sludge Bomb, as was pointed out by Heatranator, is good for threatening pokemon like Wellspring and Primarina but there is also Iron Valiant and the uncommon but notable Enamorus and Hydrapple. Sludge...

NP DeoS is definitely a case of a set on a Mon that isn’t easy to pilot but has some of the highest rewards. A well piloted NP DeoS is one of the scariest things to face because of how much it mauls lots of defensive stuff and like you said, standard speed control tech isn’t useful against it...

Only a small handful of Pokemon avoided bans via tests. Not sure what that has anything to do with anything. What comments pro ban have been abrasive? I’m not gonna say there aren’t any since I’ve seen some myself, but you’re implying most of them tend to be which is just a bit silly. But...

This isn’t really true and I’m confused why this notion still exists. Meow and Gren fulfill very different roles, attacking on different offensive sides. The fact that Meowscarada is more of a long term progress maker with knock off, but it has such a vulnerability to contact punishing effects...

You’re solidly ignoring the fact that this boogeyman of a team style hasn’t been relevant in some time, even when Kyurem was briefly banned it wasn’t there. Even if the metagame trended towards fat teams, there are no shortage of ways to play around it. Disliking longer games does not make the...

This comes off as you hating or having something against fat balance rather than there being anything wrong with the style tbh. It’s meant to be a slow paced style that plays a long game. There’s many tools in the tier to break them and good skill and tactics to punish overt passivity or safe...

Beside the fact that boots are far from some slapped-on-every-pokemon item like you for some reason believe, they’re also nowhere near problematic or any kind of issue. Nore are they some get out of jail card with no drawback. They provide a relief from hazard pressure at the cost of another...

Gliscor, especially since protect is fairly common, doesn’t really like switching into Heatran Magma Storm since it can’t roost off the damage and takes a lot, especially if backed also by rocks. It doesn’t really have a hard time making progress and enabling its own teammates either...

It’s hardly sad when it was very viable earlier this gen in this very tier, and has had good success wherever it’s ended up overall.