approved by arcticblast
For those of you that have become frustrated out of your minds by the 5th generation overused metagame, look no further! This metagame utilizes the amazing 5th generation mechanics and moves, while not dealing with the Unova pokemon. This tier only features the original two generations, the good ones!
Basics:
This is B2W2 overused with only the first 251 pokemon. All items, abilities, moves, clauses, and banlists are identical to that of B2W2 overused. This means that you can use a drizzle politoed, but you cannot use a swift swim kingdra on the same team. If a in the 251 evolves into a pokemon not in the original 251, the pokemon is not allowed. (Gligar is allowed, gliscor is not).
Initial Banlist:
Mewtwo
Lugia
Ho-Oh
Venusaur (no heatran, latias, or anything else to stop him. Victreebel is still available but it is just less broken in general)
Where?
Joim's Lab (thanks Joim!)
PM kakuna on #othermetas
Metagame
Scizor + Raikou Core
@ Leftovers
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Def
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I originally discovered this core when I was trying to build a good team around sub calm mind raikou. Raikou is really good in this metagame because water types are pretty ubiquitous and he can take advantage of them for set up by scaring them out with thunderbolt. The only true counters to Sub calm mind Raikou are steelix, chansey, quagsire, SpD tyranitar, and blissey. Bulky celebi can perish song and take hidden powers that are not powered by many boosts, and dugtrio can trap it as well. Steelix is the thing that can handle it if raikou has toxic spikes support. Outside of choice banded scizor, this is another excellent way to support raikou. Tentacruel and forretress can get rid of all the annoying hazards and set up hazards to support raikou and scizor. As stated above, steelix is the best counter and while steelix might seem like a joke, he is not. Steelix is a lot like skarmory except it is more bulky and has good STAB and power. And an electric immunity is huge. Anyways, calm mind raikouw is a major threat in GSC modern, almost as big as it was in GSC. The EVs are admittedly a little strange but running max speed is totally unnecessary- in fact only running speed to beat base 100s in substantial. Base 100s include typhlosion and tentacruel. This is why raikou can run a modest nature and kill stuff easier. A bulkier spread to take things like Dugtrio EQ or not have subs broken by celebi giga drain or whatever could be used, but I like power.
@ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 248 HP / 4 SDef / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Superpower
- Pursuit
Scizor holds a niche in this metagame as one of the big bad choice band users- others include heracross, tyranitar, and dragonite and are all likely to remain top threats. He is also one of few (5 iirc) fully evolved steel types. Bullet punch is good just like in B2W2 OU and hits lots of things hard. Above I listed counters to SubCM raikou. Blissey and chansey are disposed of with a superpower or can be scared out and U-turn can be used. Want to send in your skarmory, gyarados, or tentacruel? Think again. If celebi is being used to beat raikou scizor can U-turn or pursuit depending on the situation. Scizor can also hit lanturn for good damage, although a lot of lanturn will run water absorb for rain teams. If tyranitar is being used scizor can pick which weapon to kill with. The only things scizor really struggles with are quagsire and steelix. Steelix is hit hard by superpower, but can take advantage of defense drops with STAB earthquake. Quagsire can recover all day. Additionally anybody that runs fire moves on blissey will pass scizor. This is why politoed is a great teammate for these guys. He can scald and toxic the above, respectively. Politoed makes raikou use thunder without fear of missing and allows scizor to switch in on non STAB fire attacks, like celebi HP fire.
One Strange Rule: In order to differentiate this tier some, all illegal DW abilities are now released. This allows for sheer force feraligatr, volt absorb raikou, flash fire typhlosion and others.
Sleep: When this gets its own actual tier gen2 sleep mechanics are going to be implemented.
Replays:
Kakuna vs. Lavos Spawn
Lavos Spawn vs. Arcticblast
Kakuna vs. TailsTheeFox
GSC Modern
Preview:For those of you that have become frustrated out of your minds by the 5th generation overused metagame, look no further! This metagame utilizes the amazing 5th generation mechanics and moves, while not dealing with the Unova pokemon. This tier only features the original two generations, the good ones!
Basics:
This is B2W2 overused with only the first 251 pokemon. All items, abilities, moves, clauses, and banlists are identical to that of B2W2 overused. This means that you can use a drizzle politoed, but you cannot use a swift swim kingdra on the same team. If a in the 251 evolves into a pokemon not in the original 251, the pokemon is not allowed. (Gligar is allowed, gliscor is not).
Initial Banlist:
Mewtwo
Lugia
Ho-Oh
Venusaur (no heatran, latias, or anything else to stop him. Victreebel is still available but it is just less broken in general)
Where?
Joim's Lab (thanks Joim!)
PM kakuna on #othermetas
Metagame
Scizor + Raikou Core
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Def
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I originally discovered this core when I was trying to build a good team around sub calm mind raikou. Raikou is really good in this metagame because water types are pretty ubiquitous and he can take advantage of them for set up by scaring them out with thunderbolt. The only true counters to Sub calm mind Raikou are steelix, chansey, quagsire, SpD tyranitar, and blissey. Bulky celebi can perish song and take hidden powers that are not powered by many boosts, and dugtrio can trap it as well. Steelix is the thing that can handle it if raikou has toxic spikes support. Outside of choice banded scizor, this is another excellent way to support raikou. Tentacruel and forretress can get rid of all the annoying hazards and set up hazards to support raikou and scizor. As stated above, steelix is the best counter and while steelix might seem like a joke, he is not. Steelix is a lot like skarmory except it is more bulky and has good STAB and power. And an electric immunity is huge. Anyways, calm mind raikouw is a major threat in GSC modern, almost as big as it was in GSC. The EVs are admittedly a little strange but running max speed is totally unnecessary- in fact only running speed to beat base 100s in substantial. Base 100s include typhlosion and tentacruel. This is why raikou can run a modest nature and kill stuff easier. A bulkier spread to take things like Dugtrio EQ or not have subs broken by celebi giga drain or whatever could be used, but I like power.
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 248 HP / 4 SDef / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Superpower
- Pursuit
Scizor holds a niche in this metagame as one of the big bad choice band users- others include heracross, tyranitar, and dragonite and are all likely to remain top threats. He is also one of few (5 iirc) fully evolved steel types. Bullet punch is good just like in B2W2 OU and hits lots of things hard. Above I listed counters to SubCM raikou. Blissey and chansey are disposed of with a superpower or can be scared out and U-turn can be used. Want to send in your skarmory, gyarados, or tentacruel? Think again. If celebi is being used to beat raikou scizor can U-turn or pursuit depending on the situation. Scizor can also hit lanturn for good damage, although a lot of lanturn will run water absorb for rain teams. If tyranitar is being used scizor can pick which weapon to kill with. The only things scizor really struggles with are quagsire and steelix. Steelix is hit hard by superpower, but can take advantage of defense drops with STAB earthquake. Quagsire can recover all day. Additionally anybody that runs fire moves on blissey will pass scizor. This is why politoed is a great teammate for these guys. He can scald and toxic the above, respectively. Politoed makes raikou use thunder without fear of missing and allows scizor to switch in on non STAB fire attacks, like celebi HP fire.
One Strange Rule: In order to differentiate this tier some, all illegal DW abilities are now released. This allows for sheer force feraligatr, volt absorb raikou, flash fire typhlosion and others.
Sleep: When this gets its own actual tier gen2 sleep mechanics are going to be implemented.
Replays:
Kakuna vs. Lavos Spawn
Lavos Spawn vs. Arcticblast
Kakuna vs. TailsTheeFox