Recent content by Akir

[OVERVIEW] Generalize what the Pokemon does in the metagame and as a whole and why you should or shouldn't consider using it on your teams. In a tier filled with chip damage from entry hazards and status, Magic Guard catapults Clefairy from a generic Normal wall to one of the most splashable...

[OVERVIEW] Glaceon is a cannon of a Pokemon that loves nothing more than to click Ice Beam and watch as even Pokemon that resist Ice get 2HKO'd. Monferno, Rapidash, Mawile, Golduck, and more are all 2HKO'd by Glaceon's powerful Ice Beam. The problem, unfortunately, is that Glaceon struggles to...

Meganium is still very niche and relatively unproven, but the main appeal it has is the fact that it resists Water and Ground at the same time while being real bulky. So I think that if Meganium is to take off, it would probably be as a part of particular stall teams. If you wanted screens, you...

What's new in BW PU 2025? Hello everyone, I am here to squeeze in a quick newsletter about all of the new changes to BW PU, both in tier shifts and trends, to get you hopefully caught up. A lot of ground to cover and I will try to be brief: :bw/swanna: Swanna is banned! Now what? Swanna was...

Swanna: Ban

To revive this thread a bit after the holidays I figured I would post my thoughts. To be honest, I have avoided giving my direct opinion on Swanna because I honestly have been indecisive on it for years now. Simply put, I do not think that Swanna is conventionally broken. If you are looking for...

Very simple reason: PU and ZU did not exist during DPP, so they are not 'official' tiers. They are retro tiers, created after the fact as a sort of speculative metagame of what could have been. They are very fun and good, but Smogon decided a while ago to draw the line between tiers that did...

So the BW PU tournament season is finally winding down, and it was quite the season. Lots of good matches, and we even had a ladder for a month of it. I spent PUPL lurking in team chats to keep tabs on new metagame trends, got 3-4 alts in top 20 of the ladder and then built for the Sandiles in...

was told to take the win for last round :(

The shortest answer to your question is to simply swap Leaf Storm on Meganium to Dragon Tail for phazing. It is not an ideal solution, more like putting it off, but in a pinch Meganium should be able to take a +1 fine and phaze Duosion out. In terms of more direct adjustments (this might be a...

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