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Art by Fusion Flare - thanks SO MUCH :)
Hello and welcome to Victim Of The Week Version 2.0, back and better than ever! The UU metagame is full of a vast variety of both offensive and defensive threats alike, and this thread is dedicated to finding answers to threatening Pokémon each week. Like the RU edition, I have turned this into a competition where I give points to the winners of the checks and counters posted (2 points for first, 1 point for second). At the end of 12 weeks, I will tally up the points and declare a winner for the cycle. There will be occasions where more points are offered, so keep up with this project to see what weeks those might be.
Blacklisted mons or items: Pyukumuku, Shedinja
Art by Fusion Flare - thanks SO MUCH :)
Hello and welcome to Victim Of The Week Version 2.0, back and better than ever! The UU metagame is full of a vast variety of both offensive and defensive threats alike, and this thread is dedicated to finding answers to threatening Pokémon each week. Like the RU edition, I have turned this into a competition where I give points to the winners of the checks and counters posted (2 points for first, 1 point for second). At the end of 12 weeks, I will tally up the points and declare a winner for the cycle. There will be occasions where more points are offered, so keep up with this project to see what weeks those might be.
Rules
- Before submitting anything, you will have to keep in mind what a check and what a counter is by its definition. To quote from Smogon Issue 32, "Pokémon A checks Pokémon B if, when Pokémon A is given a free switch into Pokémon B, Pokémon A can win every time, even under the worst case scenario, without factoring in hax. Pokémon A counters Pokémon B if Pokémon A can manually switch into Pokémon B and still win every time, even under the worst case scenario, without factoring in hax." In other words, in terms of counters, the Pokémon should be able to consistently switch in throughout a course of a game and limit the victim, often times having reliable recovery or just walling it to death. If I deem your submission to not be a counter, then I will move it over to checks and vice versa.
- Please attempt to only post Pokémon that are viable in the UnderUsed metagame. You are able to use the viability rankings as a tool to see what's usable in the metagame. I will attempt to make exceptions, but I need to see multiple ladder replays with a minimum of 1400 elo mark showing it off.
- Calcs are NOT required but generally are nice to put.
- I encourage innovation but if a set is too niche and only deals with that Pokémon, then I will sadly have to disqualify it.
- Please provide at least a few lines of description explain your check or counter and how it functions as so. Maybe even talk about other perks it has in the metagame to make it more appealing to look for.
- I will allow reservation of Pokémon in this thread. However, please write up your post within 24 hours of the reservation. I will tag you giving you one last chance. Just take accountability and do it or delete it instead of cluttering the thread with unfulfilled reservations.
- Different sets of the same Pokémon can be nominated. For example, person A can nominate special attacker Salamence as a check to something, while person B can nominate Defensive Salamence as a counter to the same thing in the same week. However, the sets must be different enough to work, and I will be the judge of that.
- You are NOT allowed to vote for your own submission when the voting phase begins for each victim.
- During voting phase you must vote for 2 checks and 2 counters. If there are 2 or less checks/counters submitted for the week, than those who submitted automatically get a point.
- Please be kind and respectful to others in this thread, lets act like adults.
- Most importantly, Have Fun!
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