Wow this diagram actually encompasses my feelings very well. I don't consider most of the bottom right to be 'broken' per say but very actively annoying due to a mix of Tera and general structures (Mola not as much tho), but everything else is spot on. Even if I've had to begrudgingly accept that Gambit exists, it still borders on deeply unpleasant to me.
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Metagame SV OU Metagame Discussion v4 [PALAFIN RETEST]
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kingambit has been that mon we all knew was absurd from day 1 but has always been viewed as just barely fine enough to stay. It would have a huge impact on the metagame, but I hardly see that as a bad thing.
Overflowing pools. Shopping.
Smogon events where they temporarily unban something with no plans of it being permanent starting with the Iron bundle for the season and because no one will push for bundle to actually be Unbanned afterwards but it will give content creators something not stale to talk about. Not off the table from the not a test/retest comment because it's not intentional to actually unban after.
But. It only affects OU so that can't be it either.
And its not us shopping from our overflowing pools of money we make pump and dumping our showdown tied shitcoin. Idk. That would be sweet though.
I don't see that as a bad thing either. Kingambit is a stupidly cheap mon and has an unhealthy effect on the meta with its ridiculous power and priority from Supreme Overlord. Its ability basically makes the entire mon itself a side-grade to Last Respects and Rage Fist by giving Kingambit a boost to all its damaging attacks. If Tera didn't exist, Fighting-type Pokemon might have actually been able to beat it consistently, but it can just Tera out of its typing and check the Fighting-types it faces instead.
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Guys dont forget, Finchinator will do a big change tomorrow, he is so vintage, be ready for the biggest change in the whole metagame, so dark
Something I just realized. Will the release of the survey be affected by this announcement cause if this change is as transformative as Finch says, would people need time to process said change before giving constructive feedback through the survey?
Later this morning maybe
Just for reference what time is it for you rn?
9:15am GMT-5, it’ll be up in like an hour or so
holy shit i was right a defense boosting moves suspect is only 500000 away
so do we need to save our likes to spend on the test then? like do i just say “658 on the ou suspect”
You bet in the thread
prepare for the incoming wave of likebegging...
also there is no way this affects the metagame in the slightest, 500k likes is way too much. Even finch who has like a 10:1 likes to post ratio only has about a 1/3rd of the required cost, you're never uniting enough of the community behind a suspect test
also there is no way this affects the metagame in the slightest, 500k likes is way too much. Even finch who has like a 10:1 likes to post ratio only has about a 1/3rd of the required cost, you're never uniting enough of the community behind a suspect test
Attention: I have officially started the campaign for a Tera Blast Suspect Test. With my own likes we are 0.5% of the way there. Please consider contributing in the thread.
Tera blast is a controversial element that brings back shades of Hidden Power, and a test on this element could notably reduce tera variance to be more restricted by a Pokemon's movepool. No more tera electric DD Kyurem
Tera blast ban could also possibly open up usage of some banned pokemon such as Regieleki
Tera blast is a controversial element that brings back shades of Hidden Power, and a test on this element could notably reduce tera variance to be more restricted by a Pokemon's movepool. No more tera electric DD Kyurem
Tera blast ban could also possibly open up usage of some banned pokemon such as Regieleki
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Yeah, just wanted to confirm where to ask if the initial rules post had anything I didn't quite follow (EX: Reaction Score is equivalent to Likes vs excluding things like Angry/Sad/Haha ones that weren't "Like" reactions specifically)You bet in the thread
The Suspect one is a funny experiment because of the number of steps it goes through to work: Besides getting everyone to pool behind picking an option, subsequently it'd also have to actually make the 60% threshold to change anything, so raw numbers first and then ratio on the next step.
if the goal for the suspect test is reached, does the suspect have to be agreed upon as the points are pooled? like can there be a situation where two suspect campaigns reach 250k each, but they have different ideas so no suspect is done?
finally something that would save the tier