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Volcarona: Ban

The samples aren't inadequate because they're not enough or whatever but because if a team is weak to volcarona good players just aren't going to use it, so any samples would fail to account for any scrapped version of those teams that were scrapped because they were weak to volc. Also I really...

Survivor bias. If the main issue with Volcarona is strain on the team building process of course once that process is over the end result isn't gonna auto lose to volc when it's done by a competent builder, that doesn't make the issue any less present during the process. The fact that all...

I will be voting ban on volcarona, and it's not even close. My opinions have already been largely voiced by the rest of the ban voters by now, so I won't dwell on how matchup fishy, rng filled and plain unfair this mon is to shoot a dead body, but I'd just like to underline how self centered...

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won ggs, devin totally deserved that game 1 because I misclicked but confusion bailed me out https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2103291916-v91ykpkz357754p3ha5n1t8v12k5kgkpw https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2103295983-bvfai4p1c3dv703ecbauunc8ubf12lkpw

Update: I also achieved Volcarona suspect test requirements with this team

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Ou seasonal, I'm +2 and free any day past 4pm but would rather Friday or Sunday, when do you wanna play?

While this sounds correct on paper, in practice if you're using a tera like that purely defensively, as in a long term investment to help you withstand the threat in the long game, then on most teams it would be too much of an opportunity cost to take away from something more impactful like a...

Personally I'm really not a fan of this sentiment. I've come to terms with the fact that tera is here to stay even though I'd like to see it gone, but regardless I see this sentiment as a little hypocritical because the defensive utility terastalization offers to the meta at large is needed much...

As someone who builds and plays balance almost exclusively, I can say it's definitely the much harder playstyle of the main three. It's not unviable at all and it's not limited to a single structure or something like that, but it definitely has to put much more care into the building process to...