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Everyone should wait discussing likely rises and drops until they actually happen imo. You never know if things change, and even if we did, theorymoning usually isn't good for anything.
This makes no sense. If it was used on every team, it would have exactly 50%. When it's on nearly every team, its minimal win rate becomes pretty high. It's neither impresdive nor unimpressive.
Ehh, everything is a cycle mon by that definition. It's not like Gastrodon just becomes worthless from obe month or another jusg because the metagame begins adapting to it.
Besides, the next shift is a quick rise/drop one, so it's usage would have to be a bit above the standard cutoff of ~3.4...
Sorry about the one liner, but i want to clarify that Azelf never rose to OU in gen 7. Though it did come close when birdspam was at its peak, UU never lost it.
Usage isn't as good a measure of viability as this thread makes it out to be. Look at the usage stats for high ladder, youll see Gliscor, Amoongus ans Quagsire having a lot more usage, stuff like Mamoswine having a lot less. Popularity has always been a factor of usage, don't make a big deal...
Adding to what's been sais, Mamoswine was in OU for quite some time in gen 7 already. It saw usage before too and has gotten better recently.
Although the ttt videos definitely made the difference since Mamoswine is not that great, there are worse Pokemon in OU by usage for sure.
Mamoswine hype isn't really a thing though and not something that would make a difference anyway, there are much better and way more used Pokemon that Gliscor hates. Gliscor is really good atm so unless a shift happens that sucks for it, it should move up eventually as more people realize it's...
I never disagreed with any of that. I'm just saying knock off being useless is not the right argument. All you just said would just as accurate if knock off was useful.
So what? Its only the most used because it can remove items normally. Mega Slowbro has four other weaknesses and a special defense stat that is less than half its physical defense, no one would use knock off on it. Although I'm not opposed to finding out, I do agree it's probablt unhealthy. Your...
Reagardless of whether or not Slowbronite should be unbanned, the dark type resist argument is pretty silly. It's a physical wall without an item it can lose, no Knock Off is not gonna do a whole lot to it, thats not how youd break it anywhere.
Sorry for making a one liner, but Antar already said (and just confirmed) we should expect it early January, meaning a suspect test beginning less than a week before that would be pointless. I know that it's annoying to have something seemingly too strong around, but I really think it would be...
Well, we're all waiting for a tier update and it could be a pretty huge swift this time for UU. OU is most likely taking a few things away from here and some others are probably dropping too, so until the tier update finally comes, which looks to be early new year at this point, I think it's a...
I think bashing the way OU is handled like this is not only inconsiderade and completely pointless, it's also being done in a way that shows people here clearly have no idea what they're talking about.
Making a list that simply consists of the 4 Pokemon ranked D in viabikity rankings thread...