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You should add "After Stealth Rock damage". 0 SpA Tangrowth Leaf Storm vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Manaphy: 306-360 (89.7 - 105.5%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO.

Ice Beam is a marginal OHKO against offensive Zygarde, if you needed an example. Also TankChomp, although you're right that it's likely to switch. Also, are the special-based versions of the sets really only OO-worthy? High Jump Kick is just such a frustrating move to have to rely on. I feel...

Doesn't Thundurus have, you know, resistances? And Speed? If I had to guess I'd say it's probably a lot better than Xurkitree, although Xurkitree is pretty bad so that's not saying much.

Defensive Landorus-T +2 88 SpA Minior-Down Power Gem vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Landorus-Therian: 225-265 (59 - 69.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO +1 252+ Atk Minior-Down Acrobatics (110 BP) vs. 248 HP / 244+ Def Landorus-Therian: 192-226 (50.3 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO That's a pretty marginal increase, and...

I think it is probably worth running the 168 Speed EVs to outrun Tapu Koko with shields up at +2. It's very, very common at the moment, and goes from being a hard counter to completely losing. Beyond that you have to go a fair way before finding anything else on GMars's very helpful list. edit...

I feel like this overview is rather missing the point. You don't use Pinsir as a check to Fighting, Grass and Bug type pokemon; you use Pinsir to sweep the opponent's team. Also, it's not "easily walled by many threats". Pinsir is barely walled by anything at all. Yes, there are a fair few...

Can I suggest HP Water as a possibility? It's similar to HP Ground in that it hits A-Marowak and Excadrill, but it also hits Landorus super-effectively. This even opens up the possibility of two-move coverage with Z-Hypnosis and Tail Glow, or possibly allows running Dazzling Gleam to hit dragons...

Does Gravity prevent the user of Supersonic Skystrike? Does Gravity prevent the use of Supersonic Skystrike when called by a move that gravity would normally block (this is the case on Pokemon Showdown)?

Forgive me but why would you ever run 248 speed on anything? Surely you might as well add the last 4 EVs on? The 4 Atk/SpA can't really do anything that significant just by the nature of damage roll variation. Still, I think using HP ground looks like an excellent idea, and I'm certainly going...

Yes, it was special. But I think special is just better really, never mind the item. You need the coverage. Ground types tend to be physically based, and running a physical set makes it even harder to hit them. And don't get me wrong, Raichu definitely has its place.

Generally, if its defences are also crap, it's not good. I'm struggling to think of any exceptions really. That said, Xurkitree is not that bad. At +1 Spe, it's quite fast. Probably not enough to run through most teams, but still. Z-Hypnosis is absolutely ridiculous. Quite a lot of teams seem...

I was quite excited about this thing from everything I'd been hearing, but I must say that in my hands Raichu was quite underwhelming. Specifically, I was trying out the rain version of the set. It was fairly strong when I had both rain and electric terrain set up, but actually doing that...

I highly doubt that Situs Berry is the best item for this pokemon. Actually, if I'm understanding it right the downside of Wishiwashi's ability is barely even relevant. A pokemon with Base 30 speed and < 25% HP at the end of the turn is basically dead anyway no matter what. So with normal...

I'm thinking of pairing this thing with Dugtrio. A powerful U-Turn to Dugtrio is just generally amazing. The prior damage and its buffed attack might mean that it can actually remove Aegislash and Toxapex. As if Pheromosa needed anything else to tip it over the edge...

I don't think comparing this to Mega Lucario is entirely fair, as Mega Lucario is pretty absurdly strong. But it's also an awful lot stronger than Kartana. To give you an idea, Kartana is slightly weaker than OU staple Terrakion, after move base power is taken into account. 252 Atk Kartana...

Even if it might not make sense as a long term strategy (some care would be required for it not to, even if the game ends at lv. 100), people are still going to steamroll the early portion of the game with an overlevelled team. Would you say this constitutes an enjoyable experience? There is no...

Not sure if this is the time to discuss this, but I really think some kind of level cap is required for this game to work properly (e.g increasing with each gym). It's well known that by far the easiest way to complete a pokemon game is to use only 1-2 pokemon such that they are totally...

Is this going to be a simple vote where everyone picks only one option, or will voters be asked to rank the options? I've noticed people talking about tactical voting in the thread already. Hope I don't need to explain why that's a bad thing! It seems to me that both of the two options would...

Not sure how this got through 2 grammar checks; it sounds really odd. Probably just need to take the word "sheer" out.

I don't think many people are complaining because they think Baton Pass is impossible to counter. I see a few people claiming that baton pass is broken because it beats stall teams or offensive teams or whatever. Baton Pass is not countered by teams. Baton Pass is countered by individual...