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One thing I dislike about facing Baton Pass teams that I don't think many people have brought up is the quality of prediction required to really beat them. That might read a little odd, so I'll explain what I mean. While playing against people of an unknown capability, which is what is...

I wouldn't run Life Orb. My point about Life Orb was that Choice Specs is a bad item in OU, with empirical evidence being on my side right now. I'd probably run the thing like a Heatran. Bulky with leftovers or Air Balloon. Like Heatran, that Ground weakness is what makes it difficult to switch...

CB Entei is pretty mediocre, and Entei has much better speed and a massive 50% burn chance. All those calcs you've posted have shown that if this thing gets a free turn to fire off a move then it can do a lot of damage. About half of S/A+ rank OU and about a third of A rank can either cripple...

Choice Specs users also more importantly need spammable offense coverage that is almost never a liability. The reason Keldeo is the only real Specs user in OU (Sylveon? Politoed?) is not just because Water is a strong offensive typing, but because it's the only special attacker that can lock...

Why would you run Modest Life Orb with 0 SpA? Also, everyone seems to be running Choice Specs calcs for this thing, but honestly very few pokemon make efficient use out of Choice Specs, especially those with mediocre speed. As far as offensive sets are concerned, sub + three attacks seems the...

I was really hoping this thing would get Recover. With Focus Blast and STAB Shadow Ball Hoopa would deal with the most common Pursuit Trappers better than (the most definitely OU viable) Latios, primarily Tyranitar, Bisharp and Aegislash. Without recovery though, this thing will probably just...

Finally. I don't know how people saw 150 SpA with Ghost STAB (that shit is worth like 20 base SpA by itself), 80/130 special bulk and immediately thought to compare it to Delphox. With base 150 special attack you don't even need to invest in it to hit hard, as uninvested 150 SpA comes to a very...

Based Haunter. Ban this sick filth I reached top 50 on the OU ladder about a week ago using full stall, and every time I played against a BP team against someone competent there was literally nothing I could ever do about it, as none of my pokemon were capable of even securing a crit strong...

After getting to about 1750 with this team, I've noticed a few weaknesses this team has: - Quagsire with Heal Bell support. There is literally nothing this team can do against a Chansey/Quagsire combo other than PP stalling it with Suicune. This can be a problem as even though Suicune has...

So I decided to use this team without looking at it in great detail, as I wanted a quick dabble in stall. Got into the battle and realised Mandibuzz had Iron Defense. Was going to quit right away, but decided to stick it out. In no less than five turns Iron Defense helped me take out a Bisharp...

252 Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Return vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Hippowdon: 214-253 (50.9 - 60.2%) -- 89.1% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery 252 Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Return vs. 252 HP / 160 Def Hippowdon: 187-222 (44.5 - 52.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery 4 Atk Hippowdon Rock...

Psychic is still feeling the effects of the gen 2 nerfs. As a primary attacking type, hitting only Fighting and Poisons provides pretty poor coverage in OU. Even ignoring the Dark immunity, being resisted by steel means there will always be a pokemon the opposing team who can shrug off your...

I don't think Knock Off has had much of an impact on most of them. Jellicent was used almost primarily as an anti-rain pokemon, Metagross was already borderline UU as well, while Celebi's suffered the most from Talonflame, Mega Pinsir and Mega Charizard exisiting. Jirachi doesn't like the new...

I don't think there are enough pokemon with viable standard forms that also benefit significantly from mega evolving. Mega Scizor and Mega Tyranitar are in most cases a 'sidegrade' with that an upgrade, with the possibility of using either of those two as megas not making up for the opportunity...

You seem to be implying that Mega Pinsir gets a free +2.If it can switch in on the SD, take a hit if it has to and then kill or cripple Mega Pinsir, it's a counter. Zapdos can do that, Rotom-W can do that, Talonflame can do that without taking a hit and even physically defensive Tyranitar/Mega...

0 Atk Mold Breaker Mega Ampharos Brick Break vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Blissey: 188-222 (26.3 - 31%) -- 9.3% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery 252+ SpA Mold Breaker Mega Ampharos Focus Blast vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Blissey: 264-312 (36.9 - 43.6%) -- 99.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery...

And as pointed out, Donphan would not be considered OU if only 1700+ stats are considered.

While people make a lot of bad comparisons based off of typing (Garchomp/Zygarde/Flygon was particularly bad this gen), I don't think comparing Mega Charizard X and Entei is too unreasonable. They both share Fire typing, both are physically biased and very significantly both share the 100 base...

Mew still has the problem of bad defensive typing to go with stats and a movepool that encourage a defensive set. It also now has to worry about the increasingly common Knock Off. 252 Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Return vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Mew: 178-211 (44 - 52.2%) -- 77.3% chance to 2HKO after...

Those 11 point in attack can make a pretty big difference for its mixed attacking set. 252 Atk Life Orb Gigalith-V Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 298-352 (42.3 - 50%) -- 35.5% chance to 2HKO after hail damage (109) 252 Atk Life Orb Gigalith-V Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+...