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Keep in mind that "worst bulk" is relative to you're typing even if you have less stats. Kyurem is Ice so it gets blown up by everyone's standard coverage moves they run alongside STAB. Lando is sporting two immunites and basically forcing peeps to dedicate one of their move slots to a hidden...

Many people have been using phrases like "pick your poison" or "lesser of two evils" You can't argue one issue outweighs the other without some sort of measuring and comparing of the two. Otherwise anyone's preference to an overly centralized metagame or an over populated match up metagame is...

Aegislash was deemed Ubers, as in a level above other Pokemon, for being able to deal with way too much way too easily and dictate huge portions of the meta. We consider bringing Aegislash back, and the reasoning is that it can deal with even more things now (give us a unifying check to new...

This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. I keep seeing more people hinting at this reasoning. I want to try to break down this whole phenomenon, the reason why people can start to think this way and why it's dangerous. Because I am strongly of the opinion that this is a terrible way to...

The problem is this issue is actually the driving factor in some people's decision on the current suspect. Both here and in the Post Greninja Ban Metagame Thread there are multiple instances of people openly saying "I don't think Mega Metagross is broken but let's ban it anyways because it will...

I'm pretty sure I don't like this reasoning although I also wouldn't really know what kind of alternative solution to propose. But basically the reasoning here is >it's impossible to prepare for everything >therefor we should ban stuff until it is possible. Before Mega Sableye it was already...

Man.... I don't know how using the word "uncompetitve" for STag caught on. The correct word is "broken" EDIT: ok actually I do know it because people wanted it out of Ubers before it was a tier so they had to label it under the wrong definition but yeah. think about the nature of competition...

I think it just comes down to the way it's always done. Moves are more limited than Pokemon. Since I have been seeing people speak of Genesect I could pose the reverse question. Why did we ban Genesect when we could have just banned U-turn? that way we can use Genesect for non-pivot applications...

Having not yet run into a Geomancy Smeargle that devastated me I was hoping someone could clarify for me what sets GeoPass apart from SmashPass? Is is it just that the +2 Sp.Def is more worthwhile than the +2 Atk? I mean obviously it is on Special attacker, faster Pokemon tend to be more likely...

HAIL it for sending in that Abobasnow

Link This is an old post that I think does a good job talking about the concept of a "healthy metagame". It goes over all the attributes you want to focus on when creating the metagame and then you can determine for your self if a Greninja ban improves those attributes. In Greninja's case its...

Well I guess I didn't actually know what the damage formula was exactly, I usually just see calculators. But I looked it up and taught myself and I guess I'll share the kind of answer I was looking for. Basically the damage formula has this weird term in it that's (2*level+10)/250 which acts as...

So I've read this in a few places before but I was hoping some one could give me a detailed, in-depth, mathy explanation on the difference in damage done during lv.50 and lv.100 matches.

While playing AG you're wasting your breath to point out Rage Quits. It's like Pointing out how many Germans you see walking around in Germany. Instead we should all make a big deal out of "Patience Stays"