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Tusk certainly has more competition for its role as a Bulky Utility/Glue Ground, but I wouldn't say it necessarily got worse into the Meta, which would be what I personally base a potential drop around. Teams ignoring Hazards can eschew Tusk, but then they have either concerns about stacking...

I think the idea was to show off the breeding mechanic, but it misses the point that if you have the Mon to breed them down, you would just use the parent in-game, since no one is using Egg Moves for casual runs vs PVP. Gen 4 at least gives Riolu without Lucario immediately accessible and stuff...

So Sinnoh has 107 Pokemon of its own, 27 being related to Prior Gen mons, compared to Johto (its closest comparison in terms of thematics for the region and preceding Dex size) being 16/100. I have excluded the Eeveelutions of both gens since Eevee's evolution gimmick makes it a common choice...

No input on Gambit but I would be curious about the Volcarona interaction. I'd think if anything Latios would be in first and the idea is to bait Volc thinking it can use it to grab a QD? Non-Boosting Item Latios can't 2HKO Bulky Volc with Draco (since it's faster before QD and thus gets 2...

The thing I think that is off about Gigantamax Gengar to me is that aside from the Giant Mouth, it just looks like a Bigger Gengar, as in something Gengar's normal look would sport if it opened its mouth instead of having its signature toothy grin. The Tongue even kind of reminds me of Haunter's...

On Geeta's title, was she the First Champion for the established League as well, to make that applicable as much as the "Top" Champion? It could also just be referring to her status as the big wig: any other Champion ranked trainer has to go through her as a test, whether we believe the...

I actually think an interesting take on this would have been something akin to a Scyther line situation, where the evolution is more a change of stat distribution and playstyle than a straight upgrade. My immediate thought process goes to my understanding of "MLP: Friendship is Magic" for...

The question there I suppose is in practice, does Basculegion-F come out ahead in any important match-ups for Rain, whether as a team or compared to the Male variant? Basc-M is carried in large part by Wave Crash's massive BP under Rain Boost propping up its only okay ATK, which Basc-F has less...

>Not Supreme Overlord You had one job with this joke. What do people consider the most Splashable Pokemon, both in general and on certain team styles? The former is probably Great Tusk, but I'm curious if, say, Balance Players have a Pokemon they consider absolutely vital to run or otherwise...

Minor tip, I think you can make a new profile on the Switch to get a new file without blowing up your old one, for the sake of replaying if you want to keep your old one for Raid events and such.

Yeah, could you imagine how massive a Defensive Grass/Steel Pokemon would be? How many teams it'd fit on with stuff like Spikes, Leech Seed Recovery, Knock Off, and still using ID Body Press? It even would keep Toxic since it's an Egg Move, Gen 9 somehow made me miss this thing.

I mostly meant Neutralizing Gas announcing vs Levitate not regardless of their 3rd abilities, but Bronzong would indeed be a better candidate for "reading" abilities.

Since Weezing's other abilities announce themselves on coming out, so if the AI is playing by "human" rules it should immediately know if Ground moves would work or not rather than having to scout or whiff one first.

Is there a place to post about and discuss happenings in VGC (as an event moreso than its meta)? Just saw a story where apparently a Regional Tournament forgot to unlock the Tera Orb on their provided Game copies.

But if Broken is checking Broken per this description, shouldn't that be more reason to vote ban on Volcarona who you already said you'd want to see go if not for checking Kyurem, which you also think is bad? Like if we're at a hypothetical deadlock of busted mons checking other busted mons...