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My first foray into the Ubers tier was a Drown All-eqsue team that changed and changed like the tides until it eventually turned into this. It's been a solid team with no glaring weaknesses, and very reliable: it got me to #5 on the PO Ubers ladder, where I usually play since Smogon's ladder is...

Let's get this through GP faster than Deoxys-S can use Extremespeed =) [Overview] <p>Mewtwo, the original Uber. Sporting immense Special Attack, an elite Speed stat, reasonable bulk, superb coverage, and a movepool chock full of auxiliary moves, Mewtwo is one of the dominating forces in...

It's better than the all-out attacker in my experience. The two also play differently: one is a wall breaker, the other more of a sweeper. [SET] name: Stat drop-less attacker move 1: Psyshock move 2: Low Kick move 3: Ice Beam move 4: Extremespeed item: Life Orb nature: Naive / Rash...

This is mentioned in OO, but I think it deserves a full set. [SET] name: Ubers Calm Mind move 1: Calm Mind move 2: Thunder / Thunderbolt move 3: Psyshock move 4: Substitute item: Leftovers nature: Calm evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD EVs might need to be tweaked a bit. The EVs are...

Rather surprised this wasn't directly given a set in the analysis page; instead Substitute gets a slash alongside Focus Blast ... [SET] name: Substitute move 1: Dark Void move 2: Substitute move 3: Dark Pulse move 4: Focus Blast nature: Timid item: Leftovers evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252...

This team is one of the most unconventional I've ever seen. It breaks a lot of common teambuilding rules. It catches people off-guard. It looks absurd. It works. I got to #5 on the ladder with a rating of around 1420 on my alt HailPressure, and have played and won against several of the top...

How about it: every time a tournament finishes, someone - perhaps the winner, perhaps the host, perhaps anyone who's interested - writes an analysis of what happened in the tournament to The Smog or some other section of the forums. Analysis, not writeup. If the tournament uses a unique metagame...

If you're reading this, you're dying, too. It may take a year, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. But we all die. There is no escape. Even if someone creates an immortality potion, we are doomed to die billions of years in the future when the universe dies a heat death. It's not something...

Don't see this discussed anywhere, so serious question: how much humour is allowed in an analysis or article? For example, can I turn this analysis into a writeup literally, or should the analysis be "encyclopediafied"? Another example: can I refer to Glaceon as a gun and its Blizzards as...

Oh, mountain of ice. http://www.smogon.com/bw/pokemon/glaceon [Overview] <p>Ice, ice, and more ice – this should be your first thought when looking at Glaceon. Wielding one of the tier's highest Special Attack stats as well as a perfectly accurate move with 180 Base Power after STAB...

One of the most outrageously powerful Pokemon in the tier with superb speed to boot, and yet a mere #19 in usage statistics. It's such a tremendous injustice ... this team aims to let Azelf rule the battlefield. Do you fear Azelf? After being on the delivering end of several Azelf sweeps, I'll...

Let's get it on!! Gardevoir I'm starting this as a brainstorming thread first and then, as I test out Gardevoir, to gradually turn it into a real analysis. So Gardevoir is first and foremost a support Pokemon. Her SpA is great, but with only 80 speed she can't really sweep. Physical...

Just curious. The condition is more powerful than sleep, and while there are no reliable freeze-inducing moves it still really sucks if two of your Pokemon get frozen at the same time. I vaguely remember a time when freeze clause meant only one of your Pokemon could be frozen at a time, but it...

I think this needs to be discussed, because we've had QC members, contributors and moderators post on both sides of the issue. Examples of the times when a set needs only to be viable to get an analysis: http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3454772&page=2...

Not sure if this is a bug but still - It seems that if Outrage "hits" a foddere'd Pokemon (i.e. dies to entry hazards) on the turn it ends, the user is not confused. In my case this happened when my Kingdra, on the second turn of Outrage, used it on a Registeel who died to hazards. My Kingdra...

Since the megathread got closed ... and pardon the sensationalist title. I'm having some serious trouble dealing with stallbreaker Clefable. There are three sets: Clefable @ Life Orb Double Edge Fire Blast Grass Knot Softboiled And: Clefable @ Toxic Orb Facade Fire Blast...

Also known as Missy :naughty: I believe Bad Ass wrote the lead Mismagius set; I only edited a few lines (mostly to be in line with my style of writing) so all credit to him. Flare wrote the stallbreaker Mismagius set; again I only edited one line. [Overview] <p>With excellent Speed and...

Is there really such a thing? Let's take 4th gen DPPt as an example. For the purposes of this thread, let's neglect the fact that some Pokemon (Garchomp, Shaymin-S, etc) were once OU but declared Uber, and simply consider the generation in any given period. In the beginning, Alakazam and...

I've noticed that if I type www.smogon.com/forums into the address bar I don't get to the forum main page; it requires www.smogon.com/forums/. Is it possible to make it so that both addresses reach the forum main page?

I'd been trying for months to catch Clyde. at the top of the PO UU ladder. He's been inactive, sitting at 1511 rating. I'd gotten to 1502 at best, but always every now and then I would suffer a very painful loss and fail to narrow the gap. When this battle happened, I'd only just gotten to 1502...