Recent content by Fafnir

If I recall correctly, in Showdown, while sleep clause is in effect, attempting to put a pokemon to sleep while another one is already sleeping (outside of self inflicted sleep) will cause you to always fail.

As with most things, that's going to depend quite a bit on what you intend on needing it to beat. The difference between 252 and 200 speed means that Cube ends up beating both forms of Gyarados, M-Altaria, Dragonite, Gallade, Mamoswine, Togekiss, Diggersby and Heatran, was well as neutral...

Yeah, really cool pokemon, but just not as brain dead easy to include in teams as Clefable (not to disrespect Clefable, it's my absolute favourite pokemon). Charizard X becoming less dominant in the meta with ORAS certainly didn't help Quagsire's position (although, for what it's worth, I never...

Considering the massive and costly investment needed to run chlorophyll users effectively, a scarf seems like a good level of overkill, especially when you consider that you'll be outspeeding the entire unboosted meta at that point regardless, and you'll only be compromising your ability to...

Good god, that better not be a thing.

I really like these two guys, and definitely should try something with them some time. They really got a lot going on together.

A meta that isn't defined by flavour of the week trends that dominate the ladder (and exasperating the need for balance measures/suspect testing), but rather, something that can be considered consistent and, for the most part, fair for the variety of major playstyles. Moreover, a stable meta...

After cotton guard and geomancy: 252 SpA Espeon Stored Power (200 BP) vs. 252 HP / 96 SpD Unaware Clefable: 322-379 (81.7 - 96.1%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock Even if it manages to get a CM off, it's still dying. The results are better against Scolipede (assuming Scolipede only...

It was a Slowbro holding a Leppa Berry (although there are other pokemon capable of doing this, such as Blissey and the Gallade/Gardevoir line), utilizing the moves Block, Slack Off, Heal Pulse, and Recycle. The idea was to come in on something that couldn't deal with it, use Block to make it so...

Clefable is a pretty easy option (you'd be better off asking what it doesn't do, honestly).

Outside of the possibility of Focus Blast for... something, I'd imagine it'd mostly be for the sake of getting around physical walls it might otherwise have some difficulty with, as well as obvious surprise factor. And while it would be competent, I'd imagine that it probably wouldn't be the...

Even beyond the uncompetitive nature of that 'strategy,' and even if we didn't consider it to be broken on the fundamental level that it is, it's not like endless battle would have actually contributed anything of the most remote tactical value to near any match. In fact, one of the most...

In fact, not only does HP ground beat both Infernape and Tentacruel, it also is absolutely vital for beating the much more common and much more important Heatran. With the exception of Dragalge, there's nothing that Psychic deals with that the rest of Volcarona's moveset doesn't already deal...

Psychic is a poor offensive type, and is rarely worth taking without STAB unless you need very specific coverage, and Volcarona has much more pressing issues to address with its moveset than fighting and poison (which barely gets any representation in OU as it is) types. Volcarona definitely...

So can plenty of other pokemon. Just because something has the capacity to run a lot of different sets in a lot of different roles, doesn't mean that it's viable in OU. If all of its relevant roles are done better or with a lower opportunity cost by other options, it has no value in the OU...