Recent content by Gary

Finch the type of guy that would hide in the middle of a fist fight to gain back 33% of his maximum HP.

A lot of lesser experienced players tend to overlook the fact that the existence of Pokémon like Landorus-T in past gens and Great Tusk actually allow you to get away with a lot more in the builder. These Pokémon have extremely high usage because they offer unmatched role compression, which...

I feel like the point Srn is making is that we really have no idea when Tera is going to be revisited. It could be not long after we get a bunch of mons back from Pokemon Home, or it could very well be an entire year. I do genuinely think Tera will be revisited in the future, but is it really...

252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera-Fire Chi-Yu Overheat vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Chi-Yuh in Sun: 153-180 (48.7 - 57.3%) -- 94.1% chance to 2HKO

Yea Scarf and Z-Dig were definitely the more common Protean sets just because Ash was so good it was often hard to justify Protean otherwise. It definitely had other viable sets but very team specific. Even Waterium-Z Ash picked up at one point.

I feel like it's going to be pretty hard to justify Battle Bond Greninja after the nerf honestly. It's a shell of its former self, much more so than how Protean was handled. Aside from the Speed, the stat buffs it gains after it gets a kill put it on about the same power level as Ash Gren, but...

Nice to see some competent old school Smogon boomers still actively posting on this site even after all these years.

He's referring to the double damage buff a Pokémon gets vs Bax after being hit by Glaive Rush the following turn.

So fun fact actually, a private OU forum was something we did during Gen 6 (I think it was called "Victory Road") and it failed horribly. It might sound like a good idea on paper but all it did was segregate the community and from an outside perspective it just straight up looked like elitist...

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