Recent content by carbonlifeform

Getting bored of running ID Cobalion on all of your teams to have something, anything to throw at the likes of Zarude, Iron Leaves, and more? I've got one simple question for you: Why not Chesnaught? Chesnaught @ Leftovers Ability: Bulletproof Tera Type: Ghost EVs: 224 HP / 200 Def / 84...

Biiig fan of mixed Moltres. My go-to Moltres set for a while has been mixed slow-pivot: Moltres @ Heavy-Duty Boots Ability: Flame Body Tera Type: ??? EVs: 248 HP / 216 Def / 44 SpD Relaxed Nature - Roost - Fire Blast - Brave Bird - U-turn Also works great with the PhysDef and...

MamoDog Offense :mamoswine: + :okidogi: + :iron-jugulis: + :rotom-wash: + :cresselia: + :volcanion: Been really enjoying laddering with this team in the mid 14-1500s, even in the midst of RULT. Not sure how long it will be legal, since Jugulis is by far the most common target for tiering action...

Wanted to point out that "Your otherwise winning strategy has a 15% chance of losing" is very different than "Your otherwise losing strategy has a 30% chance of winning" in terms of risk/reward. In general, I think that Vroom is probably only as broken as HO as a whole, and in particular the...

So, it's not that hard to find good offensive cores right now, but I really want to share one that I've found to be particularly ridiculous: :sv/okidogi: + :sv/mamoswine: You could probably use more standard sets as well (Trail Blaze Mamo, BU Dogi), but the raw power of Band Dogi and Dice Mamo...

A few non-standard sets I've run that seem to be doing decent work for me so far while I throw spaghetti at the wall trying to craft anti-meta stuff: Defensive 'Dogi Okidogi @ Leftovers Ability: Toxic Chain Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 224 HP / 16 Def / 208 SpD / 60 Spe Impish Nature - Protect -...

Volcanion? Resists U-Turn, quad resists bullet punch, can easily underspeed Scizor, and hits like a truck. Probably a boots or even LO AoA (or three attacks plus taunt) set?

Sleep Clause Mod is no longer in effect, so the disparity with cart is no longer a thing -- meaning, with a high level of luck, you could sleep an entire opposing team with Effect Spore/Dire Claw/Relic Song. These moves/abilities are allowed because that is the status quo with the existing Sleep...

There are dozens of pages of discussion you can go read to better understand the decision, but the simplest answer is that the decision making process you described isn't part of Pokemon. It's part of Pokemon as played on Showdown with Sheep Clause Mod active. Otherwise that Breloom is free to...

Amen to Iron Thorns being banned. Lucario's comparison to Iron Hands didn't even do it justice. The speed tier + DD made it an even better BE user since it was so much harder to force out if it found an opening (super easy with Tera). The number of times it ran away with a game just for getting...

It's primarily run as yet another CM Stored Power sweeper with the differentiating factors being a pretty decent base typing defensively and Booster Energy giving it some more set versatility than other Stored Power 'mons (Booster Speed with Iron Defense, Booster SpA with Agility being the main...

Probably uniformly worse at grabbing an extra turn for setup than Spore, since Smeargle isn't particularly fast, and a slow DBond is just an invitation to your opponent to set up hazards/screens/boosts, whereas a Sleeping 'mon....can't do those things. If you wanted to actually *kill* something...

I'm maybe the last person who plays the tier to discover/accept this, but wow is Nasty Plot Deo-S good. Psycho Boost is so damn strong that it makes up for the iffy SpA without boosts and also forces switches that help you get those boosts in the first place. The thing that really makes it, for...

Except Sleep isn't "fine", which is why we have Sleep Clause. Sleep with Sleep Clause is tolerable, and even then only because the only reliable sleep-inducing move has incredibly limited distribution. When Sleep, even with less-reliable abusers, starts to negatively impact the meta to the point...