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Kyurem needs to be banned. I will start by addressing the above comments: 1) The best possible set for Kyurem is Substitute Freeze Dry EarthPower Roost. Toxic or Protect is just objectively worse, as it makes Kyurem more "annoying" to deal with, but in exchange, kyurem would be walled by pretty much any steel type. The only reason you would run such a set is to stall PPs, which on a pressure stall team might be logical. Otherwise for any normal team, having the ability to hit steel types such as magnezone, metagross, mawile, heatran, bisharp, aegislash while you are behind a sub and do not risk taking any super effective damage is one of the major reasons why it is broken. 2) Stall... I don't know how many times I need to hear PRO players complaining about stall. Every time they see anything fat, it is defaulted to stall. No, banning Kyurem would not suddenly make people run 6 stall Pokemons. Idk why the common perception is every team on the ladder is either hyper offense or a stall team. I am beyond convinced that bulky offense is the BEST playstyle right now. At least in the 150 battles I've done last season, I fought like less than 5 teams I'll actually call "stall", and maybe like 2 of them are piloted by good players. Stall is not good and most of the top players know it. Just think about it from an objective standpoint. If the game already cut the number of recovery moves in half for you and you still can't beat it, it is likely a problem with you (yes you not trying to punish stall by making low risk double switches) or your team (which is just not built to break stall). Please go back to the drawing board and build a better team. 3) Stall... pt 2. A lot of people who argue that "Kyurem" is the only stallbreaker we have fails to acknowledge the role Kyurem has on stall teams itself. I will tell you, Pressure Suicune might be annoying on stall, but Pressure Kyurem is the real menace, especially one where you cannot switch in LOL. Why is Kyurem used on stall teams ??? Because Stall teams need to Stallbreak themselves, and with Sub Roost, Kyurem itself is literally a stall Pokemon... (the existence you guys literally hate) Idk if you guys ever experience the despair of Kyurem stalling you out of PP, or having to take 80% on a crucial stallbreaking pokemon just to tank a freeze dry / earth power just to break a sub. If you have not, then you are not fighting good Kyurem players... Ok now that that's done, here is why I think Kyurem needs to be banned in addition to the above. 1) No switch-ins (I am only considering Meta Pokemons) Let's first consider what differs Ice beam Kyurem from Freeze Dry Kyurem. Ice Beam Kyurem: Gets walled by literally any water type. Even something like Rotom-Wash can Hydro into Volt switch and break a sub. Keldeo comes in easily. Azumarill comes in easily. Offensive and Defensive pokemon can both break sub without taking significant damage and force it out to take another round of rocks. Overall, not a huge threat. Freeze Dry Kyurem: Yeah, no. None of the above can deal with it anymore. Every Water type pretty much just dies to two freeze dries (except one that I will mention later in checks/counters). Ok, now let's look at Steel types, don't those wall Ice types? Ferrothorn -- Gyroball, gets out stalled, Heatran -- dies to earthpower, Scizor -- Yes actually is a viable check, Aegislash -- dies to earthpower, Bisharp -- dies to earthpower, has to play some sucker punch / Iron head mind games if it wants to get more damage off, otherwise a 2hko, same is the case with Mawile. Everyone's favorite Chansey??? -- gets outstalled by 101 HP substitutes. Ok, so let's see what I have been using in teambuilding to survive against kyurem: "Counters" -- pretty consistent against Kyurem, can always rely on switching in 1) Calm Clefable: Yes, everyone's favorite clefable does beat Kyurem. Calm w/ or w/o Calmmind is honestly pretty reliable against Kyurem, but a lot of the times, giving up at running Bold Clefables is not really good since Kyurem user pair their team with Lopunny, which means if Clefable is your defensive backbone, it will get overwhelmed. 2) Scizor: One of the best counters to Kyurem in game, both normal form and Kyurem black... Nothing else really to add, just walls it. 3) Volcarona: Yes volcarona does wall kyurem, and it can bypass substitute with Bugbuzz. One of the best kyurem checks. It's only disadvantage is if rocks are up and you can't get a timely defog, this thing is gonna pay a huge cost for coming in... "Pretty good checks" i.e. Pokemon that can force it out without your team falling apart 1) Slowking -- Yes slowking is a good check. A Calm 252hp, 252spDef set allows you to eat 2 freeze dries and fire off a future sight, which if you stall one following turn and chilly reception out, you get to go into a faster mon that can kill it with the future sight gone. However, you come out of this exchange with 1) less healthy slowking, which means if you were to do this exchange again, you are going to suffer, and 2) you just set snow for the Kyurem, meaning yeah, you might even struggle to kill it due to Kyurem's insane stats. 2) Yeah that's about it... lol "Bad checks" i.e. Pokemon that can force it out, but you risk your whole team falling apart There's a lot of pokemon that fit this category, including the lopunnys and medichams I see in the above post.... But have you wonder, if Kyurem can take 50% off of your lopunny in exchange for a substitute of your lopunny and switch out, isn't the Kyurem user the one benefitting from these exchange. In addition, the next time Lopunny comes in, it just dies. If you are relying on Lopunny to outspeed and kill most of the opponent's team, this is a huge huge loss (which a lot of lopunny teams do). I am just using that as an example, but the same holds for a lot of other pokemons. Saying this does not help the discussion at all. Any pokemon is going to be able to be outspeed and killed by some other thing, that is without a doubt. But for Kyurem, as we established already, it threatens everything, meaning it gets substitutes very easily and kills everything / makes very good trades for 25% of its HP. Kyurem is very fast as well (comparatively), meaning that this already limits the pokemons that can reliably check it. So, I encourage people to stop using the "Just Mach Punch It BRO" mentality type argument. We are not going to get anywhere. 2) Huge limits on Teambuilding This is a subsequent result of 1). With only 3 switch ins and 1 good check, Kyurem is very oppressive as if you want to beat it reliably, you are forced to run the above. And one of them is a Mega pokemon.... Of course, you can argue, hey doesn't Bronzong and magnet rise Klefki wall this thing? Or Sylveon, remember that?? And yes, you would be right. But I would argue that falls into the direct definition of an unhealthy metagame. If we are relying on niche picks to wall Kyurem, then it is unhealthy. 3) Freeze Hey, you know what's worse than losing an important pokemon to Kyurem?? Getting your whole team frozen. Don't underestimate 10% man, when you need to rely on defensive Pokemons tanking a lot of Freeze Dries to survive stuff like this just happens... And then ofc you are going to blame the game blah blah blah... 4) Literally makes some archeotypes unplayable Rain users rise up. Your Archeotype is literally rendered unplayable by this pokemon Tell me what you are going to do when turn 1 Pelipper vs Kyurem and it sets up a substitute. Your entire team just dies. Final thoughts: If you guys want a healthy metagame and not one where your life goal is to beat every stall team in existence, then banning Kyurem is the way to go. Trust me, you will still be able to beat stall with stuff like Fire Fang Mega Mawile, Future Sight Slowking into Physical Attackers (which is a secret tech I will reveal in exchange for banning Kyurem). I will promise you, when Kyurem start appearing on opposing stall teams, you will understand what it is like and want to ban this thing with pretty much no switch ins. Of course, please feel free to let me know if you guys have any thoughts on what else walls Kyurem as I am out of ideas.3 points
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Kyurem needs ban, here's why: 1-beats stall. 2-makes stall players cry. 3-only weak to 5 typings. Thank you.2 points
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Hello, @Tgbnamish @Omenrl The pokemon has been forced. Kindly, K-Mew1 point
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Hello, @Shiringa This will be a one and only time doing this, please be careful in the future when bidding from a different account. Let always know, when making the bid, which account will be used to make the payment from, not after. Nevertheless, @Noluckyone the trade has been forced. Kindly, K-Mew1 point
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IGN: Shokii Discord ID: Free Nationality: German Expectations joining us: / What are you looking for in our guild: To have some Guild mates to sit in a call or a chat and enjoy the Game together. Favorite Pokemon: Shuckle. Why should we consider recruiting you? New people always bring a new and fresh wind into the Guild which in my opinion is good. Other than the fresh wind aspect I would say I'm a calm guy who will listen and help if needed. PvE, PvP, or both? Let us know what you like: After getting a Boss Team PvE was too easy, I now want to focus on the PvP aspect of the Game. Enter your Trainer Card with a screenshot:
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Not to turn this into a semantics course, but let's not forget the difference between a check and a counter. A Kyurem counter would be able to switch into it manually and still defeat it, even behind its Substitute. A Pokémon like Slowking would not qualify, because it would come in to Future Sight the Sub then switch to another Pokémon that can handle Kyurem after Future Sight breaks the Sub. This makes Slowking a Kyurem check. The list of actual Kyurem counters is extremely limited. There are more offensive and defensive checks, but they would either need to be given a free switch into it or require that no Substitute be up on the other side of the field. Also, another thing worth noting is that, while a Pokémon like Bronzong counters Kyurem, its limited viability means that it would not be worth running in most cases, whereas Clefable and Mega Scizor are both reliable and viable. Encore Alolan Ninetales is also able to switch into Kyurem and lock it into a move, but its usage is exclusive to Veil teams. Bulky Volcarona is a good switch-in as well and, like Mega Gardevoir (which saw some usage on Silver server), can hit Kyurem behind its Substitute. However, Volcarona is weak to Stealth Rock, making it a less reliable answer than Clefable and Mega Scizor. Also, for those of you who enjoy looking at statistics, here are the Kyurem numbers for Silver server and for Gold server that were shared in the official PRO Discord by Wally. While statistics are indicative, they still show that Kyurem excels with certain teammates that can handle some of its weaknesses. I would also encourage each of you, regardless of your opinion on Kyurem and whether you think it is broken or not, to avoid looking at match-ups in a vacuum. Kyurem is not isolated, it is paired up with Pokémon that can help it to handle its checks. Just like you, the Kyurem user can also switch out and not be locked behind Substitute. There are many variables to consider.1 point
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im on now lmk when ur on1 point
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Once he went under subs clefable and conk cant do [heck], even without subs he can take out conk cuz he lack of spdeff1 point
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I am not a kyurem fan but banning kyurem will be unwanted.Its not like shell smash mega Blastoise who literally had only 1 or 2 counters in game.Kyurem can be easily countered by clefable,conkelldur,scizor and many other fast pokemons.I know some may say it is stall breaker but who tf uses stall after nerf.1 point
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I believe Kyurem, when running moves like Substitute, Roost, Freeze-Dry, and Earth Power, should be banned, as it can be extremely frustrating to face. This set allows Kyurem to continuously set up Substitutes, heal with Roost, and deal massive damage with Freeze-Dry and Earth Power, making it hard to counter. It can quickly become overbearing and difficult to handle, which can negatively impact the metagame.
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Hi everyone, there are a few good reasons for not banning Kyurem in PvP: Ability to counter a wide range of types: Kyurem has a wide range of moves, with the ability to learn Dragon-type, Ice-type, and even moves like "Focus Blast". However, its power is still limited by factors like speed and type weaknesses, such as Steel-type against Ice or Fighting-type (against Ice). Not too strong compared to other metas: Kyurem is not a "dominant" Pokémon compared to other names like Azumarill, Lopuny, etc. These Pokémon are often stronger in PvP thanks to high defense or flexible moves. Kyurem can still be countered by many popular Pokémon in the meta. Strategy and diversity: Banning Kyurem can limit the diversity of PvP strategies. Because it is not always the optimal choice, players need to consider factors such as speed, attack, defense, and move set. Allowing Kyurem to exist creates opportunities for creative strategies and increases the variety in PvP. Easily countered: Kyurem is powerful, but there are Pokémon that can counter it very easily such as Metagross, Mawile, Scizor. This proves that it is not too "overpowered" to need to be banned. So Kyurem is not strong enough to make it a fearsome opponent in PvP. Banning it could take away an interesting strategic option that players could use.1 point
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It's a threat to the current metagame. I personally like kyurem but it's hard to face it if you don't have the certain check/counter to it. It threatens both the offensive and defensive play styles. Even the counters ain't good enough with the existence of "freeze".1 point
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I don't want Kyurem to be banned Although Kyurem is a strong Pokémon with a difficult-to-handle moveset, I believe it still has certain weaknesses that prevent it from completely dominating the metagame. Here are a few reasons why Kyurem should not be banned: 1.Major Weaknesses: Stealth Rock and Speed(base 95). 2.Reasonable Counterplay Exists: M-Scicor,M-Metagross,M-Lopunny,... etc. 3.Not Overwhelming the Metagame: +Kyurem pressures teambuilding, but it is not unmanageable in battle. Common Pokémon like Mega Lopunny, Mega Scizor, and balanced bulky offense cores can keep it in check. +Future Sight users like Slowking make it difficult for Kyurem to safely use Substitute repeatedly. In conclusion, I think Kyurem is a big threat but not so much that it's impossible to deal with. Keeping it in the metagame would make PvP more interesting, rather than removing it.1 point
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Hello again. I thank you for your patience. I have discussed with my fellow Staff Members. This is an known issue that has indeed been happening since a December 2024 update. The developers are aware of it and will be working on a fix. Until then, we can but wait. That being said, I have done personal tests with more than one TV to try and maybe find some sort of fix for the issue until then, specifically on Windowed Resolution at 640x480. I sadly do come to the same solutions as mentioned before, which would be to try the 800x600 Resolution as it is relatively close to the 640x480 and the GUI is more proportionate to the screen when the "GUI Scale" option is at minimum. I understand this may not be the ideal solution once again, but until a proper fix is given to the 640x480 Resolution, this should be serviceable. I once again thank you for your patience. Be sure that the issue will be worked on and you will be notified when a proper fix is available. Until then, do check out the solutions described above and on this thread by other players. Always feel free to come back and ask if you have any other question or comment in the future. Best of lucks, - Kubrick1 point
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