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This forum is kind of dead currently, and almost half the new posts are complaining about some aspect of the metagame and asking for it to be banned. Perhaps official threads where we could discuss the state of the metagame in a civil manner and throw ideas around could revive this forum?

feel free to contact me. Nevertheless i didnt want to scare anyone from building a sun team. It works if u build it properly against the current meta but it needs way more brainstorming and knowledge than a rain team (e.g. Politoed, ms Dragonite, Ludicolo, Omastar/Kabutops, lightning rod and a 6th pokemon). It's more of a niche than a mainstream team but niches are important to get the meta shifting. Teampreview would actually help a lot because u can hide the information that u use a sun team, while rain/sand is obvious and u see the potential switch ins. Any sun build would have to be rather formulaic as well. Ninetales Venusaur Dugtrio Volcarona / Chandelure / Darmanitan / Blaziken Clefable Bird check, probably Tyranitar

Release the Aggron and get a Tyranitar instead, you won't regret it.

:Cry: The 3HKO tells u that starmie isnt helping against the Triforce (Blissey, Slowbro, Tangrowth) because Psyshock and Softboiled have the same PP so u will get PP stalled and kill yourself because of recoil. I should prolly make a guide for this topic Couple issues... 1) Starmie isn't even a stallbreaker 2) Blissey-Slowbro-Tangrowth gets shredded by Utility Tyranitar, Stallbreaker Hydreigon, Taunt Gliscor, Stallbreaker Talonflame, Stallbreaker Mew, Taunt Gengar among others 3) Chansey - Skarmory - Clefable is way harder to break than the aforementioned core 4) Stealth Rock 5) Stealth Rock 6) Stealth Rock 7) Stealth Rock 8) Spikes

Lmfao 'ban blissey' needs to be a banned post on this subforum for real...

+1, honestly legendaries should be guaranteed to have usable IVs, currently there's hardly any point to even getting them because you'd need to nikola like 15 times just to get a +speed nature and a reasonable speed iv...

would get 6-0'd by excadrill sand, volcarona, kingdra rain, talonflame, clefable, dragonite among others

chlorophyll venusaur is a lot harder to hunt than the other weather sweepers, and sun gets shredded by sand, which is why it's rather uncommon

focus sash dugtrio is bad lol, sand offense teams always have stealth rock, and are good at keeping up offensive pressure to prevent you from spinning. best answer to sand offense is mach punch, second best answer is aqua jet, third best answer is skarmory

17 is too slow, misses a rather important speed benchmark, base 88+ (Offensive Excadrill). As for a set: Lucario @ Life Orb Ability: Justified 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Swords Dance - Close Combat - Extreme Speed - Bullet Punch / Iron Tail / Crunch / Ice Punch

That's a dash, not a negative sign.

Thank you!

Alright, so these are some guides I've had laying around for a while. They were not originally intended to be public, but the metagame on Yellow, especially on the ladder, is so stale that I thought these might spark some small inspiration for you all. I will be resuming work on these soon. Special thanks to all the people who wrote these or helped in any way in QC or Formatting / Grammar checks. These were previously available on my Discord channel (PvP Info Stash). Link: https://discord.gg/w7rpvRD With that aside, here are the entries already done and their authors: Entry 1: Cloyster, written by Anthonyliu: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T53noaUgPzZA8PzyUpdxnoomFaZFoVKqOlpX7a5M2lo/edit?usp=sharing Entry 2: Clefable, written by me: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RskH7GYnzjwMzzqy52fjgn_nrQ_W4PTblkfa2v0-Fso/edit?usp=sharing Entry 3: Milotic, written by Kabanero: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LASUtK0yOtpCQOR3t3UvGMPd94Dy8NEpmDAmq-5FDSs/edit?usp=sharing Entry 4: Excadrill, written by me: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jsJx4ie9yH835JI-rGkmV64SE9_7SL9Kxp1OnJaxyCs/edit?usp=sharing Entry 5: Gliscor, written by Kabanero: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17yMQCK3sJDS1bVaNUUVfVMfJ-_isvP_y14Bi3FuAgME/edit?usp=sharing Entry 6: Salamence, written by MEBZerg: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L8ICaCieshVbRKKqRg_lRG_7O3iKNfvMDo_yil4ukDM/edit?usp=sharing Entry 7: Talonflame, written by George Paul: https://docs.google.com/document/d/183_48JJkRBOweRfpScxMtBm4KoJCVlIFch-pX_TRuvQ/edit?usp=sharing Entry 8: Togekiss, written by Kabanero: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G4hb_pkjfx_uQ6pyT5CyLqOOVcctFVn9ypkp_NUTlsI/edit?usp=sharing Please enjoy :) If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or flames, or would like to help me out with this project, PM me on discord or ingame. Or just post in the Discord channel linked above, someone will probably help you out. Oh, also, Tyranitar should be done sooner or later, so expect that.

Bracket is late. I'm sorry. I've been busy. At least it's ready now... https://challonge.com/prouu2 (better late than never, right?) Round 1 will last one week, deadline 00:00 3/14 PST. Further rounds will more likely than not be shorter, but because of my delay it wouldn't be fair to not give you guys more time as well. Best of luck.

Re: PRO Viability Rankings (PVP) v0.95.9 <r><QUOTE author="Zinsmiter"><s> </e></QUOTE><br/> <br/> and sand teams<e> </e></QUOTE><br/> And Slowbro<e> </e></QUOTE><br/> <br/> knock off tho<br/> <br/> it's mainly that the meta is a lot faster than standard OU, so the 'fastest mons available' aren't stuff like scarf latios etc, but rather rain kingdra and sand drill which blaze still fails to outspeed even at +2</r>

gg all

Re: PRO Viability Rankings (PVP) v0.95.9 <r><QUOTE author="LordNewbie"><s> </e></QUOTE><br/> <QUOTE author="Cosmosis"><s> </e></QUOTE><br/> Because talon. On red at least<e> </e></QUOTE><br/> and rain teams<e> </e></QUOTE><br/> <br/> and sand teams</r>

Registration closed brackets going up soon Edit: Brackets delayed due to technical difficulties Final prize purse: 1st: 3,000,000 2nd: 1,500,000 3rd: 1,000,000 Special thanks to everyone who donated to make this possible <3

its alright *hovers over assigning literally ambipom rank on discord* jk thats for nubs like anthony only :^)

added my hiatus ingame will likely end tmrw

gotcha

Toxic damage on PRO seems to start at 3%, when it in fact should scale 6% 12% 18% 24% etc.

beating players with higher rating than you is easy af if you know what you're doing

i think 50c (=500k on yellow) for a single catch is a little steep, it should probably be 10-30c

Should have ones with a different base color than black imo