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His Empoleon set may have Flash Cannon since Surf and Ice Beam bounce off of Kyurem like nothing. I could see Flip Turn, Roost, Surf, Flash Cannon.

Kingambit was pretty oppressive before Waterpon was dropped into the tier with the much faster Encore. If it wasn't clear from my post, I was suggesting that those 3 would be banned in that order. Wellspring would likely go since Zama is the best initial switch-in to her for many teams out...

If that's how you feel, be prepared for Ogerpon-Wellspring, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon to all be banned with Zamazenta's departure from the tier along with any other destabilizations these bans wil cause. Personally, I do not believe Zamazenta is broken although I do believe it checks a...

It's in the "Smogon Metagames" section of the forum.

Post #48 of the April Usage Tier Update thread.

I'm interested in seeing if Sinistcha's standing in the meta improves with Volcarona gone since Volcarona was one of its biggest counters aside from Blissey and Clodsire. Theoretically, bulky Grass-types and offensive Fairy-types are the biggest winners of a Volcarona ban, and Sinistcha was...

It's a glorious day with Volcarona's ban. Now, the meta can finally improve some more.

Okay, fair enough. Maybe I overreacted to seeing some of those mons in Quadrant 4.

Finchinator, I'm surprised you've listed Primarina, Iron Moth (I know it has amazing offensive coverage and a great speed tier with Booster Energy, but does it really warrant being labelled as broken or unhealthy?), Glimmora, Garganacl, and Deoxys-Speed in the unhealthy and broken quadrant. Do...

I can see the writing on the wall by the way this thread is going. We'll be getting a DNB verdict, and after that, we'll get another survey in a week or two.

Support for acting on Terastalization decreases with every survey among the qualified pool of survey takers, so it's very unlikely. As for Kingambit, it's unlikely it will be suspected again unless several other Pokemon are suspected and banned, such as Gouging Fire, Volcarona...

Pais also talked about keeping Volcarona with the hopes for a Solgaleo unban suspect when you have repeatedly indicated to not theorymon about what happens to the tier after a ban, and given you've ruled out further Uber drops for now, it seems like an attempt to either fish for likes or just...

Iron Valiant was 100% balanced before Volc was dropped back into the tier, and it will remain that way even if Volc gets banned. There is A LOT of counterplay to Iron Valiant.

The support isn't there from the qualified pool of voters, so a Tera Blast ban is off the table. I guess it's your choice, but you'd be praying for tiering action that will never come. If you think Volcarona if problematic with Tera Blast, you should vote to ban Volcarona.

I hope the OU Council is not seriously considering dropping Landorus-Incarnate when the only OU-relevant switch-ins are Blissey and Cresselia, which is not even remotely acceptable as far as defensive counterplay goes. Earth Power, Focus Blast, Sludge Wave, and Tera Blast Ice hits pretty much...