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THIS. Iron Boulder is basically a better Terrakion in all ways except its typing because it takes the frail powerhouse build and turns it up 100x by simply adding more Speed (at the cost of some Attack points). Iron Moth would be a better Volcarona, having similar Special Attack and higher...
Being nitpicky here but Regieleki would probably be able to fit Spin just fine on its sets because 99% of the time it's only attacking from 3 moves (TBolt/VSwitch/Tera Blast), the only other move I'd consider is maybe Protect to scout Band Rillabooms and maybe like a First Impression Lokix...
Nah for April's Fools the play is to do an ORAS Gira-O suspect and finally give the Lugia lovers their mon for the day... or because we kept Gouging do Hearthflame Ogerpon it gets walled
Unfortunately outside of maybe Water guy, none of those would get banned unless the public perception of these shifts drastically in a negative direction over the course of a few months give or take. Community’s too divided so it’s cooked
Nah, that discussion would just lead to the same circle of arguments that have been regurgitated over the past year and have ultimately lead to nothing. Especially in this era of indecisiveness and division in the community, there is literally 0 chance anything would come out of another Tera...
My question now is: with all of the controversial elements existing in the tier like Kyurem and Gouging who have been debated heavily about but will likely not be banned (unfortunately).... is there anything in the tier that the community (not just the minority that puts Kingambit at a 5... me...
Fighting/Electric
Dragon/Poison
Psychic/Fighting
Dragon/Poison is the safest option for making a clearly strong and likely good mon, especially with its priority resistances, but it gets knocked down to my second place because I am simply getting a bit bored of all the Dragons in recent OU...
Koraifraud gets owned by Dachsbun, easy unban for me same with Gouging Fraud. OU community really needs to experiment and think outside the box more, Dachsbun nation rise up :blobpex:
Man, those enjoyment and competitiveness scores are telling. They’re still above half, sure, but it’s clear the threat saturation of the tier is so great even the general playerbase is starting to become tired of it. Luckily we have this year and some to potentially make the meta more playable...