Recent content by Finchinator

To be clear, I view your entire post as "overly semantic" and it is sad that this type of discourse cannot be divorced from regular metagam banter. Your underlying point about "central threats" is right to the mere definition, but not everything needs to be a fight just to make any given point...

Yea, this is why I avoid posting fun things like this in metagame discussion (which is funny considering half the posts here are shitposts/funny posts, and they tend to go by without any issue). People always take it as some larger tiering statement, despite precursors saying it is not, because...

Nothing is being redefined. I implore you to read my posts rather than just take in the graph. Really the only damning correlation would be in the back-half of the broken quadrants, and even then it is much harder to make an argument on stuff like Pult/Gamb/Zama right now. And my opinions on...

Hatterene is an annoying motherfucker with the CM set, but oftentimes feels more idealistic than actually capable of sweeping. It can encounter an untimely Ruination from Lu or SD from Gliscor rather than Spikes a ton, for example. I find it best with Grassy Seed on terrain teams lowkey, but...

Overall, I totally see why from afar something being "healthy" and "broken" would clash, RS25802580 -- I just think informal plotting charts like these are not exactly tiering declarations so much as they are just clarifying where things stand in relation to each other and metagame norms. Maybe...

I mean it at very least partially answered it -- you should not be assigning actual tiering weight to health. With this in mind: Every tier needs some degree of centralization to have identity -- look at every past OU...you have things like Latios in BW or Magearna in SM or Weavile/Dragapult...

Did you read the text in the post or just take a look at the graph? " Terms like "unhealthy" are far less formal and more "vibes" based than anything else "

Specs Kyurem, among the other sets, is very good. It needs support, but look at the amount of damage it does on average. And there are multiple good teams with it. Arguing it’s not good is really a non-starter in serious discussions. It’s one of the better sets one of the most threatening Pokemon.

Ting Lu is pretty dumb for offense as Ruination is super free and it takes so little from everything, meaning it can set 'em up and Whirl things out without being disrupted earlier in games a lot. It will never be banned and is mostly balanced, but my placement just reflects a "yea, it's...

Really think Moon has settled down nicely with the abundance of priority and stuff like Sticky Barb Clef, Avalanche Dondozo, etc. -- it is still comfortably on the broken side and, as I alluded in my post, "health" is more arbitrary and vibes based, so yea

I mean they’re p close to the center aside from Primarina, which has been a concern for quite a few people just in terms of switching in. There is kind of a perfect storm in the metagame for Primarina rn between typing and offensive presence, but even then I wouldn’t ban it lol Think things...

Comparing Volcarona to any other Pokemon (be it a prior OU mainstay or Uber) is an act in futility. Volcaona is nothing like SM Magearna or any other Pokemon to touch OU. It posesses a unique profile and I think arguing otherwise is misinformed or overly generalizing things. I do not think any...

Made this after some others brought up their template in the Trainer Aid discord the other day. Figured it would be cool to share so people could see roughly how I view the tier -- obviously this is very rough, unofficial, etc. Terms like "unhealthy" are far less formal and more "vibes" based...

won for last round, ggs