Recent content by Isa Simple

Now that the meta has finally settled a bit and there's no intention on retesting Magic Guard any time soon, I can finally throw some thoughts towards the VR! First of all I want to recommend adding a bunch of pokemon to the VR that are currently unranked, but boast one of the best abilities in...

Honestly I'm really disappointed with how this meta has been run and the direction it is going, with people's logic and reasoning to find new bans and unbans becoming increasingly ill-informed. Yes balance is important but so if fun, and we were pretty close to both not that long ago but now...

Nice to see the Good Cores resource coming into existence. I'd been thinking it'd be a better resource here than most and is honestly imo more useful than the Sample Teams. Pretty good start to it too. Only obvious things missing off the top of my head are some of the stronger special attacking...

Personally I'm happy that we're suspecting Multiscale and Sturdy > Magic Guard. Sure Magic Guard makes the former two as strong as they are so it's a two birds one stone sort of thing, but if Magic Guard is banned those abilities will just be run with Magic Bounce, and no, forcing every team to...

I think that we can all be quite happy with the way the meta is looking atm. Skill Link may seem strong right now, but I do believe that given another few days the meta will have adapted to it and shifted again. I've been quite impressed with how dynamic this meta is and how quickly it can...

Just sticking my head in again now that I can confidently say that Stall is far better than people give it credit for. I know it's early days so not the most impressive feat but peaking the ladder certainly proves that it is a viable strategy. Also my win rate is actually far more impressive...

Unfortunately as opposed to previous instalments of Inheritance, I haven't had the time to test and fine tune many teams to actually consider properly laddering, and have used my limited time to simply test off meta and fun/cheesy sets to try and be a little innovative. With that in mind, here...

However not the greatest mon in the tier and somewhat difficult to build around, people need to stop sleeping on the epic utility provided by Tapu Fini and more importantly Misty Surge. People are becoming increasingly cautious of the strength that Status Boosting abilities provide, such as...

Echoing a lot of what Yung Dramps has said, but sticking to Blace ban. Chandelure was only ever D because it was completely outclassed by Blacephalon. I'd move it all the way up to B- with the sets (Torkoal, Nidoking, Nowctowl, Clefable, Gourgeist), for it's ability to put extreme pressure on...

Through my obsession with using Tyrogue Bewear, I've found that a bunch of stall builds have a lot of trouble taking super powerful Fighting type hits such as Guts or Reckless boosted High Jump Kick, so using that knowledge I've been trying to find a super strong Fighting type wall breaker. I...

Tyrantrum (Terrakion) @ Fightinium Z Ability: Rock Head EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Head Smash - Superpower - Earthquake - Dragon Dance Personally this is my favourite Head Smash Terrakion set. If you can get up a Dragon Dance it's capable of putting a bunch of pressure...

I'm sceptical about the Darkrai unban. I was actually scanning through and thinking about potential unbans just yesterday and considered Darkrai. What I noticed however was that there is actually quite a low base speed tier in this meta, and a shallow pool of reliable Dark type checks. This...

Steelix @ Life Orb Ability: Sheer Force EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD Modest Nature - Earth Power - Flash Cannon - Stealth Rock - Toxic Sorry I thought I heard someone say Tapu Koko. 252 SpA Choice Specs Tapu Koko Hidden Power Fire vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Steelix: 98-116 (27.6 - 32.7%) --...

Multiscale isn't half as mandatory as you make it out to be. There are multiple other ability cores to create the foundation of a useable stall team that is able to take hits. The most difficult thing for stall is actually ending a game against opposing stall or bulky teams with abilities such...

To chime in on the Hydreigon situation, I believe that it is worthy of C+ largely due to the merit of its Dark typing. Having a strong Dark type is quite crucial in this meta to put a hard stop to opposing Prankster and Stored Power / Power Trip shenanigans. Hydreigon also has far better...