Recent content by Ghoul King

Poison Fang is a 50% chance of Toxic. That's not small. You might be thinking of its pre-Gen VI behavior, where it was 30%. The fact that no one runs Toxic on Scizor in OU is a specious comparison I can't begin to figure out a good answer to because it's obviously nonsense. Follow The Leader...

Sheer Force is not Nidoqueen or Nidoking's only Ability. Generally best, yes, but not only. Also, if for some reason you run Mega Scizor and want it able to drop Toxic on things, Poison Fang is only slightly weaker than Poison Jab thanks to Technician. Mega Scizor's typing is much less...

Well, yes, but if it works like that Follow Me is irrelevant to the point. I'm not sure why you'd run High Jump Kick over Close Combat. Mega Lopunny runs High Jump Kick because A: Scrappy means Ghost switch-ins aren't a problem for it and B: it can't actually run Close Combat. 130 BP is such a...

I'm not, and I'm not sure why you think I am. But yeah, Quick Guard Talonflame is one of Trick Room's best options for forcing the matter. Gotta make sure you have a Wide Guard in back and correctly predict how the enemy will lead, but Talonflame is too fast for any Fake Out user (Bar an...

I'm plenty chill. I'm just puzzled as to why you're re-iterating "Bring Quick Guard to deal with Fake Out" when A: part of my statement was you can deal with such Trick Room teams without priority at all and B: Quick Guard is not remotely a reliable answer to Fake Out stopping you setting Trick...

I'm not sure you really read my post in full. Part of my point was that spread move spam backed by Feint ignores the entire issue entirely -Quick Guard is no protection. Worse, Quick Guard is only +3 priority. You can actually Fake Out the Quick Guarder. (Or ignore the Quick Guarder entirely...

Nidoking also has Thrash, which can be useful for things like rampaging via Mega Pinsir or Mega Altaria. I actually missed that Nidoqueen has Skull Bash, Poison Fang, and Bite over Nidoking. Skull Bash is pretty irrelevant, but Poison Fang can be used to push Toxic onto Magic Bounce 'mons if...

Follow Me is actually only +2 priority, so Fake Out (+3 priority) can be used to either prevent the Follow Me and free up other attackers to do their thing or block the Trick Room drop if the dropper isn't a Ghost type. (Or if you're running Mega Lopunny, even if it is a Ghost type) Riolu is the...

A lot of Balanced Hackmons staples are heavily reliant on carrying a fairly specific item, and a lack of Leftovers triggering or the like is liable to be a pretty clear signal that you're carrying a Z-Move, in those cases where a Pokemon tends to just throw on Leftovers or whatever for lack of a...

Nidoqueen has Crunch, Pursuit, Aerial Ace, Charm, and I guess Leer over Nidoking. If you don't care about those, Nidoking will usually be better, because it has some Physical moves Nidoqueen doesn't and its Special movepool is 100% superior, but Crunch, Pursuit, and with the right allies Aerial...

It got banned from Mix and Mega and from No Guard Galaxy because you can hax past any non-Ghost check with some luck, and Ghosts aren't good enough to wall Dynamic Punch abusers when they include stuff like Conkeldurr with a hideously powerful Knock Off. No Guard isn't broken or uncompetitive...

One of the more interesting things about Blue is that it has two Unaware walls that are actually fairly complimentary and, with the appropriate stats, quite competent -Quagsire and Swoobat. It has a number of solid leaders for bolstering their bulk, too. Probably the overall strongest at...

Shedinja is not in the current banlist. Is this intended? ----------------- Some things I find interesting: Black can use Snorlax to almost directly upgrade Dusknoir. 0 Atk Mew Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Dusknoir: 108-128 (36.7 - 43.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO 0 Atk Mew Knock Off...

Clefairy actually does have Seismic Toss. It can't be Friend Guard and carrying Seismic Toss, because it gets Seismic Toss from Gen III, but Magic Guard Clefairy is what you're mentioning here anyway so it's not actually a problem to your idea. The bigger problem is that Eviolite is banned.

I'm not sure why Blaziken/Mega Blaziken are being discussed as potential unbans. No, Speed Boost doesn't raise its Speed anymore, but now Bulk Up/Work Up is Dragon Dance and then Speed Boost brings it up to +2 Attack, and keeps raising it every turn it stays in murdering things. That's pretty...