Recent content by jmcdavid

Another thing to consider about Bulu Vs Boom. Bulu takes 4x damage from Poison. Boom only takes 2x. Yeah, considering the amount of pure raw damage double weaknesses tend to cause, I'm thinking my response to which one to go with is to say, "OK, Boomer."

Welp...with the trailer for the Expansion Pass establishing the return of Talonflame, I honestly find myself wondering if we need to reassess this mon. Talonflame definitely outspeeds Corviknight, and it has access to Flare Blitz...of course, it also takes 4x damage from Stealth Rock...

Okay...with the Expansion Pass bringing back Talonflame, along with a whole bunch of other Pokemon, we might need to reevaluate Rillaboom's checks and counters. December might see it drop a tier or two.

Well, I guess after the Expansion Pass gives us The Crown Tundra in December, we're going to be seeing quite a bit less of this!

Hold up...has anyone tried a battle between Toxtricity and Steelix? Yes, I know Steelix is currently RU, but unless Toxtricity has a way to get around its typing, I believe it would be completely shut down if they got into a match. Steel completely shuts down Poison, and Ground shuts down...

Honestly, I feel like Drum Beating should be practically mandatory. One or two uses, and the Speed debuffs on the enemy will make it easy to outspeed the enemy Pokemon..

Okay, people, I need to mention something. I managed to get Diancie during the event. The thing is...it's embarrassing, but I haven't picked up the Mystery Gift, simply because I know from experience that I'd probably have to spend a whole day doing it with soft resets to get it with a good...

Let's not forget Megacham, who has only the wallbreaker niche to give it something it can do that Mega Gallade can't do.

But that's just the thing. Because it's so damned situational, it's not always going to be possible to exploit that niche. And without that, Mega Medicham is hopelessly outclassed all around.

Going to revive the old controversy. Besides better bulk and coverage options, even when you factor in Megacham's Huge Power ability, Mega Gallade STILL has a higher BST. So yeah, I think we might as well stick a fork in Mega Medicham, because it's outclassed in every way.

Let's not forget that Intimidate works right away, and only special attackers, Hyper Cutter, Clear Body, and possibly Magic Bouncers wouldn't have anything to fear from it. Moxie requires that Gyarados be able to get that first KO, which sometimes can be that bit difficult to do.

Um, I'm pretty sure you're forgetting Mega Ampharos, which, while it has a base 45 Speed, can fix it up through Agility, thus warranting running 252 Speed EVs there as well.

Gotcha.

You know, it might be a good idea to discuss priority, which M-Gallade arguably could use on a speed tier that's fairly dicey. Would it be a good idea to make sure it knows Shadow Sneak, which IMO is its only available priority move? Or would it be smarter to not even bother?

I've gotta say, I totally get why Return is mandatory. Besides the STAB, how does it evolve from Buneary? Through high friendship. So by the time you're able to get its other mandatory STAB at level 66, you'll presumably have already evolved it by then. After that, you can totally spam it...