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Greedent has Belly Drum with two abilities that mitigate the HP cost. It's not an OU thing in the slightest, but it's something.

Why are the tapu back, why is SWSH's best idea being undone, what was the point of dexit?

There's also Pokemon with Flying STABs, Pokemon with stat-up moves, Pokemon with both, Pokemon that can benefit from the weather or terrains, tanks, it's probably easier to list the Pokemon that don't break Dynamaxing. It's the fossils because max geyser and max lightning are weaker. But they...

I've seen a few people post that stall will rule if dynamax gets banned and I wonder how. You notice none of those guys resist dark or ghost? Rotom-H runs wild on three of them, and doesn't really care what corsola does and can strip its eviolite, like, man, if Dynamax is the only idea you...

How is dynamaxing in doubles? So much of the discussion centers around singles, so it's hard to get a read on how it works here. I'm hesitant to really get into 8th gen until the dust settles around such a big mechanic.

I didn't see it in the OP or through skimming the thread, is there a dump of the trial totems' stats? Knowing exactly how fast Araquanid is would make coming up with plans and helping people a lot easier.

It can't even consistently OHKO Aerodactyl-1. 252+ Atk Tough Claws Metagross-Mega Bullet Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Aerodactyl: 152-180 (98 - 116.1%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO Manectric-4 and Entei-3 resist it. It barely chips a third off of Garchomp-3 and Staraptor-2. Terrakion-2 takes 80% of its...

Hawlucha for S. Like in X/Y it just shows up as automatically the best guy around, and that's even with me forgetting to teach it Bounce. The Flyinium-Z helps out every flying-type, but Hawlucha is better than most. Only problem is that it lacks a bit of oomph until it gets High Jump Kick...

I'm kinda miffed Stakataka is so slow, because I thought I was on a breakthrough with Crabominable since it has Thunder Punch now, and here's a thing with a Rock STAB and 30 less base speed. The hell is Crabominable doing with 43? I'll have to continue the arms race and run something with 10...

Marshadow's a ghost, so you need even more specialized Fake Out at that. Marshadow's also the fastest ghost besides Mega Gengar, faster than every Psychic but Deoxys and Mega Alakazam, every Fairy but Tapu Koko, and only a few fliers outpace it. It's really hard to hit it with STAB super...

Nearly every discussion of some potentially broken thing seems to include the caveat of Jirachi support. The thing is just way too good at redirecting and there's no good way to punish it. It can barely survive Aegislash's Shadow Ball and Hoopa-U's Hyperspace Fury. With max HP and 275 special...

I like using Wailmer around Seafolk Village/Poni Wilds for HP EV training, since they sometimes call Wailord who have a higher yield, but that requires getting one below level 29 so it doesn't know Rest, and some way of protecting my guy from Water Pulse's confuse like Substitute. I may just be...

The point is to get Beast Boost to hit speed. One more point in defense means that gets hit instead, which doesn't snowball nearly as hard.

Celesteela's around, one base speed faster, and beats the hell out of it while barely taking any damage back. 0 Atk Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 56 HP / 200 Def Sylveon: 288-338 (83.4 - 97.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+ SpA Choice Specs Pixilate Sylveon Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 6 SpD...

Torkoal -> 4 Dumb li'l turtle getting Drought means it's like Zard-Y for Trick Room, but because it gets Eruption and has a free item slot, its spread move hits harder. 252+ SpA Charizard-Mega-Y Heat Wave vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Landorus-Therian in Sun: 267-315 (83.6 - 98.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+...

Everything and its grandmother got Reflect in RBY. If the format weren't so special-slanted and it were on later-gen things that could spare a move slot for Reflect, this'd be big news.

Ah, last I checked I thought it was with the assumption that the stones would be available at the same time too. Granted this was back around Thanksgiving. I'm still wondering about Megas and TR since the only really slow ones are tanks like Slowbro instead of offensive like Abomasnow or...

I use a Kyurem-W since it gets OHKOs on everything and gets around Sturdies. It's pretty fast at it.