codylramey

I believe that team preview should be an option along with changeable leads. With the changes in the meta a lot of threats can pose different types of threat to a team. Cb heracross can be threatened by differnt things than swift band one. Also threats that were already scary are even scarier such as gyaradose. You can keep gyara in your back pocket until the opponent's counter/check is gone and bring it out, which is a fine strategy sure but with team preview you can run much more shakey counters to things like gyara, such as ludicolo, and know to keep it healthy meaning there are less restrictions on team building

Where is the neither option on the poll?

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It was the topic of complex banning all together.

the goal of what i was doing was different tho.

I 100% agree with this. I would for 2 months bc you know... mmo. But we have already had laxless meta b4 so ppl have pokes for it already assuming a lot of the old comp players stuck around so a month might be good. Its certainly better than nothing.

Rhydon hates toxic more than bslam para. Not saying he cant do well against chansey, there are just better options. Also more options that can fit a wider variety of teams better.

As far as i know the thread is up so we can continue the discussion. A decision has been made but its still possible for a ban in the future. Also you can have things to deal with a pokemon but it doesnt mean they fit well in ou w/o that pokemon. Rhydon sees very little usuage w/o lax around. I know i dont like running one or two pokemon for one threat.

It becomes an attack when you assumed that he is only defending lax because he uses it in every match and cant live without it. Had you simply said he uses lax in every match then it would have just been truth, but still rather irrelevant to the conversation.

Oh nice, i get to continue to have a life \O/

Honestly if it wasnt for the bslam para lax wouldnt be that bad to deal with. If it wasnt for how hard he hits he also wouldnt be that hard to deal with. If it wasnt for his bulk he wouldnt be that hard to deal with. If it wasnt for his access to curse he wouldnt be that hard to deal with. You take any of these things away and lax isnt broken. But think about it for a second, what are snorlaxes main weaknesses? He is physically squishy and he has a low speed. But he can negate his speed problem with parahax. He can negate the fact that parahax is only 30% with his ability to switch in on most any non-physical pokemon pretty much guaranteeing a para on something. And he can negate his physical squishyness with curse. What other pokemon do you know has the ability to negate all of its weaknesses the way lax does? To put the icing on the cake, he easily rests off any status due to his high health allowing him to switch into anything that doesnt hit like a cannon and he cant even be poisoned to help wear him down.

I felt a lot more freedom when building a team back in chansey meta than i did right b4 i left. The biggest problem was gyaradose which isnt that big of a problem. Side note: I use to deal with chansey with trick, is that not an effective way of dealing with lax?

Remember the sooner you ban snorlax the sooner i come back. Gunthug you know you want it.

Who are you? Also im w8ing to see if lax gets banned b4 i return. He made OU no fun for me.

It would be good if that happened bc that would lessen chanseys stayability which makes her a lot less cancer than she normally is. Also it would make ppl think twice about running trap mons.

Are people actually running shed she'll on chansy

Laxless meta was imo one of the healthiest metas. We only got to see a little bit of laxless meta with orb, scarf, specs b4 the ubers came in and i only played a little bit of the lax meta tou guys are in now but from what i saw OU is a lot better off w/o lax.

p2 and gard can both switch in on and kill jolt easily. Venue makes pretty light work of him alos (although idk if he has lifeball how he does). Espy and zam are usually pretty well taken care of by umbreon if no signal beam or metagross if no hidden power. They are also pursuit trapped. All of them can becked by a scarf physical attacker. Miltank and arcanine can somewhat come in on these things and threaten them too. Thats with out even mentioning chansey.

Yo i would like to take a second to applaud Gunthug for this post. It is much more professional than the posts new people to tiering use to see from the TC. As for snorlax, i had always thought that the meta where chansey ruled the scene was much more healthy than snorlax. Even if chanseys usage was just as high, or maybe even higher, team building didnt suffer as much imo. Where with snorlax, if you were going to build a team that can deal with everything lax can throw at you you would dedicate half your team to just dealing with lax.

If snorlax is a problem, and he was b4 i left imo, and you dont need him in the meta, which ive seen the meta w/o lax it wasnt bad, then ban him. No need to discuss a complex ban.

I havent been in the game in FOREVER. But i am curious do you guys feel like you need snorlax in the meta in order to keep it balanced/avoid an avalanche of bans? (Btw avoiding a avalanche of bans isnt a reason to keep a pokemon in a tier i was just curious about this one)

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Thank you JJ. She offered her men for the battle of the bastards, she was there with snow when meeting ramsey before the battle and just stared at him with the "I will fucking kill you myself" face, she pretty much anointed snow the king of the north. What other 12 year old do you know that has the power to get entire houses to follow her lead with just a speech?

I vote lady mormont for MVP of the season. Anyone agree?

This goes out to anyone who talks about how fast the characters move around. What if, instead of everything happening at the same time, each plot line is set in a different time and time speeds up or slows down for them as needed. Im going to put my example in a spoiler. I mean you kind of have to assume that the time lines of each plot point dont exactly line up, otherwise it would be impossible to tell each characters story side by side w/o dedicating entire episodes to travel/not having the characters in them. That or you can just accept that the show has to put holes in the timelines in order to tell everyones story while not spoiling anything too soon and having all of the players in the right place at the right time.