epicdavenport

300k for a NU match good? Just got to find a time when my kid is sleeping.

Chill with the team, pvp, make weird comps.

There's plenty of ways to acquire the money to breed faster and easier as well to just straight up buy comp pokes. If you want a team of full 5x31 pokes it's going to be difficult/costly. There's cheaper ways like going for 28s and 30s instead of all 31s.

It honestly depends on stats and what you want it to do. Pvp happens at level 50 which means with no nature or ev investment a 30 and 31 are the same stat. That obviously changes with one or the other. I usually breed for 2x31s and 3x30s, the 31s going to what ever stats I find most important. But going as low as 27 or 28 on a iv is only a 2-3 stat difference and can be barely noticed on things like fast attackers that can't take many hits anyway. Sweepers are fine with 28/31/28/x/28/31 ( apply the same to special attack ). A pokemon that wants to be defensive is fine with 31/x/31/x/28/x ( apply for special or if you want speed and attack ). I've seen some of the best players in the game use some pretty terrible iv pokemon before.

So maintenance update with zero new content. How does this effect the current meta?

@Kyu Is the maintenance in preparation for the expected flow in of players for whenever the event drops or just routine?

Blaziken has been touched on several times but has still yet to get its own discussion thread. Any tier council members care to share their views of it? Even if none see it as a issue you can't deny that it isn't meta defining/warping.

NU having a more offensive meta can be attributed to the high usage of Blaziken. As both of us said there aren't many counters to it meaning it's better to try and hit it first. I haven't read up on the classifications lately but doesn't this qualify as a offensive Uber? It's literally turned itself into a benchmark of the tier that if you don't pass you're likely going to lose.

I wouldn't mind Blaziken moving up for a month or 2 to see how the meta not only changes but warped around it. I don't know anyone that makes a NU team and doesn't think about how to counter Blaziken. It's stab coverage hits the tier pretty hard and NU has limited options to be solid counters to it. Not to mention outside of the extremely common scarf set you can be caught off guard by a band or orb set and be 2 shot even on bulkier Pokemon. In conclusion you either have to guarantee you're faster or run one of the few pokes that resist both it's stabs. Also can't be burned.

Is there any kind of teaser or hints about the pve or pvp features you feel comfortable sharing at the moment?

As far as I know most if not all of this info is already present in game for the players to utilize. Pokemon locations as well as rarity in each location is listed in their dex entry, upcoming tournaments can be viewed as well as past tourneys, prices our found via the gtl and the devs even added color codes to show when something is normal or abnormally priced.

Steelix, a fighting type like hitmonchan or top, rhydon/golem, poliwrath, drapion, eviolite magneton or gurdurr.

Venusaur does not have chlorophyll. It does have the superior physical bulk though.

Generally depends on the pokemon and what it does best. Like bulkier pivots or walls will focus on HP and it's better defensive stats ( some do opposite like Chansey ). Slower/bulky attackers generally focus on hp and it's preferred attack stat since it won't out speed much anyway. Some people will put a small amount into speed just to make sure theirs is faster than other.

If anything I think Blaziken is more deserving of a thread than Ambipom. For the past 6 months it's been the most used poke in NU by a consistent 10% and definitely shapes the tier around it.

Not sure if it's been suggested yet but the game could really use a female counterpart for male only pokes. Like the Nidoking and queen change ( example: making a miltank male would make a Tauros ). It's a simple change that would effect pvp and make these pokes not ludicrously priced vs the other mons surrounding them.

That's pretty much what I said. Slaking beats it but is a terrible option and there are other choices but it limits your team just to out speed and one shot a single poke.

There are options to out speed and one shot but they make you go out of your way to plan for this one mon and limit the effectiveness of yours. The worst example I can think of is scarf slaking and like I said that's the worst since it's set up fodder itself.

Quagsire and Golurk should both hard counter Electrode. One isn't even effected by explosion and the other has water absorb to face down the likely ensuing Feraligatr. Electrode could run hp grass but then it would miss out on one of it's more useful moves.

It still doesn't have above 3% usage like you stated but with Venusaur moving up Whimsicott has better chances of survival and being used.

Not to mention most of NUs crit users have terrible bulk except drapion ( not the greatest special bulk though ). Absol and Honchkrow both have to worry about explosion or volt switch. Relying on a non 100% sucker punch crit to counter something makes for terrible play. Neither for nor against Electrode moving down just helping present information.

It's definitely a strong choice but I feel like there are currently things that still wall it well mostly in Poliwrath. Venusaur could come in for a revenge kill if it's faster but 1 dragon dance allows ice punch to one shot if Feraligatr is holding life orb. +1 252 Atk Life Orb Feraligatr Ice Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Venusaur: 169-200 (109 - 129%) -- guaranteed OHKO Anybody can obviously go with a more physically defensive Venu but then it'll lack the power and speed it favors instead.

Venusaur feels like a great move to me. It's range of damage and support sets made pokemon like Blaziken more difficult to deal with. Something like Vileplume will probably take it's place but it isn't as bulky or fast. Edit: I don't feel the same about the Toxicroak movement as it makes a decent counter to a few things in the NU tier namely Sharpedo and Feraligatr. Poliwrath fills a similar spot to this but lacks the power for easier KOs that croak has and leans more toward a stall/bulky set up.

With it looking like Gligar's percentage will sit around 6.90 to 7.00 will it move back to UU? If so it's another loss of a solid choice against Blaziken.

Johto is tomorrow, not hidden abilities. But in all seriousness they are likely still working on the implementation of them ( I hope... ). More than likely their implementation still won't be for a long time but they have been very silent lately so one can hope.