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20 minutes ago, Makarovs said:
Would Shaymin had the same fate if these drops had happened earlier? 3 potential checks for him dropping in the same month right after the review is sad. (No criticism, just a honest question for TC )
I'm pretty sure all 3 of them were in the tier when Shaymin was getting tested. The main change would be Ninetales and Entei imo.
Edit:- Shaymin was banned in July 2023.
- Mandibuzz was UU until January 2024.
- Bronzong was UU until October 2023.
- Salamence was UU until July 2023.
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5 hours ago, Biramontes said:
Hi SIA
Pj in game name: Biramontes
Hours played + 100
Tiers active OU and NU
I'll get back to you shortly. Thanks for your application.
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4 hours ago, Quinn010 said:
Pls respond within 24 hours you online on forums all day otherwise i assume you backout like a uguu
idc
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Like I said on discord, Quinn can be unbanned from Discord. People just need to block him when he abuses Match Ping and not go in my DM to cry about it.
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As spammable as Scared Fire might be, there are still too many Fire Resistant mons available in UU for Entei to be able to lock itself into Sacred Fire freely. There is a decent degree of prediction necessary when playing CB Entei. Locked mons become broken when they do not need to predict like we saw with Choice Spec Hydreigon Draco Meteor in OU that was able to break through steel types despite locking itself into Draco Meteor. Entei doesn't break through most water types with Sacred Fire alone.
@Azphiel Entei is so pathetic that it can't even break through Corsola.- Azphiel and VadimEmpoleon
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On 2/20/2024 at 4:08 PM, DoctorPBC said:
All EIGHT selected managers will be required to submit a 5m holding fee. This fee will be held to ensure managers do not bail on their teams, sabotage their teams or participate in UN-competitive behavior. Otherwise this holding fee will be returned at the end of PSL season 16
Since I don't see it mentionned in the thread, I'm adding it here to make sure the potential managers know.
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1 hour ago, Laughs said:
Magcargo has never been a OU mon while sand rush excadrill has been part of OU since it was introduced. Nice strawman?
So what? Milotic was OU, one year ago. Should we go out of our way to make it viable again? No. It doesn't matter if Excadrill Sand Rush was relevant now, 1 year ago, 10 years ago. Who cares?
1 hour ago, Laughs said:As for the volcarona discussion, i'm glad you can list almost the same things I did. Unhealthy and having counters/checks aren't the same thing. Like I said, you are forced to run one of these very few counters if you don't want to auto lose to volcarona. Smogon has banned volcarona in the past and is considering doing a suspect test for it's current meta and guess what? Their meta have more answers to it than ours. Again, my issue is with dugtrio making this list even smaller, volcarona was just an example of what it enables to unhealthy levels.
You are forced to run things, you would normally play anyways. I'm sorry that doesn't sound like unhealthy. There are plenty of arguments as to why Dugtrio should be banned. The argument that it makes stuff unhealthy like Volcarona and Togekiss (in the past) has never been weaker.
If you want to argue that Dugtrio is unhealthy, you need to argue that there are numerous mons that would be very healthy for OU but are unviable to a significant degree because of Dugtrio. Tyranitar has not been shown to be healthy for OU or unviable in OU because of Dugtrio, so that would be an awful example.Excadrill Sand Rush is a good start. However, why is that mon healthy for OU exactly? Dugtrio might be one of the reasons why Excadrill Sand Rush is not viable, but Excadrill has way bigger problems than Dugtrio in the OU meta (Gliscor / Rotom-W).
You would imo make a stronger case as to why Dugtrio is unhealthy by looking at mons like Tentacruel, Toxicroak, Empoleon, Ninetales, Nidoking, Nidoqueen or Raikou by explaining why such mons would be healthy for our meta, but can't be played for the most part because of Dugtrio. For instance, you could say: ''Amoongus is cancer, Rain teams are a plague, Volcarona is problematic, Tentacruel would help vs all these archetypes, but unfortunetly Tentacruel is meh in OU mainly because of Dugtrio. Tentacruel is also punished by mons like Ferrothorn, but since Tentacruel can be naturally paired with Magnezone, those weaknesses can be dealt with during teambuilding. However, since Magnezone is also weak to Dugtrio, there is simply no viable way to play Tentacruel competitively right now.'' This is just an example. I don't believe half of what I just said (Magnezone is not particularly healthy imo, I don't think Volcarona or Rain teams are problematic), but that's how you could show Dugtrio as unhealthy in PokeMMO by doing that with multiple mons relevant to multiple playstyles.
1 hour ago, Laughs said:Smogon has banned volcarona in the past and is considering doing a suspect test for it's current meta and guess what? Their meta have more answers to it than ours. Again, my issue is with dugtrio making this list even smaller, volcarona was just an example of what it enables to unhealthy levels.
No one cares what Smogon did. Their decisions (good or bad) mean nothing in PokeMMOs metas and certainly do not set any precedent we need to follow or recognize. -
29 minutes ago, Laughs said:
Doesn't say much when most of the Ttar users are stall players doing scarf ttar stall.
30 minutes ago, Laughs said:hence why you barely see [AV TTar] once you reach 800s
You present these statements as facts when they are clearly not. Ttar remains very viable over 800s and in tournaments. Ttar is also played outside of stall teams, actually stall is most likely the playstyle that uses TTar the least.
34 minutes ago, Laughs said:Now a sand team using excadrill? You've got two deadweight mons vs dugtrio stall, good luck getting any wins when half the top 100 are running dugtrio.
It's not because Dugtrio can ruin Magcargo that Magcargo is not played more in OU. There are many many reasons why Magcargo is not played more in OU and the same goes with Excadrill Sand Rush.
45 minutes ago, Laughs said:Volcarona is unhealthy for this meta game not because it doesn't have hard counters but because when paired with dugtrio
As for this, Volcarona + Dugtrio is not unhealthy. There are plenty of answers to Volcarona in OU that do not fear Dugtrio:
- Dugtrio itself
- Defensive or Offensive Dragonite Multiscale (still works vs hp ice)
- Chansey / Blissey
- Gyarados
- Rain Teams (Pelipper + w.e)
- Garchomp Scarf
- AV Gallade
- Conkeldurr
- Chandelure
- Mienshao Scarf or AV
- Mandibuzz
You can also play plenty of lower tier mons that will also deal with Volcarona, I was just listing the ones in OU not weak to Dugtrio.
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1 hour ago, Laughs said:(sand) is unplayable
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7 hours ago, caioxlive13 said:
And i'm still waiting for @Doctor to show the rolls where Gallade will get a KO on 1,5x Sharpness that it wouldn't on 1,4x Sharpness. He sayed that 6,7% rolls make difference and i want to see the difference. Just a reminder, absolutely 0 people claimed 1,3x Sharpness Gallade or 1,4x Sharpness Gallade was broken.
Who the fuck cares? Even if someone bothers to show you thousand of calcs where Sharpness 1.5 gets KOs that 1.4 doesn't get, it would still not matter. If tomorrow Seismic Toss goes from 50 dmg to 100 dmg, it would still not KO anything, but everyone would complain that the move is broken.
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Please clear up the following allegation.
QuoteDo you have an alt called zPau?
Did you acquire information about VOW as zPau that you leaked to the teams VOW faced during TCL Season 3?
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1 hour ago, Parke said:
I've had a few people ask me about Swords Dance chomp and whether or not it's viable for this seasonal finals.
I'm going to go ahead and allow it to be used because there's a few days still for people to prepare, and people that already own Garchomps can just teach it, so it doesnt require rebreed or anything as it's easily accessable. So yeah, Swords Dance Garchomp is allowed.
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On 2/12/2024 at 12:52 AM, zhxq said:
You're always so arrogant.
You didn't do anything at Christmas, not even the Starlight Hat. It's like a child who can't turn in their homework, and it's hard not to think about what they were doing some time ago.
Maybe they got lazy, maybe something happened in their life, maybe they don't care, it doesn't really matter what's their reason because they don't owe you anything. This game is free to play. Enjoy.
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7 hours ago, caioxlive13 said:
Want to ask what happened to gallade suddently be broken now.
14 minutes ago, caioxlive13 said:Gallade isn't exactly broken due to how our meta are right now.
You're asking a question, but you're unwilling to accept the answers given to you because you feel you know better. You're not looking for answers, you're looking for people to argue with. If you already know the answers to your own questions, stop wasting our time.
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Devs decided to buff Sharpness back to x1.5 as indicated in the last update patch notes. TC had nothing to do with it.
PSL XVI Feedback and suggestions for next PSL
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Posted · Edited by gbwead
What bothers me the most is when a team has no shot of going to playoffs, but still has to play 1, 2 or 3 weeks left. That's fundamentally fucked imo. No one wants to play when they are already out. Eliminated managers usually bench their best players to give a chance to their noobs to make a name for themselves. I don't blame them, but it's unfair to all the previous opponents that had to fight try hard players that are afterwards replaced with meh players.
We had different systems to make sure this does not happen:
This year Doc decided to have only 4 teams going to playoffs, but created the underdog fund as an incentive for eliminated teams to keep trying. It's not a bad idea, we'll see how it goes. Anyhow, it's important for the host to choose a format that makes it unlikely for a team to be eliminated prior to the end of the regular season.