[OU Discussion] Snorlax [Test banned]

[pachima]

33 minutes ago, Spaintakula said:

Just use focus energy machamp for curselax

hm.... now that I think of it

Edited November 8, 2016 by pachima
Kiing.

[soyhector]

On 5/10/2016 at 5:57 PM, RysPicz said:

A Tasty Cep

Semi- Finals: LifeStyle vs SoyHector

What are you talking about? O.o

[Draekyn]

I bet anti-lax ppl voted Trump

[Torinnnnn]

11 minutes ago, Draekyn said:

I bet anti-lax ppl voted Trump

true

[Rendiz]

1 hour ago, Draekyn said:

I bet anti-lax ppl voted Trump

Snorlax is a wall. Trump likes walls.

 

anti-lax people = anti-wall

 

Therefor the anti-lax people voted Hillary.

[epicdavenport]

13 minutes ago, Rendiz said:

Snorlax is a wall. Trump likes walls.

 

anti-lax people = anti-wall

 

Therefor the anti-lax people voted Hillary.

Na

[Tyrone]

Snorlax is test banned to verify whether or not its presence in OU has an unhealthy impact on the metagame:

 

• The TC expects that, by removing Snorlax from OU, the tier will open up as we will see more diversity than before. The TC wants a creative OU environment where the meta evolves and where players are not restricted to play generic cores.
• The TC expects to see a more evenly spread usage table where we see less pokemon with 25%+ usage and more pokemon with 15%+ usage.
• The TC expects to see less uncompetitive strategies.
• The TC expects that, if Chansey’s usage sky rockets, players will be able to handle this blob in a swiftly fashion.
• The TC expects that an increase in cleric’s viability will not automatically make offense and balance play styles any less viable.

 

Snorlax is quite centralising to a problematic extant; OU players bring several checks to handle Snorlax and sometimes this is still not enough. The momentum loss from a Body Slam paralysis proc is usually irrecoverable - especially since Snorlax punishes severely the use of Clerics. CurseLax' sweeping potential requires very specific answers that Snorlax can surprise with its versatile moveset possibilities. Pursuit Lax is a nightmare for a most special attackers in OU. It is very evident that playing Snorlax increases a player's win condition considerably - and arguably to a very unhealthy point where there is hardly any winning scenario for a Laxless team facing a Snorlax. 

 

The test ban will take one month. After this month, depending on the meta adjustements, the Tier Council will decide whether or not Snorlax remains banned or not.

 

The TC - as well as many of you - wants a final decision on Snorlax as soon as possible, so let's really focus in on this test and determine once and for all whether this thing belongs in our OU meta.

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