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Well, that's pretty much it. Oh, and please try not to discuss anything else but competitive battling here.

Suppose I should sticky this, it is official after all XD

Good luck, battlers! I shall be taking no part of it.

-FS

Ok, first topic ^_^

What do you think of the tier reshuffle?

Thanks, FS!

What do you think of the tier reshuffle?
Um, okay I guess... Although I don't normally care which tier any Pokemon is in... <(except when I'm entering a tournament or something that restricts how many OUs you can have on a team)

Me either, but it's really interesting to talk about from the perspective of the majority of people who actually do give a damn.

One interesting thing is OU Porygon2 and BL/UU Porygon-Z. Your thoughts?

No, no I don't. Porygon2 in OU, Porygon-Z in BL/UU.

Porygon-Z doesn't have reliable special STAB, which severely lets it down. It either goes Hyper Beam or Tri Attack, Tri Attack being favoured more often than not. Porygon2 is used for a complete other reason: Trick Room.

But on Smogon it shows Porygon-Z in OU and Porygon2 in BL.
I know Porygon-Z doesn't have great Special STAB, but it can carry the element of surprise with its huge movepool. <(it could have Tri Attack for good normal STAB combined with Adaptability, Ice Beam for dragons, Thunderbolt for Gyarados, and HP Fighting for Weavile and Tyranitar, all the while being able to surprisingly out-speed them with Choice Scarf)

But yeah, looking at Porygon2 now, I could see it fitting into a Trick Room strategy...

Really? Hmm... I swear that I had a reliable source saying it was the other way around...

135 Sp.A is very impressive, tied with Alakazam. It has Nasty Plot too, which is total pwnage on that Sp.A. The speed is not good though, at 95, and like you said only Scarf can save it.

Yes it is official (for Shoddy at least).

And really, if you Scarf you have to forgo Nasty Plot, if you just sweep you have to forgo Scarf. It's pretty much fail either way, since any Pokemon with more/tied speed can usually OHKO it. 85/70/75 is not flash defensive stats, and when Gallade and Lucario occupy that 95 speed tier it's not a good thing. Then there's other sweepers with a touch more speed which can rape it with any attack.

Well, I think it's time for a new topic:

What is the moveset of one of your good Pokemon?
Here's my Togekiss:

Air Slash
Nasty Plot
Roost
Baton Pass
Nature: Timid
Item: Salac Berry
EVs: 255-Speed/255-Sp.Defense

The main thing to do with this Togekiss is to send it out against a Sp.Attacker and use Nasty Plot. If the opponent sends out a fast electric type to counter Togekiss, prepare for a Roost. The opponent's electric type should leave Toakekiss with a small amount of HP, activating Salac Berry. Once that's done, use Baton Pass to switch to a good counter and sweep away.
Air Slash is there so that Togekiss can attack when needed.

HK, I think the EV spread is a little off. Go for 252 Sp.A, 252 HP and 4 Sp.D instead. That way, you cover both defenses instead of just one.

And I see you are of the Night Slash kind, PS. Interesting decision. ^_^

Exeggutor @Life Orb
Adamant Nature.
252 Atk, 252 HP, 4 Speed.

- Wood Hammer
- Swords Dance
- Explosion
- Zen Headbutt

Quite self explanatory. Wood Hammer and Zen Headbutt for STAB, Explosion for anything which can counter it, Swords Dance for the sweep. Life Orb is worth the recoil here, as when HP gets too low you can just go boom and it won't matter. Speed is the only real issue, so team up with something knowing Sunny Day for best sweeping effect.

Gah, havent done actual movesets in ages, but I can see if I can remember what my Arcanine was...

Note: My memory sucks, so its probably off on the EV's, and with new moves added it will definetly change once I have the time.

Burst (Arcanine) @ Life Orb/ Choice Band (can't remember which)
(the one that raises atk and drops Sp. Attack, bad memory I tellz yah)
252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 Hp

Flare Blitz
Thunder Fang
Extremespeed
Iron Tail

This one was purely done over my love of Arcanine so its pretty much there just because of that, favouritism.
Abilities go up to preference, one gives an immunity but Intimidate drops stats, which always help a sweeper.
Life Orb is powerful, but with Flare blitz the recoil will stack up fast, thats why Choice Band can be an alternative, however, Arcanine dislikes being locked to oe move.
Extremespeed can give a last attack before the recoil stacks up and the oponnent kills it, though.