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Feel The Ground Shake (Pokemon - Ground-type specialist)

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Petrox said:
I guess they are going to patch the roar if he does that in the conference, maybe limiting the times he can spam that.
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I hope not, it always irritates me when a good strategy is banned simply because most people cannot beat it, but if its just for that reason why bother having a tournament at all if you can just complain that a strategy is unfair. I could understand if it put the pokemon in danger but that's not the case. Brad has already pointed out one way to beat it with soundproof. I am sure there are others either via skills or held items
 
Well, he needs to basically sacrifice Vlad, his single best mon that's not Grundy (for now, Simon's stonks are on the rise) to set it up, and as the enemy can pick the mon they send out, if they have some kind of counter, it works immediately, and they can still outspeed the kroododile to get a hit in, theoretically.

And remember, rapid spin. Move pools can be pretty damn deep in this universe. Wattson just wasn't prepared.
 
Petrox said:
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Without 4 movepool restrictions, there's a lot of ways for hands to be dealt.
That's before the implications that fast enough pokemon can just dodge hazards as was implied with a comment on Manectric or that they can just get blown up with enough AOE.

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I think this battle was probably the best one written so far. The of push-pull of the fight was written great.
Well paced and easy to follow while still feeling the pressure of thinking Brad was under. Though knowing that Defog fact off hand felt a little out of left field in how it broke up flow and questioning how tf he remembers that off hand in the middle of a fight.
I guess prep might explain it
 
azereath said:
I hope not, it always irritates me when a good strategy is banned simply because most people cannot beat it, but if its just for that reason why bother having a tournament at all if you can just complain that a strategy is unfair. I could understand if it put the pokemon in danger but that's not the case. Brad has already pointed out one way to beat it with soundproof. I am sure there are others either via skills or held items
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Depends on how dominant and niche the strategy becomes. They literally banned dunking in basketball for a while back in the day cos one guy was just too good at it
 
Petrox said:
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Honestly, if you're a conference-level trainer and don't have more than a few ways to deal with strategies like hazard stacking and phasing, at that point, it's a skill issue on your part.

Hazard removers like Rapid Spin or Defog, abilities to prevent being switched out like Suction Cups or Soundproof, moves such as Ingrain, or even one that makes you immune to hazards such as Magic Guard. Alternatively, you can just try to prevent hazards in the first place by using moves like Taunt or Pokémon with the Magic Bounce ability. There's also items such as Heavy Duty Boots or Air Balloon, tho, I don't exactly know how they work in this world.
 
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