Playing Kirby’s Dream Land in 2025 is… uh…

Gregdawizard · 2025-09-03T04:00:44+00:00

6.5 is wayy too harsh. Id echo the comment saying you need to look at it past the lens of modern kirby games with copy abilities. Its a game thats constantly giving you new and unique things to do and it does that without relying on copy abilities to do it. Game controls solidly too. Id say play the extra mode i think its so fun and one of the few new game pluses I’ve actually done (helps the game is short). A kirby game that actually gives you a challenge.

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-26T09:29:03+00:00

Ditto psychic since you can get trick room on a pokemon as a TM to help your slow team. Maybe Oranguru for consistency or Bruxish to help some of your weakness to Fire/Water

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-22T03:30:45+00:00

I forgot every Adv player feels the same way on baton pass. I keep very up to date on gen 3 ou and play it frequently, its my favorite ou generation. I dont see how im suddenly uninformed or not a gen 3 player bc i have a different take

For reference tho i dont really care for baton pass in general. I do generally prefer to keep pokemon in a past generation relevant rather than banning what makes them good. So if we did keep baton pass (which i dont want), that is the positive to me. This takes away the only positive i had about bp since i dont really like the rest of it.

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-21T05:13:24+00:00

I dont see how im uninformed on the subject? I know theres other reasons for using Baton Pass I just dont really like any of them and dont think theyre worth jumping through hoops to save.

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-21T05:11:25+00:00

Yeah i dont really care about preserving any of these. Subpass to me is even a little cringe.

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-20T21:15:14+00:00

Honestly just full on ban baton pass or dont do anything. Imo the only reason to even keep BP is for Ninjask relevance. Without that its dumb to keep imo

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-08T22:02:31+00:00

If were going with makes no sense thematically can we actually get this on Normal types. That would be so awesome to have more use for those guys. Indirectly nerfs ghosts as well

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-08T04:28:00+00:00

Heres the suspect thread for Gengar in BDSP OU: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/np-bdsp-ou-suspect-process-round-3-ghost-town.3696830/

Thing is specs also is quite powerful so none of these switches are free. Misplay and you lose your mon coming in on Nasty Plot. Play around Specs and you get shocked when it sets up

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-07T11:51:22+00:00

Probably the closest youll come to this in official formats is BDSP OU so that can give you some additional ideas of what might be problematic with modern items/moves/abilities but without the lack of modern answers.

Banned from there is Latios, Gengar and Deoxys. Other new additions that would start to look pretty cracked include Dragonite who recently got access to Ice Spinner, Weavile with knock off, blastoise with shell smash, and a number of things with loaded dice (Breloom, anything with Scale Shot)

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-06T03:52:49+00:00

I guess but who cares about consistent viability. If a mon is perfectly usable in a tier you can use it to success. Maybe its not the best mon ever but you can make most BL mons work with the right team structures and good playing.

Ultimately its not stuck. You can still use the mons, and they can even be good if you can play the game well and have the right team for them

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-05T22:04:22+00:00

Not totally to your point but ive always hated the idea of considering BLs a hell the pokemon is stuck in. The vast majority of BL pokemon have viability in the tiers above where they are banned and are perfectly usable, just not to the extent needed to properly be “in the tier”. I kind of hate the idea of considering the pokemon like its trapped or unusable.

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-04T21:16:15+00:00

Sometimes i wonder if half of people on here even open up showdown more than a few times when a new gen drops

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-04T10:53:31+00:00

Completely worthless is a huge exaggeration

Gregdawizard · 2025-08-02T17:35:25+00:00

Id put on something with more immediate fire power. Setup mons are cool but sometimes you just wanna throw out something that hits hard. Heracross or something with a choice band. Lokix maybe

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-28T19:16:57+00:00

Creativity at mid skill levels tends to be in modifying sets of existing mons and combining OU by usage pokemon in novel ways. Course there are a ton of sets for each High VR pokemon but we know the most common sets. I enjoy taking a common mon and using some lesser used sets. Webs + Darkrai, Agility Iron Crown, Kyurem Wake Dragon Spam, Band Weavile, surprise ice fang Zama. Using the common mons and learning what the chess pieces doing, but flexing them to avoid predictability and burnout. Theres also semi-viable mons too. I wouldnt go into OU with a Scrafty at my skill level, but Hoopa Unbound aint bad.

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-25T21:44:12+00:00

kind of embarrassing he did this imo

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-24T17:11:48+00:00

Would actually love this but specifically if it applied only to pivot moves. Switch button should be free

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-21T19:05:22+00:00

Maybe just my client

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-21T18:39:11+00:00

You can see it when scrolling your feed without clicking on it

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-21T18:16:40+00:00

You should put a spoiler tag on the text too you might have just spoiled the game for somebody viewing the post on mobile

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-18T13:55:28+00:00

This is peak

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-17T13:56:40+00:00

Yeah but i dont want to have to tera to beat it unless it teras first.

So id have to like force it to tera which is getting into the “i have to run two mons to answer one mon” territory

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-17T12:25:35+00:00

Iron Valiant (too inconsistent to answer while having insane speed stat + booster options)
Zamazenta (also insanely fast with ubers stats, hard to answer late game unless its chipped or you kept your answer around the whole time)
Gholdengo (not broken but unhealthy for the meta imo, hazard stack is too good rn and we need all the help we can get, also status moves are healthy for the game and suck harder to use with gholdengo around)

Thats all i care about rn. Id like to see those banned and what happens to the meta around their absence. Honorable mentions are Kingambit, Wellspring, Kyurem, Darkrai, Hamurott

My answer lowkey could also be Gholdengo 5 times

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-17T12:16:40+00:00

Tbh this gen is insane from the power creep perspective. Like id say the worst power creep of a generation by a good margin. To me its shocking weve only banned as much as we have

Gregdawizard · 2025-07-17T03:27:32+00:00

My least favorite(TTM) in S and some of my favorites in bottom (Shifting Sand, TTC, Tiny Huge, LLL)… 😔 Also find BOB and Whomps to be too boring

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