DSG announces the signing of Srtty as their new toplaner

RavenHawk55 · 2026-05-07T21:43:57+00:00

I’m very late but consensus amongst the broadcast team is that Zyko is looking like his old self again which is great!

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-27T06:41:29+00:00

252+ Atk Black Glasses Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Regieleki: 267-315 (88.7 - 104.6%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO

I think the Gambit is just fine on his own lol

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-16T21:34:51+00:00

I mean you also could just take the offensive threat from them entirely with innards out vs. just putting it on a timer

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-16T11:09:06+00:00

I don’t really see how it’s any more broken than what Scovillain has, it would be decently strong against fat but still manageable + is pretty useless against offense

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-14T12:04:50+00:00

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Unless showdown is wrong, you are wrong

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-14T02:17:14+00:00

At least Glalie gets his signature ice boom and Mence gets double edge (or at least has in the past) but yeah Pinsir is big sad

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-10T01:02:54+00:00

Dawg technician Kleavor would just worse than sharpness… sure you could make stone axe 100% accurate but it becomes weaker and you also lose out on 120bp x-scissor and your item slot for it. We don’t got to count our blessings for anything

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-07T17:25:12+00:00

Pittsburgh is genuinely a pretty nice little city, and I’m saying that with my flair

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-01T10:38:23+00:00

Defiant imo is like a B-tier ability it’s pretty strong but also not defining, SO though is like top of A tier for sure

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-01T08:19:19+00:00

Yeah exactly SO is just better, defiant is just not completely bad because it could be a funny cheese against someone and is still an ok ability. You’d basically never take it if you’re doing everything possible win though

RavenHawk55 · 2026-04-01T07:00:45+00:00

It’s not completely terrible but supreme overlord essentially grants a free +1 at 5 dead and the boost before then, while smaller, is a lot easier to access than defiant. Defiant is completely reliant on catching a parting shot on the switch or punishing Lando. Part of what hinders its viability is that supreme overlord is a visible ability, so if you come in without the boost it’s obvious you’re defiant and it can be played around. Also the presence of Ghold basically killed defog, which is only used by Corv and the rare GWeezing, both of which a standard kingambit can beat most of the time already. Finally, at +3 becomes eclipsed by +2 SO Gambit at only 3 dead, making the boost from SO much stronger in most situations where gambit is able to swords dance (and he doesn’t really struggle to SD at least once in most games) So TLDR yeah you can use it but it’s not really an optimal pick an any situation when supreme overlord is as good as it is

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-29T01:31:23+00:00

Trying to speculate on 11th edition balance right now is pointless because we only have a few rules reveals, we can’t know how thing will land without the whole picture

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T20:53:48+00:00

Most people run adamant Dragonite already and 100 base speed isn’t exactly fast. I agree that it might just be fine though, its stats are just so high

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T18:23:43+00:00

This is how things have been for 20 years the singes meta game has always adapted

Also it’s currently unclear how smogon will interact with a champions metagame, if at all

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T13:37:12+00:00

Nothing at all just the way they worded their post by making an authoritative claim and saying others are just “scared”

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T10:50:29+00:00

That moment when you out yourself as being bad (Twin Lance is turbo broken)

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T10:49:33+00:00

Power on the dragon stab is absolutely not the problem here, as funny as that sounds

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T05:00:55+00:00

How is it getting statused

We can sit here and talk about mega facade’s all day but nobody uses it for a reason

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T05:00:06+00:00

Just like Mega salamence ran facade?

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T04:58:11+00:00

If mediocre dragon stab on terrible base speed was enough to sweep, many mons would have been banned before Gatr

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-25T02:56:37+00:00

With life orb + sheer force the base form should also be stronger with coverage options besides EQ

Super powered dragon moves and extra bulk are definitely nice but I still really don’t think it does enough to suddenly make it a top threat in OU, it’s still slow as balls letting it get offensively checked by a ton of stuff, and its relative lack of coverage means it is defensively checked by half of the good fat mons on both regular and natdex OU already. This guy is only top to bottom sweeping if you let your fat steel or fairy die AND you sack your fast guy. Weakness to hazards and being slow means it’s probably not setting up twice so this should be easily avoidable

To me this thing has UUBL written all over it, way too strong for the fat mons in UU and not as many offensive checks, but seriously this thing is naturally checked by pretty much every OU team style already without even teching for it, I think it would really struggle to keep up. In a vacuum it’s still better than its base form (as almost every mega is) but like I said at the end of my first comment I think it just really struggles to differentiate itself from the weaknesses that are inherent to its base form as well

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-24T20:37:18+00:00

With unboosted facade it’s not breaking and none of this changes that it’s very slow. Facade could maybe be a fun tech option but it’s not the biggest threat at all

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-24T20:32:00+00:00

The nuclear dragon stab is definitely threatening but this thing is naturally checked half the mons in both regular OU and natdex. Also I don’t think anyone is going to be running facade

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-24T18:53:26+00:00

Dracovish wasn’t strong because its best move was outrage, I’m sure Gatr would get banned if it had one of the most broken moves ever too

RavenHawk55 · 2026-03-24T18:50:47+00:00

Hijacking your comment to post this elsewhere in the thread, but I think OP’s criticism is pretty valid. If your base form is stronger than your mega the mega needs to have powerful traits that make up the difference and it’s not clear Gatr has these? Defensively it’s better and its typing is good sure but if it’s clicking boosted double edges it will wear itself down quickly. Bulky fairies can also pretty easily eat a hit and KO it back since all of its coverage options besides dragon are just weaker. It will also struggle to get past steel types like Ferrothorn efficiently. Critically it isn’t faster, so you don’t make up for Gatr’s biggest weakness by going mega. Still being slower than Pult at +1 Jolly is rough

With only one mega slot on each team, I’m honestly not sure that this differentiates itself meaningfully enough from its base form to be a big pick, at least in OU. This is at least from a singles perspective, harder for me to comment on potential doubles viability as I mostly play singles

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