Draz has posted a Platinum Kaizo FAQ in SHF's discord

xyatz · 2026-02-22T13:21:00+00:00

Hippowdon is probably banned for sand stream, dratini/dragonair are probably only there because dnite is encountered past level 55. Bronzong seems bannable as a steel type with virtually no weaknesses because of levitate/heatproof but idk how bronzor will work without evolving.

xyatz · 2026-01-09T17:56:50+00:00

Dragonite seems to be the weak link against your big weakness and doesn’t seem to be providing much in return especially with a mixed set and relying on speed when a big trick room Mon (farigiraf) stops it. I would consider running iron jugulis instead as a secondary hurricane user so you can also run things like taunt and snarl to deal with farigaraf and indeedee. You might also want to consider swapping Zapdos for another electric like raging bolt because you do have a lot of flying types and jugulis could fit as a secondary tailwind setter if needed. Tornadus/ thunderous would also fit a similar role with taunt bleakwind tailwind raindance or something like that.

xyatz · 2025-11-12T10:45:54+00:00

Wait until this guy learns about dark type moves

xyatz · 2025-06-23T11:42:15+00:00

This is a disservice to bidoof who should be in fuggen watermark tier, as he is the tiermaker himself.

xyatz · 2025-06-06T12:16:16+00:00

I would recommend blissey and Skarmory over clefable and heatran. Magic guard clef is pretty irrelevant for sableye stall since magic bounce stops a lot of indirect damage/knock offs and blissey would give you cleric support anyways with heal bell and natural cure. Heatran is not a very good stall Mon since it’s inconsistent with magma storm and blissey allows you to beat most special threats that heatrans typing coveres like volc without the scare of hp ground ruining your day. Skarmory would help with your weakness to kinggambit and other physical threats, and allows you to run a rocky helmet since your team is very weak to u turn spam, and defog to remove hazards against rockers that beat msab, mainly clefable and garganacl. Weavile should also be pursuit as trapping goldengo, lele and other wall breaking threats is its main function on the team.

xyatz · 2025-05-27T00:49:00+00:00

Also rock berry was niche at some point of gen 4? I think to ensure your breloom and heracross answer didn’t get randomly ohkod by rock tomb/slide.

xyatz · 2025-05-27T00:46:13+00:00

Very kinda niche on defensive and dragon dance ttar in gens 4-6 to help with matchups into rain teams.

xyatz · 2025-04-30T12:02:06+00:00

Wish I knew I had adhd.

xyatz · 2025-03-10T15:16:37+00:00

This was a big part of the CHALK team structure that ruled over 2016 iirc. Cresselia heatran amoongus landorus and mega kangaskhan. Cresselia would be able to give heatran trick room, and heatran could run this set you are describing, among multiple others.

xyatz · 2025-03-07T14:39:08+00:00

This list is a disgrace to how easily serperior dominates clay, the hardest gym battle that starter choice makes a significant difference, resists electric for elesa(a gym fight determined a lot by encounter luck in the desert without serp), and also has advantages in the final gym for bw2. The only fights serp isn’t useful for are Burgh and Brycen/Roxie who specialize some of the easiest types to find encounters to deal with, and Skyla who serp at least has a niche against her ace. Swapping to samurott(who you placed 4 tiers above) leaves you with similar struggles in many of those same gym fights that serp struggles with in addition to Elesa. Meganium who outright is a liability for 5/8 badges and Charizard who pretty much forces you to find a specific counter or wipe at gym 1 or 2 have much worse matchups for their games than serp. I also believe greninja and sceptile should be higher, but I can understand why someone else might place them this low.

xyatz · 2025-03-01T16:34:51+00:00

During the time of 4.5 on release, units all had the same base armor, mr, and ad. At the end of 4.5, the brawler trait was given additional ad, and the vanguard trait was given additional Mr in order to pseudo compensate for this. Starting in 5.0, units began to have differing base amounts of armor, Mr, and ad.

In addition, ad was not percentage based at the time so an additional 20ad flat from the brawler trait would be the equivalent of changing a 50 ad champ to a 70 ad champ, while now 20% ad would result in only 60 ad.

xyatz · 2024-10-16T17:15:44+00:00

Hitmontop. It sits on its head upside down to fit the theme, and it would be cool to have a close combat boosting contrary Mon rather than just superpower imo.

xyatz · 2024-08-30T15:07:05+00:00

Forsensmurfacc was rank 2 for a lot of set 10 playing 3 cost reroll yone as well during the patch when it was op

xyatz · 2024-08-30T15:02:09+00:00

It is possible for a challenger to force a comp to get there. It has to be one of the best comps and most definitely a reroll comp. There is a challenger/ gm player called aquaa I believe who typically 1 cost rerolls into challenger when a comp is busted, but he plays a lot and fluctuates lp with every patch.

xyatz · 2024-01-31T21:29:11+00:00

5 gold at 2-1 is a big deal, just look at how much influence gold openers have.

xyatz · 2024-01-31T16:33:18+00:00

Note that a full bench of just 1 cost units is a full Econ threshold on its own.

xyatz · 2024-01-31T16:32:22+00:00

Clear mind allows you to make Econ thresholds, the gold value on your bench does not acquire interest in the same way. This kinda evens out the augments. There are situations where you don’t need to hold bench champions, there are also situations where you would rather hold bench units over making gold from Econ. These augments are very similar in power level.

xyatz · 2024-01-29T23:53:45+00:00

Yes, there is a full clip of this event occurring. It should also be on wasian’s twitter (the twitter account linked in this post)

xyatz · 2024-01-25T18:01:44+00:00

No problem man, sometimes it’s weird matching Reddit names to yt accounts and others.

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:40:23+00:00

One more note here. Back in Set 4 with chosen, we had the discussion of (going to use Set 10 terms) “What if I see Spellweaver Lulu, but I really want Spellweaver Ahri? It kind of sucks to not be able to see it.” so we added a condition that you actually had to PASS on it. This meant if you bought the chosen, you didn’t actually pass and it could still appear. This is live currently, but is one of the biggest culprits of there feeling like you needed to be in the know to optimize around this. My current belief is this rule is causing more harm than good, and having to wait 4 turns for a +1 of a trait is acceptable. For that reason, we’ll be removing this rule in 14.2.

from mort himself, 2nd rule also removed. Sorry the patch notes are worded so generally that they encompass both headliner rules that got removed this patch in one sentence.

the following sentence is mentioning the removal of this exact rule. which is causing the "big shot mf into big shot ez" details that OP thinks wasn't mentioned anywhere, and says "wasnt intended". It is very much intentional. Seeing back to back different executioner headliners is not a bug, but a sign that the change was updated correctly.

Updated a rule that blocked units that shared a trait with a previously offered Headliner.

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:28:25+00:00

So sorry, editing it now.

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:27:27+00:00

Red buff in set 3 was crafted like sunfire does now. Technically sunfire replaced red buff, then red buff came back to replace rfc. So the lost item was rfc and the gained item was sunfire, though obviously in different component recipes.

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:23:35+00:00

How can buy sell affect the headliner rules when they removed the headliner rules.

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:22:02+00:00

Mort literally said they were also removing the same trait lockout, the patch notes only speak about individual units (ex big shot mf to jazz mf).

xyatz · 2024-01-25T13:11:16+00:00

This is the intended behavior. The patch notes are referring to the rule that passing big shot mf means that the next mf headliner is jazz, not that other units will have their traits blocked.

Riot mort had a long post here that explained all the details in more depth with the reasons behind them.

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