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Metagame Trends

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Remorph

Alone With Everybody
Discuss what is being used as of now, such as new emerging pokemon, strategies, and counters.

For instance, Ferrothorn is the #1 used pokemon in the Metagame. It takes down bulky waters, which are so common, but falls prey to pretty much any fire type.
 
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jesusfreak94

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People are starting to use Gastrodon and Quagsire a lot more. As a result, I've seen HP Grass a lot more on things like Rotom-W and Gastro itself.
 
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Suicune3000

Water Lord
I've seen a lot of Psychic types (Alakazam, Espeon etc) running HP Fire to stop Pursuiting Scizor that I used. I put Heatran in to stop that tactic.
 
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kaiser soze

Reading ADWD
jesusfreak94 said:
People are starting to use Gastrodon and Quagsire a lot more. As a result, I've seen HP Grass a lot more on things like Rotom-W and Gastro itself.
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On that note, Grass Knot seems less viable since it does nothing to Rotom-W.
 
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Dark-Tyranitar

SAND VEIL HAX!!!
jesusfreak94 said:
People are starting to use Gastrodon and Quagsire a lot more. As a result, I've seen HP Grass a lot more on things like Rotom-W and Gastro itself.
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on my sand team, I added Latios with lefties and energy ball (not grass knot) because my team can often can get destroyed by scarftom.
 
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Gamefreak

Well-Known Member
I have been using LO Heatran to 2HKO common pokemon like Jellicant, Rotom W, and Politoed. Nobody sees it coming with how popular the SpD versions are.

I have been using Virizion to take advantage of Scarfed Tyranitar, Landorus, to check Excadrill, and to deal with Rain. It sets up against a large portion of the metagame right now, especially since Latios has been dropping in usage.

I also have been using LO Starmie to completely rape almost any team without a Ferrothorn, a pokemon which has been dropping in usage.
 
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Soperman

The One and Only
I've been noticing that Dragonite has been a lot more common these past few days.
But I've also noticed more people using Slowbro :)
 
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Fabolous

Banned
Ive been seeing alot less sandstorm teams and more hail/rain teams for some odd reason,people usually run a scarfed landorus on a hail team just to check threats.
 
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Suicune3000

Water Lord
Soperman said:
I've been noticing that Dragonite has been a lot more common these past few days.
But I've also noticed more people using Slowbro :)
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I think Dragonite has peaked this gen with the arrival of Multiscale, giving it an extra turn's setup. Dragonite is one of the main reasons I use a Rocks lead, to break Multiscale (along with most sashes). I've seen a lot of DNite leads trying to DD, so I use Infernape with Taunt to deal with them. But yeah, I think Nite is used more than Mence nowadays.
 
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MiSeRY BuSiNeSS

nV The MiSeRyyyyyy
Weather weather weather.
 
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Blue Harvest

Banned
Gamefreak said:
I also have been using LO Starmie to completely rape almost any team without a Ferrothorn, a pokemon which has been dropping in usage.
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HP Fire is decent in the last slot since Ferrothorn ALWAYS switches in, and it is usually 2HKOed by HP Fire + other move.
 
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irock245

She wants it
EVERYONE uses a ferrothorn.
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not me

Yes mamoswine is used more he's actually pretty good against a lot of sh*t. I can beat +1 volcaronas with him, as no one runs fire blast on their offensive volcarona, and that's the only fire type attack that can OHKO mamoswine. Thick fat is a godsend.
 
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Fortunato

Sic Transit Gloria
I've been seeing a lot more earth power celebis as well since it lets you beat Jirachi better epsecially in rain. Though tbh I don't know why people are using this as you lose out against the likes of scizor, all depends on the team I suppose. xD
 
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Farfan

 
Thanks to Stone_cold's team on smogon, I've been seeing a LOT of Tornadus as a rain abuser.
Choice Specs Hurricanes can be kinda threatening if you're not prepared for it, and hurt a lot of things.
I didn't realize my team was weak to Tornadus, since I didn't see to many before!
 
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Latias_

Passive voice
Kotone said:
EVERYONE uses a ferrothorn.
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Obviously everyone uses Ferrothorn, even in ubers its ranked 7th in usage, being able to wall Kyogre, Zekrom, Arceus-Steel, etc. In the rain mixed attacker Giratina-O does something like 25% with HP Fire.
 
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Ilan

Well-Known Member
magikarprules said:
I do not see anybody using Cloyster much anymore. A shame, he is quite the underrated threat.
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Yeah I don't see those anymore weird...
I see a lot of pokemons with balloon especially heatran I think it is useless since it works only once and as a player who switch a lot I prefer just don't being on a EQ in the first place...
 
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