The integrity of Ubers as a concept is completely lost.
Smogon is considering banning another uber
Josiah Carter
Parker Hall
>fanfic meta
Joseph Brown
>smogon
Nathaniel Collins
Spectrier is also Uber even with its shit movepool. Now imagine Spectrier with higher stats and an a movepool. That's Calyrex-Shadow.
Zachary Allen
Powercreep has just gotten to the point where another Ubers is unironically necessary.
I'd prefer if they just added a sub-Uber that was usage-based. Like UUbers or Unters or something like that.
Charles Reyes
This may be true but OP is also correct. Smogon's judge-magisters or whatever they call themselves have been corrupt for years.
William Evans
Jordan Jackson
This mon is actually bullshit though, you either have Yveltal on your team or you lose to this.
Henry Nelson
>have been corrupt for years.
oh my god just shut the fuck up
Samuel Fisher
It's true, it's been downhill ever since the introduction of the "council" BS.
Kayden Wilson
Aa someone who laddered to the top 200 in AG, I agree. Calyrex shadow is busted. If you don't have a Yvetal, you auto-lose the game.
Hudson Hughes
Just rename it then
Carter Bailey
Was Mega-Fug the turning point that mindbroke smogon completely? What a chadmon.
Liam James
hey Verlisify
Jose Wood
>yveltal
blanket check to calyrex-shadow in addition to being a good versatile mon, if calyrex was banned yveltal would drop in usage
>eternatus
blanket check to yveltal in addition to being a good versatile mon, if yveltal wasn't so common because of calyrex being so strong it would drop in usage
>dusk mane
blanket check to eternatus in addition to being a good versatile mon, if eternatus wasn't so common because of yveltal being so common because of calyrex being so strong it would drop in usage
>calyrex-shadow
snowballing gorilla, not quite as shallow as spectrier but still click move kill a mofo, if it wasn't contained by yveltal it would have 100% usage
got it? numbers don't tell everything.
Ryan Price
Dusk Mane is also needed for Xerneas
Nicholas Long
if Calyrex-Shadow is so centralizing, why does its best counter have nearly double the usage? that means almost every player has Yveltal on their team but not every player has Calyrex-Shadow on their team.
Grayson Rodriguez
Garchomp was the turning point, all the way back in gen 4.
I know it's hard to imagine now, but there was a time where Smogon was actually reasonable. They just banned box legendaries and Wobbuffet and Wynaut (because they could cause a game breaking softlock).
Garchomp was the first time a regular Pokemon was banned just for being a strong presence. That set the precedent that would go on to define the entire format for the next decade and a half.
Mega Fug and the creation of AG was just one step on the staircase that Smogon is falling down.
Nathaniel Bell
If you played OU when Dracovish was legal you would remember Seismitoad being ranked very high and used more than Dracovish. This was because you needed something with a Water immunity or you just lost to it. Once Dracovish was banned, Seismitoad dropped like a rock. The same applies to Calyrex-Shadow and Yveltal except Yveltal is actually good outside of hard countering one very dangerous pokemon.
Daniel Green
Same as the Dracovish/Seismitoad situation.
Calyrex-Shadow isn't really that good if your opponent has Yveltal, but it's an instant win button if they don't.
Brayden Bell
>omgon ban swagge
>cloyster beat a council member in a tournament so ban monarchs stone
Anthony Nguyen
There are more people vaccinated against tuberculosis than people who have tuberculosis. Same here, Calyrex doesn't have the usage of Yveltal because of the usage of Yveltal, and Yveltal has the usage it has because not having Yveltal would make those 45% of teams that still have Calyrex much harder to deal with.