Smogon consider banning Gems

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>caring about fanfic meta

fuck smogon
rock is a trash type with trash mons except tyranitar
imagine thinking rock is good just because of stealth rock

Trash defensively, yes, but rock is one of the best offensive types in the game. That's why rock moves were deliberately designed to suck.

no! my acrobat mons!

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Rock is a good offensive type if you just look at the type chart, but like you said, rock moves are designed to suck.
In practice, rock is a pretty bad offensive type because it's so unreliable.

Gems are banned doe

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>rock is one of the best offensive types in the game.
gen 1 rock throw is 50 power with 65% accuracy you absolute moron
rock has been trash since the beginning
low power
low accuracy
crazy distribution

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>1 retard creates a thread
>SMOGON BANNING GEMS SMOGON BANNING GEMS SMOGON BANNING GEMS

That retard is a member of the council.
And the council only makes any public statements once they've made up their minds.

If anything, stealth rock makes rock types worse.
Pokemon of every type can learn stealth rock, so it's not like rock types are better because of it.
And the fact that it deals damage based on weakness to rock means that Pokemon weak to rock get used less and Pokemon resisting rock get used more. Meaning that rock moves end up less effective on average.
It's like a cruel, ironic joke.

hahahaha what a bunch of fucking faggets
as if Gems being removed from the game in Gen 6 isn't retarded enough, they want to ban them in Gen 5 too
It's really sad that Showdown, pretty much the only functioning Pokémon sim, is directed by such fucking retards
>Aerodactyl doesn't get Rock Slide, despite it being a TM
>to make things worse Lance has one with Rock Slide

Fucking clowns. They completely massacred this tier. Can't they just revert it to 2015, before chloro and sand rush were banned to artificially free Exadrill? I swear that was the biggest fuck up in smogon history, the tier became unrecognizable after that and imbalanced as fuck

Altering older tiers is retarded, it should stay the same for archival purposes.

rock types have amazing bulk to overcome the types defensive shortcomings tho.

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gen 5 ou is a burning trash heap of a tier. some of the gen 4 tiers are fine but could benefit from changes

Setup sweepers breaking their one check with a gem is kind of bullshit desu.
Some people like that aspect of play, where you even have to consider how to take opposing mons out lest you’re left with a mon that has to be switched out, but the mind games that result from that are pretty stupid and lead to games being decided on one turn predictions.

gen 2 is also a dumpster fire but they dont get nor want changes

Z-Moves are next in every meta that allows them if gems get banned.

If they ban gems it's over.