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There’s alot of good balance teams and balance is in a good spot rn. With many variations of balance like..
Boots Spam/Hazard Stacking Balance
Mola + Breaker Balance
Voltturn Balance
Tusk Balance
Fat Balance
Garg Balance
etc
Plus balance can fit more diverse picks like Amoonguss...
OKIDOGI NATION
Here with another spicy mon I’ve been playing around with. An overlooked legendary dog foreshadowed by the top dog of the tier, Zamazenta, who has been terrorizing OU since it dropped with the ability to pick and choose its checks between options like Roar, Heavy Slam, Stone...
Wait til you see that Custap has been used.
It really doesn’t. Tera Ghost might occasionally see use for Body Press mons, but the issue with Tera Ghost and also Steel is it makes Moon vulnerable to more match ups just to win a few. Tera Steel for example loses to the common Ground types of the...
I do appreciate you posting replays, but I find most of these to be the result of misplays. This is not be calling out these players as frauds or anything, they’re great players I faced once or a couple times.
Replay: 1
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2102089389?p2
(Good replay...
To add further into the discussion, I have a couple tour replays that demonstrate the difficulties Roaring Moon has with actually setting up. While scavenging through recent tournament replays, there’s been surprisingly few teams loading up with Roaring Moon, instead they opt Dragonite who imo...