THEY JUST BANNED TERASTALLIZATION AND EVERYONE IS GOING CRAZY

[@dracomenace]

*Q1 What's your opinion on tera ban?* *Q2 Which pokemon was most hurt by tera ban?* *Q3 What's your favorite defensive tera type?* (Team, Discord in description)

[@dracomenace]

My answers: 1. Unfort 2. Garg (pure rock typing ain't a good defensive typing) 3. Water or Fairy

[@Holo_Phantom]

1. Not a good bam 2. Kingambit 3. Steel

[@TrippyAxis]

@@dracomenace 1. dont understand why tera was banned lol 2. either the mons with terrible weaknesses or the really pressuring offensive mons that use tera to boost their attacks 3. poison

[@mn3iscool]

1. Bad 2. dnite 3. Flying

[@rafimations9256]

Q1-Will miss it (Hope they bring it back) Q2-Garg (Poor guy will prob drop a tier and below) Q3-Fairy (Tanks very well)

[@MelvinEgbadon-o8k]

‏‪4:42‬‏ the once broken tera user can't tera it just keep getting better

[@dracomenace]

Blud's definitely dropping to UU (or even RU)

[@IsaacLmao111]

half of my team gets heavily nerfed while thr other half gonna be broken

[@dracomenace]

Melm gonna eat up all the HO teams

[@sunnythesaint]

Share team

[@TheBitsBarrage]

Nooo, why?? It wasnt even that broken, and it gave a chance to a lot of mons to shine among higher tiers. Humanity lost today :(

[@dracomenace]

Tera wasn't really broken, the actual reason it got banned was because the of the tournaments, tour players want a meta which is minimal on the "guessing" factor like tera is As a ladder player, I want tera back As a tour play, I want it banned

[@TheBitsBarrage]

@dracomenace i mean, the guessing factor still remains with the canches of acccuracy, but I cant complay as long as the dont ban megas

[@dracomenace]

@@TheBitsBarrage That's what they're doing, minimising those guessing factors as much as possible

[@xiphactinusyt4739]

@@dracomenaceI think a potentially better alternative would just be Tera type being visible to the opponent.

[@echogaia1708]

Then OTS is the solution like in VGC​@@dracomenace

[@silver_was_found]

dang, tera just got banned? aww man :

[@dracomenace]

Ikr

[@ThichDocTruyenTranh]

sash destiny bond 💀

[@dracomenace]

It's the anti HO set

[@Holo_Phantom]

​@@dracomenaceanti brain set

[@TriTheGuy]

​@@Holo_Phantom? destiny bond's value is maximized the lower hp you are upon death, because youre trading 1% hp for (potentially) 100% of the opponents hp, compared to just clicking it turn 1 and killing urself

[@Holo_Phantom]

@@TriTheGuy it's for when a pokemon is going on a rampage and you NEED to stop it. What is you haven't brought out Gengar yet at all and the opposing Pokemon has some speed boosts? It's just gonna bring you down to your sash while you uselessly click destiny bond then outspeed and kill you next turn

[@TriTheGuy]

@@Holo_Phantom anyone with a brain isnt clicking dbond with sash when the other outspeeds them, and dbond is NOT for stopping a 'rampage', its to cripple cores by trading offense for defense, especially with HO considering a loss of a core mon opens up more wincons

[@gzhosty]

banning tera should be illegal for showdown to do, in a category where all the fun gimmicks of pokemon all come into one, and you’re taking one away. nonsense

[@dracomenace]

Or they should make a seperate Ladder where tera is allowed

[@pedrovitor3858]

Oh, so do you dynamax should also be on national dex?

[@crackedblack1410]

@pedrovitor3858 Yes

[@djarian_alpharadical]

⁠@@pedrovitor3858 Dynamax wasn’t in Nat Dex Gen 9 because of limitations in Pokémon Showdown.

[@BrenoHenrique-fr3mg]

Bring back tera to natdex and ban tera from ou

[@anonjohn9760]

I'm in the minority that Terra should be banned from EVERY format but Ubers and AG, or simply have a format dedicated to it - Type interactions *matter* for a reason, and changing them on a dim, even if its limited to once per mon per battle is.... _frustrating_ to always have to play around and get screwed over by.

[@dracomenace]

Well, it's the gimmick of the current meta so I am inclined a bit on the no ban thing

[@StellariaEclipse]

Adapt.

[@vince5456]

I only see skill issue.

[@anonjohn9760]

@@vince5456 *Shrugs* I know how to use it. I just don't like it. That is all.

[@Brisingr26]

@@vince5456 Is it a skill issue to not be able to correctly make what, in essence, can be a completely random 50/50, 33/67, etc?

[@vyrawllxo300]

Tera was that one thing that made certain Pokémon more fun to use, tho tbf it’s not entirely needed in the format where Z crystals and hidden power exists

[@dracomenace]

Agreed

[@MelvinEgbadon-o8k]

‏‪3:30‬‏ it has a high base attack plus adamant plus iron fist plus stab so it's that strong

[@dracomenace]

Imagine if it had technician (1.2x VS 1.5x)

[@jimkas3606]

Personally I'm glad tera got banned in natdex. While you could use tera to make bad Pokémon better you can also use it to make good Pokémon busted. Also Pult is now unbanned and that makes me so glad

[@SuperSonic3557]

Tera blast: my time has come ⚰️

[@dracomenace]

Lmao

[@HighMightyWeasel]

what’s the music playing in the beginning of the video?

[@dracomenace]

Check Description

[@HighMightyWeasel]

@@dracomenacethank you for replying, but it is not there

[@zelos1826]

OMG The Pokemon TCG VGM just gave me a HUGE wave of nostalgia and I am here for it 🥰

[@DisbinguishedYT]

so that’s why shedinja is in OU

[@dracomenace]

@@DisbinguishedYT It's going PU don't worry lol

[@canalgamer3083]

Mamarindo fins here ------->

[@dracomenace]

Huh

[@canalgamer3083]

@dracomenace He is brazilian

[@cmk5724]

They need to bring back mega evolution and leave it at that. I thought it was going to be a fixture of Pokemon forever.

[@dracomenace]

The Legends ZA, probably gonna bring 'em back

[@mn3iscool]

I’m honestly not a fan of tera being banned, but that’s just my opinion.

[@silver_was_found]

^ agree

[@dracomenace]

Same

[@Emajic]

I’m done with showdown 😭

[@dracomenace]

Don't worry, there's still hope

[@vince5456]

Its just Smogon doing its thing, as per usual.

[@dracomenace]

Fr

[@TeamBeaverss]

Day 43 of dipplin I made a mistake. TODAY is my birthday. I’m a Nov 20th baby. I was having such a great time at my birthday party that for a while I thought Nov 17th was my birthday, sorry for my stupidity lol

[@silver_was_found]

happy birthday lol

[@dracomenace]

Happy Birthday Man

[@TeamBeaverss]

@ thank you! I’ll send you a pic of the cake on discord so you can eat it digitally ig (idk why I just wanna show you cookie cake. I like flexing ok >:))

[@dracomenace]

@@TeamBeaverss Nice

[@evinred4993]

I had ran into this fact yesterday and it made me think i was hallucinating for the only fight i did. I was tired so i had thought despite not using tera I had already used it, so the whole match i was just "dang, guess i tera'd my ferrothorn or something" despite never clicking the button. I learned it was gone after the match because i read the clauses list.

[@dracomenace]

Lmao

[@kyouhei7731]

They forgot that pult still has the ghost Z move

[@dracomenace]

Yep, that's his best set I was talking about

[@kyouhei7731]

@@dracomenace smogon really unbanned pult when it still can use that Z move

[@dracomenace]

@@kyouhei7731 I am sure, it's gonna get banned again

[@xiphactinusyt4739]

Yeah I was wondering why pult got unbanned lmao

[@jimkas3606]

Pult got unbanned because Gambit got unbanned to check it. Whether it stays in the tier we will see

[@xiphactinusyt4739]

Why was pult unbanned? Tera wasn’t what made it problematic, it was sub D-dance ghostnium Z

[@dracomenace]

Yep, I think they wanna give it a second chance as gambit and melm are back too I see it getting banned again

[@Brisingr26]

Yeah it's just the council seeing if it might be balanced now. It's probably the only unbanned mon that'll get sussed soon.

[@Beemovielol]

LETS GOOOOO! i swear i hated having a won game but "Nah bro i'd tera ghost", even thought for some reason i never lost because of the tera because it was stupid teras or not a good moment but i can feel how bad it is, one day i was sweeping with iron boulder, blud used tera ghost on ursaluna but i commited tera ground earthquake

[@dracomenace]

I see

[@vince5456]

Skill issue.

[@CharaTF2]

@@vince5456 skill issue is when you dont guess the set right on the 6th guess the set mon in a row?

[@Play-Ghost]

Soo basically they just made a meta which previously any pokemon could be used with any strategy. Now gone. And now what are we gonna do? Stick with the meta?

[@ikerd7182]

Its the opposite, now with tera banned shitmons are gonna be more viable.

[@MelvinEgbadon-o8k]

I've never used dragonnite

[@dracomenace]

Fr? It's goated with tera

[@JumblyRumblyGoose]

@@dracomenaceWAS goated with tera 😢

[@fogismaximus]

Literally the entire mechanic of the new stuff and it gets banned??? Lol

[@dracomenace]

Well, we can still play OU

[@thebestman5382]

Tera should have never been banned, its one of the greatest equalizers that have allowed bad mons or just mediocre mons to reach heights they have never seen before

[@dracomenace]

It helped gimmicks to be credible

[@LordTyph]

It also, sadly, broke balancing for some mons, who were meant to be kept in check by typing and move pool.

[@Neverfine]

I'm gen 8 enjoyer but i feel like removing tera was their worst choice like removing dynamax in gen 8

[@dracomenace]

@@Neverfine Dmax was broken but tera sure wasn't

[@Neverfine]

@dracomenace ok,i respect ur opinion 👍

[@HORSECONSUMER]

FINALLY I DON'T HAVE TO PONDER WHAT TERA TO USE

[@dracomenace]

Lol

[@oucyan]

tera is banned, what about dynamax or z-crystals?

[@jimkas3606]

Dynamax is also banned in natdex. Z moves are allowed (though I hope they get banned too)

[@oucyan]

@@jimkas3606 Z-Stockpile will never not be simultaneously funny and unfun

[@jimkas3606]

@@oucyan would much rather fight against it than get randomly nukesd by z attacking move

[@oucyan]

@@jimkas3606 oh for sure. random Z-nukes are annoying. also, Knock-off for some reason does not do double damage against pokemon holding a Z-crystal or Mega Stone. Maybe because the item is coded not be removable? Because I know pokemon with sticky hold will always take double damage from knock-off. Definitely a flaw imo.

[@sonicx2.0577]

The mega evolutions already limit the meta to a bunch of pokemon who haves one, with the tera, even a caterpie could had the potential to win a battle, now everyone would play megas or legendaries. (I didnt play showdown in my life, i dont know what is the meta)

[@dracomenace]

On the bright side we got 6 unbans

[@ecstaticwooper368]

This isn't... exactly correct tera doesn't necessarily make bad pokemon viable, if you have bad stats and you tera ghost, you still have bad stats. Also, most legendaries are banned and a lot of the ones that aren't honestly aren't that great.

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

​@@ecstaticwooper368I made calm mind alomomola sweep with tera fire t-blast, tera is literally what allowed weak sets/mons to work, now with those all gone all I can do is play by meta "rules" or get 6-0'd by zamazenta :/

[@ecstaticwooper368]

@@DIRTkat_ofc the thing is it also makes strong pokemon even stronger because a pokemoon who that would normally beat could just randomly decide to become water type and kill you

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

@ecstaticwooper368 that's why we ban stuff to higher tiers instead of just bringing the entire tier down

[@crackedblack1410]

I knew it was bc of Shedinja. Just ban that stupid bug again and add it back, it’s the only reason to play National Dex for me

[@radvil]

It's not about shed, at all

[@crackedblack1410]

@radvil It more than obviously is

[@dracomenace]

@@crackedblack1410 Shed was just chilling in AG, it wasn't really an issue

[@crackedblack1410]

@dracomenace Yes but I’m pretty sure they banned Tera bc they wanted to bring it back, so you can‘t baloon + Telectric

[@EggscellentTree]

​People didn't like losing to random tera's , shedinja has nothing to do with it all , there were 7 other pokemon that returned to natdex OU (darkrai, zama, gambit , pult , regieleki , melmetal, and I think roaring moon). Shedinja returning is as a consequence of tera being banned , they didn't ban tera because they wanna use shedinja. @@crackedblack1410

[@wellingtonlourenco5469]

Why they banned something 2 years after its release when the meta is already settled

[@dracomenace]

Probably for the tours

[@wellingtonlourenco5469]

@dracomenace it makes sense really

[@paulmccartneyofc6883]

1:48 i just wanna share the fact that that blaziken's name means "ass eater" in portuguese

[@dracomenace]

@@paulmccartneyofc6883 That's rough

[@fyrex7797]

6:46 can someone explain to me why hawlucha didnt get intimidated? It can't be because he's behind a sub, and it definitely isn't something like scrappy since its clearly unburden

[@dracomenace]

He's behind sub

[@Hyperneosonic97]

Intimidate doesn't work on 'mons behind a Substitute. It's been this way since the ability's introduction.

[@Illu-b8l]

As they should

[@dracomenace]

@@Illu-b8l Tour players moment

[@draykenly8418]

So they banned another Fun and interesting Mechanic How dull

[@lsl1318]

Tera enjoyers when they have to do more than change the type of their defensive wall

[@dracomenace]

Lol

[@LordTyph]

This is... kinda dumb, i will say. I feel like the terrible balancing is just driving Smogon mad as they struggle to deal with TPC's apathy towards single battles.

[@dracomenace]

I feel dynamax made them more open in banning gimmicks

[@LordTyph]

@@dracomenace It WAS terribly balanced, to be fair At least Z-Moves could be argued to have defensive utility, albeit limited. But what's the point of going defensive when you can lose your core pokemon to an Excadrill that took a turn of two to buff attack before D-Maxing?

[@abarette_]

in natdex? kek, what a bunch of

[@dracomenace]

Lol

[@ryansu6746]

They made a mistake unbanning gambit they just allowed me to unleash the deadliest sucker punches known to ou I am loving the Tera ban mostly because I get to have gambit again

[@dracomenace]

No gambit is safe from tusk now lol

[@ryansu6746]

True but still with zama and tusk in natdex ou as well as urshifu gambit will probs never be banned again so I can continue using it unless pursuit and knock off is just too strong for the tier I don’t even use pursuit and knock off as that would be 3 dark type moves gambit

[@arnavbanerjee3854]

Wow another excuse for people to make when they lose, tbh they might be right

[@TrippyAxis]

they banned tera whattt???

[@dracomenace]

Yep

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

Imo that's what is gonna kill the format, if you didnt like tera you could just go gen 8, tera allowed the immense variety of mons in gen 9 all to be usable

[@falcon9213]

I agree with the last part, but not that middle bit. That's not really valid when it could be argued the same way for gen 8 itself. Why ban dmax? People can just go back to gen 7

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

@falcon9213 yeah? I completely skipped gen 8, didn't like it, didn't play it, before gen 9 was out I mostly played gen 6 cuz I like megas

[@falcon9213]

​@@DIRTkat_ofc that's only half of the point. Point is why would they need to ban dynamax if the solution to any issue with a generation is to just not play it. If people didnt like dynamax they should have just gone back to gen 7 instead of trying to change gen 8

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

@falcon9213 well I wouldn't know, I didn't play gen 8, I've watched it tho and dmax looks absolutely broken, gives you double hp, super strong moves, and the moves also have broken special effects :p so maybe that

[@falcon9213]

@DIRTkat_ofc it is broken, but they could have easily told people to just deal with it or go back to gen 7 if they didnt like it. If people think tera is genuinely broken they absolutely should ban it whether gen 8 is there or not. I don't agree tera is broken but I would agree with the decision to ban if they believe it to be.

[@matteoascione7403]

But it’s banned in NAT DEX OU?

[@dracomenace]

Yes

[@matteoascione7403]

@ thanks, I am not really a Nat dex player so I wasn’t sure 👍🏻

[@arnoldoramos2988]

Hello, I'm Brazilian 🇧🇷 I love your videos, but I just wanted to let you know that the first guy you faced and his blaziken has a name with a really bad meaning here, unfortunately I can't say why, it's just that, have a good video❤

[@dracomenace]

@@arnoldoramos2988 Oh, I see thanks for telling

[@arnoldoramos2988]

@@dracomenace ok 👍

[@SuperGamerNinja1]

No fun allowed police doin what they do best jfc what a joke lmao

[@dracomenace]

Lol

[@Sacambaspis-o9q]

The name of the first guy is " Sucking laughing" in portuguese and the blaziken name is "Eat ass" He should be banned

[@dracomenace]

That's rough

[@victordeluca7360]

Based lmao

[@dracomenace]

:)

[@Canon_Lorelai]

heya!

[@dracomenace]

Heyy

[@Canon_Lorelai]

@@dracomenace How's your day?

[@dracomenace]

@@Canon_Lorelai Good

[@Canon_Lorelai]

@@dracomenace great :)

[@Lucinderace]

I dont feel like tera was broken, and im just sad that a lot of cool stratagies ate unusuable now.

[@dracomenace]

Agreed

[@synthwavesun2450]

tbh I kinda like the Tera ban, bc while Tera can be used for cool strats, it can also be very annoying and is often used for free setup turns, which is braindead although I absolutely don't appreciate Melmetal and Kingambit getting unbanned edit: all these broken mons are unbanned, but Roaring Moon remains banned, even if Tera is gone, which I feel like is, what pushed it over the edge; fuck you Smogon edit 2 (quote from 16/03/24 suspect): "However, Roaring Moon is not without faults, as its relatively mediocre STAB combination forces it into coverage options that generally require it to Terastallize to net KOs"; AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@dracomenace]

Roaring moon made insane use of z moves especially under SUN

[@synthwavesun2450]

@ yeah I can understand that

[@carltonleboss]

Bogus :(

[@dracomenace]

@@carltonleboss Fr

[@Eternity-l7m]

Banning the only thing that is unique for gen 9 is crazy lol

[@dracomenace]

Atleast OU has it

[@MelvinEgbadon-o8k]

Tera is too broken

[@dracomenace]

Not as broken as dmax

[@MelvinEgbadon-o8k]

@@dracomenace fr

[@Mortyspaceship]

Melmetal is Lowkey broken

[@dracomenace]

Fr