Saturday, August 2, 2014

Aegislash uber by the skin of its... blade?

The voting phase has now concluded, and Aegislash has been sent to ubers - but the real surprise is how close it was. A 60% supermajority was required, and Aegislash just barely obtained that passing grade, with 62%. I'll be honest: with the way people were hyping up how much everyone had to run something JUST for Aegislash, and how effective it was at single-handedly shutting down would-be top threats like Mega Gardevoir and such, I was expecting the ban to be a lot more clear-cut. Then again, this is why the threshold is 60% and not 50%. And you know what the fun part is? Apparently several voters changed their vote during the voting phase, mostly from OU to uber. So Aegislash was just that close to staying, it seems.

This verdict creates two questions. First, now that the so-called "broken" threats have a hard time meeting the threshold, will we be having some stability in OU, provided the aforementioned threats Aegislash countered so well don't start going on a rampage? And second, what does it mean for the Mega Gengar vote in ubers, what with the additional moral conundrum regarding exclusion of non-luck-based elements from ubers? The answers are probably going to come sooner rather than later.

8 comments:

  1. With Aegislash banned, the Mega Gengar vote may be put on hold. It may be found that Aegislash could become Mega Gengar's worst enemy

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    1. Aegislash was already allowed in ubers, so this doesn't change a thing...

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    2. People tend to not notice some pokemon in Ubers until they got banned though. Examples include Mega Gengar, Mega Lucario and Mega Kangaskhan. Remember how after their bannings, their usage in Ubers rose significantly?

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    3. Aegislash is already pretty damn common in ubers already (moreso than Lucario, in fact). If it was a miracle solution to Mega Gengar, we would know already.

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  2. Off topic but still Pokemon related. I guess the hack filters on the Poke Transporter aren't foolproof. I was sending some Speed Boost Torchics on the GTS for some legends because why not and I've been quite successful in getting what was asked. Well some guy just sent me a max IV shiny Latias with Modest nature (had to be from HGSS...also just found out today that they still hold the info on where you got it from all the way to Gen III 'cuz I got another Wonder Trade for a Hoenn Barboach). I don't know if those can be RNG'd or not off hand but if not I'm surprised such a hack got through.

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    1. If the Pokémon can be achieved in a legit manner, no matter how unlikely it is, there's nothing hack filters can do about it. Heck, the guy who won the US national championship last month had an illegal Aegislash (as in, it was caught in a Dream Ball).

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  3. Back on topic, without Aegislash, would there be any ghosts who may rise to OU now that the only other there is Gengar? If not I'm surprised that one of the better defensive types is so under-represented. (I know it's full of a lot of mediocrity but still).

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  4. Aegislash was joined with uber and so there threshold was just increased inspite of user's and they are voting for uber in the names of Aegislash
    R Rajesh

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