Aegislash

So hopefully that gives you some team ideas, even though we haven't been participating as much ourselves.

I will say, so the top 10 are Melmetal, Mimikyu, Galarian Stunfisk, Shadow Unregular Fortress, Doblade, Registeel, Shadow Unregular Corviknight, Turtonator, Empoleon, and Aegislash are kind of your top 10.

Aegislash is hard to come by.

Dublade is hard to come by.

Mimikyu, obviously, hopefully we'll see a little bit more.

You are going to power it up based on its higher attack form.

Unlike Aegislash, where we power up based on the lower attack form, this one we power up based on the high attack form.

Okay.

I don't get

Those moves make it sound very viable.

It does seem like it could be viable.

Rollout feels like a great move because the one thing it's got over Aegislash is obviously it doesn't have the flexibility to go back and forth between forms.

But the one thing that's interesting is while it's in its bulky form, it can actually generate a decent amount of energy, which is how Aegislash gets balanced for how bulky it is in its shield form.

It is said to live in mountains where humans do not tread.

Aegislash.

Evolves from Da Blade, metal type.

This stance is dedicated to offense.

Oh, so-

... a bootleg Aegislash.

Is it not?

Kind of, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it kind of is.

I mean, Aegislash changes form after it uses a charge attack-

Oh, not when it drops below health

[laughs] Pretty much.

I'm sure, like, Doublade, um, Aegislash kinda stuff is gonna be really good.

Um, and again, custom rankings don't tell you the whole story.

Corviknight will be good.

When its health drops below 50%, it changes form and exposes its core.

Meteor Form, higher defense, and lower attack.

Core Exposed, higher attack, and lower defense." So, like, uh, I, I guess a mini version of Aegislash in that regard.

Yes.

So I guess the core will be a different color.

So it's sort of, it's sort of like Aegislash in a sense.

Hm.

Right.

It's, uh, it's squishier than a Morpeko, so just, just like a little under 100 difference in terms of stat product.

So-

Yeah, so again, so it's sort of like the Aegislash except it doesn't, like, switch back and forth.

It's just like in one form until its HP drops.

They looked back at four specific highly disruptive instances in the past where the Smogon human community voted to ban a single Pokémon.

They looked at the historical bans of Kyurem in the OU tier, Aegislash in the UU tier, Blastoise in the NU tier, and Vanilluxe in the PU tier.

I want you to grasp the scale of this experiment.

You are taking an established meta-game crafted by millions of human decisions.

We love him.

Um, I think it, it also might be tied with, um, with the Aegislash that you traded me in the airport.

Just because, I mean, we had, that was, what a moment that was.

It was awesome.

Undoubtedly, he was right about that.

Malamar and Aegislash.

And my pick was Melmetal, Shadow Canto, Ninetales, Altaria, and Vigoroth.

Not a whole lot of Vigoroth to be seen.