Kyurem

Open Master League is the same as it has been.

Palkia Origin, Crowned, Sword, Zacian, Zygarde, Complete, Metagross, Kyurem White, Reshiram, Xerneas, Kyogre, Dialga Origin, and Eternatus.

Coming up there.

I do not have a maxed out Eternatus.

So just some interesting stuff going on with Master League.

If you are into it, I can definitely shout out that top ranked in Master League usage is Ursaluna by a long shot.

If you look at overall usage, Lugia, Crownsword Zacians, Xerneas, Kyurem White, Palkia.

And it's kind of funny because some of these Pokemon go way up or way down just based on the bands week to week.

Now let's get on to your non-mega counters, uh, for this week's raid guide.

And sitting at the top, again, this Pokemon just can't be knocked down, can it? It is White Kyurem running Ice Fang and Ice Burn.

And to follow suit, for Kyurems, you can run Black Kyurem running Dragon Tail and Freeze Shock.

And if you don't have a Kyurem, why not run a Crown form Zacian with Metal Claw and Play Rough?

Or even if you could, like, be able to search for not being able to power it up anymore.

Because, like, I've randomly noticed that I haven't maxed out, like, my Kyurem.

Like, it's, one of them, I forget which form, it's only level 40.

And then after being Xerneas, it's also only 40.

oh The next one is in 2012.

Pokemon the movie Kyurem versus the Sword of Justice.

Oh, I know this

one.

Ash, Iris, and Ceylon team up.

You have Caldeo, Kai, Kyurem, Cobalion, Terrakion, Verizon, and Pikachu.

And the Pokemon are getting much harder to pronounce at this point.

Caldeo challenges the terrifying Kyurem before it's ready, and Ash helps the young Pokemon find the courage to save its fellow Sword of Justice.

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.

The only problem is like...

Even if you, like, are more guaranteed to get your Kyurem, having your Smoochum or Bidoo in play later on is still really bad.

Smoochum's also really good against, like, Slotbox because it allows you to play the game without putting Kangaskhan in play aggressively until you have a prize lead where it's more comfortable because you just need less cards to play the game because it gets you plus two energy in play.

There's not really any, like, board-fixing cards you could play in this deck right now, is there? up cyclone

But moving right along, we've got also the Master League, just regular old Master League, no Megas this week.

So if you're running that, it's Pelkia Origin, Crownsword Zacian, Zygarde, Metagross, Kyurem White, Xerneas, Kyogre, Dialga Origin, Rushram, and Ursa Luna.

A little bit different than last season.

If you are going to play next week, though, it's Megas, Megas, and Megas only.

Sure, it would've been cool to get the background, but I was like, "I don't really want to have to raid so much for it for the background." Uh, some of the Charmanders were actually background in the wild, so it was okay, but I didn't get a shiny with a background in all that, but still, it's like...

Uh, I did get a shiny Eevee from research, uh, a bunch of trades, Eelektross, Kyurem, um, Mewtwo, Dialga.

I got a Foakčko.

I think it was also from the event itself, which was a lone one.