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Television proms are nothing like real proms, at least not the proms I attended back in the 1980s. Don't judge me. The 80s were AWESOME! Glee isn't set in the 80s unfortunately. Prom at McKinley High has been historically dramatic. At last year's junior prom we had Karofsky crowned prom king with Kurt as his queen. Finn punched Jesse St. James and Quinn slapped Rachel. Senior prom was considerably less violent but no less dramatic. "Prom-asaurus" was a nice break from the heavy handed social-issue of the week stuff they've been hammering down our throats lately. The music was good, the mood was light (mostly) and it showed us how these characters have grown over the years, some more than others.
Sexy teen trollup Brittany (Heather Morris), in perhaps her only act as class president, took over the prom committee from the terror cell running it and declared the theme to be dinosaurs which included paper mache velociraptors, Sue's prombrosia and cheetah-print Flintstone outfits. Oh and there was the ban on hair gel that really really upset Blaine (Darren Criss). Rachel (Lea Michele) wasn't too keen on the idea either. Depressed over her epic failure at the Nyada audition and jealous over Finn (Cory Monteith) and Quinn (Dianna Agron) campaigning for king and queen she opts to hold an ANTI-PROM for the lonely and disenfranchised. Santana (Naya Rivera) hated this idea and told Rachel so as only Santana can.
Finn, being the eternal good guy, is torn between loving Rachel and wanting to support Quinn who is counting on the sympathy vote to win queen as her final crowning achievement. What nobody knows is that her therapy is going well and she can actually walk again. When he discovers this he gets angry and causes another scene on the dance floor that gets him ejected and sends him back to Rachel where he should have been all along.
Meanwhile Rachel's anti-prom is pretty lame. Kurt and Blaine are bored and obviously want to go to prom despite their fear of reliving last year's humiliation. When Finn shows up he convinces the group to come back with him which means Blaine loses the hair gel and debuts his natural fro to the world. Still cute! Puck and Becky stay behind and after Becky kicks his ass at strip poker he makes her a cardboard crown and they make a grand entrance at the prom. It was very sweet and any excuse to get Puck (Mark Salling) in his underwear gets thumbs up from me.
I mentioned growth before and nowhere was it more evident than in the announcement of prom queen. McKinley's top mean girls Santana and Quinn were tasked with counting the votes and in a surprise move they tossed the ballots and gave the crown to Rachel Berry. I really enjoyed their discussion about how awesome their high school years had been and how they had one last chance to really make a difference. Bravo Glee for taking the high road.
The final moments of the episode really captured what those final few weeks of high school are like for seniors. Tina's tearful admission that she really doesn't want it to end was sweet. I remember feeling much the same way, only with fewer tears and less singing.
Speaking of singing, the music this week was all over the place stylistically but overall pretty good. Rachel, Kurt and Blaine's performance of Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" was almost perfect. It wasn't the right song for Kurt's range but I thought but he did a good job. Brittany's "Dinosaur" was odd and quirky and fun but nothing I want to hear ever again. Santana tore up "Love You Like a Love Song" and the guys made the ladies swoon with "What Makes You Beautiful". The hour rounded out with Quinn and Santana belting out "Take My Breath Away" where Quinn stood up for the first time in front of her friends. Mercedes said it best. PRAISE!
Like I said before, TV proms are not like real proms but that is okay. If Glee had modeled this episode after my prom experience then Kurt would have gone to prom with Mercedes, stayed for half an hour, met up with the rest of Glee club at The Waffle House for a late dinner and then ended up bowling. I had fun but I doubt the tv viewing public would agree.
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Hawken is a multiplayer mech combat game that would be a great buy. But it's free to play, and that comes at a price.
Update 6/21/13: Having spent more time with the game and had discussions with Hawken's developers, I think my early gut reactions and first impressions to the free to play nature of the game were wrong. I still have some quibbles with the model, but as far as F2P models go, Hawken does a very good job and is only getting better over time.
I started playing Hawken yesterday. The mech combat game is graphically stunning, especially for an indie title. The terrain, the mechs themselves, all of it looks gorgeous. Indeed, beyond graphics, the control scheme and movement of the mechs feels great, though I haven't played a mech simulator in ages so I have little to compare it to.
But I just couldn't play for that long, because I knew that almost the entire game was blocked off to me behind the Freemium paywall. Such a good-looking game, such a shame it's been chopped up into pay-as-you-go morsels.
For instance, you start off with just one mech and you have to buy access to the others.
Yes, you can earn currency to put toward this effort as you play but you'll realize quickly that such an endeavor will cost you a great many hours.
And you'll be forced to fight against paying customers as you go since match-making is, as Nathan Grayson puts it, "basically broken. Seriously. It does not make matches. It breaks them. I'm not sure what arcane principles guide it to make the pairings it does, but a markedly higher-than-zero number of level 1-5 teams tossed into the deep end against level 20s forces me to suspect warlocks are involved."
Pay to win is a death sentence as far as I'm concerned. Free to play can work. In theory it could work quite well, but in practice very few games achieve that perfect balance and only a handful achieve a good balance. They almost always feel unsportsmanlike to me, and Hawken is no exception.
Now imagine the game cost $20 like Torchlight 2 (which sold over 1 million units in 2012) or even $40 or more. You'd have access to everything from the get-go, but might have to purchase DLC later on. Everyone would start out with access to all the mechs or would be able to unlock them simply by playing the game for X amount of hours. The playing field, at least in the beginning, would be level since everyone would have the same access.
I understand that people are looking to find better revenue streams for their games, but we shouldn't be breaking the very nature of games in order to do that. Free-to-play too often goes against the very grain of competitive gameplay and fairness that makes games fun in the first place. Hawken is certainly a very promising title, but it's been crippled badly by its adoption of a freemium revenue model.
Yes, this is still a game in beta form, but in a sense most free-to-play games always feel like they're in beta form unless you fork over a great deal more money than you would for a typical PC or console title.
As Grayson also notes, "free-to-play comes at a paradoxically high cost, roping off all mech classes except a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none recruit machine that looks like a walking television. (Somewhat hilariously, its codename is CR-T.) Hawken's XP/in-game currency accumulation rate is quite slow, too, so unlocking any of the more interesting classes takes hours. In the meantime, you can always drop precious spacebucks on a slow trickle of items, weapons, and other miscellaneous upgrades, but the agonizing rate of progress certainly doesn't befit Hawken's race of fleet-footed colossi."
It's quite similar to the model you see utilized in so many free mobile games, and is another reason I find the prospect of the Ouya console with its "free only" game catalog a less-than-exciting one.
In what game nowadays do you have all options available to you from the very beginning? Even in casual CoD you have level restrictions on the types of guns you can buy. And mechs in Hawken are just that- different weapon setups with one unique "perk."
And what's wrong with 20 matches? Again, that just goes back to my original comment about gamers these days wanting everything straight out of the box. How many total matches do you think you played when Counterstrike first came out? 20 matches… is nothing.
But my real point, and the reason for me calling you a liar, is because you imply very strongly that this game is Pay to Win. Which is utter nonsense. I have shown that casual people can pick this game up and be competitive with ZERO real money investment- that's what makes you a liar, or "misleader" take your pick.
If you were to create a new Hawken account right now, you have access to the starter mech (which is more or less equivalent to the Assault class), the two free mechs, the berserker and the brawler, and 10k credits with which you can buy whichever mech you want.
So, thats 2 owned mechs and 2 free ones the instant you boot up the game. For people who haven't played Hawken yet, there are 9 total mechs in the game. By the time you get a couple of mechs leveled to 25, you will have more than enough HC points to buy whatever you want to buy. And even with just the starter mech, you are competitive right out of the box.
Where's the Pay to Win? Maybe in theory, maybe the author just doesn't like the IDEA of P2W, and I doubt most people do. But to use an online pulpit to demonize this game based on some pre-existing hatred for a theoretically offensive business model… especially when the game in question isn't P2W… as I have pointed out… amounts to no more than lies.
People have to grind a bit to open access to more weapon setups. Other people can pay for this. But most people will not pay because the nature of an fps game means that you grind matches. And most mech unlocks are just different weapon configurations (not even actual weapon unlocks). So there isn't even an inherent advantage in having a access to all mechs. It's just variety.
This game doesn't require a single cent to be competitive. It amazes me to see how all these people just basically spewing nonsense about something they obviously know nothing about.
One guy actually compared the F2P model to cell phone games with limited free trials. AFTER admitting that he hasn't played any of the F2P games listed by the tard author. I know this is the internet and everybody is entitled to an opinion, but ffs, at least do a little bit of research before opening your mouth.
Wow, such a strong fanboy defense mechanism you got there. Even if you said thousand of times that in Hawken you can still survive without pay a penny it still doesn't deny that it gives advantage to paying-player. Erik wouldn't make this article at all if ALL player PAYING or NOT still have to grind to unlock things. Its about sportmanship since its a frikkin MULTIPLAYER. If you don't believe sportmanship in multiplayer-oriented video games, then the games are still have a long way to go to become "sports".
Serious fanboy-ism sometime shutdown even basic logic. No wonder the industries think of us like cash cow they can milk in the way whatever they want.
The problem is that Erik is labeling Hawken as a pay-to-win game, when pay-to-win (as I understand it) refers to any game where monetizing players have access to content that is *denied* to free players and which constitutes a clear advantage over them.
The starting mech that everyone gets, the CR-T Recruit, has the same stats as any other middleweight mech.
It is not underpowered compared to any other mech in the game. In fact, it has some advantages that most other mechs do not.
A player is not competitively disadvantaged by using the CR-T.
This is what's so frustrating about articles that misrepresent a game. People who have never played the game for themselves, or even heard of it, take the article as truth and then dismiss anyone who has experience with the game and disagrees with the article as a "fanboy."
It's not as QED as you make it sound, Erik, especially as you seem to be ignoring certain points. The problem is that you insist that players who are using a mech other than the starter *must* have some kind of competitive advantage, when that's not case. Ergo, you are misrepresenting the game.
And here the author reveals he has very little idea of what pay2win actually is.
Pay2win is when a player is able to buy in game items with real that grant a direct game play advantage and non-paying players can not ever purchase that item. For example, Gold bullets that do more damage, A gun that has less recoil but other than that is completely the same as a "Free" gun.
Hawken is pay2notgrind, and its actually one of the least offensive pay2notgrind systems. In Hawken, players start with one of the best/most versatile mechs in the game. They are not at a competitive disadvantage because the mechs are balanced fairly well. An example of a bad pay2notgrind model is mechwarrior online, where players start with awful trial mechs that cannot earn xp.
Authors are entitled to their opinions, but in some cases (like this one) they can be wrong from a definitional standpoint.
P.S. Author, if you don't want people "frothing at the mouth" then you should avoid writing about things you have very little experience with. I'm not mad that you have that opinion, its your opinion and if its ill-informed i really don't care. The problem is you are passing your ill-informed opinion onto other people that trust you and will accept it without doing their own research.
Its a shame that a few people (lets be honest here, its definitely not many, your articles don't get that much traffic), wont play this game simply because you incorrectly called it pay2win. I expected more from Forbes.


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The T-Bucket™ Bass E acoustic bass guitar is even more supercharged now, with upgraded features including a remarkable new holographic rosette inlay, new 12th-fret "F" logo inlay design.
The other great T-Bucket™ Bass E features you already know are still here, too, including the Sunburst flame maple top with quartersawn scalloped "X" bracing, mahogany back and sides, elegant neck and body binding, T-Bucket rosette and headstock pinstriping, and 32" medium scale length. Other features include mahogany neck with 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, rosewood bridge with compensated saddle, forward mounted strap button, end-pin jack, and Fishman® Isys III pickup/active preamp system with built-in chromatic tuner, on/off switch, three-band EQ and volume control.
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I've never owned an acoustic bass before, and got this one after futzing with it for a few minutes in the local guitar store, having gone specifically to trade a Modern-Player Telecaster I wasn't playing enough for an acoustic bass to go with the electric I play all the time. Primarily for practice without an amp and to have something to mess around with other people who are playing other random acoustic instruments. It is really quite a nice instrument, and I'm glad I got it. Especially considering how it cost virtually nothing, including the trade in. It sounds great, plays loud enough with a pick without being plugged in, sounds spectacular amped, and looks fantastic. The built-in tuner seems a little off (I had trouble tuning it with just the onboard tuner, and switched to an external number, and that worked fine. The onboard never seems to want to accept that any string is completely in tune…). But that also could just be me. Seems like a great value for a flexible instrument.
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Its very quiet when not plugged in but that should be expected with an acoustic bass its very easy to play looks amazing sounds great plugged or unplugged
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This bass is absolutely amazing! The shorter scale makes it perfect for people just starting out on bass. It's super comfortable to play and has an amazing tone! Awesome buy for the money
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The T-Bucket is a medium scale acoustic bass that gives you sweet and lowdown tones for a very good price.
The neck has a convenient feel even for smaller hands. Its body is "grand concert sized" which is not too big, so it's easy to play seated on your couch to play with your favourite music or just noodling around.
It may be a bit silent for using it around a campfire but plugged in an amp and stringed with some nylon coated strings you get a deep bass tone that sounds almost like an upright bass.
The T-Bucket may not be the best choice for the bass pro but for guitarists and/or bass beginners like me it's the best choice to start with.
Big bang for the bucks!
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Model Name: | T-Bucket™ Bass E, Rosewood Fingerboard, 3-Color Sunburst, Flame Maple |
Model Number: | 0968081000 |
Series: | Acoustic Bass Guitars |
Color: | 3-Color Sunburst |
Body Material: | Flame Maple Top with Laminted Mahogany Back and Sides |
Body Finish: | Gloss Polyurethane |
Body Shape: | Grand Concert |
Bracing: | Quartersawn Scalloped "X" |
Rosette: | T-Bucket Pinstriped |
Body Binding: | Multiple |
Body Back: | Laminated Mahogany |
Body Sides: | Laminated Mahogany |
Body Top: | Laminated Flame Maple |
Neck Material: | Mahogany |
Neck Finish: | Gloss |
Neck Shape: | "C" Shape |
Neck Binding: | Ivory |
Scale Length: | 32" (813 mm) |
Fingerboard: | Rosewood |
Fingerboard Radius: | 11.81" (300 mm) |
Number of Frets: | 22 |
String Nut: | Graph Tech® NuBone™ |
Nut Width: | 1.650" (42 mm) |
Position Inlays: | Dot |
Controls: | Built-In Chromatic Tuner with On/Off Switch, Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble |
Special Electronics: | Fishman® Isys III System with Active Onboard Preamp and Tuner |
Bridge: | Rosewood with Compensated Graph Tech® Nubone™ Saddle |
Hardware Finish: | Chrome |
Pickguard: | None |
Strings: | Fender® Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Bass 7060, (.045-.095 Gauges) |
Unique Features: | Holographic T-Bucket rosette, 12th-fret "F" logo, "C"-shaped mahogany neck, forward mounted strap button, end-pin jack, Graph Tech NuBone™ nut and saddle, 3-Color Sunburst flame maple top, 32" medium scale |


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There's little room left for debate: any way you dice it, social media is mainstream. That should be good news for social media experts and gurus, right? Perhaps not.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that The New York Times was essentially eliminating its 'social media editor' position. The person who held it, Jennifer Preston, would become a full-time reporter again.
According to Poynter.org's Mallary Jean Tenore, who spoke with Preston, The New York Times determined that it really didn't need a social media editor. The reason? In Preston's own words, "Social media can't belong to one person; it needs to be part of everyone's job." She explained:
For us to really, truly sustain and scale the use of the social media tools we need to have our desk and department heads and section editors owning the social media channels and managing the conversation that's taking place.
The realization that one person, or one department, can't and shouldn't be responsible for 'social media' is yet another reminder of the increasing maturity in the space. A year or two ago, having a social media editor made sense for a lot of publishers. After all, it was becoming evident that social media was really important, but how it should be used was still a big question mark. Having one or more people dedicated to the emerging channel permitted publishers to figure things out and experiment without creating chaos.
But today, social media is in many ways a part of the internet's fabric. For many, social media sites like Facebook are used just as often as email, yet you will probably won't find an 'email editor' at a major newspaper. And for good reason: email, like social media, is a tool, and if you're in the business of reporting the news, knowing how to interact with the social media sphere is a fast becoming a prerequisite for the job. Given this, The New York Times was smart to question whether it needs a social media editor.
Expect other organizations to eventually ask similar questions when it comes to dedicated social media positions they've created. Many will probably come to the same conclusion as The New York Times: placing social media in a silo isn't necessary anymore, and it's potentially harmful. The irony of this is that over time, we'll likely see fewer and fewer dedicated 'social media' positions even as social media usage rises. Instead, expect to see the words 'social media' move from the job title to the job description.


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Well well. Time to do for Papa Tree. Obamasnow [Overview]
Abomasnow is unique in the fact that it is the only automatic weather setter in UU. With its ability, Snow Warning, Abomasnow can summon hail for teams that can utilize it to flourish in. That's not all Abomasnow has going for it; it has solid base 92 offensive stats and great offensive options to utilize them with. Abomasnow also has decent defenses to boot, and when combined with key resistances to Water-, Electric-, and Ground-types, Abomasnow can serve as a decent defensive Pokemon that can check threats such as Raikou and Kingdra. However, the fun ends there. Abomasnow has seven crippling weaknesses, not including its weakness to Stealth Rock, which greatly hinder its survivability. A low Speed stat isn't doing it any favors either; many things can outspeed and beat Abomasnow before it can react. Its offensive stats, while solid, are not exactly stellar, so it may not hit hard enough at times. Despite these flaws, Abomasnow makes for a great asset to any hail team in the UU tier.
 [SET] name: SubSeed move 1: Substitute move 2: Leech Seed move 3: Blizzard move 4: Wood Hammer / Giga Drain item: Leftovers ability: Snow Warning nature: Sassy / Calm evs: 248 HP / 252 SpD / 8 Spe [SET COMMENTS]
Abomasnow's best set is a SubSeed set. With decent bulk and good resistances, Abomasnow can set up Leech Seed on threats such as Raikou, Krookodile, and Slowbro. Abomasnow can wear down the opponent with its automatic hail combined with Leech Seed, making it a solid staller. Unlike other SubSeed users, Abomasnow also has Ice STAB to handle Grass-types that typically stop this strategy cold. Substitute is the first move of this set, as it allows Abomasnow to avoid status while setting up Leech Seed for free and thus recover any HP lost. Leech Seed is important to this set's success as well, as Abomasnow aims to wear down the opponent with hail and Leech Seed while also providing itself with a decent form of recovery. Blizzard is Abomasnow's best STAB move, as it cannot miss under hail, while also dishing out a solid amount of damage. Wood Hammer is chosen as its Grass-type STAB to maim things that don't mind Blizzard, as well as Snorlax and SubCM Raikou. However, Giga Drain is an alternative that's useful as a recovery move and also sports a decent Base Power.
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The EV spread is specially defensive to allow Abomasnow to check Electric- and Water-types such as Raikou and Suicune and overall take more advantage of Abomasnow's typing. Depending on what move Abomasnow runs for a Grass STAB, either a Calm or Sassy Nature is needed to maximize Special Defense. Leftovers is there as an extra source of recovery, as Abomasnow lacks any outside of Leech Seed. Protect is a useful option over Wood Hammer or Giga Drain to rack up the hail and Leech Seed damage while also damaging Mienshao.

Mienshao is a good teammate to handle opposing Steel-types while not minding hail. Because Abomasnow hates entry hazards of all kinds, Blastoise and Claydol are both useful to remove them while sporting useful defensive type synergy. Xatu is also a usable choice to bounce back entry hazards while spreading paralysis, allowing Abomasnow to stall more easily. Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen all have excellent defensive synergy with Abomasnow and can work well in hail, while the latter can take advantage of hail itself with Blizzard. Since Abomasnow summons hail, an Ice-type is ideal to take advantage of it; Rotom-F and Walrein are common hail sweepers that should be used in conjunction with Abomasnow.
 [SET] name: Mixed Attacker move 1: Blizzard move 2: Wood Hammer / Giga Drain move 3: Earthquake / Focus Punch move 4: Ice Shard item: Expert Belt ability: Snow Warning nature: Lonely evs: 252 Atk / 108 SpA / 148 Spe [SET COMMENTS]
Abomasnow has good mixed attacking stats and a solid offensive movepool, which allow it to serve as a great mixed attacker. It has excellent coverage with its two STABs alone, and it can break common defensive Pokemon such as Slowbro and Gligar thanks to its mixed attacking prowess. Blizzard serves as primary Ice STAB, packing a great amount of power while boasting perfect accuracy in hail. Wood Hammer is an excellent secondary STAB, hitting Pokemon that resist Blizzard hard while also helping against Snorlax. Giga Drain, however, is useful for recovery while still being decently powerful. Earthquake is a useful coverage move, nailing threats such as Darmanitan and Bisharp, which resist Abomasnow's STABs, for super effective damage. Focus Punch, however, is useful to catch incoming Snorlax if Giga Drain is chosen, while still being useful against Bisharp. Finally, Ice Shard is chosen to pick off weakened opponents and to revenge kill Flygon.
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The Speed EVs aim to outspeed minimum Speed Blastoise, an important benchmark to hit. Attack is maximized with this EV spread and a Lonely nature is used to deal significant damage to Snorlax, while the remaining EVs are dumped into Special Attack. To be able to effectively revenge kill Flygon, Abomasnow should not invest any lower than 140 EVs in Attack. An Expert Belt is chosen to make good use of Abomasnow's excellent coverage while not wearing it down like a Life Orb would do. Because Abomasnow summons hail, Rotom-F and Walrein are good partners to take advantage of it. Blastoise, Claydol, and Cryogonal are useful to provide Rapid Spin support for Abomasnow, as it dislikes all kinds of entry hazards. Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen are useful thanks to their synergy with Abomasnow, while also being able to make good use of the hail themselves. Weather Ball Raikou can also make use of the hail. Mienshao can take care of Steel-types for Abomasnow while not being bothered by the hail thanks to Regenerator. Finally, Xatu is a usable option to bounce back entry hazards and spread paralysis.
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Abomasnow has a number of other options at its disposal. It has Focus Punch, which it can run a SubPunch set with, but this is rather situational due to Abomasnow's mediocre defensive typing. It can run a Choice Scarf to revenge kill Pokemon such as Nidoqueen and Honchkrow, but it is far too slow to make effective use of it; for example, even with the boost, it barely misses out on outpacing base 115 Speed Pokemon such as Raikou and Azelf. Abomasnow has a couple of other physical moves such as Avalanche, Double-Edge, and Rock Slide. It can also run Swords Dance, but again, it is too slow to make use of the move. Abomasnow also can run Hidden Power and Shadow Ball as semi-decent coverage moves. Finally, it has some useful support moves such as Toxic and Light Screen, which can be useful to wear down bulkier opponents and soften special hits, respectively.
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Fire-types, such as Chandelure, Darmanitan, and Victini, are by far Abomasnow's worst nightmare, as they resist both of its STAB moves and hit it super effectively. They must, however, be wary of an incoming Earthquake. Steel-types such as Escavalier and Bisharp are also notable, hitting Abomasnow hard with their STAB moves while again resisting both of its STABs. Flying-types such as Crobat, Togekiss, and Yanmega can check Abomasnow thanks to their STAB hitting it super effectively; however, a Blizzard or Ice Shard can deal serious damage to them on the switch. Fighting-types such as Mienshao and Heracross can hit Abomasnow before it reacts. Snorlax can come in on most of what Abomasnow has to offer aside from Wood Hammer or Focus Punch and retaliate with Fire Punch, Body Slam, or Return. Constant pressure from entry hazards will also quickly shorten Abomasnow's life thanks to its weakness to Stealth Rock. In short, taking advantage of Abomasnow's numerous weaknesses is the best way to remove it. However, the way to remove Abomasnow's hail is to change the weather by the use of Pokemon such as Prankster Tornadus, and to a lesser extent, Volbeat.
 Skeleton (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Skeleton (open) Skeleton (close) [SET COMMENTS] (SubSeed) Abomasnow makes for a solid SubSeeder with good bulk and alright typing Substitute is to allow Abomasnow to use Leech Seed on an incoming Fire Leech Seed to wear down the opponent and heal Abomasnow Blizzard for Ice STAB. Work well with Abomasnow summoning hail Wood Hammer to hurt Waters, and hits Lax harder. Also helps to actually beat SubCM Raikou Giga Drain could work well too for recovery [AC] (SubSeed) EV spread gives some pretty good special bulk, allows it to take on Shaymin, Raikou, Cofagrigus, and Bulky Waters more easily Calm or Sassy to be sure you have enough Special Defense to utilize the mixed bulk Protect can be useful to block a hit and basically free turn of Lefties/Seed, plus Hail damage Leftovers for obvious reasons Mienshao is good to smash a lot of Pokemon and not care about hail Blastoise is useful to spin and take on Darma Claydol (lol) also works to spin There are useful things like Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen who work well (some can check things that wreck Aboma a new one) Hail abusers such as Rotom-F and Walrein Also, Weather Ball Raikou works to abuse Ice Weather Ball, but will be worn down [Set Comments] (Mixed) Abomasnow makes for a great mixed attacker thanks to his good offensive stats and typing This one can do some heavy damage to Snorlax and Swampert and give Gligar the chills Blizzard for Ice STAB, hail allows it to never, ever miss. (Gligar is running in fear right now) Giga Drain is second STAB, hurts Slowbro, Suicune, Blastoise, etc. Also recovery Focus Punch is there to catch incoming Snorlax as well as Umbreon and Bisharp EQ is for a stronger weapon against the steel and hurts Chandy / Darma, but leaves Abomasnow prone to Bronzong Ice Shard for priority, can catch Scarf Flygon if it's there [AC] (Mixed) 252 is invested into Attack to hit rather hard with Wood Hammer and Focus Punch, which is needed to catch Snorlax and his gang 108 EVs give a decent Special Attack to use Blizzard with 140 Atk EV's minimum to KO Flygon with Ice Shard 148 Spe to outspeed a couple slow things like Blastoise and Claydol Expert Belt to make the most out of Abomasnow's great coverage Lonely to make the Attack stat high. Besides, Abomasnow is weak to most physical attacks anyways Kinda hard to counter directly with the awesome coverage This thing hates SR Blastoise makes for a good teammate. Can spin SR reliably and take on those Fire-types. Great synergy with the tree (Claydol also works) Use things that take advantage of hail like Rotom-F and Walrein Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen are all good on hail Weather Ball Raikou, but worn down [Set Comments] (CB) This set hits pretty damn hard Abomasnow has the moves and Attack to do this effectively Can catch common switch-ins such as Fire-types and Snorlax His typing ensures not even the two premier physical walls, Slowbro and Gligar, are safe against this thing Wood Hammer is for Grass STAB. Slowbro takes some real pain Ice Shard for Ice STAB and priority. Gligar hates it, and it can pick off frail things like Mienshao Earthquake to catch suspecting Chandelures and Darmanitans on the switch in Ice Punch to send Gligar running for cover [AC] (CB) EV's invest maximum into Attack to use CB effectively 204 Spe EV's to get the jump on Gligar, and rest into HP Adamant to use CB effectively Pretty hard to counter directly Again, Blastoise is a useful (needed) ally to spin rocks away and take on Chandy and Darma Claydol also works, puts up Rocks to stack damage, spins, and can check a few things (smd Hitmontop) Mienshao is very useful to deal with the Steel, Regenerator makes sure it doesn't give two fucks about hail damage Rotom-F and Walrein abuse Aboma's hail well Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen are useful to benefit from and/or support hail well Again, try and get something that can take advantage of Abomasnow's Snow Warning Weather Ball Raikou works but is worn down [OO] A SubPunch set could be used Scarf could be used, but Aboma is too slow to run it, doesn't even outspeed +115's like Raikou and Ambipom(lol) Avalanche Double-Edge Ice Punch Light Screen Shadow Ball Rock Slide It has Swords Dance, but is pretty damn slow Toxic [C&C] Any Fire-type Crobat, but beware Blizzard or Ice Shard Bisharp Mienshao, Heracross, etc. Escavalier Sableye can be annoying Stealth Rock Bronzong Nidoking / Nidoqueen Yanmega Snorlax Honchkrow can smash it with Brave Bird and start a Moxie sweep, but it must be wary of Ice Shard Registeel is an alright check (lol this Pokemon) Togekiss?? Tornadus checks it
On the mixed attacker, you say that wood hammer is great for suicune, blastoise and slowbro, who basically all invest in physifql defense. With that in mind, why not simply use Grass Knot or Giga Drain and make Abomasnow specially based, with enough attack to ko flygon with ice shard? Wood hammer is doing diddlt squat to chansey anyway and will probably hurt you more than her. I get that wood hammer is strong, but tbh i dont see the benefits or it over a special grass move
I might as well consider that. And there is no need to mention Chansey-it was quickbanned into BL last Sunday.
Agreeing with Cherub Agent, most Water-types invest heavily in physical defense so a special Grass-type move is better (frankly I'd use Giga Drain since it's a means of recovery and Grass Knot isn't that much powerful against its targets anyway, except for the incredibly heavy Suicune lol). Also, I used Earthquake to have it act as a secondary check to Raikou w/o Aura Sphere (mainly SubCM), it needs 283 Attack EVs to KO it after SR and one turn of Hail in case you're planning on giving it a more special bias. You say 112 EVs helps outspeed Blastoise, which is wrong. 112 reaches 184, while minimum Speed Blastoise has 192 Speed. Getting min Speed Blastoise seems like a big deal to me. In a similar topic, I don't like the EVs of the SubSeed set. It can't set up on much, which is why I'd strongly suggest you invest heavily in Speed, to at least get min Speed Blastoise again (148 EVs are needed) so as to prevent it from Toxicing you. Actually, that benchmark should be for all sets except for Scarf imo. What I'd do is max HP, put enough Speed for Blastoise and the rest in Special Attack, but that's up discussion. I also find the lack of a Choice Scarf set disturbing, I haven't actually tried it but it could be useful even in UU where there aren't weather wars, so I wouldn't dismiss it so quickly. It also has a good surprise effect against stuff that think can KO you, such as LO Nidoking—it can also beat Tornadus iirc.
Every set and the overview needs to place more emphasis on Abomasnow's ability to reliably switch into and check Water-types, which is (from my experience) one of its main strengths. Mixed Attacker: - The EVs are inefficient, as its SpA is higher than its Attack (which gets the nature boost). A Mild nature with 204 Atk and 156 SpA has one more point in Special Attack with the same Attack; it's minor, but there's no reason not to use that spread instead. - Earthquake also probably deserves to be the first slash over Hidden Power Fire; Darmanitan/Chandelure/Victini (who resist everything else on the set) are both more prevalent and more immediately threatening than Bronzong/Escavalier/Bisharp; it's also stronger against Snorlax, who can otherwise switch into anything, and you really never want to give free switch-ins to a Choice Bander. - You also haven't mentioned any KOs that Expert Belt secures. - What exactly is Ice Shard supposed to hit? I think it could be slashed or replaced with Substitute or a coverage move (Earthquake/HP Fire). SubSeed: - Wood Hammer is the first slash for the fourth slot, but the first nature slash is Calm. - It's also worth mentioning that Wood Hammer hits Snorlax on its weaker side, but vice versa for every Water-type except boosted Suicune. - In any case, Giga Drain + 148 Spe should be the main set with Sassy + Wood Hammer in AC. - Mention teammates that can use Toxic Spikes in AC. Choice Band: - Emphasize how it beats common switch-ins, most notably Fire-types (with Earthquake) and Snorlax (with Focus Punch), which can pave the way for a sweep. - 184 Speed EVs; 84 only outspeeds minimum speed Bisharp (which is nonexistent), Hitmontop, Umbreon (which can be outsped with 44), Swampert, and Porygon2 (which can both be outsped with 4).
these are in conflict some indication that you didn't just pull the EV spread out of your ass would be nice. none of this "to hit hard" stuff.
Ok it's late but I'm going to take a shot at this. Here's what I think the mixed attacker should look like: [SET] name: Mixed Attacker move 1: Blizzard move 2: Wood Hammer / Giga Drain move 3: Earthquake / Focus Punch move 4: Ice Shard item: Expert Belt ability: Snow Warning nature: Lonely evs: 140 Atk / 220 SpA / 148 Spe Wood Hammer is better than Grass Knot/Giga Drain. It has much higher base power (which means it does a shitton more to neutral switch-ins), it's stronger against Blastoise, and it 2HKOes CB Snorlax with Hail damage. The damage output is only slightly less against Suicune and Slowbro, but they cant beat you anyway. Focus Punch is a pretty good option if you opt to use Giga Drain instead of Wood Hammer, since it lets you OHKO Snorlax on the switch, and deal upwards of 70% to Umbreon. The EVs let you OHKO Flygon with Ice Shard and outspeed min Blastoise, with the remainder in Special Attack. The subseeder should be using a spread of 248 HP / 252 SpD / 8 Spe with a Sassy nature and Wood Hammer slashed before Calm nature and Giga Drain. It needs full investment in Special Defense so it can tank Raikou, Shaymin, Cofag, and [insert Bulky Water] more effectively. Wood Hammer should be the primary choice so you can actually beat CM Raikou. As for the CB set, the fourth slot should just be filled with Ice Punch since Focus punch has redundant coverage with Earthquake and it doesn't prevent you from being walled by Bronzong at all. Its EVs should be 54 Hp / 252 Atk / 204 Spe to get the jump on minimum speed base 85's.
The problem with Wood Hammer is that the recoil is nasty if you aren't using Leftovers, either slash Lefties first or change the order of your secondary STAB and mention Leftovers as another item it can run, at least Giga Drain gives you a form of recovery... Also that EV spread is weird, if you're running three physical moves you should invest more in Attack—like, enough to KO Raikou after SR and Hail with Earthquake, or something like that—imo. The spread yields 280 Atk and 275 SpA, unless the Special Attack EVs guarantee Blizzard does something I'd rather go with max Atk. Mention an alternate spread in the SubSeeder of 248 HP / 112 SpD / 148 Spe Calm when using Giga Drain, to be able to switch into Blastoise's Scald and Sub up before it Toxic's you. In case he has Dragon Tail over Roar, that works even better since it can't phaze you on the predicted Substitute. EDIT: Feel free to disregard my comment on Wood Hammer, I had just woken up and the notion '2HKOes Offensive Snorlax after Hail' didn't really get to me. That's definitely big, considering how well it does to get rid of Lax for later Blizzspamming, so yea, Wood Hammer is worth it even if it means you'll die to recoil—I still wouldn't switch Lax into Aboma without knowing whether it was a SubSeeder or not, but that's just me. I'm still rather adamant on the fact that not maxing Attack when running three physical moves is rather silly, but you can defend the given spread if you want to.
With Ernesto's post in mind, use the set I posted with an EV Spread of 252 Atk / 108 SpA / 148 Spe. In AC, mention that 140 Atk EVs is the minimum you should run should you choose to focus on Special Attack with Giga Drain > Wood Hammer. (140 Atk EVs to OHKO Flygon with Ice Shard) Dragon Tail has -6 priority so it goes last regardless of whether Aboma is slower than Blastoise or not. I'm fine with this spread being in AC, although its use is rather limited and Blastoise is more likely to use Roar, or just switch out. Implement everything else I said in my previous post, and change the set order so it's 1) SubSeed 2) Mixed Attacker 3)Choice Band. Also, Protect deserves an AC mention for the SubSeed set, it's really useful for racking up Hail/Leech Seed damage and scouting choiced attackers. Put Choice Scarf in Other Options, Abomasnow is too slow to make proper use of a Scarf set, and it doesn't even outrun +115's after the boost.
What I meant to say with Dragon Tail was that, if the Blastoise user were to predict you to use Substitute—because he saw your Lefties recovery or whatever—with Roar it could make you effectively waste 25% of Aboma's health for nothing, while D-Tail couldn't break your Sub should WS Venomoth become more popular. Of course, the Blastoise user would be taking a huge unnecessary risk, but that's a different situation. Other than that, thank you for taking my thoughts into consideration!
AC is for specific counters that work exceptionally well against a particular set, general checks and counters like Darmanitan and Bronzong belong in C&C. Don't mention Mandibuzz as a teammate, it is completely irrelevant in UU. You need to add Rotom-F, Walrein, Slowbro, Escavalier and Nidoqueen - Rotom-F and Walrein are two of the best Hail abusers in the tier, and Slowbro, Escavalier, and Nidoqueen are commonly seen on Hail teams for their ability to benefit from/support Hail teams. You may also want to mention that Weather Ball Raikou is incredibly dangerous in Hail, because it can run Thunderbolt / HP Grass / Weather Ball to beat all of its usual counters, but it dies quickly to residual damage. You also need to expand your C&C section quite a lot before I can approve this, it's far too skimpy right now.
mention what 148 speed beats exactly in the AC of the mixed set (find out if you don't know) QC Approved 1/3
QC Approved 2/3 Add more emphasis on the need for a spinner on the CB set. Abomasnow's inability to switch moves and bounce in and out of a match due to its Stealth Rock weakness really hurts it. I'd also add mention of Xatu - it's not the ideal teammate, but it can keep entry hazards away from Abomasnow and can spread Paralysis, which "fixes" Abomasnow's paltry speed.
Just a note I found while going through Speed tiers. Gligar's set is listed with 4 Speed EVs, meaning it needs 208 Spe EVs on the CB set to outspeed
Choice Band seems really unnecessary. I can't think of a single instance where you would need the extra power to facilitate a KO on a wall. You aren't breaking Bronzong regardless of what item you hold, Slowbro is going to fall to it regardless of what it does and so is Gligar. Snorlax is 2HKO'd with or without CB... Umbreon is too with Stealth Rock on the field. You actually fare BETTER against Zapdos because before, Ice Punch would fail to KO Zapdos and it could start Roost stalling. Now, you can Ice Punch and then use Earthquake when it tries to Roost (CB OHKO'ing Zapdos when Rocks are on the field is a moot point, Ice Punch + Ice Shard KOs Zapdos without retaliation, so in that scenario they both essentially "OHKO"). They both OHKO Flygon with Ice Shard, they both fail to KO Crobat after Stealth Rocks, so there goes the argument that "CB can revenge better". Honestly, I can't think of a single compelling case for Choice Band. I would never use it. If i was using 4 attack physical attacking, I would use Leftovers 100% of the time.
Yeti (Abomasnow) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Snow Warning Shiny: Yes EVs: 16 Atk / 252 SAtk / 240 Spd Hasty Nature - Blizzard - Giga Drain - Ice Shard - Earthquake I think this choice scarfed set should be mentioned, because it provides counters to bulky waters. It also gets the drop on Zapdos, Tornadus, Honchkroww, Nidos, with OhKOing to 2HKOing them(some other too that I'm probably forgetting)
Oi! Sorry it took me so long, I'd forgot about this and then I had final exams to take care of. First off, I agree with LN that CB isn't that great, so imo it should be removed. However, I want people to test this set: [SET] name: Physical Attacker move 1: Leech Seed / Swords Dance (maybe AC) move 2: Ice Shard move 3: Wood Hammer (maybe Seed Bomb slash when using Life Orb) move 4: Earthquake item: Leftovers / Life Orb ability: Snow Warning (obviously) nature: Adamant evs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spe (if that's Speed creeping move the 4 ev's elsewhere; Porygon-Z's Agility set had the leftover 4 ev's on Speed, so I dunno if it's that bad) Leech Seed is great because you're luring stuff like Snorlax in and recovering like 20% HP off it. I guess Swords Dance is a good alternative, although I haven't tried it. EV's are to outspeed min Blastoise. You could bump it to Suicune and Gligar line, but the former isn't staying in on you and I'd rather hit Gligar super-effectively with Wood Hammer if it's Roosting so I don't think that's too necessary. I really like this set, the biggest problem is it can't switch into Scalds, so I guess Lum Berry could be AC'd. Being purely physical allows Aboma to take less damage from Earthquakes, which I find really compelling. In my opinion this deserves to be a main set, I'll have to talk to koko and RT about it. After that I'll stamp this, sorry for the long wait!


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