Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown — pull request #414 by ALAKTORN (2013-10-20 01:13:53+00:00)
Title: Remove Tornadus-Therian level exception from Random Battle (74 → 70)

Being an avid Random Battle player, I don’t believe that T-T requires weather to be good. What, Rain so its Heat Wave is weaker? It can get Air Slash instead of Hurricane, and Hurricane still has decent 70% accuracy without Rain. U-turn Regenerator and its monstrous speed are ridiculous (it outspeeds base 100 NU Pokémon like Charizard); the only thing not so good about it is its power, 109 SpA for a level 74 isn’t that good, but it can still OHKO if it gets a SE hit in; and it’s a fantastic late-game sweeper. Either way, I don’t see the reason for the exception in the first place, regardless of how good the Pokémon is, it’s not weather/teammates dependent, so I think the exception should be removed.

Regarding my Random Battle ability, I’ve been in the top 70 a year ago, and was somewhere inside/around top 100 before the latest reset, without account spamming. My current rating is terrible, because I haven’t played much and the little I played I lost many matches to bad luck.