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If anyone else already has Hamachi, remember you need an account now. It's free, just a formality I think.

I'm here and ready to play. (Game in 90 minutes I think.)

Here's a character sheet for Cadogan Miran, the level 3 Cleric. Feel free to rename him, but here's what you'll need to know.

All of his spells, feats, and abilities can be found on the d20srd, mostly on the Cleric, Feats, and Cleric Spells pages. The exception is the feat Augment Healing, from Complete Champion I think. He is a cleric of Telchur, god of the cold north wind and of winter. Cadogan is fairly broad-shouldered, with a head of short black hair and a full beard. He is armed with a heavy mace at his belt and a breastplate on his chest, and bears a white quarterstaff topped by a small eight pointed star. He wears a thick (Bear) fur cloak that has seen better days. His most prized possession is a Ring of Feather Falling, borne on his left hand as a gift from his father.

Let me know if you have any questions about how clerics work, I played one in Shonus' last campaign for about three years. 

What I was getting at is a bit more complex than what I said. When Primeape came into the metagame, basically everyone in NU dropped Sawk like a box of rocks except for the choice band set. Thus when Mandibuzz showed up, people dropped Sawk because Sawk was very very easy to counter with Mandibuzz. It was either not banded and incredibly unlikely to break Mandibuzz, or it was banded and extremely predictable. As long as you didn't switch Mandibuzz into a banded Stone Edge or Close Combat, you'd be good. Unless your opponent is thinking outside the box with something like

Sawk@Fighting Gem
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 4 Def / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Ability: Mold Breaker
-Close Combat
-Taunt
-Ice Punch
-Stone Edge/Earthquake​

Enough punch to destroy a lot of pokemon, Taunt to murder walls. I did some math, and at the time Fighting Gem Close Combat and Earthquake could OHKO almost any hazard lead, Ice Punch for Roselia, potentially Stone Edge for coverage, and Taunt to shut down Torkoal, defensive Seismitoad, and Golurk. Taunt severely limits walls, so even if you couldn't outright kill every pokemon (like banded Sawk was known for) you could cause a ruckus for some other pokemon to clean up. (Zebstrika was one of my favorites for cleanup, or Swellow.)

I think the strategydex took a seriously wrong turn when they removed the intro paragraphs for every pokemon that gave a general idea of where the pokemon fit in the metagame. Now people just see sets, and when those sets don't work anymore a lot of people don't really understand enough about the pokemon to adapt it to what they need. Maybe it's different in OU, but in NU it's far more useful to have a paragraph about what Kricketune can possibly do than to have some random set that's only there because someone decided to write one for a pokemon used by five guys a month.

Baton pass Ninjask

ENGAGE.
NERD.
RAGE.

Baton Pass Ninjask makes me sad. But then, I am an NU player, and a wily one. Did you know Ninjask could OHKO every single Chlorophyll user in the last generation, plus probably lots of the new ones? And it can OHKO Jynx, Primeape, and Scolipede! Three Pokemon that pretty much overran BW NU in stage 9. I practically wrote a book on Ninjask in the BW NU subforum. I never liked the Baton Pass set. It's one-dimensional and easy to play around.

Oh yeah, and all those people complaining about the end of days when Mandibuzz came to town. Oh no, it walls Choice Band Sawk! Oh no, Primeape can't hurt it! Guess we can't use those Pokemon anymore! Golurk isn't even viable! Except you can totally use Pokemon however the fuck you want in NU because winning is the meta. I ran 184 Spe Jolly Banded Golurk to bait out Mandibuzz, and when people caught on and threw a few speed EVs on their 'buzz I cranked it up to 192. People switch a setup sweeper into my Swalot expecting to get rolling and sweep, and WHAM. SPECS SWALOT. WHAT. CAN'T. EVEN. DEAL.

When I played Ubers I used a Swift Swim banded Head Smash Relicanth because it could OHKO a lot of things and nobody ever expected it to. I could have used something faster, or with more damage, or both, but sometimes you have to play your opponent to play the game.

I play the game to make stupid things work, and that's why I only play NU now.

Oh goodness. I suppose it makes sense, I actually am a terrible swimmer.

>Haunt profusely
>Cut death's purse

I can now legitimately buy diffusal blade on Venomancer. Nobody will ever escape me.