I think Doublade should be C+, or perhaps B- at most. Honestly I don't feel like this pokemon actually holds up as a spinblocker, it gets beat by donphan and blastoise easily and can't even do much back, even to weaker spinners like tentacruel (who should win with scald or knock off) and forretress who takes 18% from sacred sword and can still do things like set up hazards. As far as offense goes, its options for a physical ghost stab are obviously lacking, and good 110 attack doesn't do much when A) people use eviolite instead of life orb (the latter i think is honestly perhaps a better option...) and B), his ghost type physical attacks are either 40 BP or 70... I mean that just straight up sucks if you are hoping for offense, and wont even break through ghost-weak pokemon like slowbro unless you're using life orb + shadow claw. Not to mention that it can't even wall most fighting types like it might hope due to knock off, and tbh even taking 25% from a florges uninvested moonblast is not good considering no leftovers recovery.. Doublade will rise up to check pokemon from BL ironically, like Staraptor and Hawlucha, but once they get pushed back into BL Doublade never seems to do much.
What do you guys think? It might just be that eviolite is an outdated build for him, and I feel like the sword's dance sets benefit much moreso from shadow blade than from eviolite- it lets him do stuff like ohko slowbro at +2 with shadow claw as well as sweep/revenge far more successfully with a shadow sneak if you choose to go that route. His ghost STABs just have such bad base power. Or perhaps Im underselling this guy? He also has pretty horrible 4MSS just due to wanting a good ghost STAB while also having access to priority- shadow sneak is very awful at getting past the things that resist iron head because it deals the exact same damage as a resisted iron head. Only vs stuff like slowbro is shadow sneak even dealing more damage, and even at +6 shadow sneak is only a 18% chance of a ohko with eviolite. eugh
What do you guys think? It might just be that eviolite is an outdated build for him, and I feel like the sword's dance sets benefit much moreso from shadow blade than from eviolite- it lets him do stuff like ohko slowbro at +2 with shadow claw as well as sweep/revenge far more successfully with a shadow sneak if you choose to go that route. His ghost STABs just have such bad base power. Or perhaps Im underselling this guy? He also has pretty horrible 4MSS just due to wanting a good ghost STAB while also having access to priority- shadow sneak is very awful at getting past the things that resist iron head because it deals the exact same damage as a resisted iron head. Only vs stuff like slowbro is shadow sneak even dealing more damage, and even at +6 shadow sneak is only a 18% chance of a ohko with eviolite. eugh
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