True his role hasn't changed much if at all, but that wasn't entirely the point. The buff was to give him some actual bite and make his attacks not piss poor weak. He can run an actual scarf set if he so wished as he still packs some decent power with SF, and can be a brutal wall breaker (special, mixed, or physical, take your pick). It just was to make him not actually outclassed in his role as much as he has been by almost every other mon.
Personally Archeops doesn't have the bulk to be using roost in any real capacity, any large offensive threats are either going to do major damage to him if he roosts or simply die to him if he outspeeds. I'd run a choice band set with both stone edge and Head smash, Head Smash taking advantage of no more defeatist so you can use it when you're on your last legs. One head smash is going to easily decimate you because of your low base hp.
I actually wasn't so enthusiastic when I said yes to SF Electivire, but it's actually been growing on me, because a moveset with a scarf as the item of ThunderPunch - Ice Punch - Fire Punch - earthquake actually hits every S ranked Pokemon for super effective damage, breaks every wall (i hereby stand saying there shall be no more ferrothorns) bar mega venusaur, and hit every pokemon in the tier for neutral damage. This thing is pretty much the premier revenge killer, with a high speed stat, an enormous attack stat with SF, and a good move pool. Its like a better nidoking.
A small but important note I feel is worth mentioning, you resist brave bird, allowing you to revenge kill or scare off Talonflame.
He just has slightly less coverage in the forms of elemental beams but pretty much. He does a damn good job and not much if anything will be messing with him as even Mega Venu can be beaten if you wish to run Psychic. The only flaw one can find with him is his below average bulk for a wall breaker, speed, and him having to pick and choose which walls he wishes to break but I believe its a small price in the end for a mon that is capable of covering such a myriad of threats.
It's 2HKOed by Brave Bird, so it can't switch into it, but it does make for a decent check, as it can easily force it out
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If you are referring to Darmanitan on that, id like to point out that it also suffers a lot from multitude of factors (SR damage, suicidal, scarf reliable (which Electivire can be easily which I hope will be one of his more popular sets as well)) and of those, E-Vire suffers from speed as well, but that's their main similarity. E-vire can boast better overall coverage (nothing is gonna touch the sheer power of Darm's F-Blitz truthfully) and the ability to be more than a one trick pony in going mixed, fully special or fully physical (as Nidoking has shown us in UU, it is more than capable of being one of the premier special wall breakers with just a base 85 Sp Attack).
I suppose there's always Kyurem, but that begs the question of what exactly would make me want to use Electivire. There's a few obvious things like the crazy coverage, but it's at the cost of that overpowered dragon STAB. I'm actually interested to hear what people think about this, so I'm going to stop there and let others fill in the rest.
Archeops has pretty wide movepool including Stone Edge, Head Smash, Earthquake, Earth Power, Acrobatics, Heat Wave, Knock Off, Hidden Power of any type, Taunt, Switcheroo, Roost, Bounce, Stealth Rock, Aqua Tail, U-turn. Maybe is doesn't get Fangs like Mega Aerodactyl but doesn't waste Mega slot, has his main STAB boosted by item (or doesn't have but heck, 110 STAB from 140 Atk), has ability to go mixed and has enough power to break sturdiest walls in the tier. Also Mega Lucario was very frail as well and so is Greninja so fraility is not in case.Electivire's problem is his typing, his stats and the fact that he needs a "support ability" like Manectric, you can't switch with it at all, motor drive was actually better because you need the speed boost / electric immunity to really threaten a team.
Good addition for rains i guess, i'd rather see swampert with recover than this mon, his stats are not that great.
I think we all dreamed about that, and i think a mega-jirachi will come sooner or later, but yeah, great typing, the dark/ghost weakness was huge, especially with the now banned aegislash and knock off everywhere. CM / Wish support would be great in any team with this typing.
I don't really get the fact that his main ability made him bad...but it wasn't gonna be OU anyway. His movepool is still crap and it's still really frail. Now that aerodactyl can be mega and stuff, nothing to see here.
