The Leprechaun
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Although hikari covered it pretty comprehensibly, there are still other reasons why scarf melo is effective.
First of all, with the decline of doublade, it no longer needs to run shadow ball to revenge it. This opens up a slot for trick, which of course is a huge move on choice scarf users. While scarftres is generally seen as deadweight against defensive teams, trick meloetta allows you to cripple 1 Mon on the opposing team as well as allowing it to be more effective because of the virtue of switching up moves.
Something that not many scarfers can boast is the ability to revenge kill mons hiding behind sub's with hypervoice. Notably, bulk up braviary and anything which has received a sub from bp bunny. Other scarfers which have this ability include exploud, cincinno, yanma and shellder :]
What's more is that scarf melo has actually got better this gen thanks to the fact that new threats can beat melo's checks easily thanks to u-turn. This includes pangoro, lopunny and houndoom, all of which destroy esca, shiftry, tomb and skuntank.
I also want to mention that some of the points bouff made were pretty ballsack. "It finds it difficult to get past walls" this reminds me of pretty much all scarfers. Scarf moltres (apprently the paragon of scarfers) can't touch shit like alom, aromatisse and rhyperior but no one gives a fuck. It's not meant to wall break, it's a check to offensive teams. And as I've already mentioned, with trick scarf, melo is actually more useful against defensive teams than most scarfers. "It sucks because it's pursuit bait for spiritomb and esca" huh, this reminds of literally every other melo set (excluding relic song of course). If this is a legitimate reason for calling melo ineffective then why consider any variant as a threat at all? I mean tomb and esca switch in just as easily to specs as they do to scarf."its stab moves are not good enough to clean late game" 2 100% accurate base 90 power moves which have a good match up against the offensive mons of this tier looks pretty good to me. Especially when coming of one of the highest attacking stats in the tier.
I guess what this comes down to is if you build a bad team around a mon with a sub optimal set, then proceed to play badly with it, you're gonna have a bad view of it. The idea that scarf melo is garbage is utter bollocks. But that's just me.
First of all, with the decline of doublade, it no longer needs to run shadow ball to revenge it. This opens up a slot for trick, which of course is a huge move on choice scarf users. While scarftres is generally seen as deadweight against defensive teams, trick meloetta allows you to cripple 1 Mon on the opposing team as well as allowing it to be more effective because of the virtue of switching up moves.
Something that not many scarfers can boast is the ability to revenge kill mons hiding behind sub's with hypervoice. Notably, bulk up braviary and anything which has received a sub from bp bunny. Other scarfers which have this ability include exploud, cincinno, yanma and shellder :]
What's more is that scarf melo has actually got better this gen thanks to the fact that new threats can beat melo's checks easily thanks to u-turn. This includes pangoro, lopunny and houndoom, all of which destroy esca, shiftry, tomb and skuntank.
I also want to mention that some of the points bouff made were pretty ballsack. "It finds it difficult to get past walls" this reminds me of pretty much all scarfers. Scarf moltres (apprently the paragon of scarfers) can't touch shit like alom, aromatisse and rhyperior but no one gives a fuck. It's not meant to wall break, it's a check to offensive teams. And as I've already mentioned, with trick scarf, melo is actually more useful against defensive teams than most scarfers. "It sucks because it's pursuit bait for spiritomb and esca" huh, this reminds of literally every other melo set (excluding relic song of course). If this is a legitimate reason for calling melo ineffective then why consider any variant as a threat at all? I mean tomb and esca switch in just as easily to specs as they do to scarf."its stab moves are not good enough to clean late game" 2 100% accurate base 90 power moves which have a good match up against the offensive mons of this tier looks pretty good to me. Especially when coming of one of the highest attacking stats in the tier.
I guess what this comes down to is if you build a bad team around a mon with a sub optimal set, then proceed to play badly with it, you're gonna have a bad view of it. The idea that scarf melo is garbage is utter bollocks. But that's just me.
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