He said Calm Latias (as in the nature, and not the move Calm Mind). It isn't a great nature, as timid if necessary to hit a lot of nice Speed benchmarks. As PoweredByRevenge pointed out, 17 SpA is a bit disappointing. Basically, nimbosa there isn't that much of a reason for calm and even on a defensive role, Latias likes to hit things pretty hard.
If you play on the ladder as you probably do, I guess that you see less Mewtwos because of how Salamence is good now, as you probably know you can't run two megas in one team so Mewtwo's usage dropped a bit, even Diancie was another good mega that ORAS brought, even if of course it isn't as good as Mence is. However, both regular Mewtwo and Mega Mewtwo Y are really viable in Ubers (as you can see in the viability ranking, they are both A+, which means they are very good). Definitely the introduction of Mega Sableye didn't make them worse imo, as it hasn't a big impact in tier, but I guess that the introduction of new megas (especially of Mega Mence as I said before), made things a bit worse for it, even if it still remains a top tier mons. Regarding Mega Mewtwo X, it's viable (A- rank in the viability ranking), but it isn't as good as the other Mewtwo. I also think that it got a bit worse in ORAS, in fact Lati Twins are top tier threats now that we can use Soul Dew, and Ho-Oh also became more common now that we have the chance to have better Defog users in the tier in Latias and Latios. All these 3 mons can check Mega Mewtwo X well. Finally, obv the introduction of Mega Salamence made things worse for Mega Mewtwo X, as it's able to lower its Attack before mega evolving, and then can slayer it with its strong flying STAB. It has the niche to be one of the best answer to DarkCeus though, which is becoming more common now because it can check Lati twins well. Hope I helped somewhat.
Would you say KO is better than Dark Pulse, then? Honestly, with 2-4 out of 6 mons on every team being immune to Knock Off (Arceus, Mega, Primals), I'd question its utility as a main damage-dealing STAB. Most LO sets I've seen run minimal attack investment, since Sucker Punch hits its targets even with no investment.
Not exactly. Hidden power fire seems standard on GeoXerns so I was wondering if the standard spread already took HP Fire into account or if I need to run 124 speed EVs to compensate.
I think you are fine. The speed EVs were designed so that you could outspeed max speed Mewtwo after Geomancy if you come in on webs (according to the dex). Even with the 30 speed EVs at +1 speed your speed should hit 395, which is enough to outspeed max speed Mewtwo, which reaches a speed of 394. I think your speed EVs already take into account the loss of speed from HP fire, so 120 speed EVs should be fine.
Note this spread isn't recommended since Sticky Web is basically nonexistent. You can run as low as 44 Speed EVs (48 if HP Fire) to outspeed Scarf Genesect, which means Xerneas can run a ton of bulk.
Thanks for letting me know :)
It's a bit hard to keep track of your mons, could you post an importable (so we can see the sets and spreads as well)? Also Tank Yveltal is one of the best answers to EKiller, the main problem would be if you are trying to use it to check too many things and not saving it for EKiller
The issue being I find it hard to keep sr off the field and it doesn't do so well when sr is up
I just watched it again to be sure, and yeah, in addition to Groudon and Kyogre, Scizor mega evolves. I thought that both primal Don and Ogre could be on the same team, but wasn't sure. Perhaps it wasn't a standard match. Idk, I just thought it was odd and maybe a unique feature of Ubers. It was from the Ubers spl replays thread on the first page.
Thanks. That's where the confusion was coming from. I thought Primal Reversion was just a fancy name for storyline purposes and wouldn't override the mega rules. Turns out I was wrong.
Kyurem-B has god awful time trying to work around its terrible movepool, redundant STAB coverage, and Ice-type's defensive downsides. Zekrom's Bolt Strike is far more powerful than a Kyurem-B Fusion Bolt primarily thanks to STAB and Zekrom's typing makes it a much better Flying-type check in general. Kyurem-B has the BST of a god sure, but its lack of tools and typing do make it a bit worse than Zekrom.
...I'd completely forgotten about Zekrom getting STAB on BS. Appreciate the insight!
It's Ubers because it was banned from OU, and unfortunately that's more or less where things go. Your impression of Mega Lucario is basically correct.
