All stat donors are Uber tier Pokemon. If an ultra beast becomes Uber, then it can donate stats
Does the bot on ROM not have a Godly Gift team yet? Because usually when you challenge the bot to a battle it accepts right away, but with Godly Gift it's declining right now.
I'm not the person to ask for this.
They aren't uber, so no. If you don't have an uber on your team then the first Pokemon will be the god. Since that slot is HP you can't use guzzlord to give its HP to someone.
while technically it would make it an uber mon, since you can't have complete form take up a space in teambuilder, it would likely just consider zygarde-50% to be the uber and only let you give 108 hp rather than 216
Pikachu might want boosted Attack because it has Extreme Speed (Smeargle does it better) and a usable Speed stat, but Marowak already has the equivalent of roughly fully invested Adamant base 181 Attack when it's running Jolly. Stick Marowak on a Deoxys or Mewtwo team.
Pikachu also gets Fake Out, so you can run some FakeSpeed shenanigans.
Pikachu cannot run Fake Out alongside Extreme Speed. The two are incompatible.
If you can manage to get Trick Room up and then pivot out, Alolan Marowak can be deadly.
We're suffering a slight technical hitch with the bot right now, so it doesn't have any teams. This would have already been fixed by now had I not accidentally deleted a comma in a crucial configuration file. Sorry about that.
I just want to start with a preface that generally speaking, abusers of stats will be looked at before God Pokemon themselves. I can understand how daunting Deo-A HO was last meta, believe me, I loved abusing its insane power. However, Stall was actually the best archetype last meta until Mega Sableye was banned and then Balance became the best archetype before the release of Eviolite and following it, so this isn't exactly correct. The reason the council and the community decided to ban Mega Sableye, something that I heavily pushed for, was because it over-centralized the meta drastically with any decent HP increase. There weren't enough Pokemon that were well equipped with handling it and its team support made it almost unbreakable. We also realized that this might kill Stall so we decided to resuspect Eviolite to counteract that and honestly it worked out fine, and it allowed for some much needed team diversity in the metagame. The difference now is there are a plethora of very viable Pokemon that can beat it, i.e. why it was unbanned for the new meta. There is definitely room to beat all these Deo-A stat receivers you mentioned as well in any of the archetypes for this meta. Most Deo-A HO teams depend on Psychic Terrain since most of the Pokemon will be rather frail, so if you have Pokemon that can outspeed it them and have hazards out, you technically eliminate this power-heavy issue. Plus in Balance and Stall builds, you can effectively work around most the available threats that Deo-A HO will most likely be utilizing, so I don't think that the issue will be the God itself, rather, the receivers.
All of these will be interesting Pokemon in the upcoming metagame for sure. Guzzlord, unfortunately, still carries some pretty poor stats overall and a quad weakness to Fairy-types, which are much more common now so I think it won't be able to have too large of a presence. Comfey will be cool to utilize and I can't wait to try and teambuild with it. Still going to be difficult to find a spot for it on teams, but definitely a threat nonetheless. I think Xurkitree and Koko will be a powerful duo, for sure, but I definitely see some Pokemon that will be able to manage it like Gods such as PDon and Dialga, while there are definitely some receivers that can speed creep these guys like scarf Lele or scarf Excadrill, hit them for hard neutral priority like Smeargle or Pikachu, and Pokemon that can tank their hits like Defensive Char-X or Mega Venu. Honestly still a fearsome duo that you'd need to build for. Yeah, I agree Pheromosa is going to be a monster and is one Pokemon we'll definitely be looking out for, however I think this meta will be able to develop around it with all of the massive damage going around. I'm so happy Wishiwashi is going to be good in this meta because I really want to take advantage of those crazy stats it has. I don't think Alolan Persian will be relevant because honestly it's just a bad Pokemon. Sure it could have insane defense and Fur Coat, but there's nothing it can do besides pivot with Parting Shot. Maybe an offensive set will work with band and PShot but who knows. 150 HP Toxapex, oml.
I can understand why someone might think that stall is still viable (although im inclined to disagree, id be interested if someone could show me a stall team and ill find some mons that obliterate it), but i wonder why you guys are saying that a deoxys-a ban would lead to a rayquaza or arceus suspect. deoxys-a stands out as a mon with 3 totally unrivalled stats, no viable god even comes close. i could totally see a regular deoxys suspect happening too, but all the other god options come with several mediocre stats that you need to deal with, along with not providing such absurd positives. do you not think that deoxys-a stands slightly above the norm?
I'm not self-plugging, but my stall from last gen is still one of the best compositions out there. I made some adjustments for the threats running around in this metagame, but once I end up finalizing the team it will most likely again be the best team in the meta and specialize in shutting down Deo-A teams.
Why would a Deo-A ban lead to suspects of other Gods? The only reason Deo-A is being put on a pedestal is because it has three of the highest stats available for passing. You're saying that Deo-A is over-centralizing the meta, but if we removed it, wouldn't a couple or few other Gods then over-centralize it after? Deoxys would easily step in and fill the gap that Deo-A left so the suspect ends up providing nothing to the meta other than a slew of following suspects on Gods that were comparable to Deo-A. It's not how high the stats of the God are that matters, it's the opportunity cost. The reason something like Deo-A or Deoxys would have such low opportunity cost is because of certain Pokemon in the meta that remove one or a couple of the major weaknesses that these Gods and their team comps generally have. Now, what kind of Pokemon would reduce the opportunity cost of Deo-A teams? On notable Pokemon is Tapu Lele, with its Psychic Terrain. Not only does it give Deo-A HO Psy Spam insane power, but it protects it from priority, which was one of the best ways to take out Deo-A HO besides running a full team of checks with Stall or a combination of both with Balance. What if Tapu Lele was out of the picture though? Deo-A HO would have a noticeable counter in priority and we wouldn't even need to discuss this. I'm not saying that we should suspect this or that right now since the new meta has just started, but we need to look into why something such as a God Pokemon is so effective and if its team support is what can cause it to be possibly broken.
You mean you aren't just self plugging :P
