I'm really impressed with the sets this week! All of them actually worked really well, and were a lot of fun to use :).
@Pocket: Charizard just hits soooo hard in the sun, and with Choice Scarf it's really difficult to outspeed too. This guy actually swept pretty often since he just barrels through everything, bar stuff like Slowking which can be dealt with Chlorophyll Grass-types or something. I remember using that Moltres a while back too, and it's still really good! It doesn't have as much utility now that it has Hurricane, since that set's main purpose back in the day was to use Solarbeam to decimate Slowking, but it still does really well against stuff like Regirock and Lanturn, so it still works nicely. Added both!
@Molk: Sap Sipper + Miltank's surprising Speed and good bulk were what made this set work. It was extremely easy to switch this into something like Lilligant (or Whimsicott I guess), nab a +1 boost, and dish out some big damage because Miltank is just so speedy. It also sticks around for quite some time with Heal Bell + Milk Drink. I didn't really like Scrappy that much though tbh; while hitting Ghosts is certainly nice, the most common Ghost in the tier is Cofagrigus, who neutralizes Scrappy anyway with Mummy so it didn't help that much. Still, it's a great alternative Lilligant counter if you need something fast which can act as a 100% stop to Lilligant. Added!
@ShakeItUp: This set was simple enough, and it worked well. Garbodor got up 1-2 layers of Spikes per match, then usually blew up on something. Weak Armor is actually a much better ability though imo, since while Garbodor has decent Speed, Weak Armor really allowed it to guarantee that it could explode on something or get another layer of Spikes up. Added!
@Hot N Cold: Haha, I loved this set <3. Entei had very nice bulk, and thanks to Pressure, it could actually PP stall incredibly well (stalling a Sandslash out of Earthquake PP was absolutely hilarious, especially because I later won thanks to that). It could even Toxic stall stuff like Slowking out, which was just awesome. I tried a Calm Mind version of this set later, which was even more hilarious since you could stall out stuff like Lanturn's Scald, then sweep, but that's a different set entirely haha. But yeah, excellent set. Added!
@EonX - Samurott was an amazing wallbreaker! Not many people expect Samurott, and when they do it's usually a physical set, so that set came as quite a surprise. Hydro Pump from this Samurott is really strong, and it has such good coverage that it can destroy most of the things that actually can take a Hydro Pump. Added!
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