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Old Nov 14th, 2012, 8:49:29 PM   #3
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Ever since we decided to drop Cresselia into the RU tier i knew she was going to end up as a metagame defining threat thanks to her awesome bulk+reliable recovery, good speed, huge support movepool, and ability to sweep late game, but i personally dont think shes overpowering atm. In fact, if you have seen me on irc, i personally think the addition of cresselia was healthy for the RU metagame. While Cresselia is really bulky, she isnt completely unbreakable, there are quite a few pokemon that can knock out cresselia with either a super effective move or just a really powerful STAB move. Examples include Escavalier, Durant, Drapion, Absol, Aggron, Entei, Druddigon, Crawdaunt, and Spiritomb. An unboosted Cresselia isnt exactly hard to switch into with that pathetic base 75 special attack, making it slightly easier to counter her. Meanwhile, Cresselia is still an excellent addition to stall and balanced teams everywhere with her monster bulk and ability to check a few pokemon that other mons struggle to (read: Nidoqueen!). As Pocket said before, teams without Cresselia are forced to think of ways to build a solid team that can play around her, and thats pretty good imo. It inspires creativity and makes it much harder for someone to just take a generic offensive team and win like every match without even trying. Aside from that, Cresselia is a good addition to offense too! Cresselia makes a great pivot for an offensive team, and can provide the team with weather support and/or screens, while still checking a few pokemon that would be troublesome to the average offensive team. I personally like cress quite a bit, and i dont think she should be banned atm

TL;DR Cress is awesome, and not broken imo, in fact, i feel she improves the metagame by making people think about their team choices more
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