Originally Posted by Fat Nyara
Tropius doesn't need a evolve, it's on NU just for it's Stealth Rock weakness, but it's stats, skills, moves, and in fact, everything is from an excelent wall with offensive presense, sad that water types all can Ice Beam it to the oblivion, but it still walls other things like a king, it can heal the 91% of it's HP under sun EACH TURN, and can still heal itself an avarage of 44% under bad weathers, and 67% without weather, and can Leech Seed your face all the day (in fact, under the sun and if he Leech Seeded you, you can only beat it by PP stalling or OHKO it), and can even setup 2+ of Attack/Spa under sun or 2+ of attack with Sword Dance and destroy you, or can Dragon Dance (it does have it), or can Curse, or can phaze, it's pretty versatile, like a Banana Dinosaur should be.
But it's NU because it's somewhat hard to wall things with the 25% of your HP stripped each time you enter to the field, and UU and RU almost doesn't have sun teams because Ninetales and Vulpix are banned, so, on place of being UU, it's NU for the weather less condition, UU is also full of Fire attacks, that Tropius can wall at some degree with 252 HP and special defenses EV's, and Curse up, but even when only Chandelure can safety counter it, the others still mantain this on check.
Not talking about OU as there is impossible to have walls with weakness to Stealth Rock, totally and completely impossible, no mather what, and there will never and never will have a wall with weakness to Stealth Rock unless the move gets debuffed or something, you can't wall overpowered attacks with the half or three quarters of your HP on each entry.
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