atomicllamas
but then what's left of me?
I would like to propose moving Crawdaunt down to high or mid C.
It's just not fast enough in the current meta to be effective. After one dragon dance, Jolly Crawdaunt reaches a speed of 343, still out sped by all positive nature base 108's and above, and outsped by neutral nature base 125's. This doesn't even include all the common choice scarf users that reside above Crawdaunt's mediocre 55 base speed. Crawdaunt can be revenge killed with ease by some of the current RU heavy hitters (Sceptile, Rotom, Galvantula, and Accelgor to name a few common ones).
This doesn't even account for the fact that Crawdaunt's 63/85/55 defenses make setting up incredibly hard to begin with.
While it does hit super-freaking hard, thanks to adaptability and a base 120 attack, its high attack isn't very well utilized in RU, especially with the hyper offensive teams running around making set up/getting a move off a pain.
I have never seen someone use the choice band set, but I can't imagine it getting more than one KO per match, and if I wanted a wall breaker I'd go with something like Moltres or Durant.
C-Rank: "Reserved for Pokemon that have notable niches in the RU metagame, but have just as notable flaws that prevent them from being top tier threats. Pokemon in the C tier often require significant support to be as effective as higher ranked Pokemon in RU. C rank Pokemon tend to face a lot of competition with the more commonly used Pokemon."
I feel this description fits Crawdaunt far better than the B-rank description does.
(Sorry if this is bad formatting, I am relatively new)
It's just not fast enough in the current meta to be effective. After one dragon dance, Jolly Crawdaunt reaches a speed of 343, still out sped by all positive nature base 108's and above, and outsped by neutral nature base 125's. This doesn't even include all the common choice scarf users that reside above Crawdaunt's mediocre 55 base speed. Crawdaunt can be revenge killed with ease by some of the current RU heavy hitters (Sceptile, Rotom, Galvantula, and Accelgor to name a few common ones).
This doesn't even account for the fact that Crawdaunt's 63/85/55 defenses make setting up incredibly hard to begin with.
While it does hit super-freaking hard, thanks to adaptability and a base 120 attack, its high attack isn't very well utilized in RU, especially with the hyper offensive teams running around making set up/getting a move off a pain.
I have never seen someone use the choice band set, but I can't imagine it getting more than one KO per match, and if I wanted a wall breaker I'd go with something like Moltres or Durant.
C-Rank: "Reserved for Pokemon that have notable niches in the RU metagame, but have just as notable flaws that prevent them from being top tier threats. Pokemon in the C tier often require significant support to be as effective as higher ranked Pokemon in RU. C rank Pokemon tend to face a lot of competition with the more commonly used Pokemon."
I feel this description fits Crawdaunt far better than the B-rank description does.
(Sorry if this is bad formatting, I am relatively new)