cressilia: NOT broken. i am a person who loves stall teams. i tried a cressilia. i later ditched it and never looked back.
so lets see what it has to offer. first up, base 120/120/130 defensive stats are amazingly high, but what support moves does it get? dual screens, t-wave, toxic, moonlight, and the gimmicky lunar dance. not too impressive. and with measly 70/75/85 offenses, i does little to no damage. it doesnt even get night shade/seismec toss like higher tier walls like chansey or dusclops. so it can toxic stall. the opponent can toxic stall right back. and t-wave isnt worth noting. then theres cressilias signature move, lunar dance, which acts like a full restore on one of your pokes, but also sacrifies cressilia. i consider this move to be gimmicky and overall a bad idea. and then theres dual screens. cressilia is probaly one of the best dual screeners in the game with its huge defensives. but are we really gonna ban it for good use of dual screens? and while an offensive CM set sounds viable, no matter what most pokes take minimal damage from any of its attacks. and while it is certainly bulky, it isnt unbreakable. to prove my point, here are a few calculations to show this (all calculations are assuming cressilia is bold and 252 hp/252 def/4 spdef):
Max Atk Adamant Choice Band Aggron's Head Smash does 51.35%-60.36%
Max Atk Adamant Life Orb Durant's X-scissor does 71.62%-83.78%
+2 Sp atk Modest Life Orb Omastar's Hydro Pump does 91.89%-108.33%
Max Sp atk Modest Choice Specs Typhlosion's Eruption does 63.74%-75.23%
Max Atk Adamant Life Orb Honchkrow's Sucker Punch does 52.7%-62.16%
Max Sp atk Modest Choice Specs Porygon-z's Tri Attack does 53.15%-62.61%
Max Atk Adamant Choice Band Druddigon's Outrage does 43.92%-51.58%
These are just a few examples of some strong pokemon that can overpower Cressilia, most getting a clean 2HKO. Cressilia is not at all broken, and should stay in RU.
so lets see what it has to offer. first up, base 120/120/130 defensive stats are amazingly high, but what support moves does it get? dual screens, t-wave, toxic, moonlight, and the gimmicky lunar dance. not too impressive. and with measly 70/75/85 offenses, i does little to no damage. it doesnt even get night shade/seismec toss like higher tier walls like chansey or dusclops. so it can toxic stall. the opponent can toxic stall right back. and t-wave isnt worth noting. then theres cressilias signature move, lunar dance, which acts like a full restore on one of your pokes, but also sacrifies cressilia. i consider this move to be gimmicky and overall a bad idea. and then theres dual screens. cressilia is probaly one of the best dual screeners in the game with its huge defensives. but are we really gonna ban it for good use of dual screens? and while an offensive CM set sounds viable, no matter what most pokes take minimal damage from any of its attacks. and while it is certainly bulky, it isnt unbreakable. to prove my point, here are a few calculations to show this (all calculations are assuming cressilia is bold and 252 hp/252 def/4 spdef):
Max Atk Adamant Choice Band Aggron's Head Smash does 51.35%-60.36%
Max Atk Adamant Life Orb Durant's X-scissor does 71.62%-83.78%
+2 Sp atk Modest Life Orb Omastar's Hydro Pump does 91.89%-108.33%
Max Sp atk Modest Choice Specs Typhlosion's Eruption does 63.74%-75.23%
Max Atk Adamant Life Orb Honchkrow's Sucker Punch does 52.7%-62.16%
Max Sp atk Modest Choice Specs Porygon-z's Tri Attack does 53.15%-62.61%
Max Atk Adamant Choice Band Druddigon's Outrage does 43.92%-51.58%
These are just a few examples of some strong pokemon that can overpower Cressilia, most getting a clean 2HKO. Cressilia is not at all broken, and should stay in RU.