oops, didn't actually mean to group diancie with stuff that can't touch mence, even diamond storm does like 60. I was more trying to say that mence meta definitely doesn't help diancie's viability, and mence competes for its mega slot.
As for vs rain, it's not too hard to get up a dd. Even against rain leads, it's at most a 50/50 whether you can ddance or not, as swamp has to decide whether to tect or not and ludi fears twave. Or, you could always bandwagon "Mence has redirection!" and use rachimence, which pretty often lets you set up bar a taunt thundy switch or some risky double targets.
On the other hand, why even mention swamp? I've heard many people say it does absolutely nothing for rain. (see what I did there? I made a tiny stab by calling out something petty.)
As for vs rain, it's not too hard to get up a dd. Even against rain leads, it's at most a 50/50 whether you can ddance or not, as swamp has to decide whether to tect or not and ludi fears twave. Or, you could always bandwagon "Mence has redirection!" and use rachimence, which pretty often lets you set up bar a taunt thundy switch or some risky double targets.
On the other hand, why even mention swamp? I've heard many people say it does absolutely nothing for rain. (see what I did there? I made a tiny stab by calling out something petty.)