AccidentalGreed
Sweet and bitter as chocolate.
Posting my two cents.
Drizzle: No, not broken. Aldaron’s proposal happened to moderate this well, and now I find Drizzle teams a fun, yet viable challenge. Double Genies, Breloom, Jirachi, and Starmie are just a few of the many who flourish under Drizzle, and with some readiness, Drizzle teams are fairly challengeable.
Reuniclus: OU. Really, I don’t see the problem with facing Calm Mind Reuniclus, and I could easily revenge kill it given its low Speed. Trick Room versions are also fairly easy to handle, as Reuniclus’ attacks are predictable and you can use a specially oriented defense like Jirachi to pivot any Reuniclus.
Garchomp/Landorus/Excadrill: Heh, the hype, huh? Excadrill is fairly manageable, and if it sets up and sweeps me, it’s my own fault. Landuros is easily outsped, so he should manage to stay in OU as well. There were a few rare occasions where I came across a Sand-abusing Garchomp and lost to it, but Sand Veil has never caused me trouble and is somehow overpowered. Salac versions trouble me, however.
Blaziken: Ah, yes. He’s the one I have to most trouble with. Once he gets going, he’s hard to stop. I can never seem to predict whether he’s using Mixed or Swords Dance, and I find myself wishing I went against a mixed Blaziken so I would make fewer sacrifices. I would put him on the Suspect list, but I doubt he would make it to Ubers.
Latios: I’m undecided. The metagame has adapted too much to Latios for him to be a safe threat, with all the Specially Defensive variants of Scizor and Tyranitar and all. Hell, I even put Specially Defensive Jirachi on my team to take its attacks. But I never have trouble with it, and like most other threatening Pokemon, “it is manageable”. Again, I’m undecided; Specs has the potential to rip through teams (I lost to it on moderate occasions), and yet the metagame has adapted.
As for Deoxys-S? It's a healthy on presence on the battlefield, and I don't think it's gamechanging enough.
Side question: May I ask why Deoxys-S and Mew were deemed Uber last generation? It seems to somebody on PO that Mew was banned "just because it's Mew".
Drizzle: No, not broken. Aldaron’s proposal happened to moderate this well, and now I find Drizzle teams a fun, yet viable challenge. Double Genies, Breloom, Jirachi, and Starmie are just a few of the many who flourish under Drizzle, and with some readiness, Drizzle teams are fairly challengeable.
Reuniclus: OU. Really, I don’t see the problem with facing Calm Mind Reuniclus, and I could easily revenge kill it given its low Speed. Trick Room versions are also fairly easy to handle, as Reuniclus’ attacks are predictable and you can use a specially oriented defense like Jirachi to pivot any Reuniclus.
Garchomp/Landorus/Excadrill: Heh, the hype, huh? Excadrill is fairly manageable, and if it sets up and sweeps me, it’s my own fault. Landuros is easily outsped, so he should manage to stay in OU as well. There were a few rare occasions where I came across a Sand-abusing Garchomp and lost to it, but Sand Veil has never caused me trouble and is somehow overpowered. Salac versions trouble me, however.
Blaziken: Ah, yes. He’s the one I have to most trouble with. Once he gets going, he’s hard to stop. I can never seem to predict whether he’s using Mixed or Swords Dance, and I find myself wishing I went against a mixed Blaziken so I would make fewer sacrifices. I would put him on the Suspect list, but I doubt he would make it to Ubers.
Latios: I’m undecided. The metagame has adapted too much to Latios for him to be a safe threat, with all the Specially Defensive variants of Scizor and Tyranitar and all. Hell, I even put Specially Defensive Jirachi on my team to take its attacks. But I never have trouble with it, and like most other threatening Pokemon, “it is manageable”. Again, I’m undecided; Specs has the potential to rip through teams (I lost to it on moderate occasions), and yet the metagame has adapted.
As for Deoxys-S? It's a healthy on presence on the battlefield, and I don't think it's gamechanging enough.
Side question: May I ask why Deoxys-S and Mew were deemed Uber last generation? It seems to somebody on PO that Mew was banned "just because it's Mew".