I agree. NU looks like it'll be just as fun as RU, so I hope enough people get interested in it ^^
It would almost be a necessity for Stealth Rocks to be banned in this tier for a lot of cool Pokes to be viable. I can anticipate Utility Kabutops running around all over unless there's a ban.
Kabutops @Leftovers
Jolly
252 HP 4 Att 252 Speed
-Stealth Rock
-Rapid Spin
-Stone Edge
-Waterfall/Aqua Jet
Something like that is what I would imagine being the dominant utility Poke down here.
Evolite Tentacool would have more than 150 base Special defense with Evolite if you decide to invest EV's in special defense. Tentacool reaches 328 Special defense with Evolite with full investment and a positive nature, and Evolite raises that to 492. In contrast, Lugia (which is in Ubers for a very good reason) has 154 special defense and yet its Special Defense caps out at 447. Tentacool can also set up Toxic Spikes (but not normal Spikes or Stealth Rock). However, Tentacool is very frail physically with only 30 base physical defense and 40 base HP.Evolite tentacool could be ok with 150 base sp def.
Maybe, but six weakness and the not-that-great bulk you mentioned (According to X-Act, Mixed 284/294/313, Physically-Defensive 284/343/265, or Specially Defensive 284/220/393 max) makes that seem iffy. Two immunities and two or three useful resistances does help though.I suppose eviolite Baltoy might be worth considering as well. It isn't as bulky, but it has that useful typing and ability.
We can only hope. Hitmonlee is the 54th used in RU so no doubt he has a high chance of dropping.No kidding. If you want something fully evolved that isn't weak to Stealth Rock, your choices are literally Kabutops and Spinda. Sandslash, Hitmonlee, and Hitmonchan are very low RU though, so they might be down here as well when everything's said and done.
Unfortunately for Kabutops, Torterra is in this tier. With powerful STAB Grass and Ground moves + Stealth Rocks.It would almost be a necessity for Stealth Rocks to be banned in this tier for a lot of cool Pokes to be viable. I can anticipate Utility Kabutops running around all over unless there's a ban.
Kabutops @Leftovers
Jolly
252 HP 4 Att 252 Speed
-Stealth Rock
-Rapid Spin
-Stone Edge
-Waterfall/Aqua Jet
Something like that is what I would imagine being the dominant utility Poke down here.
Delibird is beast, CB + Hustle + Aerial Ace. ;DAnyway, I feel like if we continue to make tiers below NU, it'll still be a while before things like Delibird can ever be used. Eviolite Pokes will be the common stuff, and we'd have to make like 10 tiers before Delibird becomes viable at all.
and also something to note: on PO's LU tier they either banned or moved most of the problem pokemon in smogon RU to their UU. Its also weird because they use a 5% rather than a 3.4% cut for tiers, or at least thats what I believe they do.It seems that the PO server has already launched an NU tier. The thing is, PO has a very different banlist from ours (the list of pokemon that cannot be used in PO's NU can be seen on their website). You can't use Accelgor, Swellow, and a long list of other pokes on the PO NU tier. I wonder how PO's NU tier will turn out compared to our NU tier when it comes out.