I'm seriously sick and tired of people comparing Mega Medicham to Choice Band Tyrantrum,
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Tyrantrum, with the Choice Band, may be comparable to MegaCham in power:
252 Atk Choice Band Tyrantrum Head Smash vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Manaphy: 348-409 (102 - 119.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Pure Power Mega Medicham High Jump Kick vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Manaphy: 352-415 (103.2 - 121.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Yet there are some significant differences between the two.
Defensively, Tyrantrum's typing sucks. Sure it can switch in a bit better against Talonflame (and is how any NORMAL user would Boost, not fearing Will-O-Wisp thanks to Lum Berry), but outside of that, you have some difficulties. This is a Pokemon weak to Fight, Ground, Ice, Dragon, Steel, and Fairy, so its ability to switch is even more difficult despite the Fire, Electric, Poison, and Flying resists. MegaCham may have low bulk, but you can definitely say it's not the worst and not as easily exploitable on one side or another. Tyrantrum, on the other hand, sucks so hard Specially that Gengar's Life Orb Sludge Wave is a 2HKO. This also doesn't take into consideration that Tyrantrum's speed is lower than MegaCham's, meaning that outspeeding Tyrantrum is made even easier than Cham. Finally, even though Tyrantrum has a similar power output as MegaCham after a Choice Band,
it also has the same output after a Dragon Dance, which is vastly superior to the Choice Band set to begin with.
Tyrantrum cannot hold a torch to wall breaking in comparison to MegaCham.
CelticPride has already voiced that the comparison of MegaCham to Rampardos is ridiculous, but it's about the same with Tyrantrum.
Gary2346 has already voiced that there are enough flaws that prevent Tyrantrum from being an effective Wallbreaker, hoping that he wouldn't have to list them (which I have to, it seems). As I've said before, Kyurem-B is the only true comparison we have, but even it goes down because of its typing giving it switch-in difficulty, a Stealth Rock weakness, and reliance on Roost in order to stay relatively healthy (not to mention its Speed is lower than MegaCham's). However, if this is not enough to debunk the Tyrantrum Argument, allow me to respond to this:
please tell me what switches into choice band tyrantrum?
Ferrothorn (and punishing it if it uses Head Smash or Outrage); since Superpower is a rare use move like on Scizor, it normally doesn't have to worry.
Hippowdon can Slack Off stall when Outraged or 2HKO with a 0EV Earthquake.
Mega Aggron laughs at it pretty hardcore.
That's roughly three Pokemon in comparison to MegaCham's 4, which is as comparable to the power output.
Tyrantrum may have similar power output and a lack of true switch-ins, but there are two areas where Tyrantrum fails that, while I've brought both up before, need a repeat.
Tyrantrum has six easily exploitable weaknesses in comparison to MegaCham's 3. If you honestly think MegaCham has difficulty switching in, Tyrantrum is even worse. As mentioned before, it cannot even take hits on the Special Side.
Tyrantrum is left outsped by multiple Pokemon, making outspeeding and Revenge Killing even less of an issue than with MegaCham. Mega Medicham requires Pokemon with Choice Scarf or those that are naturally faster, either one. There are plenty, sure, but it's much more selective than Tyrantrum, which is outsped by far too many Pokemon to count; Jolly Dragonite, for instance, laughs at Tyrantrum's attempt to outspeed it, even before Dragon Dancing, something that even MegaCham doesn't have to worry about.
These two problems above are enough to show that, while Tyrantrum is a boss thanks to its power and coverage,
its speed and typing let it down far too much for it to be effective in this metagame. Thus, MegaCham still remains the best Wallbreaker of the tier.
moving to A+ purely because it can wallbreak is bullshit
I beg to differ. If you look at
Gen 5's Viability Thread, Kyurem-B is on the list at A+ and it's been known as a wallbreaker since its release, also boasting the fact that didn't have many switch ins as well. So...if MegaCham going up to A+ solely because it's a wallbreaker is bullbae, you must surely think Kyurem-B's placement in Gen 5 was the same.
Stop me from correcting you, but Hoopa-U is in a league above MegaCham. MegaCham may be a One-Trick Pony, but it has one set it can take the most advantage of. Hoopa-U wasn't solely a wallbreaker, as it had multiple sets to work off of, meaning countering it was made even more difficult to the point that some considered it without one. The two Pokemon are very different in how they run, meaning their comparisons are more like a lack thereof, only proving that you have no true arguments to begin with and just want to hate on a bandwagon solely because it's a bandwagon and nothing more, taking in nothing about the why of it and just working off emotion. I suppose Feels > Reals is the tl;dr of this paragraph.
I'm going to end this post with a very insightful line:
Quit comparing Mega Medicham to Rampardos and Tyrantrum. It's ignorant. Please come up with actual arguments that Mega Medicham does not deserve an A+ ranking, since barely any decent arguments actually exist.