I want to dislike Emboar because he's a ludicrously high-risk, high-reward Pokemon that seems to reward timing over consistency all the time. However, with the current metagame in UU, it's tough to do so. Frankly the tier is so fat, and the ability to straight up pop holes in half the common pokes in the tier is incredible. I was thinking of him as a worse Entei but that's not really the case, LO allows him to switch which is not available on Entei.
Our sacred fire spammer is another relatively high risk/reward mon, but one who straight up can't break through certain targets (though nothing in the tier wants to take a SF no matter what. The burn can give such ludicrous momentum). I'd like to try out Emboar a bit more though, and see just how situational his usefulness is... I can see him being a solid plug for teams that struggle with certain pokemon just due to how high he can ramp up the damage (Swampert, Suicune, Blastoise). It's a weird world where the bulkiest waters in the tier have to watch switching in.
All in all I don't think he'll end up being one I use much.. just don't like the idea of being able to use him once, maybe twice all battle due to recoil/life orb/hazard/slowness. And he's hardly going to be a mon you wish back alive very often, I think. But there's going to be cases where the ability to straight up dent a team, at a cost to your own obviously, is going to be incredibly useful.
Probably will end up rated B, B+.
Our sacred fire spammer is another relatively high risk/reward mon, but one who straight up can't break through certain targets (though nothing in the tier wants to take a SF no matter what. The burn can give such ludicrous momentum). I'd like to try out Emboar a bit more though, and see just how situational his usefulness is... I can see him being a solid plug for teams that struggle with certain pokemon just due to how high he can ramp up the damage (Swampert, Suicune, Blastoise). It's a weird world where the bulkiest waters in the tier have to watch switching in.
All in all I don't think he'll end up being one I use much.. just don't like the idea of being able to use him once, maybe twice all battle due to recoil/life orb/hazard/slowness. And he's hardly going to be a mon you wish back alive very often, I think. But there's going to be cases where the ability to straight up dent a team, at a cost to your own obviously, is going to be incredibly useful.
Probably will end up rated B, B+.