UltiMario
Out of Obscurity
252+ SpA Choice Specs Pixilate Sylveon Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 202-238 (50 - 58.9%)
252+ SpA Choice Specs Floette (No Move) vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 262-310 (64.8 - 76.7%)
To be completely honest, for something with only 92 Spe, I'm not sure 50% recoil is worth essentially a Life Orb boost over Sylveon, especially when we know Specs Sylveon isn't really that great to begin with.
You're killing yourself in three hits from recoil, and anything that can survive a single hit will be able to outspeed you or just hit you with priority for enough damage to kill you, or at worst kill you after your next hit of recoil, causing a trade.
This is no better than when people were drooling over the sheer power Rampardos could put into a single hit back when Gen 4 was new, or Darmanitan with Gen 5: it's just not going to add up to a good Pokemon. I was more interested in seeing this as a bulkier pure Fairy with Eviolite, completely forgoing Light of Ruin for the raw stats. Unfortunately it didn't work out this way, so I'm not actually seeing Floette becoming any sort of major mon in the meta, nothing more than a gimmick tbh.
252+ SpA Choice Specs Floette (No Move) vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 262-310 (64.8 - 76.7%)
To be completely honest, for something with only 92 Spe, I'm not sure 50% recoil is worth essentially a Life Orb boost over Sylveon, especially when we know Specs Sylveon isn't really that great to begin with.
You're killing yourself in three hits from recoil, and anything that can survive a single hit will be able to outspeed you or just hit you with priority for enough damage to kill you, or at worst kill you after your next hit of recoil, causing a trade.
This is no better than when people were drooling over the sheer power Rampardos could put into a single hit back when Gen 4 was new, or Darmanitan with Gen 5: it's just not going to add up to a good Pokemon. I was more interested in seeing this as a bulkier pure Fairy with Eviolite, completely forgoing Light of Ruin for the raw stats. Unfortunately it didn't work out this way, so I'm not actually seeing Floette becoming any sort of major mon in the meta, nothing more than a gimmick tbh.