I knew Boulder was a fraud since day 1.
To divert this convo to avoid a one-liner.
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What does Blaziken even do in this meta anymore?
It sucks vs Balance because most of them carry Gliscor, Dozo, Mola, Tusk, and Zama.
Sucks vs BO/HO since they carry priority, Lando, Dnite, Tusk, Prim, Booster mons, and ofc Zama.
Forget about breaking Stall cause any Stall build that loses to Blaziken wasn’t good to begin with.
It needs Protect cause of Booster mons, so that limits you to Swords Dance, STAB, and the 4th slot. This is a problem for Blaziken who already had a big 4MSS. It can’t carry all the coverage it needs like T-Punch, EQ, and Knock. Even with resistances to Dark, Grass, Fire, and Steel, it doesn’t get many chances to setup due to its inherent frailty.
There’s competition with G-Fire and Cinderace as a physically offensive Fire type.
I might be the biggest Blaziken hater but every meta trend in the past few months has been terrible for it.
There are just better fire types. Cinderace doesn't need speed boost procs to be fast, has better coverage, and is just better in general for a hazard meta. Gouging Fire is better because it has bulk to survive while it gets up to speed with DD. Heatran has great defensive utility and trapping. Even Ceruledge has a bit of a niche.
I tried a very jank mixed attacking Blaziken on Psychic Terrain once. It was so bad. But it was useful hitting Overheat on a lot of physical walls that would come in to take the physical attacks. Pretty good for Tusk. Doesn't work on Dozo or Gouging Fire, though. Another problem I had was splitting EVs between attacks either meant compromising too much on power, speed, or both. Compromising it on speed meant you needed an extra free turn to often be revenge killed anyways. Too many fast BE mons even without that. I had fun with my jank Blaziken, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it.
I would still be curious to see if something like Life Orb or even Charcoal Tera Fire could salvage a mixed attacking set.