For this thread, now might be a good time to talk more about the meta we currently have. Will be going over stuff that looks potentially strong or at the very least both interesting and somewhat viable. This is my first post like this in a year ish so it's bound to not be perfect. Should be a good enough way to start us out at least.
Surfsurge looks very strong into offense and potentially still strong regardless. Just running Modest with its ability lets it outspeed stuff up to base 164 Speed with full investment and base 93 Speed (106 if Timid) Scarfers. If there don't end up being any relevant Choice Scarf users or if teams with it don't mind relevant ones for whatever reason then I could totally see this dropping its Speed EVs a bit to invest in bulk a bit more. Water/Electric/Ice coverage is strong and being able to lean on Hydro Pump to potentially muscle through some bulkier stuff might be nice, or if you match up poorly into any one opponent just pivoting out to a teammate as opposed to using the Tailwind for Surfsurge itself. Physical bulk is pretty nice too even if Earthquake weakness is a little unfortunate for it here. I know the speed boost doesn't last long but for offensive archetypes it should be plenty.
Noyew has a very small movepool, a horrid statline, and is pretty passive, but deserves mention just for the ability. Base 64 HP is more than enough to make basically a passive CounterCoat extremely dangerous. Would make this Pokemon capable of being a very annoying emergency answer to practically anything, or at the absolute minimum a hazard-setting lead with Spikes. I don't know how you're supposed to take this down without doing it very slowly which is made all the more difficult by it having Leech Seed. If this thing has a presence in the meta I doubt it'll be a healthy one.
Faellen is very straightforward for me. Its stat spread, typing, and ability are all both very good on their own and have very strong synergy with one another. What functionally would be a free Life Orb on all attacks on a Pokemon that has that high of Sp. Atk and two fairly spammable STAB types will make it difficult to switch into and it's not like its Speed tier is even bad at all. I think it'd be fully capable even with just the basic dual STABs you'd expect of it but this also has Light of Ruin, Flamethrower, Nasty Plot, U-Turn, and Trick for options, plus some more fringe stuff like Psychic, Thunderbolt, and Taunt.
Tardeblade is maybe a little bit let down by how many appealing Dark-types and Ghost-types there are on paper but still deserves mention for not being a bad Pokemon in a vacuum. Typing is good, it's pretty bulky and both general utility and potentially demon sets look capable. For the former it has Knock Off, U-Turn, and Stealth Rock and for the latter it has Body Press to compliment Stored Power, plus Rest and Hibernation would work together to let it compress moveslots. No idea what its fourth moveslot would be though. Maybe Meteor Beam or Psychic Noise but I doubt those sets really need the things either of those moves provide.
Bugsome might be worthwhile for both its Speed tier and Lunge turning its ability into basically pseudo-Contrary. If Boots end up feeling necessary then with only base 110 Attack and solid, but limited coverage, its power may leave a bit to be desired before it truly gets going. Maybe I'll end up being wrong and this can justify Silver Powder or something. Either way there are things to like here.
I don't understand whether Contagious works when the opponent makes hits the user with a contact move or vice versa but Pestifer looks kinda absurd regardless. It has pretty insane physical bulk for what I imagine is supposed to be a special breaker through Nasty Plot, infinite coverage, and a very solid base 96 Speed tier. As if it really needed it there are basically zero utility moves missing from this thing's movepool outside of pivoting and I guess Haze is technically a little better than Clear Smog. Low Sp. Def isn't all too bad when there is literally nothing else that isn't explicitly very strong about this Pokemon. Not really seeing this not having at least one or two sets that end up being viable as even something like Choice Scarf or just plain hazard stack looks strong here.
Hawksectiff looks potentially interesting for being able to force switches against even stuff that should check it thanks to its ability. Faster stuff will have to worry about Sucker Punch at -1 Defense and Knock Off and Brave Bird would be fairly difficult to switch into regardless. Has basically zero coverage but given the typing that's not a big issue. Hazard weakness and solid, but imperfect Speed tier will still limit it a fair amount, and I don't expect fat teams to be very strong so it might not end up seeing what would be its most favorable matchup very often.
Would be mentioning Aesap here regardless solely for being a competent mon with Exhaust, that ability just looks very strong lmao. Lots of low pp moves will become much harder to click just with this mon existing. The mon itself looks fine otherwise. Attack stat might be a little bit misleading because this Pokemon lacks Play Rough or any coverage moves over 80 base power. Speed tier looks nice and Let's Snuggle Forever being a move it can have in a regular moveslot is interesting, probably something you'd run regardless but I couldn't tell you exactly how good it is or isn't.
Magmouth has STAB Boomburst off of almost exactly Exploud's Special Attack...but with a 30% chance to Burn through its ability. And it has 144/100 physical bulk. And Psychic Noise, Parting Shot, and Torch Song can spread burns too. Yeah this is gonna be a nightmare to switch into but at least it's very slow.
Boillusk is in a pretty interesting spot to me in the sense that it has several would-be problems that are fixed by one hole in the meta, that being a lack of bulky Waters. It has Spikes and Stealth Rock but not much in the way of outright utility otherwise. This forces it to dip into its serviceable Sp. Atk given its role which would be a problem on paper, but in practice might not be so bad due to Waters typically being the big thing to resist that STAB combination. Its resistances to Fire and Ice may become a whole lot more valuable as a result which is a fun little compliment to its ability. This is in addition to the usual U-Turn punishing that the ability was intended to do for this mon. Still might not even be the best option in this meta since Icthyothorn might be alright but we'll see.
Skibidragon is mostly fine even if not outstanding outside of the big bonus of pivoting Hydro Pump. I've seen similar Pokemon in metas like this where having a particularly strong pivoting move and not much else is enough for them to find a place on VoltTurn teams. This has solid bulk, a Speed tier that goes above most of the mons I've talked about today, and a few pretty nice resists for the meta. While I'd imagine this might want Choice Specs, it never hurts for even those kinds of sets to have Defog as an option. Has a lot of different coverage options too.
It's starting to make me feel like a broken record for mentioning so many Pokemon for their abilities but I wouldn't be mentioning Cosmole (any Stypes fans???) if not for its ability. It effectively gets base ~160 Attack just for going first and 124/~110/~110 bulk for not going first and has ExtremeSpeed to give it just a little bit of control over this. Crazy to stay for a statline that otherwise looks so mediocre at a glance but I think even what it has now isn't enough to compensate for how strong the ability is. I'll briefly mention Mindwyrm as well for having the same ability and an even better stat spread in literally every way at the cost of a more limiting typing.
Leviadon looks super cool to me, definitely one of my favorites I've seen here between the ability and the Pokemon built around it. Non-STAB, but functionally priority Close Combat and Crunch are very strong, but offset here by an otherwise somewhat middling attacking stat. Your Sp. Atk stat is one of the highest in the meta in terms of raw numbers so if this ends up having issues with its attack stat being too low to break blanket physical walls then I'm sure Draco Meteor will blow past a lot of them. I don't know if this would want to run Draco Meteor, Bulk Up, or a Steel move more, maybe it drops one of its two big priority moves, but this Pokemon's sets will probably feel like they're missing something either way.
That's all I feel like mentioning at a glance. There are plenty of things I was on the fence about mentioning and even if there weren't I'm sure there's something I missed anyways. Feel free to add whatever thoughts you have on our current lineup as well!
