Update on recent council votes
Recently, the 35 Pokes tiering council considered two matters: whether to add Mew to the pool of rollable pokemon and whether to ban the ability Tangled Feet. The council voted unanimously 8-0 to keep Mew banned and to ban Tangled Feet, and you can read our reasonings for doing so below.
The council cited Mew's deep set versatility and across-the-board base 100 stats as the reasons it would be an unhealthy, uncompetitive presence in a given 35 Pokes metagame. To quote once council member, Zetious "I don’t think it would be healthy...mew can run many different sets, and in the lower power level that most 35 months are, it would just be a guessing game until mew revealed its set... I think that it’s just too good of a mystery box to be a rollable [pokemon]." Zetious also quite aptly compared Mew to the Lake Guardians, two of which (Mesprit and Uxie) are currently legal. Mesprit and Uxie are often a centralizing presence in any meta they are included in, and are often limited by a combination of relative role predictability, lack of setup options, and lack of coverage against critical metagame threats. Mew doesn't suffer any of these limitations. Celebi was also cited as a Mew comparison, as it was legal in the December 2024 format alongside a myriad of pokemon which should theoretically have threatened it and yet remained a solid viable option. Mew also doesn't suffer from any of the limitations Celebi has, such as a 4x weakness to bug type moves. For these reasons, the council voted 8-0 that Mew remain banned.
Tangled Feet: The council voted 8-0 to ban Tangled Feet, and this vote was far simpler than many of our previous ones. Although confusion strategies (ex: Swagger + Mirror Herb) and *un*intentional evasion strategies (ex: Defog and Contrary being legal at the same time) are permitted in the tier, *intentional* evasion strategies are nearly universally banned under the 3 Evasion Clauses. Tangled Feet is not covered under any of the existing clauses, but still offers no semblance of competitive utility or value besides enabling intentional evasion strategies. As a result, the council decided it would be best to ban Tangled Feet.
Recently, the 35 Pokes tiering council considered two matters: whether to add Mew to the pool of rollable pokemon and whether to ban the ability Tangled Feet. The council voted unanimously 8-0 to keep Mew banned and to ban Tangled Feet, and you can read our reasonings for doing so below.
The council cited Mew's deep set versatility and across-the-board base 100 stats as the reasons it would be an unhealthy, uncompetitive presence in a given 35 Pokes metagame. To quote once council member, Zetious "I don’t think it would be healthy...mew can run many different sets, and in the lower power level that most 35 months are, it would just be a guessing game until mew revealed its set... I think that it’s just too good of a mystery box to be a rollable [pokemon]." Zetious also quite aptly compared Mew to the Lake Guardians, two of which (Mesprit and Uxie) are currently legal. Mesprit and Uxie are often a centralizing presence in any meta they are included in, and are often limited by a combination of relative role predictability, lack of setup options, and lack of coverage against critical metagame threats. Mew doesn't suffer any of these limitations. Celebi was also cited as a Mew comparison, as it was legal in the December 2024 format alongside a myriad of pokemon which should theoretically have threatened it and yet remained a solid viable option. Mew also doesn't suffer from any of the limitations Celebi has, such as a 4x weakness to bug type moves. For these reasons, the council voted 8-0 that Mew remain banned.
Tangled Feet: The council voted 8-0 to ban Tangled Feet, and this vote was far simpler than many of our previous ones. Although confusion strategies (ex: Swagger + Mirror Herb) and *un*intentional evasion strategies (ex: Defog and Contrary being legal at the same time) are permitted in the tier, *intentional* evasion strategies are nearly universally banned under the 3 Evasion Clauses. Tangled Feet is not covered under any of the existing clauses, but still offers no semblance of competitive utility or value besides enabling intentional evasion strategies. As a result, the council decided it would be best to ban Tangled Feet.
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POKEMON ANALYSIS: SWELLOW
Nidoking is the team's premier special wallbreaker and is able to wreak havoc after switching in with the help of various pivot moves. It's able to hit the majority of the tier except for Goodra and the occasional Claydol with the combination of sludge wave, earth power, and thunderbolt. This set also carries stealth rock to help make progress with the amount of switching this team forces.
Empoleon is vital for its hazard removal, allowing Lokix and Swellow to hit the field without worry. It also checks opposing Lokix looking to revenge kill with first impression and wallbreakers carrying ice coverage that would threaten Tangrowth and Goodra. Roost gives Empoleon longevity, allowing it to continuously switch in while flip turn helps generate momentum
Tangrowth is the team's answer to Barraskewda and tanks fighting types like Mienshao and Hitmontop that would otherwise kill Empoleon. Knock off allows it to hinder whatever switches in after Barraskewda is choice locked and toxic helps wear down sap sipper Goodra.
Goodra provides crucial special defense against Nidoking, specs Swellow, and Venusaur while also threatening them. Sap sipper is also important to counter spore and sleep powder while giving it opportunities to switch into Venusaur which would otherwise threaten Tangrowth with sun boosted weather ball and sludge wave.
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being metagame staples. This tournament will be held in the SWISS format, so there's a little more margin for error and room to try out the metagame yourself within the tournament setting without risking elimination!
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The first is the Sticky Web setter of choice. We have 3 this month and most people have been using Masquerain. Simply put, Masquerain is worse than Smeargle and will continue to be so unless sleep is banned. You can mix and match movesets to fit whatever your build of webs is lacking.
Arctozolt is a mon that forces switches better than just about anything but really doesn't like taking chip from Stealth Rock and is quite prediction heavy. Let's fix that. You get a safe pivot from one of the Slowkings and you get to either click Bolt Beak for a free kill if everything dies to it at which point you've already won the game, or you can click Substitute on the switch to remove the need to predict. you now have a mon that outspeeds and ohkoes almost everything with a Substitute up that is restoring any chip from rocks as well as the damage taken to make the Substitute.
Another sleeper pick, Bruxish is quite a powerful breaker for how little usage it gets. It's Water/Psychic typing lets it take advantage of one particularly prideful duck if it wants to set up. With Strong Jaw, Crunch effectively gets a STAB boost and Psychic Fangs starts to look like it's gonna be added to the list of clacfishes alongside Chi-Yu and Dracovish. There are two sets that are both quite strong, a choiced set utilizing the absurd power of Strong Jaw (and Wave Crash) to pick up KOs and a Swords Dance set that can clean games super well. Bruxish I've found works best on webs team but can also function well outside of them.
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