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This is a pretty strong round (except for Volbeat which is still Volbeat). I'll be voting for my Intimidate Mega Aerodactyl because, well it's my idea. That and I think it provides the most versatility of the three as well as stopping Mega Pinsir and Talonflame cold which have not really been addressed by other Theorymon so far. I hope that whatever doesn't win this round is given a second chance down the road since they all sound like intriguing options (except for Volbeat).
 
Time for another round of Devil's Advocate:
Flash Fire Gourgeist - It doesn't really have room for Rock Slide, and has to give up Frisk. The most I can see it doing is forcing those Mons to switch and Leeching the switch-in.

Intimidate Mega Aerodactyl - 80/85/95 isn't exactly what I'd call super walling potential, and most of those calcs were resisted hits, so walling them is not a big surprise. It still has many weaknesses to common types (including SR) so it won't have much merit outside of walling those specific threats.

Sticky Web Volbeat - If you want a fast but frail Webber, use Galvantula. It at least has attacking power. Volbeat lacks the stats to switch into anything, so the only thing it'd be good for is leading with Web + Tail Glow + Baton Pass and Encore to try and buy enough turns to pull it off. It's also still shut down by Taunt.

Simple Slowking - Giving up Regenerator is a big loss, and it requires a lot of setup to be able to perform effectively.

Voting for Simple Slowking, as I had a hard time finding stuff to complain about it.
 
LoDart210 said:
Oh ok, I'm not very familiar with using it, which explains how I don't know it's moves. If it wins I'd still love to discuss it, however, my vote stays to aerodactyl, because I feel it has a more pressing need to become viable, as opposed to other mons.

Also, alexwolf do the old theorymons get removed from the ladder after the first round, or do the stay and more and more are just added in?
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Each month, we will be using the theorymons that we discussed during the last month, which means that when March ends, the ladder will be updated with March's theorymons and February's theorymons will be removed.
 
Dry Paratroopa said:
Time for another round of Devil's Advocate:
Flash Fire Gourgeist - It doesn't really have room for Rock Slide, and has to give up Frisk. The most I can see it doing is forcing those Mons to switch and Leeching the switch-in.

Intimidate Mega Aerodactyl - 80/85/95 isn't exactly what I'd call super walling potential, and most of those calcs were resisted hits, so walling them is not a big surprise. It still has many weaknesses to common types (including SR) so it won't have much merit outside of walling those specific threats.

Sticky Web Volbeat - If you want a fast but frail Webber, use Galvantula. It at least has attacking power. Volbeat lacks the stats to switch into anything, so the only thing it'd be good for is leading with Web + Tail Glow + Baton Pass and Encore to try and buy enough turns to pull it off. It's also still shut down by Taunt.

Simple Slowking - Giving up Regenerator is a big loss, and it requires a lot of setup to be able to perform effectively.

Voting for Simple Slowking, as I had a hard time finding stuff to complain about it.
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losing frisk isn't such a bad thing, especially when you COMPLETELY REMOVE ONE OF YOUR VERY BAD WEAKNESSES, seriously, the only reason gourgeist even uses frisk is because pick-up is entirely useless competitively and thanks to the grass type buff, insomnia is literally worthless on a grass type, especially when in OU, the only sleep options you have to worry about are yawn or dark void smeargle, in which neither are very common. at least frisk has worth in scouting out movesets. Flash Fire is an absolute major buff

80/80/95 is actually better bulk than trevenant and with flying and fire attacks being everywhere, aerodactyl has a very anti-metagame typing. Do not underestimate the power of intimidate, if Mega Manectric can make great use of it with it's shitty defensive typing, then Mega Aerodactyl can especially when Mega Aerodactyl has high defenses all around

Do not underestimate the power of priority hazards. It's really good and will definitely make sticky web a much better option. This is more-so a buff to sticky web than it is a buff to Volbeat

I don't actually know if Simple Slowking would make a major impact, I like it but I like the others better.

Really, you can't go wrong with this round, if i could vote for all of them I would cause all of these would shake up the metagame quite a bit. But since I can only choose one, I'm going with Flash Fire Gourgeist, it makes too much sense (fucking trollfreak) and will seriously shake things up, especially when dealing with Charizard (still can't get over the fact that Charizard is a huge threat now)
 
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