Anyone see how broken set up sweepers will be? Quagsire and Clefable left RU so the only unaware users we have are Swoobat lol and Bibarel lol. Stuff like nastly plot Azelf will just wreck the tier.
The lack of Unaware mons doesn't mean much in terms of set up sweepers being broken. In BW RU, Clefable pretty much always ran Magic Guard > Unaware, and at high level play Quagsire was pretty much never seen, and RU had dangerous set up Sweepers like Lilligant, Omastar, and Gallade. If you are worried about set up mons, make sure your team can either apply constant pressure to the opponent, preventing set up, that you have a good revenge killer for that specific set up sweeper, or on defensive team, that you have set up sweepers covered by a solid counter.
the shellder smuggler said:
Whimsicott - It didn't change from last gen, but it is still the placeholder for being able to have the most annoying set in the world. Leech Seed + Taunt + Substitute + Protect with Prankster, in case you didn't know.
Milotic - From UU to RU :( It still struggles to find a useful niche in this gen, but still can use a physically defensive set from last gen consisting of Scald + Recover + Ice Beam + Haze
Never use that Whimsicott set, as it is hard countered by every grass type pokemon in existence, and just kills momentum. Good moves on Whimsicott are Encore / Leech Seed / U-turn / Taunt / Fairy STAB / Stun Spore, as all of these moves help to gain momentum (Encore, U-turn) or fuck with set up sweepers (Taunt and Stun Spore). Leech Seed is cool for regaining health and can force some switches, but a pokemon dedicated completely to Sub Seeding is almost a complete waste (Shaymin sub-seeds better do to offensive presence).
Milotic has a really useful niche in RU this gen because it can run Competitive and switch into defog users, turning it into a huge threat to the other team because of its nice coverage, access to Recover, good bulk, and acceptable speed tier. Possibly the "Bisharp of RU" in that it will find itself onto many spike-stacking teams because of its ability.
Kyurem is as broken as we claim. You've got Escavalier and that's it.
Special-spam is going to be everywhere. This tier looks INSANELY dissapointing. Back to Gen2 for me.
>Complains about Kyurem dominating the tier
>Plays GSCOU where every team has Snorlax
pls.