No, the thing about hippo's single typing is most of his matchups are not favorably by typing. Solo ground is not a fantastic type, weak to water, grass and ice, and only resisting poison and rock with immunities to electric. Poison isn't a terrific resist by any means, and while rock is nice, there's only two stab users in OU. And terrak will 2hko with CB CC, but I'm not sure that's a thing so w/e.
Anyways, most of hippo's matchups are vs pokemon with neutral attacks. Being one of the most usable bulky walls, I had hoped it would answer mawile (when everything else fails, sheer bulk might succeed). I was also disappointed by the ZardX thing as mentioned
+1 252+ Atk Tough Claws Mega Charizard X Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Hippowdon: 276-325 (65.7 - 77.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
4 Atk Hippowdon Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Charizard X: 218-258 (73.1 - 86.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
Which, while Zard is heavily damaged, Hippo still loses this hypothetical perfect health scenario. Obviously not what I wanted in hypothetical because I can't expect better in practice.
The story is kinda similar all through OU. Generally gets aegi, can lose to toxic aegislash. Will get bisharp, which is definitely nice. Can generally counter conkeldurr but for stall that's not really an accomplishment. Cannot beat Dragonite unless it carries roar, in which case it cannot damage Dnite outside of sand. SD chomp wins, chain chomp wins... General chomp, however, does not. God forbid a mega chomp... Checks heatran, still risks burn if countering. Cannot damage landorus-t outside of spamming a toxic at it. Of course, this means it can't stop rocks but w/e. Lando doesn't carry SD much. Pinsir-mega plows through, but that's not unusual. We've seen mawile. Roost Scizor is going to set up all over you.
In all honesty, I don't see the reason he's so high. Toxic/SlackOff/EQ/Rocks, right? 4mss to the max as he wants roar and ice fang. Or Rock Tomb, Idk. I've used hippo this gen and he can wall well enough, it's just god forbid the opponent from having a flying type or something that can recover EQ damage.
Anyways, most of hippo's matchups are vs pokemon with neutral attacks. Being one of the most usable bulky walls, I had hoped it would answer mawile (when everything else fails, sheer bulk might succeed). I was also disappointed by the ZardX thing as mentioned
+1 252+ Atk Tough Claws Mega Charizard X Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Hippowdon: 276-325 (65.7 - 77.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
4 Atk Hippowdon Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Charizard X: 218-258 (73.1 - 86.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
Which, while Zard is heavily damaged, Hippo still loses this hypothetical perfect health scenario. Obviously not what I wanted in hypothetical because I can't expect better in practice.
The story is kinda similar all through OU. Generally gets aegi, can lose to toxic aegislash. Will get bisharp, which is definitely nice. Can generally counter conkeldurr but for stall that's not really an accomplishment. Cannot beat Dragonite unless it carries roar, in which case it cannot damage Dnite outside of sand. SD chomp wins, chain chomp wins... General chomp, however, does not. God forbid a mega chomp... Checks heatran, still risks burn if countering. Cannot damage landorus-t outside of spamming a toxic at it. Of course, this means it can't stop rocks but w/e. Lando doesn't carry SD much. Pinsir-mega plows through, but that's not unusual. We've seen mawile. Roost Scizor is going to set up all over you.
In all honesty, I don't see the reason he's so high. Toxic/SlackOff/EQ/Rocks, right? 4mss to the max as he wants roar and ice fang. Or Rock Tomb, Idk. I've used hippo this gen and he can wall well enough, it's just god forbid the opponent from having a flying type or something that can recover EQ damage.