Hello everyone! I decided to share my thoughts on some Pokemon that I've been trying to play with recently as well as give my thoughts on other pokemon in this early form of Sun and Moon Monotype. I'm gonna already apologize in advance for my potential shit analysis on the game as I don't play as much so I don't know weather my stuff will be accurate or not. I will be doing a quick overview on these Mons as well as sharing my thoughts about them. First up...
Kartana specializes in attacking and speed alone, as it boasts 181 Attack, which is literally one point higher than Deoxys-Attack and Mega Rayquaza, and has a good speed tier of 109, max reaching to 349 which outspends Keldeo, Infernape, and the other fighting dog legendarys, as well as some nice defense to it. It's movepool is pretty decent besides the amazing stab it gets such as Leaf Blade and Smart Strike, as it can utilize Night Slash, Psycho Cut, Sacred Sword, and can potentially use a Scarf, Band, or Orb Set. Beast Boost can either give it a free moxie, or a free speed boost depending on main stat it's focused on. The reason I'm listing out these it to provide a general idea of Kartana, and state that while it's Physical offense is really good, I don't really think it should be banned for some reasons. First, I believe that on Grass and Steel, it provides the types and makes way for new team building as well as shifts the pace on both of these types. Steel in Gen 6 was a well known type that could go on Balanced or Hyper Offensive, which it still can go through today I think, but I believe that Kartana, Mega Metagross, and Celestela all force a more offensive build toward Steel's typical build last year, and leads to more offense. The same concept goes to grass, as Grass was balanced as well, and while it did have some Physical Attackers that worked well for what they did and their slow speed tiers, being Breloom and Shiftry, I think that Kartana + Tapu Bulu, both enforce a more offensive grass build, and they both get usage because they compliment each other a lot through Grassy Terrain and Kartana's amazing speed. However while Kartana's offensive capabilities are amazing, I still think that most types have some sort of counter or check to them, the ones that don't would be Water(which could vary if Scarf set since it's weaker and locked in and Toxapex is a really good Pokemon) and Ice depending on the set. I think that Kartana is an amazing pokemon who can capitalize well on picking off kills for Beast Boosts or just outright killing mons in general depending on the set. Night Slash for ghosts, boosted Leaf Blade for huge stab on Grass, Sacred Sword for steel, etc. However it's uh, kinda sorta not really a glass cannon because of it's HP stat and it's Special Defense Stat. Despite this, while I love this mon, I would rather wait and let it stay for now to see where it stands in the metagame, as it's not a Quickban overpowered moveset abusing worst Beast Booster like Phermosa, or a Quickban like Genesect.
Honestly why does everyone want this banned? It's not as strong as everyone makes it out to be. Zygarde%10, or Zydog for short, is a really cool looking Pokemon, but when you look at it's stats, it's kind of not that great. Attack is decent with base 100, capitalizing at 328 at Adamant, speed is excellent, capitalizing at 361 Jolly. When I looked at Zydog, I instantly found a resemblance to Flygon because of it's Attack stat, which really separates it. Zydog can run two sets, a banded one and a dragon Dance one, but since most people right now use Banded, we'll use that for now. The problem with Zydog is it has to sacrifice one stat for the other, if you want power you sacrifice speed, and vice versa. Ground has some speed Pokemon being Landorus-Incarnate and Garchomp, and ultimately lose to much faster things like Thundurus, and Keldeo. Zydog has an amazing speed tier that helps ground get the edge in battle against much faster mons. However, it's other stats besides Speed and attack are terrible. It's HP is cut in half compared to Zygarde Normal, and it's defenses are worse than Zygarde Normal. But the main reason why I believe people are freaking out about Zydog is thousand arrows, which hits flying Mons and negates levitate and Air Balloon. It honestly dosent even matter, because even before in Gen 6, ground was hitting Flying, Electric, and Levitating mons because of Landoruos Gravity, so even if Zydog was somehow banned, the fact that Ground still would be beating Electric still would remain, and Ground would shift from teams unique with Zydog to Generic Gen 6 Ground Sand Sand Rush Teams with possibly 1 Gen 7 mon on it, which the team it's self is still good, but Ground loses variety. People should just accept the fact that either way, with or without Thousand Arrows, Ground will always find a way around Flying, Levitation Mons, Electric, and Air Balloon. Banning this mon would only make Ground go a bit backwards in terms of team building this Gen. This mon shouldn't even be banned at all lmao.
I was gonna do more mons but maybe later as I'm lazy and tired and I can't find the 3d models of them even though the 2d ones look cool hahahelp