Not particularly, no. Z Hydro is viable on a slightly offensive spread, but the defensive merits are the main selling point and even then it does not see a ton of usage. If it cannot check Tornadus-T or Pinsir, not pivot into Heatran at all, and not sponge some stray attacks from Greninja and Landorus-T, then it will hardly be able to get in safely, so defensive utility sets are ideal.
Bulu is a good partner for Glis because it switches into Tran and deals with Ash-Gren. AV Bulu works, or you could form a double SD breaker core.
I think SD Gliscor could work here, also, a ResTalk DD Zygarde could work tooWhats are good switch-ins against Toxic Heatran?
Heatran @ Leftovers
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Taunt
- Toxic
I've been using Zygarde as my Heatran check on this team, but Zygarde hates toxic.
I know Tapu Fini and Gliscor are options, but I'm looking for something less passive.
I like to use mega 'zam, as it won't get damaged by toxic if you don't mega. Also, it traces flash fire if you mega, and can damage tran badly with focus blast.Whats are good switch-ins against Toxic Heatran?
Heatran @ Leftovers
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Taunt
- Toxic
I've been using Zygarde as my Heatran check on this team, but Zygarde hates toxic.
I know Tapu Fini and Gliscor are options, but I'm looking for something less passive.
I know this isn't really a switch in but if you carry Heal Bell then you can switch into Toxic, KO and cure yourself later. Chansey and Clefable are the best optionsWhats are good switch-ins against Toxic Heatran?
Heatran @ Leftovers
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Taunt
- Toxic
I've been using Zygarde as my Heatran check on this team, but Zygarde hates toxic.
I know Tapu Fini and Gliscor are options, but I'm looking for something less passive.
I mean standard Reuniclus...
Z-Flash Cannon > Shadow Ball, ohkoes Clefable, and still just sets up in Mega Sableye's face.
Not just usage. The percentage of what movesets are used for each pokemon in OU.
It is able to check Ash Greninja, Tapu Koko, and Kartana all at once. Defensive role compression is really the main thing here, I'd say.
3 members of the 5 man VR Council team voted it unviable, so the latter is to be assumed.
It has been increasing significantly in popularity recently. If it correlates to getting significant enough ladder usage to rise or not I do not know, but Gastrodon is a very viable option atm.
It has a clear niche and people sometimes like to utilize it on balanced or bulky-offense despite its shortcomings. There are worse things that remain in OU by usage, imo.
It's extremely bulky, checks a bunch of top tier mons, such as Koko, Ash-Gren, Magearna, and Bulu. It can also lure Heatran, as well as other Steel-types with the combination of Sludge Bomb and Stomping Tantrum.
I'm pretty certain its a meme bandwagon, I don't believe Blacephalon is completely unviable even though its pretty bad.
It has been gaining traction and it can rise to OU, its usage rose from 1.6% to 3.6% in one month, which means it can very well rise whenever the next tier shift is.
It's not quite as bad as people make it out to be, just that there's better megas out there.
it'd there, go to /moveset
Signal Beam touches Sableye and also nails Greninja and dents Tyranitar; Shadow Ball has the advantage of hitting Sp. Def Jirachi but that’s about it.
It's really not all that good. TTar and Hippowdon are great Pokemon individually but Excadrill is honestly not that good (the best sand abuser though). Despite the fact that Celesteela and Skarmory have/are dropping off, Excadrill still has a lot to worry about, such as defensive Landorus-T, both its regular defensive set and fat scarf. I don't think sand is terribly awful but there's certainly better archetypes out there.
ignore altervisi, he has a shitty unjustified hateboner for the clown. it's absolutely viable - scarf is a decent cleaner, specs is a good wallbreaker (tears through bo if you can get it in on their defensive pivots - run hp grass to 2hko tar after rocks), and subcm is a great stall breaker (run sub cm stabs and ghost z, ive even considered fire blast over flamethrower to 2hko unaware Clefable but I haven't tried it). bare in mind it's far from perfect - it has difficulty breaking through bulky waters such as pex and mantine, its bulk is absolute garbage, its weak to rocks and despite specs having hp grass, ttar is still a pain to that set and a hard stop to all the others (patlop has mentioned a wisp trick scarf set he runs but idk how good that is - makes ttar into absolute setup fodder though).
While I think it MIGHT have a very small niche in OU, I think it is utterly outclassed by at least 2 'mons in every role that blace tries to acomplish (tran and both volcs are better special fires, kartana, zygarde, and lucha are better sweepers, and gren, koko and kartana are better breakers). Not to mention that it has an akward speed stat (if scarfed, it still is outscarfed by common mons like gren and kartana, and if it doesn't use scarf, it is outsped by koko, tornadus, and the scarfers I mentioned already), a horific movepool that prevents it from blowing past its checks like (chansey and t-tar) who can usualy OHKO blace anyway (not chansey, although she can poison blace & spam soft-boiled till blace dies), due to its horrible defences, and a weakness to every hazard. As a result, I think blace should sitill be unranked.
