Dtail hazard chomp was also a little more popular at the start before people realized that tera fairy just makes any bulk mon clefable at home. Hippo doesnt like Bonnett or Grass Chi-Yu offensively, let alone rain as a style - It literally has almost no niche over Ting-Lu outside of maybe not being objectively weak to fairy and fighting? But even then, Vessel of Ruin and the overall stat diff makes Ting-Lu just the better choice on 85% of most teams.
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Dtail hazard chomp was also a little more popular at the start before people realized that tera fairy just makes any bulk mon clefable at home. Hippo doesnt like Bonnett or Grass Chi-Yu offensively, let alone rain as a style - It literally has almost no niche over Ting-Lu outside of maybe not being objectively weak to fairy and fighting? But even then, Vessel of Ruin and the overall stat diff makes Ting-Lu just the better choice on 85% of most teams.
It's a good thing that Rain isn't much of a thing in UU, because it was a thing for like one week and then the focus shifted to Espathra because of how stupidly hard Stored Power hits on a thing with both Calm Mind and Speed Boost.
On the topic of this, I wonder - is there any other offensive threat that's just walled by a mon due to a lack of coverage?
Regieleki by all ground types, Regidrago by all fairy types (This one's slightly better, and it *is* getting EQ this gen, but immaterial), old gen Keldeo??
Well, any offensive mon that ended up being forgotten could fit as an answer ngl
Well technically because of Tera and Tera Blast, I don't think so because technically Chi-Yu can beat Tyranitar with Tera Blast fighting.
So pretty much I don't think it's possible unless you have Unaware. Nasty Plot Chi-Yu beats Blissey lol.
edit: Iron Moth I think gets walled by Clodsire unless it Tera Type into Psychic.
If something can beat Blissey it can beat anything. In fact I think this tier needs more very good special walls
Also I just realized Cinderace is joining the OU tier pretty soon, and with a nerfed Libero too, so it might be more manageable this time since we have walls like Dondozo to handle it better
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My pick for this is Garganacl. Literally go back to the beginning of this thread and you can almost pinpoint where people started picking up on how good Salt Cure and Purifying Salt are even before tera options were realized. Skeledirge is a second ish choice, if only because a lot of people thought it'd land UU and was the weakest of the 3 starters, but now it's arguably the best of all the three.
PS. Y'all ready for Finch to give up his seat in an hour?
Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen revival blessing in OU in weeks.
Or that TTar actually happened to be perfectly fine down there unlike Aegislash and was never really considered overbearing.
Unsure what UU's gonna look like long-term since right now OU's best setup sweeper is down there because ladder works in mysterious ways, but TTar has such a lackluster place in this meta that I can see it both dropping from OU and staying out this time.
please help me unban my account although this is not related because i am mad about this since it is an ip ban
9 minutes bois and grills
Birb time
As the local Flamigo Stan, I'm v disappointed by the refusal to go YOLO with Tera Fighting CC on turn one there.
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just checked, 1.33 adaptability boost from Tera fighting gives flamingo enough juice to OHKO the dragapult on first turn!
I loved the Tera steel turn, to force the outcome on annihilape and/or hurt whatever may have come in
Tera Fighting CC would have at least 2HKOd Finch's entire team bar Amoongus, and it's a very fun YOLO play against a lead Pult.
This is gonna be one of the battles of all Pokemon's competitive history
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