Ah, yes. Clodsire attacks with it's...
horn.
To not make this a one-liner, what are everyone's thoughts on Slowking? With Chilly Reception, it gets a nice niche as a defensive pivot and a reason to use it over the more popular bulky water, Dondozo. Plus, it is basically necessary to use Slowking if you are running a Snow team.
Slowking is very fun to use but it just sucks the current metagame:
- resists fighting, but even 252+ bold can’t come in on knock off and then repeated ground attacks from great tusk, who is usually out early in a matchup. not to mention poor matchup against most of the common fighting types in general.
- resists psychic, but loses to hatterene and espathra, can’t do anything to either of them without a specific tech
- resists steel, but can’t take scizor or gholdengo due to their other STAB
- resists fire, but Volcarona often uses giga drain, and STAB bug buzz isn’t uncommon either. Skeledirge can 2hko all sets easily after a torch song or statusing it before hex
the water resistance is handy, and it can single-handedly beat a rain matchup with a 252/216+/40 set it can spam it’s chilly receptions and thunder waves to completely disrupt a rain team. Unfortunately having key matchups against quaquaval, barraskewda and co is not really the hottest thing right now.
the ability to come in on garganacl, and then chilly reception out to heal off the 25% salt cure is pretty awesome. This is niche at best tho, as you can’t do much to the garganacl, except get a safe switch in. So that switch better be capable of actually threatening a 100% garganacl or have substitute in its set.
it has general utility vs stall teams, thanks to its ability to regenerator check every defensive Pokémon in OU not called skeledirge or 252 bold gholdengo.