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Kingambit is broken due to how well it abuses tera. Due to its many tera options teambuilding to check every Gambit is nearely impossible and if your check to Gambit dies it can oftentimes easily reverse sweep your entire team without too much difficulty and it forces a lot of 50/50s thanks to...
Honestly for how annoying a lot of ghost mons can be this gen and the common screens + stored power spam you can see on ladder it's suprising that Gambit has never gotten at least a suspect considering how dominant it is currently.
What are people's thoughts on Zama-H? It seems really strong RN being able to invalidate a lot of physical mons with iron defense, while also being able to hit hard thanks to body press. Thanks to Tera, checks like choice scarf Enamorus or booster energy Iron Valiant need to be ready fo tera...
If you're a newer player then the Home update can easily make navigating OU a lot more difficult. The best way to deal with all the new mons introduced with Home is to watch a lot of matches online between high level players to get a feel for all the new mons and what sets they most commonly run.
I think that there are so many exciting wallbreakers like Ursaluna, Pao, Urushifu and other exciting mons that Hoopa-U is simply overlooked RN. After some mons get banned and the tier calms down we'll likely see Hoopa-U being used more.
Volcanion being the only mon with access to a stronger version of Scald in SEruption is nice, but even if everything suddenly got Scald I don't think that it would affect Volcanion's viability too much since it was great in gen 8 and way more mons had access to scald there compared to gen 9.
It would be funny if Weavile got back its moveset after being butchered so hard in gen 9, but then still not seeing any use in OU because Chien-Pao is just better than Weavile in almost every way