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That set literally gets walled by Melmetal lol. You're going to be using Spear and Bolt but no coverage for Melmetal leaves you hard walled and whatever you switch in is taking Double Iron Bash.
Think the tier will calm down a bit now with the 3 biggest threats gone. Kyu-B and Zygarde are definitely strong as hell, but at least their checks/counters are more easily defined than "lol I will 2HKO the entire metagame".
I don't mean we should keep objectively degenerate stuff like Landorus "insert 2HKO option" - I. I am saying if literally every good offensive option (like Kyu-B, Blaziken etc.) get banned, the same thing that always happens, will happen. The top of the ladder will be littered with...
On the team I spoke about above, one of my wincons was subDD Kyu-B. I was having trouble with Melmetal overall. It laughs off even boosted hits and sub means nothing to Double Iron Bash. I think, once the meta calms down (only one I can see being banned right now is Lando-I), we are going to see...
So, I saw this core and decided to use it myself but changed Magic Guard to Unaware. This handles pretty much everything I played last night. Had no troubles with Kyu-B or anything in between. Zygarde was kind of annoying, but Clef stopped any set ups because of Unaware and forced it out with...
Honestly, I haven't had many problems with Kyu-B whatsoever. Can see why people complain but I have had wayyyyy more problems with Zygarde and especially Lando-I. Sets not running Earth Power (Roost is rather common) get hard walled by Melmetal. Lando-I on the other hand has so many sets, that...
Scarf is probably better for this team plus Timid instead of Modest for Spectrier. More speed control and it becomes a late game cleaner if it gets a kill. Hits like a truck.
Don't agree with Naganadel but I can live with it. Now just get rid of Lando-I and I think the tier is fine. Kyu-B is definitely very strong but I believe he is manageable. Same with Blaziken.
Did not even realize until two days ago that there was a wave of unbans to couple with the DLC. Had a few days now to play around and here are my thoughts.
Generally, when the tier is like this, it is way more fun. Outside of running into Lando-I, even stall can function very well in this type...
My mistake. Had a brain fart. That does make him more threatening, I just don't see him as suspect worthy/meta defining in the same way I said the others that I listed. I can understand how someone can have a different opinion though.
And you would have to be either really bad or inexperienced to not realize that if a Gene is coming in and getting a special attack boost, it's NOT a U-turn spam choice scarf set. Genesect is good, don't get me wrong. But he's nowhere near as good as Mega Meta, Mega Blastoise, Zygarde and the...