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How about Venusaur? Chlorophyll Venusaur can still wreck things under the sun, and it can take any Water or Fighting type moves Houndoom may fear. Furthermore, it can put a potential counter to sleep. In return, Houndoom can handle all Fire, Ice, and Psychic type moves that make Venu shudder...

Wait, Serperior doesn't get Synthesis or Aromatherapy. Meganium and Vileplume do, and neither of them get Taunt or Glare.

How does Meganium fare in this tier? I figure it can work well as a support Pokemon. It's slower than Serperior, but it's bulkier and it also gets screens. It has Aromatherapy for status (particularly to counter TSpikes) and reliable recovery in Synthesis. I figure with guys like Magmortar and...

Meganium can also summon the sun with a Heat Rock, Synthesis and Screen support increasing her already nice bulk. Is Leaf Guard released yet? That would make her completely invulnerable to status, which is kinda nice. She's not used very often, less so as a whether inducer, so there's the...

What about Meganium as a support option? Sun teams hate status and Meganium has Aromatherapy to get rid of it. She also gets a buffed up Synthesis in the sun (which aids her longetivity,) has pretty good bulk and, to a lesser degree, has access to Reflect/Light Screen. Though maybe Serperior...

Not to mention that you have the Sp. Defense drop with Energy Ball which, while not consistent, is always nice when it happens.

What about non-Chlorophyll Venusaur? What can they do to stand out in this metagame? Access to Power Whip is nice, for sure, but do the old Gen IV sets still apply to Gen V? Or will Overgrow Venusaur have to think more creatively in order to stand out?

So what tier are we predicting for Venusaur this gen? UU? BL? OU?

How does Dragonite compare to all the other pseudos this gen?

So what tier are we predicting Houndoom will fall in this gen? UU again?

So what tier are we predicting Swampert will fall in this generation? OU again?

Still holding out for a later event that gives away female only Starters.

So these are some impressions I've gotten from Gen V Venusaur: 1. It seems like it suffers from four-slot syndrome. If it could wield [insert Grass move of choice]/Sludge Bomb/HP Fire/Growth/Sleep Powder/[insert healing move of choice], it would be much more powerful. 2. Is it just me, or is...

Crappy stat distribution, awful movepool and bad typing? Honestly, Jaroda only has one base stat above the 100 mark, and that's it's speed. Everything else is quite subpar. It's overall defenses (what he's built for) are weaker than Meganium's by five points each. It's offenses are laugable...

You could run all three in a set that included Sludge Bomb, HP Fire, [insert Grass move here] and Growth. This would of course mean that you'd have to forego EQ/Sleep Powder/Synthesis though. It really depends on what you need him to cover for your team.