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This sounds very flip floppy between "hazards ain't all that" and "not being able to remove hazards sucks". hazard setting moves didn't have to deal damage the turn they were used, to be very powerful. and what sort of hazard removal that advances the game state are we talking about? an 80 power...
i figured it would have to be a poison or steel type pulling off this trick because you dont want to lose your pecha berry to poison. i chose gholdengo because i assumed it would lure in gliscor, although when i think about it a little more gliscor doesn't like switching into ghold that much...
Gholdengo @ Pecha Berry
Ability: Good as Gold
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 224 HP / 224 Def / 60 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Make It Rain
- Trick
- Recover
If anyone wants to get a funny replay with this makeshift gliscor answer, here you go.
the fact that this meta is going to come and go so fast can very easily be made to be the reason why we should ease up on letting mons with ban precedents back into OU, tiering action might be struggling to catch up with dealing with more insidious mons while kingambit on wheels is running around.
I've found Water ogerpon to be a great option against both sun with tera and rain without. it can be given enough EVs to outspeed Great Tusk or even Lando and the rest in HP and Spdef, with tera it can tank even do this:
+2 252 SpA Polteageist Stored Power (180 BP) vs. +1 248 HP / 156 SpD Tera...
I just don't see it being such a big threat, it might send you back to the team builder, some mons do that, that's just the making of a metagame. I can see it being a mon that makes you shit your pants whenever it comes in unlike many straight forward mons in the tier this far - most setup users...
But once it teras, does it keep a dual typing or does it lose the grass type? This was the main thing I've been puzzled about, since keeping those type combinations sounds great, especially for the defensive masks.
Hearthflame Mask Ogerpon seems to be an incredibly threatening mon against stall. SD plus grass type attacks for the waters and fire type attacks for corviknight and similar, and mold breaker to ignore dondozo's ability sounds like stall would be back to the drawing board, unless this forme just...