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I agree with a swampert drop, and if I had the guts I'd nom in to UR, it just misses out on all of the big ups that the other bulky water types on the vr (Fini, Quagsire, Gastro, and pex especially) get. It crucially lacks reliable recovery, which all the other bulky water types bar fini get...
Yeah shifu-R should be moved to 1. This thing has ZERO safe switchins in the rain and i mean ZERO. Fini gets chipped a lot by sstrikes and rocks, pelli actually gets OHKOED especially after stealth rock, volc is 2HKO'd by cc, dracovish and kingdra are OHKOED by cc, blastoise is beat on the...
This looks like a pretty funny metagame (possibly)
Multi attack melmetal?
Behemoth blade bisharp?
dark pulse ditto SWORDS DANCE SNORLAX!?!?
I'll watch some replays, but im not going to make any teams for it out of laziness. I'll look at the format from time to time ig.
oh yeah forgot about celesteela. Mandi could be troubling but rock slide will prob deal with heatom, mence, and moltres. Welp yet another reason to use rotom wash over heatom
lol im gonna go crazy with hail in RU because barraskewda is almost certantily going to rise to UU
TailGlowVM I am pretty nervous about what would happen if excadrill does drop and pelli moves back up, because if no pelliper is in UU and excadrill is, then sand teams could be very dominant...
:obstagoon: C -> UR/C-
Oh my god this is horrible. It spends every turn praying that nobody knocks off its flame orb, whilst being outclassed competely by bisharp as a defiant stallbreaker (ngl neither of them are good because of 4x fighting weakness). Obstagoon's typing doesn't do it any great...
ok so i've been trying this out for a bit its pretty good
pink terror (Clefable) @ Sablenite
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
- Thunderbolt
So basically sablenite not only gives some extra spatk, but...
the issue is, as i went over in that post, is that pex is neutral to grass, while gastro and quag are quad weak to it. Most notably this makes rillaboom and power whip ferro good options against them. Kyu is also a safe bet against ALL 3 with freeze dry but gastro/quag especially because of...
Ok finch wanted reasoning for my quagsire to UR nom so here you go
Quagsire vs Toxapex/Gastrodon
Ok statspreads first but its HP/DEF/SPDEF because these mons are NOT used for offense
Toxapex:
50/152/142
Gastrodon:
112/68/82
Quagsire:
95/85/65
I'd say toxapex comes out on top there. Obviously 50...
opinion on noms
:dragapult: to S-: AGREE
Pult is simply not splashable enough, Specs only works on offense, ddance on hyper offense, and use zerarora as an offensive pivot. Got hated for making this same nom 2 months ago but now people realize dragapult is overhyped. peace out.
:Mew: To A-...
...You do realize practically every dragapult set runs u-turn and mandibuzz won't like to take a draco meteor? Yeah, cool blace "check", its not gonna like to take a flamethrower. and do you realize lando-t 1: runs u-turn and 2: might be running stone edge? Also if your HDBs gets knocked off...
making a few noms really quick
:venusaur: :torkoal:
C -> C-/UR
use rain lmao
:quagsire:
B- -> C+
the thing needs grasses gone, and is pretty dang outclassed by gastro
:chansey:
A- -> B+.
Not a huge fan of the rain going everywhere, loves to wall kingdra but gets blasted to timbuckto by keldeo...
yeah sorry about that, I switched it out for megados on my screens HO and it was pretty good, by this point im not gonna argue, not because I give up, but because there is no argument against the drop