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Been a long time since I've played LC but I've been enjoying getting back into it, the meta is quite narrow and fast paced but there's still room for innovation as is evident from some tournament games I've seen. Got a few nominations to make myself.
:Mareanie: Mareanie to drop to A- at least...
Kommo-o A+ -> A: disagree I think Kommo-o is very versatile and definitely shouldn't be dropped. The fact that it doesn't need much HP to be able to survive a 2hko from specs keld's stabs after rocks is a good example of how much weight it can pull defensively even while running an offensive...
rise to A-/A now that lycanroc is banned sharpedo, who was already good, is easily the best cleaner in the tier imo. A severe lack of priority in the tier makes this very hard to stop for offensive teams as lycanroc was the main thing stopping the shark cleaning shop. Skarmory also being gone...
Yeah I've been running mixed sharpedo a fair bit on ladder and it can be really good in a lot of match ups as it does really well with CC and hydro pump to break skarm bliss. It is pretty much a dead slot against teams with sylveon though I've found and in general I think it's outclassed by...
RIP Rotom-H, UU 2010-2020. "You left us when we needed you the most"
Reckon ant will go again. 3 attacks HC with iron/thunder/High horsepower doesn't even really have 4mss, all you miss is x-scissor for water/grounds. You can even skip High horsepower for x-scissor and this is hilariously hard...
k guess I'm double posting but whatevs, played 50ish games with these two teams (mostly the second) and managed to crack top 25 which proved to me that the research mons were good though that's hardly surprising with cm rachi and t-tar.
https://pokepast.es/789c58daec41b76c...
I personally don't think blissey should be banned as it serves an important role in the metagame, not only in preserving stall as an archetype, but in probably being the closest thing possible to making latias and primarina be dead slots. Why is this important? Because these two pokemon I think...
I disagree with rotom-h rising. I've never found it to be a good defogger, its niche is in being a splashable glue mon that can check a bunch of prominent things while not being a momentum sinkhole necessarily and that is its best use. When trying to make it your defogger on top of that, I find...
Not feeling optimistic with drizzle and swift swim being legal together as that was definitely broken in BW even without mega swampert or fairy-type azu (though keldeo and thundurus-t are still staples in BW rain). I mean, scald is less good than it was and obviously there's the turn limit on...