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Was because of Smeargle using the move. Funnily enough they double nerfed it, with the move itself getting the accuracy cut but it also getting a check so that it fails if any mon other than darkrai uses it, which makes the former nerf entirely unnecessary.

Clicking Outrage is a pretty big risk though, with all the steels and fairies running around and potentially providing them with a somewhat free turn while you're forced to do it for potentially another turn after the switch. Still ooph, guess you can't underestimate a banded 120 bp STAB move...

Darmanitan was way harder to keep in check, Dracovish is super centralizing but there are consistent ways to stall it, its wallbreaking power outside of Fishious Rend is notably mediocre, Seismitoad blocks it entirely while providing utility and it generally has matchups that aren't 100% in its...

My best guess is that iron plate is supposed to get some key damage thresholds but it's odd regardless.

Don't think it's that interesting ultimately since it doesn't provide Kingler with momentum past the target it kills with it, if it even does. What's the scenario you use this in? I can't really imagine any where Gyarados or Dracovish wouldn't do a better job.

Yeah Sirfetch'd is very easy to obtain quite early and more or less breaks the story wide open. That said I don't think it's quite that bad for standard play either, but it's redundant with stuff like Hawlucha running about and its main gimmick (crits, one that isn't even truly free as it...

Dragapult is pretty splashable, as long as your team has a few reliable pokemon to switch into, it should perform quite well. Adamant/Jolly is for physical sets but special dragapult seems to be more desired as its special moveset is just plain better, even if it's base special is 20 weaker...

Bolt Beak can benefit from electric terrain, but yeah terrain isn't as convenient to set up as rain is.

Oh right I completely forgot about weakness policy, that's pretty neat. EDIT: God damn even at +1 its single target rock slide only does 50% to Dragapult?

Well you're using Flareon for one. If you want to dedicate a single pokemon to boosting the speed of another, a trick room or tailwind setter like whimsicott would be more successful in that role and benefit you after switching too (Don't know about trick room but prankster tail wind will ensure...

It doesn't guarantee crits, but it ups your critical hit rate by 2 stages which gives you 50% rate, crit moves like leaf blade up it by another stage and make it 100% Sadly Sirfetch'd doesn't have that many worthwhile crit moves though, only leaf blade really provides decent power and coverage...

Unless I've had the most ungodly RNG ever it most definitely works on Sirfetch'd too, I used it on my main team and leaf blade only missed crits on stuff with crit protection like Drednaw, it wasn't affection crits either since those have a different text message. EDIT: Yeah I just tried...

Is Leek not worth any consideration at all? Relatively consistent (50%) crits to threaten some reflect or max steelspike boosted setups could be valuable and is something that at least only it can do.

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I haven't had the chance to really delve into the meta myself but how come there's been no mention of Sirfetch'd at all? 135 base attack, 50% crit effectively boosts your damage output by 25% on average (less desirable when clearing immediate threats...