TIL crawdaunt is the most used mon in the meta. Doesn't feel like it tbh. But yeah I think it's quite overplayed.
On a different topic, Am I alone in feeling like Groudon feels really out of place in the meta? I feel like sun would be perfectly playable without it but its just offers so much role compression and flexibility. Sun being good on both flutter mane and harvest teams makes me question why we need to allow an uber with a warping non-restricted ability to exist in the meta? Maybe that's just copium because flutter mane wrecks my maushold sample
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, and these kinds of teams aren't bulky enough to support the Iron Defense variant.
team posted before this.
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down to A: Fluffy is still meta-defining, but Houndstone is as bad as it has been in a while. The biggest problem for Houndstone is that Garganacl eats its lunch completely, leaving it with nothing to do against bulkier teams. Offensive Houndstone is pretty much dead. It's still good into some offenses, but I also think that people are well-prepared and committed to running noncontact moves. The reinvigoration of Psychic Terrain doesn't help, either, since that offensive style is decidedly special. Too often, Scarf Houndstone is a Trick bot that can sometimes pull off a Memento. That said, Fluffy is still incredible against most Adaptability donors, Quaquaval, Lycanroc-Dusk, and crucially Zamazenta, so there's a lot of value here.
up to B+: I've talked about terrain/weather removal before, so I won't repeat it. Another reason it should rise is that it's a very reliable spinner. Tera Shell means that a spin is virtually guaranteed outside of spinblocking. That frees up other team members to run sash, which frees up the team to run frailer mons like Crawdaunt or Lycanroc-Dusk without being overly punished.
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from UR to C: Toedscruel is niche but good! Not in a "you can technically do something with it" way, but as a serious meta call. Mycelium Might plays very well against most bulky teams right now. Natural Cure is pretty rare now, while it used to be a stall staple. So many teams rely on Levitate, Garganacl, or both to deal with toxic spikes. As a result, they do not carry ways to clear poison. Meanwhile, Mycelium Might causes those abilities to be ignored during Whirlwind/Roar. The strategy with Toedscruel is to set toxic spikes, click Whirlwind, and poison anything dragged in. Toedscruel also allows for phazing through Guard Dog. Toedscruel itself is pretty bad, and the only thing it can really do is spin. Specs is okay to at least have some damage output, and the speed tier is at least above many common ability donors.
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