STABmons June Tiering Slate.
TLDR: Water Shuriken, and Combat Torque gone, Manaphy, and Aqauanid are back.
Hey all. With OMPL's first few weeks underway, and recent discussion within the community, we saw it necessary to look over problematic moves in the metagame that have since been long overdue for taking some form of action on.
The first of which is Water Shuriken, this move has been in question for a long, long time, but always teetered the line between the community's overall reception of the move.
As of recent though, outcry against the move has grown far greater in recent times. With many of the other concerns now out of the way, we thought it was fit to come to a verdict on this move.
Water Shuriken | |
| Neon | Restrict |
| xdRudi.exe | DNR |
| RoFnA | DNR |
| Bonk | Restrict |
| Kinetic | Restrict |
As a result of recent voting. Water Shuriken is now Restricted in the STABmons metagame!
Water Shuriken has been highlighted as a problem for a very long time now, but as the metagame continued on, its become increasingly more apparent that this move causes far more harm than good to the health of the metagame. Having gotten two prior Pokemon banned entirely because of the move, and Rotom Wash, and Volcanion only getting better and better at abusing the move with no signs of stopping due to how easy it is for them to win games off of a single turn thanks to Water Shuriken's increased priority making revenge KOing them by the time they've gotten to take advantage of their set up options far easier said than done. This has given almost every Water Shuriken user a very suffocating presence against more offensively inclined teams, to say nothing of how difficult it is for balance teams to switch into the Water Shuriken users to begin with. As such, it has been decided that Water Shuriken is to be restricted to its native users in order to combat its effect on the metagame.
Speaking of combat...
Combat Torque | |
| Neon | Restrict |
| xdRudi.exe | Restrict |
| RoFnA | Restrict |
| Bonk | Restrict |
| Kinetic | Restrict |
Wow. Who could've possibly guessed that the no contact, 100 BP STAB Fighting move with the same chance to inflict a status that can shut down otherwise solid checks entirely on its own would be a tad bit too good? A lot of players will point towards Zamazenta being the main culprit, but this is far from the case. There's very good reason every, and any relevant Fighting type in the tier abuses this move to hell and back. Iron Hands, Iron Valiant, Annihilape, Urshifu Rapid Strike, Galarian Zapdos, Great Tusk, and Blaziken have been abusers of this move to dizzying effect, many of them winning the game off of a single bad Paralysis. As if it wasn't enough these Pokemon didn't have incredible tools to capitalize off of one bad turn already, Combat Torque easily allows them to set those up themselves without even having to make any other effort besides "Click big button you're probably clicking anyway". This is all without mentioning the ability to bypass contact effects naturally to prevent stopgaps like Beak Blast, and Burning Bulwark from consistently staving them off, which is especially pertinent in the case of Zamazenta, who abuses it with Bulk Up to effectively remove Beak Blast users as a means of checking it entirely. As such, because of the problem it posed with multiple different Pokemon, it has been decided by unanimous council vote,
Combat Torque is now restricted in the STABmons metagame.
There's just one more thing to square away before signing off, and that's the Pokemon that have been unbanned as a result of Water Shuriken's restriction.
As many are aware, there are two particular Pokemon that got banned a while ago due to the absurd effects Water Shuriken had on them: Manaphy, and Araquanid. As such, with Water Shuriken being restricted, the council saw it fit to vote on both of them returning to the metagame.
Manaphy | |
| Neon | Unban |
| xdRudi.exe | Unban |
| RoFnA | Unban |
| Bonk | Unban |
| Kinetic | Unban |
Araquanid | |
| Neon | Unban |
| xdRudi.exe | Unban |
| RoFnA | Unban |
| Bonk | Unban |
| Kinetic | Unban |
As decided by unanimous council vote,
Manaphy and Araquanid have been unbanned from the STABmons metagame!
Thank you for taking the time to look over this update. I understand some of these tiering actions have been a long time coming, and for that, I do apologize. Any tiering issues shall be tackled more aggressively in the near future, and we will be continuing to monitor input from the community on the tier's direction in the near future.
Tagging
dhelmise for implementation.
in a while. Any suggestions on how to counter them?
with latios
and changed kleavor
with zarude
. Surprisingly was now able to find a way to take it down while not losing much against others (other than bug types but that's a story for another day ^^")
offense
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Sun with Solar Beam 
