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SP Shared Power
- Thread starter Bobsican
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Flare Boost Drifblim + Quick Feet Jolteon + Flame Orb to boost your Sp. Atk and Spe by 50%, it's alright but there are a lot of quicker, easier ways to boost your power in this meta, and they're usually on Pokémon much better than Drifblim.
I ran this for a long time about a year ago. It is not great and is really match up fishing + rng. I ended up having the most success with sticky webs because you need a +2 advantage badly to beat scarfers like zama or flutter mane sun or dragapult. This way I could run thunder with compound eyes(still risky) and modest for a bit more power still faster than maushold max speed. Basculegion was the adaptability user for spin blocking Quaquaval. Ended up running psychic surge to stop priority this was before restriction. Biggest issue ended up being berry teams as jolteon can not 1 shot them with thunder because of grass resists and is to frail for a setup turn. Trevenant curse or dragon tails from appleton ruined jolteon. Raw calm mind was the best idea at the time to break but very risky. Download might be a good idea, that was just not as popular at the time and over looked. Do not use sheer force para luck and confusion luck on alluring voice saved me more than a bit of power from my experience. The set was protect, calm mind, thunder, alluring voice. Best I got on the ladder was low 1400s with that team.
Here's the survey results:
Beyond these results, the userbase has also brought up concerns on Flutter Mane, Maushold, Technician, Grassy Surge + Grassy Glide, Steely Spirit, Cud Chew, Harvest, Cheek Pouch, Groudon, Giratina-O and other boxart legendaries, with two separate users bringing up the idea of unrestricting Swift Swim. Unban-wise, Technician and Rayquaza have been brought up.
These answers will be kept in mind by the council as we move forward, and may become tangible depending on how the tier develops as tiering changes go on.
Stay tuned for any potential tiering action coming soon!
Metagame results (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best):
It seems that the metagame manages to find a decent userbase as the enjoyability rating is decent, but it certainly could be better. The competitiveness is also at an all-time low for the tier, so any tiering action is surely reasonable in my opinion.
Tiering actions for banning or restricting (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate tiering action):
It appears that the userbase overall doesn't find Tera and especially Adaptability to be a problem for the tier, so don't expect these to be suspect tested or anything anytime soon. Hustle, Dragon's Maw, Purifying Salt and Solgaleo seem to have mixed reception, and so would realistically remain on the watchlist for now, but with that said, Zamazenta has the highest results in the entire survey, making it a good suspect candidate.
Tiering actions for unbanning (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate unban):
Deoxys-A sits well in last place as the Pokémon the userbase desires the least to have back into the tier, and to be fair it'd be a nightmare to check under Psychic Terrain. Scizor and Arceus-Flying stand next around the 4.5 range, so they likely aren't going going to be suspect tested soon, and finally there's Palafin, Chi-Yu, and Rillaboom sitting around an average of 5.5, easing their way into the watchlist for now, with Conkeldurr peaking the unbanning candidates with a 5.8 average rating.
Tiering actions for unrestricting (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate unrestriction):
Good as Gold has scored the lowest in the entire survey, showing that there is barely any desire to reintroduce its unrestricted state to the metagame.
| Enjoyability | 7.1 |
| Competitiveness | 5.7 |
It seems that the metagame manages to find a decent userbase as the enjoyability rating is decent, but it certainly could be better. The competitiveness is also at an all-time low for the tier, so any tiering action is surely reasonable in my opinion.
Tiering actions for banning or restricting (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate tiering action):
| Terastal | 4.3 |
| Hustle | 4.55 |
| Adaptability | 3.1 |
| Dragon's Maw | 4.6 |
| Purifying Salt | 5.2 |
| Zamazenta | 6.55 |
| Solgaleo | 5.25 |
It appears that the userbase overall doesn't find Tera and especially Adaptability to be a problem for the tier, so don't expect these to be suspect tested or anything anytime soon. Hustle, Dragon's Maw, Purifying Salt and Solgaleo seem to have mixed reception, and so would realistically remain on the watchlist for now, but with that said, Zamazenta has the highest results in the entire survey, making it a good suspect candidate.
Tiering actions for unbanning (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate unban):
| Palafin | 5.45 |
| Chi-Yu (Beads of Ruin restricted) | 5.6 |
| Conkeldurr | 5.8 |
| Rillaboom | 5.5 |
| Scizor | 4.65 |
| Arceus-Flying | 4.8 |
| Deoxys-Attack | 3.55 |
Deoxys-A sits well in last place as the Pokémon the userbase desires the least to have back into the tier, and to be fair it'd be a nightmare to check under Psychic Terrain. Scizor and Arceus-Flying stand next around the 4.5 range, so they likely aren't going going to be suspect tested soon, and finally there's Palafin, Chi-Yu, and Rillaboom sitting around an average of 5.5, easing their way into the watchlist for now, with Conkeldurr peaking the unbanning candidates with a 5.8 average rating.
Tiering actions for unrestricting (average, ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being no tiering change, and 10 being an immediate unrestriction):
| Good as Gold | 2.15 |
Good as Gold has scored the lowest in the entire survey, showing that there is barely any desire to reintroduce its unrestricted state to the metagame.
Beyond these results, the userbase has also brought up concerns on Flutter Mane, Maushold, Technician, Grassy Surge + Grassy Glide, Steely Spirit, Cud Chew, Harvest, Cheek Pouch, Groudon, Giratina-O and other boxart legendaries, with two separate users bringing up the idea of unrestricting Swift Swim. Unban-wise, Technician and Rayquaza have been brought up.
These answers will be kept in mind by the council as we move forward, and may become tangible depending on how the tier develops as tiering changes go on.
Stay tuned for any potential tiering action coming soon!
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