Resource SV PU Viability Rankings

[gulch]

Curious as to the rise of tbh. For the longest time it was outclassed by Hecidueye and Fire Tauros as Scarf Fighters but I wonder what changed to see it higher up in viability.

well, the biggest answer to this is just that pokemon like hecid, redbull, and pawmot don't run scarf often anymore, hecid has been favoring SD sets for a while now, pawmot often doesn't want to be locked into doubleshock and can honestly provide better speed control with LO iron fist mach punch, and scarf redbull has always been kinda fraudulent. passimian is good though! one big thing that helps it is having access to knock off and u-turn while having a better speed tier than hecid, and access to defiant is very nice to keep intimidate, webs, and parting shot from totally ruining your day

 

[LOOR]

well, the biggest answer to this is just that pokemon like hecid, redbull, and pawmot don't run scarf often anymore, hecid has been favoring SD sets for a while now, pawmot often doesn't want to be locked into doubleshock and can honestly provide better speed control with LO iron fist mach punch, and scarf redbull has always been kinda fraudulent. passimian is good though! one big thing that helps it is having access to knock off and u-turn while having a better speed tier than hecid, and access to defiant is very nice to keep intimidate, webs, and parting shot from totally ruining your day

just want to add that with bellibolt being stolen helped carve out a better niche for basically all faster physical pivots, pass fits pretty decent as a alternative to guno as a defog punisher on spikes now with no fear of being completely fucked by a random static proc. not a spikes exclusive mon and has its benefits outside of the playstyle but a lot of the early builds for it were as a physical replacement to guno

 

[Oofhixd]

Ok rq nom bc this is kinda absurd.
A- -> A+
A -> A-
tbh this was a long time coming but bombirdier is just undeniably better atp. Whether ur running scarf or rocks or ko utility its such a great mon and is so splashable, meanwhile skunk has kinda fallen off a cliff? With rhydon being (arguably) the best and most used mon in the tier (based on PUPL usage), skunk is not gonna do well. And sure that hurts bombirdier kinda? But with bombirdier you just click pshot/uturn on rhydon. The main thing backing this up tho is the PUPL use/win rate stats.

Bombirdier is at a 9.8% use rate with a 62.5% win rate, one of the highest of all mons in the top 20
Skuntank is it at a 9.4% use rate with a 34.8% win rate, the lowest wr of any mon in the top 25.

This means that bombirdier wins nearly 2/3rds of all games its in, whilst skuntank barely wins a third of them.
Tbh in the future i could see skuntank dropping even further but for now this is where i think id place them