So… we’re back and trying to be better than ever.
First off, things have changed a good bit.
cat has left the council, we thank them for their amazing help with setting up and running the tier! But now we’re looking for new members to help push the metagame in the right direction. DM me on disc if you’re intrested.
We also have some things to get done, namely a vr and some samples cause ive been slackin on it
Speaking on getting back together, council is currently inactive, so for now i cant guarantee any tiering action as of right now but we’ll start work asapno rocky.
Other than those things, im very much looking forward to this month of 350 cup gaming and being more active than i was last time (mb guys), as well i hope you guys are as well!
First off, things have changed a good bit.
cat has left the council, we thank them for their amazing help with setting up and running the tier! But now we’re looking for new members to help push the metagame in the right direction. DM me on disc if you’re intrested.
I’ve updated the watchlist a bit, feel free to give thoughts on these elements of the meta.Watchlist:
Tera
Basculegion/Last Respects
Clefairy
Smeargle
Scraggy
We also have some things to get done, namely a vr and some samples cause ive been slackin on it
Reply to that post if you’d like to submit some teams and the council will look over them, we will also be creating a vr as soon as we can get back together, we’ll take into account the thoughts of the community as well in those desicions.
Speaking on getting back together, council is currently inactive, so for now i cant guarantee any tiering action as of right now but we’ll start work asap
Other than those things, im very much looking forward to this month of 350 cup gaming and being more active than i was last time (mb guys), as well i hope you guys are as well!
I’ve been favouring this mon a lot lately because it can come in on defensive Clefairy without caring about Knock or Thunder Wave. It’s also a good check to Glimmet if that’s what you’re into. The CM set has been a lot more solid than something like DD, which seems to have more bad matchups lately. Oh, this is Ground Arceus by the way.
I’ve been pretty low on Glimmet in the past, but this go around I think it’s a lot better. I still think it’s not great as a dedicated lead, but Meteor Beam makes it such a strong breaker even against resists. And Toxic Debris is annoying as always.
This is a mon I thought was complete crap in the past, but I’ve come to see some good uses for it. It’s got a really awkward movepool but I’ve come to appreciate its fast Encore. Notably, it outspeeds +1 DD Scraggy and can Encore it. It also is naturally resistant to Pawniard which is useful. Unfortunately it still can’t do much to ground types besides knock them, so it’s not exactly good.
Defensive Nuzleaf was a set from Bad and Boosted that I like here as well. Defog is hard to come by, and Nuzleaf can be surprisingly decent at it. Knock and Leech Seed are good utility and you can even soak up status from Shroomish with Early Bird Rest if you are so inclined.
Timburr has big shoes to fill but I think it’s actually a Fighting type that isn’t outclassed by Koraidon, Scraggy, or Mienfoo. Facade lets it achieve big damage against things that would-be walls like Levitate Koffing and Clefairy.
A ridiculous breaker that I feel like is super slept on. SFLO just clicks attacks and destroys your balance team, even super bulky mons like Slowpoke take a lot of damage. Hippopotas or Sandygast feels like the only thing standing up to it in the long term but there are a lot of ways to exploit their passivity. SD Mold Breaker is great too. Dondozo will not stop the slaughter, and Trailblaze + a tera to resist Sucker can make it actually tricky to revenge kill.
I’m gonna share with you my secret Shroomish technique. Worry Seed as last move lets you beat Clefairy, mons with rest like Dondozo, and opposing Shroomish; in other words, pretty much everything you’d bring in against Shroomish. It’s often just better than clicking a weak attack into like Ho-oh or something.
Also super underrated, it’s like if Hippo didn’t have recovery but was actually a proactive mon. It has pretty similar stats to Groudon but with Knock and Rapid Spin, still gets Spikes and SR. I’d say it’s way better than Groudon and even Hippopotas for a lot of teams.
Here’s a decent spinner for sure. Good against Glimmet and can at least not be poisoned by Smeargle, and it beats most of the specially oriented spin blockers. You often find it lacking in Defense though, which is a shame. It’d be a good Koraidon check otherwise.
Bad stats but you gotta love how it doesn’t care about Knock or status. I’ve found it useful on specific balance teams, it’s always useful for something. But Arceus-Ground is probably more generally applicable
OTR Solosis is something I wanna try building with more. It has 570 special attack, that’s just ridiculous! It’s just so Tera-hungry though. Maybe I should try it on a team other than dedicated Trick Room.
Steel Arceus is your Staravia check, your Glimmet check, your burner of Pawniard, often your Clefairy “check”, perhaps even your Ekiller check, and the way your balance team takes out Cranidos. Super duper solid mon. A lot of teams I see seem resigned to lose to Staravia; I can only assume people don’t really know about this mon.
Corv is solid too, I’ve always been saying this. It’s a rare Defogger that can check Ekiller, Staravia, and is okay against Pawniard. Iron Defense lets it beat more things on its own but I’ve been using it with U-turn more lately, paired with an anti-setup mon like Pawmo, Litten, Shroodle or Ditto.