Strategy & Metagame [38-M] Remembering Our Roots Redux: Where Are They Now (Part 3: DPP)

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This will be the last one in the series, as articles about the transition from BW to XY have been done to death lately. I will reference a few of them as further reading in my closing of this article.

Victims will be:
Garchomp (unless you really have an objection to this one, Garchomp was the DPP metagame up until its ban, and has remained a top-level threat through the next two generations, and even jump started a major shift in Smogon policy)
Heatran
Rotom-A
Tyranitar
Scizor
Azelf
Breloom
Gyarados
Lucario
Infernape
 
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I would save Dragonite for BW. It was a very good lead and mixed attacker in general in DPP, but it really struck its stride in BW. I would instead put something like Aerodactyl/Roserade/Azelf who defined the lead metagame, or possibly something like Shaymin or Kingdra, both of which would be extremely relevant in DPP but not in BW or XY.

I imagine BW looking something like Ferrothorn/Keldeo/Thundurus/Landorus/Tornadus-T/Kyurem-B/Dragonite/Latios/Politoed/Terrakion or ignoring banned mons then Ferrothorn/Keldeo/Kyurem-B/Dragonite/Latios/Politoed/Terrakion/Volcarona/Ninetales/Gliscor
 
Do you think I should still do BW with all the recent articles on the subject? If so, I will change Dragonite for Azelf, as I find it to be a better pokemon than Roserade and have already covered Aerodactyl in the last article.
 
Is this approved now that I've removed Dragonite for Azelf? The deadline is fast approaching and I'm afraid I may need to push it to next issue, been really busy with other stuff lately (raising ostriches isn't easy, just so you know!)
 
17:19<Bummer> well seeing as your article is part of a series that's been approved before
17:20<Bummer> and how only one objected towards a certain aspect of it (which now has been fixed)
17:20<Bummer> I suppose none of us felt it necessary to make a post to confirm the approval
17:20<Bummer> but it should have been done regardless
17:20<Bummer> it's approved, gonna paste this log as a reply
 
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