I'm so glad we're finally free to use our new toys on cart, here's some quick impressions on what I faced on cart today after reaching master ball (took a break around the top 2k range to give an idea, so this is not the very top of the ladder either lol)
-As expected, Cinderace and Rillaboom are freaking everywhere. You better be prepared for these two if you're gonna ladder!
-As expected, Porygon2 is our lord and savior. It's so god damn bulky, checks a ton of stuff, and if you Dynamax it, attacks bounce off like ping pong balls lmao
-Been noticing a drop in Mimikyu, which aligns with the early home usage (more on that later lol). The new Gmaxes and Urshifu are pretty annoying for it, though its not like Mimikyu is bad or anything, its still a big threat! The Kee Berry set in particular seems to be the dominant one, which makes sense.
-For some reason, I saw TWO Pincurshin teams today o_O. They're all based around Rising Voltage, which is admitly pretty freaking strong (it does over 50% to physically defensive Porygon2 as an example, and thats without an offensive item). One of them even Memento'd into Rotom-W, who actually still gets the boost from Riisng Voltage since that move checks to see if your foe is grounded! I sorta want to try to meme with it on a Trick Room team, but not sure yet.
-I've been LOVING WP Dragapulat at the moment. I saw too many teams seem to think that "oh Cinderace will solve my Dragapult issues", but you can totally EV Dynamax Dragapult to survive LO Max Darkness, which is perfect for a WP sweep often times!
-This goes without saying, but Cinderace (and the fighting spam in general) has massively impacted usage, with stuff like Snorlax realllly tanking in usage atm. Of course, this is early stuff.
-Speaking of usage stats, here's the showdown usage stats from June 20th to June 30th for the DLC, and I suggest checking home for usage stats too, they're
WILD in this unstable world atm!
https://www.smogon.com/stats/2020-06-DLC1/gen8battlestadiumsingles-1760.txt
-Oh and it goes without saying, this ladder opened up less than 3 days ago, so things aren't exactly stable at the moment rofl
-An example I saw on Home tonight:
25% OF BLISSEY RUN ASSAULT VEST?! I figured Blissey would be better than Chansey since it can make better use of Dynamaxing, but seeing Blissey this offensive is insane lmao
-Galarian Slowbro also is #26 in usage. I haven't seen it, and that really screams new toy syndrome to me, but I wouldn't mind seeing arguments otherwise!
-I just want to say: its hilarious to see Rotom-S having higher usage than Aegislash and Tyranitar atm on home. I mean, those two do not like the newcoming mons but... man imagine showing someone that last gen!
- I tried.. Stealth Rock Sash Cobalion lol. I tried it because I wanted an SRer that could use Twave. It seems sorta neat, but Close Combat also fails to 2HKO Porygon2 which is pathetic lmao. I'm gonna try out SD Bounce later too with Weakness Policy!
EDIT: If anyone is interested, this is what I used to get to master ball. I'm not submitting it to the bazzar because its very... rough draft-ish right now, its getting some heavy edits soon lol
https://pokepast.es/3d48827d8b6ce8ab