While I don't see Tyrantrum becoming a common face in OU, just because things like Scizor shut it down so hard, but I can see it showing up every once in a while on teams that have trouble with Talonflame. Switch in, RP/DD, and sweep with STAB non recoil Head Smash. Good late game sweeper, because if Talonflame is already up and sweeping, its already probably mid to late game anyway. Tyrantrum is the dinosaur Rampardos wanted to grow up to be.
While we're on the topic of Breloom's viability, I don't think it's going to drop straight down to the bottom. But this generation shift has severely hurt it, no argument. I wasn't really talking about fairy types when I mentioned mach punch's decreased viability, I was mainly referring to the huge boon that ghost types got and their probable increase in usage, particularly Gengar and Aegislash, both of whom resist Breloom's secondary stab as well (although Gengar probably shouldn't stay in on even resisted phybsical hits). Aegislash even resists rock tomb and gives not a damn about the speed decrease. Gourgeist and Trevenant also resist secondary stab, though I don't know enough about them to make an educated guess as to whether they can be in OU often enough to counter breloom. Not to mention that the spore nerf hurts Breloom like hell, since Celebi is still probably going to be where it is in 6th gen and now solidly counters every aspect of breloom. And togekiss resists to hell and back both stabs and can outspeed and ohko with STAB flying. Basically, I see breloom sitting where Tentacruel was in 4th gen; a good pokemon if given the right tools and used carefully, but it has to be on a very specific kind of team with the proper support, and not just switching in and ravaging like in latter day 5th gen.
Edit: also forgot Low Sweep no longer gets technician boosted. Little thing, but it adds up.
While we're on the topic of Breloom's viability, I don't think it's going to drop straight down to the bottom. But this generation shift has severely hurt it, no argument. I wasn't really talking about fairy types when I mentioned mach punch's decreased viability, I was mainly referring to the huge boon that ghost types got and their probable increase in usage, particularly Gengar and Aegislash, both of whom resist Breloom's secondary stab as well (although Gengar probably shouldn't stay in on even resisted phybsical hits). Aegislash even resists rock tomb and gives not a damn about the speed decrease. Gourgeist and Trevenant also resist secondary stab, though I don't know enough about them to make an educated guess as to whether they can be in OU often enough to counter breloom. Not to mention that the spore nerf hurts Breloom like hell, since Celebi is still probably going to be where it is in 6th gen and now solidly counters every aspect of breloom. And togekiss resists to hell and back both stabs and can outspeed and ohko with STAB flying. Basically, I see breloom sitting where Tentacruel was in 4th gen; a good pokemon if given the right tools and used carefully, but it has to be on a very specific kind of team with the proper support, and not just switching in and ravaging like in latter day 5th gen.
Edit: also forgot Low Sweep no longer gets technician boosted. Little thing, but it adds up.
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