Now let's discuss HOME, so we are prepared for when it releases next year, starting with the "most likely end ups banned right away".
I'm going to assume no transfer moves to not be the whole night writing.
This thing would be beyond broken with Draining Kiss, broken with Charge Beam and kinda broken with a regular set, don't think is worth our time.
Don't use Electro Ball, just don't, is a waste. Rapid Spin, Charge Beam and Thunder Cage are actually good options, but just the fact that Tera is legal in this format may be enough to break it, it could be worth giving it a chance, but don't really expect it to be balanced when even if it fails to grab the KO with Tera, it doesn't matter because now you are trapped and taking damage from Thunder Cage.
Dark gets a free CB thanks to Wicked Blow, and can still boost its Atk with SD, I don't think I have to explain how broken is that, but here is a calc that should demonstrate my point:
+2 252+ Atk Urshifu Crunch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Enamorus-Therian on a critical hit: 145-171 (41.1 - 48.5%)
Sturdiest Fairy in the game gets 2HKO if there are rocks, and if Urshi tera into a Fairy resist then there is not coming back, it can also just Iron Head, but I doubt it would be worth giving up on Sucker Punch, is always an option on non-SD sets tho.
Water could be fine, Multi hit moves are restricted by default, but it could abuse Trailblaze and get +3 Speed after a single Surging Strike, Rock Smash to force every corv to be Mirror Armor or some bulky set up with Draining Punch BU.
Dire Claw is a silly move and in combination with U-turn it becomes the ultimate status spreader, it kind of makes you forget it also has Trailblaze and Rock Smash. You could also get away with something gimmicky with Venoshock as it pairs well with Poison Touch, you should still carry TSpikes somewhere in the team.
This thing may end up being balanced because it got a quite lackluster movepool, but it does actually get one move that is actually good for the format in Drain Punch, so it may actually be quite good, and I could regret giving it a chance.
Thunderous Kick makes sure nothing but Mirror Armor Corv can switch into this thing, combined with U-turn it can enable some nasty offensive cores, it also gets Trailblaze but that's kind of whatever compared to the sheer utility of TKick.
It got two strong options on Draining Kiss and Hex, and is pretty much Flutter Mane minus the fairy typing, but it doesn't die to neutral priority, so it may actually be a much better Drain Kisser. There just aren't enough good Normals to check it that are worth using other than Ursaluna (who may end up being broken on its own).
At least you can't equip status moves, but that doesn't mean the Victory Dancer will not find a niche, Giga Drain gives it some good longevity, and that should be its only set unless you really want to use Rain Hurricane + Hustle, doesn't sound very viable with the recent Damp Rock ban but is a thing I guess.
Holding Facade means you can't hold Flame Orb, so moving to the actual sets, Drain Punch enables some bulky set stuff that may end up being too much with how bulky this thing is, Trailblaze is interesting but is very very slow so it will not be outspeeding any scarfers anytime soon.
Draining Kiss is one of the best fortes, Superpower can also be an interesting forte thanks to Contrary, but then you need to use special moves to hit steels. Base may end up being broken, but Therian may be a nice tank with DKiss and could use CM sets quite well, but the SR weakness hurts a lot if you don't carry HDB.
I'm just going to list options, they are all viable enough: Draining Kiss, Hex, Body Press, Flame Charge, Acid Spray, Body Slam, Slude Bomb, Fire Spin, Ancient Power, Bulldoze, Charge Beam, may even use Foul Play.
Regular can use the now classic Body Press forte + Iron Defense combo, meanwhile crowned is stuck with a shield on its head, silly dog. So yeah, we could allow crowned without much problem.
Esper Wing is trailblaze with an extra crit chance and no contact, paired with Tinted Lens and decent stats it may be enough to be broken, but it may end up being just decent, Psychic/Flying has too many common weaknesses and the starting speed is kind of lacking.
Wouldn't be surprised if Forte Last Respect is enough to break Basculin-White, so expect Houndstone to be unbanned.
Ceaseless Edge is a broken move, specially paired with Sharpness, I kind of fear it may lack defensive counterplay, but it should be good wallbreaker at beast, it doesn't have the stats to do much against any kind of offensive team.
If this thing has been giving anything as a counterpart to Scizor's Bullet Punch it would actually be decent, so you could set SR with priority with something better than fucking Quick Attack, it got one of the worst type combinations in the game and won't be switching into a lot of stuff because of that, is at least fast enough to outspeed relevant stuff like Gholdengo, so it may still be decent enough, STAB U-turn boosted by Sharpness coming from 135 base Atk that sets SR on hit can't be bad, right?
This has many options, Drain Punch may be good, Acid Spray seems great on it, Hex is always good, status spreading on Sludge Bomb and Body Slam, Snarl is a decent option too. Even Eerie Spell may be good, as is not limited to 8 uses and can actually win any pp war with it.
This is the only format where Mystical Power isn't just a bad cover of Torch Song, +1 SpA on each hit on something with 125 SpA and good offensive movepool is quite promising, still has paper bulk and the speed isn't as impressive as it was back in the day, but it should be a decent cleaner.
Flame Charge, Magma Storm that doesn't miss, or Body Press + Iron Defense, Heatran is a great mon to no one's surprise. It also has Ancient Power + Rock Blast if you are feeling lucky.
Smack Down seems like a decent budget Thousand Arrows, it also has a new signature move named Sandsear Storm, is not great but as a forte it gives a 20% chance to burn, so between that, Sludge Bomb and Body Slam it should be a good option for status spam. Bulldoze is also good enough speed control when paired with U-turn. Base form may be broken with Life Orb like usual.
You can't equip Triple Arrows because it has a Flinch Chance, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything with this owl, it has some nice options between Giga Drain and Trailblaze, thanks to Bullet Seed it could get at least +2 speed with trail right away and then spam arrows to be a fearsome wall breaker and sweeper.
Another Grass type Trailblaze wall breaker slash sweeper, Wood Hammer under Grassy Terrain is scary enough to give it a niche over Deci. Also gets Giga Drain like every other grass type, I don't need to tell you that.
Infernal Parade is a cooler Hex that could allow it to be a decent wall breaker that just rage quits to nacl. Flame Charge and Fire Spin are nice too.
Similar, but it can actually hit nacl, it also gets Fell Stinger and Swift Swim that may actually be a balanced combo in a no Damp Rock format.
May be decent thanks to Diamond Storm and Body Press, Draining Kiss is also an option, but the typing kind of holds it back.
Absorb is good enough recovery and it has Body Press + Acid Armor for a basic combo. Acid Spray is also an option, but doesn't look like the best user.
Flame Charge is a thing, but may prefer Choice Band on this one. Wish it had SD, Howl is lame. Oh, it can also use Forte Tera Blast for Rock-Type extreme speed, thats cool.
World's slowest horse may actually win a race with Trailblaze, but the initial speed is sad, so is not likely to do well with that much competition.
Convince everyone Relic Song is broken so we can restrict sleep chances instead of banning Sneasler, no idea if it triggers the transformation. Looks bad outside of sleep hax. Oh, wait Serene Grace is banned, so this mon would be illegal anyway, never mind.
I'm going to assume no transfer moves to not be the whole night writing.
This thing would be beyond broken with Draining Kiss, broken with Charge Beam and kinda broken with a regular set, don't think is worth our time.
Don't use Electro Ball, just don't, is a waste. Rapid Spin, Charge Beam and Thunder Cage are actually good options, but just the fact that Tera is legal in this format may be enough to break it, it could be worth giving it a chance, but don't really expect it to be balanced when even if it fails to grab the KO with Tera, it doesn't matter because now you are trapped and taking damage from Thunder Cage.
Dark gets a free CB thanks to Wicked Blow, and can still boost its Atk with SD, I don't think I have to explain how broken is that, but here is a calc that should demonstrate my point:
+2 252+ Atk Urshifu Crunch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Enamorus-Therian on a critical hit: 145-171 (41.1 - 48.5%)
Sturdiest Fairy in the game gets 2HKO if there are rocks, and if Urshi tera into a Fairy resist then there is not coming back, it can also just Iron Head, but I doubt it would be worth giving up on Sucker Punch, is always an option on non-SD sets tho.
Water could be fine, Multi hit moves are restricted by default, but it could abuse Trailblaze and get +3 Speed after a single Surging Strike, Rock Smash to force every corv to be Mirror Armor or some bulky set up with Draining Punch BU.
Dire Claw is a silly move and in combination with U-turn it becomes the ultimate status spreader, it kind of makes you forget it also has Trailblaze and Rock Smash. You could also get away with something gimmicky with Venoshock as it pairs well with Poison Touch, you should still carry TSpikes somewhere in the team.
This thing may end up being balanced because it got a quite lackluster movepool, but it does actually get one move that is actually good for the format in Drain Punch, so it may actually be quite good, and I could regret giving it a chance.
Thunderous Kick makes sure nothing but Mirror Armor Corv can switch into this thing, combined with U-turn it can enable some nasty offensive cores, it also gets Trailblaze but that's kind of whatever compared to the sheer utility of TKick.
It got two strong options on Draining Kiss and Hex, and is pretty much Flutter Mane minus the fairy typing, but it doesn't die to neutral priority, so it may actually be a much better Drain Kisser. There just aren't enough good Normals to check it that are worth using other than Ursaluna (who may end up being broken on its own).
At least you can't equip status moves, but that doesn't mean the Victory Dancer will not find a niche, Giga Drain gives it some good longevity, and that should be its only set unless you really want to use Rain Hurricane + Hustle, doesn't sound very viable with the recent Damp Rock ban but is a thing I guess.
Holding Facade means you can't hold Flame Orb, so moving to the actual sets, Drain Punch enables some bulky set stuff that may end up being too much with how bulky this thing is, Trailblaze is interesting but is very very slow so it will not be outspeeding any scarfers anytime soon.
Draining Kiss is one of the best fortes, Superpower can also be an interesting forte thanks to Contrary, but then you need to use special moves to hit steels. Base may end up being broken, but Therian may be a nice tank with DKiss and could use CM sets quite well, but the SR weakness hurts a lot if you don't carry HDB.
I'm just going to list options, they are all viable enough: Draining Kiss, Hex, Body Press, Flame Charge, Acid Spray, Body Slam, Slude Bomb, Fire Spin, Ancient Power, Bulldoze, Charge Beam, may even use Foul Play.
Regular can use the now classic Body Press forte + Iron Defense combo, meanwhile crowned is stuck with a shield on its head, silly dog. So yeah, we could allow crowned without much problem.
Esper Wing is trailblaze with an extra crit chance and no contact, paired with Tinted Lens and decent stats it may be enough to be broken, but it may end up being just decent, Psychic/Flying has too many common weaknesses and the starting speed is kind of lacking.
Wouldn't be surprised if Forte Last Respect is enough to break Basculin-White, so expect Houndstone to be unbanned.
Ceaseless Edge is a broken move, specially paired with Sharpness, I kind of fear it may lack defensive counterplay, but it should be good wallbreaker at beast, it doesn't have the stats to do much against any kind of offensive team.
If this thing has been giving anything as a counterpart to Scizor's Bullet Punch it would actually be decent, so you could set SR with priority with something better than fucking Quick Attack, it got one of the worst type combinations in the game and won't be switching into a lot of stuff because of that, is at least fast enough to outspeed relevant stuff like Gholdengo, so it may still be decent enough, STAB U-turn boosted by Sharpness coming from 135 base Atk that sets SR on hit can't be bad, right?
This has many options, Drain Punch may be good, Acid Spray seems great on it, Hex is always good, status spreading on Sludge Bomb and Body Slam, Snarl is a decent option too. Even Eerie Spell may be good, as is not limited to 8 uses and can actually win any pp war with it.
This is the only format where Mystical Power isn't just a bad cover of Torch Song, +1 SpA on each hit on something with 125 SpA and good offensive movepool is quite promising, still has paper bulk and the speed isn't as impressive as it was back in the day, but it should be a decent cleaner.
Flame Charge, Magma Storm that doesn't miss, or Body Press + Iron Defense, Heatran is a great mon to no one's surprise. It also has Ancient Power + Rock Blast if you are feeling lucky.
Smack Down seems like a decent budget Thousand Arrows, it also has a new signature move named Sandsear Storm, is not great but as a forte it gives a 20% chance to burn, so between that, Sludge Bomb and Body Slam it should be a good option for status spam. Bulldoze is also good enough speed control when paired with U-turn. Base form may be broken with Life Orb like usual.
You can't equip Triple Arrows because it has a Flinch Chance, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything with this owl, it has some nice options between Giga Drain and Trailblaze, thanks to Bullet Seed it could get at least +2 speed with trail right away and then spam arrows to be a fearsome wall breaker and sweeper.
Another Grass type Trailblaze wall breaker slash sweeper, Wood Hammer under Grassy Terrain is scary enough to give it a niche over Deci. Also gets Giga Drain like every other grass type, I don't need to tell you that.
Infernal Parade is a cooler Hex that could allow it to be a decent wall breaker that just rage quits to nacl. Flame Charge and Fire Spin are nice too.
Similar, but it can actually hit nacl, it also gets Fell Stinger and Swift Swim that may actually be a balanced combo in a no Damp Rock format.
May be decent thanks to Diamond Storm and Body Press, Draining Kiss is also an option, but the typing kind of holds it back.
Absorb is good enough recovery and it has Body Press + Acid Armor for a basic combo. Acid Spray is also an option, but doesn't look like the best user.
Flame Charge is a thing, but may prefer Choice Band on this one. Wish it had SD, Howl is lame. Oh, it can also use Forte Tera Blast for Rock-Type extreme speed, thats cool.
World's slowest horse may actually win a race with Trailblaze, but the initial speed is sad, so is not likely to do well with that much competition.
Convince everyone Relic Song is broken so we can restrict sleep chances instead of banning Sneasler, no idea if it triggers the transformation. Looks bad outside of sleep hax. Oh, wait Serene Grace is banned, so this mon would be illegal anyway, never mind.
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and Covert Cloak
(sprite coming soon)
I think Syrup Bomb sounds interesting as a support move as well, but without Eviolite, we may have to wait for DLC2 where this thing evolves for it to be viable.
how does surf work in the ability slot? does every move make it go gluck gluck?
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