After our slate on Gyarados, Volcanion and Mamoswine, the council has decided to move forward with a suspect test on Mamoswine! It's first arrival in the tier wasn't anything too impressive, as Galarian Weezing provided a splashable check to it for many teams, but with it's departure the floodgates opened as more aggressive sets popped up. With its incredibly strong Ice/Ground STAB combination, very little can properly manage it defensively, while priority ice shard has been a fantastic tool for faster threats like Noivern, Gengar, and others. It also has Knock Off, which is more than capable of ruining Pokemon like Rotom-Heat, forcing a tera investment or causing extreme constraints in the builder. More and more have more aggressive sets popped up, forgoing Jolly's Speed tier for Adamant's raw damage on targets like Slowbro, Umbreon and Cresselia, which allows Mamoswine far more room to break past its checks. It's ability to break past its few checks by set variety is worth noting too. Freeze dry sets exist, and make Slowbro / Gastrodon / Quagsire struggle tremendously, while the aforementioned Tera Dark sets can ruin Cresselia lest they pre-emptively invest a Tera for the task.
Thats not to say its perfect though. Those aforementioned checks require Mamoswine to make heavy concessions or invest tera to properly break through. Tera Dark Adamant is a common choice, and you sacrifice speed to do so; which can be abused by pokemon like Basculegion. It's Speed stat, while not bad, is also not too impressive itself, which opens it up to walls with solid speed stats to be problems for it like Jirachi. Additionally, it can be somewhat lacking in defensive value. Beyond the volt immunity of its ground typing, it can find itself struggling to make headway vs offensive teams prepared for it.
However, its pressure on defensive teams cannot be understated, often forcing very specific Pokemon to try to keep it at bay. And for these reasons, the Council has elected to leave this choice to the playerbase.
The instructions to participate in this test are as follows:
If you have any questions about this new process, feel free to PM me or post here!
The requirement to vote in this suspect test is a COIL value of 2800 with a B-value of 7. The deadline for getting requirements will be Thursday, October 16th, 23:59 GMT -4. Good luck to all!
Thats not to say its perfect though. Those aforementioned checks require Mamoswine to make heavy concessions or invest tera to properly break through. Tera Dark Adamant is a common choice, and you sacrifice speed to do so; which can be abused by pokemon like Basculegion. It's Speed stat, while not bad, is also not too impressive itself, which opens it up to walls with solid speed stats to be problems for it like Jirachi. Additionally, it can be somewhat lacking in defensive value. Beyond the volt immunity of its ground typing, it can find itself struggling to make headway vs offensive teams prepared for it.
However, its pressure on defensive teams cannot be understated, often forcing very specific Pokemon to try to keep it at bay. And for these reasons, the Council has elected to leave this choice to the playerbase.
The instructions to participate in this test are as follows:
- Create a new account on PS. You do not have to follow any specific naming convention, but your suspect account must have never played a game in RU before this suspect test went up or you will not receive valid requirements (resetting W/L does not count for this - the account you use must never have played RU before the test, full stop.)
- At any point on your new account, use the command /linksmogon on Pokemon Showdown! You will receive instructions on what to do once you run this command.
- Double check that you're listed as a voter below! If you aren't listed as a voter despite having valid reqs, please contact myself, TheFranklin, Rarelyme, or a member of staff.
If you have any questions about this new process, feel free to PM me or post here!
The requirement to vote in this suspect test is a COIL value of 2800 with a B-value of 7. The deadline for getting requirements will be Thursday, October 16th, 23:59 GMT -4. Good luck to all!
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