Laddering UU again eeeeeeeeeee
I agree with a lot of the statements above regarding Dracozolt. Unlike the other hustle user Durant, it has very few limitations to it's effectiveness of wallbreaking. The biggest curse is being a 50/50 Pokemon but that mentality is still very unhealthy for the meta. You are forced to run ground fairy and frankly you're gonna lose a pokemon in the process if you don't predict correct. Several ladders teams have been slowed down because nearly everyone is running Rhyperior, Hippowdon, Gardevoir, Wheezing-Galar, or revenge killer Haxorus to check or counter back a Dracozolt assault. You could argue that was the meta prior, but even then there was room for other pokemon and innovation to come out of a sans-Dracozolt meta. A LOT of copy and paste teams are coming out of UU right now.
I've been sticking with Band Zolt and the power coming off of it is absolutely absurd. Chunking even RESISTANCES to 60-80% and having a very high chance to OHKO Wheezing-Galar. Anything else that chooses to stay in just dies to STABs or gets chunked very hard. Once you remove the big counter of your ground or fairy type you can abuse it's STABs and not have to think too hard as nothing relevant in the UU meta wants to come in on it. The fact that it can run Scarf, Band, LO, and Substitute all with great effectiveness also adds onto the unpredictable nature of scouting what set the Dracozolt player is running. This is ONTOP of trying to figure out what STAB move will come out. It's absurd forcing of coin flip scenarios and having little to no perfect counters towards it should deserve a Ban.
I agree with a lot of the statements above regarding Dracozolt. Unlike the other hustle user Durant, it has very few limitations to it's effectiveness of wallbreaking. The biggest curse is being a 50/50 Pokemon but that mentality is still very unhealthy for the meta. You are forced to run ground fairy and frankly you're gonna lose a pokemon in the process if you don't predict correct. Several ladders teams have been slowed down because nearly everyone is running Rhyperior, Hippowdon, Gardevoir, Wheezing-Galar, or revenge killer Haxorus to check or counter back a Dracozolt assault. You could argue that was the meta prior, but even then there was room for other pokemon and innovation to come out of a sans-Dracozolt meta. A LOT of copy and paste teams are coming out of UU right now.
I've been sticking with Band Zolt and the power coming off of it is absolutely absurd. Chunking even RESISTANCES to 60-80% and having a very high chance to OHKO Wheezing-Galar. Anything else that chooses to stay in just dies to STABs or gets chunked very hard. Once you remove the big counter of your ground or fairy type you can abuse it's STABs and not have to think too hard as nothing relevant in the UU meta wants to come in on it. The fact that it can run Scarf, Band, LO, and Substitute all with great effectiveness also adds onto the unpredictable nature of scouting what set the Dracozolt player is running. This is ONTOP of trying to figure out what STAB move will come out. It's absurd forcing of coin flip scenarios and having little to no perfect counters towards it should deserve a Ban.