From what I've seen in the Ubers and Battle Spot forums, Baton Pass and Swords Dance are better than a third attack. SD helps it sweep easier, due to doubling its already massive attack, and BP helps it support its teammates with Speed. Since Azumarill takes lol damage from Shadow Claw, a neutral Flare Blitz hits Gengar harder than a se Shadow Claw, and Jellicent isn't really relevant, there's no real downside to forgoing it.
Blaziken ohkos stuff like Rotom-W after using a Swords Dance, so if you decide to use SD > SC, which you should, the amount of support it need lowers. Basically, you need something to handle azumarill + something to handle Pinsir + Talonflame. That's about it.
There hasn't been any official statement or anything, but from what I've heard, Thundurus will be the next suspect. I'm not sure when it'll happen or if it'll definitely happen. After/if there is a Thundy suspect, I think that'll be it until ORAS, since nothing else jumps out as potentially broken.
alright thank you but i might run with the jolly set since i compete alot for money and also i love hawlucha
A generally good indicator if the team is based on Charizard-Y is if it has a Pursuit trapper + a fighting-types on the team. So for example, if a team is Charizard, Scizor, and Keldeo, you can assume it's Charizard-Y. Since Char-Y needs more support, if you don't see those those two things on a team with Charizard, it's usually X. However you can face a team with a Pursuit trapper and a fighting type, and still face X.
MegaCross doesn't see enough usage to be OU despite being extremely effective at wallbreaking. Diancie was dropped in OU after being released but only has a few niches, it'll drop to UU next time usage stats are updated.
252 HP / 252 Spe / 4 Def try this Ev spread
the analysis says adamant 248 hp / 140 atk / 64 def / 56 spe; outspeeds adamant mega hera and avoids the 2HKO from adamant mega medicham's HJK
Nitpicky, I know, but you need 68 defense EVs for Medicham, so the spread would be 248 HP / 136 Atk / 68 Def / 56 Spe with a Jolly nature. Before Mega Heracross became so popular I used a different spread that outsped jolly megatar and ohkod medicham while being 3hkod by hjk, but since you need so much speed now, that isn't possible.
First, usage ≠ viability. Good stuff gets bad usage, bad stuff gets high usage. But actually, those two cases are a bit different. Mega Heracross was banned from UU, but it was never that good in OU because of Aegislash. Now, Aegislash is banned, so Mega Heracross can shine. Usage updates every three months, so the latest statistics are still from the Deoxys metagame. In the next tier ship, Heracross, and by effect Mega Heracross, will be OU. Diancie is also different, since it was released after everything else was, it was immediately put into OU. However, it actually has never been OU by usage, and will fall to UU next month without any trouble.
