I've been doing the bulk of them and honestly I'm quite busy atm to do more than a couple here and there. Marilli is the other person who did a good chunk of these. Hopefully someone else can step up in the meantime, otherwise we might need to wait for Thanksgiving holiday break for me to have time freed up.
-Landorus-Therian's move Gravity is not available in generation 8.
To be fair there’s this:
Both of those sets sound really bad.
I mainly wanted to get on my soapbox about Regieleki because I love it and its power and speed and its little bouncy dance it does, but a word of advice: If you want to be creative with your teambuilding, avoid defensive thinking. In a format this fast and offensive, and especially with Dynamax available, defensive play is a losing game for everything but the best walls that can cover everything by virtue of pure longevity (and those are all names we already know ... Porygon2, Toxapex, Celesteela, Tapu Fini, Ferrothorn, Hippowdon). By their very nature, defensive Pokemon have to be reactive to the threats that people actually use; chucking an AV on a Regice purely because it gets a beefy SpDef stat out of it is not going to cut it because what is that big number actually going to do for you? How's that number actually going to win you games? I can respect trying to win with your favourites - the whole appeal of Pokemon to me is the balance of creativity and competitiveness that no other franchise can really offer - but you need to temper that with the reality that you're playing against other people with their own competitive mindsets, and they're going to use whatever works best to win. That's what a metagame is; people using the best and easiest to use things to farm wins against other people. Weaponise your creativity against that predictability and come up with something that can actually beat the top threats rather than piling stats onto whatever mon you fancy and hoping it'll work. Sorry for rambling, it's late here and I've had a long week
Hope at least some of this word salad was helpful!
Assault Vest is a bad item for this format imo because it forces defensive Pokemon to act offensively, and offensive Pokemon to act defensively. It may feel like a good call because it's honestly really clever design (and in longer formats like OU it does have a niche!) but it's not because of the nature of 3v3. Offensive Pokemon in this format need to focus entirely on their offensive prowess to function best, and, by the same token, defensive Pokemon need to be as bulky and supportive as they possibly can to support their more offensive teammates. With the high power that this metagame's top threats have, your defensive Pokemon need heavy investment to take all the ridiculous hits that they need to take to last long enough to be useful to the sweeprs in the back - this leaves little to no room for investment in their often already mediocre offenses. It comes back to the question I asked in my earlier post: Yes, you've made it so that your Pokemon can take a hit, but what are they taking it for? What's the point of taking four hits from a boosted Nasty Plot sweeper versus three when you hit like wet paper in return and are literally blocked from using disruptive support moves? Far better to trade that in for a less restrictive defensive item, like Leftovers, or a Berry, or Eviolite in some cases, or a Terrain Seed... all of which offer similar defensive benefits without the counter-intuitive restriction. By the same token, a defensive item on an offensive Pokemon is a waste of time when you could be maximising their damage potential with a Choice item or a Life Orb (or a Focus Sash, which in BSS is often better than any other defensive measure you can devise), and could even be missing out on important KOs by not doing so. In my mind, it comes down to having a clarity of purpose in what you want your mons to achieve in any given game, especially in an environment like this where the state of play forces you to do so - Assault Vest would have a place in a more balanced meta where stronger slower Pokemon are able to thrive by taking hits and dishing them back, but we have Dynamax, and no Pokemon is good enough at both to have that luxury. All the slow mons that could benefit from Assault Vest are either on Trick Room teams with more offensive spreads, or they're not being used at all. It's unfortunate, but everything is too strong for an item that encourages jacks of all trades and masters of none :/
What is the reason for a dedicated hazard remover not being good in BSS? Can anyone corroborate what Omastar68 is saying with an example of why it has never been good?
Well actually, compared to the previous season of season 6, hazard setting has become a lot better and more used to deal wth current threats of the meta (season 7). Right now, stealth rocks is the most popular setup option that I recommend you use depending on your current team:
Also, in addition to what’s been said, BSS battles really don’t last that long usually. Sometimes it simply isn’t advantageous to set Stealth Rocks up if it’s going to give your opponent a ‘free’ turn to use a setup move or a move that does heavy damage. Also as has been said before, switching isn’t as much of a thing in BSS as it is in 6v6, as you’re not going to have the perfect answer to everything (seemingly) in 3v3 as you are in 6v6 battles
While I wouldn't put too much weight in the current rankings (there are plenty we'll be changing hopefully in the near future), OU Viability does not translate 1 to 1 with BSS Viability. There are plenty of mons that are strong in OU but mediocre in BSS, or worse. The reverse is also true of course, Mimikyu and Celesteela are pretty broken here but OU doesn't seem to like those two as much as we do. Stuff like Snorlax and Lapras also tend to be way better here than in Smogon metas, though that leans into other stuff like items that are stronger here too (Assault Vest, Sitrus Berry, in the case of other Pokemon there's also the coveted Focus Sash slot).
might have been a misunderstanding on your part. AV is really good because you dont need the longevity that comes from leftovers or HDB, due to the explosiveness of dynamax and the less swapping around that comes from 3v3 formats. AV allows Dynamax sweepers to defeat even type counters, and is very valuable especially for a format that only allows 1 item of each
Yeah, I was thinking about what was said about AV and how you have to be really focused on offense or defense and... that just doesn't seem to be true. The most obvious example of this right now, imo, is SubSeed Celesteela. Its ridiculous the number of things it can get away with both offensively and defensively.
