Stealth Rock should deal 12.5% as the maximum. 6.25 as the average, 3 against NVE and not hurt 4x resists. As it is now, the attack completely controls this game. When one attack controls an entire game, you know something's wrong. Hell, there are several Pokemon like Aerodactyl who are top tier JUST because they can use that attack. Stealth Rock needs to be severely nerfed if the state of the game is going to be fixed.
that would basically ruin stall or any other team that relies on entry hazards, SR is useful, leads kill each other to use it etc. but it is just a move, it can´t win the game for you so yeah.... it oculd use nerfing but i don´t think people should whine about it
Aerodactyl would not be OU in Gen 4 if it didn't have Stealth Rock and Taunt. This is further supported by the fact that it became OU once the metagame stabilized after Platinum's release, and the game became more stall-oriented and leads became designed to lay down Stealth Rocks as consistently as possible. Now we see Azelfs and Swamperts instead of Weaviles and Bronzongs.
Stall thrived in those generations because wall breakers didn't quite exist in GSC and in both generations, SkarmBliss was near invincible because of the physical/special split, which called for a sharp increase in the amount of mixed sweepers being used, which lowered the overall offensive power of the game. I didn't play in RSE, but that much is obvious.
lol yeah when i posted i saw that i didn´t expliain that, the reason stall kicked butt in GSC is a combination of things, basically the ability to max out everything causing everything to be more bulky, combined with the fact that there were less attacking moves and items (no choice items no ev´s no iv´s no overpowered moves for every pokemon plus the fact that with a team of six you could effectively counter the entire metagame, not sure if it is exaggeration since i wasn´t around, this is stuff i read about) in RSE still stall could counter a lot of stuff effectively, at least more than now, only choice band was a choice item, there was less priority and rotom wasn´t aorund spin blocking shit so you had to pick either dusclops or sableye (lol) and they don´t even compare. right now we have a stable metagame, you can play bulky offense heavy offense hyper offense, stall or basically anything you can think of and still kick ass at it, stall excells at ladder becouse you never know what you will find ergo it is better to counter more stuff than have more raw power on your pokes but still, blissey isn´t what it used to be, choice scarfs and specs are now on pokes + trick, priority is running all over the place and rotom is there to spinblock crap but there is a lot of shit that stall cant cope with anymore, stall can only counter threats up to a point now and still pokemon like mixmence and some other stuff ca kill a vital team member of yours if you don´t "guess" its set before you see the DM or DD. Stealth Rocks keeps threats at check while providing your team with a reliable source of damage that always hits opposing pokemon no matter if they are fliers or levitators and only needs one turn of setup, i am not against nerfing it, i just say it helps stall live, not to mention it helps a lot of offensive pokemon net vital OHKOS and 2HKOS.
