With its stats, Barraskewda can even work outside of rain, as it naturally faster than all the relevant threats including Dragapult and Noivern, a Jolly nature even allow it to outspeed niche options like Jolteon, this heavily limit the options offensive teams have to revenge kill or pressure at all Barraskewda.
While there are multiple defensive answers to Barraskewda, most of them can be easily wear down by Barraskewda itself as long as they aren't immune to Water by spamming Flip Turn and then sending a proper answer, like a Fighting-type against Ferrothorn, Heliolisk against bulky waters or a Flying-type like Pelipper or Noivern against Golisopod and Grass-types like Tsareena. Forcing them back to repeat the process until they are in range to die to some of Barraskewda's coverage moves or Liquidation. As far as Water immunities go, not all of them are effective at checking Barraskewda, Heliolisk dies to Close Combat and lacks the bulk to switch into neutral hits, Toxicroak can take on anything but Psychic Fangs, but most others can take on it fairly easily, among them there are Gastrodon, Mantine and Jellicent.
Yet, Barraskewda is far from being the perfect Pokémon, is dangerously frail for the tier, uninvested Golisopod has a 12% chance to OHKO Barraskewda after SR damage with First Impression. It can't stay on the field if it can't ko the opposite Pokémon, as is in danger from being beaten by a neutral hit in most cases. It also lacks power outside of rain, as the tier is quite bulky for it to break with an 85 base power STAB move.
Suspect details: During a Suspect, each player must climb the ladder until they've acquired the GXE necessary to participate in the voting. Primarily, everyone that participates needs to make an alt account following these guidelines:- Every game must be played on the official Pokemon Showdown site and on a new account (creation date no earlier than today, August 8th, 2022) with "REBA [Nick]"--for example, I could create one called "REBA Kaen" to ladder with.
- To qualify for voting, your alt must play a minimum of 25 games, and you must have a minimum GXE of 75.
- Barraskewda will be allowed on the ladder during the suspect.
- The suspect test will end on Tuesday, August 23st @ 11:59pm (GMT-4).
- When posting proof of meeting reqs, feel free to use this thread as a means to civilly elucidate any topical opinions regarding whether or not Barraskewda should be banned (Optional).
- It is mandatory to provide proof of ownership of the alt account as well. (Post a picture of your reqs with your smogon name featured).
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