lighthouses
Inordinary
Just a couple things since im not good at writing essays
-Bronzong is not required to run protect; gyro ball, psychic, psywave, grass knot are all options that can be fit onto a set depending on what your team needs, toxic is mandatory though imo, otherwise you're not really making any progress against blastoise teams.
-It answers all the grass types better than regi does, being a lot safer against rose and shaymin while also being able to beat virizion(at least as a secondary check slot) which regi cannot.
-Shaymin being s rank sounds really silly to me, rose is much more threatening overall and the current meta revolves heavily around spike stack, which, unless you use forry, you cannot have by opting to use shaymin over rose.
-Choice band tsareena is good!!
-Noiverns viability and impact on the meta are being largely overhyped here i feel, it became a thing mainly due to its ability to beat grass types in a decently offensive slot for your team(similar to aero vs fire types) and both rose and shaymin often opt for hp ice nowadays, i dont think it should rise.
-Agree with aero rising, its a good alternative to running scarf tyrantrum and hoping to be fine versus fire types as it can switch moves, run recovery and be decently good at answering noivern.
-Not gonna make a proper nom as idk what the protocol is but i definitely think nidoqueen should rise a rank or two, gligar is ever so popular due to zydogs growing popularity and the majority of tour players(to my knowlegde) have been opting for modest scaldless blastoise which is just perfect for nidoqueen to keep rocks up with either tbolt or thunder. It also helps that cress is basically non existant at the moment.
-Houndoom and sneasel are good!!
-Bronzong is not required to run protect; gyro ball, psychic, psywave, grass knot are all options that can be fit onto a set depending on what your team needs, toxic is mandatory though imo, otherwise you're not really making any progress against blastoise teams.
-It answers all the grass types better than regi does, being a lot safer against rose and shaymin while also being able to beat virizion(at least as a secondary check slot) which regi cannot.
-Shaymin being s rank sounds really silly to me, rose is much more threatening overall and the current meta revolves heavily around spike stack, which, unless you use forry, you cannot have by opting to use shaymin over rose.
-Choice band tsareena is good!!
-Noiverns viability and impact on the meta are being largely overhyped here i feel, it became a thing mainly due to its ability to beat grass types in a decently offensive slot for your team(similar to aero vs fire types) and both rose and shaymin often opt for hp ice nowadays, i dont think it should rise.
-Agree with aero rising, its a good alternative to running scarf tyrantrum and hoping to be fine versus fire types as it can switch moves, run recovery and be decently good at answering noivern.
-Not gonna make a proper nom as idk what the protocol is but i definitely think nidoqueen should rise a rank or two, gligar is ever so popular due to zydogs growing popularity and the majority of tour players(to my knowlegde) have been opting for modest scaldless blastoise which is just perfect for nidoqueen to keep rocks up with either tbolt or thunder. It also helps that cress is basically non existant at the moment.
-Houndoom and sneasel are good!!