ohaiyo fam,
returning player who left before the dlc was dropped. can someone bring me up to speed with regards to ou? I see that there are a lot of new toys to play with and since ace and mag are banned, i assume it's prolly going to be a lot more fun to play.
Well, the number one threat right now and the one that many are discussing that deserves a suspect test is Dragapult. Is a straight forward mon. Almost like a built in choice scarf, no pursuit, spammable stab, all that stuff. I guess specs is the most common set right now but you could still run into some random boots, status hex, choice band and sometimes dragon dance
Garchomp is right behind Dragapult as an offensive threat. Scale shot turns it into a terrifying sweeper after a swords dance and it still doesn't easily go down even at -1 defense. Other than that, Garchomp is still doing Garchomp stuff
Tapu Lele and Kyurem are now among the tier's best choiced wall breakers. Lele's stabs are very difficult to handle unless accounted for and Kyurem's is on a whole new level. Even resists cannot hope to withstand them without a reliable recovery over the course of a game unless it's 4x resist
Weavile and Bisharp are now also among the best breakers but not necessarily choiced. Stab knock off and powerful priority makes them incredibly dificult to face
Corviknight, Heatran, Toxapex and Ferrothorn are still obnoxious as ever. Iron defense body press metal birds are somewhat common rn because they can deal with the two mentioned dark types while Heatran is still such a pain in the ass to switch into. If Heatran is annoying then Pex and Ferro are a lot worse
While Tornadus Therian was hyped up because of nasty plot, it's actually fallen quite a bit of and I would guess that's because of hurricane's accuracy. Remember, if it's not 100% accurate, it is 50% accurate
Zeraora and Tapu Koko are still on top of their game providing speed control and a way to annoy the ground types that would check them
Finally, Landorus Therian is still as popular as ever
Basically, whatever you do, make sure you have a plan for Dragapult because ghost is an incredibly spammable type and even specially defensive stuff like Pex can be ruined by some rng nonsense with spd drops