I think the revival move is more broken on paper than in practice but we'll see when the metagame actually starts.
Rabsca is a shit mon tbh... actually literal too lol. It definitely isn't going to be broken because of revival blessing, it has too many flaws holding it back and the teams it would function on (trick room) are already niche playstyles that are hard to pull off. If you're trying to run it on HO it isn't going to do much (hypothetically you bring it on a stall mon and revive a wall breaker to deal it when you could just... run a 6th wall breaker instead of 5+ a support that brings back one.) while said trick room teams already feel niche as is so the buff if it proves pretty good on them should be more welcoming. We also have to keep in mind revival blessing only brings mons to 50%, which gives very little setup opportunities, it seems more broken to revive a stall mon say, slowbro, toxapex, or even chansey that can use recovery and continue walling.. but stall doesn't seem very good in general right now with how wall breaker heavy the game is.
Pawmot I do not think would be broken because of revival blessing.. but because its the full package. It hits hard with iron fist, a good movepool, and its speed tier. 105 Speed is enough to run scarf, band, life orb, and we're sleeping on how physical walls can't properly match it with its movepool:
252 Atk Choice Band Pawmot Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Rotom-Wash: 186-219 (61.1 - 72%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery (note: i don't actually know if iron fist works with close combat this gen but i didn't include it in this calc, even without it this hurts)
252 Atk Iron Fist Pawmot Thunder Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 146-174 (48 - 57.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
Obviously ice punch murks defensive chomp, and lando whenever he comes back, I don't see too many defensive options for it, if any at all.
It gets all the elemental punches, a strong ability, and revival blessing as a bonus when nothing can even switch into it to stop it. Pawmot is its own monster certainly. Revival blessing's distribution just isn't large enough to justify a move ban when it has a really strong user and one really shit one. Maybe when smeargle is back we can look at it again but even he doesn't hit hard he's just a support mon. If we're going to do any ban related to revival blessing it should instead be whether or not pawmot is a huge threat first.
Rabsca is a shit mon tbh... actually literal too lol. It definitely isn't going to be broken because of revival blessing, it has too many flaws holding it back and the teams it would function on (trick room) are already niche playstyles that are hard to pull off. If you're trying to run it on HO it isn't going to do much (hypothetically you bring it on a stall mon and revive a wall breaker to deal it when you could just... run a 6th wall breaker instead of 5+ a support that brings back one.) while said trick room teams already feel niche as is so the buff if it proves pretty good on them should be more welcoming. We also have to keep in mind revival blessing only brings mons to 50%, which gives very little setup opportunities, it seems more broken to revive a stall mon say, slowbro, toxapex, or even chansey that can use recovery and continue walling.. but stall doesn't seem very good in general right now with how wall breaker heavy the game is.
Pawmot I do not think would be broken because of revival blessing.. but because its the full package. It hits hard with iron fist, a good movepool, and its speed tier. 105 Speed is enough to run scarf, band, life orb, and we're sleeping on how physical walls can't properly match it with its movepool:
252 Atk Choice Band Pawmot Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Rotom-Wash: 186-219 (61.1 - 72%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery (note: i don't actually know if iron fist works with close combat this gen but i didn't include it in this calc, even without it this hurts)
252 Atk Iron Fist Pawmot Thunder Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 146-174 (48 - 57.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
Obviously ice punch murks defensive chomp, and lando whenever he comes back, I don't see too many defensive options for it, if any at all.
It gets all the elemental punches, a strong ability, and revival blessing as a bonus when nothing can even switch into it to stop it. Pawmot is its own monster certainly. Revival blessing's distribution just isn't large enough to justify a move ban when it has a really strong user and one really shit one. Maybe when smeargle is back we can look at it again but even he doesn't hit hard he's just a support mon. If we're going to do any ban related to revival blessing it should instead be whether or not pawmot is a huge threat first.
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