I waited till to right here till I lern the Meta more, but now it's time to start doing it, so here's my first post. Dynamax is being tested now and will likely be banned which I agree on.
Here's another Problem of the Metagame and it's not even GDarm, Hawlucha or Excadrill, it's
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and especially the Sub + Disable Set
Dragapult
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Ability: Infiltrator
- Substitude
- Disable
- WoW
- Hex
This Thing is a menace.. this set won me so many games that I would have lost otherwise. Thanks to it's insane Speed it can setup a Sub on any mon bar some Scarf Users. Sub helps to make Disable always work and against the Scarf Users that outspeed this it can setup a Sub on any other mon on the enemy team and just beat it 1v1. Even on supposed to be checks like Clef. Setup a Sub, Disable that Moonblast and there you go.
There are so many choice Items around that One Sub + Disable is enough to force the opponnent to switch if they can, if not they end up with Struggle. Combo this thing with Hazards and you'll see the HP goes down in an instant.
Even again non-choice locked Pokemons it's crazy as they have only 1 Move that hits this thing hard enough to break the sub.
It's funny that the (in my Opinion) best Substitude User even gets Infiltrator to stop the opponnent to protect them behind a Sub. Will-O Wisp hitting a mon behind a Sub is crazy good.
The only Mon that outright kills it behind a Sub is Infiltrator Dragapult itself.
Dynamaxing helps, sure but as I said, I think it will get banned 100% anyway. As I'm righting this I had a crazy idea like, what about banning Disable as a whole?
Let me speak first, yes, I don't think Disable is broken or anything but Disable is and will always be a move that see only play in some cheesy ass tactics. We had the exact same set with Gengar one or two gens ago. Disable is not a skill intense move to use, everyone can click Sub and then Disable.
Like I said, I don't think it will be banned. Maybe it doesn't even need to be banned. It's just that it does not add anything to the fun of competitive pokemon. I would say people get frustrated way more over this then let's say some 90% accuracy miss or something like that.
Dragapult itself is just really strong with lots of different set which I'm not gonna go into further as this set is (in my opinion again) the best of all of them. You can even play 5 defensive mons and add this to the team as wincon alone.