first how did i not get pings for this at all since last month im only here because i remembered it existed lol
second
Tapler and i managed to propel golisopod to first place last time i was here yaaaaaaay :D
now thoughts
:latias: just a generally a good buff since psychic these days isn't doing that much for anybody apart from breaking pex. fairy type and solid special bulk helps beat sooo much rn like lando, shifu, goliso, raikou, volcarona etc. beats zarude and cm sets uses it as fodder. however its still kinda weak and cm sets cannot run nearly enough coverage as it wants (it will prolly run cm+moonblast+roost leaving it with enough room for only one coverage option). pex only drops to psychic/tbolt, corvi to tbolt, heatran to aura, ferro isnt even 2hkoed by +1 252 aura and rips a large chunk off with gyro (if its not running gyro its in for a tough time but still). also, just use fini damnit, this thing gets toxicd by anything fat that it cant instantly kill (aka 90% of them). i do like it though, defensive support sets actually look nice with the vastly improved typing, scarf support sets aren't bad outside of the fact that they are weak af, specs can do considerable amounts of damage but is very very prediction reliant because latias's lack of power is very very noticable even if its specs. just dont run calm mind, use fini.
:entei: balls until you get your +2 in which case you fuck over half the tier with banded +2 sacred fire that has a 50% burnrate. do i really want this though? raikou is great already (i was right >:)) and gapdos has been rising for the past few weeks and now if entei is thrown in the hazards game is going to be a lot more tricky. not to mention, man, i dont want coinflip burn dog either on my team or my opponent's. sounds annoying af to play against and happy that it isnt ou viable rn so selfishly i dont want people to actually start using this thing. also it has espeed. yep.
:scolipede: like g-luke said this is just a menace on screens, you straight up just spam sd on whatever unlucky soul that you can set up on. on the other hand its still kinda frail behind screens but who cares if they cant ohko you (if they can tank you they cannot ohko you). quite a strong cleaner too, but rather useless before the endgame. sash will scare out heatran t1 to get 2 sds and autowin. basically its still funny but no longer a meme, and i say sure why not.
:snorlax: im sure anyone can dig up some theorymonning on snorlax with slack off wherever (mostly associated with "how the actual fuck does this thing not get slack off"). simply put, snorlax is now blissey but trades bulk for ability to actually hurt things. and thats what it will do, since it doesn't really get utitily that makes defensive mons worthwhile. curselax may be an actual viable wincon since its afraid of nothing fat (immunity woooooo) and even +1 body slam can and will really hurt. you still get broken by specs lele and a few other ridiculously strong breakers but aside from that you are set to do damage before going down.
:celesteela: fat cm sets are in the same camp as latias in that they are not strong enough and cannot have nearly enough coverage. and for something so slow its got longetivity issues. auto+cm looks cool though especially under screens which nets you more turns to set up and possibly weakness policies to abuse. coverage is still a problem, but airslash covers pretty much most of the tier, and with your kind of bulk and possibly screens support and wp boosts you don't need to take too much damage before becoming incredibly destructive. translation? goltres but probably better.
decent/good slate overall, vote probably goes to latias and literally anything besides entei, theyre all pretty nice, i just dont want to deal with sacred fire bs. peace.
