while we're talking about weather, i've been seeing a decent number of ninetales at the moment. although not a lot of teams have been utilizing it well, it seems like it has a lot of potential given how hyper offensive this meta is. with shit like lucha, mence, dragonite, azu, dub dance terrak etc running around, aurora veil support makes it a hell of a lot easier for them to sweep (not that its /that/ difficult for them to set up regardless, mind you). ice / fairy stab is great offensively as well, although jirachi is extremely easy to slap on teams and even blizzards coming off a base 81 spa isnt going to have anything trembling in fear if its hit neutrally. my biggest gripe with it however is that 109 is a p unfortunate speed tier since youre outsped by stuff like latias and thundy, although its by no means bad...
gigalith is tanky as fuck and its overall a nice addition to the metagame, although its unfortunate that its movepool is nonexistent (gets a fuck ton of steel moves but not metal bust :[ ) and that it doesnt have any recovery, unlike hippo, although i guess it is a decent check to weavile / cb tini / maero and some other stuff i cant think of off the top of my head
havent messed with rain but i think it has some potential atm - sucks that megapert isnt legal but i think the classics abusers have been fairly sufficient on their own anyway, and life orb torn-t seems pretty hard to punish for teams lacking mega aerodactyl and co. i guess its not as popular rn since char-y is so common and people are using sand more since its less foreign to whats been in uu in the past, if that makes sense.
can't really think of everything right now, but as far as quickbans go dnite / azu / volca / lucha / terrak / kyu-b / thundy-i / char-y are all on my list, maybe there's something really obvious i've forgotten. it's way too early to tell what will be suspected and such but looking down the line id like for stuff like weav to go, but the meta hasn't been out for long at all and sooner or later stuff that was banned in oras like thundy-t, mence, zam, and serp will prob be looked at. like br said i think keldeo will prob go ou, latias and maybe torn-t might stay for now though...we'll see how it goes. the shiny toy syndrome will wear off eventually in ou and we'll probably get stuff like alola marowak and mantine.
again though this is just speculation, the "metagame" is way too crazy rn
gigalith is tanky as fuck and its overall a nice addition to the metagame, although its unfortunate that its movepool is nonexistent (gets a fuck ton of steel moves but not metal bust :[ ) and that it doesnt have any recovery, unlike hippo, although i guess it is a decent check to weavile / cb tini / maero and some other stuff i cant think of off the top of my head
havent messed with rain but i think it has some potential atm - sucks that megapert isnt legal but i think the classics abusers have been fairly sufficient on their own anyway, and life orb torn-t seems pretty hard to punish for teams lacking mega aerodactyl and co. i guess its not as popular rn since char-y is so common and people are using sand more since its less foreign to whats been in uu in the past, if that makes sense.
can't really think of everything right now, but as far as quickbans go dnite / azu / volca / lucha / terrak / kyu-b / thundy-i / char-y are all on my list, maybe there's something really obvious i've forgotten. it's way too early to tell what will be suspected and such but looking down the line id like for stuff like weav to go, but the meta hasn't been out for long at all and sooner or later stuff that was banned in oras like thundy-t, mence, zam, and serp will prob be looked at. like br said i think keldeo will prob go ou, latias and maybe torn-t might stay for now though...we'll see how it goes. the shiny toy syndrome will wear off eventually in ou and we'll probably get stuff like alola marowak and mantine.
again though this is just speculation, the "metagame" is way too crazy rn
