CAMOMONS IS SUSPECTING PORYGON-Z!
Following the Camomons Survey results (will be fully discussed on the Camomons thread soon) Porygon-Z was the Pokémon with the least amount of players stating it was completely balanced at a paltry 21.7% with more players wanting council action, and vast majority of you being indecisive. And after council discussion on the survey, we want to take advantage of the ladder while we still have it and give power to the players to suspect Porygon-Z!
According to the Camomons Survey, many players already believed Camo was in a relatively competitive, diverse, and enjoyable state with only few concerns being voiced, one of the loudest being about the powerful Porygon-Z. For the survey's duration, multiple players stated negative opinions on it in the text answers and it spent the duration of the survey being the pokemon with the most calls for council action, peaking at a walloping 40% call for action about halfway through the camo survey's duration. The council ultimately voted on whether we should take action on any of the elements mentioned in the Camomons Survey, and who if so. And we all agreed to suspect Porygon-Z
Porygon-Z is a monstrously powerful breaker, sporting a gigantic 135 base special attack, adaptability, and a movepool to give the adaptability boost to type combinations with near perfect coverage like
,
, or
though it usually sticks to
on the account of the incredible offensive synergy, as well as the fact that it can pick the ferocious adaptability blizzard over ice beam to take advantage of the free hail set by either Slowking as a teammate. It can break through teams combining these tools with multiple excellent options for it's sets. It can run a choice scarf or choice specs for even more speed or immediate power and the ability to invalidate passive Pokémon with trick. Or if it wants to keep the boots for longevity, it can instead set up nasty plot and/or agility to blast through defensive or fast offensive teams respectively. It can even occasionally use recover to increase it's own survivability and become extremely difficult to pepper down with the attacks of defensive Pokémon. Porygon-Z also notably hits some important speed benchmarks, outspeeding the incredibly common Great Tusk and everything slower and often using these slower Pokémon as an opportunity to apply it's offense and trap the opponent in difficult scenarios that result in KOs for the Porygon-Z user.
On the flipside, for all it's power, Porygon-Z sometimes has difficulty getting into the correct positions to apply it's power. It's bulk is just good enough to survive resisted hits and neutral hits from some defensive pokemon, but bigger hits are a bit much to ask, especially when it's preferred offensive combination of
isn't a cornerstone of defensive utility. This type also holds it back when it wants to be an immediate threat choice specs or choice scarf, giving it a weakness to stealth rock on top of it's already detrimental time switching into multiple stacks of spikes more than once. (And while rarer,
or
aren't much better off with the common weaknesses their secondary types bring.) And even if it gets into the right place at the right time, you aren't always threatening to immediately make progress on the opponent's team. Choiced sets can be slowed down by individual resists/immunities to it's dual type (In fact, the strongest special walls like Ting-Lu can handle the scarf set by themselves with little trouble.) And regenerator pokemon that are at least neutral to it's dual stab like certain Slowking variants or Assault Vest Cyclizar can always scout it's intentions to maximize the value of pokemon that individually take one of Porygon-Z's dual stabs. Non-choiced sets also find themselves needing the opportunity to set up nasty plot or agility, which can sometimes be too big an ask with the defensive struggles Porygon-Z's common dual types carry, and even if it clicks one, it can run into the situations where it wished it clicked the other boosting move, or even run into the situations where it wishes it had recover. Also while it hits some notable benchmarks like Great Tusk, its by no means the fastest threat without a choice scarf or an agility boost, leaving it open to being KOed by many of the faster offensive threats that populate the metagame.
The instructions to participate in this suspect are as follows:
- Create a new account on PS. You do not have to follow any specific naming convention, but your suspect account must have never played a game in SV Camomons before this suspect test went up or you will not receive valid requirements (resetting W-L does not count for this—the account you use must never have played Camomons before the test, full stop.)
- You can use /rank to check if your alt is allowed to get requirements. Whenever in doubt, type /rank and it will tell confirm if you are eligible or not
- At any point on your new account, use the command /linksmogon on Pokemon Showdown! You will receive instructions on what to do once you run this command.
- Double check that you're listed as a voter here! If you aren't listed as a voter despite having valid reqs, please contact dhelmise, Giagantic, April, or any other OM Staff member.
- If you have any questions about this new process, feel free to PM dhelmise!
The requirement to vote in this suspect test is a
COIL value of 2850 (with a B Value of 2). The deadline for getting requirements will be
November 27, 2025 at 23:59 EDT.
