>Not using "bow down to the king"
"a farewell to kings" works best because there's no way in hell gambit is sticking around
Prepare to be upset, then.
I'd personally use a Queen song for irony (specifically "Killer Queen") + I have actual taste in music.
Or needing to set up to sweep. +1.5x at the tail end of the game for free is pretty damn busted. Both Leftovers and AV can freely just delete Pokemon.
Or just use the King Of The Hill theme and call it a day. But idk that’s just me.
I don't use moltres but I've seen enough blunder vids to know that it's pretty solid. Flame body is just so annoying because quad resisting u-turn means that it just switches in on a u-turn and boom, free burn. hurricane could also bait tusk and kill it and u-turn is nice utility. HDB is the #1 thing that makes it viable so you won't be play 5-6 if rocks come up.
I've never used Moltres myself, but have faced it a lot recently and I think it's pretty solid. As Floatstonemafia said, it's similar to Zapdos, but generally slightly worse. However, being similar to Zapdos is certainly not a bad thing and it sets itself apart by being able to switch into most valiant and enamorus sets, which is a very notable pro. Kinda sucks that it gives bax a free setup and you gotta be careful not to let bax switch in for a +1 attack, but the fact that Zapdos is two subranks above it in the viability ranking thread (A+ vs. C+) is laughable imo
I find bax super hard to switch into as well. I've been putting air balloon gholdengo on many of my teams for a while in part to deal with it and have seen an uptick in balloon dengo/gambit usage, which I assume is meant for bax
Bax is absurdly hard to answer (which is why I think it should atleast be kept an eye on, there's next to no defensive counterplay). Balloon Gholdengo works well, as do pokemon like Azumarill and Phys Def Corv to an extent. Dozo stuffs every set up variant (does lose to CB Tera Dragon Glaive Rush). Scizor Bullet Punch is decent insurance and Zama is an decent one time switch.Most importantly though, the only reason why Bax isn't outright broken, is that you can exert enough offensive pressure to deny it consistent opportunities to hit the field, even balance/bo can manage somewhat with support from pivots like Zap, Molt, Meow amd Glowking which are otherwise semi safe switchins for Bax, you can pivot out as it comes in. Tera Fairy Garg ,Tera Water Offensive Tusk and Tera Steel Enam are also options. Being perfectly honest, I hope this thing gets banned at some point, it's really just another extremely hard to deal with offensive mon that doesn't really provide any value to the tier and just makes teambuilding even more of a pain. Tera Electric is a very solid Tera on Bax, it's STAB BoltBeam coverage after all off of a gigantic atk stat. It's targets are Corv, Azu, Dozo and Tera Waters. (Can also turn the tables on a Scizor BP or Gambit Iron Head)
I've played around with Moltres over Talonflame as a physical check. Even though it doesn't get Defog, it does decently well for me.
Scarf Gardevoir. c: No one respects the scarf and their Bax gets deleted by it.
I’m surprised by how annoying Scarf Gardevoir actually is when facing it. Just casually screwing over mons with immunity abilities like Flash Fire and Water Absorb when switching into them using Trace, having good STAB, Trick. Could actually work decently well as a revenge killer on some teams.
