But have you considered this?
Probably swords dance over rock tomb, sure, you don't have the ability to boost your speed, but only really corv/skarm/enam are able to resist ground + dragon.
me rolling up with grass tera blast:
I legitimately had the same idea just a few days ago with gouging to deal with dondozo and tusk, which is pretty funny.
hmm, it does hit gouging's usual checks pretty hard… has anyone tried it on a high-level team yet? maybe we can still salvage the suspect by proving gouging can muscle through its checks really easily
Actually,
I agree. Despite teambuilding being a bit difficult and constraining, its arguable there is a lot more variety now than there was in earlier metagames. As Vert said before, Lando-T (despite being heavily nerfed) and Gliscor both being viable in the same metagame is a great sign & there are a lot of structures that are seeing some level of success, featuring lower tier Pokemon no less like Manaphy, Garganacl, Iron Moth, Iron Crown, GWeezing, Ursaluna, Teal Mask Ogerpon, etc. Still, I do think we need at least a couple of bans to make teams a bit more flexible rather than being constrained to the same few choices.
I feel like this is the most expressive meta there is in however long. If you want to do decently well, then there are a ton of offbeat mons you can use. However, at the same time, it feels like if you are not trying to use offbeat mons, then it is really constricting. I think with maybe 1-2 or maybe 3 bans, this could be a really good meta. If I can use stuff like registeel and have it not be a pile of doodoo, then that I think is pretty great.
yeah i'm a crawdaunt enjoyer myself
i legitimately might try this on sun band. or not, because if gouging stays i'll probably be focusing on some om or pet mod or something
if pecharunt gets quickbanned i will literally eat my hat. i'll actually buy a hat and physically eat it and post proof. this post is legally binding
I'm actually kinda suprised that stuff like sand attack and muddy water are still legal. They have accuracy lowering effects, and while you can switch out, that still doesn't really give me much confidence they should be legal.
i'm mad at that set already and no one has even run it yet
My question now is: with all of the controversial elements existing in the tier like Kyurem and Gouging who have been debated heavily about but will likely not be banned (unfortunately).... is there anything in the tier that the community (not just the minority that puts Kingambit at a 5... me lol) would agree to be banworthy?
Short answer:
Simply put nothing. If GF doesn't seriously go thru as a ban I think I'll be shelving this gen's OU despite enjoying the majority of mons available. Less of a refusal to adapt or learn to counter (trust me I have to very thoroughly account for this bastard), but more it constricts the meta so bad that trying to account for it and everything else is simply unfun.
Correct this generation of OU has sucked since home dropped. We can want to make it better but the fact that banning 4-5 broken pokemon is deemed unrealistic is a likely indicator that this gen of OU won't get better until legacy players come to the conclusions we've been having years from now
