I think the only likely immediate bans will be Box Legendaries (save for shield doggo maybe) and Landorus I. Last Respects will likely be quick banned day 1 or so and Houndstone will be freed.
I mean, Dondozo also handles all Chien Pao sets except Band Adamant Tera Dark (and still can do it with Tera Fight or Fairy), and that doesn't mean the cat is not broken. I am actually quite scared of Watershifu, who was already annoying enough in SS without SD as another option.
The problem with Urshifu-RS is that I can only think of 1 mon that kinda checks it and prevents it from nuking your team, and that is Dondozo with Unaware. Water Absorb Clodsire would also be good, if it wasn't for the fact that Urshifu learns Ice Spinner, which probably OHKOs it even without an SD. Its great physical bulk also means it won't get revenge killed by any priority move as long as it has a decent amount of health left. The only option left is to revenge kill it with a faster mon, preferably a Special Attacker, so that is really the only thing that makes me hope it won't be broken. But then again Urshifu gets Aqua Jet, and after an SD and Tera Water I'd be seriously worried for my mon. Add into the equation Shed Tail, Screens, Defensive Tera and Rain support for even stronger Water moves and you'll get a very annoying mon, which will probably end up being borderline broken.
There is no official date, but "Pokemon Day" is this month and Home support was reportedly supposed to happen by Spring, so people are expecting some update in the near future.
Not Ferro/Fini also makes hard to justify keeping Urshifu, not even would need tera to destroy teams, if anything tera would be one of the few ways to check it.
We know if more stuff besides that list in serebii is coming? From that list only Urshifu, Magearna and Hoopa U look like they could be too much with tera at first glance.
While a member of council would be better suited to provide specifics, the door was never closed on tiering action for Tera. I am personally glad that tiering action was stymied for the time being, as some of the potentially game breaking strategies have become more predictable over time. It's still absolutely worth keeping on the radar, of course. Though I personally feel that the currently banned mons would be broken with or without Tera, with the possible (though questionable) exception of Annihilape, as their issues far exceeded Tera antics.
I can't say that Tera is inherently at fault here. If we hisotrically look at Speed Boost, it was a bit problematic in its own right. On Ninjask, no one cared. It wasn't good enough to use even when Baton Pass was legal. When Blaizken got it, things started getting out of hand. Blaziken proved to be too much for the next 3 generations (5, 6, and 7) before the power creep got to the point that it could come back. Now Espathra is taking it and abusing it with Calm Mind and Stored Power shenanigans.
Not necessarily, a strong priority move also knocks it out. Otherwise you could use the classic Ting-Lu and Whirlwind it away, Tera Dark Clodsire with Unaware, SpDef Skeledirge or Dondozo (but you gotta switch into Espathra as soon as it enters the field) or you could test your luck with Gholdengo, either a Scar Trick set or a bulky Nasty Plot set would do the work. Now this is all in theory, in practice it's much harder to check.
I actually use my own breed of Skeledirge that soft counters Espathra, but you NEED to hard switch in on it to beat it. Otherwise, my Dirge set beats a lot of Pokemon 1v1.
What about other Speed Boost Pokemon that may or may not come into the DLC, like Blaziken and Sharpedo? If they come in and Speed Boost is banned, which is their niche in the first place, where will they even reside? They're practically going to be forced to use their weaker abilities, although Sharpedo has Rough Skin I believe.
Can't. It's the only Pokemon in the game currently with Speed Boost, so it'd be a needlessly complex ban just to keep the stupid emu around. It's why Houndstone is banned when Last Respects was the problem. If Blaziken comes out with HOME, then MAYBE we can test Speed Boost, but it's most likely just going to be the stupid bird getting banned.
Uh there are a lot of pokemon good agaisnt clodsire, and not just the non-physically defensive sets, what does hawlucha do other than that?
