Ok, one thing I don’t understand is how much Kitsunoh is slept on.
It’s Steel/Ghost typing is amazing to say the least. Shared with Aegislash, which is amazing itself.
What sets Kitsunoh apart from Aegislash is its speed and movepool.
Having 110 Base speed is amazing in such a slow Metagame, and Kitsunoh has so much coverage to beat serious threats.
Iron Fist Meteor Mash for Clefable, Kyurem, Jumbao, and Terrakion.
Close Combat for Equilibra, Ferrothorn, Excadrill, Bisharp, and Colossoil.
Play Rough for Tomohawk, Dragapult, Hydreigon, Arghonaut, Pajantom, and Conkeldurr.
Shadow Strike Aegislash itself, other Ghost types, psychic types, and as an easy way to pressure bulkier walls like Toxapex that otherwise would stop it.
Oh, then it also has Earthquake, Bullet Punch, Shadow Sneak, Thunder Punch, and Ice Punch too.
That’s then just for mostly offensive moves.
Kitsunoh has access to;
Defog, Fake Out, Endeavor, Knock Off, Memento, Perish Song, Taunt, Trick, U-Turn, and Will-o-wisp.
Kitsunoh also was indirectly buffed by the removal of Pursuit, which makes it an even better speedy pivot than before. And as a pivot, it has an excellent defensive typing to let it switch in frequently.
Also thanks to it’s decent bulk with that amazing typing, as well as it’s pretty good power, it’s not too common for a Pokemon naturally faster in on Kitsunoh.
In total, that’s about 26 Pokemon, including shitmons like Ninjask, that can outspeed Kitsunoh without a boost, and most of the viable Pokemon that outspeed it don’t really want to switch into it either.
This mon is honestly a tad ridic. Its trivially easy to pair it with Slowking (this mon comes in on its main answer, Tomohawk) or Equilibra (comes in on everything else) and legit make progress every time. Slowking can even remove all of the risk by clicking Teleport. There's a reason that legit like every team is either offense, or Tomo/Mandi kinda builds, and support from legit just like Toxic Astrolotl, or the aforementioned delayed damage mons means that its often quite trivial to bypass these answers.
Ye, this got nerfed last gen, but its still got stupid bulk, 2 abilities that you have to guess right on, and thanks to DD, it guarantees progress in every game. I don't know exactly what aspect makes it feel over the top for me, probably just the raw bulk, but this will force progress in every single game it is in.
This mon again will make progress in essentially any game it is in because it has the bulk to stay in on most of its answers once, regen to recover from that, and the choice of Toxic, Fire Lash, Spikes, or Knock Off (there are a lot of options that still haven't been explored that do fun stuff, eg Fire Spin + Explosion to remove anything) to cripple a ton of its answers. Tomohawk is a great check to Urshifu until Astrolotl borderline forces a Toxic onto it and escapes unpunished, Slowking can answer Equilibra until it loses its Heavy Duty Boots, Ferrothorn answers Krillowatt until its facing 3 layers of spikes. This mon just has a wealth of ways to grind down almost any defensive core in the game, which is sorta exasperating a few of the other issues. Ironically its too good at its concept, but I place blame mostly with Toxic forcing damage onto a load of its checks for teammates.
This mon is potentially not broken anymore with the meta changes, though I'd wait a bit before even considering reintroducing it.
this mon is still very dumb in terms of "you either have an answer or lose", and is a lot as to why people can have issues getting into the meta. That is, if you don't have a mon with > 118 speed that can deal 75% to cawm and take a +6 Bullet Punch you lose the game (barring like, circle throw argh, or hoping cawm has the wrong coverage).
