With the Defog buff and addition of sticky web, there is no doubt that Entry hazards will be very different. What do you think will be the biggest change?
I believe the biggest boon will fall to the fast Flying types and slower Levitators. If you have something with average Speed like Salamence or Moltres, you might want to run Sticky Web to improve it, but that's also difficult to do with Defog running around. While not having SR is probably bigger than having Sticky Web, I don't see as large an impact as they work against one another. But slow flying types are still in a better place than they were last gen.
But the main point of this topic is how useful with hazards be this gen. Is the Defog buff enough to decrease their usage, or will Defog just be a more convenient RS. I think the fact that Sticky Web exists might make actually make Defog more ubiquitous. W/o Sticky web existing, you could just build a team that's not SR weak and live without clearing hazards, but now since most Sticky Web immune pokemon are SR Weak, and vice versa, hazard clearing might be more important for nearly all teams.
I believe the biggest boon will fall to the fast Flying types and slower Levitators. If you have something with average Speed like Salamence or Moltres, you might want to run Sticky Web to improve it, but that's also difficult to do with Defog running around. While not having SR is probably bigger than having Sticky Web, I don't see as large an impact as they work against one another. But slow flying types are still in a better place than they were last gen.
But the main point of this topic is how useful with hazards be this gen. Is the Defog buff enough to decrease their usage, or will Defog just be a more convenient RS. I think the fact that Sticky Web exists might make actually make Defog more ubiquitous. W/o Sticky web existing, you could just build a team that's not SR weak and live without clearing hazards, but now since most Sticky Web immune pokemon are SR Weak, and vice versa, hazard clearing might be more important for nearly all teams.
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