Darkrai has been getting less and less action as a lead now that everyone and their mother have prepared for it in some degree. Darkrai is coming back as a late to middle game sweeper. It occasionally carries a Choice Scarf, but when it is not Darkrai is most likely the Nasty Plot varient.
Everyone expected this I guess ;). Darkrai lead started to be easy to deal with and anything with Lum Berry and strong hit like Dialga or Groudon easily annihilated it. I'm surprised with seeing less ScarfDarkrai, it's really solid revenge killer with unique Spacial Rend, making it a decent Palkia revenge killer. And yeah, Nasty Plot will be the most popular soon.
Deoxys is not used much outside of a lead; even then, it's only Deoxys-s or the ocasional Deoxys-a. Deoxys usage is going down, the Defense version sees hardly any use, while the normal version isn't used... ever. Deoxys cannot compete with Scizor running around with Choice Band U-turn and with all of the powerful hard hitting attacks all over the place.
With all those Scizors running rampant Deoxys-A has really hard time to do anything usefull. It's too easily revenge killed and weak to priority moves. Deoxys-S lead thanks to Darkrai drop may be again quite popular, especially with Focus Sash. I'm surprised with not so big use of Double-Screener - with that speed it's probably one of the best dual screen users. And Deoxys-S sweeping set is surprisingly solid. Decent Garchomp, non-scarf Darkrai, Rayquaza and Groudon revenge killer. Some may try it, I'm testing it and it's interesting. And Rayquaza has only 8% to OHKO it with ExtremeSpeed.
Dialga became second place in the Uber tier last month. The Scarf and Specs Dialga sets becaming increasingly popular, while the Bulk Up set slowly died down. Dialga came back as the #1 Swords Dance Rayquaza counter when given Choice Scarf, while the Choice Specs set (somewhat of a surprise) will break open the normal wall of Dialga, Lugia.
Yeah, I found that Bulk Up Dialga gets much less popular then in the past. But it's still good, solid tank, which without good phazer is hard to stop. I don't like ScarfDialga as it is too slow for me. And Palkia or Garchomp still has solid chance to take +2 Swords Danced ExtremeSpeed from Rayquaza. SpecsDialga is a beast and I really don't want too see too many of them ;). It's annoying as hell to fight against that monster.
Garchomp now ahs a place in the Uber game. He's become one of the most potent revenge killers in Ubers. He comes with the 102 Base Speed stat that out speeds a ton of ubers as is, given a Choice Scarf he is ready to play. Near the end of the month, the Sub + Salac + Swords Dance set became extremely popular.
I'm only surprised that people don't trust CBChomp, as it hits hard as hell and it still outspeeds many uber threats. And Lugia can't handle it as Garchomp 2OHKOes with Outrage and survives Ice Beam at full health. Or Crunch/Stone Edge is enough for 2OHKO. Yeah, I saw a few SD Salac Chomps.
Giratina is still not getting used much, or at all over the other wall of Ubers, Lugia. Giratina is usually seen on stall teams so to have a good spin blocker. The Dragon Claw / Pulse Rest Talk set is still the most common set. Giratina-O hasn't seen much use at all, though when he does it's the Mixed Attacker set, or the Sub Calm Mind set.
Giratina-O I think it's a bit more popular then in the past. When people realised that it's probably the best choice to beat heavy uber stall, they're trying it. And Giratina will be popular again thanks to Arceus.
Groudon is still a very commonly used Uber pokemon, the support set and the lead seem to be very popular now. Rock Polish seems to have died down on its own, as with Swords Dance. "Double Dance" has taken priority over both Rock Polish and Swords Dance, the only issue it seems to face is coverage.
Yeah, Rock Polish isn't that popular like a few weeks/months ago, but it still is good late game sweeper and I saw few last time. But some people just use it too early, making it easy to stop by Lugia, Physical Wall MewTwo or Giratina, when they're at full health. ParaDancer is more popular though, and probably most annoying Groudon version (at least in my opinion). About Double Dancer - maybe I'm unlucky, but I saw maybe... two or three last time. Double Dancer just need to much time for true set-up in metagame with all those fast and heavily hitting sweepers.
Kyogre has still seemed to remain the king of Ubers for the past few months. Given the rain giving it double STAB is nothing to joke about. Specs Kyogre is still the most popular set, though there were a few Scarf Kyogre leads. Calm Mind / Rest / Sleep Talk / Surf was used a bit, and same with the Calm Mind three attack set.
Yeah, ScarfOgre makes a little come-back as I remember that in last few weeks it was really rare. SpecsOgre is still the king, but CMOgre gets popular, I guess thanks to pokemon like Parasect or Latias, which annoys SpecsOgre as hell. Maybe that will give Quagsire some more uses, which has Encore to easily beat CM versions.
Latios is rarely seen in Ubers at all, but when he is seen the Dual Screen + Memento pass is common, along with the all out sweeper set. Latios with Dual Screen + Memento makes great set up fodder for Mew, and of course will BP stats to a random pokemon.
Some people started to use Sub 3 attacker with Draco Meteor or Dragon Pulse. It's quite annoying when Scizor and/or Blissey are dead.
Latias, unlike her brother, is seen a bit more; most often on stall teams than anything else. Latias is still the only true Kyogre counter, being able to switch in and weaken it's Water Spout, along with threatening to hurt it severly with Grass Knot or Thunder. Latias' usually runs Calm Mind / Recover / Grass Knot - Thunder / Dragon Pulse.
Reflect starts to be popular on Latias to at least stand a chance against Metagross, Scizor or TTar.
Mewtwo is seen somewhat often in Ubers. The most common set, as of now, is the Scarf Mewtwo lead. Often used to counter the common leads + Trick a Scarf to everything else. Mewtwo also can be seen suing Calm Mind and some version of Taunt or the three attack set.
I would add here "wall" sets as some people use them with good effects. But I agree, ScarfMewTwo is probably the most popular. But still, with all those deadly Pursuit users I think it's overrated.
Palkia is still one of the best revenge killers in Ubers thanks to its fantastic Special Attack stat, and decent speed. Though, more and more people seem to have been breaking away from the Scarf set and have been using Lustrous Orb Palkia instead. If this is because of the surprise factory, or to open up more possibilities I do not know.
At last as ScarfPalkia started to be predictible as hell. Yeah, Lustrous Orb and SubPunching Palkia gets some love, which is quite good news. It makes uber tier more interesting.
Rayquaza is still seen fairly often; the mix Rayquaza set seemed to be used somewhat late in the month, though Swords Dance Rayquaza is one of his better sets. Dragon Dance seems to be almost completely forgotten. Lugia still walls this thing to no extent.
Nah, I saw more then few DDQuazas. People realised that SDQuaza has few problems to deal with and it's easier to be countered. But still it's popular anyway. MixQuaza also gets some love, but still it's nothing really popular.
Thanks to Theorymon (and to my dismay) Wobbuffet, or (>~<)7 is now getting quite a bit of action in Ubers, due to him being able to break walls like Blissey and Lugia like nothing. He is also a set up machine, do not be shocked if his usage continues to rise.
Gosh, that thing start to be annoying ;). I hate it, but luckily I don't run many pure walls in my Ubers teams, so I can handle it somehow. But yeah, Shed Shell may start to be popular on those Lugias and Blissey. But still I prefer this then some stall fuck-fest, which is more far annoying with Blissey being the star of the show.
