honestly didn't expect boulder to go yet, either way i'm mostly indifferent. No action on rain is disappointing though, but I assume that there will be action on it in the future, for now though, here's a bunch of random stuff I've been using to counter rain
wash is probably the best rain counter imo. its a physically defensive water resist thats neutral to electric while resisting flying and can threaten will-o on Barra and volt switch on almost all major rain mons besides excadrill, who cant switch into rain-boosted hydro pump and doesn't like will-o-wisp. It's also pretty good into the rest of meta already. rotom feels like the most splashable rain counter, and Id highly recommend trying it out.
I've talked about gastro being pretty good before rain fell to the tier, but now its even better. storm Drain makes it a great switch-in to barraskewda and lets it beat Zapdos with ice beam, but beyond that, the water immunity is a great threat in the back against the rain user. Being able to make the opponent think twice about clicking their rain-boosted moves is so valuable for a Pokemon that can do alot in other matchups makes gastro one of my go-to picks if I'm scared of rain.
water resist with a pivoting move that changes the weather and Regen. not much to explain, its just good
I tried him out recently and he was actually pretty good. He has the same trait as gastro of having a water immunity, but with a more offensive approach. I used taunt + stabs and sludge bomb, but I heard he also has an interesting fire spin trapper set which could be interesting ON rain since it notably Is great against Slowking.
There are more but these are all pretty great counter for rain. None of these are perfect, notably I've seen a lot of tealpon on rain to beat rotom and gastro, and this don't mean rain isn't a massive problem, but they're good enough to help counter rain in the short-term.
Also since it's being discussed, I don't think banning damp rock would be a good idea. all it would do is make pelipper run hdb, not much would change
wash is probably the best rain counter imo. its a physically defensive water resist thats neutral to electric while resisting flying and can threaten will-o on Barra and volt switch on almost all major rain mons besides excadrill, who cant switch into rain-boosted hydro pump and doesn't like will-o-wisp. It's also pretty good into the rest of meta already. rotom feels like the most splashable rain counter, and Id highly recommend trying it out. I've talked about gastro being pretty good before rain fell to the tier, but now its even better. storm Drain makes it a great switch-in to barraskewda and lets it beat Zapdos with ice beam, but beyond that, the water immunity is a great threat in the back against the rain user. Being able to make the opponent think twice about clicking their rain-boosted moves is so valuable for a Pokemon that can do alot in other matchups makes gastro one of my go-to picks if I'm scared of rain. water resist with a pivoting move that changes the weather and Regen. not much to explain, its just good I tried him out recently and he was actually pretty good. He has the same trait as gastro of having a water immunity, but with a more offensive approach. I used taunt + stabs and sludge bomb, but I heard he also has an interesting fire spin trapper set which could be interesting ON rain since it notably Is great against Slowking.There are more but these are all pretty great counter for rain. None of these are perfect, notably I've seen a lot of tealpon on rain to beat rotom and gastro, and this don't mean rain isn't a massive problem, but they're good enough to help counter rain in the short-term.
Also since it's being discussed, I don't think banning damp rock would be a good idea. all it would do is make pelipper run hdb, not much would change
Yeah, this mon is actually great. Specifically with eerie impulse and water absorb, it shuts down most rain teams while not being bad into more traditional teams. It seriously is a great mon that I think you should try out. Eerie impulse means that special attackers can't set up on you and with tera ghost, this set can counter all of barra, zapdos, keldeo, quaq and even rotom-w if you get lucky with the burn. Great mon, you should use.
I was suprised this wasn't on the vr, but it of course put in the work. Some teams just don't have an answer to moltres, whose fire and flying coverage wrecks the whole tier. Any resists get u-turn'd on (ttar hates it) and it can really work. Now, it does hate rain teams, rock types, rotom-w and zapdos, but if you can play around that (I paired it with lanturn and excadrill), it can put in the work. Besides, these aren't things that other mons don't struggle with, so moltres can be fit into teams decently easily. It's one of the best excadrill counters, counters hydrapple that lacks hydro pump (most of them), counters lokix (doesn't like knock off though), tinkaton (knock off stings) scizor (knock again), skeledirge, metagross (knock once again) and does decent against mamo. Try it out on different teamstyles, it does better in practice then I am showing.
Been using a scarf set with this and while its power at first is lacking, it does clean games easily. It has the same speed and power as latios, so its a good alternative. It's defensive utility isn't bad too. It resists grass moves, making it able to somewhat switch into grasspon and hydrapple, is immune to fighting, so cobalion is free entry, resists fairy so chipped tinkaton is free entry. From there, its stab moves are quite powerful. I don't like running focus miss, so I have been having success with dazzling gleam, though I might switch it over to energy ball/giga drain to hit rotom-w harder (hate that mon). Last slot I've been using is destiny bond, which can take down an opponent with it. Really great mon, I might nom it higher on the viability rankings.