Metagame Free-For-All

Just want to ask why is physical pult considered bad? It seems to do fine for me. Avoiding a turn using phantom force sounds good, especially since it doesn’t say who it’s targeting. Is phantom force still bad, or is its special coverage too valuable, or something else?
 
Is phantom force still bad
This is the main reason. Phantom Force is a very bad move for Dragapult.

While protecting yourself for a turn seems nice, in reality you're just giving your opponents a free turn to pivot around and avoid taking any damage from Dragapult. You might even get KO'd the following turn because you can't switch out, and with three opponents the likelihood that someone will switch into something that can KO Dragapult is quite high. Frail Pokemon like Dragapult need to act quickly in FFA, coming onto the field on turns when they are not threatened and snagging that KO before the other players can pivot around and threaten you back. Phantom Force taking 2 turns prevents it from doing its job.
 
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