It's to bad that Dodrio can't use Baton Pass and Brave Bird in conjunction...
Use Drill Peck, there is no reason to keep the set as similar to Staraptor when they play differently. I don't think UU is a competition to see what Pokemon comes closest to Raptor...
Anywho, I see this chaos in UU as a bad thing, as it is showing just how frustrated a lot of the players are becoming with the current metagame. Seriously, Donphan + Yanmega + Roserade + Milotic is just everywhere, and all that seems to really difer is "do I use Registeel, Mismagius, or Clefable". I know that doesn't hold true for everyone (we have plenty of Kanga, Stall, Blaziken, Dugtrio, etc. users), but it definitely is just the shape UU is at the moment. I mean come on, Rock Polish Regice?
I blame Specs Yanmega for really just fucking up the metagame right now and forcing players to use quite frankly, gimmick sets. RP Regice might score a few kos against maybe a team of Donphan, Yanmega, Milotic, Roserade but it has so much trouble with anything other than that (Arcanine, Registeel, Mismagius, Clefable, Chansey, etc.). Yanmega is forcing people to use some crazy sets and really just taking the fun out of UU because you have to use everything you have to stop it.
This is a lot more of a rant at the moment instead of an actual nomination, I'll try and keep it more detailed and factual if we ever have nomination periods again.
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First off is Kangaskhan. Players like ToF are right in that he is never going to be banned and that he definitely is not the best UU Pokemon. I know a few people still believe this (I did), but we have to accept reality that Kangaskhan still has a lot of trouble against common threats (Milotic and Hitmontop for example). However, Kanga is still a really powerful Pokemon and is exactly what someone who has troubles with Stall teams would be looking for. CB Kangashkhan is very powerful as CB Return is going to break through any Ghost-types giving them very few actual counters left (Omastar can be used effectively but watch out for Hammer Arm). Even better, (in my opinion), is Substitute Kangashkan who can set up Substitutes on Chansey, Registeel, Spiritomb, etc with ease and begin to destroy with Return, Focus Punch, and Sucker Punch. If you are having some Stall team problems, and you want to try something other than Blaziken (who stall teams usually have as the main Pokemon to stop), then give Kanga a try.
Blaziken is still strong but his life hasn't been made easy with the recent additions of Dugtrio, Donphan, and Yanmega. Dugtrio is probably the best way to stop Blaziken, outspeeding and OHKOing with Earthquake. Scarf Blaziken seems sort of useless to me so I don't really think resorting to that will help. Donphan can not only OHKO with Earthquake but keeps Stealth Rock off the field for Yanmega, who can also OHKO with Air Slash. A lot of people used to throw Blaziken on a team willy nilly but I find that to be the very wrong approach now a days. He is a good filler Pokemon but you need to be sure you can take out his big problems before attempting to sweep. Nothing is more frustrating than bringing in Blaziken, only to be met by Moltres, Altaria, Yanmega, Dugtrio, Milotic, etc.
It seems as if Houndoom leads have seemingly died down with the addition of Dugtrio. Houndoom does make a very fine answer to Roserade and Uxie but they also seem to slowly be losing their lead capability. So what is replacing all of these guys? Well, it is varying. It seems Ambipom has made a comeback of sorts, with Fake Out / Return / U-Turn / Payback. Tauros is also interesting (SubTauros) and Swellow has also been picking up some lead status. Omastar seems to lead all stall teams, and if not him, Cloyster is a good second guess. I do like how leads are slowly diversifying from the bog standard Uxie and Roserade to some more agile and clever leads.
