Strategy & Metagame OU's Top Threats, how do they fare in Ubers?

[Mr. Uncompetitive]

This is a relatively simple concept, I'll take a look at various OU Pokemon that are considered to be rather popular/great and show how exactly they fare in the Ubers tier.

Stuff I'll adress:

• What are these Pokemon known for doing in OU?
• Why are they considered to be so good in OU?
• How well do they fare in Ubers?
• Can the still preform the same jobs effectively?
• Are there new Pokemon that it can check rather well?
• What about new threats and new competition for a teamslot?

Like Jellicent's articles on the transitions RBY mons had to BW2, I will be covering about 7-10 Pokemon in the same general format: 2 paragraphs will be written for each Pokemon. 1 paragraph talks about how they do in OU. A second will talk about how they do in Ubers.

General Idea of what Pokemon I'm thinking of covering in no particular order (no I don't have a final list yet) (* means I'm most likely going to talk about it):

Ferrothorn*
Politoed*/Ninetales* (They're essentially in the same boat in terms of what they're known for in OU and Ubers)
Latias*
Dragonite*
Tyranitar*
Scizor*
Salamence
Landorus-I
Keldeo
Garchomp
Terrakion
Latios

 

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[Mr. Uncompetitive]

Request has been sent. Thanks for the quick approvals and stuff (holy crap that was so much faster than getting QC feedback)

 

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