Total battles: 1298
Avg. weight/team: 1.0
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| Rank | Pokemon | Usage % | Raw | % | Real | % |
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| 1 | Nidoqueen | 75.61633% | 1963 | 75.616% | 1687 | 75.571% |
| 2 | Fearow | 66.21726% | 1719 | 66.217% | 1413 | 63.297% |
| 3 | Drowzee | 38.02003% | 987 | 38.020% | 896 | 40.137% |
| 4 | Porygon | 34.97689% | 908 | 34.977% | 804 | 36.016% |
| 5 | Staryu | 34.63020% | 899 | 34.630% | 816 | 36.554% |
| 6 | Rapidash | 34.09091% | 885 | 34.091% | 766 | 34.314% |
| 7 | Arcanine | 29.42989% | 764 | 29.430% | 664 | 29.745% |
| 8 | Graveler | 24.84592% | 645 | 24.846% | 582 | 26.071% |
| 9 | Seaking | 23.07396% | 599 | 23.074% | 502 | 22.488% |
| 10 | Pinsir | 21.34052% | 554 | 21.341% | 444 | 19.890% |
| 11 | Abra | 21.07088% | 547 | 21.071% | 488 | 21.861% |
| 12 | Gastly | 18.64407% | 484 | 18.644% | 440 | 19.710% |
| 13 | Omanyte | 18.06626% | 469 | 18.066% | 415 | 18.590% |
| 14 | Machamp | 17.60401% | 457 | 17.604% | 383 | 17.157% |
| 15 | Dragonair | 16.52542% | 429 | 16.525% | 354 | 15.858% |
| 16 | Scyther | 16.52542% | 429 | 16.525% | 313 | 14.021% |
| 17 | Vileplume | 12.09553% | 314 | 12.096% | 268 | 12.005% |
| 18 | Magmar | 11.97997% | 311 | 11.980% | 293 | 13.125% |
| 19 | Magneton | 10.90139% | 283 | 10.901% | 247 | 11.065% |
| 20 | Sandslash | 8.32049% | 216 | 8.320% | 174 | 7.795% |
| 21 | Muk | 6.74114% | 175 | 6.741% | 142 | 6.361% |
| 22 | Butterfree | 5.93220% | 154 | 5.932% | 145 | 6.495% |
| 23 | Flareon | 5.27735% | 137 | 5.277% | 109 | 4.883% |
| 24 | Weezing | 5.08475% | 132 | 5.085% | 114 | 5.107% |
| 25 | Arbok | 3.81356% | 99 | 3.814% | 83 | 3.718% |
| 26 | Hitmonlee | 3.15871% | 82 | 3.159% | 66 | 2.957% |
| 27 | Lickitung | 3.08166% | 80 | 3.082% | 67 | 3.001% |
| 28 | Parasect | 2.77350% | 72 | 2.773% | 62 | 2.777% |
| 29 | Slowpoke | 2.46533% | 64 | 2.465% | 63 | 2.822% |
| 30 | Poliwag | 2.31125% | 60 | 2.311% | 57 | 2.553% |
| 31 | Pidgeot | 2.19569% | 57 | 2.196% | 46 | 2.061% |
| 32 | Primeape | 2.15716% | 56 | 2.157% | 37 | 1.657% |
| 33 | Beedrill | 2.11864% | 55 | 2.119% | 46 | 2.061% |
| 34 | Golbat | 2.08012% | 54 | 2.080% | 52 | 2.329% |
| 35 | Onix | 1.84900% | 48 | 1.849% | 38 | 1.702% |
| 36 | Voltorb | 1.46379% | 38 | 1.464% | 37 | 1.657% |
| 37 | Hitmonchan | 1.15562% | 30 | 1.156% | 23 | 1.030% |
| 38 | Wartortle | 1.11710% | 29 | 1.117% | 25 | 1.120% |
| 39 | Marowak | 1.07858% | 28 | 1.079% | 25 | 1.120% |
| 40 | Seel | 1.00154% | 26 | 1.002% | 26 | 1.165% |
| 41 | Ditto | 0.96302% | 25 | 0.963% | 21 | 0.941% |
| 42 | Weepinbell | 0.92450% | 24 | 0.924% | 21 | 0.941% |
| 43 | Farfetch'd | 0.88598% | 23 | 0.886% | 19 | 0.851% |
| 44 | Pikachu | 0.73190% | 19 | 0.732% | 18 | 0.806% |
| 45 | Tentacool | 0.57781% | 15 | 0.578% | 13 | 0.582% |
| 46 | Ivysaur | 0.50077% | 13 | 0.501% | 13 | 0.582% |
+ ---- + ------------------ + --------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------- +Total battles: 1298
Avg. weight/team: 0.029
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| Rank | Pokemon | Usage % | Raw | % | Real | % |
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| 1 | Nidoqueen | 93.42475% | 1963 | 75.616% | 1687 | 75.571% |
| 2 | Fearow | 88.35335% | 1719 | 66.217% | 1413 | 63.297% |
| 3 | Drowzee | 77.73907% | 987 | 38.020% | 896 | 40.137% |
| 4 | Arcanine | 52.22354% | 764 | 29.430% | 664 | 29.745% |
| 5 | Staryu | 52.16596% | 899 | 34.630% | 816 | 36.554% |
| 6 | Seaking | 48.10230% | 599 | 23.074% | 502 | 22.488% |
| 7 | Omanyte | 41.77412% | 469 | 18.066% | 415 | 18.590% |
| 8 | Porygon | 38.81392% | 908 | 34.977% | 804 | 36.016% |
| 9 | Scyther | 24.81109% | 429 | 16.525% | 313 | 14.021% |
| 10 | Rapidash | 16.22770% | 885 | 34.091% | 766 | 34.314% |
| 11 | Gastly | 14.63926% | 484 | 18.644% | 440 | 19.710% |
| 12 | Graveler | 13.21135% | 645 | 24.846% | 582 | 26.071% |
| 13 | Pinsir | 8.57457% | 554 | 21.341% | 444 | 19.890% |
| 14 | Magmar | 7.21339% | 311 | 11.980% | 293 | 13.125% |
| 15 | Vileplume | 6.28108% | 314 | 12.096% | 268 | 12.005% |
| 16 | Machamp | 5.01961% | 457 | 17.604% | 383 | 17.157% |
| 17 | Dragonair | 4.50280% | 429 | 16.525% | 354 | 15.858% |
| 18 | Abra | 1.93889% | 547 | 21.071% | 488 | 21.861% |
| 19 | Sandslash | 1.70891% | 216 | 8.320% | 174 | 7.795% |
| 20 | Lickitung | 0.98577% | 80 | 3.082% | 67 | 3.001% |
| 21 | Magneton | 0.64249% | 283 | 10.901% | 247 | 11.065% |
| 22 | Muk | 0.36055% | 175 | 6.741% | 142 | 6.361% |
| 23 | Flareon | 0.28819% | 137 | 5.277% | 109 | 4.883% |
| 24 | Arbok | 0.19434% | 99 | 3.814% | 83 | 3.718% |
| 25 | Weezing | 0.14673% | 132 | 5.085% | 114 | 5.107% |
| 26 | Poliwag | 0.13865% | 60 | 2.311% | 57 | 2.553% |
| 27 | Golbat | 0.13021% | 54 | 2.080% | 52 | 2.329% |
| 28 | Slowpoke | 0.09309% | 64 | 2.465% | 63 | 2.822% |
| 29 | Pikachu | 0.07734% | 19 | 0.732% | 18 | 0.806% |
| 30 | Onix | 0.05324% | 48 | 1.849% | 38 | 1.702% |
| 31 | Butterfree | 0.03222% | 154 | 5.932% | 145 | 6.495% |
| 32 | Pidgeot | 0.03109% | 57 | 2.196% | 46 | 2.061% |
| 33 | Farfetch'd | 0.03083% | 23 | 0.886% | 19 | 0.851% |
| 34 | Parasect | 0.02275% | 72 | 2.773% | 62 | 2.777% |
| 36 | Hitmonlee | 0.01038% | 82 | 3.159% | 66 | 2.957% |
| 37 | Seel | 0.00817% | 26 | 1.002% | 26 | 1.165% |
| 38 | Primeape | 0.00377% | 56 | 2.157% | 37 | 1.657% |
| 39 | Beedrill | 0.00129% | 55 | 2.119% | 46 | 2.061% |
| 40 | Wartortle | 0.00080% | 29 | 1.117% | 25 | 1.120% |
| 41 | Tentacool | 0.00063% | 15 | 0.578% | 13 | 0.582% |
| 43 | Marowak | 0.00042% | 28 | 1.079% | 25 | 1.120% |
| 44 | Voltorb | 0.00031% | 38 | 1.464% | 37 | 1.657% |
| 45 | Hitmonchan | 0.00004% | 30 | 1.156% | 23 | 1.030% |
| 46 | Ditto | 0.00001% | 25 | 0.963% | 21 | 0.941% |
| 47 | Weepinbell | 0.00001% | 24 | 0.924% | 21 | 0.941% |
+ ---- + ------------------ + --------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------- +Total leads: 2596
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| Rank | Pokemon | Usage % | Raw | % |
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| 1 | Arcanine | 11.47920% | 298 | 11.479% |
| 2 | Rapidash | 10.40062% | 270 | 10.401% |
| 3 | Staryu | 8.59014% | 223 | 8.590% |
| 4 | Nidoqueen | 8.47458% | 220 | 8.475% |
| 5 | Abra | 7.93529% | 206 | 7.935% |
| 6 | Drowzee | 6.77966% | 176 | 6.780% |
| 7 | Magmar | 6.66410% | 173 | 6.664% |
| 8 | Gastly | 5.04622% | 131 | 5.046% |
| 9 | Dragonair | 3.42835% | 89 | 3.428% |
| 10 | Butterfree | 3.42835% | 89 | 3.428% |
| 11 | Porygon | 3.35131% | 87 | 3.351% |
| 12 | Weezing | 2.38829% | 62 | 2.388% |
| 13 | Machamp | 2.08012% | 54 | 2.080% |
| 14 | Vileplume | 1.96456% | 51 | 1.965% |
| 15 | Fearow | 1.77196% | 46 | 1.772% |
| 16 | Scyther | 1.38675% | 36 | 1.387% |
| 17 | Poliwag | 1.34823% | 35 | 1.348% |
| 18 | Parasect | 1.27119% | 33 | 1.271% |
| 19 | Voltorb | 1.15562% | 30 | 1.156% |
| 20 | Magneton | 1.15562% | 30 | 1.156% |
| 21 | Slowpoke | 1.11710% | 29 | 1.117% |
| 22 | Flareon | 1.00154% | 26 | 1.002% |
| 23 | Seel | 0.88598% | 23 | 0.886% |
| 24 | Golbat | 0.80894% | 21 | 0.809% |
| 25 | Muk | 0.73190% | 19 | 0.732% |
| 26 | Beedrill | 0.69337% | 18 | 0.693% |
| 27 | Graveler | 0.65485% | 17 | 0.655% |
| 28 | Sandslash | 0.53929% | 14 | 0.539% |
| 29 | Arbok | 0.42373% | 11 | 0.424% |
| 30 | Pinsir | 0.38521% | 10 | 0.385% |
| 31 | Ditto | 0.38521% | 10 | 0.385% |
| 32 | Seaking | 0.38521% | 10 | 0.385% |
+ ---- + ------------------ + --------- + ------ + ------- +Total leads: 2596
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| Rank | Pokemon | Usage % | Raw | % |
+ ---- + ------------------ + --------- + ------ + ------- +
| 1 | Arcanine | 40.32592% | 298 | 11.479% |
| 2 | Nidoqueen | 21.84059% | 220 | 8.475% |
| 3 | Drowzee | 11.18101% | 176 | 6.780% |
| 4 | Gastly | 8.40305% | 131 | 5.046% |
| 5 | Magmar | 7.13197% | 173 | 6.664% |
| 6 | Staryu | 4.13640% | 223 | 8.590% |
| 7 | Rapidash | 1.67092% | 270 | 10.401% |
| 8 | Fearow | 1.26419% | 46 | 1.772% |
| 9 | Machamp | 1.06215% | 54 | 2.080% |
| 10 | Porygon | 0.76399% | 87 | 3.351% |
| 11 | Abra | 0.67818% | 206 | 7.935% |
| 12 | Seaking | 0.63305% | 10 | 0.385% |
| 13 | Vileplume | 0.27686% | 51 | 1.965% |
| 14 | Dragonair | 0.19255% | 89 | 3.428% |
| 15 | Golbat | 0.12866% | 21 | 0.809% |
| 16 | Slowpoke | 0.06488% | 29 | 1.117% |
| 17 | Graveler | 0.05299% | 17 | 0.655% |
| 18 | Magneton | 0.04214% | 30 | 1.156% |
| 19 | Scyther | 0.03441% | 36 | 1.387% |
| 20 | Butterfree | 0.02965% | 89 | 3.428% |
| 21 | Poliwag | 0.02182% | 35 | 1.348% |
| 22 | Pinsir | 0.01891% | 10 | 0.385% |
| 23 | Parasect | 0.01803% | 33 | 1.271% |
| 24 | Arbok | 0.00964% | 11 | 0.424% |
| 25 | Seel | 0.00817% | 23 | 0.886% |
| 26 | Flareon | 0.00526% | 26 | 1.002% |
| 27 | Weezing | 0.00417% | 62 | 2.388% |
| 28 | Voltorb | 0.00029% | 30 | 1.156% |
| 30 | Muk | 0.00005% | 19 | 0.732% |
| 34 | Sandslash | 0.00000% | 14 | 0.539% |
| 35 | Beedrill | 0.00000% | 18 | 0.693% |
| 36 | Ditto | 0.00000% | 10 | 0.385% |
Nidoqueen in my opinion is still the best Pokèmon in the tier, thanks to its ability to still facilitate positive trades. Its also incredibly hard to justify dropping, as even on more offensive teams that cant fit it in the back, its still an amazing lead.
Arcanine, similar to Nidoqueen, is just as hard to drop, if not harder to drop than Nidoqueen, thanks to its various positive qualities (I'm too lazy to elaborate on things everyone who's reading this knows already), I was very split on whether to give Nidoqueen or Arcanine the top spot, as it's very close.
Fearow has a positive matchup versus many of the best Pokèmon in the tier such as the NFE's and Seaking lacking Blizzard, it also crits, alot, and when it does decide to crit it can end games on the spot. It is however justifiable dropping it on a few teams though, as it is quite frail and can exasperate weaknesses to things such as Nidoqueen and Fire-types.
Seaking, who is highly infamous for its dangerous late game sweeps. Can end the game with a single Agility boost, has a good matchup versus Nidoqueen, Fire-types, and Fearow if carrying Blizzard. It's also one of the very few Pokèmon who can switch into Graveller (just once, though). However it isn't even close to flawless, having a mediocre matchup vs Gastly and an awful matchup vs Staryu, with both being a common staple in many teams. Seaking lacking Double-Edge also have to be weary of opposing Seaking, who can switch in and trade with it. I however, personally do not like Double-Edge as the recoil vs Staryu and in the Seaking ditto is too much to bear for me.
Staryu is the good Seaking switchin, it's good at trading early on and in the midgame aswell, but if it does trade itself too early, it's team can find itself losing too Seaking later on. Staryu is also frail as fuck and doesnt work well on teams with other Fearow weak Pokèmon.
Gastly is a ghost, it does stuff, stuff I'm not going to elaborate on as I'm tired. It's unreliable due to Hypnosis and being crit prone. It's also even physically frailer than Staryu.
Tied fastest Pokèmon in tier, can switch into Fearow once, is a crit machine. Is however blind, and weak to Seaking and Arcanine.
FUCK YOU DROWZEE I HATE YOU
is the best Rock-type in the tier, and the only true switchin to Fearow. Strong Earthquake with very little switchins, and can go off with a bang with Explosion.
Has the most set variety in the entire tier, access to Recover, and Agility lets it wall many common foes that can't paralyze it.
I dont even know what to say just trust me when I say he can hang with the cool kids.
Big Slash big Slash big Slash big Slash big Slash big Slash big Slash big Slash.
IS THE BEST POKEMON IN RBY PU because it can do whatever you want it to do. If you want to lead with it, it'll be an amazing lead, if you want to use it midgame to break holes for your lategame mons, it can do that too. If you want it to clean lategame, it can do that too. Mon really does it all, has great stats and movepool, only bad thing is that fire blast acc sucks but every mon is flawed follows the rby tradition of being a good fast Normal-type that clicks the Normal move. Not a lot to say here since there's not a lot of strategy to using Fearow aside from "click normal move lmao" but Fearow is really good at doing that job. Crits also exist too, and rocks are bad. is also fantastic, but I do think Arc and Fearow are slightly better than it. A +2 Seaking is the single most dangerous mon in the tier, but the fact that you have to spend that one turn using Agility makes Seaking a bit worse imo. Obviously this turn is really easy to find thanks to Seaking's fantastic bulk and lack of an exploitable weakness but it does restrict Seaking to more of a sweeping role esp since u have to deal with staryu before hand unless u wanna fish for the hbeam crit. It is of course, excellent in that sweeping role but i value arc/fearow's immediate speed a bit more. still has the trait of beating almost the entire tier 1-on-1 but it gets worn down quicker than ever thanks to the speed of the tier. Less usage of slower mons like Drowzee and Porygon, along with less twave in general, mean there are less opportunites for Nidoqueen to pick off a low HP mon with EQ then 1v1 the revenge killer. Because of this, seldom outright sweeps unlike the 3 mons above it.has goated coverage in PU context which hits 5 of the top 6 mons super effectively. It's also a decent Seaking switch-in which are hard to come by in PU. You also have a 60% ohko move that you can click. 60% of the time this move will just kill something something and bail you. It's also hard to switch out your sleeping mon once gastly sleeps it since nothing really likes switching into Gastly except like Drowzee but even that has to fear explosion. This means Gastly has the potential to go 2-for 1 in a lot of scenarios. is fantastic against Seaking and is amazing even outside of the seaking MU. Hard to switch into, has twave and great coverage. Recover is kinda ass on it but also a nessecary move so u also wall seaking. Main issue is that it gets revenged very easily is one of the two mons that outspeeds Fearow naturally, outclassed by arc but arc is so good that you can run dash alongside it and still be fine. Fire blast accuracy still sucks tho is the other of the two mons that outspeeds fearow naturally. SD Hbeam is really powerful, and gastly isn't as big of an issue as it seems (+2 wing attack 2HKOes is meaning if gast switches into SD it has to land hypnosis or it dies), scyther is really good at winning games where your opponent sacks staryu for no reason instead of just attacking it
this motherfucker is a Rapidash alternative that trades a good Fearow mu for cray, which notably makes it harder for seaking to set up, and reduces gastly's hypnosis accuracy to 30% making it easier for magmar to break. Cray is also just a general bullshit move that lets magmar win exchanges it should not be winning. Psychic is a nice alternative for Fire Blast which hits a lot of the top mons (arc queen gastly seaking) as hard as Fire Blast and can't miss.still has twave and the ohko move but its way too slow esp with pory and rocks being less common, psychic is still really strong tho, and dz is similar to gastly in that its hard to switch into after sleep
has one good set (Agiliwrap) but it is good. Nair's biggest issues are the gastly problem, blizz weakness, low immediate speed, 4mss, and generally poor attacking stats, but all of these flaws are made up for by agiliwrap also has one good set (Agility) but its harder to pull off compared to Nair. For both of these mons twave 2 attacks is throwing but agility is good. Drowzee is a lot less common now and that was pory's biggest counter so I could see pory going up tbh. Only bad thing about pory is the secret mechanic that any mon that attacks it has an 80% crit rate.
people are disrespecting this mon so much it's honestly not that bad. Slash is really strong, Stoss hits Gastly, and it has SD hyper beam. If you use slash/stoss/sd/hyper beam pinsir is honestly not bad but if you try using garbage like bind then yeah expect to be punished for it. is honestly not that good tbh. First of all there are two better sleepers and on top of that Seaking uses Blizz very often now, so plume loses that niche too. It still walls surfbolt staryu which is nice but I'm honestly not a fan of the mon is not that good. It beats two mons, one of which (Scyther) is rare, and although the other (Fearow) is common if u load graveler into no Fearow you're playing 5v6. Even against Fearow they just see you have a grav and never switch fearow in, and then grav becomes useless. You basically get one free earthquake by subbing on fearow and EQing whatever comes in but after that it just becomes seaking food.
dies to fearow and arc, and is slow, i dont like
is a late-game mon meant to counter a mon commonly seen in the lead slot, also seaking/staryu/gastly food
is good against gastly which is something but sucks against fearow and arc
can only be run alongside nidoqueen then ur running 2 slow grounds in a Seaking meta
in theory it works, in practice it dies
weird-ass arc anti-lead i guess? garbage tho
outspeeds nidoqueen/seaking and ties gastly, has wrap/eq so it is a thing that exists
a second fearow, but it's worse than the other second fearows (scyther pinsir)
also seems fine on paper but I haven't seen it used in a game so cant really speak on it
second seaking but i would rather use nair or pory as another agility user
lmao - Simply put, I cannot see myself going without Nidoqueen. It hits hard, takes hits well, and is in general one of the most reliable Pokemon in the tier. While its Speed can be a shortcoming, having the jump on Seaking (and less notably Dragonair) is enough for me to consider it fast enough. - This thing has like 95% lead usage, it is insane. Outside of Omanyte, nothing wants to switch into Arcanine. With a really good crit rate, its very respectable bulk, and two moves that inflict 30% status, it's a dicey proposition to play around. - De facto cleaner, 2 rocks are the only thing that can really punish you from loading this, since Gastly can get bopped by Dpeck crit. The main issue I find with Fearow compared to its fellow S rankers is its lacking bulk. In addition, some of the Mons it farms most are becoming far less common in the tier, like Machamp, Pinsir, or Abra. - Def the most dangerous Agil sweeper imo. I really don't see the reasoning for Dedge compared to the versatility of Blizzard. Combined with STAB Surf, only Water-types exist as a secure defensive answer. Dropping Blizzard only leaves you open to stuff like Vileplume, Dragonair, and even the Fliers which I'm not fond of. - This will be an outlier for most. I'm still really fond of Rapidash because I highly value its speed; Fearow becomes less of a scare in the endgame and many things can be chipped into range of Hyper Beam like Star. Arcanine's presence as a lead also means it'd likely be out of action by the time Rapidash is hitting the field, which is one less Mon which can be a nuisance. If you're intent on using all of Queen, Arc, and Fearow, then Rapidash can leave you very weak to Seaking; you will have to play around/patch up said weakness elsewhere or forgo one of the aforementioned Pokemon. - annoying fuck (they always hit hypnosis) - main reason seaking isn't completely unhinged. Having the jump on both Nidoqueen and Gastly is extremely nice, letting you 2HKO the former and secure paralysis against the latter. - don't take my word for it because I really could not make this thing work in my favor, it at best did the bare minimum that you'd expect. I don't like Gastly that much because of Hypnosis accuracy, but that's at least fast enough to mitigate a miss to try for a second. - Similar to Drowzee, it doesn't fit the pace I like to play at, so I usually didn't load it as much. Very flexible as either an offensive or defensive tool. I'm more inclined to use Agility sets since those mitigate crits better. - A fairly high rank for it, but Waters being very common you can find Sleep pretty often. I usually fill out its remaining moves based on team needs, but sometimes I wish I had that extra fifth moveslot. SD + HBeam chunks most things into range for something to pick off, but you run the risk of Gastly existing. Gastly still fears either Powder, but it's prob coming in after your sleep and most Plume's cannot fit Stun Spore unless they give up on something else of import. - google the phrase "Fleet in being" - Honestly this could become more negative as time goes on, but I think Machamp has a few positives that keep it above C, albeit not exactly solid. Very strong and wide movepool, just faster than stuff like Plume, Drowzee, or Porygon, and good bulk in specific MUs. Can somewhat simulate Nidoqueen, therefore not expending Queen's HP too early if not necessary. - Think it's overall better than Graveler as a defensive Pokemon since you eat the Fire-types alive while Fearow/Scyther are still kept at bay long enough for the average PU game length. Graveler is harder to switch into and has higher peaks imo, which puts it above Oma. - Agil and Wrap feel mandatory. Choose from whatever moves you want it to fulfill afterwards. Blizzard, Thunderbolt, Surf are all well off attacking options and Twave provides you a way to cripple, and potentially pivot off, Gastly. I value Queen highly; therefore, I value Abra respectably. A pretty unique Speed tier for the tier and has a pretty spammable Psychic since Psychics aren't exactly common. Pokemon like Staryu and Gastly are also kinda scared by -- they can trade into it as well, but this can be nice for a teammate like Seaking by having one of its better checks removed. Obviously requires some degree of partnership to take advantage of the Mons that threaten it most. - Like I've mentioned last time I made a post here, Scyther fulfills the role as a secondary Fearow, although I've sometimes forgone the latter due team compression. That said, Scyther's weaknesses are pretty detrimental in the tier's current state: lots of Gastly and Fires. Similar to Rapidash, it's quite troublesome to run Scyther with all of Nidoqueen, Arcanine, Fearow. While Seaking is still a threat, something like Graveler becomes a terror when it walls 1/3rd of your team and puts a charge into 2/3rd. Despite this, Swords Dance still gives Scyther a respectable role. - I prefer it in lead because I can preserve my own Arc for later. I did end up using teams with lead Magmar and no Arc, but I viewed Magmar as a fairly nice Arcanine anti-lead while still matching up well into everything else. I usually run fblast, stoss, counter, and bslam just so I have multiple options for whatever the scenario calls for. - I honestly think it's pretty poor and the good MUs it has aren't anything crazy. I only brought it once and that was on a gamble to catch a non-Fire Blast Nidoqueen (which it didn't). That said, being faster than Queen AND having and EQ resist/Blizzard neutrality is cool and unique. - Was somewhat fond of Sandslash going into the tour when Porygon, Drowzee, and Rocks were still on people's mind. Hardly worth considering outside of very well positioning and Para support. - I'd honestly sooner use this than Pinsir or Sandslash now. Queen stonewalls, but outside of that you can just click vs Fearow and Waters. Twave is nice to have against the Fires. You should hope you don't have to click anything else, barring maybe Substitute or Thunder. - it was cool as an anti-lead, but something I can't see myself using too often. - Niche fish. That said, it can potentially spread para or take advantage of its para-spreading teammates to Wrap stuff down. As mentioned, Earthquake lets Arbok threaten stuff Dragonair can't as effectively, like Gastly. - a seahorse (Second Agility Water-type that seeks to work off of Seaking) - マロワクわねつのもんばんです。 - Much worse now that Gastly and Arc are incredibly common. Scyther struggles into them as well, but you have actual ways to work past them. Arc outspeeds Pidgeot and Gastly eats you alive. - I really don't like how this Mon just clicks vs anything and can just bullshit its way past, barring Omanyte (not a lead). One look at its usage is enough to see how ubiquitous it is. I believe anything that wants to be a lead must be able to threaten Arcanine in some meaningful way. - Apparently the math says this Mon beats Arc 60-40 but it sure doesn't feel like it. I personally don't like giving up Queen's HP so early, but you'd imagine seeing more lead Nidoqueen if it was favored in the MU. - It has the ability to threaten Arc via Counter and Body Slam para of its own, but it's not sure-fire. I don't use Confuse Ray, but it has merit ig. Magmar has the same calcs vs Nidoqueen as Arc and both are 2HKO'd by Earthquake. The difference is Magmar's bulk: Pending any crits, Magmar needs to burn with its first Fire Blast to beat Queen 1v1 while Arc can take non-burned Earthquake into burned Earthquake. Magmar has the positive of preserving your own Arcanine in the back for later use. - Beats Arc and Queen 1v1 (pending crits ofcourse) and will draw out immediate info from your opponent pertaining to their defensive answers to Seaking (or Waters in general). - Inherently risky, but earliest possible Sleep. - AgilWrap to whittle away HP at the start of a game. Gastly can get Twaved and then pivoted on thru Wrap if available. Selection of coverage for whatever you want. Never Twave t1. Can also just get fucked over by a 30% - To keep Arc and Queen healthy. Outside of crit rates I'm p sure it functions almost identical into Arc as Queen does. - Fairly bulky, Fire-resist, and Twave. Throws out Surf or Psychics afterwards. - I personally wouldn't use these, but there's history of these Mons with lead usage. Star was prob better when Arc wasn't being used basically all the time.
Atleast he got new life in ZUPoor Sandslash
This thing is broken, hits like a truck, super high critrate that can flip a matchup, and is threatening the moment it hits the field Best lead, great in the back back, one of the only mons that's good in all stages of a game. I consider it to be the least droppable mon in the tier. It's the only mon I didn't drop once during LTC. Can basically trade with the whole tier, gets Staryu into fearow range, decent soft-check to Fearow and Arcanine, and basically impossible to switch into. Issues are speed and bad defensive typing. 60% of the time this is the #1 mon in the tier. If it hits hypnosis is can go 2-for-1 pretty often since psychic and tbolt give perfect coverage and hit every top mon except arc super-effectively. This coverage makes it a phenomenal special attacker even without Hypnosis Basically single-handedly invalidates early-game seaking, and is very hard to switch into. The best twaver in the tier and none of the twave immunes switch into it. The main issue is of course getting revenge killed super easily. I'm gonna be honest this mon is super overrated. People are spamming the daylights out of Gastly/Staryu rn and that kinda invalidates earlygame seaking due to how Staryu basically gets a free switch and can fuck up your team. Ofc seaking has the crit hbeam ohko on Staryu but base 68 speed doesn't give the best critrate. Still a fantastic mon of course, but it was a lot better before, I just don't see it robbing games to the extent that Fearow does. Also magneton is on the rise which is also bad for Seaking. I didn't bring it once to finals, and I don't regret a thing. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rby-pu-hub.3700527/post-9906978 (ignore the part where I have it at 6 lol) Grav has grown on me a lot recently, probably because I think Fearow and Scyther are amazing, as well as having a relatively low Seaking, but the ability to just shut down Fearow and Scyther is huge considering how dangerous they are. I've been experimenting a lot with Magneton recently, and it's very good. The only mon that beats both fearow and seaking and despite having a shitty Nidoqueen matchup, it has 5 teammates that can try to remove it. Quite low on rapidash right now. I just feel like Scyther is just a more consistent "faster than fearow" mon. Obviously it still has that godly speed tier and a strong fire blast, but idk I'm not to hot on dash rn. Wall porygon is ass but Agility pory defnitely has some merits. I'm a pretty big fan of Agility + Twave + Recover porygon with one attacking move. It also basically won the LTC tour which is sick. Trade the fearow matchup for cheese moves cray and smokescreen. Kinda funny to use, and beats Seaking more often than you think, but hard to fit since it's a fire-type that doesn't really check Fearow (especially since I'm a fan of dropping fblast for psychic) Drowzee's fall from grace is honestly tragic, this fast meta is just so hostile to it, but it does share the trait with Gastly in that once it hits Hypnosis, it's very hard to switch into. However, Gastly has a much easier time landing that Hypnosis due to speed. Agiliwrap can work but it also can fail. Has a big gastly issue tho, and Nidoqueen kinda destroys it as well. I brought this mon to the semifinals of the LTC tour and it honestly did well (even though it fucking died because it missed an ohko due to 1/256 lmao). Still has the same issues as before regarding it's allergy to Hyper Beam, but Gastly eclipsing Drowzee as the go-to sleeper is defnitely a trend in Abra's favor. Very similar to abra (strong wallbreaker with awful matchups vs fearow and fire-types) but I do think Abra is a bit more threatening than Pinsir once it hits the field This is a matchup fish for back fires. The lines vs lead Arcanine are honestly terrible, and if you want a fearow/scyther answer use Graveler instead. Also Seaking beats Back fires while also threatening other things like Nidoqueen. Hardest counter to SurfBolt Staryu but kinda sucks against anything else, it's a decent MU fish for blizzless Seaking though. Just not a fan of this mon If fearow didn't exist Machamp would probably be like 5 spots higher but Fearow does exist, and Machamp sucks as a result This meta is so hostile to Sandslash with all the water-type spam going on. There's also barely any twave in the tier rn so Slash can't really sweep a weakned team. A second Fearow, but Scyther is a better second Fearow. Glare + Wrap is good at making your opponent smash the computer but unreliable, and it's outsped by 2 mons that are on the majority of teams. lmao
