chi-yu @ timbs
ability: beads of ruin
252spa/252spe/timid
-np
-fire blast
-dark pulse
-taunt/wisp/sub/flame charge/ruination
beads of ruin lowers the sdef of the mon in front of it
by existing. it aint as broken as chien-pao since there is no busted speed tier but its got a total shitload of power, incredible stabs. pex gets canceled by psychic and...who am i kidding barely nothing can wall this thing (except ofc ttar. ttar is always at its best when checking something broken.)
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Dark Pulse vs. -1 252 HP / 4 SpD Toxapex: 297-349 (97.6 - 114.8%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Fire Blast vs. -1 248 HP / 8 SpD Eviolite Chansey: 354-417 (50.3 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Chi-Yu Fire Blast vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ SpD Ting-Lu: 346-408 (67.3 - 79.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Dark Pulse vs. -1 252 HP / 4 SpD Unaware Dodonzo: 286-337 (56.7 - 66.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Fire Blast vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ SpD Unaware Clodsire: 201-237 (43.3 - 51%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery (LEGENDARY)
(note that clod dont actually have recover, so at best it can take a single hit and force it out once)
last slot is actually pretty flexible. taunt because heehoo np taunt breaker (stall players are crying in a corner rn), willo for funny burns crippling ttar and also help its goldfish-befitting physical bulk, flame charge or sub for speeds/subs, ruination for slicing off half of ttar's hp, flamethrower for accuracy. this thing's dual stabs are
that insane, and its ability being the way it is means that even unaware walls suffer from the sdef drop. it doesn't have chien-po's blazing speed or priority but it has a heavy heavy dose of raw pure power. damn, you beautiful little fish.
actually with "only" 100 spe and low-meh bulk you might be better off running specs and breaking everything not named chansey anyway. or scarf and still be an effective revenge killer although the rocks weakness is lame.
a bit disappointed that chi-yu's statline is just a nerfed version of chien-pao's. cant even leverage its special bulk the way it wouldve been in earlier gens to tank stray scalds because scald dont exist anymore, shame. 135 spa is still 135 spa tho.
(also the 4 chinese ruin mons are getting nerfed pre-release lmao, chien-po and chi-yu are still crackhead)
rapid fire thoughts:
chien-po is obviously one of the most broken things introduced and we all know it and we said it.
baxcalibur is also sitting there very pretty at 145 atk, beefy bulk, and ddance as many have pointed out.
iron bundle actually looks pretty neat despite the tiny movepool because it gets freeze-dry which might honestly be all it needs. water-ice stabs while hitting opposing fat waters along with flipturn sounds really sweet with blazing speed and good firepower. it will need the timbs though.
iron valiant is flames. a speedy mixed attacker, fighting/fairy, firepower on both sides, coverage, swords dance, good utility with stuff like taunt trick hypnosis? i love it. powerful mixed attackers have become a kind of rarity and getting valiant is really sweet for me. except that booster energy will probably boost its speed....would be a shame if we have to ban it tbh. and of course, boosting attack or spa gives you obscene power. that could be a bit much, too.
hydreigon gets stealth rock lmao what the fuck...actually now that i mention it can be one of the things that might be able to switch into chi-yu? that 120 sdef will certainly help on chi-yu's side though, and against the fish's raw power i wouldn't be too surprised if hydra has to run se coverage to beat a +2 chi-yu 1v1 (too lazy to calc rn)
magearna gets spikes lmfaoooo actually way too many mons get hazards rn gf is giving them out like free candy.
spectrier gets coverage!!!? specifically draining kiss is huge for it, defensive hydrei no longer works for us. with the 4 ruins and other darks around you can bet that spec will run it. psychic exist i suppose.
urshifus gets swords dance [instantly ragequit]
ursaluna looks big chunky strong flame orb guts attacker amazing stabs massive facades good coverage good utility extra fat just a total package of a mon
roaring moon another dd sweeper, instantly canned by fairies as always, but strong decently bulky. dark is not the absolute best offensive typing rn tho. HOWEVER, the booster boosts its attack which is fucking crazy, might get banned.
iron treads=exadrill replacement? booster will probably get atk/def (or speed if it chooses that route). no swords dance keeps it balanced fortunately, speed boosting booster+swords dance is crazy. as it is it can easily still go offensive with atk booster+rapid spin
flutter mane: ghosts do be broken. fairy do be broken. free speed boost from the booster is obviously amazing and it is already sitting there with 135/135 offensive stats. if this works the way i think and it inherits nasty plot from base misdreavus...ban it lol what else do i even need to say. if not, cm may (probably will) still make it banworthy. that typing is just too damn good.
slither wing/iron moth: first, oh my god i cannot believe they did volcarona like that. like thank you for giving it not one but two paradox forms but i will say i still like the original far better. moving on...slither wing is hella powerful. 135 atk with free +1 from booster makes it brutally strong. add in good bulk, morning sun, big uturn, very big fimpression, and blitz/wcharge/dwb as coverage and you have a hell of an attacker. iron moth is just normal volc but arguably better in some ways like better stats and arguably more useful poison typing. but whats huge is that IT GETS DISCHARGE thats right. and flash cannon and dazzling gleam and uhh ngl discharge was just the first one that caught my eye, can you imagine that, a volc with electric coverage! but at the end of the day it still cant break heatran lol but wait HEATRAN DOESNT EXIST. both og volc and iron moth are vibing rn.
iron jugulis unfortunately want timbs..but what if, hear me out, np speed booster timbless? BUT this thing actually does...not get nasty plot.......... ... .... .......(im sorry i am literally just typing as thoughts come to my head rn) (none of this will be edited before i post this btw) well anyway dark/flying is pretty sweet and its coverage is pretty scary...i guess...it doesnt even have roost idrk how good this will be tbh. time to double check hydra's learnset ig:...so hydra retains np, which means jugulis might get it. it appears roost is lost though. so maybe np speed booster timbless after all? it can put that coverage to good use ig.
thorns...i see a ddance sweeper with booster granting it +1 attack for existing...hm. i ngl am quite excited to see how this performs this generation, rock-electric is so completely unique and there isnt lando to worry about yet. it wants fire punch for treads pretty bad but also ice punch for...ting-lu, i guess? tread's existance throw's a wrench in the conventional "just run ice punch to beat grounds" plan.
wo-chien uhh dark/grass is quite an unfortunate typing for a defensive mon. who are you trying to answer here? the ability might save it though.
i really want to like annihilape. a ghost fighting with good stats but definately not broken sounds so neat to me. not to mention fighting type defiant to really threaten the ruin mons. and also...uhh...GHOST FIGHTING?? possibly the best stab combo one could ask for (ground/fairy and fire/fairy aside unfortunately)? but the thing is this thing DOES NOT GET POLTERGEIST. in fact its best stab is actually shadow claw which is...obviously lame. aghhh fuck you game freak id better see poltergeist on annihilape in a couple of dlcs.
although i shouldnt say that, gf made not one but 3(!) powerful ice-type attackers, and two of them are extra speedy too! the curse is finally broken hopefully? i still can't wrap my head around the meteoric rise of ice-types in ss between kyurem, weavile, tales and zolt...and now this...
enamorus forms...the incarnate form i think is decent, itll probably be just special with superpower on the side to abuse contrary and punish the 4 ruins. therian is strong and chunky but slow and rocks weak so probably wants timbs which means no lefties or any form of healing. incarnate looks better at a glance, its strong, but its competing with valiant. who knows which one is better, enamorus's contrary or valiant's booster item fighting stab and more colorful movepool?
ill miss ss. i didnt play it as much as i played sm (even though i started mons after sm ended lol), but it was really a fun generation with some really shocking metagame shifts. at the start of ss, who couldve guessed that ice-types, the soon-to-be-rebanned kyurem-b aside, would come to dominate ou? who couldve guessed weavile becoming s- tier, or hail teams taking the tier by storm, or kyurem-base getting banned? or that heavy-duty boots would breathe life into mons that were forgotten before, but not exactly the ones that we expect? timbs turned
zeraora from a low-tier uu mon to a top tier ou threat. im really looking forward to all the metagame shifts and all the discoveries sv would bring.
well anyways, ou is fun, but ive always liked oms bett--
[mods deletes the rest of my post and terminates me as i start talking about bh and aaa]
(post got rambly as it went on, cant blame ya if you cant follow my thoughts, ig sv really dragged me from hibernation huh. until next time.)
edit:
i lied. there is an edit, but its the calc i promised to not do earlier
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Fire Blast vs. -1 0 HP / 4 SpD Hydreigon: 302-356 (92.9 - 109.5%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO
+2 252 SpA Chi-Yu Fire Blast vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ SpD Hydreigon: 213-252 (54.8 - 64.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Hydreigon Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Chi-Yu: 164-194 (65.3 - 77.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
the fuck is this
(no i will not edit it back to its proper place)
also:
Iron Hands is being glossed over a lot but it looks like it has serious OU staple potential. Huge Melmetal-esque bulk and power, amazing offensive typing, stab drain punch for longevity, and volt switch for pivoting. Amazing offensive movepool too.
^this tbh
and what would i do if i dont mention cyclizar and its stupidly stupid shed tail regen schenanigans. ho teams got the offensive pivot of all time, scarfed variants guarenteed to bring in any pokemon of your choice for free. and if they dont attack you, guess what, the crackhead sweeper in front of you just got a free sub! synergizes really nicely with pretty much all the broken hitters and boosters we're getting.
ciao
edit edit: apparently the paradoxes are considered seperate mons as the originals. if thats the case, then they dont share movepools, most notably flutter mane and jugulis not getting nasty plot. the former is probably still broken tho, or at least very very good.
