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up to A
this thing is a fucking demon, and one of the best offensive defog users, and offensive pivots in general, in the tier. even with no defensive investment, its resistances to boltbeam and immunity to ground gives it lots of defensive utility. this works extremely well in tandem with pain split, which gives it lots of longevity alongside the ability to passively wear down foes. blizzard might be a bit inconsistent, but it genuinely hits incredibly hard. volt switch is about as useful as you can imagine, and the threat of those attacks makes it easy for rotom-frost to get defogs off in a game. even a defog-less set with wisp in replacement honestly works well enough to justify using. there’s also nasty plot variants, which are certainly worth mentioning due to extrapolating rotom-frost’s already potent special attack.
up to B
i can understand why stunfisk fell to b-, but it feels far more reliable than its fellow b- tier pokémon. although it is weak to some common types in the tier, being immune to volt switch is enough to justify its niche as a stealth rock setter. pain split works well with its respectable bulk, and works even better with static, making it consistently threat voltturn cores. i think it has underrated potential as a physical wall, as its resistances mainly come on the physical side (stone edge, iron head, etc). even if it is vulnerable to many breakers, max defense allows it to switch into prominent physical threats like silk scarf kangaskhan (survives 2 double edges) and scarf sawk (survives 2 eq’s), while still halting volt switch users like rotom and manectric.
my opinion on C tier: clean it up, and trim it down.
i can understand that there will always be pokémon with specific niches that technically work. in all honesty, over the past few weeks i’ve been experimenting with teams built around low tier pokémon. by doing this though, i realized just how much of a downgrade most c tier pokémon are, in comparison to b tiers that are well established in the meta.
example: to UR (yes i know i’ve defended it before)
as an example, i wanted to take advantage of boltund’s fantastic speed tier and ability to make it a physical breaker that can pivot. i was able to make a decent supporting cast, complete with pokémon who we know are very good at what they do. unfortunately, even an adamant banded boltund is barely even able to OHKO opposing boltunds, and that’s only if you have psychic fangs. that’s how pitifully weak it is.
i feel like with the exception of a few actually good ones, many of the lower ranked pokémon gotta go.
this thing is a fucking demon, and one of the best offensive defog users, and offensive pivots in general, in the tier. even with no defensive investment, its resistances to boltbeam and immunity to ground gives it lots of defensive utility. this works extremely well in tandem with pain split, which gives it lots of longevity alongside the ability to passively wear down foes. blizzard might be a bit inconsistent, but it genuinely hits incredibly hard. volt switch is about as useful as you can imagine, and the threat of those attacks makes it easy for rotom-frost to get defogs off in a game. even a defog-less set with wisp in replacement honestly works well enough to justify using. there’s also nasty plot variants, which are certainly worth mentioning due to extrapolating rotom-frost’s already potent special attack.
up to B
i can understand why stunfisk fell to b-, but it feels far more reliable than its fellow b- tier pokémon. although it is weak to some common types in the tier, being immune to volt switch is enough to justify its niche as a stealth rock setter. pain split works well with its respectable bulk, and works even better with static, making it consistently threat voltturn cores. i think it has underrated potential as a physical wall, as its resistances mainly come on the physical side (stone edge, iron head, etc). even if it is vulnerable to many breakers, max defense allows it to switch into prominent physical threats like silk scarf kangaskhan (survives 2 double edges) and scarf sawk (survives 2 eq’s), while still halting volt switch users like rotom and manectric.
my opinion on C tier: clean it up, and trim it down.
i can understand that there will always be pokémon with specific niches that technically work. in all honesty, over the past few weeks i’ve been experimenting with teams built around low tier pokémon. by doing this though, i realized just how much of a downgrade most c tier pokémon are, in comparison to b tiers that are well established in the meta.
example: to UR (yes i know i’ve defended it before)
as an example, i wanted to take advantage of boltund’s fantastic speed tier and ability to make it a physical breaker that can pivot. i was able to make a decent supporting cast, complete with pokémon who we know are very good at what they do. unfortunately, even an adamant banded boltund is barely even able to OHKO opposing boltunds, and that’s only if you have psychic fangs. that’s how pitifully weak it is.
i feel like with the exception of a few actually good ones, many of the lower ranked pokémon gotta go.
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