Josh
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I'd argue Mega Altaria is the most broken thing stabmons has ever held. Boomburst and pixispeed with much higher base offenses than sylveon and while porygon z is stronger it doesn't have the ability to 1v1 literally 99% of the metagame with the right set which malt could. The best checks were like mvenu and gengar, the former of which dropped to dragon ascent and the latter dropped to Boomburst + espeed. But that's not all; mega alt is also WAY bulkier than diggs and porygonz plus it boosted it's own speed along with its attack via dragon dance so fakespeeders couldn't revenge it, and it can always stomach a bullet punch and smack the steel back with eq or fire blast. Dd Roost sets were good, fakespeed revenge killer sets were good, special sets were good, obviously mixed was great, support with pixispin was cool, Mega alt had a multitude of sets that were ALL good. If you said this post could mostly apply to porygon and diggs you'd be right, but there's 2 major differences: malt was attacking with a type that doesn't have immunities, and the bigger one: major defensive utility. Malt could switch in on huge portion of the metagame, including keldeo, both zards, serp, etc. The combination of its offensive might and defensive capabilities make me question why we ever thought it was OK for the tier, shoutout to that time when it was just spam malt and beat opposing malt