Very good, up there with Volcanion as one of the most slept on mons in the meta rn. I have loved using it. I mainly have gone with AV and Nasty Plot sets personally. I think its best used as a pivot abusing its absurd speed tier.
I believe there is a spreadsheet for the 2023 wcop usage stats somewhere on the forums or the r/stunfisk subreddit if i'm not mistaken
Low key shoulda been a Cacturne
Why does Volcarona was used 40 times if it got quick banned just because of this tournament?
At the time, Volcarona was legal in the Qualifiers. The ban wasn't implemented until Round 1 of World Cup. Keep in mind when it comes to tournaments, if a Pokemon gets banned, the ban doesn't get implemented until the next round.
Mostly it's about where you fall on the spectrum of "RNG is bullshit". Some people just think chance-based stuff on the whole needs to go, which is very silly. RNG and 30% procs are what half of all Pokemon mechanics are built on and a line inevitably has to be drawn somewhere, so you can't really go "okay this RNG stuff is bad but this specific stuff is acceptable". You have to be really, really careful about setting that kinda standard. It's why the list of banned RNG items is basically just King's Rock and Bright Powder for encouraging degenerate strategies.
I wouldn't mind a quick claw ban if static goes too, just to be consistent with the remove luck based elements.
Nah. Everything BUT stats are shown, which means your EVs and IVs are entirely in the dark going into a match.
I posed this question sometime yesterday and I think that Battle Bond Greninja is very cool but it really takes a liking to opposing offensive based teams (like nothing with an unaware mon) to favor a sweep. I've seen people have more preference and success when it comes to the Life Orb variant but I don't mind Choice Specs under Rain. I'm guessing in the replay the user was running Expert Belt (still fire)?
Agreed with this. I think Battle Bond Greninja is really dope, but as stated, it's really a hit or miss Pokémon depending on MU. Which is really unfortunate.
I believe that not banning this is a long term mistake, I find Zama being a bit unexplored outside the body press sets. While Crowned body press sets were more consistent, those stats while being able to hold an item gives a lot of possibilities of Volc level of adaptations to limit its counterplay, hope I'm wrong and this don't become a big issue later but for now I can't complain since I didn't get reqs.
If it becomes problematic down the road, can't another suspect test be held?
In theory, yes. However, knowing the history of suspect tests, unless there is an explicit confirmation there will be, there won't be. If something is banned, it just never isn't unbanned that gen, and if something isn't banned, its almost certain it won't be until after that gen is over.
Tutors still can give it some crazy moves, but idk, that is theorymoning a lot in advance.
what getting nerfed to match your overpowered sister does to a mfer
