loving it as an HO cleaner, the boosts on its already great stats are enough I’ve found for it to clean weakened teams with this set
<- teamAm I crazy or is this just not the case at all??
See 'enough' I think is the wrong terminology but, I’ll get what I can and having preview at least gives me an idea which Tera the opponent is favoring. Preview Tera would be much 'helpful' then being in the dark when it comes to some mons just completely shocking you. I’m sure we’ve all been there.
Because I don't care about the bans, I care about the actual turn-to-turn gameplay
Losing knock off, toxic and defog is super big, now what Torn does most of the time is miss Hurricane/the new move when it could force progress before with all those moves. Regen+u turn is nice but the issue is that doesn't do much else. Is like if the only good attack on Slowking-G was focus blast.
It is a change, but not as big as you make it out to be, yeah you now know that your opponent's Gambit is tera fairy but should you switch out or attack it, hoping for it to not tera? those are still major questions that remain, while Tera preview is nice, Coinflips are still a plenty and Kingambit, while not as powerful, is still strong enough to cleanly sweep teams.
yeah you're correct, thoughtless comment that was not needed.
No one (that I know of) says it’s actively worse, it’s just not super helpful.
I think that there was a sizeable group of people that wanted it to enter OU, but it wasn’t seriously considered. There was talk, but nothing was gonna happen.
It has a fair amount of things slowking g doesn't though like being a fast (121 speed is still very good mind you) nasty plot and taunt regen user, not to mention as a pivot its role is to keep momentum going rather than start it unlike slowking-g, who is a momentum sink who can start pivoting momentum through its slow pivoting. It can also be very good on rain teams, due to bleakwind getting boosted from rain. It has a good amount of things over slowking-g surprisingly, its just for whatever reason its being ignored. Comparing two pokemon with somewhat different roles and typings isn't necessarily a fair comparison, as neither compete for teamslots and often both end up on the kind same kinds of teams. I've seen a few very effective glowking+torn-t regen cores, and you would be surprised to see how well they preform.
Zamazenta-Crowned got a suspect test and it was voted to stay banned. Zamazenta-Hero never got tested though. Worth noting that back then, both forms of Zamazenta had 10 more base attack got the +1 defense on every switch-in as opposed to the first one, so banded Zam-H was a lot scarier back then than it is now.
Taunt is good, but the lack of a reliable damaging move outside rain is bad which makes NP a double edge sword, Zapdos is better in rain is better because provides more defensive utility while both of its stabs benefit from rain and even im the worst case scenario has the chance to cripple somebody with static.
yes they are banned, they are under evasion clause (sorry all you mono powder players)
Enamorus will prob get less useful as time goes on. If Kingambit gets banned, Enamorus will gain competition from other Fairy types that weren’t fast enough to avoid getting trucked by iron Head. If Ursaluna gets banned(which seems very unlikely) being immune to Headlong won’t be as impactful as it would be otherwise. If garg gets banned, steel types like gholdengo and Corviknight will get better with no salt cure. More steel types is obviously bad for a fairy type, especially since corviknight is immune to EP. Enamorus will get weaker, but that’s not to say it isn’t awesome right now.
Enamorus is kinda on the shadow of Valiant rn, EP is nice, but Valiant also got amazing coverage with Moonblast/shadow ball/thunderbolt or CC, spirit break and knock off, while has the option of boost its speed with booster energy and SD/CM which makes it super good on the mid/late game. Enamorus is more flexible with its item and come in more often, but the SR weakness is s huge drawback, especially in the late game against Gambit which only needs some chip on Enamorus to ko with sucker punch, while Valiant only has to worry about having the right move for whatever tera Gambit uses.
I don't really agree. The way I look at it Enamorus isn't brought in the tier for defensive purposes against certain mons like Kingambit, Zamazenta, or Ursaluna it's there because it's a solid special attacker and a decent physical attacker that can run mixed sets, scarfed sets, specs sets, etc. It also is a flying type which this tier has been thoroughly lacking pre-HOME so that's something that has been welcomed with open arms. I think before DLCs come Enamorus will lock in to the 10 top of usage, from a offensive perspective it provides a lot that other mons in the tier can't match IMO.
