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The Stand
In my personal opinion, there should not be any more quickbans for the time being, it seems that most of the broken mons are broken and the ones left can be more accounted for, instead of praying to survive assault after assault, so ill give my 2 cents on the things left
is as fast as Flutter mane and its a better weavile all around, i havent seen too much of these now, first day was broken, idk how broken is now tho
I havent been following the convo about this thing too hard but it seems that rage fist was bad coded and made it so that you could get boost by virtually anything, making it very easy to archieve max power and sweep, but once its fixed, its still gonna be strong but now you will be able to stall it out if your team does not have enough power
Tera: Honestly, i dont think its that bad, sure you´ll get fucked every once in a while, but more often than not, its gonna save your match, it also kinda frees a slot for better hidden power, and lets you lure in and counter mons like hidden power would, meaning you have some room for creativity on the team builder, also, different typing means different counters, and your risking future trades, so in a way, it promotes strategy for the long game on offensive teams but does not slow them down, because they will have a ton of free options. but my original standpoint on this matter, which is "No QuickBan, Suspect test it AFTER the tournament has ended" (I would have loved it to participate even if get my ass kicked first round, too bad real life work does not wai)
I have not used him yet but i have fought a ton of them, in my opinion, he is not broken, yes Good as Gold is basically a mix beetween Wonder Guard and Magic Guard and yes, it single handely kills corv´s viability and yes, Make it rain is broken, but i wanna see how it handles rapid spinners (viabale popular ones of course) first, its countered by the 2 new donphans, past and future, Torkoal just incinerates him, but torkoal would rather use other options instead of spin, Tsareena, who is fringe yes, and does not handle Gholdengo at all, but its inmune to priority, and in a metagame where theres a lot of them, she could still have a niche, Toadscruel can spore him, has Knock Off, Foul Play and some cool utility options and the defensive capabilitys to tanking him, Cyclizar can use spin and has knock off and fire fang for him but does not have the bulk for dengo, and nobody uses Cyclizar for attacking anyways lmao, Quacaval can use rapid spin but gets walled so he is not viable... and then theres fortress.... has anybody seen one? unironically this could be the chance he needs to come back to OU, a meta with a billlion hazards and no defog, but this is just theorymoning
Outside of rapid spins, your best bet is brawl with him, and here is where some good news come, its kinda slow at 293, scarf means no recover, he has some sets and variety but just scout him little by little before hand, and then you have to lure it, maybe by double switching, maybe by tera fire some food for him, or just get his teammates first, so that he has less places to hide, so what im trying to say its that, we can use the tools we have to still brute force him
like some guy said early, reject modernity, return to claydoll (or fortress in this case)
is as fast as Flutter mane and its a better weavile all around, i havent seen too much of these now, first day was broken, idk how broken is now tho
I havent been following the convo about this thing too hard but it seems that rage fist was bad coded and made it so that you could get boost by virtually anything, making it very easy to archieve max power and sweep, but once its fixed, its still gonna be strong but now you will be able to stall it out if your team does not have enough power
Tera: Honestly, i dont think its that bad, sure you´ll get fucked every once in a while, but more often than not, its gonna save your match, it also kinda frees a slot for better hidden power, and lets you lure in and counter mons like hidden power would, meaning you have some room for creativity on the team builder, also, different typing means different counters, and your risking future trades, so in a way, it promotes strategy for the long game on offensive teams but does not slow them down, because they will have a ton of free options. but my original standpoint on this matter, which is "No QuickBan, Suspect test it AFTER the tournament has ended" (I would have loved it to participate even if get my ass kicked first round, too bad real life work does not wai)
I have not used him yet but i have fought a ton of them, in my opinion, he is not broken, yes Good as Gold is basically a mix beetween Wonder Guard and Magic Guard and yes, it single handely kills corv´s viability and yes, Make it rain is broken, but i wanna see how it handles rapid spinners (viabale popular ones of course) first, its countered by the 2 new donphans, past and future, Torkoal just incinerates him, but torkoal would rather use other options instead of spin, Tsareena, who is fringe yes, and does not handle Gholdengo at all, but its inmune to priority, and in a metagame where theres a lot of them, she could still have a niche, Toadscruel can spore him, has Knock Off, Foul Play and some cool utility options and the defensive capabilitys to tanking him, Cyclizar can use spin and has knock off and fire fang for him but does not have the bulk for dengo, and nobody uses Cyclizar for attacking anyways lmao, Quacaval can use rapid spin but gets walled so he is not viable... and then theres fortress.... has anybody seen one? unironically this could be the chance he needs to come back to OU, a meta with a billlion hazards and no defog, but this is just theorymoning
Outside of rapid spins, your best bet is brawl with him, and here is where some good news come, its kinda slow at 293, scarf means no recover, he has some sets and variety but just scout him little by little before hand, and then you have to lure it, maybe by double switching, maybe by tera fire some food for him, or just get his teammates first, so that he has less places to hide, so what im trying to say its that, we can use the tools we have to still brute force him
like some guy said early, reject modernity, return to claydoll (or fortress in this case)