last day of this meta, so i'm Literally Obligated to post a personal vr
Persian-A gives cats a bad name.
S- isn't necessary anymore. Gogoat and Misdreavus are still very good Pokemon, but both have some serious competition for their respective roles, are easier to pressure, and don't feel as automatic as they used to. Misdreavus has these issues especially imo, hence its lower placement, but you could convince me that it's better than Basculin.
Whiscash is a bit of a fraud at times, but the WhisKlawf core is undeniably good and effective. Couple its contributions to that core (and most teams in general) with how reliably it blocks Volt Switch, being a solid blanket check to most offensive threats, and its presence forcing a lot of Grass coverage/Tera Grass, and you have what I consider the third best Pokemon atm.
Dugtrio is perfectly fine, y'all are just haters.
Setup Wyrdeer is A- with Grassy Terrain support and probably like B+ without it. Still incredibly cheap either way, though. Choiced isn't bad either btw, I swear!
A lot of what's in the B ranks honestly deserves more exploration (esp. stuff like Lycanroc-N, Camerupt, Rabsca, Fraxure, and Sneasel), but I get that they can be incredibly awkward to fit or are incredibly specific in what they do. Still, they're pretty kewl.
Houndoom and Fantom aren't real Pokemon.
S- isn't necessary anymore. Gogoat and Misdreavus are still very good Pokemon, but both have some serious competition for their respective roles, are easier to pressure, and don't feel as automatic as they used to. Misdreavus has these issues especially imo, hence its lower placement, but you could convince me that it's better than Basculin.
Whiscash is a bit of a fraud at times, but the WhisKlawf core is undeniably good and effective. Couple its contributions to that core (and most teams in general) with how reliably it blocks Volt Switch, being a solid blanket check to most offensive threats, and its presence forcing a lot of Grass coverage/Tera Grass, and you have what I consider the third best Pokemon atm.
Dugtrio is perfectly fine, y'all are just haters.
Setup Wyrdeer is A- with Grassy Terrain support and probably like B+ without it. Still incredibly cheap either way, though. Choiced isn't bad either btw, I swear!
A lot of what's in the B ranks honestly deserves more exploration (esp. stuff like Lycanroc-N, Camerupt, Rabsca, Fraxure, and Sneasel), but I get that they can be incredibly awkward to fit or are incredibly specific in what they do. Still, they're pretty kewl.
Houndoom and Fantom aren't real Pokemon.
The most meta defining mon imo. It checks so much and is one of the best spinblockers in a hazard-filled meta. I run Tera Dark on a lotta my mons just to not be Encored/Wisped by this thing, and even then it can just click Knock Off. Pairs great with a lotta the other popular walls, notably Weezing. It's also probably the main thing keeping mons like Tauros, Tauros-P, and Medicham from being borken.
Just reinstating that these cousins would prob be borken if not for Sableye.
It may seem innocent, but once this thing starts spamming Aura Wheel and can just sweep through teams. Also it's a Rapid Spinner that threatens Sableye so that's nice.
On paper other bulky Rocks like Probopass, Klawf, and Carbink seem better with their wider array of utility and much easier to fit on teams. But all Naclstack needs to is Salt Cure and you're good to go. Recover helps too.
Might be overrating it, but that movepool... *licks bird lips*
Not completely sold on this, but with so many teams lacking a Volt Absorber it's pretty easy to just spam. Morpeko and Frostom existing also give it competition as pivoting electric mons, but I'd say the speed is barely enough to keep it above Mid.
This thing just hits so hard with CB. While not as fast or hard to switch into as other physical mons Medicham or Mabosstiff, it's STAB combo is near-unresisted and it's def one of the better of the Mid-ranked mons.
Fun Starf Berry+Recycle sets aside, this mon's healing movepool is amazing; Wish, Healing Wish, Recover, and it's even the only non-Chansey line mon to get Heal Bell.
Flame Body gives it an actual niche over stuff like Naclstack as a wall. I'm yet to try Shell Smash, but what could go wrong with that?
I just want these mons to be viable so badly, even though they prob aren't.
This is just a standin for sun as a whole. I feel like sun is as problematic if not moreso than snow was and is only really restricted by vulpix itself. Weather cheese dumb.
I think everyone understands why this is dumb by now. Not sure how this wasn't quickbanned, praying it gets banned later on.
I have no idea how this mon wasn't even put on the slate. We are just not ready for a quiver dancer with tinted lens. Its immune to tera reversals and since it doesn't need tera for coverage its free to either run a purely defensive tera or just run tera bug to blow past basically everything. Baile and maybe trace P2 feel like the only reasonably consistent answers to this thing its insane.
Really obnoxious set up mon. Coil sets have that good serene grace body slam cheese to bullshit past stuff with and while calm mind doesn't get that it does have stab boomburst so it just kinda kills you. Its also just really naturally bulky and has reliable recovery along with pretty much any move it could ever want. Mons kinda stupid and maybe broken.
Ungodly fat steel. Its a little limited in what it can do but what it has is very effective, both ID + BP and curse sets have a lot of potential to snowball out of control and rocks + twave sets are nice. Its a little silly but it doesn't feel like a particularly pressing issue for the time being and we'll see how it develops.
Vileplume is great. Its mostly held back by competing with wo-chien as a bulky grass but vileplume justifies itself with strength sap + much better typing which lets it be a better check to all the other grasses thanks to poison stab and checks most fighting types, most notably being the main reason virizion wants to run zen headbutt over stone edge.
Super flexible mon, virizion has a bunch of sets that make it super scary to deal with in the builder and at from preview but once the set is revealed we have multiple solid and spalshable answers so its not really problematic I think. Still extremely threatening on a game to game basis and easily one of the scariest threats to build around.
This thing is not a PU mon lol. Ungodly bulky and great at making progress with knock + ruination + leech seed. Very borderline to me, the typing and lack of recovery are both very relevant issues so it'll be interesting to see how the meta adapts to it. Or maybe RU stops being silly and it just rises out of the tier.
This is pretty close to best I think and could be banworthy but sensu just got banned so its hard to say how good this actually is in comparison. Incredible mon either way.
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