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There's several reasons. The big one is speed. A +2 jolly dracozolt is still slower than regieleki(It's by 2 points, but still). Another reason is volt switch, which allows regieleki to maintain momentum. Boltbeak, as strong as it is, requires moving first while Regieleki is more reliably...

It's just not notably strong or worth using with an offensive set. It gets stonewalled by fairies with its physical set no matter how many DD's it gets up since its coverage moves are crunch, Hammer arm, thunder fang, and fire fang. Those fang moves are 65 BP, and fairies resist its other...

Some of these I agree with, some I don't. Cinderace doesn't seem overpowered at all, same with Magearna and Zygarde. Naganadel, Regielectric, and Genesect all seem out of line after playing a few games though. If you lose your ground type and lose your priority, Regielectric 6-0's teams with...

Regieleki looks like a new Dracovish. With Tapu koko on a terrain team, it can run a rising voltage set that hits levels of power similar to scarf dracovish in the rain. With rising voltage in terrain, it gets 140BP move, A 1.5 times boost from its ability, a 1.3 times boost from terrain, and...

The HP let's you use 4 subs while having 1 hp left. This lets you stall out gyro ball from ferrothorn, stone edges from T-Tar(Assuming they all hit), and other super effective 8 PP moves. It's a very valuable utility to have. The 4 sp. def. is definitely not that useful though. Optimizing that...

OK, these are terrible examples. You're cherry picking calcs here, and you aren't even using actual fully defensive sets either. A banded, adamant TTar using a super effective, STAB move, and it STILL doesn't guarantee an OHKO. That literally isn't even a fully defensed out Deoxys Here's the...

The difference between dracovish and crawdaunt comes in several aspects that make dracovish holy superior. From a defensive standpoint, dracovish has above average bulk while crawdaunt is paper thin. Dracovish has 90/100/80 with two weaknesses and three resists, notably a quadra resist to fire...

I hate how people act like everyone was just slow on the uptake when it came to the fossils. Showdown wasn't implemented properly yet, so fishious rend didn't work correctly. It didn't double its base power, and it didn't do so against switching or switching moves like volt switch either...

Anything can be considered a 'game.' You can stand with a friend, roll dice, and bet on numbers above 3 or below three, mark down the results, agree to a certain number of rounds, then assign the winner to whoever won the most rounds. Here's the difference - that isn't competitive. There's no...

I'd take that a step further. You NEED a water immunity unless you want to get wiped a dracovish, you need some kind of darm psuedo-check since it doesn't really have a counter, and you need a ditto. If you don't have these, you can't play the game at the upper level imo, at least not without...

The fourth and fifth games were absurd. I can't believe you beat the rain team after having the corviknight tear your team up like that. This looks much better than I imagined it would. I might not know much about it, but why aren't people using haze? Is it because you protect then disable it...

So this looks like a screens offense, meaning setup sweepers that benefit from the added bulk would get the most out of it. Gyara, Lucha, Drill would all be great additions of course, though if you're looking for less known sweepers then maybe Hatterene with trick room, nasty plot hydreigon, or...

What normal types are in the meta? Diggersby and obstagoon are about it, and while diggersby is actually pretty good, it hates eating a burn from corsola.

To me, the removal of dynamax at this point just feels so slow. I don't know, maybe it's because the meta formed so quickly. To me, this feels overcentralized and isn't really fun to play at this point. Teambuilding, something I usually enjoy, is so constrained that I need a ditto, dynamax...

I really like Assault vest Tyrannitar with him. He resists dark and ghost, the two types that corsola is weak too. Corsola is also immune to fighting, the type TTar fears. The only issue is that sand wears corsola down a bit, but it does the same to the things Corsola tends to wall. As long as...

It's definitely better against physical attackers. Think of the prominent special attackers in the meta: Gengar, Hydreigon, and Dragapult. All of them have stab-super effective coverage, and they 2Hko fully invested corsola with ease. On the other hand, almost no physical attackers carry super...

Alright, so some of these calcs are strange. For starters, gyarodos doesn't need to power whip to take out jellicent. It just needs rocks on the field. Gyarodos uses dragon dance, then it uses the boosted bounce, which is 130 BP. Also, gyarodos should probably be running life orb for that extra...

I just don't understand this reasoning. Rotom-Wash and Rotom-Heat versus a banded set, assuming very defensive builds: It obviously doesn't need coverage against these mons since they take enormous damage from just Darm's stabs. Rotom needs to run a choice scarf set to outrun Darm unless the...

This is actually what made me side against dynamaxing and firmly. Ditto being required for a team to function just seems absurd, as it showcases a distinct lack of defensive counterplay towards the mechanic. Now while ditto can act as a bandaid for the issue, dynamaxing WILL be a serious problem...

Pressure stalling is a tremendously powerful utility, particularly on bulky, faster mons that use substitute and reliable recovery to do so. Dusclops resting makes it useless for two turns, letting a powerful wallbreaker/sweeper switch in, set up, and attack. It can also invite a mon when you...