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(EVIOLITE COMPATIBLE)
Random thoughts on the current metagame:
Cacturne: Very sad boy after the Mega Swampert rework, as all 3 of its abilities are sand-based yet we have no sand setter. Only ways to fix this that I see are a full reslate or the addition of a Sand Stream user, wether that's through a new addition or giving an existing pokemon access to it. Buff it somehow
Electric Terrain: My tests with these 2 potent lads have given me some pretty favorable, incredibly consistent results. Xurkitree has good staying power and very nice offensive presence at the cost of predictability (Electric+Grass is all it runs 99% of the time most likely and HP Ice isn't doing jack off of 97 SpA) and can pretty safely get Genesect onto the field, where it can proceed to dish out loads of damage against virtually anything not named Tapu Bulu or, funnily enough, Xurkitree. While it's definitely a powerful offensive core and will most likely eclipse Gravity, Trick Room, Webs, and Rain (lol) as the dumb offense strategy of choice I don't think it can be considered overpowered at the moment as long as Bulu usage is high and opposing offensive strategies such as Webs can really mess with the core. Leave it be
Forretress: This thing would be way less annoying if it didn't have braindead dumb Lunge which it can just brainlessly spam against any physical pokemon that doesn't carry strong Fire coverage but would otherwise break it (Mega Swampert mainly). So basically anything that isn't Genesect or Tapu Bulu just can't break it physically and just loses momentum to it. Can we please remove Lunge? It would still undoubtedly be a viable defensive pivot. Fuck Lunge
Sharpedo-Mega @ Sharpedonite
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Fire Blast
- Hydro Pump
- Thunder
- Earthquake
Sharpedo's supposed "hard counter" in Lanturn has been completely invalidated after I noticed that this thing gets Earthquake and has a perfectly usable 110 base attack to bop it with. Even with max HP Lanturn is clean 2HKO'd by Earthquake so Mega Shark now has much more breathing room when it comes to late game cleaning and generally threatening most things it outspeeds outside of Dragons.
And with that I'm going to finally try to create a framework VR that we can at least work off of. See you guys around
Sharpedo-Mega @ Sharpedonite
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Fire Blast
- Hydro Pump
- Thunder
- Earthquake
Sharpedo's supposed "hard counter" in Lanturn has been completely invalidated after I noticed that this thing gets Earthquake and has a perfectly usable 110 base attack to bop it with. Even with max HP Lanturn is clean 2HKO'd by Earthquake so Mega Shark now has much more breathing room when it comes to late game cleaning and generally threatening most things it outspeeds outside of Dragons.
And with that I'm going to finally try to create a framework VR that we can at least work off of. See you guys around