Deleted User 590774
Banned deucer.
Used all of the drops a fair bit and I'm overall extremely happy with this shift, here are my thoughts on all four new pokémons
Guzzlord is by far my favorite out of all drops, he compresses a check for so much garbage (Zard, Psychic types, Grass types, Water types, Poltergeist users besides Froslass, etc) and isn't difficult to fit unto teams in the slightest as it has four different and almost equally as good sets (Band/Specs/AV/RestTalk), despite being slow, it's bulk helps with the problem (think of it as Glastrier without the garbage typing in that regard), I don't think Guzzlord restricts teambuilding as most teams run a Fairy-Type to deal with Scrafty regardless, so in my opinion Guzzlord positive influence should far outweigh the negatives, I'm glad we have it now.
This thing kinda doubles down our problem of having poor removal since our spinblockers are considerably better than our spinners (For that reason I think Espeon deserves a retest but that's a topic for another day), despite being a Fake Steel-type, he's still probably our second best physical wall and a decent cleaner, not a lot of things resist Ghost so Shadow Sneak can clean up offense teams with minor effort, I think Doublade is a incredible asset for Balance and Bulky Offense builds and shouldn't be that unhealthy for the tier altogether, overall a good addition
Mf nearly 6-0q me on ladder not even Specs Jelli hurts that much with a water move
Ahem, ignoring my skill issues, yeah Araq is strong and SubTox completely dismantles Stall but I think he's manageable, like the comments above mentioned he's extremely slow and we have enough splashable Rock-Types that can abuse it's poor DEF stat, I think Araquanid might force a water-resist in most teams but Jellicent already mandated that anyway, regardless if the council decides to suspect him, I wouldn't blame them despite thinking he's not broken, overall a very strong pokémon.
You know how I just said that the only things that hold Araquanid back from being broken is his poor speed stat and a rock weakness? Well, Inteleon is equally as strong and has none of the issues mentioned above, also a pivoting move to top it off, not much more to say here, a quickban is probably the best way to handle this pokémon, it's just way too strong and fast.
Ahem, ignoring my skill issues, yeah Araq is strong and SubTox completely dismantles Stall but I think he's manageable, like the comments above mentioned he's extremely slow and we have enough splashable Rock-Types that can abuse it's poor DEF stat, I think Araquanid might force a water-resist in most teams but Jellicent already mandated that anyway, regardless if the council decides to suspect him, I wouldn't blame them despite thinking he's not broken, overall a very strong pokémon.
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