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Crobat shouldn't be able to sweep if Regirock is alive. It's also not that easy. Crobat also has to come in with care; it's not like it's an auto-stop to Blaziken and thusly the rest of your sweepers. There has been at least one time where you caught it with a Fire Blast when I predicted SuperPower. I'm basically relying on you to switch in Mismagius or Shaymin, or mispredict, to get Crobat in.Pertaining to my "main" team: I cannot sweep with Blaziken, because you have Crobat. I cannot sweep with Missy because of Crobat. I cannot sweep with Espeon or Shaymin because of Crobat (assuming I get lucky and trick chansey or something). Thats 4 of my team that is not only checked, but SWEPT by Crobat. My team isnt even "weak" to crobat because of Regirock, its just offensive checks for Crobat have severe issues staying alive against a stall team, as all of them basically share a collective Shaymin / Omastar weakness which are easily abused by stall.
The difference is, that stall cannot be swept by Crobat, while offense is EASILY swept by Crobat.
The point is, Crobat checks at least 80%+ of the offensive sweepers in the metagame, while the rest are painfully weak to Omastar, Shaymin, Drapion, etc Pokemon that are easily (and almost always) included in a stall team.
A stall team that cannot be swept is beaten how? Thats why its broken.
Also, Omastar is common, but it's not like everyone and their mother who uses a stall team uses it. Same with Shaymin and Drapion. I have said this before, but there are no "staples" of stall in UU.
As true as that is, the same also applies to Arcanine and Swellow, off the top of my head. How is Crobat any different? Stuff like Shaymin also gain a lot of free switch-in opportunities from stuff like Milotic, Claydol, and whatnot as it is. And if a player uses a Shaymin check with longevity (Chansey), it shouldn't be a problem. If a player uses a "one or two-time check" (ie; Roserade), then how come they can't do the same for Crobat? Shaymin sweeping one's team is supported by Crobat, yes, but is that support that much of an impact? Wouldn't Shaymin be the culprit in this case?jrrrrrrr said:Yeah, this is part of what I'm saying. The pokemon that counter Crobat have common weaknesses that are extremely easy to exploit. And besides, Crobat doesn't have to KO its counters to support its team. The fact that it checks an astronomically high portion of the metagame is just an added bonus.
Of course I didn't, but that's sort of irrelevant seeing as I have used Chansey nearly equally as much, and Omastar and Shaymin on the majority of my teams. The Crobat on my stall team doesn't even have U-Turn, which is one of its main selling points for it being broken.How can this possibly make sense when almost every single team EOM has ever made uses Crobat? He didn't just magically rise up the ladder without it...