I agree with everything in Disjunctions’s post (apart from Pyuku revamp ‘cause honesrly I think changes are small enough to not warrant a full rewrite). One thing I’d say abt Pyuk is that the Mental Herb mention in OO should be replaced with Poisonium Z because realistically speaking it is more flexible when faced with Taunt users and provides more utility than just circumventing Taunt (maybe even slash it w/ lefties ‘cause that shit’s good). Not sure if that comes under minor touch-ups or w/e but thought I might as well say it.
Also re “idt we should be obligated” afaik there isn’t any obligation to do so; OU doesn’t write analyses for shit like Staraptor so idk why Clay/Hitmontop should be any different, although I may be wrong given Staraptor is BL and Clay/Top are technically NU by usage.
Guess I’ll comment on smth else too
Delphox:
- Delphox should have shock slashed with Psychic on CM imo just because it’s the one I tend to default to for CM due to it allowing phox to win cm wars with Audino
- DGleam should get a moves mention on that set too for its ability to pwn Guzzlord.
- I really dislike Firium and think that Grassium is pretty much always better as it means that Phox can actually remove things like Pyuk/Slowking with some semblance of consistency while also allowing Phox to remove healthy Slowbro/Vaporeon without needing to take 50% from Scald in the process (and without needing to be in Blaze range to one-shot Bro).
- Even if you don’t slash Grassium (I have no major opinion wrt this but lean on the side of not doing so ‘cause Colbur is the choice of item 90% of the time anyway), I think you should deslash Firium considering that the perks of Colbur are already pretty hard to justify giving up anyway.
I also think that the set details explanation of Grassium is extremely misleading. For reference:
Grassium Z is a slightly worse option; however, it can be a one-time nuke against specially defensive Water- and Rock-types that attempt to interfere with Delphox's carnage, though in most cases it only is slightly more effective against light Water-types such as Vaporeon and Pyukumuku
“Only slightly more effective against light water-types” is a huge understatement of the sheer power surge relative to regular Grass Knot/Psychic/Psyshock that both of these targets recieve, with damage more than doubling versus both relative to Psychic. The ability to OHKO Vapo at +1 (thus preserving Delphox’s health) is extremely useful when supporting Pokemon like Omastar etc. which seriously struggle when faced with this thing, and being able to KO Pyuku after Fire Blast damage (protecting it from Toxic and allowing it to leave stall teams under serious pressure if it isn’t weakened into range of shit like Sneasel’s KOff), and it also fails to factor in the improvements in matchups versus mons such as AV Slowking (absolute biggest target of Bloom Doom), which goes from being a major threat to Delphox to being OHKOed by +1 Phox after SR+1 Spike due to the fact that GK is actively doubling in power. Idk what the intended meaning of that sentence is, but the wording makes it read as tho it is implying that it is only a very minor power increase over what Delphox would otherwise deal despite the fact that the power is actively doubling (or more) versus basically all of the move’s intended targets and plays down how dramatic an effect it has on how you are able to play around Phox defensively when you don’t have shit like Guzzlord/Incineroar/Pursuit Doom in the back.
I think that the sentence should be more along the lines of something like this: “Grassium Z is also an option that allows Delphox to lure and remove a number of bulky Water-types like Assault Vest Slowking and Pyukumuku while also allowing Delphox remove healthy Vaporeon, Slowbro, and Piloswine without taking a large amount of damage in the process.” It could do with fine-tuning because I only spent about 5 seconds thinking about how to write it, but I feel this is a much less misleading explanation of what Grassium-Z achieves while also highlighting the key perks of Bloom Doom a lot better than the current analysis does.
There might be other stuff in there but it’s approaching 1:30 AM and I really wanna sleep.