UU are so boring, they won't even let me play with the shiny toys OU drops, first Mega Pinsir and now Mega Gyarados T_T
Dry Skin is an ability that makes the user immune to Water-type moves, but weaker to Fire-type moves. It also heals the user in Rain, but hurts the user in Sun.What dry skin?
FixedStarmie isn't coming back until Keldeostops being so GD threateningis banned.
So, never.
While I definitely agree with your overall post, I have to say that Gyara is not really always safe to set up on Mamoswine, or at least it shouldn't be. When Mamo was OU it often carried Freeze Dry to beat a lot of the Pokemon like Rotom-Wash that would otherwise hardwall it. So far it hasn't really needed it that much in UU, but with Gyara now in the tier it really should start considering running it again:Gyarados is arguably a much better Dragon Dancer than Feraligatr - not only because the jump on base 145 megas, but also because Intimidate + being able to setup on Mamoswine, a huge threat in the UU metagame.
Well nightingales while iI personally can't say I like Alakazam being back. Having a good speed tier+being strong is fine. But Magic Guard gives it that immunity to Hazards which means you have to actually break a sash on it, not just set up rocks like every other threatening sash user.
This feels like it'll end up rewarding lazy teambuilding when it comes down to it. I saw somebody say, well bee just got a lot better, but fact of the matter is unless you're carrying bee and probably multiple priority users or scarfers, suddenly a lot of teams are now void due to this thing.
Just my incoherent 6 am opinion.
I honestly think the opposite has occurred and has been going on for a while now, which is that it's just gotten worse as a whole imo. Everything that's dropped has been, you guessed it, offensive and they've all been big offensive 'mons too which honestly make it more so that defensive archetypes have been limited to a few set 'mons in order to be able to deal with the plethora of threats the UU metagame currently has. Offense has just been getting better with Crawdaunt > Gyarados > Alakazam being introduced while other playstyles have been declining (this may not be physically representative but honestly speaking, there hasn't been a new wall to play around with for a while bar like defensive Gyarados). Do I think the metagame has improved? Honestly, I can't say it has. While a few more "obscure" / uncommon 'mons such as Meloetta, Escavalier, have come into light, I feel a lot more niche things are coming into play just to be able to deal with the sheer amount of threats there are, i.e HP Electric, Pursuit on everything, etc. And honestly speaking, most teams I see nowadays are just pretty weak to one thing or another which all happen to be offensive threats since I'm honestly unsure if you can cover them all without your team's build looking the same depending on the archetype. Just my opinion, I could be wrong honestly but that's just how I feel about the metagame atm.A lot of the mons UU got compared to what it dropped has, in my opinion, improved the metagame and gave people more flexibility when creating teams. The introduction of a bulky setter in Gyarados, hard special hitter in alakazam, a mon that can be a huge asset to balance and stall teams in sab, just to name a few. Gaining mons like these gives users more options in creating the teams, and i can in my honest opinion the recent shifts has helped UU a bit. Some might not share these views but what ive seen, balance and stall teams have greatly increased in usage because of their new assets. HO has gotten some more spotlight as well. How do you guys feel about UU as it is now?
So...no tiers, because OHKO Clause is a Smogon-wide clause. Hold your Ponyta, nothing's going to break the metagame.According to that new pokemon broadcast, we will be able to trade pokemon from gen 1 to the current gen (or Pokemon SM what ever he meant). This does allow certain pokemon to have new moves in the current generation. For example: Machamp can now legally have fissure and Hitmonlee can now legally have metronome. I'll be going through these to see if anything gets anything worth while in UU. Also rip any tiers that allow 1HKO moves.