So do you guys already discussed about dropping Calyrex Ice rider into OU?
The dude is the wallbreaker we all are asking for shut down stall in this gen for good (anyone misses hoopa unbound?), it just doesnt fit in ubers and OU should be its place. just to sum things up:
- Horrible typing, having 6 weakness incluiding to stealth rocks, knock off and u-turn, you know the 3 most used moves in the game, and also ghost. You never can say this thing hasn't counter play that isn't avaiable everywere in OU.
- Yeah it has a better bulk than kyurem, but no roost, has more weakness and less resistances. The dude just cant just come the field whenever it wants(which is true for most Ubers in an OU environment)
- Yeah i know it has monstruous movepool, and it has nasty surprises as the rare grass coverage to deal with slow twins and fini, but its that we are needing for a wall breaker (that doesnt need to carry setup and become pex bait), the fact it cant kill most walls of the meta without dying afterwards keeps it in check on its use, being out of question its dominance. Having free switches just on the fat dudes and pretty much nothing else. Still it cant risk a scald, so even its wall breaker capabilities can be a bit questionable.
- It can bypass the omnipreset heatram, since it can take one magma storm (and only one) if at full health, if not it just become useless against the fire frog, making a good addition to incentive good play, as you need to preserve this thing to kill its probably best check
- its ability is useless, since never it will be snowballing with that speed, and being easy to be revenge killed, maybe only agaisnt full stall, or inside trick room(which isnt that good anyway)
- It hit just as hard as Melmetal, but is a lot more limited than it because of its high number of weakness. but I doubt it will hold a band, kyurem can hold specs because of resistances, the same applies to melmetal, this dude has no key resistances, subpar speed and bunch of common OU weakness that will at maximum trade a mon for another.
- It can help balance a bit dragapult, while being letal in front of it, it can take one hit and shut down the stupid dragon.
This is just my initial throught about it, i know its bulk and movepool is absurd, but it has so many flaws in typing and speed... anyway i want to know more opinions from you guys, if im missing the point of this guy staying in ubers, i would like to know. thanks!