Okay here's my top 10 (I'm not counting banned stuff):
10.-
Back when every mon has some form of Ice coverage, or when
and
were in every other team, Dnite wasn't as good. Now, however, it can get back to what it was doing since the start of SV: Extreme Speed the *** of the tier. Encore Dnite is my favorite set, hands down.
9.-
Pult is a fantastic mon, capable of fulfilling many roles (specs breaker, DD sweeper, stats spreader, etc). Not as versatile as Val, but a great mon nevertheless. Were if not for Gambit, it will be broken asf.
8.-
A staple of gen9 OU, its versatility is its main selling point. Capable of being a mixed attacker, CM Sweeper, abusing hypnosis and encore, hell, it can even be a physical sweeper. Every Val set has its counter, but you have to guess which one is it.
7.-
Another staple of OU, he is the only good spinner we had, sadly this DLC1 was forced to carry SR, RS, (ground attack) and Ice Spinner, which was lame, since with that moveset, you can't touch Dengo. A great mon nevertheless.
6.-
Everyone's favourite "hazard control". Were if not for court change, this mon will be UU material.
5.-
Maybe it's just me, but when you climb in the ladder, this thing is less and less broken. Somehow the fabled reverse sweep stopped happening and you are stuck with a useless mon or dying to zama's body press. Don't get me wrong: Gambit is a fantastic Tera abuser, but it kinda suffer the same fate as
Or maybe the meta is overprepared to Gambit, idk.
4.- this is a tie between
and
This core is disgusting, it's gen8 all over again, but without futureport and with an immortal dark-ground instead. I think that the Council saw that and that's why
and
were released. Listen to me: any meta who is dominated by
is by definition, disgusting and annoying, and nobody wants to play that. Yes, gen8 is balanced, but boring.
3.-
lol do I need to elaborate on this one? I remember that when SV came out, we were all testing the new mons, rejoicing using broken stuff like
and
and back in the day, everyone thought that dengo was in the same level of OP. Alas, time passed by and we were all bewitched and none of us kept pushing for a Dengo ban. Then came DLC1 and we used
as our scapegoat, but then rose the disgusting mentioned before. So the real culprit was, and always has been,
I hope that, after the usual round of quickbans, we could at least suspect Dengo.
2.- Another tie between
and
Grassy Terrain is so good, almost everyone got the reqs for the DLC1 suspects with a grassy team. The infamous core of
and
is too good to be true; proof of it was its rise to prominence during the height of Gliscor usage. Plus, Rlla is a fantastic wallbreaker in itself. CB Wood Hammer under terrain is capable of destroying supposed checks like Zapdos or other x2 resistances to Grass. Real counters to Rilla are limited to 4x resists like dnite. As per Zama, it's a fantastic sweeper who has taken Gambit's place as final boss. Anyways, two fantastic mons who have great synergy, but not stupid as Dengo and Waterpon.
1.-
This mon is the undisputed top 1 of DLC1. Great speed, great ability, excelent movepool, and awesome typing meant that it doesn't even need to tera. Wanna sweep? Use SD + Horn Leech + Trailblaze. Afraid of static/flame body? NP, you got a physical, contactless move that has increased hax rate. Afraid of dragons? NP, use Play Rough. Wanna be funky (by Funky I mean stallbreaker lol)? Use Encore. It even has spikes, for God's sake. ¡Spikes! This mon is a testament that the problem with gen9 is not tera, it's powercreep. I sincerely hope that it got banned sooner or later during DLC2.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Great check to waterpon and the grass team, underappreciated, but great.