A spread with nearly max Special defense (252Hp/20Atk/240sdef adamant) gives it a lot of bulk all around and a chance to like Sigilyph LO Energy Ball while still countering Archeops (even Earth Power variants).
There are a couple. Altaria is viable, but its outclassed by Dragalge, so its best used along with Dragalge for Dragon Spam. Fraxure, Dragonair, and Shelgon are decent Dragon Dancers, the latter two are defensive and the former is offensive.
Another reason may be the buff in its special attack making Vileplume a tad bit more powerful than Roselia. Also, since most Fighting-Types are running Knock Off to cover ghosts, most likely they aren't running Ice Punch anymore, making Vileplume more viable in the tier.
Mainly due to its priority Acrobatics, but thats it.
The reason i consider Vileplume to be supreme in gen 6 Nu, is because of the current meta, Due to its typing and decent Physical bulk It walls and check significant number of common physical threats. It is not dependent on eviolite like Roselia,as you mentioned without which it gets handicapped. The second reason for Roselia's Failure are the large number strong special attackers in the meta(Magmortar,Pyroar,Typhlosion,Sigilpyl,Cryogonal,Rotom-Fan,Jynx) out of which at least one is in a team,due to which it cannot perform its role efficiently. it usually gets 2hkoed with most of their stabs and doesnt get ample amout of turns to lay spikes.It is getting tough competetion from Accelgor which is a Fast suicide spiker,Qwilfish(which walls top threat feraligatr)and Quiladin(It has Insane Physical bulk and a cool ability-bulletproof) being immune to ball and bomb moves it can switch to vileplume,which is very common in meta and set up spikes.
Gale Wings makes sure that Fletchinder is difficult to revenge kill once it gets its late-game sweep going. Also Will-O-Wisp wears down Rock- and Steel-type switch-ins. It's like BW Drifblim with Swords Dance. Also it's a nice emergency check to stuff like Ludicolo, Sceptile, and Jynx.
We have better defensive Fairies in Granbull and Togetic, and better Wish passers in Audino. Fairy typing honestly didn't do much for Wigglytuff, so yeah it'll probably still suck until someone makes it work which I doubt will happen :(
Maybe. But who cares? The beauty of Pokemon is that you have so many options open for you to choose. And who know, you may just find a diamond in the rough. :]
Yay! I ask because Lopunny and Aurorus are down there, and while their cons are glaring, I like to find new and successful ways to use them.
I'm guessing because people are itching for a Talonflame that is legal in lower tiers. And Fletchinder is the one.
no but most mons in d-rank are d-rank because they either suck or they're outclassed. the trick is to find a niche that no other pokemon in the tier can do as well (but make sure the niche is actually useful). using dusclops bcos OMG BULK doesn't count as a niche, for example. using camerupt as a check to fire-spam + other random stuff does count. stuff like marowak on a sticky web team also counts; it's d-rank because it needs that support but if you can give it the support it can work.
I'll take that to heart. Sometimes it sucks to see your favorite pokemon on the verge of being placed in the unofficial PU tier. But I'm sure good team composition can help, like you said. Also, a lot of people like the challenge.
If I recall correctly, max hp over max speed let you live a giga drain from vileplume so you can SD again if it switches in for the ohko while putting you in torrent range. 252 speed is better for the DD set, but I'd recoment 252 hp for SD.
Not until we are out of beta.
196 HP / 252 Atk / 60 Spd
Shouldn't most base 85 Speed Pokemon run Speed investment anyway, meaning Gatr can't outrun them?
So, In other words, max hp, max attack is optimal?
