i'm not reading all that, but i'm happy for you, or sorry that happened.
On the real though, this post is complete nonsense, Gliscor has plenty of checks in this current metagame be they offensive or defensive with something like Slowbro which does not mind being knocked off or turned on or anything like that because those hits just bounce off it. Most, if not all the coverage options you said it could run are utter dogshit too because they just don't fit or have a horrible use case. Also the wall of calcs you posted are literally irrelevant anyway because Gliscor doesn't do much of anything back to the respective attackers and, in fact, opts to switch out versus nearly all of them because getting that low is some sub-optimal game planning on your end (And also some of these calcs just straight up show that with rocks or any form of chip beforehand, Gliscor just dies) Additionally, these spreads you're posting simply don't exist? I don't really know what else to tell you other than to just get more experience before jumping on the ''Ban Gliscor'' train in what is arguably Gliscor's weakest fairy-gen tier. Yes, it's a great mon. Yes it can be threatening given the right set-up. But this does not make it overcentralizing, nor broken.
Also the minisprites really threw the readability of this post in the trash, god damn.
Edit: I didn't actually read the post that deep but what on earth are the sets you proposed in your Swords Dance section? I touched upon this earlier but I didn't know that it was that bad, you're already forfeiting your EVs to achieve something quite pointless then you add Steel Wing on a Gliscor to hit what, Clefable? Where even if you get +2, Max Attack Swing does like...50-65%??? Like, I read adem's response here about how you were reaching but lord were you reaching with these statements. I couldn't actually sit down and digest the information you were spouting because of the 90% Fluff/Dex info and careless use of minisprites in literally every sentence, so actually reading this without mindlessly scanning made me even more confused. Like, come on, posts like these start 3-page long tirades that have 0 substance, 0 metagame development, or even 0 meaningful discussion. Your ''proper'' conclusion probably should not leave the testing labs.
1. Fundamentally how can you criticize something without knowing its contents? You can watch a game you didn't buy but how do you know what's in the post without reading?i'm not reading all that, but i'm happy for you, or sorry that happened.
On the real though, this post is complete nonsense, Gliscor has plenty of checks in this current metagame be they offensive or defensive with something like Slowbro which does not mind being knocked off or turned on or anything like that because those hits just bounce off it. Most, if not all the coverage options you said it could run are utter dogshit too because they just don't fit or have a horrible use case. Also the wall of calcs you posted are literally irrelevant anyway because Gliscor doesn't do much of anything back to the respective attackers and, in fact, opts to switch out versus nearly all of them because getting that low is some sub-optimal game planning on your end (And also some of these calcs just straight up show that with rocks or any form of chip beforehand, Gliscor just dies) Additionally, these spreads you're posting simply don't exist? I don't really know what else to tell you other than to just get more experience before jumping on the ''Ban Gliscor'' train in what is arguably Gliscor's weakest fairy-gen tier. Yes, it's a great mon. Yes it can be threatening given the right set-up. But this does not make it overcentralizing, nor broken.
Also the minisprites really threw the readability of this post in the trash, god damn.
Edit: I didn't actually read the post that deep but what on earth are the sets you proposed in your Swords Dance section? I touched upon this earlier but I didn't know that it was that bad, you're already forfeiting your EVs to achieve something quite pointless then you add Steel Wing on a Gliscor to hit what, Clefable? Where even if you get +2, Max Attack Swing does like...50-65%??? Like, I read adem's response here about how you were reaching but lord were you reaching with these statements. I couldn't actually sit down and digest the information you were spouting because of the 90% Fluff/Dex info and careless use of minisprites in literally every sentence, so actually reading this without mindlessly scanning made me even more confused. Like, come on, posts like these start 3-page long tirades that have 0 substance, 0 metagame development, or even 0 meaningful discussion. Your ''proper'' conclusion probably should not leave the testing labs.
2. Slowbro actually did get mentioned as a reliable answer and if that makes you not see that problem refer to the opening statement, U-turn, Overcentralizing, and Unhealthy
3. Whether the coverage is good now or not is irrelevant as this is meant to account for the inevitable adaptations of the metagame (although even trying to do this is admittedly absurd as you would have to be a complete anti-grass toucher to even consider it) and Gliscor's ability to lure its extremely limited "checks" can not be ignored.
4. Gliscor does do something back this isn't even complex see: Knock Off, Taunt, Stealth Rock, Swords Dance, and the Coverage, and Unhealthy.
5. Obviously switching out of the only thing that actually threaten you is the better play. This point is meant to illustrate that Gliscor can get away with even its worst case scenario allowing for a drastic change to the information side of the game (you may think you scare out Gliscor with Rotom Wash but if its sp def it fears only specs or modest a piece of information the Gliscor player has but the player attempting to break Gliscor does not so have fun Volt Switching into the ground type).
6. Spreads may not exist now but they will if the metagame demands it that's how adaptation works. (Also no they aren't? Gliscor already runs both its max defensive spreads physical making you much safer against Lucario special letting you sit on Rotom and all the other thing having a bulky Gliscor can do.)
7. Didn't account for rocks because unless you OHKO they do not do anything to Gliscor and turning rocks on and off wile considering the likelihood of some maniac actively switch Gliscor in on these attacks was to much to account for. TLDR: If its a roll assume its and OHKO with rocks even if sometimes its not.
8. Actually a fairly solid point but mini sprites where (ironically) meant to help find certain points about certain aspects of Gliscor for people who didn't want to read all 6585 words but where still curious about something or other. And trust me if you think the mini sprites are unreadable you should have seen the originally wall of text I wrote the damn thing and I couldn't find what I was looking for.
As for why I didn't just format the text to be easily readable not only would this balloon the already absurd size of the post if every semi rant was in like proper essay structure but there's a limit to what I as a human can physically do in 1 day if everyone's ok with the ballooning size I'll likely reformat it over time
9. While I can agree to disagree about Gliscor being overcentralizing I would like to hear why you think that instead of a simple assertion with no elaboration.
As for it not being broken I'll chock this up to the post being incomplete and the statement being misinterpreted as traditional brokenness the way something like Gengar is broken although I implore you to read the Broken section to understand why Gliscor is uniquely broken.
10. I didn't want to do this considering its meaningless as someone can understand the game without being good at it but thinking long term this will be easier to refer to if "just get good" comes up again
11. Haven't read adems post yet but that will be addressed there, the "Fluff Dex" is all behind spoiler tags so just ignore them if you really want to,
and again elaborate. You can sling as much mud as you want if you can't explain why your assertion is actually true it means nothing. (Note: I'm not asking for a reply manifesto just some reasoning instead of empty insults)