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Little Cup Role Compendium
Approved by Rowan; thanks to Corporal Levi and Nineage for helping out and pi3rate for the banner!
The idea of this thread is to provide a visual list of what Pokémon does what in the Little Cup metagame. This will help new and experienced players alike in finding Pokémon that fit their teams when looking for specific roles, as well as help players build more diverse teams by not always using the same Pokémon to fill the same role.
Below, we have the various roles a Little Cup team might want a Pokémon to fill. For each of these roles is a list of Pokémon which can fulfill that role; all of the Pokémon listed can work at least somewhat viably as a performer of the role, but they have been ranked very roughly by how viable it would be to use a Pokémon for said role in the current metagame. If there is a Pokémon which is not listed which can perform well in a certain role, please feel free to post about it, and we may add it. However, this thread is not meant to be a place for discussion about the viability of Pokémon in general, unless a Pokémon's placement is drastically off - we have a metagame discussion thread and Viability Rankings for that.
(the Pokemon in each section are roughly listed after their viability in each role, i.e Mienfoo is the best offensive and defensive Pokemon in the meta, and is therefore listed first in these sections.)
Great offensive Pokémon: (based on offensive presence, both immediate and as a teammate)
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Great defensive Pokémon: (based on defensive utility, whether through checking threats or directly supporting the team)
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Dedicated leads:
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Set-up sweepers:
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Pivots:
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Wallbreakers:
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Stealth Rock users:
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Spikes users:
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Sticky Web users:
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Stallbreakers:
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Priority users:
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Fletchling checks:
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(Mono) Fighting-type checks:
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Pawniard checks:
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Zigzagoon checks:
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Abra and Gastly checks:
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Shell Smash checks:
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Sun checks:
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Memento/Parting Shot users:
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Trappers:
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Clerics:
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Phazers + Clear Smog:
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Defog users:
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Rapid Spin users:
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