Molk
Godlike Usmash
Personally i've been mainly theorycrafting this meta, watching matches, and building teams instead of actually playing it. But i just wanted to comment on Inteleon really quickly.
I think Inteleon needs to go. Its combination of amazing speed and a ludicrously strong Hydro Pump heavily restricts teambuilding for offensive teams, basically requiring them to run an immunity or some kind of extremely bulky water resist to not simply get mowed down by it on team preview. Most of the reliable answers to it tend to be very bulky defensive Pokemon such as Vaporeon and those Pokemon tend to simply not fit very well on aggressive teams due to the fact that they're massive momentum sinks, which is a big problem when the Inteleon user can see these Pokemon coming in from a mile away (since in a lot of cases it's the *only* way the opponent is going to be able to get through the turn without losing a Pokemon) and simply click U-turn to go into something that can take advantage of them (such as bringing in a Toxicroak to stare down Vaporeon knowing it's going to get a completely free turn). The "offensive" Inteleon checks here are basically limited to Virizion, Toxicroak, and Wishiwashi, and the only one of those three that doesn't get completely blown back by a coverage move is Wishiwashi, i guess you could run a Scarf Duraludon with some bulk investment to take any one move, outspeed and threaten the OHKO back, but i haven't really seen that yet from the matches i've watched.
When Inteleon first dropped i basically thought that whether or not it could stay in the tier was dependent on how much offense could adapt to its presence, and personally i don't think it can without making massive sacrifices :/.
EDIT: Sticky Web was brought up as Inteleon counterplay on offense on Discord, and i wanted to address that really quickly.
Sticky Web does help if the user can get them up, but Inteleon is fast enough that it can still outspeed a decent amount of Pokemon even with the speed drop (according to the damage calc it reaches 248 which outspeeds neutral natured Drednaw by one point lol). This is enough that Inteleon can still find opportunities to threaten the opponent even when Sticky Web is up, Vikavolt is going to be slower than it which is going to be an absolute given on Sticky Web teams, and it's quite likely the rocker is going to be slower as well unless it's jolly Drednaw or a Duraludon.
I think Inteleon needs to go. Its combination of amazing speed and a ludicrously strong Hydro Pump heavily restricts teambuilding for offensive teams, basically requiring them to run an immunity or some kind of extremely bulky water resist to not simply get mowed down by it on team preview. Most of the reliable answers to it tend to be very bulky defensive Pokemon such as Vaporeon and those Pokemon tend to simply not fit very well on aggressive teams due to the fact that they're massive momentum sinks, which is a big problem when the Inteleon user can see these Pokemon coming in from a mile away (since in a lot of cases it's the *only* way the opponent is going to be able to get through the turn without losing a Pokemon) and simply click U-turn to go into something that can take advantage of them (such as bringing in a Toxicroak to stare down Vaporeon knowing it's going to get a completely free turn). The "offensive" Inteleon checks here are basically limited to Virizion, Toxicroak, and Wishiwashi, and the only one of those three that doesn't get completely blown back by a coverage move is Wishiwashi, i guess you could run a Scarf Duraludon with some bulk investment to take any one move, outspeed and threaten the OHKO back, but i haven't really seen that yet from the matches i've watched.
When Inteleon first dropped i basically thought that whether or not it could stay in the tier was dependent on how much offense could adapt to its presence, and personally i don't think it can without making massive sacrifices :/.
EDIT: Sticky Web was brought up as Inteleon counterplay on offense on Discord, and i wanted to address that really quickly.
Sticky Web does help if the user can get them up, but Inteleon is fast enough that it can still outspeed a decent amount of Pokemon even with the speed drop (according to the damage calc it reaches 248 which outspeeds neutral natured Drednaw by one point lol). This is enough that Inteleon can still find opportunities to threaten the opponent even when Sticky Web is up, Vikavolt is going to be slower than it which is going to be an absolute given on Sticky Web teams, and it's quite likely the rocker is going to be slower as well unless it's jolly Drednaw or a Duraludon.
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