EviGaro
RU Leader
Hlelo everyone, with the laddering part of RULT behind us and the most recent survey, we decided to move on the first thing that was seen as a near unanimous concern, Mienshao. Reasoning in part thanks to Feliburn and Lunala :
Mienshao is one of the strongest forces in the tier. Life Orb sets are really hard to switch into, without using Vileplume or Galarian Weezing that are not without their issues when trying to counter it. Its biggest strength comes from its incredibly good offensive stats, and the incredible combination of Knock Off + U-turn, which are so good in a tier that relies so much on held items and pivoting. Not to mention it having Regenerator, making it more durable than it should be for those stats, and increasing how annoying it can be while spamming U-turn. The other benefit of Regenerator compared to several options in the metagame is also that it effectively makes it one of the main pivots of the tier with item flexibility, with life orb being the most obvious as it gives it an edge power wise above the competition without lacking much in terms of facing the hazards game, bar the exception of webs. There's also the Choice Scarf set, which makes it one of the better revenge killers in the tier, being able to even outspeed pokemon like Arctozolt under hail, modest Ludicolo under rain, and neutral nature Polteageist and Cloyster at +2. All in all, Mienshao has become seen as a problem for the tier, devolving it into a volt turn madness, with Mienshao at the epicenter of it. Due to all of this, the council has decided to suspect it before any other pokemon.
It does have flaws, but they tend to be less important. Its speed can still be exploited in this tier with non scarf sets obviously, but it remains excellent and a few notches above the average. It is extremely frail, but regen allows it some leeway in that respect, coming in on some knocks even from fairly strong attackers if it has too and pivot back out for a 33%. It tends to have an underwhelming matchup vs heavy offence because of priority wrecking it after setup, but that's really by far its worst matchup on paper and even then it can do some work with decent playing. And that's less true for scarf sets, which can be exploited but also put a stop to several potential sweeps
Despite most of the people being openly favourable to one outcome, we feel we are too late in this tiering to not make it open to the public, and so it is now up to you to decide what awaits Mienshao in the RU tier. Tagging Marty and Kris to announce it on the ladder, thank you!
GXE | minimum games |
78 | 50 |
78.2 | 49 |
78.4 | 48 |
78.6 | 47 |
78.8 | 46 |
79 | 45 |
79.2 | 44 |
79.4 | 43 |
79.6 | 42 |
79.8 | 41 |
80 | 40 |
80.2 | 39 |
80.4 | 38 |
80.6 | 37 |
80.8 | 36 |
81 | 35 |
81.2 | 34 |
81.4 | 33 |
81.6 | 32 |
81.8 | 31 |
82 | 30 |
Suspect information:
- There will be no draws allowed for any potential qualifiers. If you qualify with draws, your suspect requirements will not count and you will not be allowed to vote. There is no way to actively enforce ties to prevent abuse, so they will be disallowed. Use stall at your own risk.
- All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! RU ladder on a new alt with the following format: "RUM7 (nickname)”. For example, RUM7 Xurk or RUM7 CMAA
- Do NOT impersonate other people in your ladder alt, do NOT use any usernames which are offensive, flame-baiting, or targeting specific users, and do NOT use usernames which could be interpreted as breaking any of the username rules on Pokemon Showdown! Failure to abide to this will result in you being barred from voting in this suspect, and potential infractions.
- The suspect test will last for two weeks, ending on Sunday, August 8th, 23:59 EDT
Happy laddering!