I'm going to take this literally to mean a bulky pokemon that can pivot:
Well, the tier has plenty of counters, namely both Rotoms, Buzzwole, Moltres, Celesteela, and Tangrowth. Crawdaunt and Azumarill can revenge kill it with Aqua Jet, as can Conkeldurr with Mach Punch. The bigger problem is that unlike in OU, UU only has a PU Pokemon to set sand.
This is getting into theorymon since it probably wont even drop this july so there shouldnt be any plans against it, but imo excadrill would be a fine addition, it wants a lot of moves (SD, EQ, Iron Head, Toxic, Spin, Rock tomb/slide) and it really wants mold breaker and sand rush at the same time which means it will always end up not being able to break at least on of washtom, moltres, kommo-o or krookodile.
Hey Stormzy, not a dumb question at all! Yes, dazzling gleam is viable on azelf and can be swapped in for energy ball. It’s ability to hit umbreon and galarian Moltres super effectively is quite big. However, dropping energy ball leaves azelf vulnerable to Pokémon like rhyperior and quagsire. It’s up to you and what matchups you choose to forgo depending on what coverage you choose. Hope this helped!
While there are a lot of strong special threats in the tier, there are still plenty of physical ones you have to account for. Lycanroc-D is incredibly good right now for example. SD Kommo-o, Azumarill, and DD Mence to list a few more. There are both physical and special breakers/sweepers getting usage, so I wouldn't advise ignoring them if that is what your statement is implying.
Staka is generally better than Copperajah, but neither are that great. Gyro Ball just isn't that reliable in current UU meta. Marowak-A will probably give you more power for what you're looking for. For UU TR teams, you have a lot of options in setters and abusers, including Hatterene that does both (and deals with Kommo), as well as Teleport TR with Porygon2 or Lunar Dance TR with Cresselia. You can get creative with different abusers also like Azumaril, Aegislash, Torkoal w/ Eruption (works great wtih Marowak-A), etc. Staka is a decent setter though.
I trully think Stakataka is better due to Beast Boost which allows it to snowball way more than a Copperajah. Sure Bulletproof Kommo-o deals with Stakataka but Trick Room teams have things to pressure it such as Conkeldurr or Crawdaunt which are able to weaken it for Stakataka. Not to mention things like Hatterene basically counters defensive sets of Kommo-o which are the only good sets that can take hits from Stakataka (offensive variants will be pressured by EQ or Superpower).
If you're solely looking for active discussion you can probably find such users in the PS! room (albeit probably not during the dead hours, ie usually US late nights/mornings) and in the UU discord (link should be somewhere in the forums and in the Roomintro on ps). I could be namedropping a couple of friends who are famously known for using
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if I fought it recently, I will remember all of the sets. If I fought it like a week ago I won’t initially, but I could remember if I see something familiar. People change teams all the time though and change subtle things about them though, so even if I remember the sets I still plan for the possibility of something being different for this particular fight.
Hawlucha is UUBL regardless, so if it did fall it would go there
Speaking of an UUBL mon, is there any plan/intention of re-testing some banned mons?
Generally speaking, re-tests wouldn't really occur during a major tournament such as SCL. As Monkey25 mentioned, there is an upcoming tier shift. Best to let the tier acclimate to the differences before we discuss any retest.
