Suspect SS AAA Suspect Test #8: Justice for Terrakion

[Arishem]

Confirming as raaak attack how has no one thought of this before lol

s/o to The Number Man as always for the team.

 

[Redflix]

reqs

Confirming as raaak non council
anti s/o Osake

 

[IBM]

Thanks Heracross2.0 for the team, my only losses came from magic guard volc

Here’s one of 2 ties that I had that went to 500 turns
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8almostanyability-1510207482-ml8q58avnw1bk8jn1aoaa0ypjk6v3wdpw

 

[astralydia]

I regret doing this

Will be voting dnb for reasons I've already expressed in the AAA discord

 

[PepeBowie]

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Still on the fence till I'll understand better the metagame but leaning DNB.

 

[RICEMAN]

Confirming as RAAAK RICE

Here's the team I used. It's just a TSAAA Trick room team with a Hattrene for Priority neutralisation: https://pokepast.es/beee852b570ff2f5

GG Instruct

 

[LoSconosciuto]

 

[Clas]

Leaning towards DNB, Terrak is strong but isn't as broken as expected from what I've seen. Download Terrak was hard for my opponents to get in and Adapt is considerably worse IMO due to it struggling to 2HKO Corv. Fini is a pretty cool check too (only atha used it tho, sad times), just don't use it so liberally as Terrak will wear it down if given the chance. Stone edge is also a pain to use, and I think in total I used it 8 times in my 53 games played because it's just that situational and risky. Download can be a pain to beat, especially if theyre running a goddamn blissey pert corv core to counter any terrak/anti-terrak counterplay (yes im salty i lost most of my games to that), but overall I'm not sure if it is restricting enough on play to be banworthy.

That being said, I'm not sure if I like how it's impacted the meta, at least from what I've seen. Azelf is everywhere to support or deal with Terrak, most walls fall flat and running moves to stall out Terrakion's PP like Protect is just not great for a metagame. It was particularly not nice having to rely on switching to Corv a lot on a double pivot, as losing the bonus of Intimidate really was detrimental in quite a few scenarios and Dauntless Shield was only good for that specific interaction over Intimidate.

Shoutouts to DuckeryDoodle, AtraX Madara and especially RICEMAN for helping me get through this suspect test, I don't think I've played any more of 1 tier in 24h than this.

rip attempt 1 lmao

 

[martinvtran]

the lack of terrakion switchins makes me mald :p
shoutouts to longhiep341 for the teams

 

[Mada]

confirming as raaak michi

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s/o to Reece for his team

 

[DIYUSI]

Confirming as raaak kaikiai

 

[Beka]

Confirming as raaak haxx, s/o Scale Shot for having 10% accuracy and the guy i faced 3 times with an awful MU, forgot how laddering can be painful.

Probably gonna vote ban, this mon is just stupid and has a few switch-ins which are listed here

 

[Amberr]

confirming as raaak 1lasttry, havent decided if ban or stay but have decided to maybe try this format out again in the future, shoutout UT for teams

 

[in the hills]

Following the results of voting, Terrakion remains unbanned in AAA!