AnimaticLunatic
I COULD BE BANNED!
To Jaajgko
While I apreciate the effort, tournament stats are also not best way to determine how good something is in the meta as a whole. Winrate in itself is a tricky mistress since these kind of things happen all the time in pokemon and in WcoP. Popularity of few pokemon can make other suffer as result. But I always felt like these viability rankings are meant more for lather then tournament setting (they still help imensly in building your team and getting handle on the meta). Now I have not followed the WcoP so I can not comment on trends, but I do not feel that week one of of tournament with new meta is a good way to judge a pokemon.
This is where I will try to justify myself. Rillaboom has many natural checks in the tire, and it is walled by a lot of things, but as you said it has only 2 constant walls in two flying metal birds. All other walls such as grasses can be overwhelmed by sword dance acrobatics set or couple of you turns. Tangrowth especially is prone to u turn chip and it has to watch out for knock off so that it would not lose rocky helmet. Mandibuzz walls it. yes, but a toxic from any of your teammates (Excadrill as prime example) put in a timer that also gets shorter if it gets its boots knocked off. It is one of few reliable revenge killers to Alakazam and it basically makes rain an auto lose situation for your opponent.
But these are not thing that make it great. What makes it great in my eyes how, while yes grass is not a good typing offensively in OU, it still breaks to many walls that wall other pokemon such as Urshifu and Cindarace. PDf clefable, SPd mandibuzz, Toxapex, Slowbro and Hippowdon are all walls that it either forces out or that can not safely switch in to it. It is one of few pokemon that can come on Zeraora and Exadril and threaten them offensively. So it makes pretty good cores with a lot of top tire offensive pokemon (especially Cindarace).And with how many people realised that Woodhamer is still good as secondery grass stab, it can still damage and threaten to kill a lot of its checks after some chip. And passive healing from grassy terrain is valuable to grounded pokemon, not only to Grassy seed users.
I feel like it is a more of A mon then B- myself, but I am biased since I have been very vocal on how this pokemon is basically a choice band Scizor of old (gen 4 to be more precise).
Edit: Flinch basically said everything I wanted to say. Dammit.
While I apreciate the effort, tournament stats are also not best way to determine how good something is in the meta as a whole. Winrate in itself is a tricky mistress since these kind of things happen all the time in pokemon and in WcoP. Popularity of few pokemon can make other suffer as result. But I always felt like these viability rankings are meant more for lather then tournament setting (they still help imensly in building your team and getting handle on the meta). Now I have not followed the WcoP so I can not comment on trends, but I do not feel that week one of of tournament with new meta is a good way to judge a pokemon.
This is where I will try to justify myself. Rillaboom has many natural checks in the tire, and it is walled by a lot of things, but as you said it has only 2 constant walls in two flying metal birds. All other walls such as grasses can be overwhelmed by sword dance acrobatics set or couple of you turns. Tangrowth especially is prone to u turn chip and it has to watch out for knock off so that it would not lose rocky helmet. Mandibuzz walls it. yes, but a toxic from any of your teammates (Excadrill as prime example) put in a timer that also gets shorter if it gets its boots knocked off. It is one of few reliable revenge killers to Alakazam and it basically makes rain an auto lose situation for your opponent.
But these are not thing that make it great. What makes it great in my eyes how, while yes grass is not a good typing offensively in OU, it still breaks to many walls that wall other pokemon such as Urshifu and Cindarace. PDf clefable, SPd mandibuzz, Toxapex, Slowbro and Hippowdon are all walls that it either forces out or that can not safely switch in to it. It is one of few pokemon that can come on Zeraora and Exadril and threaten them offensively. So it makes pretty good cores with a lot of top tire offensive pokemon (especially Cindarace).And with how many people realised that Woodhamer is still good as secondery grass stab, it can still damage and threaten to kill a lot of its checks after some chip. And passive healing from grassy terrain is valuable to grounded pokemon, not only to Grassy seed users.
I feel like it is a more of A mon then B- myself, but I am biased since I have been very vocal on how this pokemon is basically a choice band Scizor of old (gen 4 to be more precise).
Edit: Flinch basically said everything I wanted to say. Dammit.
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