Since Monotype Premier League gave us a good sample size across many high quality SS Monotype games, we were able to gauge Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style's presence on the metagame more effectively, and revoted on whether to quickban it or not. Here are the votes:
With this, the 6/8 threshold has been met and the council has decided to quickban Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style from the SS Monotype metagame. Due to its great offensive stats, STAB combo and U-turn pivoting, Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style has been a huge threat in the Monotype metagame that is capable of running multiple sets, particularly Choice Band and Choice Scarf. On top of all this, its access to Surging Strikes and its ability in Unseen Fist combined with its other traits pushes it over the top. Surging Strikes's ability to always land in a critical hit takes advantage of Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style's great power to break through Pokemon with Defense boosts like Corviknight and Zeraora as well as screens, while Unseen Fist makes it unscoutable in front of Protect users like Ferrothorn and Aegislash, both restricting its counterplay even further. Of course, it is important to mention Water's great team support as one of the best types in the current metagame. With teammates like Pelipper boosting the already powerful Surging Strikes using Drizzle, Slowking and Slowbro's extremely reliable pivoting using Teleport and ability to damage checks in Toxapex, Amoonguss and Vileplume with Future Sight, and Araquanid to slow down the opposition using Sticky Web, Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style finds many opportunities to wallbreak effectively in many matchups across the board. Due to its already incredible wallbreaking potential, its signature move and ability limiting its counterplay, and its amazing team support, the Monotype council has deemed Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style as unhealthy. We have chosen to quickban it now, but we can potentially revisit it in the future when the metagame is more settled.
Tagging The Immortal or Kris to implement this. Thanks in advance!
With this, the 6/8 threshold has been met and the council has decided to quickban Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style from the SS Monotype metagame. Due to its great offensive stats, STAB combo and U-turn pivoting, Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style has been a huge threat in the Monotype metagame that is capable of running multiple sets, particularly Choice Band and Choice Scarf. On top of all this, its access to Surging Strikes and its ability in Unseen Fist combined with its other traits pushes it over the top. Surging Strikes's ability to always land in a critical hit takes advantage of Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style's great power to break through Pokemon with Defense boosts like Corviknight and Zeraora as well as screens, while Unseen Fist makes it unscoutable in front of Protect users like Ferrothorn and Aegislash, both restricting its counterplay even further. Of course, it is important to mention Water's great team support as one of the best types in the current metagame. With teammates like Pelipper boosting the already powerful Surging Strikes using Drizzle, Slowking and Slowbro's extremely reliable pivoting using Teleport and ability to damage checks in Toxapex, Amoonguss and Vileplume with Future Sight, and Araquanid to slow down the opposition using Sticky Web, Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style finds many opportunities to wallbreak effectively in many matchups across the board. Due to its already incredible wallbreaking potential, its signature move and ability limiting its counterplay, and its amazing team support, the Monotype council has deemed Urshifu-Rapid Strike Style as unhealthy. We have chosen to quickban it now, but we can potentially revisit it in the future when the metagame is more settled.
Tagging The Immortal or Kris to implement this. Thanks in advance!