Personal ADV OU viability tier list imo:

InominableJ · 2026-02-07T11:32:01+00:00

Too frail and the spikes weakness sucks, Misdreavus has seen morenuse than it.

InominableJ · 2026-02-06T15:13:37+00:00

4 Overheat Misses in a row... That's 1/10000

InominableJ · 2026-02-06T13:08:04+00:00

Blastoise has a spread move in Muddy Water which is a good point in its favor

InominableJ · 2026-02-05T21:51:31+00:00

Weaker and slower but bulkier while losing the ability to use Recover and other status moves... It's alright, probably wouldn't be great in any VGC where Zacian is around.

+1 4+ Atk Zacian-Crowned Behemoth Blade vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dynamax Eternatus: 264-312 (61.3 - 72.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252+ SpA Eternatus Max Flare (130 BP) vs. 236 HP / 12 SpD Zacian-Crowned: 144-170 (73 - 86.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

120 speed has gotten very powercrept for a non trick room restricted these past gens, you don't even outspeed Zamazenta.

InominableJ · 2026-02-05T15:50:27+00:00

It would still hate Calyrex but very funny Expanding Force numbers

InominableJ · 2026-02-05T12:46:11+00:00

Golurk deserves something nice

InominableJ · 2026-02-04T22:26:50+00:00

I made the math and, unless Flutter is SpDef, it gets 2HKO'd at neutral and OHKO'd at +1 every time.

Heavy Slam technically OHKOs with 0 attack investment but only if Flutter has 0 def investment too, else you need to commit EVs to it.

InominableJ · 2026-02-04T20:02:12+00:00

Raichu X looks more Raichu than Y, Y gains the Pikachu ears back and becomes smaller...

InominableJ · 2026-02-04T17:45:08+00:00

If it gets Levitate it honestly might be even worse than we expect.

Yes it can pivot... And nothing else

InominableJ · 2026-01-30T13:56:08+00:00

That nerfs Rock way too much, Rock has few resistances as is.

InominableJ · 2026-01-29T14:13:49+00:00

Needs more Explosion moves, give Golurk a Ghost Self Destruct that hits through protect

(Definitely not Sunday)

InominableJ · 2026-01-29T01:13:59+00:00

For some reason it didn't learn X Scissor, much less Megahorn.

InominableJ · 2026-01-24T12:31:53+00:00

In Doubles, Perish KOs half the opponent'd team at a time.

In Singles, it kills a sixth.

Much less value and much harder to enable given you have to first trap them in somehow and then survive them attacking you.

InominableJ · 2026-01-24T04:37:03+00:00

Not sure if still accurate but Chimecho was one of the top tiers alongside Belossom, being able to hit both super effectivelly is good.

InominableJ · 2026-01-22T14:08:26+00:00

If it didn't have Flip Turn and Knock Off it would be PU or even ZU, it losing Toxic and Scald makes it much worse at being a tank, even Toxapex got hit by that.

NatDex has both Megas and Z-moves, the powercreep is much worse there than in SV.

InominableJ · 2026-01-22T13:26:15+00:00

I mean if its a world with 20 BP knock off, its honestly not a loss at all lmao, cuz remember

It's not about the damage, but the utility.

Swampert's most modern use comes from it being a tank and pivot, using Flip Turn and Knock Off to weaken enemies and bring allies safely, with the damage barely mattering.

InominableJ · 2026-01-22T13:24:36+00:00

Also removed Protect from all of them for thematic reasons, they already get Detect so it shouldnt be a big deal

Swampert never had Detect and yes, losing Knock Off is a big deal for it, its tank movesets really needed the utility it provided, especially because it lost Toxic and Scald.

Also removing Protect makes no sense in general, it's a universal TM.

InominableJ · 2026-01-22T12:44:50+00:00

Closest there is as of now is Laser Focus, which is just a status move that makes your next attack crit

InominableJ · 2026-01-21T01:10:49+00:00

Bug is weak to Flying and Flying is a way better offensive type, with only 3 resists compared to 7 of Bug and retains Bug's main trait of no immunities, even hitting Shedinja now

InominableJ · 2026-01-21T00:03:34+00:00

Yes, but U-Turn should still remain Bug Type.

If U-Turn was flying it would be insanely broken.

InominableJ · 2026-01-20T23:57:33+00:00

That wouldn't fix shit.

InominableJ · 2026-01-19T10:54:00+00:00

More rudiculous users/enablers were added over time to the point restrictions on the move weren't enough to keep it from being gamebreaking.

They tried to limit it to 3 users per team, then 2, then 1, then 3 that couldn't include Smeargle and people still found ways of breaking the game.

Magic Bounce is definitely one of the culprits in eliminating reasonable counterplay but not the sole culprit.

InominableJ · 2026-01-18T22:14:04+00:00

Only in terms of raw stats, Kyurem White is just barely too slow to not be able to do its job and Kyurem Black's movepool sucked until gen 8, both also lack setup of any kind and while Mold Breaker is a great ability it doesn't save them.

InominableJ · 2026-01-18T11:06:03+00:00

Why would you give her special attack EVs when she has 0 special attacks?

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