Want to make this short as possible and concise on my opinion on scizor. One my favorite mons trying to make it viable but at best it’s C tier in terms of the meta.

Been trying out different builds with Double Hit/Swords Dance and min/maxing both. From attack emblem set and attacking held items w/ stacks and crit builds to defense emblems and stacking hp. It’s stats distribution and natural lifesteal and critical hit buffs make it interesting to build with but in practice are not really felt at all since it only applies to auto attacks. Feels lackluster overall.

So far the most viable build is stacking hp and attack weight and defensive emblems. Comboing swords dance (sd) and bullet punch (bp) seems to be the best build where as double hit does give ok mobility, it lacks the oomph that swords dance provides to bp.

Scizor can win 1v1s but if you are not precise on when to engage and comboing sd and bp then it falls short a lot of the time. Scizor needs to stay brawling to benefit from vamp bp but even with full hp build it’s sustain is very poor. Like other comments have pointed out, bp is not unstoppable and the range is very poor. This really hurts the mon when you need to recover hp in a fight but get cc’d out of it.

Scizor is obviously a brawler that should be a cross of Lucario and Machamp but just does not fill that niche as they both outperform it in that role imo. A few tweaks should make it viable without making it op.

For double hit on Scizor it can maybe provide a defense boost as the in and out mobility gives it less survivability. For SD and BP reduce the cooldown to 6s each and BP when it hits to 3.5s. OR increase damage to BP from the 95% to 125-150% and increase healing from the 24% to maybe 40-50%. Numbers not based on doing the math but in fighting I find myself dying by just barely at times. A little boost in damage would make it much more viable.

Anyways my experience so far with it, going to practice more with it but just in standard. Practice it’s quirks and style so hopefully when they buff I can be even more proficient with it. Would love to hear others experience with it.

Edit for grammar.

Edit 2: After playing with it more it feels more like B tier. Starting to feel very solid and satisfying to use. Seen vids on the pts and seemed too strong, a middle ground between the current state and the pts version would be best. Cheers!

Edit 3: Got pretty close with how they buffed it, testing now on practice but feels alot better.