Just a thought: seems weird to me that Marowak probably should be in D. Anyone tested it much though yet?
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Wtf you never play Omastar? It's sooo good man u gotta try it. Srsly how come you never use it? I thought everyone did. It's on literally half of my serious teams [no D ranks].I don't rly know about Omastar I never play it but I could see why you'd want it to A.
I feel like it's kinda big Nidoking bait tho, it's not hard to bait twave / tbolt, psychic chips (which is welcome) but it is always forced to switch out crippled in a 1v1 if it stays in after tbolting/twaving/recovering into a nidoking, unless it stays in and crits psychic [note: not a drop. a psychic after a drop leaves nidoking alive. The trade can be worthwhile tho]. You just use it to sort of keep some special attackers in check [venomoth, abra, blastoise, fires] which is largely stuff slowpoke can do too [slowpoke doesn't have recover tho ofc, but it does check omastar unlike porygon]. Furthermore, whilst it's easier to break when paralyzed, and not too hard to bait into paralyzing, that's not even really nesscary, as I said that you can just use it to let in nidoking. It can almost trade, which means that just forcing it into a situation where it's in range of 2 EQs before you switch in then just using Porygon puts you in a bad spot, especially if the nidoking user has a nidoqueen in the back too. Just to me, in practice is doesn't really do much, and it has real downsides as well as upsides. It doesn't always feel like S material to me, or at least I feel like if we're not moving Porygon to A, we should move Slowpoke to S because it fairly consistently does more damage.I disagree about Porygon, it has its weaknesses, true, but on the other hand it's the only recover user, it always costs a lot of ressources to take down (sometimes you have to use king and the opp can hit switch out), but the main thing I have in mind is that you need to paralyse it to kill it, and your own Porygon is your best tool, otherwise bar prediction you have to take paralysis on a mon that rly doesn't like it just to para the Porygon. BUT if Omastar is considered A (Hpump 2HKOs Pory) meaning it's common then I can see why you'd want to drop pory to A. These two changes make sense when done at the same time
Definitely a level above Staryu, idk about Scyther tho. No-one uses Scyther enough, I still don't really have a good sense of how useful it is in battle tho. That being said I think it's not entirely out of place to have Nidoqueen in B, but I want a bit more testing of it and Scyther.I'm gonna suggest Nidoqueen to B, I don't have time to elaborate but it's rly a level above staryu and scyther imo, it's not that hard to fit in onto a team and it can be ridiculously annoying to beat endgame.
Dragonair: powerful wrap based stuff, it was fairly effective from before looking at it. Should test it moreNo opinions on E, and when I quickly look at D I think everything has its spot (I don't know what Dragonair does, never played with/against it) except Magneton maybe ? It's true that it could drop. Muk might need more testing too.
I think there's a legitimate case for Seadra to bemoved t D but I think Lusch should make the cas since he has the most experience with it.