Despite its base 90 Attack, Dracovish has cemented itself as a fearsome wallbreaker thanks to Strong Jaw and signature bite move in Fishious Rend. Due to the way Fishious Rend works, doubling in power if it lands the first attack that turn, it allows Dracovish to easily break past slower Pokemon such as Celesteela and Mega Sableye with a powerful nuke. Dracovish also has excellent supporting coverage; Outrage enables it to hit slower Dragon-types like Dragalge and Water-immune Pokemon like Gastrodon, Stone Edge specifically targets Mantine, and Psychic Fangs hits Mega Venusaur and Toxapex. It can also utilize Crunch to hit Jellicent or Leech Life to target Celebi.
Naturally, these coverage moves make Dracovish hard to check defensively given its decent Speed stat, allowing it to outpace many walls. This means many teams will have to rely solely on offensive teammates to take care of Dracovish. Dracovish can easily be taken advantage of by faster wallbreakers such as Urshifu-S, Tapu Koko, and Kyurem. While this seems like it should be enough to check Dracovish, it certainly is not a reliable means of checking it. Due to its decent 90 / 100 / 80 defenses, the attacks need to be reasonably powerful to revenge kill it from full or super effective, or it needs to have been chipped before it can be revenge killed.
On top of that, each time Dracovish is safely brought in against a defensive Pokemon, it can claim a KO. This is especially apparent in National Dex Monotype. As balanced teams are common, allowing Dracovish to thrive in a slower metagame.
However, that does not go without saying that Dracovish can be checked by every type utilizing their different common offensive Pokemon or status conditions such as burn or paralysis. Both of those status conditions severely affect its ability to properly wallbreak.
If something is slanted, it means it checks Dracovish but is not a Pokemon.
Bug- Volcarona, Mega Pinsir, Buzzwole, Ribombee, Sticky Web
Dark- Greninja, Urshifu-S, Hydreigon, Zarude
Dragon- Dragonite, Kommo-o, Mega Altaria
Electric- Tapu Koko, Alolan Raichu, Zeraora
Fairy- Mega Diancie, Tapu Lele, Mimikyu, Tapu Bulu
Fighting- Kommo-o, Urshifu-S, Buzzwole, Mega Gallade
Fire- Cinderace, Mega Charizard X & Y, Blacephalon
Flying- Dragonite, Mega Aerodactyl, Mega Charizard Y, Landorus
Ghost- Mimikyu, Spectrier
Grass- Rillaboom, Whimsicott, Celebi, Zarude
Ground- Excadrill, Landorus, Garchomp
Ice- Alolan Ninetales, Galarian Darmanitan, Weavile, Kyurem
Normal- Ditto, Mega Lopunny, Porygon-Z
Poison- Nidoking, Nihilego
Psychic- Mega Gallade, Tapu Lele, Latios
Rock- Mega Diancie, Terrakion, Nihilego, Sticky Web
Steel- Jirachi
Water- Greninja, Tapu Fini, Urshifu-R
Bug- Volcarona, Mega Pinsir, Buzzwole, Ribombee, Sticky Web
Dark- Greninja, Urshifu-S, Hydreigon, Zarude
Dragon- Dragonite, Kommo-o, Mega Altaria
Electric- Tapu Koko, Alolan Raichu, Zeraora
Fairy- Mega Diancie, Tapu Lele, Mimikyu, Tapu Bulu
Fighting- Kommo-o, Urshifu-S, Buzzwole, Mega Gallade
Fire- Cinderace, Mega Charizard X & Y, Blacephalon
Flying- Dragonite, Mega Aerodactyl, Mega Charizard Y, Landorus
Ghost- Mimikyu, Spectrier
Grass- Rillaboom, Whimsicott, Celebi, Zarude
Ground- Excadrill, Landorus, Garchomp
Ice- Alolan Ninetales, Galarian Darmanitan, Weavile, Kyurem
Normal- Ditto, Mega Lopunny, Porygon-Z
Poison- Nidoking, Nihilego
Psychic- Mega Gallade, Tapu Lele, Latios
Rock- Mega Diancie, Terrakion, Nihilego, Sticky Web
Steel- Jirachi
Water- Greninja, Tapu Fini, Urshifu-R
Suspect Test Information
- This suspect test will count towards the new tiering contributor badge!
- Reading this is mandatory to participate in the suspect test. The voting requirements are a minimum GXE of 78 with at least 50 games played. In addition, you may play 1 less game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 78 GXE, down to a minimum of 30 games at a GXE of 82. Also, doing more than 50 games to reach 78 GXE will suffice.
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GXE minimum games 78 50 78.2 49 78.4 48 78.6 47 78.8 46 79 45 79.2 44 79.4 43 79.6 42 79.8 41 80 40 80.2 39 80.4 38 80.6 37 80.8 36 81 35 81.2 34 81.4 33 81.6 32 81.8 31 82 30 - Dracovish will require a 60% majority of voters in favor of banning it in order for it to be banned from National Dex Monotype.
- You must use a fresh account that begins with the given prefix for this suspect test. That prefix is NDMV. For example, I could signup and qualify with the name NDMV maroon.
- You may not impersonate or mock another user with your account name. If there is any slight hesitation, you're probably better off picking a different name. We reserve the right to null your voting requisites if you are found impersonating or mocking another user with your account name. Moderator discretion will be applied.
- If you are found trying to manipulate voting requisites in any way, you will be met with a harsh infraction. Manipulating voting requisites ranges from faking your screenshot to asking another user to forfeit.
- The Pokemon that's being suspect tested, Dracovish, will be allowed on the National Dex Monotype ladder for the next two weeks so that we can properly assess its position in the metagame.
- This suspect test will go on for two weeks. It will last until Monday, February the 22nd at 11:59 PM GMT-5.