glalie looks neat, im gonna have to try it soon.
anyways, one mon that i've been having a blast using for the past couple of days has been
larvesta. even though it sounds like a complete meme and waste of space, it's unique typing is actually really handy in this meta for beating a lot of the best mons in the meta. you just straight beat special sceptiles (which amount to ~80% of tiles if i had to guess, also rock slide special doesn't exist @_@) as well as checking fighting types and some other weaker physical attackers (also flame body is amazing). it also forms a really neat core w/ lanturn since obviously their typings mesh well together, and lanturn also provides heal bell support, a 100% switch into mantine, and it forms a nice slow volt-turn core to get in frailer threats. obviously it needs a lot of support to make work b/c of the whole 4x weakness to rocks thing, but with the right support it's a really fun mon to use.
also i know
Teddeh and
soulgazer (and apparently
Raseri but he's a butt who forced me to edit him in) have been preaching about this mon, but
sliggoo is a really great mon on bulkier builds right now because of its ability to pretty much counter Sceptile and handle pretty much any special attacking threat that comes its way. i think that some people (i forget who) have been using special w/ coverage moves like t-bolt, muddy water, and ice beam to break down a lot of defensive cores, but from what i've been hearing a mono attacking curse set w/ outrage seems to be quite good right now. Even though it may appear subpar due to the fact that most teams are packing a steelix, if you can remove its leftovers, you set up on it pretty much for free (barring hax ofc). just really anti-meta right now, which is just what the tier needs imo.
continuing from that last point, i think it's cool that people are discovering more and more anti-meta stuff that beats common builds because that's a really good sign of a meta that's adapting to new threats. who knows, we might start seeing sliggoo pop up more and more and become a staple on balance, similar to the way that hariyama was back in XY? i'm not saying its going to happen, but i think that anything's possible with the way that the meta is trending towards fatter builds because of scept and lix. Not to mention that with SPL on the horizon, we can expect much more rapid metagame growth, since a lot of metagames tend to develop much quicker over major tournaments, than over months on the ladder. either way im definitely enjoying this metagame so far and am looking forward to what the coming months have in store for us regarding potential metagame development.
