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Level 4 Entities:
Low opportunity cost, splashable, versatile, not easily wallable, and has both offensive and defensive utility. Good vs most mu's or its good mu's are so good it outweighs the amount of times mu is hopeless. Can either accrue huge advantage quickly and take over a game or make a come back in dire straits with appropriate tera/tech. No defensive mons here, all are able to boost and snowball somehow.
4 - hallmark of an ideal wincon, meta defining and has just as good defensive utility as it does offensive. However, deemed to be an essential part of the meta after several tier shifts due to its presence being needed in the meta and it having limited choices for sets. One of the all time examples of necessary evil in a meta, but objectively speaking it is the perfect gauge for whether a mon is broken. Essential part of the ecosystem holding back mindless setup and curbing pult. Checked handily by lando, birds, dozo, tusk, zama, val, encore, and status. On the literal line between 4 and 5.
4 - very similar to gambit in that it is as good defensively as it is offensively, with a burn immunity to match gambit's tox immunity. This mon only has 3 sets, offensive setup, bulky, and choiced, but all 3 require different counter measures to check. Rain being gone really bolstered this mons viability, as rain usually completely shuts this down as rain's utility mon pelipper hard walls it. The mon's existence however deters another cheap mon in volcarona, therefore necessitating that this mon stay in ou because volcarona unabated is arguably more broken. While one can argue that volc can run tera dragon and tera ground to muscle, i believe that volc being required to do acrobatics to jump over this obstacle limits its unpredictability and hampers its dominance to go insane with unpredictable teras. Essential part of the food chain for ho to have a longevity mon vs fatter styles while keeping volc at bay. Checked by lando, status grounds, some dozos, zama, status to force tera etc, while also phazable because it takes time to snowball. Very annoying and cheap but thats what happens when arch gets banned gutting rain and undermining the balance of the entire metagame!
free arch and ban electro shit!
4 - an all time classic sweeper, no explanation needed. Easier to wall than goug but easier to get going. Flame body utility also top tier. Versatile, good defensive utility, but easier than goug to hard wall and succumbs to gking meta + goug ho and cannot do anything to stall/fat. One of the premier examples of mons that are amazing in power and utility but has coverage issues and thus magnifies the rock paper scissors of matchup. However, important glue in the metagame to help keep fairies and kyurem at bay, see the bland flavorless gking lu meta in the absence of volc. Essential. Done in by unawares, stall, dnite or physical dragons, prima, prio revenge etc.
4 - with the rise of alomomola fat to combat the spill of physical attackers, oger burst onto the scene as the premier breaker to punish every style that utilizes alomomola. This mon gives ho a fighting chance vs stall alongside several other partners, and its design set perfect amounts of limitations built into its kit (hazard weak, no item, predictable tera, rather limited versatility). This is a mon similar to a mega, in that it is extremely strong at the cost of some tradeoffs, but the limitations also should not be overlooked. Even alo teams can lay spikes and wish up on switch then punish the oger with another partner. However, the high crit rate contactless water cudgel is indeed bordering on broken, as not many mons in the entire metagame can take a few of those. Tb is good v offense/balance, whereas sd whip 3 att sets can dismantle fat without the appropriate counter. Often times, however, this mon can also be useless. Into glim + dragons booster teams this mon hardly has the opportunity to come in and fire off hits. Its speed tier is amazing but not broken, it is similar to enam being the hardest hitters sitting at a relatively healthy but competitive speed tier. Overall, this mon has a perfect kit for what it seeks to accomplish in this meta which is force fast progress so that hazards + attrition do not eventually do it in. One can argue that this mon cannot be switched into, but just like certain mons like volc and bolt curbing offense and always losing to stall, this is one of those mons that punishes fat but can also easily fall to a well built ho based on either hazards or hitting hard and fast. An essential part of the ecosystem but we need electro shitless arch back to check it tho fr
FREE ARCH. This mon isnt checked by much just like kyurem but hits jsut as hard. It is one of those kyurem/enam adjacent fast strong mons with good coverage and utility, but its speed and built in damage puts it a cut above them while the tradeoff of losing item/boots can be mitigated by virtue of offense being able to dictate the tempo. Without this mon alo fat teams would flood the meta and nobodys trynna play that garbage shit.
4 - another necessary evil type mon but thanks to its shit coverage and middling attack stat, this mon is actually on the border of 4 and 3. This mon checks way more mons than iv seen any offensive threat do in modern metas, it is like lando levels of checking offensive while still boasting speed and being a wincon. This mon is almost the physdef counterpart of ting lu with more bias toward offensive capabilities, due to the roar set being spammed. In my opinion, this mon is one of the most essential mons in the entire meta and holds back the stars like general rahdan. One may argue that a mon shouldnt be this fast, this bulky, and have this much utility to sweep while technically being a defensive mon. Well, id rather have this mon roam free than have to face every variation of tera gambit as last mon. checked by lando, ghosts, status, volc, unaware, fairies, and phazing.
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Level 3 Entities:
Good body, good utility, perhaps lacking something in terms of coverage, versatility, absolute power etc. Still good to trade w the majority of the meta, still forces progress with ease, and splashable/easily usable with low skill floor. One step down from level 4's who can take over games more often and more easily, as the level 4's boast some form of utility or another over this tier.
3 - Similar body to gambit, similar limited versatility and some may argue even less versatile than gambit. This mon is a noob check, as being swept by bolt is very easy if one uses a bad team/missplays. However, if 4 months in and one still cannot manage to outmaneuver a mon that only uses stabs and 1 other move, I got some news for ya, and its not savant syndrome. The body and kit both serve to mitigate ho spam and balance, while the mon itself suffers v stall and fatter teams. This mon is essential in curbing the ho despite being a frequent collaborator on said style. Arguably around moon levels of broken, gets a kill and trades well into everything barring extreme fat. Even then, taunt sets can stallbreak and choiced draco nukes lu/unaware mons. Very good at its job, though its job description is rather limited.
3 - Was debating if this is 4 or 3 but sv has been around so long that everyone and their mom knows the 3 things this shit is gonna do: dd, taunt then dd, or dd and then taunt. come on bruh landot is everywhere and every fat mon on offense is trading 1v1 w this, like neck, nite, zama etc etc. This mon is essential in providing breaking for ho and keeping certain ghosts/stalls at bay.
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Level 2/1 Entities:
do u need some elo? poor widdle gwarg cwicked salt cwure on u 10 twimes? awww poor bwaby!
1 - Been fair for 2 years now. Seek help
1 - See above. Please seek mental counciling
In conclusion, I have not found a single mon to be tier 5 aka bannable territory, with arch only barely being borderline 4/5 imo and im still not sold on its ban. Rain wasnt even that broken but now w rain gone goug is unabated, sun is unabated, and oger is unabated. Notice how rain's demise has caused disproportional rise to other threats that are now considered broken. We can still fix this, ban electro shit like we did with every other clearly broken signature move and bring arch back into the meta. This isnt even a case of oh but how do we know the move isnt broken because literally the mon is uu outside of rain. Check the stats.
Come on now lets petition to free arch and keep the meta ecosystem healthy rather than use bans as a form of population control (it doesnt work, banning more shit just makes the meta more centralized, see: lu gking zap meta)
my final verdict: There are no Tier 5 aka quickban/insta suspectable mons in this current meta. Tier 4's can be suspected down the line but i wouldnt ban them, leave the rest alone.
Use the like button as a free arch but ban electro shit button