drampa's grandpa
benign auto-cannibal
Magearna is starting to concern me. The fact that it is on nearly every team as the ONLY check to some of the most powerful partycrashers in the tier is, imo, problematic. I don't actually think Magearna is the source of this problem, but rather a symptom, and I would personally like a tier where I can use something that is beaten by Magearna (like Hoopa-U, Drampa<3) and is not one of the aforementioned crazy threats like Xurkitree and not have them be total deadweight. I've taken to running a Magnet Pull mon JUST for Magearna, I don't even care if it beats other Steel types, and Magearna's stellar coverage means I often have to sack something anyway to get it in (rip that one time I tried to switch in Lando-T and they had Ice Beam). The worst part is, the Magnet Puller NEEDS to be immune to Volt Switch, so Ground type, which is easily abused by coverage like Ice Beam.
Something needs to go, because imo Magearna is unhealthily centralizing.
EDIT: E4 Flint mentioned Excadrill, and I should mention that that is what I switched to as my Mag Mag Pull. Works ok but
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Excadrill: 204-242 (56.5 - 67%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Excadrill: 136-162 (32 - 38.2%) -- 1.4% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
You have to run Max HP max attack to win against Aura Sphere variants.
252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Magearna: 326-386 (108.3 - 128.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Excadrill: 204-242 (48.1 - 57%) -- 69.5% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
Edit edit: OR ASSAULT VEST Quantum Tesseract
Something needs to go, because imo Magearna is unhealthily centralizing.
EDIT: E4 Flint mentioned Excadrill, and I should mention that that is what I switched to as my Mag Mag Pull. Works ok but
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Excadrill: 204-242 (56.5 - 67%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Excadrill: 136-162 (32 - 38.2%) -- 1.4% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
You have to run Max HP max attack to win against Aura Sphere variants.
252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Magearna: 326-386 (108.3 - 128.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
0 SpA Magearna Aura Sphere vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Excadrill: 204-242 (48.1 - 57%) -- 69.5% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
Edit edit: OR ASSAULT VEST Quantum Tesseract
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