As others have pointed out, the entire slate has high physical defense, and there isn't really a specially bulky version. The closest to one is brambane's, with 100 Defense and 125 Special Defense, but even that has 100 Defense, and all the other ones have higher physical defense or are balanced. As Tommaniacal says, that makes Stamina a lot stronger, and a more balanced set taking Stamina into account could have higher Special defense, relying on Stamina to get good physical defense with help from a recovery move. I think it makes sense that there is one version at least from someone that gave 30b lower physical defense, not necessarily really low, but at least below 100. Also every slate leans rather heavily to one side of offense, and while the side varies I think that it would have been better if there was one more balanced set in terms of offense, although as far as I can tell nobody even posted an idea for a balanced offensive set so there's not much to be done there. Aside from that, the slate has a lot of variety that looks really interesting, and all the versions have different ideas, which is good.
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I would still like to see a more specially bulky 30b, but thats what I made so I'm biased, and I think that from what people have said it makes sense that the slate can stay as is. There are benefits to both, and while I think balancing 30b is definitely possible while still taking into account Stamina, it would be hard, and going for lower special defense to make it easier to beat and not a complete wall makes sense. Even though a specially bulk 30b that starts off physically weak but then gets Stamina boosts is a cool idea, it would be very strong, especially since it is the base form and so it could hold something like Leftovers with Roost/Recover recovery. I don't think that it should have really low Special defense, like nothing below 70, probably at least 80, but not higher than maybe 90 would make it easier to kill, although for that high it would have to lose offenses.
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I would still like to see a more specially bulky 30b, but thats what I made so I'm biased, and I think that from what people have said it makes sense that the slate can stay as is. There are benefits to both, and while I think balancing 30b is definitely possible while still taking into account Stamina, it would be hard, and going for lower special defense to make it easier to beat and not a complete wall makes sense. Even though a specially bulk 30b that starts off physically weak but then gets Stamina boosts is a cool idea, it would be very strong, especially since it is the base form and so it could hold something like Leftovers with Roost/Recover recovery. I don't think that it should have really low Special defense, like nothing below 70, probably at least 80, but not higher than maybe 90 would make it easier to kill, although for that high it would have to lose offenses.
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