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Uncompetitive PVP combinations (IMHO) Chansey with Eviolite/Seismic Toss and Kyurem + Freeze-Dry


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I play a little Normal PVP and I perceive the following combinations as unhealthy:

1) Chansey with Eviolite item and Seismic Toss move. Almost every high ranking user have this combo (or at least Chansey with Eviolite). Having move set:
Seismic Toss, Heal Bell, Soft-Boiled/Wish, Toxic/Thunder Wave/Stealth Rock; with Natural Cure ability; Bold nature; 252 IV for defense and 252 for HP makes Chansey:
- very hard to kill,
- perfect and safe switch strategy when any Special Attack Pokemon is in the opponent battlefield,
- stalls the game (normal match can be ended in 10 minutes with Chensey it is always at least twice more)
Even trying to knock off the Eviolite does not help because good opponent always is switching to Pokemon with mega stone/Zapdos with Static/Skarmory with Rocky Helmet. Toxic is not useful against Chansey due to Heal Bell and/or Natural Cure ability (just switch out and it gets away with any status condition). Chansey played well with other Pokemons (like stall team: Skarmory, Clefable, Meaga Sableye) makes it very hard to defeat. From my experience every stall team with Chansey have always high ranking (I guess you can lookup the Pokemons of players in the top 10, seeing there Meaga Sableye with Will-O-Wisp will not be a big surprise). I realize that ghost type Pokemon with Taunt can stay against Chansey, but over all with almost zero attack stat Chansey can defeat almost any Pokmeon in 3/4 turns using Seismic Toss or Toxic it (then use Soft-Boiled).
I think that Chansey + Eviolite should be banned combination or at least Chansey + Sesimic Toss. If this is allowed why "Arena Trap" is not (which makes sense against Chansey, more than Block/Mean Look moves because she will be switched anyway before the move will be in effect).
 

2) Kyurem (especially White/Black due to Turboblaze ability) + Freeze-Dry move,
Ice type attack like Freeze-Dry is super effective against types: grass, ground, flying, dragon, + water due to Freeze-Dry specification.
When fighting with Kyurem a natural choice be to switch to a Pokemon with steel or fire type (ice attack is not effective against them). But Kyurem (which has huge Sp. Attack) also knows Earth Power move which is super-effective against the above two types. Furthermore Bronzong with Levitate ability will get killed due to Turboblaze ability of Kyurem. Plus Freeze-Dry can froze the target.
I feel like Kyurem + Freeze-Dry  (when it also knows Earth Power) makes the game uncompetitive.

 

Those are only my observations as a player so anyone feel free to disagree. I feel like the above combinations makes the PVP limited to only well known sets of Pokemon, and for me this removes the fan in building PVP team.

 

 

Edited by Demenelizator

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