Aphotyx Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 (edited) Welcome to the Pokémon Revolution Online (PRO) viability rankings, where all usable Pokémon are ranked into tiers according to their usage and viability in our current metagame. The viability rankings categorizes PRO's most viable Pokémon into four categories: S, A, B, and C, with the most influential Pokémon residing in S rank. Each S rank Pokémon is a threat every team must prepare for and will almost always find its place on many successful teams. Within each tier the Pokemon are ordered alphabetically. There is an explanation of each Pokemon's rank in the spoiler below it. The purpose of this thread is to provide knowledge about the current metagame's greatest threats and Pokémon in it. This list is a great tool to use when building a team. The rankings will be discussed as a community and will be changed once a viable reason for that pokemon to rise or fall in rankings is given. S - These pokemon are threats in any set. They often define the meta and require opponents to be very thoughtful in teambuilding in order to not be swept/walled. A - These pokemon are huge threats and are very prevalent in the game. They often form the core of a team. B - Less prevalent, but usable in game. They are seen in the pvp game but not as much as S or A tier pokemon. These pokemon are manageable to play around. C - These pokemon are not often recommended, but suitable to fill holes in teams. They are rarely seen but not never seen. Things considered in ranking: How prevalent the Pokemon is in the metagame. How many "checks" there are to the Pokemon. How much of a threat the pokemon is in the current metagame. Please fill this form out if you want to discuss a Pokémon's ranking: Name: Current tier: Desired tier: Reason: The Pokémon listed below have been banned from ranked PvP due to their strength and oppressiveness in PRO's meta, and therefore are not factored into the viability rankings. Blaziken Blaziken is one of the most threatening Pokemon in PRO’s metagame due to it having an amazing Fire / Fighting typing, great 120 / 110 offensive stats, access to Swords Dance, and its Speed Boost ability. In addition to this, Blaziken has access to very strong STAB moves in High Jump Kick, Flare Blitz, and Overheat as well as good coverage moves such as Knock Off, Thunder Punch, and Stone Edge. This allows Blaziken to put pressure on every defensive Pokemon in the game and thanks to its Speed Boost ability, it is also very difficult to revenge kill Blaziken. However, Blaziken is pretty frail due to its subpar 80/70/70 defensive stats so finding an opportunity to use Swords Dance is tough. It is also revenge killed by Aqua Jet users such as Azumarill and Crawdaunt. Dugtrio with Arena Trap Dugtrio is useful thanks to its ability, Arena Trap, which makes it able to revenge kill most of the top tier threats in the Metagame such as: Heatran, Excadrill, Nidoking, Magnezone, Entei, Lucario, Klefki, Blaziken, Gengar, Infernape and alot more of grounded threats. Dugtrio should be used with a Focus Sash, this way it is able to take a hit from priority attackers and revenge kill them with a strong STAB earthquake. Dugtrio has an amazing speed tier which makes it able to outspeeds the main threats. With the lack of team preview, it is very difficult to predict it coming in, which makes it a lot stronger. S Rank Togekiss Togekiss can be a nice stall breaker with Nasty Plot, Roost and Heal Bell. It can also be equipped with the item Choice Scarf, which allows it to outspeed threats like Weavile and hurt them with Air Slashs or Dazzling Gleams. It is also a decent Pokémon for the move Defog, and can also spread status in Thunder Wave and Toxic. Magnezone is a very good switch in into both STAB attacks of Togekiss, but has to be worried about Flamethrower or Aura Sphere. Scizor for example is able to revenge kill Togekiss with Bullet Punches. Clefable Clefable is viable in almost every team due to its wide movepool, excellent typing in Fairy, and exceptional ability in Magic Guard. Clefable's ability, Magic Guard, provides an immunity to burn, poison, weather, and entry hazard damage. This allows Clefable to outlast the opposing Pokemon and proceed to wear them down with its respective moves of choice. Clefable also has access to decent Defense stats and Calm Mind. This gives Clefable the upper hand in most matchups. Clefable does run into a few challenges considering a lot of viable Pokemon in the metagame carry Poison and Steel typing. These Pokemon can give Clefable issues. Finally, Clefable runs into four move syndrome because of its access to so many great coverage moves. A+ Rank Bisharp Bisharp with its unique typing and access to great Offensive and Defensive traits sets it apart from most Pokemon in PRO’s metagame. It has access to Swords Dance, a strong priority move in Sucker Punch, and decent speed. It can break many defensive cores but is checked by bulky Ground-type Pokemon such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Garchomp, and more. The typing of Bisharp is also concerning because it is x4 weak to fighting type moves. All in all, Bisharp is a top-tier threat that every team must take into consideration. Chansey Chansey is a premier wall in PRO due to its Gargantuan HP and Special Defense coupled with access to advantageous utility moves. Its insane bulk while holding the Eviolite allows it to check a huge portion of the metagame. Chansey is one of the only Pokemon in PRO capable of reliably checking hard-hitting Pokemon such as Hydreigon, Latios, Volcarona, and more. The downsides to Chansey include its need for Eviolite. If Chansey loses this item, it loses much of its usefulness. Chansey is also extremely passive due to it relying on Seismic Toss as its main way of damaging opponents. Ferrothorn Ferrothorn is one of the best defensive Pokemon in our metagame. Ferrothorn’s access to great utility moves in Thunder Wave, Knock Off, Leech Seed, Spikes, and Stealth Rock make it one of the best Support Pokemon. While Ferrothorn has an amazing typing, it is also x4 weak to Fire-type attacks. This allows Magnezone the opportunity to trap and eliminate Ferrothorn with its unique ability, Magnet Pull, combined with Hidden Power Fire. Ferrothorn’s exceptional typing in tandem with its great bulk also allows it to check Rain teams fairly well. Lastly, Ferrothorn has a terrible base Speed stat which means it has to rely on surviving an attack to use one itself. Garchomp Garchomp is one of the few Pokemon in the metagame that can fill many roles in a team. Its offensive capabilities are unparalleled due to its excellent speed tier, access to Swords Dance, and a great offensive typing combined with STAB spammable moves in Earthquake and Dragon Claw. Garchomp also has the option of running an effective defensive set due to its resistances to Fire and Rock-type attacks and an immunity to Electric-type moves. This allows it to check prominent threats such as Tyranitar, Bisharp, Heatran, and much more. However, Garchomp’s Ground / Dragon typing leaves it x4 weak to Ice-type attacks. This allows common Pokemon such as Weavile, Mamoswine, Gengar, Starmie and much more to come in and revenge kill Garchomp. Gliscor Gliscor is one of the best stall breakers in the PRO meta. Its decent type combo provides Gliscor really good resistance to Fighting, Poison and Bug moves, as soon as, immunity to Ground and Electric moves. Immunity to status when Poisoned makes Gliscor an excellent switch in to a possible status move and knock off. Gliscor has a reliable recovery with Roost+Poison Heal and access to Swords Dance,Toxic,Taunt. As a result, Gliscor can be an excellent Taunt or Setup Stallbreaker, which can be a real threat to Blissey, Clefable, Ferrothorn and more. Although, 4x weakness to Ice and 2x to Water moves,that are so common in PRO , makes important for gliscor to have a good bulky water type Pokemon in the team. Heatran Heatran is able to check a lot of top tier threats in our current metagame thanks to its defensive typing and amazing ability Flash Fire. It can also be used offensively, with choice scarf or even choice specs.It has access to Stealth Rock which makes it hard to get rid of rocks for the main defoggers,such as Latios, Mandibuzz or Skarmory. Bulky water type can come in on Heatran, but they don't appreciate coming in on a Toxic. Dugtrio is the main way to revenge kill Heatran without Air Balloon.Threats such as Azumarill can come in and force Heatran out. Knock Off is also very annoying for Heatran, as leftovers is its only form of recovery outside of Rest so Heatran will be easily worn down with entry hazards and such. In the end, Heatran is one of the best Pokemon in our metagame. Latios Latios—thanks to its amazing Speed tier—is a great choice for teams in need of a revenge killer for threats like Garchomp, Conkeldurr, Nidoking, Crawdaunt, Breloom and more. Latios is one of the best defoggers in PRO because of its amazing Special Attack stat, typing, and ability in Levitate. Plus, without Pursuit in PRO, it makes Latios even stronger. Bisharp, Clefable, Chansey, Jirachi, careful Excadrill and more can all come in on Latios and either force it out of wear it down. Weavile is also a very dangerous for Latios. However,Latios stays a very dangerous threat in our current metagame. Pelipper Pelipper has great bulk and is arguably the best rain setter in the game. With its access to health restoring moves and great stats it is a very balanced pokemon than is very useful on a rain team in pro. Pelippers typing makes it very weak to electric. Rotom-Wash Rotom-Wash is a really good defensive Pokémon, with only one weakness to Grass-type attacks. Volt Switch and Hydro Pump allows it to hit a lot of the metagame, Will-O-Wisp can burn physical threats like Garchomp and Weavile, which would otherwise beat it one versus one. Defog is a nice support move, that can help teams that are weak to hazards. Otherwise you should always run Pain Split over Defog. Grass-type Pokémon are always a really safe switch in to Rotom-Wash, and hurt it with super effective attacks. Rotom-Wash is also not that good because of Volt Switch functioning different than in the real games. Skarmory Skarmory possess an amazing typing,and a stellar defensive stat of 140. Skarmory is guaranteed to find great opportunities to get rid of entry hazards thanks to its access to Defog.Skarmory also has access to Spikes,Stealth Rocks,Roost and Whirlwind to stop physical sweepers.However,Magnezone will be one of the biggest check to non shed shell Skarmory,thanks to its ability Magnet pull,which allows it to trap Skarmory and one hit KO with a strong STAB Thunderbolt.It also has a poor Special Defense and HP base stats,but Skarmory still remains one of the best physical wall in the game. Suicune Suicune is one of the best walls in the recent PRO meta. Its extreme bulkiness along with the reliable recovery of "Rest" and "Calm Mind" to raise special defense, makes it very hard to deal with. "Scald" puts pressure in opponent switches , as a potential burn would make almost every physical attacker unable to win Suicune.The ability Pressure, makes suicune able to counter a lot of stall type pokemons like Blissey, Clefable and more. Tangrowth Tangrowth continues to be one of the best pivots in the metagame thanks to its amazing hidden ability in Regenerator, massive HP and physical bulk, and resistances to Water-, Ground-, and Grass-type attacks. Its typing alongside its physical bulk allows it to check threatening Pokemon such as Azumarill, Garchomp, Excadrill, and Gliscor. It can then proceed to click Knock Off, Leech Seed, and Sleep Powder. These moves annoy the mentioned Pokemon and anything that wants to switch in. Tangrowth’s ability to wall many Pokemon extends even further when holding an Assault Vest. This item allows Tangrowth to check strong special attackers as well. However, Tangrowth is held back by its inability to do anything against other grass types such as Amoonguss and Venusaur. Tangrowth’s weakness to common Ice-, Flying-, and Fire-type attacks doesn’t make it any easier for Tangrowth to fulfill its role in the metagame as a pivot. It’s also relatively passive due to the low Base Power its moves have. Tyranitar Tyranitar is one of the meta’s most used pokemon. It has excellent stats all around and can learn a plethora of attacks for coverage. Tyranitar also has the ability to set up “Stealth Rocks” and generate a sand storm. The big downside to Tyranitar is its typing. Tyranitar is weak to grass, ground, water, and fighting. This are all very common types in PRO’s metagame. Weavile Weavile is one of the best revenge killer in the metagame. It has access to a powerful STAB knock off and icicle Crash. Weavile has also access to priority. Weavile is terribly weak because of its typing and base stats. It is also weak to Stealth rocks and spikes in the long run. Weavile also lacks power to break threats such as Skarmory, Clefable or even Ferrothorn, although none of them appreciate knock off, they can force Weavile out and put entry hazards. Weavile is also very weak to priority moves, such as Conkeldurr's Mach Punch, Scizor's Bullet Punch and Azumarill's Aqua Jet. Nonetheless, Weavile stays an amazing threat in our metagame. A Rank Alakazam Alakazam is an amazing revenge killer and wallbreaker thanks to its great speed tier alongside its exceptional Special Attack stat. Alakazam also has access to Magic Guard which allows it to be a reliable Focus Sash and Life Orb user. However, Alakazam is a very fragile Pokemon that can not tank many hits. Amoonguss Amoonguss is one of the best pivots in the metagame due to its amazing ability, Regenerator, a great defensive typing in Grass / Poison, and access to a great utility move in Spore. These all allow it to consistently check threatening Pokemon such as Azumarill, Breloom, Tangrowth, Rotom-Wash, Clefable, Suicune and more. However, Amoonguss’ subpar offensive Base Stats and relatively weak moves render it extremely passive after Spore has been used. Its Poison-typing also gives it a neutral resistance to the omnipresent Earthquake which worsens its ability to check certain Pokemon when being compared to pivots such as Tangrowth. Azumarill Azumarill is one of the few Meta definers. Its access to Huge Power and Belly Drum make it a very hard-hitting Pokemon. Azumarill’s massive Attack stat in addition to its priority move, Aqua Jet, make Azumarill a prominent threat especially after a Belly Drum boost. Azumarill struggles to get past Steel-type Pokemon such as Ferrothorn and Magnezone but they must be cautious of Azumarill carrying Superpower. Skarmory doesn’t take significant damage unless the Azumarill is carrying a Choice Band as well. Finally, Azumarill has a difficult time getting past grass type Pokemon such as Tangrowth and Amoonguss unless it receives a Belly Drum boost. Blissey Blissey has a lot of usage in the metagame. Its movepool is good and it can be used with various sets. The most common one is the standard Special Defensive Wall, which walls numerous of special threats in the metagame, such as Hydreigon without Superpower and Magnezone. Common moves are the essential Softboiled, Thunder Wave or Toxic, Seismic Toss and/or Ice Beam and it can also run Heal Bell. Blissey is very weak to Moves like Taunt and to Physical Fighting Types such as Conkeldurr and Blaziken which are used a lot in the current Metagame. Dugtrio is able to trap and kill Blissey if it lacks the move Ice Beam. Conkeldurr Conkeldurr can be played in different playstyles. The most common one of them is its Sheer Force Ability Set with the Item Life Orb. It makes you able to two hit KO almost every common Pokemon in the Metagame. Common moves on this set are: Mach Punch, Superpower, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Poison Jab. Another set is based on its ability Guts and the Item Flame Orb. Facade, Mach Punch for Priority, Superpower hits almost every Pokemon in the Metagame, Knock Off can be ran to round up the set. Conkeldurr can be checked by bulky Pokemon in Physical Defense with the Item Rocky Helmet or revenge killed by faster Pokemon that resist its priority Mach Punch. Crawdaunt Crawdaunt, with its ability and powerful STAB, is one of the best stallbreakers in the game. Paired with a Choice Band or a Life Orb, Crawdaunt is able to two hit KO and one hit KO walls such as Amoonguss, Blissey, Hippowdon, Jellicent, Clefable, Heatran, Gliscor and others. It is also capable of two hit KO’ing Tangrowth and Skarmory with rocks being up. Crawdaunt has a powerful STAB Knock Off which is really hard to switch into, and access to Crabhammer, which has high a critical hit ratio. Crawdaunt also has access to a priority move in Aqua Jet, which makes it able to one hit KO threats like Volcarona, Excadrill, Heracross, Alakazam, Blaziken, Nidoking and other offensive threats. It also does massive damage to threats like Weavile or Gengar. However Crawdaunts low speed and the fact that it is extremely frail still makes it easy to revenge kill with Latios, Hydreigon and more. Crawdaunt is a very dangerous threat in the metagame and can break a lot of unprepared teams. Dragonite Dragonite can be used as a wallbreaker on the physical and special site. Choice Band allows it to throw off heavy hitting attacks, Life Orb on a mixed Dragonite can be used to break walls in rain teams with the moves Hurricane, Thunder and Superpower. The most common Dragonite set is with Dragon Dance, Lum Berry and three attacks, such as Outrage and Extreme Speed. Its four times weakness to Ice-type attacks makes it really hard to deal with physical defensive Pokemon that have an Ice-type move. It can also not be switched in on Stealth Rocks many times due to it taking 25% each time it switches in. Excadrill Excadrill is a s tample in almost every sand team run in PRO as it has an excellent defensive typing in Ground and Steel and access to a speed boosting ability under the sand. Due to its ability, Sand Rush, it is very difficult to revenge kill Excadrill unless it is out of the sand. It also has the ability to remove hazards with a great utility move in Rapid Spin. It also has the ability to run a defensive set with moves such as Stealth Rock and Toxic. However, Excadrill’s typing combined with Hippowdon and Tyranitar’s is rather poor making it difficult to get Excadrill in. It also can be trapped and eliminated with ease when facing a Dugtrio if you are not using an Air Balloon. But regardless of these flaws, Excadrill remains to be one of the most consistent Pokemon in the metagame. Gengar Gengar is a solid Special Attacker that has pretty good coverage. With its access to the move Taunt it is able to beat stall alone. The moves Shadow Ball and Sludge Bomb in addition with the Item Life Orb hit really hard, and with the move Focus Blast you are able to hit common threats like Tyranitar, Bisharp and Ferrothorn. Gengar is a very frail Pokemon which means it gets revenge killed pretty easily. Common threats to Gengar are Weavile and Special Defensive Gliscor. Gyarados Gyarados can be a pretty decent stallbreaker with its access to the move Taunt. Taunting an enemy Pokemon with status moves helps it set up multiple Dragon Dances, which allows it to sweep if there are no good checks. The moves Waterfall, Bounce, Earthquake or Ice Fang can be used on this sweeping set. Gyarados gets checked by multiple Pokemon in the Metagame. Slowbro, Ferrothorn, Tangrowth and Rocky Helmet Amoonguss can tank any hit and threaten it with various attacks. Heracross Heracross can be a good stallbreaker with the Ability Guts and a Flame Orb. The access to Swords Dance helps its one hit KO pokemon like Skarmory with Close Combat. Other Pokemon that aren’t weak to fighting get threatened by its boosted Facade or a Knock Off. It can also be with the Item Choice Scarf and the Ability Moxie. Heracross has not many switch ins, but you can revenge kill it easily with a faster Pokemon, as it has no good Attack with Priority. Hippowdon Hippowdon defensive typing makes it a great wall combined with an amazing bulk. It is one of the best Stealth Rockers in the game, and also a great sand setter for Excadrill. It has access to Whirlwind which makes it able to force out sweepers and such. Specials Attackers such as Hydreigon can come in safely and throw off a dangerous STAB attack. Bulky Water-types or bulky Grass-types can all come in on Hippowdon and either two hit KO it with their STAB move, or force it out. Hippowdon doesn't appreciate status such as poison or burn. Although it has a lot of weaknesses, Hippowdon can also check a lot of physical threats in the Metagame. Lastly, Hippowdon has to rely on Whirlwind to stop setup sweepers, which, paired with Taunt can be very dangerous. Hydreigon Hydreigon is a very dangerous threat in our metagame thanks to its Special Attack stat and widely diverse movepool. These make Hydreigon a considerably hard Pokemon to switch into. Defensively, Hydreigon has a great typing especially when taking its ability, Levitate, into consideration. Dark pulse is a very spammable STAB move and also possesses a flinch chance.Threats such as Clefable, Chansey, Azumarill and other bulky Fairy types can come in on Hydreigon not carrying Flash Cannon or Superpower and force it out. In the end, Hydreigon is a great wallbreaker in PRO’s metagame. Jirachi Jirachi is a great Pokemon thanks to its base stats of 100 in all of values. It can be offensive with Choice Scarf and try to flinch other Pokemon with Iron Head thanks to its wonderful ability Serene Grace. It can also be ran defensive with Wish and Protect support, and it is able to set up Stealth Rocks. Jirachi gets walled easily by Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Slowbro, as it can not really hurt them with any of its moves. Non Choice Scarf sets can get revenge killed by threats like Weavile. Another downside is that it lacks a lot of moves that can not be used in PRO. Kingdra Kingdra is the best special Rain Sweeper in the game. Most of the time it is ran with the Item Choice Specs or Life Orb, which boosts its damage output even more. Its STAB Draco Meteor, Hydro Pump and/or Surf have almost no switch ins. With Stealth Rocks on the field, Kingdra is able to two hit KO bulky Special Defensive Pokemon like Blissey. Solid checks to Kingdra are Azumarill or Ferrothorn, which still can be two hit KO’ed by Kingdra. Magnezone Magnezone is a really solid Pokemon in the metagame. Its ability Magnet Pull allows it to trap annoying Steel-types such as Skarmory, Scizor and Ferrothorn, and it is able to kill them with Thunderbolt, Volt Switch or Hidden Power Fire. Its amazing Base Special Attack allows it to two hit KO a lot of the Ground-types of the metagame, which are immune to its Electric-type attacks. Magnezone can easily be countered by a lot of threats in the metagame. Dugtrio can trap it easy and revenge kill it with a STAB Earthquake. Magnezone also has a hard time dealing with Special Defensive Pokemon such as Blissey or Pokemon that resist its dual STAB. Nidoking Nidoking is one of the strongest wallbreakers in the game. Thanks to its ability Sheer Force, paired with a Life Orb, Nidoking can break even the strongest walls in the game. It also has a good dual STAB, which is why it is really hard to switch into Nidoking. Chansey might be able to switch into it although it is threatened by Superpower, Latios and Latias can both take a hit and force Nidoking out. Azumarill and Crawdaunt will both one hit KO Nidoking with their stab priority move paired with a Choice Band. Nidoking has an incredible match up against slow teams, but struggles against offense. Ninetales Ninetales is one of two sun setters for sun teams. It has solid Speed and Special Attack and is really hard to switch into if you name is not Heatran. It gets solid moves in Will-o-Wisp, Pain Split, Solar Beam, which is only a one turn move in the sun, and multiple Fire-type attacks. Even if ran defensive, it is not really tanky, which means it can not switch in that well. Stealth Rocks can also punish it really hard, especially if your team relies on the sun being up. Ninetales also gets outsped by threats like Weavile and Latios, which can revenge kill it easily. Omastar Omastar is a great Rain Sweeper as it has the ability Swift Swim. With the item Choice Specs it is incredibly hard to switch into a rain boosted Hydro Pump and even resist do not take it easily. Its defense allows it to survive multiple of the common priority attacks used in the metagame such as Bullet Punch from Scizor or Aqua Jet from Azumarill. Knock Off allows Omastar to beat Chanseys in one versus one match ups. Its downside is its low speed, which means that other, faster mons can outspeed it even in rain. If it is outside of the rain Omastar has a hard time to deal with Pokemon like Blissey and Chansey. Politoed Politoed is one of the two rain setters in the game. Its amazing bulk allows it to set up rain multiple times in a game and it is also great to support the team with utility. Scald, which is boosted in rain, does not allow Physical Attackers to set up on it, as there is there is the chance the opponent can be burned. It is able to use the move Toxic and Hypnosis, which helps the Rain Sweepers to deal with bulkier Pokemon. Politoed gets worn down easily by enemy hazards and can not really take more than one super effective hit by any opponent, even with its decent bulk. Scizor Scizor is a really scary late game sweeper in the metagame. Its ability Technician allows it to use boosted STAB Bullet Punches, which can even be boosted by the move Swords Dance. U-turn allows it to have momentum and Superpower can one hit KO threats like Magnezone and Ferrothorn, which most of the time wall it otherwise. With access to Defog and Roost it can also be played defensive. Its heaviest downside is its four times weakness against Fire-type attacks and its low speed. It also has to be worried about being trapped by Magnezone. Serperior Serperior is an excellent special attacker. With its lethal combination for leafstorm and contrary, along side with an already staggering speed and special attack, serperior becomes a force to be reckoned with. The big issue with serperior is its lack of a priority move and necessity of hp fire for ferrothorn. With this being said, serperior must watch out for blissey/chansey that can take a Leafstorm and then Thunder Wave in return. Serperior also struggles against Goodra if the set up has not occurred yet. Finally ferrothorn has no worries if Hp Fire is not present. With all this being said, once Serperior begins boosting, it is incredibly hard to stop. Snorlax Snorlax is a really Specially Defensive Pokemon that can be very hard to deal with. Its ability Thick Fat lets it survive Fire- and Ice-type moves even better and even harder to kill. Curse makes it able to boost its Defense and Attack, which can be really scary to face. Snorlax has a lot of moves it can use on different sets, Body Slam, Rest and Curse are found on almost every set though. Snorlax most of the time gets completely walled by Ghost-types, as it runs only one Normal-type attack. It also has a hard time to deal with Taunt users. Mew Mew has the best movepool in the game, it is able to learn every single HM and TM. Mew can be used offensively and defensively. Mew is the only Defogger in the game that has no stealth rock weakness and has access to Will-O-Wisp, which makes it able to halve the attack of top tier threats like Bisharp. Thanks to Mew’s ability Synchronise, it makes it able to punish Scald users or Status users. However, Mew can easily be revenge killed and weared down by entry hazards as the Psychic-type has a lot of weaknesses. All in all, Mew possess solid base stats, and is able to check main threats like Latios, Nidoking and more. Staraptor Staraptor is one of the best physical stallbreakers. It is able to kill most of the offensive Pokemon in the metagame with a banded Reckless boosted STAB Brave Bird. It has very few switch ins, which most of the time do not appreciate Staraptors Superpower. The access to U-turn gives it access to momentum, which can be really useful versus certain types of teams. The only counterpart to Staraptor is that it gets worn down pretty easily by Stealth Rocks and the recoil moves it uses. Pokemon like Magnezone and Weavile can revenge kill Staraptor, as they are both faster than it. Volcarona Volcarona is one of the best special end game sweepers. With Quiver Dance and its high base speed it can outspeed multiple threats when it is +1 speed and fire off strong attacks in Fire Blast and Bug Buzz. Its access to Giga Drain allows it to beat bulky special Water-types that do not run Toxic. Heatran is one of the best Switch-ins to Volcarona, as it resist Bug Buzz and Giga Drain four times and is immune to Fire-type attacks. Volcarona is very weak to Stealth Rocks and can also be easily revenge killed by Pokemon like Azumarill and Crawdaunt with the move Aqua Jet. A- Rank Breloom Breloom is a solid Pokemon that can sweep teams very easily. It has access to Spore, Swords Dance and a Priority move in Mach Punch. Spore can put any Pokemon that is not a grass type to sleep and it can freely set up a Swords Dance after. Bullet Seed and Mach Punch have insane Coverage that gets boosted by its ability Technician and the Item Life Orb. Breloom can be revenge killed with faster Pokemon that resist Mach Punch or it gets walled by Poison/Grass-types like Amoonguss, Roserade and Venusaur. Donphan Donphan is a solid Rapid Spinner in the metagame. Its decent Attack and Defense base stat allows it to use heavy hitting Earthquakes and tank some physical moves that are not super effective. It has access to priority in Ice Shard and can get rid of items with Knock Off. Stealth Rocks and Roar can also be used to support the team. Its poor Speed and Special Defense and no access to recovery makes it outclassed by other Pokemon like Starmie that can put in much more work. It also has a hard time to deal with defensive Flying-type Pokemon such as Mandibuzz. Entei Entei is a strong physical attacker in Sun Teams. Sacred Fire boosted by the sun and the item Choice Band is able to hurt multiple threats in the metagame, even resisted hits, without taking recoil damage. It has reliable priority in Extreme Speed and is able to hurt Rock-types with Stomping Tantrum and Iron Head. Its incredible base Health Points stat lets it survive multiple hits. The lack of base defense and special defense makes it frailer than it should be and due to the fact that it has to run Choice Band to be good makes it wallable pretty easily. Gastrodon Gastrodon—with its solid bulk in tandem with its excellent typing, allows it to check many threatening Pokemon such as Magnezone, Raikou, Rotom-W, etc. Gastrodon also has access to a great ability in Storm Drain which allows it to completely take advantage of Water-type attacks aimed at other teammates. This is great due to the omnipresent Scald. Gastrodon has also been gifted with a great form of recovery in Recover. However, Gastrodon’s underwhelming base Speed means it will always move after the opposing Pokemon has used a move. So Gastrodon has to often rely on its bulk in order to stay alive. The strong presence of bulky Grass-types such as Tangrowth, Amoonguss, and Ferrothorn also limit Gastrodon’s usefulness. Goodra Goodra is often outclassed by other Dragon-types such as Latios and Garchomp, but it finds its niche in OU as an exceptional special tank, being able to take hits from the likes of Gengar, Serperior, Tangrowth, etc. Goodra is also able to perform as an exceptional Assault Vest user because of its colorful moveset. This include moves such as Draco Meteor, Flamethrower, Sludge Bomb, Ice Beam, etc. Sap Sipper is also a great ability on Goodra because it allows Goodra to switch into and take advantage of Grass-types like Amoonguss, Tangrowth, and Serperior. However, Goodra’s lack of recovery limits its ability to wall certain Pokemon for the entirety of the match. It is also heavily punished by entry hazards and residual damage such as burn, poison, and weather. Infernape Infernape can be played in multiple ways. It can be used with Choice Scarf and Choice Band to earn momentum and hurt many threats in the metagame. Its most common set is it with mixed attacks with Life Orb. Hidden Power Ice, Fire Blast and Close Combat are the main attacks, the fourth move can be Mach Punch or Gunk Shot. Infernape gets walled by bulky Psychic-types like Slowbro and Mew quite easily, and Azumarill and Crawdaunt can revenge kill it with ease. Another weakness to infernape is that it takes too much damage from hazards. Jellicent Jellicent is able to tank various Water-type attacks from numerous threats in the metagame such as Choice Banded Azumarill and Slowbro. It is able to burn the physical attackers with Will-o-Wisp and Scald and prevents slower Pokemon like Blissey and Ferrothorn to use status moves with the move Taunt. Due to the fact that it is a Ghost-type it is able to switch in on Fighting- and Normal-type attacks freely. Even though it can switch in said Water-types, it has to be worried about Play Rough and Toxic or Psyshock, respectively. The lack of bulk does not really allow it to tank hits even though Jellicent is a tank. Kabutops Kabutops is one of the best physical rain sweepers in the game. Its STAB Stone Edge and Waterfall threatens most of the Pokemon in the Metagame. Equipped with the Item Life Orb and the Move Superpower it can also deal good damage to Pokemon that resist both of its STAB attacks, Ferrothorn for example. Kabutops access to Aqua Jet makes it able to use priority moves. A reliable check of Kabutops is Skarmory with Rocky Helmet, as it takes all of Kabutops attacks easily. Klefki Klefki, along with its wide support movepool, which includes Spikes, Thunder Wave, and dual screens, coupled with Prankster allow it to function as a very effective support Pokemon. Klefki has also been blessed with one of the best defensive typings in the game in Fairy / Steel. This allows it to check prominent threats such as Latios, Weavile, and Gengar. Notably, Prankster Thunder Wave allows Klefki to act as a catch-all stop to most setup sweepers. Klefki has access to Magnet Rise, which gives it the ability to avoid Ground-type attacks for five turns, which alleviates one of its only two weaknesses. Unfortunately, Klefki has subpar stats overall and lacks significant offensive presence. Lucario Lucario makes good use of its respectable attacking stats with its stellar movepool. It has access to Swords Dance, which allows it to boost its Attack to much more threatening levels, and a high-Base Power STAB move in Close Combat and amazing priority in Extreme Speed. These are complemented by solid coverage options in Crunch and Ice Punch, as well as STAB Iron Tail to defeat Fairy-types. Lucario does not mind entry hazards much, because it's immune to Toxic Spikes and is 4x resistant to Stealth Rock. It does suffer from four-moveslot syndrome despite having access to a variety of moves, however, and it fails to cover most relevant threats as a result. While it can be a nice cleaner in OU, it suffers from its frailty and mediocre Speed. Lucario is also hard pressed to take advantage of possible Attack boosts from its ability Justified because of its poor defenses. Ludicolo Ludicolo is one of the best Swift Swimmers in the game. It has great coverage in Water-, Grass- and Ice-moves, which can make it extremely hard to deal with. It also has access to Focus Blast, which can deal with Ferrothorn, which usually checks rain teams. Ludicolo has a hard time dealing with Special Defensive tanks, such as Blissey and Chansey. It sometimes also lacks the power to do important one hit KO’s, that can revenge kill it afterwards. Machamp Machamp, with its access to No Guard Dynamic Punch grants it a unique niche among all of the Fighting-types. In addition to this, it has access to a great movepool. This includes moves such as Knock Off, Heavy Slam, Stone Edge, the elemental punches, and more. This allows it to take advantage of the many favorable matchups it has in PRO’s metagame. However, Machamp is really slow due to its low Base Speed stat (50). This means it is easily outpaced and revenge killed by many Pokemon. It also faces competition from Conkeldurr as it has access to a STAB priority move in Mach Punch. Nonetheless, Machamp can still prove to be an effective wallbreaker in PRO. Mamoswine Mamoswine has been gifted with all of the necessary tools to be a capable wallbreaker in PRO. Its excellent typing in Ice / Ground coupled with its great Base Attack stat and STAB moves give defensive Pokemon a tough time switching in. It also makes use of its ability, Thick Fat, to take minimal damage from Ice and Fire-type attacks. It is also able to handle faster threats due to its access to a STAB priority move in Ice Shard. However, Mamoswine’s Speed stat is less than desirable and it is easily revenge killed due to its weakness to common priority attacks such as Mach Punch, Bullet Punch, and Aqua Jet. It also faces stiff competition from Weavile, which boasts a better speed tier and access to STAB Knock Off. Mamoswine also struggles to break past Steel types such as Ferrothorn and Skarmory. Mandibuzz Mandibuzz is one of the best Defogger in the tier. It is extremely bulky and can tank multiple hits from numerous threats in the metagame. With the access to Foul Play it can hurt the physical attackers like Dragonite and Scizor. Toxic allows it to wear down tanks such as Slowbro and Tangrowth, which otherwise hard wall it. Roost and Leftovers allows it to be healthy during the whole game. Ferrothorn can switch in on Mandibuzz easily and heal back up when it is low. Azumarill can force Mandibuzz out very easily with a banded Play Rough. Medicham Medicham is a very hard hitting Pokemon in the metagame. Its low base ATK gets doubled with the ability Pure Power and allows it to break through stall teams. Fake Out can be used to damage faster threats such as Weavile, High Jump Kick and Zen Headbutt hits a lot of tanks in the tier. Even though it has a high attack stat, Slowbro can switch into it easily as it resists both hard hitting STAB attacks. Faster Pokemon such as Choice Scarf Tyranitar and Weavile can revenge kill Medicham easily, as it is very frail. Metagross Metagross is a Pokémon that can be run in multiple ways. It has an insanely good movepool with moves from the physical and the special side. It has decent base attack and special attack, which allows it to run even mixed sets. It has priority in Bullet Punch, can hit Water-types with Grass Knot, for example. Most of the time Metagross is a physical attacker. It can also be ran with Assault Vest, which allows it to take moves from the special side even better. Metagross is really slow compared to other threats in the metagame, which means that it can be revenge killed pretty easily. Milotic Milotic is a tanky Pokemon from the physical (when statused) and special side. It can tank a lot and heal back up with the move Recover, Scald physical threats to burn them and Toxic bulky opponents such as Tangrowth and Slowbro which otherwise wall it. Haze can be used to remove Status boosts from threats like Dragonite and Bisharp. Milotic is very predictable as it does not really have many moves to work with. Ferrothorn hard walls Milotic and can hurt it with a STAB Power Whip or heal back up with Leech Seed. Porygon2 Porygon2 is a very tanky Normal-type that gets even bulkier with an Eviolite. Moves like Recover and Toxic are very essential to support its bulk, and Ice Beam or Thunderbolt can hurt a lot of threats in the current metagame. It can also be used to wall Rain-teams as most of the sweeper cannot two hit KO you. Porygon2 loses a lot of bulk when it loses its Eviolite. It should always watch out for Knock Off’s and Toxic that wears down your bulk. Fighting-types can also hurt you a lot with their STAB attacks, even though it is very tanky. Raikou Raikou is a solid Electric-type Pokémon with a very solid move pool and speed tier. Volt Switch gives it momentum, Thunderbolt, Shadow Ball and Hidden Power Ice can hurt a lot of the metagame. With the Legendary Dogs tutor it is able to learn Aura Sphere, which allows him to hit Rock-types and Steel-types pretty hard. Calm Mind allows it to boost its stats. Even though Raikou is a very solid Pokémon, it needs Hidden Power Ice to be good. Otherwise it gets walled by Specially Defensive Ground-types, like Careful Gliscor. Roserade Roserade can be used in different ways. Giga Drain and Sludge Bomb are essential, Hidden Power Fire allows it to hit Ferrothorn, which otherwise walls it. Spikes, and Toxic Spikes allows it to put annoying hazards and Sleep Powder allows it to put opponents to sleep. It can also be used as an offensive Pokémon with the ability Technician, which powers up low base damage moves, including Hidden Power. Its typing allows it to tank a lot, but it does not really tank super effective hits well. Faster Pokémon like Weavile can threaten it out or kill it with a STAB Icicle Crash. Slowbro Slowbro is an excellent wall and provides great coverage to many of the games threats. The combined typing of psychic and water allows Slowbro to become a major hassle to the likes of Excadrill and Talonflame. Slowbro also has access to “Slack Off” and “Regenerator” in order to maximize health frequently. Its use of “Scald” also allows for burns to cripple the opponents attackers. The major downside to Slowbro is its inability to tank a strong Special Attack. This makes it only a physical wall. In the recent meta, strong special attackers like Hydreigon, Gengar, and Latios scare Slowbro. Starmie Starmie is one of the best Rapid Spinner in the metagame. Its speed tier is good and Ice Beam, Scald and Thunderbolt give it a lot of offensive coverage. Recover makes it able to restore health, Toxic or Thunder Wave allows it to help against faster or bulkier opponents. Even though its speed is pretty good, it get a outspeed by threats like Weavile and a better IV’ed Raikou, which can revenge kill it with ease. Ferrothorn generally walls it totally, unless Starmie runs Hidden Power Fire. Venusaur Venusaur is a solid Grass/Poison-type with a lot of coverage and options to be used. Giga Drain and Sludge Bomb are essential, the other moves can be Leech Seed, Hidden Power Fire and Synthesis when it is ran bulky. As a sun sweeper it can be used with Growth, to boost its Special Attack and Attack by two stages when it is in the sun. Earthquake helps it to hurt Heatran, Hidden Power Ice against Dragon-types like Garchomp or Dragonite. If Venusaur lacks essential moves in some cases it gets walled by a lot of things in the metagame, such as Ferrothorn. It also can be revenge killed easily with its poor speed outside of the sun. B+ Rank Alomomola Alomomola is a very tanky Pokémon with the ability Regenerator. Wish and Protect allows it to pass health to all of its team. Scald or Knock Off are its only reliable damaging attacks, Toxic allows it to wear down other tanky Pokémon which otherwise wall it completely. It can also be used with Rocky Helmet to hurt physical attacker such as Weavile or Dragonite. Even though its Defense is pretty high, it lacks a lot of special defense, which means that it can not tank any hit from the special side. It does not deal with Hazards too well, because it does not get as much health back as it would be getting with Regenerator. Arcanine Arcanine can be used in different ways. Extreme Speed and Flare Blitz are essential, but it can also run coverage moves like Wild Charge and Close Combat. Morning Sun and Will-o-Wisp is ran on bulky Arcanine sets, which can slower physical set up sweepers like Bisharp and Breloom. Special sets can also work with Life Orb, but Hidden Power Ice/Grass is advised. Arcanine can be revenge killed by faster Water-types or walled by bulky Water-types like Slowbro. Celebi Celebi has a great movepool and good base stats. Stealth Rocks, Giga Drain can be used on bulkier sets, Nasty Plot and some coverage moves like Dazzling Gleam and Psychic on sweeping sets. U-turn allows it to have momentum, and Hidden Power Fire can hurt Steel-types a lot. Recover and Leech Seed allows it and its team to heal back up. Even with good stats it can be recenge killed by Weavile and Hydreigon with ease, and if it lacks Hidden Power Fire Ferrothorn is a Pokémon that is able to switch into it without losing too much health. Cloyster Cloyster is a very threatening Pokémon in the metagame because of the move Shell Smash. It has almost no switch ins, which can tank hits at +2. Skill Link allows it to use powerful moves in Rock Blast and Icicle Spear. Liquidation makes it able to hit Pokémon like Heatran, which otherwise tank at least one hit. Cloyster has a really small Special Defense stat, which makes it not able to set up on any special attacker. It also has to pick from a great movepool, and it would need more than four moves to be better. Dusknoir Dusknoir is a very bulky Pokémon, that is able to burn opponents with Will-o-Wisp and steal their Health Points with Pain Split. It has a good base attack stat, which means that it can also be played offensive rather than defensive. Even though it has incredible bulk, it can not be supported due to its very small Health Points stat. It is also too slow to deal damage, and can not tank hits due to its Ghost-typing and its very little resistances. Empoleon Empoleon is a good Defogger and Stealth Rocker in the metagame. Scald allows it to burn physical set up opponents, Ice Beam allows you to hit Dragon-type Pokémon and Grass-type Pokemon, which resist your Scald. It is able to Roar opponents out if they try to set up on its face. Empoleon’s only recovery is Leftovers, so it is not able to switch into threats that well. It can be trapped by Magnezone, which can revenge kill it easily. It can also be revenge killed by faster threats like Weavile and Heliolisk. Galvantula Galvantula is only viable because of its access to Sticky Webs. It is very frail and has a mediocre defensive typing. It should be used with a Focus Sash and it’s only role is to put up the Sticky Webs to lower the foe’s speed by one stage upon switching in. Compound Eyes allows it to use moves with low accuracy like Thunder and Hidden Power Ice allows it to hit Pokémon like Gliscor, which otherwise resist its hits. It can be revenge killed quite easily and gets walled by a lot of Pokémon of the metagame, especially when it lacks Hidden Power Ice. Haxorus Haxorus is a very threatening late game set up sweeper. It has extremely high base attack and mediocre speed, which allows it to nuke a lot of threats of the metagame at +1. It can not really be outsped by opponents at +1, so they have to rely on priority attacks. It has decent coverage in Dragon Claw, Earthquake and Poison Jab, which makes it able to hit almost every Pokémon at least with neutral damage. Haxorus has very little bulk, and can not take any hit. When it is unboosted it lacks a bit of damage and can not really sweep your opponent. Jolteon Jolteon is a very fast Pokémon that can deal with a lot of threats thanks to its speed. Like other Electric-type Pokémon it has to rely on Hidden Power Ice to be good, else other Ground-type Pokémon wall it hard. Its only coverage move is Shadow Ball, which still helps it out a lot. Jolteon is very frail and can not take many hits. It also lacks a bit of special attack to do important one hit KO’s. If it does not have Hidden Power Ice, it gets walled by multiple Ground-type Pokémon. Krookodile Krookodile is a relatively fast Dark-type Pokémon that gets access to Knock Off and Stealth Rocks. It has two solid abilities in Intimidate and Moxie, that can be used in different sets. Choice Scarf is an item that fits really well on it. Krookodile is not really bulky, so it can not tank a lot of hits. All priority moves that are common in the metagame are super effective or neutral, which hurt it even more. Lanturn Lanturn can be really useful against multiple type of teams. It has great abilities in Water Absorb and Volt Absorb and good moves in Scald, Volt Switch and Heal Bell. It has solid special bulk and decent Special Attack, which makes it relatively hard to deal with, if you lack coverage. Lanturn has a hard time dealing with threats like Ferrothorn, and gets outsped by a lot of Pokémon in the metagame. It also does not switch into physical Pokémon, which makes it a worse tank. Poliwrath Poliwrath can be used to switch in into some threats of the metagame. It resists a lot of hits from common threats such as Bisharp and Weavile, and is immune to Water-type attacks thanks to its ability Water Absorb. It can be used on hazards teams thanks to the move Circle Throw. Rest allows it to recover health whenever it is low. Poliwrath is not used much because it lacks the power to do damage. It also lacks a lot of bulk, because it does not tank hits that well. Rotom-Heat Rotom-Heat is one of the Rotom-forms that may be ran offensive. A set with Choice Specs is the most common set, Volt Switch gives it momentum, Heat Wave can nuke some non-resisting Pokémon and Hidden Power Ice can be used against Ground-type Pokémon. Thunderbolt or Shadow Ball would fit as a fourth move. A choice locked Rotom-Heat is relatively easy to outplay, especially when you run Protect. It is also kind of slow, which makes it not that good in one versus one situations. Stealth Rocks also wears down Rotom-Heat easily, because it takes 25% every time it comes onto the field. Salamence Salamence is a threatening Pokémon that can sweep teams late-game. It has access to Dragon Dance, multiple coverage moves, on the physical and special side. It can also be used as a mixed attacker, because it has solid attack stats on either side. Intimidate allows it to switch onto Pokémon, and can set up afterwards. Salamence lacks priority and good Flying-type moves. It is revenge killed easily, especially if it lacks coverage moves. Sylveon Sylveon is a scary Pokémon with solid Special Attack. Most of the time it used with Choice Specs, or as a pretty tanky cleric. It has set up moves in Calm Mind and a really good ability in Pixilate. Even if it is ran as a physical defensive tank, it does not tank physical hits that well. Sylveon has a really bad movepool and a hard time choosing its Hidden Power. Also, it is too slow to be a solid special attacker, as it gets outsped most of the time. Swampert Swampert is a solid bulky Water-type that has access to Stealth Rocks. Most of the time it also has Scald and Earthquake in its movepool. It also has Roar, Toxic, and coverage moves in Ice Punch, for example. Swampert only has a weakness in Grass-type attacks, which makes it extremely hard to kill. Its only recovery options is Leftovers, so it can be worn down really easily. Due to its typing it is a really solid switch in to common threats in the metagame. Tentacruel Tentacruel is one of the best Rapid Spinner in the game. It has really good options in its usage, and solid moves like Haze, Ice Beam and Giga Drain. Tentacruel has great defensive and offensive typing and resist a lot of common moves. It has no recovery outside of Leftovers, so it can be worn down easily. Tentacruel can be revenge killed by faster Pokémon, and also it does not do much damage, even if it is offensive. Ferrothorn for example, can switch onto it freely and threaten it with Leech Seed if Tentacruel does not have Liquid Ooze. Tyrantrum Tyrantrum is one of the scariest wall breaker in the whole game. Choice Banded Head Smash one or two hit KO’es most of the defensive Pokémon. It has solid moves in STAB Dragon-type moves, Earthquake or Fighting-type attacks. Equipped with a Choice Scarf it is able to outspeed a lot of the faster Pokémon in the metagame, but it loses a lot of damage when it comes to dealing with tanks. Tyrantrum has decent typing, but it is weak to most of the common priority moves in the game. It can also be worn down easily by hazards. Xatu Xatu is one, if not the best Pokémon to prevent Hazards or Status in PRO. Defensive Magic Bounce makes it able to switch in on Pokémon like Ferrothorn with ease, and counter every move they could go for. It has solid attacking moves in Heatwave and Psyshock, has access to Roost as well as Defog, which can be used if your opponent managed to get up Hazards in some way. If ran defensive, Xatu is really slow and can be revenge killed easily. It has medium bulk, and also its offensive options are not the best ones available. The only reason it can be used is the ability Magic Bounce. B Rank Ambipom Ambipom is a really fast Pokémon with solid STAB attacks. It can flinch opponents with Fake Out, it is also able to get out with U-turn. Knock Off allows it to hit Ghost-types better, that otherwise are immune to most of Ambipom’s attacks. It is a really frail Pokémon, that can not tank any moves. Even though it has really decent speed, it only has average attack. Ambipom has to run Life Orb, which makes it even less sustainable. Also, it is really weak to priority if Fake Out was already used. Bronzong Bronzong is one of the bulkiest Pokémon in the metagame. It has access to Stealth Rocks, Gyro Ball and some coverage options in Earthquake and Toxic. Occasionally it also is ran with Light Screen and Reflect, which makes it even bulkier, but it loses its recovery with Leftovers. It only has a few weaknesses, which makes it hard to take down. Bronzong can not really deal with opposing Steel-types that well, especially if their name is Skarmory or Ferrothorn. Weavile is also able to hurt it quite a lot. Chandelure Chandelure is one of the best special wall breakers in the game. It has really good base Special Attack, which can, equipped with a Choice Specs, one hit KO many threats. It has really good coverage and does not even have to rely on a good Hidden Power. Chandelure is a relatively slow, so it can get outsped by many opponents. Even with Choice Scarf it has to be aware of the most common priority move, Aqua Jet, which one hit KO’es it due to its slim bulk. Chesnaught Chesnaught is a really good physical defensive Grass- Fighting-type in the game. Bulletproof makes it immune to all STAB attacks from Gengar for example, because it is not able to get Sludge Wave in PRO. It has access to recovery in Synthesis, gets Hazards in Spikes and good attacking moves in Wood Hammer, for example. Chesnaught is pretty weak to special attacks, due to its slim special bulk. It also is kind of slow, which makes it hard to heal back up. Cofagrigus Cofagrigus is a very tanky Ghost-type Pokémon with solid offensive and defensive moves. Pain Split, Will-O-Wisp and Shadow Ball are mandatory, and moves like Haze, Knock Off or Toxic Spikes can also be very helpful. It can also be very useful thanks to the ability Mummy, which allows it to remove abilities from opposing threats. Cofagrigus is a very slow Pokémon, that gets walled by Clefable, Ferrothorn and other common threats in the metagame. Doublade Doublade is viable thanks to the item Eviolite. It is extremely bulky on the physical side, and is able to boost its attack stat with Swords Dance. It has access to a priority move in Shadow Sneak, and some other coverage move. Doublade is currently not really viable due to the missing move Sacred Sword. Otherwise it would destroy stall easily. Doublade is very weak on the special side, and can not really take hits well. Electivire Electivire is a solid Electric-type with a really good movepool. It has a solid ability in Motor Drive, which pairs up extremely well with teams that are weak to Electric-type moves. It has a lot of coverage options, and it can be used mixed or physical. If Electivire is not hit by any Electric-type moves, it is kind of slow and it needs Life Orb to do damage. If it lacks an important move, it is walled by something. Due to only four move slots, it will always get walled by some Pokémon. Feraligatr Feraligatr is a solid Water-type that can be very threatening. Its access to Dragon Dance and the ability Sheer Force, that benefits a lot with the Item Life Orb, makes it a really good end game sweeper. Waterfall, Ice Punch and Crunch are the best moves it can have on a Dragon Dance set, as they all get boosted by Sheer Force. It also can be very good with Swords Dance and the move Aqua Jet, which is a STAB priority move. Bulky Water-types such as Slowbro can beat Feraligatr when it lacks the move Crunch, also Ferrothorn can check it if it lacks the move Superpower. Forretress Forretress is a really bulky Pokémon that gets access to all sort of Hazards. It has a high base defense stat, which makes it kind of hard to take down. It can get out of the field with Volt Switch, has a good move in Gyro Ball which synergizes well with its low speed. Forretress is able to get trapped by Magnezone easily, thanks to the ability Magnet Pull. Also, it does not tank special type attacks well, not even resisted ones. Due to its low speed it is not able to get more than two layers of hazards up. Gallade Gallade can be a very scarf threat. At +2 ATK it can be very intimidating, especially if your team is slower than it. It has really good options in its move, but the sets are always were similar. Gallade has very solid special bulk, which makes it able to set up on weak special attacking opponents. Gallade can not really do much versus faster teams, because it lacks a good priority move. Most of the time it gets outsped and one hit KO’ed due to its other, slim bulk. Also, it does not deal that much damage when it is unboosted. Honchkrow Honchkrow can be a very strong late game sweeper. Moves like Sucker Punch support its slow speed and decent attack stat, especially when it runs the ability Moxie. Superpower and Brave Bird are really good coverage moves, that hit a lot of threats in the metagame. Honchkrow is relatively hard to switch into, and it can not really get ignored if you play against one. It is really weak to opposing priority moves and can not come it that often because it has to take 25% of his health every time it comes in when Stealth Rocks are up. Quagsire Quagsire is a decent, physical defensive Water-type Pokémon that gets two decent abilities in Water Absorb and Unaware. It is able to take on most physical Pokémon, unless they’re a Grass-type, and can threaten them with STAB Scalds, Earthquakes or status them with Toxic. Quagsire is really sustainable thanks to its access to Recover. It has a hard time dealing with special attackers, that’s why it should be paired up with a special tank. Quagsire is also a really slow Pokémon, that gets outsped by almost anything. Sableye Sableye is one of the best Prankster users. It gets a lot of really good moves that can make use of that ability, like Will-o-Wisp, Recover and Taunt. Foul Play and Knock Off are really good attacking moves, that support the rest of its moves. Sableye is not able to affect Dark-types, which means it gets walled by them. Also, Fire-type Pokémon can switch onto Sableye easily, as they can not get burned and Knock Off or Foul Play does not do that much to them. Talonflame Talonflame is one of the fastest Pokémon in the current metagame. It has really good moves in Swords Dance, Acrobatics, U-turn and Flare Blitz, that allow it to have really good coverage. Taunt, Will-o-Wisp and Roost help it with bulkier Pokémon. Talonflame has to be at full Hit Points to make use of its ability Gale Wings, which give priority to Flying-type moves. It is very weak to Stealth Rocks, and Rock-types, as it can not really touch them. Umbreon Umbreon is one of the bulkiest Eeveelutions. It has access to Wish and Protect, which makes it able to heal your team back up. Heal Bell allows it to remove status conditions from your team, and with Toxic it can status your opponents. Foul Play is a really good attacking move, that deals more damage depending on the target’s attack stat. Umbreon is not really fast, so it can get outsped easily when it wants to heal your team back up. It also does not have many resistances, which makes it a worse tank. Vaporeon Vaporeon is a solid, specially defensive tank, that gets access to Water Absorb. Scald and Ice Beam are good attacking moves, Wish and Protect rounds this set up. Occasionally it runs Toxic over Ice Beam, that supports Protect. Vaporeon has really decent special attack, that deal a lot even if it is ran defensive. It does not take hits from the physical side that well, but it can always be paired up with a physical defensive Pokémon. Vaporeon can not really do much against a lot of threats in the current metagame. Ferrothorn and Clefable can freely switch onto it and set up Hazards or start boosting, respectively. Weezing Weezing is a good physical defensive Pokémon that can tank a lot of the hits. Sludge Bomb and Flamethrower have insane coverage which has very little switch ins, such as special defensive tanks, including Goodra and Blissey. Will-o-Wisp and Haze can be used to stop physical set up and Pain Split gives it better recovery than Leftovers. Even though Weezing has a nice physical bulk, it takes a lot from the special side. Even neutral hits threaten it out as it can not tank more than two attacks. Heatran walls any set of Weezing and can freely set up Stealth Rocks every time it comes in. B- Rank Aerodactyl Aerodactyl is a really good Pokémon that can be used as a suicide Stealth Rocker. Taunt can prevent moves like Defog or status condition, and it has good moves to round its set up. It is hurt a lot by priority moves, because it is weak to almost all of the common ones. Aerodactyl’s typing is not the best defensive wise, which does not allow it to switch in too often. Also, opposing Stealth Rocks punish it a lot if it switches in multiple times in a row. Avalugg Avalugg is a very, physical defensive Ice-type Pokémon. It has access to decent moves like Rapid Spin, Toxic and Recover. Rocky Helmet makes it able to damage threats like Weavile or Azumarill. Avalugg is not used much, because Ice-type Pokémon are not really good defensive wise, because it has very few resistances and takes 25% from Stealth Rocks. Also, its special defense stat is very poor, which makes it an even worse tank. Furthermore, it does not have good attacking moves that can hurt opponents well. Crobat Crobat is a very fast support Pokémon, that can also deal a little bit of damage. It has access to Defog and Roost, which allows it to come in multiple times and can almost always get of a Defog before it dies thanks to its speed. U-turn gives it momentum, while Brave Bird is a solid, high base power, attacking move. Crobat gets walled by almost every Steel-type Pokémon, and can not tank hits that well. It also is outclassed by many other Defoggers in the metagame, that do its job way better. Dusclops Dusclops is a very bulky mid-stage Evolution that can make use of the item Eviolite. It has access to moves like Will-O-Wisp, Calm Mind and Rest, which makes it sustainable. Coverage moves like Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse or Ice Beam are also an option. Dusclops is a very slow Pokémon, that is kind of useless without its Eviolite. Without any Calm Mind boosts it does very little damage and it can not really deal with other bulky Pokémon that can set up on you that well. Florges Florges is a really special defensive Fairy-type, with a solid movepool. It has access to support moves like Wish, Heal Bell and Toxic, and a solid attacking move in Moonblast. Calm Mind allows it to boost its good Special Defense and Special Attack stat, which can make it an incredible hard hitter. Florges only has mediocre speed and Hit Points, which makes it a worse sweeper or tank. Furthermore, it has a hard time dealing with common Steel-types and Blissey or Chansey, for example. Froslass Froslass is a Pokémon with a decent base speed of 110. It is able to set up Spikes, prevent set up with Taunt and can fire off STAB Ice Beams. Focus Sash allows it to survive at least two hits, which works well with its support moves. It is also able to speed tie common threats like Latios and Gengar. Froslass is not really bulky and dies to almost any moves, due to its poor defensive typing. It only has mediocre stats, with the speed stat being the best one. Furthermore, it can not damage Steel-types, unless it runs Hidden Power Fire, which makes it lose its speed peak at 350 speed. Gardevoir Gardevoir is a very hard hitting Pokémon, with solid coverage options and little switch ins. It is able to one or two hit KO multiple threats in the metagame, especially when it is paired up with Choice Specs. It also has a set up move in Calm Mind, that give it a lot of solid bulk. Hidden Power Fire allows it to hit annoying Steel-types, that resist both of its STAB attacks. Gardevoir is not really fast, and if paired up with Choice Scarf relatively weak. Blissey, Chansey or Mantine is always able to tank any of its hits and annoy it with attacks or status. Furthermore, it is really weak to common priority moves. Rotom-Mow Rotom-Mow is another offensive Rotom-form, that is ran with Choice Scarf. Volt Switch gives it access to momentum, Leaf Storm is able to hurt Ground-type Pokémon that are immune to Electric-type attacks. Thunderbolt is nice as a stronger Electric-type attack, and Will-O-Wisp can be used to hurt incoming physical threats. Rotom-Mow does a really good job as a Choice Scarfer, but lacks the damage to hurt a lot of the metagame. It gets walled by a lot of threats, such as Ferrothorn, unless you run it with Hidden Power Fire. Rhyperior Rhyperior is a very hard hitting Pokémon, that has really good support options. Stealth Rocks and Toxic can help it to support the team, while Stone Edge and Earthquake hit most of the threats with nice damage. Choice Band is also an option, that support its really high base attack stat and its solid coverage. Rhyperior does not deal with Grass- and Water-type Pokémon that well, because both types deal four times super effective damage to it with their STAB attacks. It also lacks speed to be a reliable late game sweeper. Steelix Steelix is a really physical defensive Pokémon, with access to Stealth Rocks and a good resistance against Rock-types. Sturdy allows it to survive at least hit, and Gyro Ball appreciates its low speed. Earthquake is also nice against other Steel-types to hurt them super effectively. Toxic gives it the option to status opposing safe switch ins, like Slowbro and Tangrowth. Steelix has relatively poor defensive typing, that has a hard time surviving most hits. Its bad Special Defense makes it a less good tank in the metagame. C+ Rank Absol Absol can be used as a late game sweeper. The access to Swords Dance allows it to boost its attack by two stages and scare everything out with a powerful Sucker Punch, Play Rough and Superpower. With the item Lum Berry it can set up on Pokémon like Sableye or Umbreon, while they try to status you. Absol is a very frail Pokémon, that cannot tank hits well. Unboosted attacks do very little to opponents, so it has to rely on set up. Skarmory for example can switch in on Absol easily and revenge kill it with a Counter or Brave Bird. Blastoise Blastoise is a solid Rapid Spinner in the metagame. Scald and Toxic allows it to status threats, while Ice Beam hurts Dragon- and Grass-types which resist its STAB Scald. Refresh or Protect allows it to get rid of status or scout for the opposing Pokémon’s move, respectively. Blastoise does not have any recovery outside of Leftovers, which makes it wear down easily, especially when hazards are on the field and Blastoise your only way in your team to get rid of them. Furthermore, it is way too weak to deal with the common threats of the metagame, such as Ferrothorn or other bulky threats. Drapion Drapion has okay stats and can be used as a late game sweeper. It has access to Swords Dance and multiple coverage options, such as Knock Off, Earthquake and Poison Jab. Occasionally it is run with Aqua Tail or Ice Fang, which helps it with Rock- and Ground-types. Drapion is relatively slow, which makes it a worse sweeper, because it gets outsped by a lot of threats. If it is ran with Choice Scarf, it lacks a lot of damage, which does not allow it to do important kills. Miltank Miltank can be used to set up Stealth Rocks. It is able to use the moves Thunder Wave and Toxic, and it can heal up with the move Milk Drink when its health gets low. Moves like Body Slam allows it to spread even more status. Its Ability Sap Sipper allows it to switch in on common Grass-type moves such as Giga Drain, Power Whip or Leech Seed. Miltank has troubles hitting ghost types and is way too weak to Special Fighting-moves such as Focus Blast, that is the reason why it is not used more. Scyther Scyther is a good example of a Pokémon that can make use of the item Eviolite. It has really good speed, can boost its attack with Swords Dance, and Technician makes moves like Wing Attack or Aerial Ace 90 Base Power. U-turn gives it momentum, that can help it against threats that resist both of its STAB attacks. Scyther can not switch in too much, because of the 50% it takes from Stealth Rocks. Furthermore, it has relatively bad defensive typing, which does not allow it to set up on most threats, which it otherwise could. Seismitoad Seismitoad has a great movepool. Stealth Rocks are on almost every set, Toxic, Earthquake and Scald allows it to hit a lot of the threats in the metagame. Water Absorb makes it immune to Water-type attacks and that is why it can be used to wall Rain Sweepers such as Kabutops and a choice locked Kingdra. Earth Power and Sludge Bomb can surprise opponents when they expect a fully defensive Seismitoad. Its huge four times Grass-type weakness is what Seismitoad throws back. Also, it is most of the time too slow to get up rocks on the field, and can get knocked out by any powerful attack of your opponents. Slowking Slowking has a very solid Special Defense, Special Attack and HP stat. It has good coverage and the item Assault Vest allows it to tank multiple hits from the special side, even if it runs a lot of special attack investment. Dragon Tail allows it to face out Pokémon with set up, and the ability Regenerator gives it free HP when it switches out. Even though its Special Bulk is amazing, it lacks a lot of physical bulk. Knock Off threatens it a lot, especially when it has the item Assault Vest. Toxic can wear it down easily and without Leftovers recovery it can not really switch in when many hazards are on the field. Thank you for reading! Feel free to comment, I will monitor the thread and evaluate the general consensus and opinion. Contribution Tr3y, the original owner and creator of this thread, who has been kind enough to let me update it. Dakivid, TheAkalli, TheMinho, and Tr3y, all whom have greatly contributed to this list. Astraea for the formatting of this thread. Edited May 21, 2018 by Eaty 6 | How To Report | PRO Rules | Appeal Center | Please do not send unsolicited messages to staff. Those who ignore this warning will serve an eternity in the... SHADOW REALM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theakalli Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Nice o/ Enjoy Married to Shaymin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braj Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Great guide! Contact me: Ingame - Braj ,Discord - Braj#2219 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawtz Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Yay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebereur Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Great guide except i read something wrong.. you banned the blissey counter 4 https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/index.php?threads/ebereur-shop.85732/ MY SHOP MY DISCORD: ebereur#5896 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaminokage Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Blissey S with Dugtrio and Blaziken ban :) Togekiss A+, in the top 5 most used PKM. Slaking B- :D 1 Server : Gold - Name : Kaminokage - Guild : FrenchConnexion Ex-member of the Chaos on Silver My personnal shop : https://tinyurl.com/y8bbuoq9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooge Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Name: Slowking Current tier: C+ Desired tier: B/B+ Reason: Slowking is incredibly underrated, in PRO’s current meta rain is literally everywhere, and Slowking can switch into any unboosted rain abuser with ease, although Ludicolo can cause issues. 252+ SpA Choice Specs Kingdra Draco Meteor vs. 248 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Slowking: 174-205 (44.2 - 52.1%) -- 16.4% chance to 2HKO 252 Atk Kabutops Stone Edge vs. 248 HP / 68 Def Slowking: 166-196 (42.2 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO Slowking can switch-in and OHKO Kabutops with scald, and force Kingdra to switch. On the switch, you can future sight and potentially force another switch a turn later, disrupting a ton of momentum and wasting their precious rain turns. It can also 1v1 many pokemon relavent in the metagame with the correct set, such as gliscor, gengar, and even scarf hydreigon if they dont flinch you. It even hard walls some giant threats such as Suicune and Heatran. Another place Slowking shines is against sun abusers; it can beat both ninetales and torkoal 1v1 and beats just about any unboosted sun abuser besides shiftry, and sometimes victreebel depending on its set. Dragon tail is an amazing option as well, if a future sight has been forseen, you can force something to take an unwanted 120bp stab psychic attack, potentially opening the door for a sweeper in the back of your squad. Name: Dragalge Current tier: Not currently listed Desired tier: B-/B Reason: Dragalge has virtually no switch-ins besides ferrothorn blissey and chansey, but struggles against basically any physical attacker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bash Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 (edited) Name: Lucario Current tier: A- Desired tier: A+ or S Reason: Is a very good counter to many high tier Pokémon. Can easily handle Togekiss (Not always but if scarf locked) Clefable (if damaged 1 hit ((83.7 - 98.9%)), Bisharp (Sucker Punch boosts his attack as well), Chansey (Mostly 1 hit in Pro), Blissey, Ferrothorn (1hit if not full def), Heatran, Skarmory if no whilewind, Tyranitar, Alakazam if no sash (I know, usually u run sash but still), Azumarill, Crawdaunt, Scizor if its hitted, Snorlax, Mamoswine. And can 1 shot many other tanks when they are hitted and can counter kill many sweeper with Extreme Speed when they have like 50% hp left. Ofc you can write down winning match ups from every Pokemon but al those I´ve mentioned are S to A tier. Meteor Mash is not mentioned at the text too (I think cuz it was written where gen 7 was not ingame), Meteor Mash makes the Pokémon much stronger. Would like to see other opinions on that since Im everything but not a ladder player. Edited May 20, 2018 by Bash 3 Of course I'm talking to myself, sometimes I have to talk with an intelligent person. Picture TP4L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tr3y Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Name: Lucario Current tier: A- Desired tier: A+ or S Reason: Is a very good counter to many high tier Pokémon. Can easily handle Togekiss (Not always but if scarf locked) Clefable (if damaged 1 hit ((83.7 - 98.9%)), Bisharp (Sucker Punch boosts his attack as well), Chansey (Mostly 1 hit in Pro), Blissey, Ferrothorn (1hit if not full def), Heatran, Skarmory if no whilewind, Tyranitar, Alakazam if no sash (I know, usually u run sash but still), Azumarill, Crawdaunt, Scizor if its hitted, Snorlax, Mamoswine. And can 1 shot many other tanks when they are hitted and can counter kill many sweeper with Extreme Speed when they have like 50% hp left. Ofc you can write down winning match ups from every Pokemon but al those I´ve mentioned are S to A tier. Meteor Mash is not mentioned at the text too (I think cuz it was written where gen 7 was not ingame), Meteor Mash makes the Pokémon much stronger. Would like to see other opinions on that since Im everything but not a ladder player. A- is fine for this mon. It can beat all of those mons mentioned above in a 1v1 situation but it is definitely not a counter to most of them. In order for a mon to be considered a counter, "it must be able to manually switch into the mon and still win every time, even under the worst case scenario, without factoring in hax." So I think what you mean't to say is "It is a very good check...." But regardless, Lucario's speed tier and sub par defensive stats are what prevent it from being S or even A+. After a +2 boost it does clean up a lot of games but getting the boost is the issue. It also suffers from four-moveslot syndrome because of its only viable set consisting of irreplaceable moves in Swords Dance, Extreme Speed, and Close Combat. It also can't make use of its ability due to, once again, its sub par defensive stats. There are also other mons that can clean up games just as good, if not, better than Lucario such as Dragonite. Don't get me wrong though, Lucario is a great mon. It just doesn't fit in any ranking higher than A- imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookyobject Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Very well done indeed, keep up the great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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