For the record, I only brought up Fighting’s viability rank placement since Gallade was brought up. I’m not downplaying Gallade in any way; the 6 mons I listed were what’s standard for Fighting currently. Keldeo’s slot is honestly interchangeable with many mons that Fighting has, including Gallade. The 6th slot, to me, determines what matchups you want to have a better chance/win more against. Fighting already has a decent matchup against Poison, a non-choice item Gallade just seals the game completely. The Psychic matchup, I don’t worry about as much since Psychic doesn’t show up nearly as often and isn’t considered
as good as it used to be. The top 5 I listed are types I see as the best and can be brought into just about any matchup and have good odds of winning.
Although, I’m seeing many people are saying Ground is the best right now which makes me want to go ladder with it more and play some bo3s against people with it to see if I come to the same conclusion as others. In addition to the views of Ground being the best, some posts here and talks in the places for Monotype has said that Ground can forego
and still be just as effective, if not better, without it. That sort of makes me question how broken Blood Moon is if this strong mon can be dropped and the team isn’t considered subpar. A Steel team without
and/or
are considered subpar, a Fire team without
is considered subpar, a Dark team without
is considered subpar, a Normal team without
is considered subpar, prior to
ban, Fighting teams without it was considered subpar. Now Ground teams without Ursaluna can still be considered great? I’m not saying this is the definite answer, I’m posing the question to make people really think. You can even put it Ground in Dragon’s position 2 suspects ago. Where
was considered broken with the core synergy of Dragon and Gouging itself being strong as well. But in the end, it stayed. Now, you can mention that Gouging shouldn’t have been the first suspect, similar to how some are saying Blood Moon shouldn’t be the priority over mons like Chien-Pao or whatever. Still, I want others to fully think through if Blood Moon is too strong for the tier or just a Normal (pun intended) strong mon.