OK. The other day, I said that Blissey should be on par with/one sub rank below chansey. However, having played around with the two a little more, Blissey is simply more splashable than Chansey is and is better than the unevolved blob in the meta's current state.
- With sandstorm being such a popular and effective strategy in the format, that leftovers recovery is really helpful as it isn't worn down as easily as Chansey, and even without sandstorm the difference in longevity is noticable.
- The biggest problem with Chansey is that it kills any momentum that your team has built up, which limits its use to stall teams (and trust me when I say that HO+Chansey is far less effective than it was in the XY meta due to this). While the same is true for Blissey, this is much less prominent due to its ability to lure out threats to its team with its coverage options.
- Blissey's greater versatility when it comes to what it can run also sets it apart hugely from Chansey. Chansey needs Toxic to have any form of presence on the field. However, Blissey's ability to carry coverage (e.g. Ice Beam, Flamethrower, Shadow Ball etc.), which already gives it very good versatility before considering other moves, allows it to carry Thunder Wave - a tool which is far more crippling to most of its common switchins. This means that its sets are far more varied in what they can carry, and means that Blissey needs a lot more scouting for than Chansey due to the latter only needing to reveal one of its status moves aside from Toxic (or I guess Softboiled, but most wish sets carry Protect>Softboiled, making it typically a non-issue) to reveal its entire set.
- While the greater bulk is a neat asset for Chansey, its not like special attackers can touch Blissey anyway, and you shouldn't be switching/keeping either of them in on physical attacks in the first place due to their sub-par defense. Hell: off of the top of my head, the only thing of note that Chansey does that Blissey can not is avoid a 2HKO from Latios' Psyshock after rocks, and this is before considering that it may use Draco anyway, putting it at -2 SpA and hardly denting either of them anyway. If I am missing anything there, please tell me, as my memory may be failing me there.
In my opinion, having done brief text-based evaluation and hours of testing, Chansey's perks aren't really enough to justify its use over Blissey most of the time, and as a result, I feel that
Blissey needs to be either on par with Chansey or one sub rank above it. Feel free to argue against me, as I want to keep an open mind, but this is just what I have personally found.
edit: I'm just gonna say this 'cause I forgot to specify ranks (and these are the ones I'd do if it were me):
Blissey-->B
Chansey-->B-/C+
56 Atk Life Orb Teravolt Kyurem-B Dragon Claw vs. 4 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 246-290 (38.3 - 45.1%) -- 10.2% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
56 Atk Life Orb Teravolt Kyurem-B Dragon Claw vs. 4 HP / 252+ Def Blissey: 335-395 (51.3 - 60.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
^That's bad :/ But if you can cover that, then i'd agree leftovers makes a really big difference.
Anyways, i have another nom to make
Celebi to A-
Celebi is a pretty great mon. We mostly use it to pass nasty plots, and nasty pass in general is a very efficient and powerful strategy to annihilate slower builds. Grass/Psychic is a pretty fantastic defensive typing, giving u key resistances in water, fighting, and ground. It's not limited to nastypass either, it can do sub pass or even SD pass.
It can even go a full out NP+LO offensive set and that's fairly strong.
When its not baton passing, it has a myriad of support options, like status, heal bell, stealth rocks, and has reliable recovery as well.
It's also a fantastic counter to Rotom-w and we all know how much we hate that piece of shit.
That said, it's way too easy to take advantage of and prepare for. It's simply not NEARLY as influential in the tier as ferrothorn, rotom-w, latias, or tyranitar. The other pokemon in A ranking, like excadrill, starmie, slowbro, and mega venusaur, are just way more important, relevant, and threatening than celebi is.
I mean, that's just how i see things. It's dirt easy to switch into and its offensive presence is shit. Even the NP+LO sets are extremely strapped for coverage, wanting earth power to hit heatran, hp fire to hit ferro/zor, hp ice to hit dragons, and psychic to hit talon/other fighting, all while obviously needing some basic stab to actually threaten waters and grounds back.
It fits in a lot better with mega aero, jirachi, serperior, raikou, and volcorona, pokemon that aren't exactly common on teams but very good on the right teams. That's where celebi fits in. It's not exactly the first pokemon you have in mind to check when you're building a team, like excadrill, rotom-w, char-y, mega manectric, or mega gyarados are, but its something you kind of want to have covered.
Hell, celebi is a kind of pokemon that you can pretty naturally cover in general; any fire, flying, bug, ice, or steel type that can actually hurt shit basically has you covered.
I feel like this is a pretty subjective nom but I hope it makes some sense lol.