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We still need to rank The Hoenn-Starter Megas.
Furthermore I'd agree with putting more mons to S. I don't feel like Lele is that good anymore because everyone just runs a steeltype to check it whereas you can't just run one type of mon to counter for example Mimikyu.
The main things I'd...
It always depends on the team you use. If you can't really beat for example Aegislash, EQ would be better than SD. But if your team is having trouble with for example Ice Beam Cresselia (couldn't think of sth better atm) or if you just want to gain advantage from a Pokemon you can SD in front of...
The first core is a Niche Offensive Core:
Psychic-Spam Offense
Tapu Lele + Mega Alakazam
Tapu Lele sets up Psychic Terrain for MegaZam and lures in Steels and weakens them for MegaZam. MegaZam can abuse the Terrain very good because of it's great Speed, SpA and STAB Psychic. Furthermore it is...
Snorlax is the best phaser tbh. With Whirlwind + Yawn it can just stack up sooo much SR damage. It has a good defensive typing and with 252 HP / 236+ Def / 20 SpD it can take 2 Modest Lele Psychics or even an 252+ Atk Blaziken Hjk. With the Chip dmg made by Snorlax and the sleep it probably...
I'm voting for psychobuzz's Hippowdon because Hippo is a very good mon in general and you can also modify the set to check CharY too or you can also run Ice Fang to beat a lot of Charizard's common partners. Furthermore you can gain good advantage vs Xard with Yawn and by that you get chipdamage...
Mega Heracross:
Physical Wallbreaker, Setup-Sweeper (SD), TR Abuser
Snorlax: Phaser (Whirlwind)
Cloyster: Waterium Z (Hydro Pump (it has more usage than Razor Shell))
And maybe we could add some Normalium Z Mons like Kartana and Cloyster but I don't know how high their usage is atm.
I played 1v1 some time ago and also used scarf PZ and you don't really need that much coverage. Trick is suuuper helpful especially now that there are no items that can't be tricked. The third move can be darkpulse and the fouth depends on the team. With trick you can easily beat these lvl 1...
I really like three of them (Ttar, P2 and Mence) but in the end I decided for Solerme's Tyranitar just because it can trap Gengar and it is safe of most attacks whereas for example Mence and P2 can be taunted or put to sleep and just get killed with multiple Stab-Attacks.
I don't think that MAero should be ranked up but I am open for arguments :)
Blastoise could be "ranked up".
I will not add my reasons for this so far because maybe we are all on the same opinion :)
I'm too lazy to quote it all ^^"
SD: Imo the niche here is that Pinsir gains more Atk in one turn so that you become way more threatening for walls (you outspeed them anyway) than with Dragon Dance.
Stats: This point was just added to provide the aspect that it is good outside of it's niche...
DragonWhale, you are right with your arguments but still, we don't want to rank Pinsir as "good" mega or what it is called and I think we can all agree that it is outclassed by Mega-Mence in 85% of the cases.
But it IS a niche Pokemon. To me a niche Pokemon needs to have something that sets it...