| 1 | Scizor | 4842 | 48.978% | 4208 | 49.113% |
| 2 | Rotom-W | 4307 | 43.567% | 3968 | 46.312% |
Taken from the 1337 OU stats. It's actually sickening how overused this mindless volt-turning strategy has become. It takes relatively little skill to use, and yet it grants so many players a relatively high degree of success. I lazily threw together a team that broke 1400 (my highest rating, personally) simply because I "counter-teamed" against this whore of a strategy. Essentially, invoking a core of Gastrodon, Celebi, and Heatran with some appropriate support would dismantle the strategy, and since SO many players used it, it would grant me a relatively high success rate.
You don't see %s that high anywhere, because when they get that high, it's easy as fuck to break them. I don't know why people are still so focused on "volt-turning" - it should be predictable by now. Celebi alone can singlehandedly break the core apart, as it outspeeds and OHKOs Scizor with HP Fire while also KOing Rotom with Giga Drain (as Rotom can't do anything significant back, other than volt switch away with miniscule damage). Start using it. Combined with Gastrodon, Rotom-W is rendered completely useless on a team, and you're playing with a 6-5 advantage against almost 50% of the teams out there.
| 2 | Rotom-W | 4307 | 43.567% | 3968 | 46.312% |
Taken from the 1337 OU stats. It's actually sickening how overused this mindless volt-turning strategy has become. It takes relatively little skill to use, and yet it grants so many players a relatively high degree of success. I lazily threw together a team that broke 1400 (my highest rating, personally) simply because I "counter-teamed" against this whore of a strategy. Essentially, invoking a core of Gastrodon, Celebi, and Heatran with some appropriate support would dismantle the strategy, and since SO many players used it, it would grant me a relatively high success rate.
You don't see %s that high anywhere, because when they get that high, it's easy as fuck to break them. I don't know why people are still so focused on "volt-turning" - it should be predictable by now. Celebi alone can singlehandedly break the core apart, as it outspeeds and OHKOs Scizor with HP Fire while also KOing Rotom with Giga Drain (as Rotom can't do anything significant back, other than volt switch away with miniscule damage). Start using it. Combined with Gastrodon, Rotom-W is rendered completely useless on a team, and you're playing with a 6-5 advantage against almost 50% of the teams out there.