Pelipper, Medicham, Mantine, Pidgeot, or Altaria would be good options. When you’re participating in the Ultra League, we’d recommend adding Pidgeot, Regirock, Swampert, Aurorus, Tapu Fini, Jellicent, or Walrein to a team with it. Finally, if you participate in the Master League, ...
In fairness, the checks it does have such as Toxapex, Tapu Fini, Alolan Marowak and Mega Venusaur are not "bad" pokemon in this metagame, nor are they hard to fit on a team. The issue arises from the fact that they hardly need to be worn down before t...
Actually one thing I haven't seen picked up on but without Phermosa, Hydreigon should be a lot better in this metagame. It's true it has to deal with Tapu Fini still but Pheromosa was one of the reasons why Hydreigon was pretty meh this gen. Pheromosa ...
Tapu Fini also loses to Normalium QD and also takes a tonne from the occasional Poison Jab; Alolawak has no recovery and is worn down by rocks incredibly easily; Volc also loses to QD Normalium Z and takes a tonne from physically inclined sets' HJK, and i...
It also gets Rapid Spin, which is very good as offensive teams are really hard pressed to find hazard control on their teams with only Mega Scizor Defog, Excadril (Scarf or Sash) and Tapu Fini as ways to remove them. Pheromosa can hit from any spectrum, ...
As for the suspect ladder - the only reason I see MegaGross dropping BP is that they're on PsySpam ft. Lele, where BP would otherwise be counterproductive. I feel the same way about Scald Fini, but that's a topic for another day. Speaking of which, where...
Most status absorbers (aka, Poison Heal users, Tapu Fini) are weak to Freeze-Dry, so the counterplay to this can be surprisingly limited at times otherwise. Flex Off: Yeah, G-Luke was wrong after all, this move has shown to be broken alongside Substitute, with Substitute...
Ice beam has a massive utility, THIS is, in my opinion, the reason why she is in suspect, she still has some soft counters tough, Volcarona, Alolan Marowak, Tapu Fini, Jellicent, Cofragigus, Magearna (for non l.o.) etc. Z-Hyper Beam gained much populari...
Tapu Fini stands out as a really good partner that has good synergy despite a common Fairy typing Economy-class Mega Kangaskhan It's kind of like Kang, but way faster (base 135) so it's really reserved to Balance and Hyper Offense teams - it doesn't do ...
In this meta, its shakey af to build a status move user into your team because you have a pretty good chance of running into a Tapu Fini team (and Koko in the case of sleep). Fake Out used to be a healthy move that allowed Doubles players to disrupt a...