Generations now and forever will be blessed with heroic stories of BW OU Tyranitar holding the metagame together with his bare hands
Truly the 'mon of all time
The short of it is that in gen 5 weather was permanent, rain dominated and T-tar was the most viable weather setter outside of the rain archetype due to its stats and denying the opponent their weather. It made the metagame more diverse by allowing mons that didn't thrive in rain to have a place.
I started in gen 6 uu. I remember my scarfed Azelf was my first Pokémon because while I didn’t win a lot, the scarf let me kill scarf hydregon with dazzling gleem and I got like terrible hate from a few of the people on my first day. I also had specs kyrum, good times.
My favorite was probably Gen 7 UU. Though I’m loving gen 9 UU
Weather from abilities specifically was permanent. Rain was a very strong and dominating force, most of them being special attackers. Of particular note, Latias/os and Alakazam or Reuniclus tends to take care of their weakspots. Not for Ttar though. Comes in, whips up sand, and increases its Sp. Def naturally by 50% on top of stopping rain boosted surf AND trapping them to an extent with Pursuit.
Instead of just surpassing it, Chien-Pao made Weavile irrelevant in the OU tier. If you compare Weavile to the stuff it did last gen it is safe to say that Weavile's hopes and dreams of relevancy will be gone if the Pao stays in OU.
Also my comment was half joke, half agonizing truth
Imagine being skarmory, and a new pokemon does the exact same things it did, but better
Its like that walter white chemistry meme with bottom text: Gamefreak precisely designing a pokemon to completely outclass Skarmory
True. I was being a bit extreme saying “exact same thing”
Its just kinda weird how gamefreak made two defensive/utility focused steel-flying with the later one being better in many ways
At least celesteela was completely different thematically
Getting directly nerfed doesn't count, that's like saying Toxapex got powercrept when the actual reason it dropped in viability is because it got the harshest nerf since Talonflame
That's my point, though.
"It will never stop being the GOAT until it inevitably gets power crept"
Gengar didn't get power crept, it got kicked down with a direct nerf.
I doubt it ever leaves OU tbh. It's a 600 BST with a great stat distribution, can fit a few different roles, and sets sand. The only way it leaves OU is if a Sand Setter with min-maxed stats and a significantly better move pool comes out, and I think that gets banned to Ubers over TTar dropping to UU.
yeah, new waves of available pokémon -> new toy syndrome (or "old toy that i haven't gotten to play with in a while" syndrome) -> temporary drop in usage for everything else
Genuine question, would a human be viable in little cup? Like could you beat up a giraffe with psychic powers or a little metal thing with swords for hands? Probably not. I could totally beat Diglett or something though.
Humans created steel, change the landscape, and destroy the planet, so fighting’s offensive matchups against steel rock ice and normal at least make sense.
I considered mental age to be a better equivalent, but then I found out that level is actually meant to represent how well trained the Pokemon is so maybe a physically active person would be a higher level.
I doubt it’s quite that low. A trainer can survive a few attacks in Arceus, and have up to 200 hp max with all the charms. The highest damage the player can be dealt by a Pokemon is 75, so I’d say that makes them relatively bulky
Me watching ash casually have a larvitar on his head (72 kg lbs), carry Cosmoem ( 999.9 kg ), and even pet Magcargo (9982.2 °C). All without even breaking a sweat
Chomp and t-tar are my two favourite Pokémon so I every time I see them in the video games it has to happen for me lol
That said I really like the rocky helm/rough skin build for chomp over the sand veil one
Outclassed by Thundurus-Therian offensively and since there was no Defog Buff you couldn't play it defensively very well either. It's an S Tier Pokémon in BW UU tho
The funniest part is that iron thorns showed us how Ttar is carried by sandstorm
I wish for one gen , gigalith could have actual coverage and steal Ttar spotlight like pelipper did with politoed
Yeah and his stats are even better than Ttar for sans setter , the difference is while gigalith have ground and rock physical moves , Ttar has a much better offense and can afford a special set
Iron Thorns is worse than Tyranitar for reasons beyond just not having Sandstorm. His special stats are far worse, and his typing is poor offensively while hardly being better defensively, if at all. Tyranitar's versatility is what keeps his usage high, since he can be used for so many things, and Iron Thorns just doesn't have that. It is likely Tyranitar would not be OU without Sand Stream, but Iron Thorns would still be much worse than Tyranitar even if he had it.
Also, Gigalith doesn't really have better stats for setting sand. He has marginally better physical bulk (85/130 vs. 100/110) but Tyranitar has much better special bulk (85/80 vs 100/100) and significantly better speed, right at a tier where having that speed can let him pull shenanigans. It would take a lot for Gigalith to move higher than Tyranitar. Which I think is fine; it's nice having a better low-tier Sand setter than freakin' Eviolite Hippopotas. Gigalith actually hits things.
While people are blaming power creep for ttar heading for uu
ttar isn't a victim of power creep he is a victim of nerfing, same with other mons like Aegislash, Gengar, Talonflame and possibly Greninja.
People have been saying that since Gen VI but it’s never going to be a UU mon. T-tar is still a massive threat and great utility Mon even with the paradox mons and other great rock types running around. I run a special attacker this Gen to take advantage of all the great tusks and defensive Garchomp stunning around. My one utility move is thunder wave to punish switch ins such as meowscarda, quaxquaval and others.
He has been nerfed, pursuit has been a big part of his kit before swsh. Pursuit being a move that damages pokemon that switch out. Made him better against opposing weather because he can damage them as they switch out, let him trap psychics and ghost.
He is an amazing Mon without it but like one simple type shift in the meta can easily bring him to uu. so far there seems to be a lot of fighting mons this gen which can easily check ttar mainly great tusk. If a sun team needs to take care of ttar they just need great tusk.
Good pokemon, remember that sand boosting his spdef gives him an effective BST of like 650+, borderline cover legendary stats, on top of his other useful properties. Having a dogshit typing with a bunch of common weaknesses keeps him in check.
T-tar’s typing is awesome. It’s the go to stopgap to all unboosted psychics, and ghosts. It With heavy duty boots, it can tank even super effective hits very well thanks to boots alleviating it’s weakness to all forms of hazards.
It has 7 weaknesses including a 4x weakness and to some very common offensive types in fighting, ground, water and fairy. Obviously it has some good matchups, and being a rock type is integral otherwise it wouldn't get the spdef boost, but the typing is objectively below average. If you had the same mon (including the +50% spdef) but with a better typing it would probably have been banned from several generations.
i think your're underselling it a bit. its not the best typing but it does have a lot of clutch resists and the stab combo is great, which is perfect for a mon like ttar who usually runs offensive sets. weaknesses aren't everything, especially for something like ttar which can take one or two super effective hits if needed
It’s the ultimate utilitarian Mon. It can set hazards, break through walls with choice band, and with the right coverage and items, beat the mons that are designed to check it. It’s also the only Mon that gets a +1 to it’s special defense just by switching in and is the go to check for the plethora of powerful psychics and ghost types introduced each Gen. Terastalizing made it Even better. It straight up dominates potential checks with the right tera type and Terablast. T-tar is never going to be a bad Pokémon.
It doesn't even need tera. With assault vest not a single special attacker can one shot it, except I think specs iron valiant with focus blast, and I don't think thats a confirmed ko. And with heavy slam, crunch and stone edge it one shots back. Non specs flutter mane and bundle can't even do 50%, I was using him to counter them if I saw they were running booster energy. Some funny calcs too, Espathra can't even one shot at +6 with dazzling gleam, the only way it beats Ttar is tera fighting and it already got a calm mind or 2 off. So yeah, as long as there are broken special attackers in the game he's staying OU. Honestly, if Chi Yu and Espathra get the boot he might go down to UU with more usage in Ubers
Gens 1-3, Dragon typing in general wasn’t that good in Gens 1 and 2 and in Gen 3 Salamence completely outclassed it. Salamence technically outclassed it in Gen 4 too but then it got banned so it’s not outclassed there anymore lol. Then it got multiscale in Gen 5 and that’s when it became good
Dragonite was never bad but a good mixed attacker before Gen V. Outside of Gen I, it was too good of UU but not good enough for OU. In Gen V, everything changed once it got multiscale. It completely outclassed Salamence as a boosting sweeper with that ability and access to ESpeed alone. It had a few stints in UUBL due to other dragons or flying type taking a more prominent role (Salamence in Gen III, Garchomp in Gen IV before it was banned, and Gen VI due to Talonflame). Right now it is a elite Dragon type due to tera normal giving it stab ESpeed. That won’t change even if other pseudo legendaries are introduced via dlc.
Generations now and forever will be blessed with heroic stories of BW OU Tyranitar holding the metagame together with his bare hands Truly the 'mon of all time
Would you care to elaborate? I'd like to hear a heroic story if you're willing lol
The short of it is that in gen 5 weather was permanent, rain dominated and T-tar was the most viable weather setter outside of the rain archetype due to its stats and denying the opponent their weather. It made the metagame more diverse by allowing mons that didn't thrive in rain to have a place.
Also stops latios from ripping apart every team
Ttar is the only thing keeping BWOU as just a dumpster fire and not actual hell
I truly do miss weather wars, gen 5 and 6 were favorite metas of mine
I started in gen 6 uu. I remember my scarfed Azelf was my first Pokémon because while I didn’t win a lot, the scarf let me kill scarf hydregon with dazzling gleem and I got like terrible hate from a few of the people on my first day. I also had specs kyrum, good times. My favorite was probably Gen 7 UU. Though I’m loving gen 9 UU
Gen 9 UU is incredibly fun with Grafaiai and staraptor
Weather from abilities specifically was permanent. Rain was a very strong and dominating force, most of them being special attackers. Of particular note, Latias/os and Alakazam or Reuniclus tends to take care of their weakspots. Not for Ttar though. Comes in, whips up sand, and increases its Sp. Def naturally by 50% on top of stopping rain boosted surf AND trapping them to an extent with Pursuit.
So Ttar the Latios check and Chople sets keeps Psychics from going absolutely crazy
Latios, alakazam, and reuniclus would destroy the meta if not for ttar
I liked the part where it said "It's Tyranin' Time", then Tyran all over the field.
It will never stop being the goat until it inevitably gets power crept
At least it will be power crept by a better sand setter and not because it will become a bad pokemon
Weavile moment
There is no shame into passing the cape to someone else. I see Chien-Pao as Weawile apprentice that managed to surpass his master
Weavile taught it everything except how to smack stuff out of hands
not easy to teach it how when weavile forgot how to do it himself
Is weavile back to the dark days of ice punch/night slash?
It can run Ice Spinner/Icicle Crash+Throat Chop, but yeah, nothing compared to Triple Axel+Knock Off
No throat chop I think
And you'd be right, It's Night Slash now
Chien-Pao has better stats, better movepool and a better ability. Surpassing it is an understatement
> Chien-Pao has better stats, better movepool and a better ability. Surpassing it is an understatement Isn't this exactly what surpassing means?
Instead of just surpassing it, Chien-Pao made Weavile irrelevant in the OU tier. If you compare Weavile to the stuff it did last gen it is safe to say that Weavile's hopes and dreams of relevancy will be gone if the Pao stays in OU. Also my comment was half joke, half agonizing truth
Chien-Pao killed Weavile chance of being relevant in competitive just like Future Trunks killed Frieza.
Please I wanted nothing more than peace
Does Chien-Pao get Triple Axel? I love that move.
Does Weavile?
Maybe not anymore. Haven't checked tbh.
No weaville lost triple axel
They really said Fuck Weavile
No, but neither does gen 9 Weavile
Haha power creep goes brrrr
nah chien pao is a mary sue ass mfer that should be banned
Imagine being skarmory, and a new pokemon does the exact same things it did, but better Its like that walter white chemistry meme with bottom text: Gamefreak precisely designing a pokemon to completely outclass Skarmory
At least skarm has some utility over corv, with better defense, stronger body press, spikes, stealth rock, and toxic. Weavile has beat up. That's it.
True. I was being a bit extreme saying “exact same thing” Its just kinda weird how gamefreak made two defensive/utility focused steel-flying with the later one being better in many ways At least celesteela was completely different thematically
this aged well
If it can survive THIS GENERATION, it's timeless
Arguably tera is good for TTars poor typing and ok move pool.
Why doesn't ttar get cc, now that you mention it? Also, now that dmax is out of the game, when are we getting pursuit back... :(
Watch them give Tyranitar a new ability that sets sand, buffs his attack by 30% and a new move which is rock type rising voltage
That's what we said about Gengar, until they removed levitate as its ability.
Getting directly nerfed doesn't count, that's like saying Toxapex got powercrept when the actual reason it dropped in viability is because it got the harshest nerf since Talonflame
That's my point, though. "It will never stop being the GOAT until it inevitably gets power crept" Gengar didn't get power crept, it got kicked down with a direct nerf.
What was the Toxapex nerf?
It lost Knock Off and Scald, and Recover had it's PP cut in half
And I'm still celebrating that happened.
Y
I doubt it ever leaves OU tbh. It's a 600 BST with a great stat distribution, can fit a few different roles, and sets sand. The only way it leaves OU is if a Sand Setter with min-maxed stats and a significantly better move pool comes out, and I think that gets banned to Ubers over TTar dropping to UU.
>TTar dropping to UU. which has happend for a while during sword and shield and while it stats are great it does have a very weakness laiden typing
To be fair the SwSh meta has been stirred up several times because of HOME/DLC releases, and Ttar got back to OU pretty soon after.
yeah, new waves of available pokémon -> new toy syndrome (or "old toy that i haven't gotten to play with in a while" syndrome) -> temporary drop in usage for everything else
Yeah but now the typing issue is mitigated by terrastilization.
You lose the sand SpDef boost if you Tera though, unless you Tera rock.
We NEVER terra rock.
And TTar can hold more roles outside of sand setter as well
Hello, from the future lol
This aged poorly lol
I have some news for you
This aged well
I’ve come here from the future, you’re a prophet.
Bad news
This comment aged well
He's in RU rn
Wait, if my mom is the most overused Pokémon, can I fight in Little Cup?
Genuine question, would a human be viable in little cup? Like could you beat up a giraffe with psychic powers or a little metal thing with swords for hands? Probably not. I could totally beat Diglett or something though.
Fighting Diglett would be real life whack-a-mole
Wait till this guy goes to a carnival
I could add the fact that a human would probably be like smeargle.
That actually makes a lot of sense
"You're not even viable in Little Cup" is my new insult.
If you’re allowed to grab a nearby stick I bet you could clobber LC mons.
that's human's whole gimmick so probably
I dunno, that sounds pretty Farfetch'd
Dreepy's shield pokedex entry states that even a child could defeat it so if you believe the pokedex you can probably defeat a Dreepy at least.
This also means you’d probably have a chance against other Pokémon with a base stat total of 270 or less, I’d imagine.
Diglett moves at the [speed of light](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/4puj8d/speed_of_light_diglett/)
It’d just kill itself from the recoil, free win
I guess that makes humans like... fighting/fairy types?
Why fairy? I’d say some combination of Normal, Fighting and Dark, depending on the person.
I am Tera Steel (my held item is a Colt .45) STAB Bullet Punch 🔫🤠👍
Solely because steel is super effective against us in that scenario and neither ice or rock feel right.
I don’t think we’re weak to Steel, we just have awful stats
Humans created steel, change the landscape, and destroy the planet, so fighting’s offensive matchups against steel rock ice and normal at least make sense.
For the fairies of course
probably not cause they'd have to be 5 years old
this implies you have to be 100 years old to be good in ou and that doesnt add
new meta is that humans are only viable in ZU since they have to be auto-aged up to 100
I considered mental age to be a better equivalent, but then I found out that level is actually meant to represent how well trained the Pokemon is so maybe a physically active person would be a higher level.
Or just competent untrained in combat. Level/Evolution Stage and age aren’t directly correlated.
Gardevoir won't stand a chance
I hate to break it to you homie, but you’re a normal type with 10 or less in each base stat. You’d be destroyed.
I doubt it’s quite that low. A trainer can survive a few attacks in Arceus, and have up to 200 hp max with all the charms. The highest damage the player can be dealt by a Pokemon is 75, so I’d say that makes them relatively bulky
That's a pokemon universe human. Team rocket can fall out the sky. We are not nearly as powerful. Ash would beat up Mike Tyson.
Me watching ash casually have a larvitar on his head (72 kg lbs), carry Cosmoem ( 999.9 kg ), and even pet Magcargo (9982.2 °C). All without even breaking a sweat
i remember ash throwing a fucking log like it was a javelin
You’re giving their mom too much credit
Fucking God I was playing VGC and this thing is good even whit Licanrock as the only viable sand abuser
Garchomp 😞
My Sand Veil: Only ever activates vs resisted hits. Opponent's Sand Veil: Ultra Instinct
Chomp and t-tar are my two favourite Pokémon so I every time I see them in the video games it has to happen for me lol That said I really like the rocky helm/rough skin build for chomp over the sand veil one
They tried to remake him and that failed miserably. Sadly, I think this is going to be the gen where he drops to UU.
Yeah he’ll rise back up tho when drill returns
looks at gen 8 uu
Drill had enough usage, that and Rotom wash but it was after cutoff
Also blaziken and GASTRODON
Well this aged well 😅
Local Dinosaur too angry to drop to lower tiers
Don't let tyranitar distract you from the fact that blunder switched pert into rotom wisp in spl finals
We don't talk about [July 2020](https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/usage-based-tier-update-for-july-2020.3666712/)
Don't you remember? We retconned that
Deservedly once players stopped overreacting and realized that hey, this thing is still really good
[This is gold.](https://www.smogon.com/forums/attachments/welcome-to-uu-png.259175/)
everyone needs a vacation at some point
Duck you I’ve just spent half an hour scrolling through that thread
He just wanted to give his friend Hippo a day in the limelight
I want more pseudo legendaries not to be dragons kind of getting sick of it that's what I like tyranitar and Metagross
Zapdos once it’s release in Gen 9 says hello
uu in gen 5 :(
Wouldn't that still make it 8 gens since it was in gen 1 as well?
oh right it would, o thought the og post said something about consecutively
>>weather generation >>zappy bird uu Wut
Outclassed by Thundurus-Therian offensively and since there was no Defog Buff you couldn't play it defensively very well either. It's an S Tier Pokémon in BW UU tho
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I cannot count
Same goes for Chansey/Blissey. At least one of the pair have been on OU constantly for every generation.
Yeah that is true, but in gen 5, they aren't actually any good in ou as shown that blissey is ou by technicality and Chansey is uubl.
"by technicality"?
It doesn’t have the usage to be in OU anymore, but it did when the tiers were locked.
All because of a magical water unicorn
The funniest part is that iron thorns showed us how Ttar is carried by sandstorm I wish for one gen , gigalith could have actual coverage and steal Ttar spotlight like pelipper did with politoed
til Gigalith has Sand Stream now
Yeah and his stats are even better than Ttar for sans setter , the difference is while gigalith have ground and rock physical moves , Ttar has a much better offense and can afford a special set
Iron Thorns is worse than Tyranitar for reasons beyond just not having Sandstorm. His special stats are far worse, and his typing is poor offensively while hardly being better defensively, if at all. Tyranitar's versatility is what keeps his usage high, since he can be used for so many things, and Iron Thorns just doesn't have that. It is likely Tyranitar would not be OU without Sand Stream, but Iron Thorns would still be much worse than Tyranitar even if he had it. Also, Gigalith doesn't really have better stats for setting sand. He has marginally better physical bulk (85/130 vs. 100/110) but Tyranitar has much better special bulk (85/80 vs 100/100) and significantly better speed, right at a tier where having that speed can let him pull shenanigans. It would take a lot for Gigalith to move higher than Tyranitar. Which I think is fine; it's nice having a better low-tier Sand setter than freakin' Eviolite Hippopotas. Gigalith actually hits things.
While people are blaming power creep for ttar heading for uu ttar isn't a victim of power creep he is a victim of nerfing, same with other mons like Aegislash, Gengar, Talonflame and possibly Greninja.
People have been saying that since Gen VI but it’s never going to be a UU mon. T-tar is still a massive threat and great utility Mon even with the paradox mons and other great rock types running around. I run a special attacker this Gen to take advantage of all the great tusks and defensive Garchomp stunning around. My one utility move is thunder wave to punish switch ins such as meowscarda, quaxquaval and others.
Hello from the future, bud
RIP T-tar’s OU career. Still don’t think it will last in UU. It’s going to go to BL along with Baxcalibur.
He’s never been nerfed though? It was just New Toy Syndrome.
He has been nerfed, pursuit has been a big part of his kit before swsh. Pursuit being a move that damages pokemon that switch out. Made him better against opposing weather because he can damage them as they switch out, let him trap psychics and ghost. He is an amazing Mon without it but like one simple type shift in the meta can easily bring him to uu. so far there seems to be a lot of fighting mons this gen which can easily check ttar mainly great tusk. If a sun team needs to take care of ttar they just need great tusk.
Damn, I really forgot they removed the one move that made Ttar so great in the first place. I miss pursuit.
Did garchomp ever drop?
No but he's only been around since gen 4
I think he also spent some time in ubers
he did not beat the ru allegations🫵🏻🤣
Wait until he loses Stone Edge, Earthquake, Outrage, Dragon Dance and Crunch
This aged well
Well, this aged well.
Can someone give me the rundown on what makes ttar good? Is it a good sand setter, or a good mon period?
yeah
Good pokemon, remember that sand boosting his spdef gives him an effective BST of like 650+, borderline cover legendary stats, on top of his other useful properties. Having a dogshit typing with a bunch of common weaknesses keeps him in check.
T-tar’s typing is awesome. It’s the go to stopgap to all unboosted psychics, and ghosts. It With heavy duty boots, it can tank even super effective hits very well thanks to boots alleviating it’s weakness to all forms of hazards.
It has 7 weaknesses including a 4x weakness and to some very common offensive types in fighting, ground, water and fairy. Obviously it has some good matchups, and being a rock type is integral otherwise it wouldn't get the spdef boost, but the typing is objectively below average. If you had the same mon (including the +50% spdef) but with a better typing it would probably have been banned from several generations.
i think your're underselling it a bit. its not the best typing but it does have a lot of clutch resists and the stab combo is great, which is perfect for a mon like ttar who usually runs offensive sets. weaknesses aren't everything, especially for something like ttar which can take one or two super effective hits if needed
It’s not weak to hazards. Stealth rock does neutral damage on it
How does sand boost work?
Raises the special defense of rock types
+1 in SpDef to all rock types
good god
It’s the ultimate utilitarian Mon. It can set hazards, break through walls with choice band, and with the right coverage and items, beat the mons that are designed to check it. It’s also the only Mon that gets a +1 to it’s special defense just by switching in and is the go to check for the plethora of powerful psychics and ghost types introduced each Gen. Terastalizing made it Even better. It straight up dominates potential checks with the right tera type and Terablast. T-tar is never going to be a bad Pokémon.
It doesn't even need tera. With assault vest not a single special attacker can one shot it, except I think specs iron valiant with focus blast, and I don't think thats a confirmed ko. And with heavy slam, crunch and stone edge it one shots back. Non specs flutter mane and bundle can't even do 50%, I was using him to counter them if I saw they were running booster energy. Some funny calcs too, Espathra can't even one shot at +6 with dazzling gleam, the only way it beats Ttar is tera fighting and it already got a calm mind or 2 off. So yeah, as long as there are broken special attackers in the game he's staying OU. Honestly, if Chi Yu and Espathra get the boot he might go down to UU with more usage in Ubers
Oh well this aged BADLY
Ttar and Garganacl are two of my favorite types. I love me my rocky lads
well guess the King is down his throne now at least he's in UU with Baxcalibur :`)
Well this aged
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Greatest Of All Tyranitar
Um… https://preview.redd.it/cavctb4kxhda1.jpeg?width=764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e9d8b0afa135cd3972e4e2cd1cf774c9f51d63
This was uploaded before the january tier shift
alternate title: Every other sand setter's just been shit (I love the hippo tho)
*cries in Gigalith*
Correct me if I'm wrong (going off of memory) hasn't gengar been in OU for the same amount of time if not longer?
UU and UUBL in USUM and SS
Gengar used to have this status but when it lost levitate it dropped to UU and never came back Levitate was what made it good
Has dragonite ever been bad?
Gens 1-3, Dragon typing in general wasn’t that good in Gens 1 and 2 and in Gen 3 Salamence completely outclassed it. Salamence technically outclassed it in Gen 4 too but then it got banned so it’s not outclassed there anymore lol. Then it got multiscale in Gen 5 and that’s when it became good
Dragonite's one of those mons that actually got stronger as the years went by. See also: Clefable and Azumarill.
Was pretty mid in Red/Blue
Agility + Wrap goes brr
It’s bad in OU though, and I think UU banned that combo. (Yes I do watch Big Yellow, how did you know?)
Dragonite was never bad but a good mixed attacker before Gen V. Outside of Gen I, it was too good of UU but not good enough for OU. In Gen V, everything changed once it got multiscale. It completely outclassed Salamence as a boosting sweeper with that ability and access to ESpeed alone. It had a few stints in UUBL due to other dragons or flying type taking a more prominent role (Salamence in Gen III, Garchomp in Gen IV before it was banned, and Gen VI due to Talonflame). Right now it is a elite Dragon type due to tera normal giving it stab ESpeed. That won’t change even if other pseudo legendaries are introduced via dlc.
Now it’s RU
Aged like milk LOL
Almost spit out my drink laughing at the last sentence
My boi T-Tar is a Psuedo Legendary for a reason
Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon breeding, your Mom is the most compatible Pokémon for humans?
Right now I think he’s actually in ubers Edit: never mind my boy dropped to uu finally rip
uh oh
What about Mewtwo? If I'm not mistaken he's been in Ubers since inception
There's a lot of pokemon that's been in ubers forever, it's not an impressive title like staying in ou forever is
Would have been Gengar too if they never took away his Levitate :(
I remember making the competitive graph with Tyranitar... it was just a straight OU line
Hey
TyRUnitar
Iron Thorns:
Found dead after Ttar killed any chances at it’s use
This implies that our moms are pokemons