[ti]Resource[/ti]Competitive Tiering [Suspecting Crobat]

[Leafeon]

Reserved for the future.
Tagging Ace Galom Snaquaza and Twix
Current Suspect:Crobat Kyoru UU


Crobat has always been a great pokemon in UU due to its great speed and boosting moves and its great use of U-Turn. However, due to its new ability Intoxicate it can now gain a great amount sweeping capabilities and due to its access to boosting moves it can run different sets. On top of that its decent bulk lets it chew through some weaker hits. Although UU is a bulky tier it might not have the ability to stop Crobat as the amount of speed and Pivot capabilities that Crobat has as well as getting the new buff in power. 

I would love to see discussion on this as it will help me see who I can recruit for council members. We might retest this thing later because of the lack of experimental ladder.

Rules
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Dont be an idiot
That is all

[Snaquaza]

I hope we can get a tiering progress such as Smogon, with usage stats. However this would require our ladder to be decently active, which i don't foresee. Otherwise we can just test each time and decide what's worth of being in there with viability rankings.

[Leafeon]

Snaquaza maybe I can do analysis's of approved pokemon? Sorta like the one i did for megaflygon but more detailed

[Snaquaza]

That's fine, but make sure they won't be official until we can actually test them. Though I'll try to program so you can test in the current metagame. (And with me I mean I do the basic things and you work on your own movepool)

[Cyberknight98]

Snaquaza, do you still have the document with Antagon and Antonize's movesets I sent you?

[Snaquaza]

They should be in my inbox.

[kekecleon]

Crobat with Intoxicate sounds intriguing, and I'm interested on seeing how it will change this 'mon's current playstyle. I honestly don't think this new ability on Crobat will help it that much on its supporting sets, but it certainly will help it with its Choice Band sets. Crobat has a lackluster 90 Attack stat, and its strongest physical Poison-type move is Cross Poison, having only 70 base power. With Intoxicate, Crobat has access to stronger, and boosted, Poison-type moves which are Return and Double-Edge, and this makes up for Crobat's meh Attack stat. With Crobat's new boosted moves, it will certainly be able to punch holes through opponents' teams much more effectively than before. It will finally be able to OHKO Defensive Florges without the need of Stealth Rock damage, and deal more damage to Electric-type Pokemon that resist Brave Bird. Unfortunately, Crobat can still be countered by Steel-type Pokemon such as Empoleon, Forretress, and Mega-Aggron which are immune to its new boosted STAB moves and resist Brave Bird. Altogether though, I think Intoxicate will help Crobat become a much more dangerous threat in the UU tier. It could possibly do well in OU; it can easily take care of Fighting, Grass, and Fairy-types. :3