I was about to share my thoughts about Rose, but oh well. Anyway, here’s my theorymon on what’ll change:
The Winners
With Rose gone, there’s a demand for offensive Spikers to fill the gap. While these two won’t be exact replacements to Rose (lets be honest, nothing can fill that gap right now, it
is Rose after all), they still do the job well enough. Defensive Garbo is also a decent check to Viriz to annoy the hell out of it with Rocky Helm + Aftermath
oh and CB Lass is pretty cool
All three of these appreciate Rose getting banned, as should be expected from rockers. In addition, while the omnipresence of viriz does hurt them, regi and claydol actually can handle viriz in a pinch right now thanks to iron defense & rindo berry respectively. They’re not surefire checks of course, but they get the job done.
Not much to say, Rose gone means there’s one less poison for them to worry about. And with Virizion on the rise, I expect them to only get better.
The Losers
There’s probably more mons that I missed, but basically any mon that appreciated Spikes support from Rose took a hit. These are the most notable ones I could think of. Not that they’re any worse than before, keep that in mind.
Anyway, onto good ol' Viriz here, star of the suspect. I haven’t gotten reqs yet, so take my words with a grain of salt, but I think I’ll vote
no ban on this one. On the pro-ban side, I definitely get the arguments. It’s hard to switch into this thing without getting bopped by SE, and even with that your Viriz switchin may not even be the ideal switchin to whatever set Virizion’s using. Its special bulk isn’t half bad either and can use that to check mons like helio. However, Virizion has a really bad defensive typing, giving it weaknesses to types that every team runs such as Fire, Psychic and most importantly, Flying. While it’s speed tier is excellent, it’s prone to getting revenge killed by scarfers or being forced out in the first place. Like what has been said by the OG post, Virizion is very prediction reliant to really get its sweeping streak going, and no sane player would let Viriz set up in the first place.
Since this post is long enough as it is, I’ll drop my thoughts about recent duscussions quickly and get going.
Bans: Forgot to mention this in my last post, but yeah, now I see that the council was a bit too banhappy at the start of January. I still stand by that Tauros is stupid though. Alolachu and Sceptile could be looked at again, although terrain should be dealt with before that kind of stuff happens.
Recent meta: I’ve really been liking this meta so far, nothing feels too broken. The only exception was Rose, and even that could be dealt with swiftly and cleanly. There’s still a lot of room for exploration, and I’ve been trying out new options such as Basculin, Kabutops, Golbat, etc.
That’s all I have to say for now. Ciao!