I strongly disagree the opinion that 'Calyrex-S is broken enough to deserve a suspect test' even if it really has some dangerous sets that may be huge threat to some teams.
As we all know, here exists many strong dark type pokemons in this meta, such as yveltal, zarude, urshifu, weavile, and bisharp, obstagoon sometimes, some of them can take astral barrage with ease, while rest of them can still be offensive checks. Besides, normal type pokemons are immune to astral barrage, that makes obstagoon, who is immune to both ghost type and psychic type, can act as a niche to counter calyrex without draining kiss, while posing pressure to opponent with powerful facade and knock off at the same time. And thanks to shedinja can counter xerneas and kyogre, we can also run physically defensive audino in stall teams instead of blissey to counter calyrex, since it has decent physical bulk, and gets access to knock off, a generally useful move that can threat calyrex as well. In addition, calyrex's bulk is just so so, and it's 4x weak to dark and ghost type, that makes it not hard to be revenge killed by priority moves, calyrex is also slower than many scarf users without a scarf on itself, which means subseed calyrex can be forced to switched out by u-turn yveltal+strong scarf users such as darm, calyrex itself, xerneas or pheromosa (it's faster than calyrex therefore you can run other sets such as choice band), or just some bulky mon such as ho-oh(with whirlwind).
I'd also like to further my opinion on another aspect: calyrex also provides many utilities, which makes the current meta more interesting. At first, calyrex has an excellent speed and gets access to a ghost type move with 120 BP and 100% accuracy, that makes it can act as an outstanding revenge killer, especially to webs ho, scarf calyrex can outspeed +1 necrozma and aoa etern even after webs, many balance teams rely on it to deal with webs teams. Moreover, calyrex also has many useful moves besides astral barrage, such as aromatherapy, which makes it a good cleric coupled with the threat of astral barrage and psyshock, encore/disable that can give a surprise to opposing geo xern, disable calyrex can also win sucker punch urshifu by mind games.
Overall, Calyrex-S is no doubt one of the best pokemons in this meta, but it's still not broken, I believe a meta with Calyrex-S is more balanced and interesting than a meta without it.
As we all know, here exists many strong dark type pokemons in this meta, such as yveltal, zarude, urshifu, weavile, and bisharp, obstagoon sometimes, some of them can take astral barrage with ease, while rest of them can still be offensive checks. Besides, normal type pokemons are immune to astral barrage, that makes obstagoon, who is immune to both ghost type and psychic type, can act as a niche to counter calyrex without draining kiss, while posing pressure to opponent with powerful facade and knock off at the same time. And thanks to shedinja can counter xerneas and kyogre, we can also run physically defensive audino in stall teams instead of blissey to counter calyrex, since it has decent physical bulk, and gets access to knock off, a generally useful move that can threat calyrex as well. In addition, calyrex's bulk is just so so, and it's 4x weak to dark and ghost type, that makes it not hard to be revenge killed by priority moves, calyrex is also slower than many scarf users without a scarf on itself, which means subseed calyrex can be forced to switched out by u-turn yveltal+strong scarf users such as darm, calyrex itself, xerneas or pheromosa (it's faster than calyrex therefore you can run other sets such as choice band), or just some bulky mon such as ho-oh(with whirlwind).
I'd also like to further my opinion on another aspect: calyrex also provides many utilities, which makes the current meta more interesting. At first, calyrex has an excellent speed and gets access to a ghost type move with 120 BP and 100% accuracy, that makes it can act as an outstanding revenge killer, especially to webs ho, scarf calyrex can outspeed +1 necrozma and aoa etern even after webs, many balance teams rely on it to deal with webs teams. Moreover, calyrex also has many useful moves besides astral barrage, such as aromatherapy, which makes it a good cleric coupled with the threat of astral barrage and psyshock, encore/disable that can give a surprise to opposing geo xern, disable calyrex can also win sucker punch urshifu by mind games.
Overall, Calyrex-S is no doubt one of the best pokemons in this meta, but it's still not broken, I believe a meta with Calyrex-S is more balanced and interesting than a meta without it.
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