ADV 2U Voting: Discussion Thread

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So I'll talk about them first. I'm not sure on all of them where to cast my vote yet.

Blaziken is only a little threatening to unprepared teams. It's fairly well handled by quite a few different things, and any one coverage move it can run doesn't hit most of them, even though it could specifically lure any one. Has little that puts it over Medicham and Houndoom. Still is kinda cool but I feel personally that I'm actually leaning towards 3U for it.

SubCM is probably the best set for this beast. Can pressure certain stalls really well, provides a great Jynx check, does all the usual Fire-type stuff, has great stats. Can be a bit hard to get it to do something and it's not too useful in certain matchups. Fairly undecided, leaning 2U.

I'm feeling like 3U for this. It's a registeel that beats Fires but loses to Water-types and is less specially bulky. It's a more powerful subpuncher though. Also not Toxic-immune.

The fast subseeder. Actually pairs nicely with a handful of things. The only matchup where it really stands out however is versus offense. I could see it moving to 3U, it's not that nice in 2U tbh.

This is a pretty rare sight in 2U. The SD Morning Sun Steel Wing HP Ground set is pretty decent but also fairly niche, and needs some sort of support to deal with Moltres. Baton Pass is even poorer, but probably viable - the meta seems kind to it right now. CB is pretty much worthless. Learning 3U.

Probably my favourite B- pick. Kind of like Lanturn, but different. No Electric STAB (so not as nasty to Cuno or Cloy, but still hits fairly hard). STAB Psychic helps vs Venusaur and even moreso vs Hariyama. Checks Medicham unlike Lanturn, but doesn't really check Houndoom on the flipside. Neutral to both Flying and Ground, making it a DDNite answer, but can't switch into CB HP Flying's like Lanturn, though that's not too important when almost every team should have a Rock- or Steel-type that does this (with Scizor being the only one which doesn't..). I feel it's 2U-worthy.

 

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My opinion's changed a bit on Scizor. Whilst SD is valid it's not enoough on its own imo for it to be in the tier. However, the AgiliPass set is really legit! Especially with my new discovery of our lord and saviour marowak (jesus that thing's strong) which is a perfect partner.

The team which I built is in a paste within this paste: Mibpaste.bin