>>56507356I have no idea why Niantic thought giving Clodsire the Galarian Stunfisk treatment was even remotely a good idea. It was at least easy to keep G-fisk in check by running one of the many viable Counter-users or by using a bold Incinerate-user as a general anti-meta pick. Aside from water and ground, Clodsire only has two other weaknesses: ice and psychic.
As pvpoke shows, the domination of Clodsire and bulky charger flying-types has pushed a bunch of old meta ice-types closer to the top of the list, yet not any deeper than the top 20. The only way to make ice more viable would be to give it a better general-use, ice-type fast move than Ice Shard, maybe add Ice Ball or Icicle Spear as a clone of Dragon Tail. Psychic on the other hand has been pretty much useless up until now. The only psychic-types that have ever done well in GBL have mostly just been Pokémon with really good bulk/stats for their respective league (only exception being Shadow Gallade) and access to either Psycho Cut or Counter which allow those Pokémon to spam cheap or powerful charge moves. Confusion has okay stats, but it's so slow you'll almost always lose the race to the next punch, not to mention leaving you open to getting walled by two really common types in GBL (dark and steel). Psywave is finally changing how shit psychic-type is and I really hope they give it to more Pokémon in the future. I get they probably shouldn't throw a strong move around like that so loosely, but there's little reason to not give it to the Spoink and Solosis families and then give them some better charge moves. Might be good to give it to Kantonian Weezing and Musharna as well.
