>>22130306Before we knew the stats, I had guessed that Mence would get these sort of boosts:
+ 30 Attack
+ 50 Defense
+ 20 Special Attack
The Attack boost would match Tyranitar's, the Defense 'wasted' most of the stats, rather than having them be put in its offenses and make it overpowered, and the rest would be put in Special Attack.
Speed would be left at 100 because it's a Dragon Dancer, so any more would be crazy, and they'd leave the Special Defense alone to give it a weak point (Ice Beam).
When the stats and that base 120 Speed were revealed, I almost fell out of my chair.
That Speed stat is one of the most insane things about Mence. You can invest in its defenses and still be fast, or you can go 252 Jolly and outspeed everything after a single DD. At +1, it's faster than every usual Scarfer in the game. It's faster than the Swift Swimmers and Sand Rush Excadrill. You need a Speed stat of 280 to outspeed +1 Mence with Swift Swim. Kingdra is base 85. Ludicolo is base 70. Kabutops barely does it at base 80 (284 Speed with Jolly, which it doesn't run).
You look at Mence and say that it has flaws, like the Ice weakness and the SR weakness, but GF designed it to be able to circumvent everything. It's like they looked the current meta and created a beast that could perfectly rip the tier in half.
Everything went right. Mence is almost perfect.
