>>32180373It's past 1am here. I was about to go to sleep, but didn't want to let you down anon. I'll check the thread in about 10 hours.
>>32180546cont.
The real winner is Band Scizor. I think this calc really says it all:
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Technician Scizor Plain Power Ice vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Landorus-Therian: 336-396 (87.9 - 103.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
Plain Power Fire 2HKOs Skarm and OHKOs both M-Scizor and Ferro, and lastly:
252+ Atk Choice Band Technician Scizor Plain Power Psychic vs. 252 HP / 232+ Def Toxapex in Psychic Terrain: 264-312 (86.8 - 102.6%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
Same goes for Plain Power Electric in Electric Terrain.
Breloom is a lot simpler, if it runs a LO and gets to +2, then Skarmory is the only thing in OU with a chance to be able to live a hit against the right coverage. Expect a rise in Clefable.
But the true terror would be shit like SD Gliscor in the lower tiers. SD/EQ/Knock Off/Plain Power Electric (Mantine) or Ice (Everything else) would just destroy UU, and I haven't got the patience to go through OU.
Basically everything choice band user/set up sweeper without Elemental Punches/Fangs got a huge upgrade. In fact, the only physical mon not to consider running it would be Landorus-T itself, because Hidden Power Ice still does more to itself.
In terms of usage, this would hurt everything with quad weaknesses in OU (except Charizard), but would just turn things into a shitfest. When Skarmory can't counter Breloom anymore, things have gone to shit.
>>32180575See
>>32180658This anon knows what's up.
Before you say that this is too niche and that noone would run it, just realise that we're in a meta where Thunder Punch is almost as common on Megagross as Ice Punch, and that it's on the best Mega-Mawile set as well. Not to mention it was popular at points during XY. Is this the time to mentions that Specs Pheromosa runs HP Electric?
The theme of this post was coverage is cancer!
