>>37934836Pokemon that get by without relying on a single overpowered gimmick, or in other words, pokemon good enough to be run multiple very different ways thanks to having a well-rounded assortment of strengths.
Nearly everything else in OU, if you see it in preview, you know exactly what it is doing, plus or minus a coverage option, because there is only one thing it CAN do.
Honest pokemon don't need gimmicks to be good, and current OU is a meta made out of gimmicks.
Garchomp, and perhaps ironically Lando-T are basically the only honest pokemon left in the tier.
>>37934847If anything, that's a show of what the higher pokemon metas have become, where something so honestly good as to get kicked upstairs and still do well is now the last artifact of more honest pokemon in general.
