>>52349905>In fact Pao is the first mon in OU that will bring to attention the fact that it has like 6 viable Terastals with vastly different counterplay from each otherYeah people have yet to realize the true power of this gimmick. So far they only used 1 or 2 cookie-cutter types.
Pao is an entirely different matter.
SD+STABs+either Tera Blast or Sacred Sword with Grimmsnarl's screens support is almost unstoppable.
Pao can run the appropriate Tera type to kill its "counters" and the rest of the team handles everything else.
Water types? Tera Blast Electric (and bonus points for physical BoltBeam STAB that works well in general).
Steel types? Tera Blast Fire.
Mach Punch/Extremespeed? Tera Ghost.
General purpose? Tera ice/dark/fighting.
Like Kyurem in SS, Pao has zero shared checks. Unlike Kyurem, who could be scouted for its sets (Specs, DD, SubRoost), Pao runs the same set (SD) with just a single variation (Sacred Sword or Tera Blast) so you really can't tell what it's going to bait and kill until it Terastallizes.
Its only real weakness is that Pao can't be run alongside mons with forced Tera like Skeledirge because it needs Tera mindgames to be fully effective.
We're about to see this can of worms getting opened.
Either way Pao and Terastal can't coexist in OU with the current mindset.
