>>52807800It's not bad competitively, 104 speed means that outspeeds things like Garchomp. 114 SpA is not that high but its above average. What fucked Delphox really was lack of options in the movepool. It always runs Fire/Psychic which is a good combination but you have to make choices that are less than ideal for your 3rd move. Fire/Psychic is resisted by Water/Psychic, Fire/Psychic, Rock/Dark, Dragon/Dark, Dragon/Psychic, Fire/Dark and of course Water/Dark. Coincidentally, it happens that all these combinations but Fire/Dark and Dragon/Dark were present in OUmons in both her generations. Delphox would have to make a choice between Shadow Ball and Dazzling Gleam (only got Gleam in Gen 7 too) to be able to any damage to any of these combinations and both are not really strong moves with a lot of drawbacks. Heatran also existed and she couldn't even scratch it with her movepool. The reason why she didn't raise from RU in Gen 6 was because she shared a tier with Houndoom which is omnipresent in that tier and she couldn't kill him in a switch and neither stay fearing a sucker punch. If you check her strategy on Smogon, they state how good she is for any kind of team but she had some horrible matchups against some common Pokémon.
