>>52889437Staraptor exists in a weird limbo that will make it very difficult to avoid the UUBL banhammer eventually.
>It's simply too frail and not quite strong enough to handle most cores in OU. This has been true since gen 4.>Conversely, its atk and spe and ridiculous STAB moves+CC make it way too strong and fast for anything other than said OU cores.>Finally, and most importantly, anything that's strong enough to deal with the birb likely doesn't belong in UU anyway, and once its natural checks and counters are banned/tiered away from UU the birb will inevitably follow.Close Combat is really the original sin and gives the birb near perfect coverage, something that the other glass cannon birbs (except Braviary, but Braviary sucks so who cares) could only dream of. There's a lot of dumb bullshit running around in gen 9 UU right now so it's not quite as potent, but believe me, it's time will come.
