I suppose it's a decent check to Salamence and Dragonite at least. And it's a huge blow to Keldeo and poor Kingdra, along with the weather nerf of course.
It's a mega though, and at that with stiff competition from M-Aggron. I don't see M-Mawile making its big debut in OU. (Sadly, since it's my favourite mega by far.)
I'm certainly looking forward to it, the new fairy typing it got will make it a lot more powerful than it was and increase it's ability to take hits with new resistances to dark, bug and fighting, a new neutrality to steel and a new weakness to only poison.
Not exactly. Giratina O doesn't start as Giratina A, while megas start out as the normal Pokemon. This is only really useful for mindgames and Mawile's Intimidate. Also, any news on whether or not Explosion still uses its Gen V mechanics?
While I do agree mega Mawile might not make it big in ou I fail to see how mega aggron of all things give it competition. Whatever boost in atk aggron receives will be inferior to mega mawiles, though it could work better as a phys wall with that monstrous def (but if you needed a phys wall skarm is there) so mehs. I see mega Mawile being better than mega zard and vena at the very least.
Um you do realize with drought charizard y with a stab fire blast in the sun can easily ohko it?
After sr it's ohko'd by sucker punch. So I don't see the relevance.
M Venusaur would have been decent if the weather nerfs didn't come because the turn that Mega is used the speed for that turn is calculated with the speed prior to the transform meaning it would use the Chlorophyll boosted speed for that turn.
What can vena do in that one turn that has lasting impact? It can't set hazards, it can't dent much, I guess it could use growth but slow + sweeper don't mix and this is all assuming sun is up. So even in that one turn of boosted speed, it isn't accomplishing much.
Oh wow, it has Huge Power but Azumarill still has the better types and I feel like bulk is better than 90 speed.
Why not Dragon-Dance? This way it makes more sense to run Adamant.
Yeah just at this point in the games lifespan I can't be bothered to dive into breeding that much. Just going to wait untill I can get my mons from Gen 5. Then I could really experiment. But you're right, I did want to go with DD in the first place but again he is 2 points slower than Chomp with a scarf anyway. So is it worth it? SD flare blitz is insane pressure.
According to an NPC I encountered today, Thunder is still the same 100% accuracy in rain.
Nope, not like Moxie. Bug type 30 BP move, that raises Attack sharply if the move KOes the target.
