Don Vascus
Certified Wednesday Poster
The first set most people would try with Ursaluna is some sort of Extreme Speed attacker, from either Lucario for access to Swords Dance or Arcanine or Dragonite for a more bulkier style of wincon. These sets have trouble breaking the very common Unaware users in the tier, as they all lack damage-boosting abilities as well as lacking reliable ways of muscling past them like Toxic or Taunt+Recovery. On top of that, Its typing has very little in the way of defensive utility and instead giving it a lot of annoying weaknesses, such as Water, Ice and notably Fighting, which leaves it vulnerable to Body Press from a lot of defensive pokemon and gives it a particularly bad matchup versus Great Tusk, a pretty fantastic pokemon both offensively and defensively. It can also be heavily hampered by Levitate Steel Types such as Gholdengo and Iron Crown. Lasty, if it can't click a priority move its very slow, which can be exploited. This is a huge obstacle for other potential sets such as Maushold!Ursaluna and Gumshoos!Ursaluna.
However, it is undeniable that its Extreme Speeds are very strong, heavily denting any offensive pokemon and even being able to OHKO some with one layer of Spikes, such as Sneasler. With this tool alone, it can heavily pressure offense, forcing the style to run atypical stuff such as Tsareena and Indeedee inheritors. Ursaluna can also use its enormous bulk to get out of sticky situations and beat its checks. It's also of note that the bear can even be a viable donor as it has the combination of Headlong Rush, Guts and Swords Dance with a wide array of coverage on top of these notable examples which pokemon like Landorus T and Great Tusk can abuse. Ursaluna's potencial is mostly unexplored, as there is no close comparison currently free in this or any previous generation. For this reason, the council decided to test it out and let the playerbase decide.
How (Suspect Details):
During a Suspect test, each player must climb the ladder until they've acquired the GXE necessary to participate in the voting. Primarily, everyone that participates needs to make an alt account following these guidelines:
- Every game must be played on the official Pokemon Showdown! site and on a new account (creation date no earlier than today, February 10) with "INHU "--for example, I could create one called "INHU man" to ladder with. Having the prefix at the beginning of your alt name is mandatory, AKA not in the middle (e.g. The INHU Man) and not at the end (e.g. Mr INHU).
- To qualify for voting, your alt must meet the required GXE and games played threshold; 75% GXE and 25 games minimum.
- Ursaluna will be allowed during the suspect
- The suspect test will go for two weeks and end on February 24 at 10:00pm GMT-5
- When posting proof of meeting reqs, feel free to use this thread as a means to disseminate topical opinions regarding whether or not Ursaluna should be unbanned (Optional)
- It is mandatory to provide proof of ownership of the alt account as well. (Post a picture of your reqs with your smogon name featured)
Thank you in advance dhelmise for implementing it