Why Was Zacian Banned From Competitive Ubers Pokemon?
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Published 2022-03-05
Pokemon can be crazy sometimes.
Competitive Ubers Pokemon refers to Smogon's competitive singles played on play.pokemonshowdown.com The tier is SS Ubers
This is singles only
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All Comments (21)
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It's incredible how Quagsire remains relevant in so many oddly specific scenarios despite having such mediocre stats. It's basically the dark horse of competitive Pokemon.
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Ah yes, the best over powered trio. God themself, Mega evolved guardian of the planets outer skies, and big dog with stick.
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But hey! Regigigas it's so powerful it needs an ability to nerf it!
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"Guys we removed 70% of the national dex in order to have a balanced game" - Gamefreak
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I never even considered using assurance to capitalize on stealth rock damage, I always just saw it as a doubles move
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Short answer: -Has arguably the best dual typing in the entire game -Giving an attack boost to a base 170 mon upon entry is stupid -2 points slower than electrode -typing and defenses can help it set up swords dances -its best answer is a pink blob -stupid move pool, allowing it to hit ALMOST the entire metagame with either neutral or super effective damage -assurance for necrozma dusk mane -basically everything Regigigas wishes it had
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That thumbnail got a big laugh from me. I love all the weird places you see Quagsire. "This is one of the most broken Pokemon in the Ubers tier. Quagsire reliably checks it."
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They made the Mascots of the Gen so unbalanced. Zacian was so good, that both forms got banned from Ubers. Whereas there was a time where they tested if Zamazenta-Crowned could drop to OU. They really shafted Zamazenta. If it got Body Press, it would actually be good. The worst part is that it doesn't even get Swords Dance and the only way to boost Attack was Howl.
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How about a "Why is Quagsire everywhere" breakdown?
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I had no idea stuff like Stealth Rocks counted for Assurance. I always assumed it was just a move meant for double battles like Helping Hand or something
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Still stupid that Zamazenta loses Speed for donning armor while his sister be like "ayo time to nyoom"
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As a person who stopped playing competitively since gen 8, I found amusing how much broken this thing is in comparison to Zamazenta.
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I never will understand why they made zacian the most broken thing ever while Zamazenta is just meh
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If the Anything Goes tier eventually becomes like Ubers and gets a tier above it, I think it should be renamed ‘Anything Went.’
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It's like with each generation gamefreak is just trying to one up themselves by seeing just how broken they can make a pokemon
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One theory I have about Zacian Crowned, and to a lesser extent Necrozma DM, is that Gamefreak for whatever reason does not want to nerf Xerneas directly so instead they indirectly nerf it by adding mons that can deal with it like the aforementioned mons.
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This is why quagsire is an absolute unit. God tier Pokémon that doesn't care about anything. I swear the amount of people on showdown trying to get massive stat buffs against my quagsire is just insane.
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Man, someone at gamefreak really likes zacian, and really hates zamazenta. Let's make a legendary duo, make one banded mega rayquaza that isn't locked into a move with a better typing and higher speed, and make the other borderline useless, while also introducing a fighting type move that uses defense and not giving it to them.
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Zacian can even counter Quagsire too. If it's on Sun it can run Solar Blade, or Hero could run power herb. Zacian is too busted man
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Mega Requazza has a friend now!! :D
