[S/M] Competitive Discussion & Speculation

[Black117]

Silvally: The False Deity

For the past months, people have speculated how Type: Null origins and possibly how it might fit into the competitive scene. Most of these ideas were just speculation at the time, though there was a few who thought the Type: Null was a failed attempt to create "Arceus", or replicate it somehow. Well... this seemingly stretched out theory might be have some truth to it after all. 

Recently we've learned Type: Null evolves into the new Pokemon known as Silvally and this is where the similarities come to play. To start off, Silvally is a Normal-type Pokemon with the ability RKS System (....really Pokemon...) which basically is almost the same as Arceus's Multitype ability. The main difference between RKS System and Multitype is the items as Silvally needs a "Type Memory" to change into one of the 18 types (aside Normal-type).. Even Silvally's exclusive move called Multi-Attack, which again changed its type based on the "Memory", or corresponding type as Silvally. The only notable information we got out of Silvally is the Normal-type receives a substantial "speed boost" after breaking its helmet upon evolution. 

Even if we don't know the BST, movepool (aside Tri Attack, Muli-Attack), and other notable strengths / weaknesses about Silvally, here's the "thing". Remember what happen when we got a Pokemon who has the potential to have 18 different forms based on the entire type chart? Alright though Silvally might not fall in the "Ubers" category in the Smogon metagame, the fact players have THAT various options to customize this one Pokemon into multiple potential roles is incredible. 

Going extremely speculation mode, if Silvally get a similar high movepool (well that's vary diverse) as Arceus, it can have the coverage to hit everything in the game. Obviously such a Pokemon in the OU metagame will get the ban hammer, but lets say it doesn't and Sulvally along with its forms stay in the OU, and below. Not only people will have to deal with the regular "Normal-type" variants of Silvally, but the other different type combinations as well. The other Silvallly forms might drop in usage depending on which forms become "popular" by the players, and how best it suits the metagame.

Even in Doubles, Silvally can potentially fit into any role, but it really depends on the Base Stat Totals it gets. If Silvally gets around a 540-555 BST with high speed, then I could see potential in this Pokemon, but anything lower and it has to perform its role well enough. Even though we still don't know anything about Silvally aside the blatantly obvious  Arceus references, this Pokemon's forms has the potential to directly influence the upcoming Su/Mo metagames on both Singles and Doubles.