Pokemon VGC 2015 Metagame Megathread

[Black117]

(Feb 13, 2015, 06:50 PM)GMX Wrote: Curious thing: Quick Guard being used more then Double Kick on Battle Spot. Terrakion is a great answer to M-Kang and M-CharY, that are the two most used megas. Rock and Fighting stabs are really impressive nowadays too. It's no surprise to see him in Top#12 despite the fact that Cybertron is showing us its potential.

Cybertron has actually started using Suicune after losing to MAX's Suicune, an excellent italian player. Suicune is one of my favorite pokemons, or i should say it WAS one of my favorite pokemons since its usage is rising so much i can't stand it anymore.

That definately reminds me of the time in Smogon where CTC (an extremely popular player/team builder) made a sand team archetype which then everyone started using since today. How I see it we definately have to keep a watchful eye on these top players like Cybertron who's consistently shown he's able to be "anti-meta" until it becomes deemed popular by the competitive VGC players. This doesn't necessarily mean you have to uses any time soon. As long as you're keeping up with the metagame and battle consistently to where you yourself are witnessing these small meta changes then that should give any player a huge advantage.

The reason why I believe Suicune became so popular is likely due to its these fantastic characteristics in sum: speed control, overall defensive bulk, snarl support, and synergy it provides with many top Mega Pokemon. Speed control has become even more desirable in this format considering majority of the Mega Evoluations like Mega Kang, Charzard Y, Venusaur, Gardevoir, or etc. By using tailwind or any other speed control ensures that these Megas can now focus on other statistics like attack/special attack and overall bulk instead using a ton of speed evs. Admitably, the addition of these Mega Evoluation came a power creep, and as a result pokemon like Suicune have seen seeing more usage lately just to tank these hits while still play a vital role in team with speed control and disrupter lately with snarl. With snarl support, Suicune is able to not only lower the special attacks on of both pokemon on the field but add artificial bulk to your own team. What I meant by disruption is additional snarl attackers, the opposing team will eventually be forced switch out their special attacks and ruins any momentum they had going. Lastly, Suicine is able to synergize well with teams that can take care of its type weakness and lack of offesnsive presence like Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Metagross, Bisharp, Heatran, Rotom-W, Charizard Y, and others. Suicune has definately proven to be one of the main "staple pokemon" in VGC no doubt in my mind with all the support characteristics it offers for most team.