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There's rarely been a time when they weren't all Champions at once. I'll never forget MiTB 2016 when all of them held the WWE title at least once on the same night.
Remember when people said it was gonna be RU? Good times.
And now Rain sucks again... which Sun spam is going to happen now.
Gouging Fire is probably next.
Archaludon is probably the pure embodiment of Gen 9's power creep. It's not broken by any means and there are definitely ways of dealing with it, but it snowballs so fast if you don't have an immediate counter.
Like that's just Gen 9 in general, shit goes from 0-100 real fast. This isn't even...
I've played a lot of games, and yea it feels like HO is just the dominant playstyle.
And it's not just because of one specific mon either, the whole meta is fucked with how powerful shit is now.
I can agree with Sleep; I've lost too many games lately because I effectively had a dead Pokemon for a couple number of turns, giving my opponent a free chance to setup.