Pengairxan
D_RUNNIN
Poison laddering has been happening so, here we go again.
C -> B
Dragon, thats all I'm going to say.
Okay I should expand on that.
Gengar's STAB Shadow ball is still a respectable special attack in this Meta and has a great advantage over both Glimmora and Iron Moth's non Poison STAB of being heavily unresistant by Common Dragons with only Roaring Moon resisting it. It also comes packing some very specialized and incredible coverage in Icy Wind being able to remove threats like Landorus, Gliscor and Garchomp after some chip (or just Ebelt in Landorus case), trick to agonize walls or even offensive threats like Kingambit with Choice Items, Will-O-Wisp to mess up physical attackers and Destiny Bond as a good ol hail merry. It can even work alongside Iron Moth and Glimmora providing complements them by running Coverage they can't afford on their set/run in general. I.e Iron Moth can't afford to run Energy Ball on this set? Gengar can run it instead. Glimmora can't learn Electric coverage? Gengar's got its back.
This isn't even a joke, I've started running both Iron Moth and Gengar to success.
Now onto the actual write up.
A -> S
S ->
I did this last DLC and I'll do this again.
Amoonguss role like always is still an incredible physical wall that takes on the Ground type, and with how much more powerful it has gotten after DLC2 with the return of Excadrill, Amoonguss has felt more extesional than ever. Even more so than Geezing which while solid in its own right, doesn't threaten Ground-types back in response and often leads to a quick howdy doody from Bloodmoon and Landorus which are mons Poison teams gag at. Even in other tough matchups like Dragon and Steel, the threat of Spore can create breathing room to force a switch which can allow a Poison team to spread other statuses, heal up or get a better mon into position safely for said matchup. (I.e I've got an Amoonguss in against a Kingambit and they go Ghold so I can call that out and position something like my Salazzle or Alolan Muk to make some key progress)
Galarian Weezing meanwhile has issues, 4 moveslot syndrome is the main one. Its good into Dragon and Dark, yeah. But Steel is a complete no show for it with how problematic the entire is with it always inviting in Gholdengo or Heatran who just laugh at it before kill it. But it also just doesn't threaten Grounds the same way Amoonguss does. Like sure it burnt the Clodsire, but now what? Just keep spamming Fairy stab and Defog until something happens? And you have to switch out against Bloodmoon/Landorus or else its just an OKHO and you've got to hard ball to AMuk or Glowking hoping to god it doesn't setup so you can make some level of progress in the matchup still.
It also doesn't help that Galarian Weezing can't really handle most Dragons (The one of the big reasons I presume it is now S rank), Just going to S, A, and B real quick, The only Dragons where Geezing has a consistent postivie matchup basically are Garchomp which is a hazard bot and maybe Roaring Moon because banded Iron Head does exist and 2 hits us. But the rest are either full on special attackers like Hoodra and Latias, Possibly special or physical like Dragapult and Kommo-o which requires knowledge for us to check in the first place or are physical but don't care anyway about burns like Gouging and Baxcalibur. Hell Gouging just see Geezing and free setup because unless you're running Toxic Haze, you don't do anything to it.
C -> B
Dragon, thats all I'm going to say.
Okay I should expand on that.
Gengar's STAB Shadow ball is still a respectable special attack in this Meta and has a great advantage over both Glimmora and Iron Moth's non Poison STAB of being heavily unresistant by Common Dragons with only Roaring Moon resisting it. It also comes packing some very specialized and incredible coverage in Icy Wind being able to remove threats like Landorus, Gliscor and Garchomp after some chip (or just Ebelt in Landorus case), trick to agonize walls or even offensive threats like Kingambit with Choice Items, Will-O-Wisp to mess up physical attackers and Destiny Bond as a good ol hail merry. It can even work alongside Iron Moth and Glimmora providing complements them by running Coverage they can't afford on their set/run in general. I.e Iron Moth can't afford to run Energy Ball on this set? Gengar can run it instead. Glimmora can't learn Electric coverage? Gengar's got its back.
This isn't even a joke, I've started running both Iron Moth and Gengar to success.
Now onto the actual write up.
A -> S
S ->
I did this last DLC and I'll do this again.
Amoonguss role like always is still an incredible physical wall that takes on the Ground type, and with how much more powerful it has gotten after DLC2 with the return of Excadrill, Amoonguss has felt more extesional than ever. Even more so than Geezing which while solid in its own right, doesn't threaten Ground-types back in response and often leads to a quick howdy doody from Bloodmoon and Landorus which are mons Poison teams gag at. Even in other tough matchups like Dragon and Steel, the threat of Spore can create breathing room to force a switch which can allow a Poison team to spread other statuses, heal up or get a better mon into position safely for said matchup. (I.e I've got an Amoonguss in against a Kingambit and they go Ghold so I can call that out and position something like my Salazzle or Alolan Muk to make some key progress)
Galarian Weezing meanwhile has issues, 4 moveslot syndrome is the main one. Its good into Dragon and Dark, yeah. But Steel is a complete no show for it with how problematic the entire is with it always inviting in Gholdengo or Heatran who just laugh at it before kill it. But it also just doesn't threaten Grounds the same way Amoonguss does. Like sure it burnt the Clodsire, but now what? Just keep spamming Fairy stab and Defog until something happens? And you have to switch out against Bloodmoon/Landorus or else its just an OKHO and you've got to hard ball to AMuk or Glowking hoping to god it doesn't setup so you can make some level of progress in the matchup still.
It also doesn't help that Galarian Weezing can't really handle most Dragons (The one of the big reasons I presume it is now S rank), Just going to S, A, and B real quick, The only Dragons where Geezing has a consistent postivie matchup basically are Garchomp which is a hazard bot and maybe Roaring Moon because banded Iron Head does exist and 2 hits us. But the rest are either full on special attackers like Hoodra and Latias, Possibly special or physical like Dragapult and Kommo-o which requires knowledge for us to check in the first place or are physical but don't care anyway about burns like Gouging and Baxcalibur. Hell Gouging just see Geezing and free setup because unless you're running Toxic Haze, you don't do anything to it.