Gary
Can be abrasive at times (no joke)
Uggg there's a reason I never have the patience to get reqs. Other than the mass amounts boredom, rage, and BS that you encounter while laddering, it never ceases to amaze me the actual lack of players using the suspect Pokemon. The same thing happened when I laddered a bit during the Landorus-I suspect. It makes me feel like I'm playing the suspect ladder twice, not the OU current. In fact, I've played ~20 battles so far and have yet to see ONE Keldeo, aside from my own. All I see is a bunch of teams that are over prepared for Keldeo, so in the end I rarely end up doing anything with Keldeo the entire battle, so it's hard to gauge exactly how broken Keldeo is when I see Amoonguss + Slowbro/Jellicent cores everywhere and Toxicroak on every rain team (sometimes with Jellicent too). Just a little annoying. It would be nice to see how Keldeo fares against a simple HO team or a standard balance team that doesn't have 2-4 Keldeo checks/counters.
Anyways, something interesting that I've been seeing is the amount of people using either specially defensive or CM Meloetta. It's interesting to note that outside of rain, Meloetta is a decent counter to almost every Keldeo set out there, other than the Specs set. It's immune to HP Ghost, can avoid the 2HKO from Hydro Pump outside of rain, and threaten to KO it with Psyshock. Secret Sword does do a decent amount though, so that's the only thing keeping Meloetta from being a great hard counter. It is a great check though, and it can setup on Keldeo locked into HP Ghost or Surf. It can also beat T-Tar with Focus Blast or Close Combat if using the Relic Mixed set. All in all, Meloetta is probably one of the best check to the deadly T-Tar + Keldeo core (the one I'm currently using because I think that core has more of a potential of being broken then rain Keldeo), but it's still not a very reliable counter.
But yeah, the Current ladder has been Keldeoless for me. Weird.
Anyways, something interesting that I've been seeing is the amount of people using either specially defensive or CM Meloetta. It's interesting to note that outside of rain, Meloetta is a decent counter to almost every Keldeo set out there, other than the Specs set. It's immune to HP Ghost, can avoid the 2HKO from Hydro Pump outside of rain, and threaten to KO it with Psyshock. Secret Sword does do a decent amount though, so that's the only thing keeping Meloetta from being a great hard counter. It is a great check though, and it can setup on Keldeo locked into HP Ghost or Surf. It can also beat T-Tar with Focus Blast or Close Combat if using the Relic Mixed set. All in all, Meloetta is probably one of the best check to the deadly T-Tar + Keldeo core (the one I'm currently using because I think that core has more of a potential of being broken then rain Keldeo), but it's still not a very reliable counter.
But yeah, the Current ladder has been Keldeoless for me. Weird.
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