Well, I guess you RU players haven't been so nice this year, a lot of fairly likely Christmas presents to UU this year. Probably should have stopped using Jolteon.^^
On a more serious note, what are your thoughts regarding the potential losses?
| 34 | Gligar | 6.008% |
| 41 | Chesnaught | 5.335% |
| 49 | Doublade | 3.872% |
| 51 | Froslass | 3.621% |
| 52 | Steelix-Mega | 3.491% |
| 55 | Rotom-Mow | 3.264% |
| 56 | Quagsire | 3.238% |
| 57 | Blastoise-Mega | 2.906% |
This loss is going to be the biggest one as gligar is the best defensive mon in the tier as well as our best remover and a strong stealth rocker. Without it hazards will be even harder to remove as its the only remover to beat registeel. In addition many physical threats will be much harder to contain such as zygarde which loses one of its best check, and lycanroc won't be forced to use its z move against gligar and use it against something like a milotic or a bronzong below 75% health.
Not as catastrophic a loss but, losing a wall that halts prominent physical threats such as zygarde, tyrantrum, lycanroc which is rising now due to meta traits favoring it, barbaracle(which needs aerial ace), and gatr. Not to mention virizion which is very good. Teams will resort to seismitoed as an alternative means to check some of the following mons excluding virizion.
Losing doublade I feel will impact the meta in a very significant way. Teams will be more reliant on stuff like seismitoad to deal with toxicroak, fighting types will be much harder to reliably deal with, with stuff like cresselia being too passive to fit on offense easily teams are gonna rely on noivern to revenge kill them and stuff like sigilyph, necrozma, gardevoir, and offensive psychic types will be more depended on to deal with fighting types. Slurpuff also loves this because it loses its hard counter(although it still needs a lot of support, it loses 2 prominent counters/checks in steelix and doublade).
Most of the stuff that applies to gligar and doublade in terms of checking a ton of stuff also applies to this so I'll keep it brief here. Tyrantrum is gonna see a sharp spike in usage as the best check to it is now gone, stuff like rhyperior and seismitoed will likely as rockers that check stuff that don't forfeit offensive presence like registeel and are much sturdier than queen and bronzong.
Not too sure about this but I don't think it will be a major loss for us. Just a okay mon has good role compression nothing too impressive
Losing this would cause chaos in the meta. By losing this and gligar hazard control would be way too unreliable and we'd be forced to resort to subpar removers like buzz or try to rely on magic bounce as a way to control them because the tier has 2 good removers.