wassup peeps, with the advent of mawile dropping to PU and mawile itself looking like a top tier threat, some mons are obviously gonna improve from this shift, and others wont:
Roselia from Top of A ==> A-
With Mawile dropping, its going to be so so important for your team to limit the amount of opportunities mawile gets to settup, especially if you are running a Balance team, which Roselia often finds itself slapped on to provide a spike support with reliable recovery. Its dual-STAB the immediately grants Mawile a free +2 with Swords Dance, and as some people have found out, Swords Dance Mawile is hugely difficult to check once its got an SD under its belt. Handing Mawile that Free SD isnt something you want on your balance team, and will often force you to run offensive sets, which lose a lot of defensive impetus and will make your team much more susceptible to the likes of Water Types. I feel like over recent months, the meta has been falling away from Rose's hands, people are favouring the physical bulk, mono-grass typing and utility quilladin brings you much more than in the past. Obviously Rose is still a great mon, offensive sets are still menacing, hence why i think it should stay high up the A- ranks but thats a very specific niche to fill and teams will seldom want to rely on a sash offensive rose, or even a sleep powder rose just because it doesnt have room enough to hit everything.
Torkoal from C- ==> C+
This one is self explanatory really. Torkoal has often just been the butt of everyones jokes, but Sir Kay mentioned this in the PU Chat when i was looking for Mawile counters on Balance, and this fit the bill perfectly. Mono-Fire Typing + Huge Defensive Stats mean its a viable Mawile counter, but whats nice is that it can run Spin to provide your team with some hazards control. Of course, its a torkoal, meaning its quite passive and obviously unable to break through certain spinblockers, like Misdreavus, which is unfortunate, but i think with Mawile dropping and the problems stall / balance are having dealing with it, this will often be a great asset to your bulky team. Something else thats nice is that it isn't limited to just a shell smash set if you want to break shit and not lose momentum. It can run quite effectively, several status moves like Toxic, Wisp, Yawn (<one of my personal favourites for not loosing momentum) and obviously Rapid Spin which can put things heavily in your favour should your opponent not have a Ghost that can spinblock it easily. Its at least on par with Avalugg at the moment, in terms of bulky as fuck spinners on stall / balance imo
Roselia from Top of A ==> A-
With Mawile dropping, its going to be so so important for your team to limit the amount of opportunities mawile gets to settup, especially if you are running a Balance team, which Roselia often finds itself slapped on to provide a spike support with reliable recovery. Its dual-STAB the immediately grants Mawile a free +2 with Swords Dance, and as some people have found out, Swords Dance Mawile is hugely difficult to check once its got an SD under its belt. Handing Mawile that Free SD isnt something you want on your balance team, and will often force you to run offensive sets, which lose a lot of defensive impetus and will make your team much more susceptible to the likes of Water Types. I feel like over recent months, the meta has been falling away from Rose's hands, people are favouring the physical bulk, mono-grass typing and utility quilladin brings you much more than in the past. Obviously Rose is still a great mon, offensive sets are still menacing, hence why i think it should stay high up the A- ranks but thats a very specific niche to fill and teams will seldom want to rely on a sash offensive rose, or even a sleep powder rose just because it doesnt have room enough to hit everything.
Torkoal from C- ==> C+
This one is self explanatory really. Torkoal has often just been the butt of everyones jokes, but Sir Kay mentioned this in the PU Chat when i was looking for Mawile counters on Balance, and this fit the bill perfectly. Mono-Fire Typing + Huge Defensive Stats mean its a viable Mawile counter, but whats nice is that it can run Spin to provide your team with some hazards control. Of course, its a torkoal, meaning its quite passive and obviously unable to break through certain spinblockers, like Misdreavus, which is unfortunate, but i think with Mawile dropping and the problems stall / balance are having dealing with it, this will often be a great asset to your bulky team. Something else thats nice is that it isn't limited to just a shell smash set if you want to break shit and not lose momentum. It can run quite effectively, several status moves like Toxic, Wisp, Yawn (<one of my personal favourites for not loosing momentum) and obviously Rapid Spin which can put things heavily in your favour should your opponent not have a Ghost that can spinblock it easily. Its at least on par with Avalugg at the moment, in terms of bulky as fuck spinners on stall / balance imo