On Mewnium Z
: I was leaning towards unban at first, but after reading dodmen's post and thinking/testing for a few days, I have changed my mind and came to the conclusion that Mewnium shouldn't stay in UU. The points that led me to think it wasn't broken at first still stand: while Mew is a powerful wallbreaker with great versatility, it's held back by a relatively low Speed stat and a mediocre typing which make it rather easy to revenge kill. Psychic Terrain is really cool, but it doesn't last long enough for Mew or its teammates to really abuse it. Against offensive teams, most of the time you'll set NP and take a hit, kill something with Genesis Supernova and get revenge killed the turn after. You then have 3 turns of Terrain to use with your other mons (2 with Shark because you have to Protect), which really isn't much. So from the point of vue of offense, Mew isn't very difficult to deal with.
What in my opinion is problematic with Mewnium Z, though, is how incredibly hard it is to deal with when using bulkier, slower builds. Mew might not be the first threatening wallbreaker to be allowed in the tier, but most of these wallbreakers (Primarina, Volcanion, Crawdaunt, Bewear) are predictable or have shortcomings (they're slow or frail or both) that prevent them from being broken. Meanwhile, Mew outspeeds most mons you'll see on these stallish teams, is bulky enough to take a hit and is very unpredictable, since it can can run literally anything to beat its checks. Balanced teams are pretty much forced to run scarf Hydreigon, Gengar or some other fast Dark/Ghost type to deal with Mew, while stall just has no good answer to it, bar a few unviable, incredibly niche mons (before you think about it, Mandibuzz isn't a good answer to Mew).
My opinion on Mewnium Z could obviously change (again) in the days to come, but as it is, I think I'll be voting for Mewnium Z to remain in BL.
What in my opinion is problematic with Mewnium Z, though, is how incredibly hard it is to deal with when using bulkier, slower builds. Mew might not be the first threatening wallbreaker to be allowed in the tier, but most of these wallbreakers (Primarina, Volcanion, Crawdaunt, Bewear) are predictable or have shortcomings (they're slow or frail or both) that prevent them from being broken. Meanwhile, Mew outspeeds most mons you'll see on these stallish teams, is bulky enough to take a hit and is very unpredictable, since it can can run literally anything to beat its checks. Balanced teams are pretty much forced to run scarf Hydreigon, Gengar or some other fast Dark/Ghost type to deal with Mew, while stall just has no good answer to it, bar a few unviable, incredibly niche mons (before you think about it, Mandibuzz isn't a good answer to Mew).
My opinion on Mewnium Z could obviously change (again) in the days to come, but as it is, I think I'll be voting for Mewnium Z to remain in BL.
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