i hate the fact taht they did not fix the HA of meganium and samurott. they changed the abilities of zapdos, scolipede and chandelure (GF I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU THAT THREE CRIMES), couldn't at least give them something like magic guard (on a decent wall this is awesome, shitty pure grass type or not) and serene grace (if you wonder why, four words: Swords Dance Razor Shell. 100% chance to drop defense? yes please)? those two abilities would at least make them usable
EDIT: oh sorry kurona, i forgot the most important thing.
about the newly released mons, i don't see they will get really up. maybe the gator will get to UU with a bit of luck but nothing else.
and the berries? i think salamory outclasses custapmory. +1 speed suicide skarm is really fast.
guaranteeing you attack first once (unless the oponent is not naive and uses a priority move) vs giving you enough speed to attack first anyway? i see no diference if you get KOed instantly, and if you don't, you keep the boost to continue laying hazards. PE against a faster suicide lead who you can keep taunting with the help of salac berry while you lay down hazards and more hazards. honestly i don't see the interest on custap berry skarmory anymore. maybe for wobba it will do the trick, but not for the metal bird, who shouldn't use and in fact it should never have used the custap berry. it's just not worth it
and in another thing: gothitelle
for gothitelle, if he is a problem we should ban anything similar to Tricklatios or Knock off landorus I:
let's consider you have a stall team and i have a choice specs latios (and i consider it a nice set, luring any anti defogger to get smashed by Psyshock, Surf or Draco Meteor) and you have a previously damaged quagsire. let's say i sent it on an EQ directed to my bisharp
the latios can abuse Unaware to spam DM until it dies. you have the fat blob and mega eye.
what you do?
- send mega sableye for if he uses psyshock to take a good chunk of chansey (but never coming close to a 2HKO on the stantard set) while still smacking quagsire?
- or send chansey on DM who will OHKO both?
obviously the safest choice is send the pink blob, except that if latios uses Trick intead of an attacking move your cleric just got screwed for the rest of the game and latios still can do some damage, and even pass away the eviolite to something else, and recover his specs so he can keep killing stuff later.
same scenario for knock off Landorus I gives the same guessing game.
on shorts, trick+choice item is the traditional bane of stall, and knock off gets the same merit due to crippling the sturdiest walls, and those metods are second only to Taunt, who screws stall even more at the cost of magic bounce trolling you (but who cares, m-sableye is immune to both knock off and trick anyway so it's not a big deal). this has always been this way and it will always be, shadow tag securing the target gets screwed 100% the time or not (and any skilled player using either wallbreaker mentioned above will win the scenario 2 times of every 3 thanks to the fact that even if the stall team goes whith a god-predictor-player, all it does is delay things as you can just switch out and try again later)