Sometimes, I feel like I am playing on different Smogon site vs. everyone else on these forum’s.
People are naming Pokémon I never even seen before.
The Pokémon on your Radar are completely different vs. Pokémon on my Radar.
It seems the Lower 1,000 ELO Leagues have created their own Meta.
It’s really vicious down here.
I have been fighting against these Worm Team’s and the Cat Team’s.
No one is even talking about them.
The Worm Team’s often run Orthworm and Wugtrio.
Orthworm reminds me of an old school Pokémon named Glalie.
The Pokémon comes out on the field and Buffs itself over and over, until you have this crazy wall.
The Pokémon isn’t really doing anything, but their isn’t much you can do against it.
It’s like a Stall set up.
In addition, Orthworm has an Ability which makes him immune to Ground.
Orthworm is Steel type and normally Steel type have 3 weaknesses defensively (Fighting, Fire, & Ground).
Orthworm ability basically takes a weakness away from him narrowing the counter pool down to only 2 types.
Lucky for me, I have Fire Type on my team in Skeledirge.
Players running these Worm teams try to switch in Wugtrio to take out my Skeledirge.
Wugtrio is water type.
I don’t understand how Wugtrio got access to Dark move in Throat Chop, but they gave it to him.
Furthermore, Wugtrio is very fast with 120 Speed.
Only 11 Pokémon outspeed Wugtrio.
2 out of the 11 are not correctly in favor and don’t get played a lot.
Electrode can outspeed Wugtrio, but most players don’t use Electrode because he requires a very specific team.
Electrode main function in many of the past generations was more of a Disruptor/Enabler.
Electrode speed allowed him to get the jump on other Pokémon and cripple them with Thunder Wave.
Electrode access to Explosion also gave him the ability to try and take out key Pokémon on enemy team.
Paralyzing the Enemy Pokémon can help slow enemy Pokémon down and exploding on Key Pokémon can mess up any checks.
All the above disruptions help enable a slower speed sweeper to win, This has been Electrode main niche function.
The Next Pokémon who out speeds Wugtrio and doesn’t see a lot of play lately is Weavile
Weavile was one of Generation 8 best sweepers.
The problem is Weavile shares same typing as Chien-Po.
Players have been running Chien-Po has an upgraded option.
For the above reasons, You can clearly see 11 Pokémon out speed Wugtrio, but realistically only 9 are being used.
This puts a Pokémon like Wugtrio in an excellent sweeping spot for these Worm Team’s.
Also, No one is taking about the Cat Team’s!
Does anyone out their even realize what is going on in Lower 1,000 ELO Leagues?
Their is a War going on right now!
It’s a War to determine which starter is number 1!
My Skeledirge crew is out their fighting in the trenches.
We got no back up at all and none of these cats are on anyone radar.
The Meow team, Cat team, or Cat & Mouse team, What Ever you want to call them ladies and gentlemen, They are out their making moves and I feel some of those moves should be illegal!
These Cat teams are running Meowscarada, Persian, & Maushold.
Do you peeps even realize the Mouse on the Cat team can attack 10 times?
The move can’t be legal it’s definitely below the belt.
Truthfully, I don’t fully understand why they feel the need to run 2 different normal Pokémon.
I guess they plan to Terra switch one, but yeah the Cat team seems to be another popular Set up.