Alright, onto the next week! Congrats to
A Cake Wearing A Hat for winning the week with a close vote!
Buzzwole will be the focus for week 5. A powerful addition to UU in the recent shift, Buzzwole offers a great mix of defensive capability and offensive prowess. Its wide movepool and excellent, but centralized, stats give it a large amount of room for customization among its sets and EV spreads. Access to Earthquake, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Stone Edge, and Poison Jab keep most of its potential defensive answers on their toes when switching in. However, pathetic 53 base Special Defense and below average 79 base Speed combined with weaknesses to common types like Flying, Fairy, and Fire mean that it won't be dominating every game without zero effort. Since Buzzwole allows for a lot of freedom when building, super excited to see what you guys can put together!
Side note: for building, you don't necessarily have to build a team around the mon of the week, as long as the team you submit has it you've fulfilled the criteria. Hopefully this will stop some people from rushing to build in just 5 days, so we don't feel the need to whip up brand new teams for every week.
Friday 8pm EDT deadline