Defense is very important in the Ubers metagame, because of all the powerful attacks that all pokemon have to weather. The prominent attacking types of dark and dragon are excellent attacking types for a reason. Pokemon, such as Blissey and Groudon are picked for their stats, while others, such as Dialga and frail steel types, such as Scizor are picked for their resistances/neutrality.
Blissey is picked, not for her normal typing, but her massive 255/135 SpD, same for Groudon, for not only being immune to Thunder, a very common move in the metagame, due to Kyogre being everywhere, but for his 100/140 Def. Blissey's typing is a semi-blessing, as physical fighting moves are no where near as common as they are in OU, but her neutrality doesn't make her the best choice to sponge those specs draco meteors, her stats do. She only takes 37.4% - 44.2% from Dialga's specs meteor, and even less from the scarf version, which is far more common. She can just wish/thunder wave in front of Dialga's face. Groudon doesn't have to worry about unboosted Outrages too much, due to his massive powerful bulk, he may not resist it, but he can take a few and surely retaliate. He takes only 29% - 34.2% from ScarfChomp's Outrage, which is the most powerful unboosted Outrage in the metagame.
Dialga is typically picked, because his defensive typing yields a neutrality to dragon, but also a neutrality to ice, another semi-common attacking type. This typing is a mixed blessing, as it gives neutrality to virtually common type in the metagame. His only weaknesses are ground, which is typically earth power or earthquake, and fighting, which is typically aura sphere or close combat. His base SpD, being 100/100, while decent, not exactly stellar, considering he's only neutral, although the resistance to water does help for the Bulk up set. Scizor and Forretress, two very common steel types, they both have rather subpar special defenses, scizor being 80/80, and forretress being 75/60. Their only weakness, fire is somewhat mitigated through the common rain, although the only common fire attacks are non stabbed, fire blast and hp fire. Scared fire roasts them to a crisp anyways. Their resistance to the common attacks of dragon, darkness, and ice are what make the appealing, and good teammates to dragons, such as Rayquaza, and Garchomp who cover each other's weakness, while playing other roles, Scizor being a revenge killer/scout, and Forretress being a rapid spinner and entry hazard layer. Resistances is also why Lucario would be even considered for an Ubers team, as his paper defenses, 70/70/70 wouldn't last a hit, if it wasn't for his 2x resistance to dragon and ice, and 4x resist to darkness.
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Blissey is picked, not for her normal typing, but her massive 255/135 SpD, same for Groudon, for not only being immune to Thunder, a very common move in the metagame, due to Kyogre being everywhere, but for his 100/140 Def. Blissey's typing is a semi-blessing, as physical fighting moves are no where near as common as they are in OU, but her neutrality doesn't make her the best choice to sponge those specs draco meteors, her stats do. She only takes 37.4% - 44.2% from Dialga's specs meteor, and even less from the scarf version, which is far more common. She can just wish/thunder wave in front of Dialga's face. Groudon doesn't have to worry about unboosted Outrages too much, due to his massive powerful bulk, he may not resist it, but he can take a few and surely retaliate. He takes only 29% - 34.2% from ScarfChomp's Outrage, which is the most powerful unboosted Outrage in the metagame.
Dialga is typically picked, because his defensive typing yields a neutrality to dragon, but also a neutrality to ice, another semi-common attacking type. This typing is a mixed blessing, as it gives neutrality to virtually common type in the metagame. His only weaknesses are ground, which is typically earth power or earthquake, and fighting, which is typically aura sphere or close combat. His base SpD, being 100/100, while decent, not exactly stellar, considering he's only neutral, although the resistance to water does help for the Bulk up set. Scizor and Forretress, two very common steel types, they both have rather subpar special defenses, scizor being 80/80, and forretress being 75/60. Their only weakness, fire is somewhat mitigated through the common rain, although the only common fire attacks are non stabbed, fire blast and hp fire. Scared fire roasts them to a crisp anyways. Their resistance to the common attacks of dragon, darkness, and ice are what make the appealing, and good teammates to dragons, such as Rayquaza, and Garchomp who cover each other's weakness, while playing other roles, Scizor being a revenge killer/scout, and Forretress being a rapid spinner and entry hazard layer. Resistances is also why Lucario would be even considered for an Ubers team, as his paper defenses, 70/70/70 wouldn't last a hit, if it wasn't for his 2x resistance to dragon and ice, and 4x resist to darkness.
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