Rises

Drops





Winners

Losers

Okay so as we all know, the uasge stats have been given out, so I want to discuss the potential of these new mons that have dropped, and aditionally dicuss potential winners and losers from this tier shift, let's a go!Losing Rhydon is going to shake the tier quite a bit, it was our premier rocker and we lost something that can now check Toxicroak and Unfezant more reliably, I'll be talking about those very good, especially Toxicroak. Now we will probably now resort to Sandaconda, which is still a great rocker I feel that has really valuable role compression but, I don't think has the same effectiveness as Rhydon had.Alcremie looks ok I guess? I mean to be honest I wouldn't consider the fairy typing that good honestly because of the fact that Poison-types have gotten better with Rhydon's ban. Toxicroak and Gardobor are already huge metagame presences so I don't know how Alcremie is going to hold up, I feel that it could be used as a since late-game CM sweeper I suppose with Dazzling Gleam, Psychic and Recover but who knows, let's see how this effects the tier.Indeedee-F could actually be incredibly threatening here, the lower power level along with good offensive stats and Psychic Surge, this mons switch ins would be lacking, I doubt this mon is going to have good switch-ins, not to mention the defensive utility of stopping priority thanks to Psychic Surge, and just the power that would come from its Specs Psychic, I doubt this Pokemon wouldn't make at least a bit of an impact in NU.Drifblim looks like our premier Defogger, which is absolutely amazing for this tier considering that it revolves so much around hazards due to Garbo just completely dominating the hazard game, but Drifblim's typing and decent bulk might make a splash in the tier, especially considering the fact that there is a complete lack of Defoggers, the only other one being Unfezant which isn't good to begin with, so I doubt this drop won't impact the tier.Mr. Rime looks pretty solid on paper, it being a Psychic type in a tier littered with great Poison-types is huge, and access to Rapid Spin makes it another great hazard remover. It also does look threatening with Rapid Spin + NP shenanigans but those will be pretty niche, needless to say I think Mr. Rime will be pretty good.Derp fish nice, Quagsire looks pretty nice. It completely and utterly walls Togedamaru which is huge in a tier where it completely dominates the tier with its Scarf set, Unaware doesn't look too bad especially for something like NP Toxicroak. But since it's purely a defensive mon it only works on stall, which, tbf, doesn't exist atm.gotta save the best for last, bro slowpoke be looking like a weapon of mass destruction, this mon is so dangerous that all it needs to do is breath, and arceus will be shivering and shooketh down to its core, all it needs to do is glare to all of these foolish mortals, and they will faint at the sheer insanity of this pipsqueak, this thing needs to be slapped into the shadow realm before it completely annihilates everything in this tier by its overflowing testosterone.Okay with that out of the way, winners and losersSandaconda is obviously an absolutely big winner from this tier shift. This Pokemon has incredible role compression with status and rocks, which are both pretty great. It can also be a somewhat niche set-up sweeper due to its access to coil, and I feel that it will be the go-to rocker that will fill our Rhydon empty hearts.I'm going to be honest, I feel this going to be unhealthy going forward. Toxicroak is incredibly versatile with SD + 3 attacks, NP + 3 attacks and Scarf being every good sets and each having different counters. Point is, Toxicroak has a lot of different options to work with, and it run different things for different mons, such as EQ For Garbo, Knock Off for just crippling stuff and being generally low risk, and Sucker Punch for bypassing Haunter, this is just in the SD set, that's completely insane. I feel Toxicroak will be a problem going down the line, especially with a great check in Rhydon being gone, its place in NU should be talked about soon I feel.With Rhydon being gone, this could be the biggest winner of them all, Unfezant really doesn't have any good switch ins now except for Togedemaru, Band Brave Bird is nearly unwallable since its able to 2HKO the vast majority of the tier, not to mention the fact that Unfezant is one of the best Scarfers, losing Rhydon makes its Scarf set go even more hard with Brave Bird late game. Overall I feel this will be a great Pokemon and I feel have a much bigger impact on the tier.This is probably the biggest loser by far. Garbodor is probably still going to be excellent just not as incredibly great as it was pre tier shift, the drops look incredibly terrible for it, especially Drifblim and Mr. Rime, both are able to each wall or just kill it with ease, means that there are much less opportunities for Garbo to set up Spikes, which is by far its best attribute. I don't know how far this thing is going to fall, but I don't think it will be as good as it was before.These tier shifts are pretty nice, and I'm excited to see how these tier shifts move the metagame forward!