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Flygon is going to be a really cool mon, with access to defog and I think roost as well back, it's going to make a potent defogger that can work on both offensive and defensive teams. It's going to be interesting to see how this is used as post-home meta develops.





Also got defog, generally good utility, good typing for this meta. Don't know what other moves it got but I think it got even better. It really likes all the changes that happened specifically for itself.





Got toxic. No longer passive as all hell. Water immunity, good stats, good typing, has potential.





Durant got Hone Claws back. Thats enough said already cuz man that thing is going to hurt when it cant miss its moves anymore. It already hurt before that too.





Vaporeon has Heal Bell again. Gonna be stiff competition between Vape and Milo for the bulky water spot on some teams now because It's going to be an extremely good defensive water. Flygon is going to be a really cool mon, with access to defog and I think roost as well back, it's going to make a potent defogger that can work on both offensive and defensive teams. It's going to be interesting to see how this is used as post-home meta develops.Also got defog, generally good utility, good typing for this meta. Don't know what other moves it got but I think it got even better. It really likes all the changes that happened specifically for itself.Got toxic. No longer passive as all hell. Water immunity, good stats, good typing, has potential.Durant got Hone Claws back. Thats enough said already cuz man that thing is going to hurt when it cant miss its moves anymore. It already hurt before that too.Vaporeon has Heal Bell again. Gonna be stiff competition between Vape and Milo for the bulky water spot on some teams now because It's going to be an extremely good defensive water.

So, Pokemon Home came out. Moves got distributed again. Knock off, Defog, and Toxic in particular are much more common compared to before so I wanted to come in and speculate what things in the metagame will thrive due to these changes, and what got hurt due to it.This is one of the first one I want to bring up, which hates some of these changes. Specifically now that knock off is so much more common it can't keep its Eviolite nearly as easily, which it really wants to have. It loses the bulk to setup when the eviolite is gone, its not nearly as solid of a wincon as it was before. But it did gain a new tool in toxic, which I think could be used extremely well on a more defensively oriented, or even on offensive doublade sets. It's able to toxic dark types, bulky waters [specifically milotic] and other mons that would normally want to come in and check it. It both lost one of its greatest advantages in not much knock off, but also gained a new tool in toxic. So how is it going to change in viability? It'll still be good, but it's going to be a lot easier to check.Now in my opinion one of the biggest winners, not only for UU but all the lower tiers is Silvally. The specific forms I think will be most viable is Silvally Steel and Silvally Fairy, though all of them could potentially be used tbh. It gained access to defog, flame charge, and toxic to its already immense movepool which just expanded from some of the gen 8 moves that got highly distributed. It being able to fill any typing on a team is a huge plus, since it can cover weaknesses and roles that other mons cant do with that specific typing. It just leaves a lot to be desired if you want to have a steel type defogger, so you dont have to stack types with something else for example. Overall, I'm extremely curious to see how the viability of this mon and it's different forms will change from Home.This one is the big boy, one of the best pokemon in the tier and honestly quite annoying at times. How did it get affected by home? It really gained only toxic, and lost a lot because now so many pokemon get toxic. Especially with refresh now being completely gone from the game it really just sucks for Milotic. It's still going to be extremely good don't get me wrong, but not nearly as dominant of a force as before. There isn't actually all too much to say here.I'm sure to a lot of people Weavile lost too much when it didn't have pursuit OR knock off anymore. I was always a strong supporter of this pokemon in UU, and used it on a lot of my teams. After Home, it got one of its strongest tools in knock off again. That begs the question: does this make Weavile TOO strong? I feel this is going to be a big conversation topic, and i've seen a lot of discussion about how this is going to be broken, banworthy, "enjoy using it while it lasts" kinda thing. In my personal opinion, I don't think it'll be any of these things. Weavile was always a very prominent threat with its three best sets in Swords Dance, Choice Band, and All out Attacker. As well as being the second fastest unboosted threat in the tier is nothing to laugh at. The thing is there are also a lot of viable and prominant threats that check it. The prevelance of first impression is a big one, at +2 priority and a super effective move it will 100% knock out weavile every time. So unless you run protect, thats going to kill. As well as common defensive pokemon such as umbreon, g-weezing, milotic, and vaporeon to name a few. You also have offensive checks like Lucario, Golisopod [aforementioned First Impression], and probably a lot of other ones i'm missing. I just think that its not going to be nearly as banworthy as some people seem to think.