PsyducksChili said: You don't see any LO Darms running around, do you? Click to expand...

No I don't. Because why would anyone purposely run an item that takes 10% of your health away when you can just run Band and accomplish the same thing except with 20% more damage?Anyway's, so far with my experience post Dynamax I think Darm as a whole is undeniably busted. I think anyone who's played enough can definitely agree with that. While Band is impossible to switch into, I think it's definitely manageable offensively. As dumb of a Pokemon it is, it reminds me a lot of Dracovish. While Dracovish has legit full on counters, it's still a Pokemon that clicks buttons and deals insane amounts of damage without really requiring much thought, absolutely smashing through anything that isn't immune. CB Darm is similar to this, except with a wider range of coverage. Its Speed tier is definitely very solid but it's pretty frail and with minimal chip it can pressured or forced out by a decent amount of commonly used offensive Pokemon, mainly Specs Dragapult and Hydreigon, Scarf Driller, Cinderace, Duggy can trap it, and priority from Bish or Conk are often pretty problematic for it. This sets power is absolutely stupid and has practically zero defensive switch-ins to a point where it's relatively unfair, but it can at least be pressured decently well offensively and with hazards.Now take everything I just said, and ignore most of if not all the offensive checks I listed. That's Choice Scarf Darm. This set is absurdly busted and has zero place being in this game. It's a Pokemon that can not only function as a powerful breaker with extremely limited switch ins but also something that is very difficult to pressure offensively. Common forms of Speed control such as Dragapult are obviously fucked up, Scarf Rotom-W takes like upwards of 45% from an unstabbed U-turn, and is usually unable to reliably pivot into it fearing being 2HKOed by Crash with just a small amount of chip (which is very easy to exploit considering Rotom has no recovery this gen). Scarf Driller has like a 50% chance to die from FULL with a neutral Icicle Crash, and obviously gets popped by its other moves. The only true way I've found to pressure this thing reliably is to run like shit tier Scarfers that serve no real purpose outside of solely revenge killing Darm, and proceeding to be pretty much dead-weight otherwise. Some examples include Scarf Pult (this set is so weak it legit can't kill anything from full), Scarf Hydreigon (okay set but definitely not anywhere near as good as Specs or Sub Nasty), and Scarf Cinderace (whose niche is Court Change, which it can't really abuse when it's Choiced). Conk is probably the most reliable way to revenge kill Scarf sets because Mach Punch just drops it. But yeah, that's about it. Any other form of priority (which we don't have much of this gen) needs a good amount of chip. All of these require free switch-ins, otherwise they lose.Unless you run these sets, you're in a situation where checking Scarf Darm usually comes down to very precise pivoting with perfect prediction, which is entirely in favor of who ever is using Darmanitan. All it takes is one good prediction on the opponents part and you're most likely going to lose your only means of beating it reliably. Aside from that, you basically just spam hazards as much as humanely possible and hope to god that you can kill their remover before Darm is able to get too many free switch-ins. I disagree that Darm limits team building, because you can't reliably build a team that beats Darm anyway. You either attempt to pressure it with offensive Pokemon and lose to Scarf, or you opt to check it defensively, and lose to Band (or Belly Drum Zen sets lol, which just invalidate anything even remotely considered a Darm check). Actually prepping for it defensively can still lose to Scarf lol. Having the ability to use a Pokemon that can not only outspeed a majority of the metagame but also function as a near unwallable breaker in the same set is just laughably unhealthy. I don't know how you can possibly see this Pokemon as balanced.