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Is Ninetales Due For A Resurgence in GSC NU?

Jul 10th, 2023 (edited)
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  1. Strengths:
  2. -Mention its speed, great special bulk, solid special attack stat.
  3. -Mention its long list of good matchups
  4. -Very good against Xatu, faster and cannot be 3hkoed
  5. -Best check in the tier to Weezing
  6. -Isn't setup fodder for Pineco,
  7. -Destroys Magmar and Magnemite
  8. -Speed ties Fearow and 3hkos with Flamethrower
  9. -Outspeeds Primeape
  10. -Toxic generally cripples a long list of pokes like Porygon, Kingler, rock types, and Curse LS Stantler
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  12. Weaknesses:
  13. -Mention how being weak to Octillery alone heavily nukes it matchup list.
  14. -Mention how easily it is revenge killed by Dugtrio
  15. -Mention how it makes it very difficult to teambuild with
  16. -Mention how difficult it is to fit Octillery hard counters into a team and how one of them, Chinchou, stack weaknesses with it and is also difficult to fit onto a team.
  17. -Mention how Dugtrio hard counters (pure grass types) are usually even worse than Oct's hard counters.
  18. -Mention how opinions of it were generally a lot higher in the past due to Octillery not being considered number 2 for a while.
  19. -Mention how it's severely struggles to fit on offensive teams due to its struggles against Octillery and Dugtrio and how these teams don't usually pack hard, or even decent counters to them.
  20. -Mention how Ninetales tends to kill momentum by thuding into Octillery and how Octillery is a major offensive threat that teams cannot afford to give momentum to.
  21. -Mention how balance teams have an easier time fitting it due to Gloom but it isn't even always ideal on those teams due to compressing Dugtrio weaknesses.
  22. -Mention how its low offensive stats can even make it setup fodder for Curse Talk Wigglytuff
  23. -Conclude by overall talking about how difficult it is to make up for being weak to Octillery and Dugtrio due to how they define offensive teams in such an offense dominated meta.
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  25. Resurgence:
  26. Stantler:
  27. -Mention the rise of Rest Talk Stantler and how useful it is for a lot of offensive and balance teams alike
  28. -Connect all of this to the rise of Sunny Day Ninetales.
  29. -Mention how Sunny Day Ninetales essentially turns it greatest weakness into a strength by neutering Octillery and letting its teammates take advantage of it
  30. -Mention how Rest Talk Stantler is possibly the best poke to take advanatage of a neutered Octillery due to its speed and power, essentially letting it act more like a batering ram than it already is.
  31. -Emphasize this point by going over how Stantler usually acts as a battering ram when vs offensive teams due to it having less switch in opportunities and struggling more with Xatu, since it is far more dangerous on offensive teams (thanks to spikes)
  32. -Mention Curse Talk Wigglytuff as another beneficiary of Sun, due to it allowing it to setup on Octillery who usually destroys it.
  33. -Mention how sun allows Pineco to set up Spikes vs Octillery
  34. -Mention how all of this makes it significantly easier for Ninetales to fit on offensive teams, as it gives it a way to contribute towards making concrete progress, if it doesn't make the progress itself, by enabling one of the best progress makers in the tier.
  35. -Mention how sun lets it win the 1v1 vs Dewgong, a notable threat to offensive teams
  36. -Mention how Graveler being tasked with checking it means that it can wear it down to where it can't spin vs Pineco anymore
  37. -Mention how sun neuters Primeape by severly lowering its Thunder accuracy, making Xatu a much safer switch into it
  38. -Mention how sun lets Ninetales be much more of an offensive threat since it discourages Ocillery from coming in.
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  40. Downsides:
  41. -Mention how despite its power, Sunny Day Ninetales is overall niche for several reasons
  42. -Mention how the pool of pokemon that can truely take advantage of its sun is actually very limited, despite the amount of pokemon who would love greater ease in switching into Octillery.
  43. -Weezing, Primeape, and non Curse Porygon get neutered by Sun due to Thunder accuracy, making otherwise good partners not work
  44. -Fearow can't take advantage of an Octillery in sun due to being weak to hp ice or electric, making it not work as a partner either
  45. -Mention how all of this makes teambuilding with Sunny Day Ninetales fairly one dimensional
  46. -Mention how Sunny Day does not solve its issues with Dugtrio and actually make them worse.
  47. -Mention how Toxic makes it harder for Dugtrio to come in as it completely ruins it
  48. -Mention how Sunny Day can end up disastrous for Ninetale's team as it can weaken their own Octillery to the point where it can't kill Dugtrio anymore
  49. -Mention how offensive teams are already not great vs Dugtrio and Ninetales would make that issue far worse
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