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Urshifu Suspect Proposal

Aug 15th, 2020
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  1. Urshifu-S has been a godsend to the Dark and Fighting types as they are able to have a strong breaker that can run any number of items and run a bunch of different sets. The commonly seen items ran on Urshifu-S are Choice Band, Choice Scarf, and Black Glasses. Urshifu-S's signature move, Wicked Blow, deals heavy damage with a 100% chance to critical (barring those with abilities like Battle Armor, Shell Armor, etc.). Along with its ability, Unseen Fist, it can bypass walls or most defensive Pokemon using Protect. However, due to the nature of Monotype in this generation, I feel that a suspect test is needed for Urshifu-S to truly evaluate if its healthy for Monotype. Here are some pros and cons to Urshifu-S in relation to the Monotype metagame.
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  3. Pros:
  4. - Great ability to bypass Protect and wallbreak with Wicked Blow.
  5. - Great signature move with 100% critical rate with 70 base power.
  6. - General versatility in sets and items (Choice Band, Choice Scarf, Black Glasses)
  7. - Its typing (moreso towards Dark) gives Urshifu the team support it wants.
  8. - Fighting now has a reliable answer to Psychic and Dark gains a great wallbreaker.
  9. - Excellent movepool that allows setup, priority hits, and coverage options
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  11. Cons:
  12. - Teams are forced/encouraged to have counters for it (Ex: Max Defensive Hat on Psychic or a dedicated Scarfer on Dragon)
  13. - Defensive measures are usually hard-pressed by Urshifu's ability, movepool, and general power
  14. - Urshifu can dismantle certain types alone depending on its moveset
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  16. Please note that these are not all of the pros and cons to Urshifu-S, but by looking at official tours to ladder games, it is no secret that one has to be wary of teams that carry Urshifu. I feel that this situation is similar to Mega Medicham in Gen 6 Monotype. While Medicham was not able to setup, it had the movepool, general power and the team support to dismantle teams. With Gen 8 being limited with viable counters to it, it would be beneficial to run a suspect test for it as the very least. Urshifu-S makes itself known as a threat players need to prepare for when building their teams which cannot be healthy for the current metagame. While it is understandable that both Dark and Fighting benefit, it is not healthy if players have to directly check Urshifu in order to overcome it.
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