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My 2 favorite Pokemon are now both unviable

BSDuck
BSDuck Member Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I think the UNITE devs hate me, because everytime I think my favorites have a chance, they get totally screwed in the form of excessive nerfs or just being straight-up trash from release and never buffed. When they released Sirfetch'd, I thought salvation had come and I would finally be able to play a Pokemon I love and win. It got nerfs, but they were fine, it was too good and needed them. These nerfs put it in a comfortable spot in the A tier, where most Pokemon hang out. And then they nerf it again, for no reason whatsoever, and it plummets down and down interms of viability. I only got 1 or 2 seasons of active play with it, and then it suddenly becomes kinda bad. The chances of both your favorites being bad are slim, but for me it has happened three times. And I won't even bother to state how bad Falinks is, it can't win because it gets counterpicked so easily and is so laggy to play. If anyone gets beaten by Falinks, it's because they were unlucky and didn't draw one of 10 Pokemon that shut it down. Also, I realised how bad Tinkaton is, like seriously, this is so many people's favorite Pokemon (and one I personally like), why make it bad?

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  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yes, it's obviously personal...

  • Hades0918
    Hades0918 Member Posts: 25,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dude, I've played Tinkaton

    I love her!

    She is incredibly strong!

    And I can't tell you the number of Sirfetch'ds that has destroyed me in battle

    Those guys are tough!

  • BSDuck
    BSDuck Member Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sirfetch'd is still gokd in the hands of a really good player, but I'm not a pro or anything. Tink is strong if she gets stacks early, but if it goes bad, she really struggles.

  • sir_uledge
    sir_uledge Member Posts: 185 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 13 #5

    I completely feel you.. I used to LOVE Alolan Raichu, and even had a pretty solid win rate with it too. I used the Electro Ball build, and slowly but surely, they started nerfing it. I left Unite for about a year (this was before the nerfs) and I come back in July to find out that Delphox and Alolan Raichu, previously some of the best attackers in the game (at least in my opinion) were now rendered useless. I also was a pretty solid Darkrai player at one point, then got nerfed right after the battle pass a few months back. Same story with Zacian. I heard it was pretty solid and relatively consistent, so I used my 5'th Anniversary free all-rounder bonus to unlock it - got the boosted attacks nerfed within weeks. Tbf, I also main Eldegoss and Lapras, which both got buffs a few months back, so it wasn't the end of the world. But it really goes to show how fast the meta changes, and not always for the better...

  • schiesse
    schiesse Member Posts: 85 ✭✭
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    my favorite is Comfey because I can sit back and do nothing and let the automaton do all the clicking like a bot

  • BSDuck
    BSDuck Member Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Guys! RealComfyBot has infiltrated the forums! (just kidding)

  • Dragonfly102024
    Dragonfly102024 Member Posts: 3,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have blocked three of them after matches, in just the past couple of days in-game. 😐

    (I even saved a ranked replay to watch as it did what bots do)

    The sad thing is.... I know some people who actually are very good with Comfey AND they don't act like those bots.

  • sir_uledge
    sir_uledge Member Posts: 185 ✭✭✭
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    I agree, Comfey mains have a really bad rep now. One of my friends loves Comfey, and when I use Zacian and they use Comfey - oh, the KO streaks we've pulled off☠️