Pet Mod - Fusion Evolution UU [Gen 9] - Slate 6 (2024)

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ​

I said I'd do it, and here I am. For those of you who aren't familiar with this, GBU is a sub review style pioneered by yours truly that focuses on highlighting specific mons in areas of concern, namely The Good (mons I like), The Bad (mons that are overoptimized), and The Ugly (gimmick mons / sh*tmons I think people will vote for). This isn't meant to be a comprehensive review of every sub, but instead aims to inform voters on which subs are best for the meta and which would be bad additions. Full disclaimer, everything stated here is my own opinion. I am not a council member and have very little influence over their decision-making. Without further ado, let's begin.

To start off, I want to make my areas of focus clear here. The meta right now is in a pretty rough state. Slate 2 added a lot of centralizing mons, and Slate 3 did pretty much nothing to fix that, while also adding the heavily overoptimized Buzzscor (oops) who, along with existing threats like Mr. Heat and Magnegiri, necessitates the addition of faster offensive mons to provide revenge killers for the meta. However, the biggest problem in my opinion is the lack of usable walls. The meta is INCREDIBLY offensive right now, with mons like Mr. Heat and Conkelbun having next to no reliable defensive counterplay, and most existing walls are either extremely passive (Celeblim, Muktaria) or lack reliable recovery (Mr. Heat, Goopert), so the addition of fatmons that can handle these offensive mons is imperative. So, with that being said, let's see what people have brought to the table.

The Good
This guy is somewhat borderline, but I'm generally on board with the idea of adding a big Dragon button clicker so I like it. Definitely a bit borderline though.

You might notice a trend with my Good mons this slate. This guy is very effective at what it does, clicking STABs and setting hazards that our foggers don't want to remove while it's in (and it beats Muktaria even without Competitive!) Only complaint is that this is pretty strong for an Electric type and kinda lacks switchins currently, but I suppose that's something we can address down the line.

Can't promote my own mon, but I can at least promote the same mon but again !! Not huge on Levitate on this cause it screams Heat counter, but otherwise this is a very solid add and helps with the current issue of every Dragon losing to Conkelbun.

Buzzscor winning puts a bit of a damper on this guy's viability, but it's still a solid and unique fast Electric with tons of coverage and a good bit of utility. RIP Golegon

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The Bad
I want to like this mon, I really do. But I just don't see what slows this down in the current meta. SD Bitter Blade sets are extremely powerful, with next to no counterplay outside of Goopert (passive and easy to handle with teammates) and Conkelbun (can't Mach Punch so you can just kill it after some chip). Your bulk isn't horrible and your base Attack is so high that it's fairly easy to find mons that you can force out, making setup opportunities plentiful and overall making this mon too strong in my eyes.

I don't understand why this wouldn't just run special sets if most of its common counterplay are physdef mons. But yeah, this is broken. Specs just cleans up teams with ease thanks to Tinted Lens + Mold Breaker removing all defensive counterplay outside of hyperfat mons (which don't exist), meaning it's basically just a matchup fish for if the opponent has a Muktaria or not. It also adds a third fast offensive Water type, which just really isn't something we need right now.

So to start off, this was obviously subbed for the NFE, who is an optimized stall tool. Beyond that, the final evolution is also incredibly optimized. Adaptability Shadow Ball is extremely powerful, and when that's combined with Tri-Attack you end up with a mon that has zero defensive counterplay besides itself (lol), and that's before mentioning Calm Mind and Nasty Plot. The Speed holds this back a little bit, but its great bulk and god-tier defensive typing, plus access to and enough slots to run Recover, make it pretty much a moot point.

This is kind of silly as a revenge killer with Sink Or Swim. I vibe with the general idea of a fast physical Flying type, but I think the ability pushes what is an otherwise acceptable mon over the edge.

Super optimized. The meta REALLY doesn't need another Water immunity, and the Hatts don't really need additional counterplay either. I'm not really sure what role this is supposed to fill in a meta where the mons it beats are already mid and the mons it loses to (Conkelbun, Buzzscor) are already amazing, but what I do know is that I don't like this at all.

The Ugly
Bro used the Flash Fire to beat the Flash Fire. This mon is pretty obviously made to hard counter Mr. Heat, which it does do, but outside of that it's kind of just a big nothingburger that encroaches on roles already filled by existing mons like Buzzscor and Brambleshao, and it also hard loses to Conkelbun, one of the most centralizing mons in the meta right now. We can do better for a Heat answer.

Aggressively optimized trapper. Not only does it have a super effective STAB to easily dispatch of Fire types, but it's also completely immune to Fire attacks, making them basically sitting ducks while it's around. Ironically, this probably doesn't beat Mr. Heat specifically, since Filter + this mon's bulk being awful mean that Heat can probably just 2HKO you with Psychic.

Hard counters are SO uncool. Just like Skorcrude above, this is specifically made to hard counter one mon, in this case Buzzscor. Not only does it not do that very well (Stone Edge or even just any neutral coverage is going to be doing a billion considering how sh*t your bulk is), but it also heavily overlaps with Overgyara, a middlingly viable mon in the current meta who really doesn't need competition in its roles. I would really prefer to just nerf Buzzscor, but if we're going to sub counters at least try to make them unique from existing options.

Hattepon literally JUST won. Can we please give that mon some room to breathe before we sub something that competes with it harder than I competed with your mother last night?

Sorry Yoshi, but this mon is definitely a Curse of Mid scenario. This may be a jack of all trades, but it's also a master of none, with the only role it truly performs in being Calm Mind wincon sets with Tera Starstorm (which might honestly be broken). I know the Terapagos gimmick is alluring to voters, but this mon is not what the meta needs right now.

This is basically the Hydra-Pao of this slate, in that voters might like it but it is VERY bad. I just legitimately do not know what this mon does. Grass/Dragon is not a good physdef type, and we lack mons that this can beat, not to mention its extreme passivity making a sitting duck in front of most relevant offensive mons. Cotton Guard + Body Press is also pretty fake, as any halfway decent Fighting resist just eats that up.

And that's all. I had to look at every sub to make this, so feel free to ask about any of the mons I didn't mention, but chances are if I didn't mention a mon it's because I don't have too many thoughts on it. Last slate was kind of a dumpster fire, so hopefully this helps voters to sort through the chaff a bit and actually add good mons this time around.