u/ScienceTeacher1994

I'm around rank 2 Master Ball on the Champions Doubles ranked ladder and this new Vivillon set has been popping up everywhere. They are always scarfed and usually lead along with something like Mega Blastoise and click Sleep Powder and Fake Out. Vivillon with a Choice Scarf is annoying because it's basically a very fast sleep bot. Countering with a grass type pokemon is risky because Vivillon also has Hurricane. The move set appears to be Sleep Powder, Hurricane, Rage Powder, Protect. The ability is always Compound Eyes. How do you guys go about handling this?

If you get base Rotom from the recruitment pool, it's basically useless. Having to bring a new Rotom over from Pokemon SV every time I'm making a new team is kind of annoying. The devs could simply solve this problem by adding the Rotom Catalog to the Frontier Shop and allowing us to change the form of our Rotoms directly in the game.

Dry Skin Heliolisk completely walls Basculegion because it is immune to both ghost and water type moves. You can take it even further by baiting enemy Basculegion with Ally Switch. Due to this, Heliolisk has seen a rise in popularity in the Champions metagame. Are there any other examples of a pokemon like this in the game right now? I can't think of any.

This pokemon is the 48th most used in Double Battles, so it's obviously seeing quite a bit of popularity. I can't tell if it's really good or really bad.

The pros:
- It has sky high defense, which it can takes advantage of with Body Press

- It loses its rock typing upon mega evolving, making it a pure steel body type, which is an upgrade defensively

- Its base speed is 50, making it quite good to use under Trick Room

- Its ability Filter is objectively really good, making even super effective physical attacks not hit it super hard

The cons:

- It has very low special defense, meaning that pokemon like Kommo-O, Mega Charizard Y, Glimmora, and others can hit it very hard with super effective moves

- It struggles to do meaningful damage to ghost types, since Heavy Slam doesn't hit that hard

- It can take a while to set up, as you need to click Iron Defense a couple of times before you can really start to OHKO a lot of things with Body Press

What are we thinking about this pokemon? Good or bad? Can it be a legitimate top tier threat in the current meta?