Heliosan

My user is Heliosan. When are you free to hop online? If you're on Discord, that would help a lot imo in terms of scheduling.

My goodness, those are some really amazing Pokemon. Yeah I think the Ditto for me is the top priority to breed good IV Pokemon. As for the others, man. Volcarona I suppose would be what I am most interested in simply because I can breed Larvestas from it, but I guess that really depends if you're willing to part with it to get some of my stuff. What would you like from me?

Enjoy your Pokemon! Thanks for trading

Yeah I cancelled trade by accident. Requesting trade again!

My bad, requesting trade again to send Bulbasaur.

Okay I got them ready! I'll hop on and request the trade to you as soon as you reply!

Do you want any nicknames for the Bulbasaur or the Popplio?

Ah okay that's fine. I need to breed my Popplio and Bulbasaur, but I'll get that for ya. What's your online ID? Mine is Heliosan.

Oh nice, does your Alolan Vulpix happen to have Moonblast (egg move)? If not that's cool, Tyrunt is a sick Pokemon too. What would you like from me?

Hello there, I just got started in breeding and primarily am looking for a Ditto to help improve the IVs of my bred Pokemon. I can offer E17 exclusive mons (see spoiler below) as well as: - Beldum - Lapras - Rotom - Starly - Bulbasaur - Riolu - Chimchar Open to hearing offers! Thanks

If you still happen to have one, I would love to get a 6 IV Ditto. Can offer some E17 exclusive Pokemon that I bred.

If you still got Eevees, I am down. I have some E17 mons here:

Wait, I thought you don't get Totodile until Ametrine Mountain which definitely isn't midgame...

Tis is true, if you're in a matchup against a special attacker that can't hit you too hard, then by all means I think that looks like a Swoobat sweep. I guess it really depends how well it performs in practice (hence why I am trying to raise one up in my new playthrough). And you're correct that in the later stages of the game, you get a lot more money. I always found I had too much money to spend when I really needed items, but that might change in this new run. Hmm, you do bring up a good point that the Prankster Pokemon do provide a lot so long as their move is executed (which, basically always will be thanks to Prankster minus a Ciel Talonflame). I think Meowstic-M would be higher in viability if you had access to Thunder Wave because that move is stupid in tandem with Prankster. Stun Spore for sure is a very nice move despite the poor accuracy (get that Wide Lens swag going) and Whimsicott also has pretty interesting typing that does help a lot of Pokemon. My biggest question is when are you gonna get a Sun Stone to evolve Cottonee to a Whimsicott, but I am sure Cottonee still at least does something useful. If they provided offensive presence like Thundurus does in competitive Pokemon, then I think they would be S-tier, but hmm, A or A- might be a good place for it. Hmm, it seems that we can put Swoobat into B tier. And yeah you bring a good point that those matchups aren't fantastic for Swoobat. The final detailed analysis will definitely mention a little bit about that. I will definitely try out your Sudowoodo set since that is easily learned via the level-up movepool when I find a Bonsly in the early stages of the game. I think a Rock type on my team would be a welcome addition esp since I don't wanna get blown back by Corey's Crobat. I think B- is a good place for Luxray. It is definitely outclassed by a few Electric types, but it does fill a niche of a physical attacking Electric type and bringing Intimidate to the table along with the other utility moves it gets. I'll ask LordWallace to update the OP with it.

Yeah, I think B is a very fair rank for Swoobat. B+ would be pushing it a little bit, but I would say for now, B is a pretty good place for it. Hmm, now I wanna try Sudowoodo for my new save file... Pyroar definitely has a solid niche, but I think another factor that hurts it is that it really doesn't have a good ability. Rivalry works sometimes, but it's inconsistent. Unnerve...from what i remember, don't think there are that many use cases for it. Moxie is just meh because it doesn't really get that many good physical moves minus like...Crunch lol. B+ probably fits best for it. Empoleon has arguably better typing than Milotic because Steel is a very good defensive type. That being said, I think it would probably be around where Piplup is or even lower to be honest because of the reasons stated. Maybe it will be more useful in the future battles depending on what we get access to later, but we have to wait for Ame to finish those. B+ imo is still kinda pushing Swoobat a little bit because you really have little physical bulk and its only means of recovery is you using a turn to heal it with an Ultra Potion or switching out to fodder something, but then in turn lose your boosts. Speed is also a really weird thing in Reborn tbh because it requires you to have a proper speed nature and possibly even EV training if you absolutely need to outspeed. If Swoobat gets outsped, it's not in for a good time. I am also not sure how many times you can get to +6 because usually setting up to +6 is not very efficient anyway due to the Law of Diminishing Returns when you boost the stats. You are correct that Swoobat is available very early and it does a lot of work against the early gyms and key battles. Hence why I think it will probably end up in B+ despite said flaws from before. Eh, Noivern is a pretty nice and fast Pokemon with good coverage options, but I think trying to raise it up to level 48 as you go definitely sucks. I think it's probably a C Pokemon because Noivern is not complete garbage and it does do some decent work in the early stages against Florinia and has good typing, it's just that grueling midgame where everything destroys it basically. It's kind of a U-curve in terms of potential if that makes sense imo. Could you expand more on why you think Whimsicott and Meowstic-M should be moved up? Neither Pokemon have offensive presence, but they do have support. Just depends on what kind of support is actually good, hence why I wanna hear more of your reasoning as to why they should be A-rank. Ah yes, that will be implemented in the next iteration of edits. Thank you for the reminder! And also, thanks everyone for contributing your thoughts thus far and helping the list develop.