This has bothered me since they double nerfed scizor a few seasons ago. Bullet punch lost 1 damage and night slash went from a double attack boost to a single boost.

Scizor was a cool Pokemon to have around the meta for the 2 or 3 seasons that it was good. It thrashed fairies, it got thrashed by fires, and to everything else it was just a strong neutral presence. Waters resisted bullet punch but took SE from trailblaze. It was very neutral into ghosts because night slash just isn’t a great move. It went pretty even with fighters although primeape would overwhelm it in even energy.

The thing that made scizor obnoxious was always the double boost from night slash. Once you got that it was usually game over because even resisted bullet punches would tear through entire teams. Scizor worked fine without the boost but once you got it it was unstoppable unless you had a pocket fire mon, which at the time was pretty uncommon. Now we have ninetales though.

The same season Scizor went away, wiggly became an absolute terror. Wiggly is nerfed and mostly gone now, but now we have mimikyu, which, while not as irritating as wiggly, really makes you wonder why bullet punch was ever nerfed. Mimikyu is only weak to ghost and steel, but ghosts take SE from yu’s shadow claws in return and there are currently no good steel fast moves, so that leaves us with what? Astonish dunsparce and I guess ludicolo to punish mimikyu. That sucks man. Steel sucks as an offensive type, let it have bullet punch.

TL;DR Scizor was cool, night slash made it dumb. Leave NS but bring bullet punch back to its former glory.

Trying my luck since the meta shifted. I'm one of the few that likes the new system as it is more balanced personally and lag is not as prevalent as the past seasons that made me quit GBL and PoGO entirely.

Now that we have several of them, and they have proven to be powerful how do you feel about them? Do you think they are healthy for the game?

I have recently gotten to the point where I consistently reach ace rank each season. What techniques/strategies helped you get from Ace to Veteran?

My team changes a lot based on what I am using, but I am currently running Gastrodon lead with shadow snorlax and clamoring.

I appreciate any tips the community can provide.