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Perhaps I didn't make the point of that post clear; but those were just examples of Pokemon that aren't completely useless due to a 4x weakness to SR--much better examples than lolmega.
I don't wanna sound like a wannabe OU player--but have you even used it? Digging for concrete in the sky will do nothing but keep your head suspended above the clouds. I've been using Moltres on my main team since the production of its first Gen V OU analysis; other creditable players have used it as well and don't find it to be 'outclassed as a sweeper or Spec user'. How you can make such audacious statements is far beyond my understanding. Now, onto ripping apart this portion of your post:
Your ignorance knows no limits, does it? First of all, Fire Blast, even with its power halved, hits its intended targets (most Steel-types) for heavy damage. Jirachi is literally the only target that Fire Blast doesn't outright KO; and even then, LO Hurricane + Fire Blast usually secures the KO on SDef variants. Also... huh? Since when is being able to casually switch into Celebi, Lucario, Lando-I (again, I have to stress this one because it's one of OU's top threats), basically every Steel-type, Ninetales, Heatran, Breloom, Gliscor (though, it's not as relevant in OU as Lando-T), a fair amount of Jellicent, Mamoswine (haven't seen Stone Edge in months), basically all of standard hail, and many others worthless? I don't have a clue which metagame you're playing, but in BW2 OU, that's pretty vital.
Oh, I'm sorry! Base 125 Special Attack apparently isn't powerful enough for OU. I guess that Tornadus-I is super bad in OU after all and deserves nothing higher than UU status. Man, everyone must've been (and still are) following some wack ass standards if they're resorting to using something with base 125 Special Attack. C'mon, I know you're smarter than this.
Have you used Salamence + Rayquaza in Gen IV? It's pretty much the same concept. Take something noticeably weaker than a powerful threat in Ubers and use it to weaken said threat's checks and counters juuuuuuuuust enough for them to finish off later. Articuno pairs well with something along the lines of Kyu-W--something that greatly appreciates particular defensive threats softened up a bit before wreaking havoc. It's not something that I would consider practical, but hey, Speed Boost Yanmega in BW2 UU is no better.
DPP OU right before the introduction of BW (and by extent team preview) didn't have anymore trouble with Yanmega than early BW1 did. Power wasn't its problem back then; Yanmega hit just about all of OU's top players for either super-effective or heavy damage. Yanmega struggled with separating itself from its competition, Starmie in particular due to comparable coverage on the metagame and 'high enough' Speed stat. To keep things short, if you prepared your OU team for most standard threats, then you'd have Yanmega more than handled. Speed Boost or not, if my team can handle something as simple as FWG core, then it should be able to munch on Yanmega.
Better STABs? He Bug Buzz / Air Slash covers pretty much the entire tier lol. Also, Specs + Speed Boost is very ass and I genuinely have no idea how it came into this conversation. But yeah, I definitely agree that if Yanmega had at least base 130 Special Attack, it would rock DPP OU.
I wouldn't use Moltres in OU because of SR and because I don't think it has a great niche besides vs Sun. Nobody really runs hail, so if you stomp the 2% of people running around with a hail team then congrats. Actually maybe vs rain Stall he would be kinda useful, definitely not vs offensive rain.
Also means you run from Rain themed Dragonite but that's minor.
Yanmega lameness in early DP hinged on if SR got put up. At least in those days, suicide leads were really common before the Swampert/Heatran/Metagross leads. Azelf Aero etc was everywhere. Bulkier leads came into favor and people accepted both sides getting SR up with the upside of trying to get a favorable position easier.
Not Specs and Speed Boost, Specs and Tinted. The Specs set was usable because it powered through some of the defensive stalwarts with 2HKO's. Made switching say Skarmory on him a liability. Better STABs, I meant for powering through defensive Pokemon not offensive. His STABs (and HP coverage) as you notice demolish like 75% of the offensive Pokemon. That didn't mean much however if the Pokemon thrown out was sturdy enough to phaze or hit back, and those STABs were not useful for getting past healthy Swampert/Suicune/Skarmory/etc. Speed was the gimmick instead of massive power, which is why plenty of teams that assumed their general scarf check would work suddenly got bodied by him lol.
Why do you only have one wing?
Because... Melee...
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They want to talk specifically with the people who are their friends here.
1) If I could, I would not have FD be a starter at my tournaments anyway.
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