Analysis Compendium and Tiering Plans

[Lord Windos]

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Well, it can learn (and Relearn!) Sketch multiple times, and has equal speed to Nucleon. Have it Sketch Shell Smash, Expunge/Nuclear Slash/Atomic Punch/Earthquake, give it a Flame or Toxic Orb with Quick Feet, and have it run Protect to safely proc the status, and Taunt/Sucker Punch/Flamethrower. Add in max EV's to Speed and Sp.Atk/Atk? You got yourself a plage rat, baby. You could even run focus sash so that it can get a Free Shell Smash off, and then let it sweep to its hearts content.

I'll go over everything in more detail when I do my guide on it, but man that thing has the potential to be savage.

I was hesitant for a minute because people tried to do the same thing to Smeagle since gen 4 and failed, but due to the fact that the Nuclear type exists and Raffiti has actual stats... This thing probably has to go. There was a thing in gen6, Geomancy PowerHerb Smeargle. The basic set was Geomancy+ Baton Pass to an appropriate target and nothing could stop it, same with smashpassing. 

Since Raffiti can do the same thing only with better stats, I say we at least ban Smashpassing and playtest with it a little bit more.

Smashpassing isn't even the problem. Raffiti can sweep by himself with Expunge, he doesn't need to pass the Shell Smash boosts on to anyone.

Or Atomic Punch, if it can Sketch it from Uyrane. There is also the fact that it has Quick Feet, which combined with either Orb, makes it a speed demon after 1 turn. There are several ways for it to get that first turn, so...