05-14-2019, 03:11 PM
I totally agree with most of the sentiments expressed in here. I find it very disappointing that the vast majority of nuclear type Pokemon are unviable in standard online/competitive play. The most prominent nuclear type in the meta is Nucleon, due to the reasons stated above by shademonkey. However, as seen in other forum posts, the competitive community feels the need to quick ban other nuclear type users, particularly:
1) Urayne (due to its high base speed of 102)
2) Raffiti (due to its ability, Quick Feet, and access to Shell Smash in conjuction with Nuclear type moves)
3) Jerbolta-N (due to its high base speed of 110 and its ability, Quick Charge)
All of these Pokemon have two things in common: access to Nuclear type moves and a high Speed stat/means to boost speed. There does not seem to be any middle ground for the Nuclear type as a whole: any Nuclear not fast enough is relegated to obscurity and any Nuclear that meets the appropriate benchmark for speed is suddenly Ubers material. This begs the question of what a UU tier would look like in competitive Uranium; I have come to the conclusion that any Nuclear type at the top of the speed cap for the UU tier would also be deemed "overpowered" as well as "uncounterable" and would also face the banhammer like Nucleon & company. In addition, what exactly would prevent Pajay/Harptera/Whimsicott from setting up with Tailwind and allowing one of the "lesser" nuclears to start a sweep against the entire UU tier? The nuclear type just isn't healthy for the meta the way it is. At the very least, I am on board with capping damage done by nuclear moves at 2X and making any Pokemon with a Steel/Nuclear type take 0.5X damage from nuclear type moves, so that they can serve a decent chance at being counters.
1) Urayne (due to its high base speed of 102)
2) Raffiti (due to its ability, Quick Feet, and access to Shell Smash in conjuction with Nuclear type moves)
3) Jerbolta-N (due to its high base speed of 110 and its ability, Quick Charge)
All of these Pokemon have two things in common: access to Nuclear type moves and a high Speed stat/means to boost speed. There does not seem to be any middle ground for the Nuclear type as a whole: any Nuclear not fast enough is relegated to obscurity and any Nuclear that meets the appropriate benchmark for speed is suddenly Ubers material. This begs the question of what a UU tier would look like in competitive Uranium; I have come to the conclusion that any Nuclear type at the top of the speed cap for the UU tier would also be deemed "overpowered" as well as "uncounterable" and would also face the banhammer like Nucleon & company. In addition, what exactly would prevent Pajay/Harptera/Whimsicott from setting up with Tailwind and allowing one of the "lesser" nuclears to start a sweep against the entire UU tier? The nuclear type just isn't healthy for the meta the way it is. At the very least, I am on board with capping damage done by nuclear moves at 2X and making any Pokemon with a Steel/Nuclear type take 0.5X damage from nuclear type moves, so that they can serve a decent chance at being counters.
