User blog:Whalordius TDD/How GOOD was mothim ACTUALLY?

Hey guys! Gonna do what FSGdoes, but in a different way. WE ADD BATTLE SPOT!

Okay let's start.

Mothim is an NU pokemon with lackluster stats, it wasn't greatly appreciated due tothis, and it was left in the dark. Its crippling 4X stealth rock weakness killed it, causing its debut generation to make undoubtedly one of the most shafted pokemon of all time, its decent speed gave it a niche with choice scarf. Donphan was eventually discovered to be one of its best friends, helping mothim deal with steel types, it still though, was not a great pokemon.

Its tier stayed the same, and where everyone rose, mothim fell. It gained access to quiver dance, which was one of the best moves to get byfar.it still was shafted though, and was still unused.

Oh boy, this is where it gets good. Where the "me doing battle spot" part comes into play, it started off extremely poor in gen 6, xerneas dominating everything while stealth rock was still common. Then, early 2015, a player only known as "joey" murdered the competitive scene with the dreaded MothRai core, which killed the UBERs chalk core tenfold. It consisted with Darkrai, Mothim, Groudon, Victreebel, Wynaut, and Cresselia. The essential battle strategy was Dark void, then spam quiver dance and use psych up. If that failed, psych up with victreebel, have groudon out, and start havoc. And if push come to shove, well, we dont even know their sets, so yeah. It wasnt ever fully discovered on smogon til some of the bigger players played batle spot.where the phrase "passerbys suck" came into play, the competitive scene started crashing even quicker than before from then, and MothRai was the dominant core, it was known due to the toxicity in the forums of the official pokemon site, and eventually was nerfed to all hell in gen 7, where it did nothing once more.

Overall, it started off poor, and then a player came in and saved it. It was never used in tournements due to darkrai being banned, and it was once again shafted following the nerf of darkrai. Oh god we thank you for that nerf... May we never see that core again.