11/3/2022 0 Comments Bulu monster rare![]() This allowed Choice Band Tapu Bulu to easily come back to Fairy teams, especially since many people were fine with giving up the speed Tapu Bulu provided, as Tapu Koko and Aqua Jet Azumarill provided more than enough speed for the team. Dropping Thunder Wave on Klefki to run Foul Play + Spikes to handle Steel became just too difficult to justify, as Thunder Wave crippling Tapu Bulu now was almost necessary to be able to defeat opposing Fairy teams.Ĭhoice Band Tapu Bulu is very difficult to properly wall, as only Pokémon that resist Grass such as Ferrothorn, Celesteela, and other Grass-, Steel-, and Flying-types wall it such. Like on Electric, Tapu Koko could no longer revenge kill it, and Magearna was soon banned, leaving the type with few options. In a twist of fate, even Fairy needed to address Tapu Bulu's new Speed. Enabling Zapdos to switch into Wood Hammer was invaluable, and Stone Edge's accuracy left it unfavorable against Zapdos, especially factoring in Pressure's PP stall. This was the trigger that saw the traditional specially defensive Zapdos and physically defensive Rotom-W finally switch roles. Electric teams could no longer use Tapu Koko to revenge kill a Wood Hammer-spamming Tapu Bulu, possibly costing two sacrifices to get both Tapu Koko and then Alolan Raichu in safely. Other types were similarly threatened by the sudden jump in Speed. Water took on a different approach, and we began to see the use of Baneful Bunker Toxapex to both scout Tapu Bulu's move and poison it at the same time. Ground teams exploited Tapu Bulu's reliance on Wood Hammer to OHKO threats like Landorus and Excadrill with the use of Focus Sash + Sludge Wave Dugtrio, happily sacrificing two Pokémon to assuredly get rid of the biggest threat to Ground. Teams like Ground and Water that are naturally weak to Grass resorted to more desperate measures to keep it at bay. What once was a disgustingly powerful wallbreaker now could also field a fairly fast set that many teams weren't ready to take on. ![]() Overall MetagameĬhoice Scarf Tapu Bulu's reign over the metagame brought countless changes. Choice Scarf Tapu Bulu is able to outspeed and threaten faster Pokémon such as Mega Charizard Y and Nidoking with Stone Edge or Wood Hammer and is able to clean late-game with its boosted Speed stat while still being a decently powerful wallbreaker. Monotype players started questioning Tapu Bulu's rather low Speed, and with that, Choice Scarf Tapu Bulu rose in popularity in order to fix this issue. It wouldn't be for over a year before Mega Swampert started to finally drop Sludge Wave and push that duty to a teammate. For fear of this monster, rain Water teams experimented with Sludge Wave Mega Swampert, finding it a suitable answer to the main threat that blocked rain teams from breaking through Fairy. This also marked one of the rare eras where Normal's Staraptor didn't merely Speed creep Adamant Breloom, opting instead to beat out Adamant Tapu Bulu as well, serving as a testament to just how threatening it was to Normal teams. Overall Metagameĭue to Choice Band Tapu Bulu's initial prevalence, Ground teams very quickly transitioned away from the very low Speed Seismitoad variants they used in ORAS to suddenly using Timid variants to outspeed Adamant Tapu Bulu and OHKO it with Sludge Wave. ![]() Choice Band-boosted Horn Leech also provides Tapu Bulu with absurd recovery, allowing it to quickly heal off Wood Hammer's recoil as well as other forms of residual damage. Choice Band allows Tapu Bulu to become ridiculously strong, being able to knock out physically bulky Pokémon such as Toxapex and Mega Sableye with Wood Hammer under Grassy Terrain. Therefore, many Fairy teams kicked off SM Monotype with Choice Band Tapu Bulu on their rosters to capitalize on its absurd power. Initially, when Tapu Bulu was released, many Monotype players recognized the absurd power Tapu Bulu brought to the table as a physical wallbreaker, something Fairy teams initially lacked in ORAS, as the only notable physical attacker they carried was Azumarill, which required a Belly Drum boost to wallbreak effectively. ![]() With all that being said, let's take a look at Tapu Bulu's development on Fairy teams throughout SM Monotype! It is able to switch in on Ground-type attacks such as Landorus-T's Earthquake for teammates such as Tapu Koko and Mega Diancie, forming an extremely efficient offensive core with said Pokémon. ![]() Tapu Bulu itself has found its place on Fairy teams as an extremely strong physical wallbreaker, capable of capitalizing on matchups such as Water, Rock, and Ground with its Grass-type attacks boosted under Grassy Terrain. Fairy teams received a huge boost in viability in the transition from ORAS to SM Monotype, and Tapu Bulu is one of the main Pokémon that has propelled Fairy from the mid-tier type it was back in ORAS to its dominating state in the metagame in SM. ![]()
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