New ratings criteria ?
Hey guys,
What was your criteria in order to make the new ratings ?
I ask because honestly I don't get some of them new changes, specially concerning Arcanine, Blastoise, Gyarados and Omastar.
Arcanine down to 8. He is still the best fire mon out there. IMO 8.5 was fine.
Blastoise 8.5. I think he should be 7.5 or 8. He was massively nerfed, I don't see why he is so up now.
Gyarados 9 while Omastar 9.5 ? Omastar got a huge buff and I love this mon (I have one with WG/HP) but he is just as useless as a Gyarados for defending (and even more), but Gyarados is an attacking monster now, while Omastar became a really good attacker. I think Gyarados should have 9.5 and Omastar 9.
There's another ones that I disagree but those are the most notable, IMO.
Answers
I agree with some of your analysis.
Arcanine is probably hurt by the buff to Waters and the nerf to grasses. What he's weak to is more likely to be in gyms and more likely to be ready to attack, while simultaneously what he's strong against is less likely to be there.Although it doesn't make sense why he's below Charizard unless Wing Attack has some good use...
Blastoise should be farther down, although perhaps he's buffered by the similar nerf to grass types.
Gyarados and Omastar are also probably a typing thing - Gyarados is double weak to electric when the super common Jolteon got an even bigger buff than Gyarados did. Omastar is double weak to grass when all grass types other than the fairly rare Venusaur took huge nerfs. Almost everyone will have a strong Jolteon ready to attack Gyarados with while many may not power up a grass 'mon for Omastar (I know I've abandoned powering up my Vileplume/Victreebell and don't have a Venusaur yet). Also unless you have legacy moves Gyarados is probably not as great on attack (not sure, I don't have Gyarados or Omastar yet).
I know Omastar's legacy moveset was really great defensively. But c'mon, you can't rate a 'mon just for a move it doesn't exist anymore.
With this buff Omastar (with gun/pump) became the new Vaporeon's poor man. He is the new Blastoise now. With the advantage of having Rock type too, which will double resist fire and also resist normal type attacks.
Despite all this, he still should be 9, not 9.5. Gyarados got a inmense offensive boost, he is now a Tier 1 attacker, so it doesn't make any sense to rate him with 9.
