Once again, you disprove your own point. If we were meant to steer away from using pokemon as a draw engine, why would they leave two big ones behind, and have one in waiting? Seems like they just want us to use something other than claydol.
So don't make a bad play with hunter? Imagine that. Obviously. And it's more than likely going to be used early on in the game.
I dont think you understand what we mean by new claydol... we mean a pokemon draw engine, which uxie X, as you suggested, would suffice.
Yes, he knows, notice the "essentially" part of his post.
What Porygon and Porygon2 are you using again?
You do understand we're talking about alternatives to claydol, right? And that Uxie X is an example of one?
I never said anything about that, at all. You said sure it'll make our decks less consistent, but everyone will have that. But SP is consistent enough to contend with current archetypes that have claydol, and will absolutely stomp them when they dont have it, and when they've lost nothing.
Or "new" players are naturally concerned about how to combat the apparently dominating archetype of the format from the rotation. The same archetype of which currently has more wins than other decks that are using claydol. So if wanting more support for other archetypes, so they can combat a single archetype is spoiled, then you hit it right on the money.
