July 2023 Is unique in that despite it being the first 35 Pokes Month it was not very active while it was current-- being played exclusively by Ryu & Notgerald alongside a few others. It wouldn't be until much later Unitz & Mangoose would experiment with the tier, and a speed tour would be hosted a little later, which marked the first step in furthering the tiers development. Even father down the line a small Retro Tournament was hosted for the month, being won by Mangoose, the most experience July 2023 player by far.

Sleep is legal for this month

Monthly Roster

We started in July of 2023, with stall being identified as the top play style. The main core of aegislash, quagsire, and alolan muk was incredibly strong, with the last 3 slots being rounded out by some combination of alomomola, porygon2, umbreon, hippowdon, spiritomb, or scizor. The static top 3 was scizor for its flexibility in a heavy duty boots pivot set, a stall roost set, the explosive power of choice band, or the late game threat of swords dance. Muk had 2 sets that were both ridiculously good. black sludge protect, and assault vest. muk was the best spdef mon in a tier with mother fucking umbreon. lastly, aegislash was hands down the best mon in the meta simply because it beat everything. knock off users? get kings shielded and then you cant break sub. slower attackers? have fun dying to specs shadow ball the second you get chipped. as you can probably guess, it was incredibly versatile. the most popular set being sub toxic, but it could also run band, specs, mixed, swords dance, really anything. Some counter play was attempted, usually through head smash aggron, thick club marrowak, and eruption typhlosion. The response was a more standardized stall core, including the mandatory muk, aegislash, and quag, but then adding vaporeon for typhlosion, and rotom now for marrowak.

Written by Ryu

Viability Rankings

/challenge gen9nationaldex35pokes @@@ -All Pokemon, +leavanny, +masquerain, +eiscue, +torterra, +dragonair, +runerigus, +swalot, +muk-alola, +musharna, +hippowdon, +alomomola, +aggron, +umbreon, +galvantula, +pawmot, +quagsire, +slurpuff, +sigilyph, +vaporeon, +blastoise, +aegislash, +scizor, +spiritomb, +golisopod, +clawitzer, +ninetales, +delphox, +typhlosion, +marowak, +porygon-z, +jumpluff, +absol, +porygon2, +rotom-frost, +rotom-mow

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