topmost threats it was fast enough to outrun the terrifying shell smash amistar even at plus two speed while it was similarly effective at checking quivered as liligan of course main metric wasn't perfect as its main flaw aside from its frailty was the fact that in order to do its job it always needed volt switch thunderbolt and overheat meaning that it had to choose between switcheroo and hidden power ice or grass for its last slot which was no easy decision to make the former was crucial for crippling walls like clefable on stall teams and ensuring magnesium was still valuable in such a matchup while the hidden powers allowed manetrich to most effectively threaten the tier's array of ground types that would otherwise block its vault switches still in spite of this magnetric was an excellent pokemon in ru and featured on a number of high-level teams thus chalking up its third successful generation in a row for a long time monetrix's unremarkable defenses made it nearly unusable in vgc but it had a dream of being viable one day and that dream manifested through the dream world into lightning rod an ability whose NUMBER_TOKENth gen buff could at least give monetrix some relevance if you were looking for an electric type lightning rod user monetrix's only competition was raichu and zeb strika keep in mind that zapdos never had lightning rod released while all three had poor defenses riot provided more utility and zeb striker had a higher speed stat however zeb strika's poor special attack meant that it couldn't make much use of its limited move pull even with the same access to overheat that maneshik was blessed with then again why would you want a lightning rod user well NUMBER_TOKENth gen vgc was overrun with strong electrotypes such as rotom and thunderous but the most common application would be on a rain team where monetric could protect water type teammates and even potentially flex NUMBER_TOKEN accurate thunders that was exemplified by monetrix one significant placement of the era an NUMBER_TOKENth place finish at the NUMBER_TOKEN u.s nationals by zach jens who paired it with ludicolo polytoad and kingdra other than that it was all scattered thunderstorms from monetric liable to pop up as a niche lightning rod user throughout the generation but never a top tier pick mainnettrick didn't enjoy generation NUMBER_TOKEN's damage nurse to overheat flamethrower and hidden power but it absolutely loved the mega evolution xy bestowed upon it it was no longer paper thin with its base NUMBER_TOKEN defenses buffed to NUMBER_TOKEN and its base special attack and speed were raised to an excellent NUMBER_TOKEN. the latter was particularly important as it allowed mega minitrick to offensively check the litany of fast powerful threats that dominated early generation NUMBER_TOKEN most notably greninja and thunderous on route to tearing the offensive teams they were on a part mega man metric was particularly notable against the latter since thanks to a shift in generation six's mechanics that prevented electricity from getting paralyzed it was now one of the few pokemon faster than thunderous that wasn't vulnerable to prankster thunderweight many offensive teams were so utterly torn apart by mega magnetrik that they
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