Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-37105646-20190521125425/@comment-39230426-20190521185048

Another one in the Kihakult I see. I'll just briefly explain why he's not higher (according to my understanding). The Recently Possessed and Frozen Immunity became a thing and it severely limited Kihaku's deny potential. Then there came the 50% patch, where previously, moves that said that their status effects have a 50% chance of landing would always land. Now that's been patched and those skills are legitimately 50% now. These heaviliy nerfed Kihaku's deny potential as he could no longer spam his denys and he could get shut down so much easier now.

That's not even to mention the sheer amount of counters to Control and Deny tactics that have been springing up lately. Literally any monster with Control Immunity as their trait is an easy hard counter to Kihaku.

It doesn't mean he's bad, he's just not as good as he used to be, and personally I would have put him in around AA to S- rank as he still has solid uses as a support with a deny tactic. Also, a monster appearing commonly in PvP doesn't mean they're good. A big example being the breedables like Rockantium, Vadamagma, Nebotus, etc.