Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-38078818-20191117212713/@comment-36515094-20191118045238

"He can get denied. U said “because he’s behind a mega taunt”, but he won’t always be. Being easily denied, especially by thalassa or Pumpseed, 2 top deniers."

tbh most monsters are denied by these 2. So, not that big of a con.

"The 2nd counterpoint against wildbird is that he is basically anticipation bait, kinda like Nikasia. Yeah, most of those can’t PER, but they can either kill him, deny him, deny his team, or if it’s earth faraday, westclaw, or Narok, he’s dead. Especially with Narok because he can PER the evasion and attack Wildbird,"

First, Wildbird Rank 5 has PEP as his trait, so he isn't affected by PER at all. His evasion can't get removed by Narok, or any anticipation monster. He can basically hide behind it. Anticipation isn't really a problem for him all because of PEP keeping his evasion from being removed.

"This time, hornet actually counters him hard. Yes, while he has pierce and whatnot, those skills give him an extra turn. His infamous and most lovable I guess skill, Get Shwifty, is also his largest counter. The reason for this is that he gets pierce AFTER the extra turn, so hornet can dodge the thunder weakness and do something dangerous"

Wildbird has SC: Pierce at Rank 1, so he could hit Hornet with AoE Thunder Weakness. So, him getting Pierce after the skill is not a problem since he has it at the start of battle anyway.