Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-36515094-20191223065245

Shademoon SS- ---> S

Shademoon is a good monster, but he struggles in this meta of Area Dodge and Mega Taunt. Additionally, his stats are pretty bad for what his purpose actually is. First his stats; His stats are amazing on paper, but when you look deeper into it, they are pretty bad. His power stat is great at 3,630, but his skills don't help him deal damage like he should making him a lackluster attacker (unless he faces a spirit monster). Along with his low damaging skills, he only has 1 DoT and it isn't even AoE which doesn't really help his damage output either. His speed stat is decent for an attacker, but seeing as he doesn't function well as an attacker, but more of a denier, doesn't help him either. He has AoE Guard Down making his AoE 50% stun a guaranteed stun. Seeing as this is the main use for Shademoon, making him the denier, his speed is overall pretty bad for him. His only actual good stat is health making him live long. Also, as a denier he gets completely walled by Mega Taunt since he has no PER and by Area Dodge since he has no useful single enemy deny. Seeing as these are extremely prevalent, then he struggles to actually deny most meta teams. Lastly, anticipation destroys his main cycle through skills. His main set up to deny requires an extra turn already making him weak to anticipation. Additionally he does have another extra turn move making anticipation, which is common, a very scary tool to use against him.

While his cons are pretty major, he does have some extremely good pros. First, he has a status caster of Area Dodge which is amazing. Coupled with his great life stat, he can live for pretty long. Additionally, he extends his longevity by being able to apply evasion to himself making him incredibly hard to attack. Furthermore, he will never run out of stamina since he has a 100% stamina refill skill that also gives him Spirit Hater and an extra turn. Seeing as Spirit monsters are generally common in the meta, this is great for him since he can deal triple damage against them. If he doesn't face an anticipation monster Shademoon is an extremely scary opponent to face since his move cycle can be very deadly.

Shademoon basically gets hard countered by the meta, but he can still be extremely deadly in certain situations. Kind of a High Risk High Reward monster