Milotic

Milotic finds a good niche in the tier through its good defensive stats, pure-Water typing, and reliable recovery. Milotic is also not overly passive due to Scald threatening a burn on switch-ins such as Ferrothorn and Tentacruel, allowing it to blanket check various threats such as Tyranitar, Gliscor, Landorus-T, Heatran, Scizor, Mamoswine, and Keldeo. However, Milotic is heavily susceptible to all forms of residual damage, often forcing it into using Recover and becoming relatively passive. The likes of Alakazam and Jirachi can easily wear it down and overwhelm it, as can threats it is supposed to check such as Mamoswine and Keldeo, with Heatran and Keldeo even possibly using Toxic to cripple Milotic. Its power is somewhat lacking against bulkier threats like Reuniclus and Jellicent. Additionally, it faces competition from other bulky Water-types such as Jellicent, Rotom-W, Seismitoad, and Gastrodon, as Jellicent performs a similar niche with the added benefit of blocking Rapid Spin, Rotom-W acts as a stronger check against the likes of Excadrill and Mamoswine while keeping momentum with Volt Switch, Seismitoad is immune to Electric and Water while having more utility options such as Stealth Rock and Knock Off, and Gastrodon acts as a stronger check against Water-types such as Politoed and Keldeo while also boasting an Electric immunity.