Honchkrow

Honchkrow's main advantages come from its powerful mixed offenses and access to the strongest priority move in the tier with Sucker Punch. Honchkrow has a fantastic movepool, as Brave Bird and various coverage moves such as Heat Wave and Superpower make it difficult to switch into. Its ability allows it to absorb sleep moves such as Breloom's Spore and Roserade's Sleep Powder. However, Honchkrow is completely unviable in DPP OU, as it is held back by a huge weakness to residual damage, an awful defensive typing, and slow Speed. While Honchkrow has a solid base HP stat, its terrible defenses, weakness to Stealth Rock, and sand vulnerability compromise its bulk, and it takes huge recoil damage from Brave Bird and Life Orb. Unfortunately, Honchkrow is a slow, frail wallbreaker, and it struggles to deal with faster Pokemon that can OHKO it, such as Gyarados, Dragonite, Heatran, Choice Scarf Tyranitar, and Scizor using Bullet Punch. On top of this, Honchkrow is heavily reliant on prediction, as it needs Sucker Punch to damage faster Pokemon and mispredictions can easily get it OHKOed or let the opposing Pokemon set up unimpeded. While Honchkrow can switch into sleep moves, Breloom can OHKO it with either Superpower or Focus Punch. Even Breloom's and Roserade's Grass-type moves are dangerous; Breloom 2HKOes Honchkrow with Seed Bomb after Stealth Rock, and Roserade outspeeds and OHKOes it with Leaf Storm after Stealth Rock and a round of Life Orb and sand damage. Honchkrow simply cannot reliably perform in DPP OU and should not be considered for a serious team.