i think its a meme tbh. they have made him a ghost to represent the way he used to be but now nobody uses old one.
seems like the devs kind of humour. lol.
You guys are missing how shiny skeleviathan will have less than half the defense as the old one and doesnât have that stupid petrifying revenge. Itâs still strong but nowhere close to S+ tier, which is where old skele shouldâve been. @Killerdog just thought Iâd mention that last part lol.
Old skeleviathan was too powerful because you actually needed a counter or youâd have to waste several moves trying to kill it off then lose a sweeper to the revenge. This one easily dies to regular attacks and wonât cause that much disruption for lineups that arenât directly countered.
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Duck is right here. the only place this one is identical to the old skel is in speed and SS. This one is too weak, it has simple protection where the old one focus on protection, those which meant that we had to waste at least 2 movements to eliminate it and as if that wasnât enough it transforms you into a Rock. With him I only need to sacrifice a useless monster and anyway he will get one shot by any protector killer. Thereâs nothing good about him
Since speed is dominating atm and shadowyrm, Megalo, high speed true hit etc are everywhere it needs to have protect focus or it wonât be worth running for a long time.
Or maybe they should unnerf skele and this one should have taunt since it is shiny.
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Taunt Focus 
Nerf a monster to release it again as shiny. Genius move
Iâm disappointed you donât see the massive difference between the two. Losing out on the 9k defense with protect focus and the best revenge passive in the game makes it so much more balanced than before.
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Itâs been a long time since weâve seen the original skel. they may have forgotten these skills. where they need glasses
Well, when does Nauticruser and Poseidon come out without Nerf?
Nikki is really fun , hope u get it good luck 
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Visually, it can give high scores, and its skills are more balanced than those of previous whales, which is very suitable for some specific combinations.
i am also a shard away fom her. and the way my luck has been goingâŚ
I think what happens is that youâre seeing it from a whole different point of view. You keep pointing itâs defense or its petrifying revenge as itâs strong points, and in a way you are totally right, although for me, and maybe this is what Mr. X sees too, Iâve never considered those as strong points. Petrifying revenge, for instance, was more like an obstacle for me. When I think of Skeleviathan, I see itâs 90% speed protection, gravity field, DR, and the ability to purify; I donât care about anything else. Thatâs why I refer to this shiny version as âpractically the same monsterâ.
Of course, if you ever used rock lock, for instance, youâll say âoh no, itâs actually very differentâ. But Iâm a camo-player. A little example: think of every time a stupid shiny fox is lucky enough to bypass an AP in FL.
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Then why U choose â
â in viability? We can access old combo too right? And we also doesnât even know they Will nerf him in future or not
Oh 
. Thatâs just my way of saying that I hate the whole idea of the new monster.
A few days after I got the âold and greatâ Skele, got him +9, made a whole new team for ranked based on stealth and shadow link (God knows @LemonSqueezy whole have loved that team XD) and also potted two of the other monsters of that fl, Skele got that super nerf. Now I have to spend gems on it again knowing that perhaps itâll get another nerf in the future? Hell no.
So donât bother too much about my 
. Thatâs just hate.
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Hahaha love a bit of stealth. Do you know you got me the other day? Monster for monster I think youâre one of the very best 
Yeah, back when I was facing it I got hard countered by its massive defense that would let players like janne beat my whole team with just his early game. The protection, gravity field, and purify shut down my lineup and the ~9k defense was what let it continue walling me for so long. If it had less than half the defense, I wouldâve been able to kill it with a single move and thatâs it.
Basically with the new skeleviathan you just need something that can unconditionally deal enough damage to kill a full attack mon and youâre set. If you were to compare the list of lineups countered by old skele and shiny skele, youâd find that a decent number of the strats that canât handle old skele could brute force their way through the new one and some of the ones that get hard countered by old skele would at least be able to kill the new one earlier in the game. It still counters a lot, so I wouldnât be surprised if shiny skele performs at around S tier or wherever geocosma is.
Either way, thereâs no chance shiny skele is getting nerfed. There are way more counters that could even handle old skele and the devs also want something else to counter prixis and chlamydia.
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Thanks man. Lemme tell you that, win or lose, Iâm always glad when we match in pvp. Those are games where I think âI lost but damn, what of a beautiful teamâ. And I only have this feeling with a very small amount of players. Keep building like this, maintaining the beauty of the game.
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