Is Leavanny or Virizion more effective in Black 2 and White 2?

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Leavanny

Availability: Early Game, Route 20, 35%Stats: Solid overall. It has high Attack, with enough Speed and bulk to get by.Typing: Grass/Bug provides some useful coverage, but also resisted by 4 types. It’s also a lousy defensive typing.Movepool: Bug Bite at level 8 gives it a good STAB move early on, and X-Scissor and Leaf Blade give it power late game. Unfortunately, its movepool outside of its STABs is poor and provides mostly unhelpful coverage. Swords Dance is available for sweeping.Major Battles: Sewaddle’s best match-ups are against Clay, Marlon, Burgh, Caitlin, and Grimsley. It can contribute against all of these, but must be wary of its weaknesses. Sewaddle does well against Team Plasma’s Dark-types, but tends to struggle a bit against their Poison-types.Additional Comments: Swadloon evolves into Leavanny with high happiness. Although this means that you can’t predict when it will evolve, it should evolve fairly early.

Virizion

Availability: Late Game, Route 11, StationaryStats: Virizion’s stats are a bit unusual. One should take advantage of its great Special Defense and mixed offensive capabilities coupled with its great Speed.Typing: Grass/Fighting is a bit subpar, but grants Virizion good matchups during the late game, as well as solid STABs.Movepool: Virizion comes with Sacred Sword and Giga Drain. It learns Swords Dance at level 49 to give it a needed boost for Sacred Sword. It can be tutored Seed Bomb for another physical STAB. Return can help out with coverage.Major battles: Virizion can struggle a bit against Drayden, especially if it doesn’t get a Swords Dance boost. Marlon should be an easy win, as should Grimsley. The rest of the Elite Four are matchup based.

tldr Virizion is better.sourceThis source is outdated and a little bit inaccurate, but if it ranks Virizion in A and Leavanny in B, the chance that Virizion is better is still pretty close to 100%. Just in case you’re wondering, you can see thenewest thread here.