Why is pawmot not good?

It’s fast, it’s strong, it has priority, great typing and it has a once per battle revive?

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Apparently Pawmot has a few niches in both BSS and OU, but it’s usually outclassed by Zapdos, Thundurus, Urshifu, and Sneasler in BSS and by Zapdos and Iron Valiant in OU.

For BSS:

I’ve had lots of trouble with pawmot, but it is frail. And a Tera hog fwiw. It faces competition from those sorts plus the same type iron hands. I guess revival blessing, also only one of two mach punch mons in current dex.

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For OU:

Compared to zapdos and valiant, doesnt have good bulk, no boosting move and low speed, his niche is Revival Blessing, so in hyper offense allows you to have one more mon in the fight, also has priority in Mach Punch

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Pawmot was originally in ou due to revival Blessing, however, players decided that pawmot was not worth running for revival Blessing because pawmot is not a great Pokemon , so it dropped to uu, and after home update (I don’t know if it dropped before) it dropped to ru, plus power creep was bad this gen, even weavile, one of the best ou mons from last gen is in ru.So on paper, pawmot is good, but in practice, it sucks.