Why is Quaquaval still not good in OU?

How many tools does this dancing duck need to succeed? It has Wave Crash, Brave Bird, Close Combat, U-Turn, Flip Turn, Swords Dance, Ice Spinner, Knock Off, and not to mention it’s great snowball sweeping potential with Aqua Step and Moxie. Are its stats really that bad? 120 Attack is pretty good

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I asked this on the OUsqsa thread. Here’s what they said

It has horrible 4MSS, you want stabs, rapid spin, bu, sd, uturn, roost, knock off, and gets walled by stuff like mola, pex, donzo, corviknight, amoongus, tera water tusk, tera water garganacl, and gholdengo if not packing knock off. Gets revenge killed by rillaboom and ogerpon unlesss fully set up, etc

It gained Knock Off in the DLC, so a theoretical rapid spin set with Knock off might be viable, depending on how much does it do to gholdengo, and its a decent check to kingambit, so I guess you can give it a try

Quaquaval is not the worst, like you previously mentioned, it has a belt full of useful tools at it’s disposal, but Quaquaval is still relatively new, and metagame players will be set out to find out how to crush it

Honestly, just wait a while, it will die down and then Quaquaval will be useful in the metagame