I'd say Politoed, since it most greatly impacted the metagame, whereas Blaziken just shot up into Ubers, which is a much less played tier than OU
Drizzle Politoed
Magic Bounce Espeon
Multiscale Dragonite
Speed Boost Blaziken
Drought Ninetales
Chlorophyll Venusaur
Hydration Vaporeon
Poison Heal Gliscor
Magic Guard Alakazam
Insomnia Delibird
I'd say Politoed, since it most greatly impacted the metagame, whereas Blaziken just shot up into Ubers, which is a much less played tier than OU
While Blaziken got an instant boost (no pun intended) and went off on a meteoric rise to Ubers, it's not the mon that impacted the game the most. The answer to the question "What Pokemon has most significantly changed the game because of its DW ability?" is undeniably Drizzle Politoed. It brought the universally present Rain into OU, ended up getting Swift Swim users banned when used with him, and boosts the power of a whole host of things, and the accuracy of more. Tornadus-T, Thundurus-I, Keldeo, Scizor, Ferrothorn, Genesect... all of these benefit hugely from the Rain and have been in the top threats to prepare for since their release. Drizzle is THE most broken ability in the game, and there's a reason Kyogre and Groudon are in Ubers.
And to those that think that auto-weather isn't the reason, we brought them down to OU in Gen 4 (de-leveled to 70 to roughly match average OU power at the time) and then they immediately got banned because of Drought and Drizzle.
Politoed is the most ridiculous force in the metagame right now. Zero to hero indeed.
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Drizzle Politoed without a doubt.
When I ladder in PO, 90% of the times I face a Weather team, and rarely, those 'weather' teams lack Politoed.
This little frog not only helps Pokémon of its own types (Scald being as strong as a Hydro Pump, with 100% accuracy and chance to burn), it boosts Thunder and Hurricane's accuracy, giving Jolteon and Tornadus-Therian and so much more the capacity to spam their powerful STAB attacks.
There's Dry Skin Toxicroak and Rain Dish Tentacruel, and of course, Genesect, Scizor and Ferrothorn having their only Weakness reduced.
Rain is just too common these days, of course, that's not a surprise as it comes with so many boons.
Most significant impact? Drizzle Politoed by a long shot.
The primary reason as to why drizzle Politoed has the biggest impact in the metagame is primarily because there are more water-related abilities than fire. With that being said, Guessing Tyranitar is being used even more due to Pokemon with Sand Rush & a counter to other weather inducing Pokemon.
Weather is pretty common, but let's not over-exaggerate, lol. All of the main weather starters put together only make up about 45% of PO OU teams, so non-weather is still used on over half of teams. PS OU is almost exactly the same, again with a little over 45% of teams being weather based. Politoed itself only saw 16.25% usage last month on PO OU, 18.20% on PS OU. I will agree though that Drizzle Politoed is probably the most influential DW Pokemon to have been released thus far, although I still voted for Blaziken because it's so awesome.
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