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I'm very proud that even though we're a new mod we already get quality subs like those (all subs were really good this time it was so hard to vote haha)
Ability: Battle Armor / Shed Skin | Anger Point (HA) Stats: 75 / 115 / 130 / 70 / 85 / 55 | BST: 530 Moves: *Gets universal TMs
Physical: Power Whip, Wood Hammer, Gunk Shot, Poison Fang, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Rock Slide, Crunch, Power Trip, Wrap
Special: Sludge Bomb, Giga Drain, Energy Ball
Status: Toxic, Glare, Leech Seed, Synthesis, Coil, Taunt
Design: A large wooden snake, covered in green and purple vines. Description: With a great defensive typing, critical hit immunity, and the ability to absorb Toxic Spikes, this thing is a massive thorn in the side of this team. It easily walls the entire team outside of Slowking's Future Sight, and can potentially stop Toxapex from using Haze with Taunt. It has a pretty great movepool, but it has 4MSS. The only real threat to a set of Taunt / Coil / Synthesis / Power Whip is getting Tricked by Magearna.
Fakemon Name: Amphen Typing:
Ability: Pastel Veil Stats: 60 / 65 / 70 / 110 / 105 / 100 | BST: 510 Moves:
Physical: U-turn
Special: Moonblast, Draining Kiss, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Volt Switch, Ice Beam, Mystical Fire, Psychic, Psyshock, Air Slash,
Status: Calm Mind, Agility, Roost, Defog, Magnet Rise, Heal Bell Design: Imagine a chicken that looks like the type combo. Description: Pretty much a Fairy/Electric type with a Gen 1 Normal-type movepool. Thunderbolt threatens the whole team except Landorus, who doesn't like switching in that much thanks to Ice Beam.
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Now onto the next slate!
Slate 3: Sub CM Spectrier + Banded Dragapult
By: Craing ;_; Click sprites for the PokePaste!
This team has two of the fastest threats in OU: Spectrier and Dragapult! Now this team has some pretty unconventional sets: Banded Dragapult, Defog Hydreigon, and Block/Spite Toxapex. You have until Friday, January 1, 2021, to submit your cores. Have fun!
Description: Mixed Wall, Bulky Pivot, Spinner Design: Some shadowy figure with a ring around its head that looks like a UFO idk
Vaquerpo @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def
Adamant Nature
- Bonemerang
- Shadow Sneak
- Ice Shard
- Shore Up
Ufony @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Toxic
- Recover
- Teleport
Vaquerpo hits the entire team pretty hard using its dual-STAB and can chip down Landorus-T and Hyrdeigon with Ice Shard. Shore Up ensures it will be able to switch in multiple times. Ufony takes hits from the entire team and can help deal with Hydreigon using Toxic. Ufony can Teleport into Vaquerpo if Toxapex or Melmetal switch in to absorb Toxic.
Vaquerpo Calcs Offensive
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Shadow Sneak vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dragapult: 330-393 (104.1 - 123.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 164 HP / 0 Def Hydreigon: 190-226 (51.9 - 61.7%) -- 96.9% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 224 HP / 136+ Def Landorus-Therian: 302-359 (80.5 - 95.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
-1 252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 224 HP / 136+ Def Landorus-Therian: 203-239 (54.1 - 63.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Shadow Sneak vs. 112 HP / 0 Def Spectrier: 398-468 (107.8 - 126.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Bonemerang (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 240+ Def Toxapex: 344-406 (113.5 - 133.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Defensive
0 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Golurk: 150-177 (42.2 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Ufony Calcs Offensive
0 SpA Bisharp Dark Pulse vs. 112 HP / 0 SpD Spectrier: 200-236 (54.2 - 63.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Defensive
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragapult Dragon Darts (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Bisharp: 92-108 (26.8 - 31.4%) -- approx. 22.9% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery
92 SpA Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Bisharp: 80-95 (23.3 - 27.6%) -- possible 5HKO after Leftovers recovery
216+ Atk Iron Fist Melmetal Double Iron Bash (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Bisharp: 98-116 (28.5 - 33.8%) -- approx. 99.2% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery
180 SpA Spectrier Hex (130 BP) vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Bisharp: 97-114 (28.2 - 33.2%) -- guaranteed 4HKO after Leftovers recovery and burn damage
Melmetal is too big of a threat to your team, Easily Ohkoing Freezirror because double iron bash hits twice, as well as dealing enough damage to Schorchip to give spectrier a chance to sweep afterwards.
Schorchip's odds of OHKOing with fire blast are only 37.5%
252 SpA Houndoom Fire Blast vs. 88 HP / 156 SpD Melmetal: 390-462 (90 - 106.6%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO
Not good enough odds to consider the team a "counter"
Pokemon 2: Auround (Aurum (Latin for Gold)+Ground): Typing: Ground/Steel Ability: Serene Grace Stats: 120-60-90-100-79-41 (490 BST) Movepool: Universal TMs + Earth Power, Will-O-Wisp, Moonblast, Recover, Earthquake, Calm Mind, Iron Defense, Smokescreen, Fairy Voice, Iron Head, Flash Cannon, Stone Edge, Rock Slide, Dig, Bullet Punch, Meteor Mash, Calm Mind, Air Slash, Doom Desire
Set:
Auround @ Leftovers
Bold Nature
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SpD
- Earth Power
- Moonblast
- Will-O-Wisp
- Recover
Average BST is 517,5.
Explanations: Hydreigon can't do much to Auround, which can safely switch-in and kill it with Moonblast. Spectrier doesn't do much to Tenebricada which OHKOs it with Dark Pulse. Lando can get burned by both and Tenebricadacan switch in onto it. Dragapult doesn't do anything to Auround and get burned and killed by Moonblast. Toxapex is killed by Earth Power and can't do much in return, and if it blocks Tenebricada it can switch-out with U-Turn. Melmetal can get burned by both and is then easily killed by Auround (and doesn't do much damage when burned). It's also outsped by both.
Melmetal is too big of a threat to your team, Easily Ohkoing Freezirror because double iron bash hits twice, as well as dealing enough damage to Schorchip to give spectrier a chance to sweep afterwards.
Schorchip's odds of OHKOing with fire blast are only 37.5%
252 SpA Houndoom Fire Blast vs. 88 HP / 156 SpD Melmetal: 390-462 (90 - 106.6%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO
Not good enough odds to consider the team a "counter"
Forgot to give the mons natures. With modest, Scorchip OHKOs most of the time.
252+ SpA Houndoom Fire Blast vs. 88 HP / 156 SpD Melmetal: 428-506 (98.8 - 116.8%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
Forgot to give the mons natures. With modest, Scorchip OHKOs most of the time.
252+ SpA Houndoom Fire Blast vs. 88 HP / 156 SpD Melmetal: 428-506 (98.8 - 116.8%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
Melmetal is still too big of a problem, since scorchip cannot reliably switch into double iron bash multiple times.
Any situation where scorchip is forced out into freezirror makes melmetal freely able to come in and deal destructive damage.
The opponent can just sack pokemon to put themselves in that position reliably.
Melmetal is still too big of a problem, since scorchip cannot reliably switch into double iron bash multiple times.
Any situation where scorchip is forced out into freezirror makes melmetal freely able to come in and deal destructive damage.
The opponent can just sack pokemon to put themselves in that position reliably.
Also i would recommend lowering some of Scorchip's stats. I personally wouldn't like introducing a 600 BST mon in the meta like that. O ther than that your sub seems good to me ! Don't take this as a negative comment or anything
Also i would recommend lowering some of Scorchip's stats. I personally wouldn't like introducing a 600 BST mon in the meta like that. O ther than that your sub seems good to me ! Don't take this as a negative comment or anything
Flarisp @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Taunt
- Lava Plume
Inscuba is the star of the show here, with its Sp. Def set hard walling Hydreigon, Landorus-T, and thanks to Magic Bounce, it beats Spectrier and Toxapex while doing great against Melmetal as well. It doesn't care about Will-o-Wisp, Toxic, or Block, has Haze to force Spectrier into an unboosted 65 BP move, and its type combination helps it wall Landorus-T and Melmetal, although Double Iron Bash can do up to 45% (38% at minimum) so you have to be cautious about chip. Toxapex can Knock Off its boots but you beat their only rocker very hard so that's not a big deal. I explicitly gave it Liquidation so you could break Spectrier subs easier.
Inscuba loses to Dragapult though, and it doesn't hurt to have a teammate to help it if it gets pressured hard enough by the rest of the team, so I made a wishpasser that accomplishes both of those things as a partner. It also beats Hydreigon and checks Spectrier and Toxapex thanks to Taunt. Toxapex knocking its boots normally would be an issue, but again, Inscuba should do a good job keeping Rocks away here. The threat of Lava Plume or Flame Body burning is also nice for Landorus-T and Melmetal.
Resist berries and Sash only really have specific uses. I'd recommend Heavy-Duty Boots for both these sets.
As for your open move slots, I'd recommend U-turn on Freezirror and Recover on Scorchip. U-turn lets Freezirror pivot out on Melmetal and Recover lets Scorchip outlast Melmetal and Hydreigon.
Another thing, please add a little more moves to your move pools. These might be special attackers, but there is no reason they shouldn't get physical moves too.
Description: Mixed Wall, Bulky Pivot, Spinner Design: Some shadowy figure with a ring around its head that looks like a UFO idk
Vaquerpo @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def
Adamant Nature
- Bonemerang
- Shadow Sneak
- Ice Shard
- Shore Up
Ufony @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Toxic
- Recover
- Teleport
Vaquerpo hits the entire team pretty hard using its dual-STAB and can chip down Landorus-T and Hyrdeigon with Ice Shard. Shore Up ensures it will be able to switch in multiple times. Ufony takes hits from the entire team and can help deal with Hydreigon using Toxic. Ufony can Teleport into Vaquerpo if Toxapex or Melmetal switch in to absorb Toxic.
Vaquerpo Calcs Offensive
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Shadow Sneak vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dragapult: 330-393 (104.1 - 123.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 164 HP / 0 Def Hydreigon: 190-226 (51.9 - 61.7%) -- 96.9% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 224 HP / 136+ Def Landorus-Therian: 302-359 (80.5 - 95.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
-1 252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Ice Shard vs. 224 HP / 136+ Def Landorus-Therian: 203-239 (54.1 - 63.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Shadow Sneak vs. 112 HP / 0 Def Spectrier: 398-468 (107.8 - 126.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Golurk Bonemerang (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 240+ Def Toxapex: 344-406 (113.5 - 133.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Defensive
0 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Golurk: 150-177 (42.2 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Ufony Calcs Offensive
0 SpA Bisharp Dark Pulse vs. 112 HP / 0 SpD Spectrier: 200-236 (54.2 - 63.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Defensive
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragapult Dragon Darts (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Bisharp: 92-108 (26.8 - 31.4%) -- approx. 22.9% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery
92 SpA Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Bisharp: 80-95 (23.3 - 27.6%) -- possible 5HKO after Leftovers recovery
216+ Atk Iron Fist Melmetal Double Iron Bash (2 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Bisharp: 98-116 (28.5 - 33.8%) -- approx. 99.2% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery
180 SpA Spectrier Hex (130 BP) vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Bisharp: 97-114 (28.2 - 33.2%) -- guaranteed 4HKO after Leftovers recovery and burn damage
Pokemon 2: Auround (Aurum (Latin for Gold)+Ground): Typing: Ground/Steel Ability: Serene Grace Stats: 120-60-90-100-79-41 (490 BST) Movepool: Universal TMs + Earth Power, Will-O-Wisp, Moonblast, Recover, Earthquake, Calm Mind, Iron Defense, Smokescreen, Fairy Voice, Iron Head, Flash Cannon, Stone Edge, Rock Slide, Dig, Bullet Punch, Meteor Mash, Calm Mind, Air Slash, Doom Desire
Set:
Auround @ Leftovers
Bold Nature
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SpD
- Earth Power
- Moonblast
- Will-O-Wisp
- Recover
Average BST is 517,5.
Explanations: Hydreigon can't do much to Auround, which can safely switch-in and kill it with Moonblast. Spectrier doesn't do much to Tenebricada which OHKOs it with Dark Pulse. Lando can get burned by both and Tenebricadacan switch in onto it. Dragapult doesn't do anything to Auround and get burned and killed by Moonblast. Toxapex is killed by Earth Power and can't do much in return, and if it blocks Tenebricada it can switch-out with U-Turn. Melmetal can get burned by both and is then easily killed by Auround (and doesn't do much damage when burned). It's also outsped by both.
Flarisp @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Taunt
- Lava Plume
Inscuba is the star of the show here, with its Sp. Def set hard walling Hydreigon, Landorus-T, and thanks to Magic Bounce, it beats Spectrier and Toxapex while doing great against Melmetal as well. It doesn't care about Will-o-Wisp, Toxic, or Block, has Haze to force Spectrier into an unboosted 65 BP move, and its type combination helps it wall Landorus-T and Melmetal, although Double Iron Bash can do up to 45% (38% at minimum) so you have to be cautious about chip. Toxapex can Knock Off its boots but you beat their only rocker very hard so that's not a big deal. I explicitly gave it Liquidation so you could break Spectrier subs easier.
Inscuba loses to Dragapult though, and it doesn't hurt to have a teammate to help it if it gets pressured hard enough by the rest of the team, so I made a wishpasser that accomplishes both of those things as a partner. It also beats Hydreigon and checks Spectrier and Toxapex thanks to Taunt. Toxapex knocking its boots normally would be an issue, but again, Inscuba should do a good job keeping Rocks away here. The threat of Lava Plume or Flame Body burning is also nice for Landorus-T and Melmetal.