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- Introduction
- diancie is one of the newest pokemon to be revealed as of late.
- it was first discovered via hacking in xy
- when it was revealed that this new pokemon actually has a mega, most people weren't all to exited because nobody cared about diancie in the first place.
- Mega Diancie's Qualities
- diancie has access to the signature diamond storm, a spread move with the same bp as eq with the additional effect of stacking defense boosts on diancie
- before mega evolving, diancie is immune to intimidate drops
- after mega evolving, magic bounce prevents diancie from being put to sleep or twave'd, etc
- Using Mega Diancie
- Diancie @ DianciteEVs: 208 Atk / 48 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Protect
- this is the most common diancie set.
- it has a good speed tier coupled with 160/160 offenses, allowing it to function as a threatening mixed attacker
- this specific ev spread allows diancie to KO heatran or bisharp with earth power
- Dealing with Mega Diancie
- after mega evolving, switch a lando-t into diancie and ko it with eq
- bulky water types such as mega swampert, azumarill, rotom-w, have no problem taking a hit from diancie and retaliating with a supereffective stab water move
- wide guard users prevent diancie from abusing diamond storm and therefore disable it from raising its own defense
- Fitting Mega Diancie on your Team
- mega diancie can fit on many teams.
- bisharp comes in handy to discourage intimidate users from coming in on it
- support from wide guard users, namely aegislash, to prevent eq from being used on it
- Get Out There!
- diancie is a driving force of singles ou and smogon doubles ou alike
- thanks to its amazing mega evolution, it has solidified itself as one of the most prominent threats in oras smogon doubles
