Pokémon Eelektross

[1BluLizard]

Base Stats: 85 / 115 / 80 / 105 / 80 / 50
Abilities: Levitate
Notable Moves:
- Acrobatics
- Bulk Up
- Coil
- Close Combat
- Crunch
- Wild Charge
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder
- Discharge
- Flamethrower
- Tera Blast
- Volt Switch
- Outrage
- Liquidation

Full Movepool

Level-Up:
1: Crunch
1: Thrash
1: Zap Cannon
1: Gastro Acid
1: Coil
1: Crush Claw
1: Headbutt
1: Acid
1: Discharge
5: Wild Charge

TM:
1: Take Down
6: Scary Face
7: Protect
9: Thunder Fang
13: Acid Spray
14: Acrobatics
17: Confuse Ray
23: Charge Beam
25: Facade
28: Bulldoze
29: Hex
32: Swift
36: Rock Tomb
44: Dragon Tail
47: Endure
48: Volt Switch
49: Sunny Day
50: Rain Dance
58: Brick Break
59: Zen Headbutt
60: U-Turn
64: Bulk Up
66: Body Slam
67: Fire Punch
68: Thunder Punch
70: Sleep Talk
72: Electro Ball
73: Drain Punch
75: Light Screen
78: Dragon Claw
81: Grass Knot
82: Thunder Wave
84: Stomping Tantrum
85: Rest
86: Rock Slide
89: Body Press
93: Flash Cannon
96: Eerie Impulse
103: Substitute
108: Crunch
110: Liquidation
111: Giga Drain
115: Dragon Pulse
121: Heavy Slam
125: Flamethrower
126: Thunderbolt
136: Electric Terrain
147: Wild Charge
152: Giga Impact
156: Outrage
163: Hyper Beam
166: Thunder
167: Close Combat
171: Tera Blast

Prior Evolution:
Tackle
Spark
Bind

Pros:
- Good offensive stats on both sides letting it be a mixed attacker
- 0 Weaknesses because it is pure electric with Levitate
- Good type coverage in movepool
Cons:
- Very low speed, and not great defensive stats, making it pretty bad at taking hits
- Not high enough offensive stats to pressure much of anything on either side
- Lack of any recovery at all

Terastallize Potential: Eelektross does not benefit from terastallization much because it already has a really good defensive type and ability so it has no weaknesses. Unless it wants to get double STAB on electric, there is not much of a point to terastallize.

Potential Sets:
Rest
Eelektross @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpDef
Careful Nature
- Coil
- Wild Charge / Thunderbolt
- Rest
- Drain Punch / Dragon Claw / Liquidation / Stomping Tantrum

This set uses either Coil in order boost its physical defense and more importantly, attack, in order to be stronger. Leftovers give it at least a little bit of extra survivability. Wild Charge is its strongest move, but it does cause self chip damage, and so the EVs could be switched to favor special attack and Tbolt could be used. Its last move is one of its best coverage options, whichever works best. Thunder could even be used on a rain team, but that is inconsistent. Rest lets it stay healthy while setting up.

Choice Band
Eelektross @ Choice Band
Ability: Levitate
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpA
Brave Nature
- Wild Charge
- Volt Switch
- Close Combat / Liquidation / Crunch / Stomping Tantrum / Outrage
- Close Combat / Liquidation / Crunch / Stomping Tantrum / Outrage

This set utilizes Eelektross's best stat (Attack) and Choice Band to be a very hard hitter. Tera Electric is available if it needs to to make its Wild Charges very strong. Volt Switch lets it switch, and the last two slots are just for coverage.

Overall:
Eelektross is quite bad, and will not survive in OU. It might have a niche on rain teams because it can use Thunder and Liquidation, or it with CB could also be good, but only in lower tiers. Its stats are not enough for it to beat much, and while poor speed doesn't kill it and it does have good offensive stats, its defensive stats, while not terrible, are not enough to do much with the huge power level of the new gen.

 

[fluff!!]

Slow Frail Mixed Attacker. Too bad.

 

[Eeveeto]

Why did you pick to analyze a Mon that was always bad in OU, that was not notably improved this Gen and did not give him optimal sets for OU Meta? What is the point? ( not pretending to offend, but it does look weird).

The 2 sets I can see somehow working with team support are:

1. Max HP, Max Sdef, Careful with Coil, Rest, Wild Charge and one of Drain Punch, Liquidation, Dragon Claw or Stomping Tantrum. Lefties or Chesto Berry as item.

2. Min Speed, Max HP, Max Special Attack, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Giga Drain and one of Volt Switch or U-Turn, Quiet Nature and many options as item (Specs, LO, Magnet, AV, Ebelt, Lefties, etc.). This one obviously would work only in Trick Room teams.

 

[Turtlek]

It would still have some usage, as a Cynthia/Ghetis Pokemon

 

[solstardragon]

While I'm exceptionally outdated when it comes to the metagame, the first thing I thought about with Terastallization was a Pokemon like Eelektross. I doubt it has the staying power of another more powercrept Pokemon in this generation, but what it lacks in upfront power it makes up for it versatility. At a quick glance, Fire Terastallization pairs well with Levitate, and Tera Blast opens the possibility for a physical fire set with Bulk Up, Drain Punch, Thunder Punch with Fire-Tera Blast or Fire Punch. You could also go Steel, still benefit from Levitate. It has a very colorful movepool, and thus, one of the widest potential ranges for userful Tera-types. Tera could be the break Eleektross needed... but...

Is it as useful as Teraing a different Pokemon? Probably not. Is it a tricky Pokemon with potential to catch folks off guard with how many options it has... maybe?

 

[Geodude]

Isn't it a bit contradictory to say it lacks "any recovery at all" when it can learn Drain Punch?

 

[STEELDRAGON]

Eelektross isn't as bad as you would think. It has decent bulk and Levitate allows it to take minimal damage from hazards. The Coil set absolutely needs Dragon Tail as to rack up the Spikes damage and prevent most things from setting up on you. The best set though is Expert Belt+Grass Knot+Flamethrower+Superpower+Volt Switch/Thunderbolt. It too bad it lost Knock Off, still has Dragon Pulse to many of the Dragons harder.