if gholdengo is the antichrist then gliscor is the devil
Its not a splashable mon, but on Stall it covers a plethora of dangerous special threats like NP Ghold, Moth, CM Valiant, Wake, Specs Pult, Thundy-T, etc. NP Psyshock Ghold does ruin its day, but that is what Tera Dark is for.
I will say that Blissey is a Mon not worth using or more like wasting your Tera on to be immune to psyshock but I will admit that it’s still some what good on stall
THIS MF RUNNING A POISON MOVE ON THEY SNEASLER INSTEAD OF AN ANTI GHOLDENGO MOVE
Surprise for the Tera Fairy Ghold that killed Tusk earlier.
people are somehow forgetting that blissey still effortlessly blanks any special attack
I've seen a couple of Choiced sets with Dire Claw, CC, U-turn and a coverage/support move, but they get all outshined by the far more popular Unburden sets. I've also seen some HDB sets with Fake Out to maximize the chances of Poison Touch, and a very weird Normal Gem set with Fake Out to trigger Unburden (pretty bad imo).
I've used it. It was extremely fun w/ choice band: you obviously chunk everything VERY hard with prediction and can poison things on a mispredict or on Dozo. Switcheroo is also fun (sadly fails against dengo gamefreak whyyyyy) and Dire Claw is frankly bullshit which makes it excellent at generating salt which is always entertaining.
I don't know if I'd call it optimal or worth running over Unburden but I loved using a pivot Sneasler set a while back mainly just to spread status and fire off a Close Combat if it needed to.
It's essential on stall, and if the alternative is losing the game, as it usually is with Psyshock vs stall, then Tera the Blissey. This is like calling Pelipper a noobtrap because it's only good on rain or Polteageist on psyspam
Not only D-nite, but NOIBAT as well. That’s just something else
I was using mixed unaware clodsire for a long time. Does a good enough job, but its stats are garbage, you have to be at full health to come in on something. Stops iron moth (except booster spA psychic but who runs that), booster val, nasty plot ghold. Unfortunately there's a few pokemon that are just too strong. Specs gholdengo is one of them and it's a decent set recently. Without water absorb its useless against sun teams despite being a ground type. You can try walling sneasler but every sneasler team runs rillaboom which will 1hko you and halves the damage of your already weak earthquake. I ran rock slide to break balloons but if someone uses sub you're screwed. I know not every pokemon is meant to be LeBron james but gamefreak did him dirty with that BST, an extra 20 points into defense would change everything.
why use this over dozo tho? since dozo deals with all 4 of these pokemon and has an easier time vs them
i presume because clod still has 130/100 special bulk so it can check all those things while also tanking a lot of things on the special side that dozo can't? i dunno, i'm just trying to think of something. i'd rather use spdef clod and a physical wall than try making clod into a mixed wall
Fighting and Poison resistance I imagine, but Dondozo has much better HP and Defense so I can't imagine it makes much of a difference. The Clod is already really good at being a special wall, so trying to awkwardly fit it into a physical role it's not suited for seems redundant. Maybe there's some specific team held together specifically by phys Clod.
I could see that if clods defense were better so you could just patch it up a bit and run a decent mixed wall, but imo 60 def isn't really worth it. Especially not if you're not running unnaware, because physical attackers will quickly creep over you and while ur base spdef is good it's much worse at stopping special setup mons. Seems very messy when you can often afford to run clod + another wall/tank
Honestly if there is props to them LOL
I disagree with a lot of this post. First off, defensive walls can be pivots. CR slowking/glowking, U-turn corv, volt switch zapdos, etc etc. You can be nitpicky about defining walls or pivots but bottom line is that lots of defensive pokemon are also pivots. Also going by October 1825+ OU stats, most moltres actually do run U-turn.
yeah, 60 is on the lower end of "bad" according to my base stat metric. that's around the point where i won't bother investing into a non-speed stat even if there's a specific niche for it (unless it's something like chansey or shuckle that desperately needs the evs in a super-low stat to do its job properly)
i used to run 124 in def because it avoided the 2hko from booster val psyshock from full
shoutout to the 0.104% of Moltres users not running Roost, Specs Moltres is the future of OU, trust the process
