Doubles Tyranitar

[emma]

Tyranitar @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 60 Atk / 164 SpD / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Ice Punch

Tyranitar is the engine of the sand archetype, particularly enabling Sand Rush Excadrill on the "fespy Sand" team, which has become very popular during the second Official Smogon Doubles Tournament. Thanks to its overall strong bulk with doubled Special Defense in sand, Tyranitar acts as the team's defensive backbone, checking threats such as Naganadel, Necrozma, and Tapu Lele. It can even take on Landorus and Volcanion despite the typing disadvantage thanks to Assault Vest. Zapdos, Tapu Fini, and Incineroar make for good teammates that cover Tyranitar's weaknesses well, taking on Urshifu-R and Rillaboom. Stone Edge and Crunch are strong STAB attacks with great neutral coverage, and they specifically help Excadrill by hitting Zapdos and Mew for super effective damage. Superpower and Ice Punch round out Tyranitar's coverage, nailing Heatran, Porygon2, Landorus, and Zygarde. The EVs let Tyranitar outspeed Landorus in Tailwind and almost always take two Earth Powers from it.

Check out Tyranitar and fespy Sand in action in Top 16 of OSDT II: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8doublesou-645156

 

[Alpha]

emma you have 24h to get this into QC, thanks in advance!

 

[Alpha]

dnagerbdager Yoda2798 Memoric thanks in advance!

 

[zoe]

eh not much QC wise to say here. Bit of an issue with the way this is formatted but I'll bring that up elsewhere due to having 0 reason to do so here.

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[emma]

GP Team hi

 

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Tyranitar @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 60 Atk / 164 SpD / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Ice Punch

Tyranitar is the engine of the sand archetype, particularly filling a key role of enabling Sand Rush Excadrill on the the team "fespy Sand" that has becomes very popular over the course of "fespy Sand" team, which has become very popular during the second Official Smogon Doubles Tournament. Thanks to its overall strong bulk and with doubled Special Defense in Sand, sand, Tyranitar acts as the team's defensive backbone, checking threats such as Naganadel, Necrozma, and Tapu Lele as well as even being able to Lele. It can even take on Landorus and Volcanion despite being at a disadvantage typing wise the typing disadvantage thanks to Assault Vest. Zapdos, Tapu Fini, and Incineroar make for good teammates that cover Tyranitar's weaknesses well by well, taking on Urshifu-R and Rillaboom. Stone Edge and Crunch are strong STAB attacks that hit a strong portion of the metagame for at least neutral damage while specifically hitting Zapdos and Mew for super effective damage which is helpful for Excadrill. with great neutral coverage, and they specifically help Excadrill by hitting Zapdos and Mew for super effective damage. Superpower and Ice Punch round out Tyranitar's coverage, nailing Heatran, Porygon2, Landorus, and Zygarde. The EVs let Tyranitar outspeed Landorus in Tailwind and almost always take two Earth Powers from it.

Check out Tyranitar and fespy Sand in action in the (and should Top Cut be capitalized? if yes, just keep it that way) Top Cut of OSDT II: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8doublesou-645156

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