Presenting Gligar as counter :
Gligar @ Eviolite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 192 Hp / 4 Att / 252 Def / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn/Stealth Rock
- Defog
- Roost
The physically defensive wall strikes back and is here to counter Victini. Similarly to the newly Faster Blaster trend, Gligar also easily outspeeds a -1 Naive/Hasty Victini with even a smaller amount of EV invesment. With just 4 EV's in Attack, after Stealth Rock, Earthquake will outspeed and will garantie a 1hko on a -1 defence Victini. Equipped with Grass Knot and even STAB Psychic backed by Life Orb, V-Create is still Victini's strongest option against Gligar as the former two will fail to 2hko even with Rocks up. Meaning if switched into Psychic, Gligar will just roost back and tire the Victini from LO recoils (beware of high roll crits). Also to note, Gligar's immunity to Bolt Strike which Victini spams when Gligar is paired with a bulky water type, predicting it's switch-in wrong. While not able to survive two high roles LO V-creates ( Expert Belt users are non issue ), Gligar outspeeds after switching-in and ,even if Victini is at full health minus just one LO recoil, it can roost off until Victini is within KO range due to the continuing LO recoils. Although a Counter, it is quite shaky as it needs to be near full health to take two Psychics and must keep it's Eviolite in order to successfully counter. Roost aids immensly keeping it's health assisted by immunity to (T)spikes. Defog is the main utility Gligar provides while it can also set the rocks, keep momentoum or have something like Toxic/Knock Off/Acrobatics.
Sidenot : Defensive spread of 216/228/0 or 160/252/32 is to prevent the 2.3% chance of 2hko by LO Psychic after rocks.
Relevant Calcs :
4 Atk Gligar Earthquake vs. -1 0 HP / 0 Def Victini: 258-306 (75.6 - 89.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
4 SpA Life Orb Victini Psychic vs. 192 HP / 0 SpD Eviolite Gligar: 121-142 (37.9 - 44.5%) -- 2.3% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Life Orb Victini V-create vs. 192 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Gligar: 148-175 (46.3 - 54.8%) -- 60.5% chance to 2HKO
Gligar @ Eviolite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 192 Hp / 4 Att / 252 Def / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn/Stealth Rock
- Defog
- Roost
The physically defensive wall strikes back and is here to counter Victini. Similarly to the newly Faster Blaster trend, Gligar also easily outspeeds a -1 Naive/Hasty Victini with even a smaller amount of EV invesment. With just 4 EV's in Attack, after Stealth Rock, Earthquake will outspeed and will garantie a 1hko on a -1 defence Victini. Equipped with Grass Knot and even STAB Psychic backed by Life Orb, V-Create is still Victini's strongest option against Gligar as the former two will fail to 2hko even with Rocks up. Meaning if switched into Psychic, Gligar will just roost back and tire the Victini from LO recoils (beware of high roll crits). Also to note, Gligar's immunity to Bolt Strike which Victini spams when Gligar is paired with a bulky water type, predicting it's switch-in wrong. While not able to survive two high roles LO V-creates ( Expert Belt users are non issue ), Gligar outspeeds after switching-in and ,even if Victini is at full health minus just one LO recoil, it can roost off until Victini is within KO range due to the continuing LO recoils. Although a Counter, it is quite shaky as it needs to be near full health to take two Psychics and must keep it's Eviolite in order to successfully counter. Roost aids immensly keeping it's health assisted by immunity to (T)spikes. Defog is the main utility Gligar provides while it can also set the rocks, keep momentoum or have something like Toxic/Knock Off/Acrobatics.
Sidenot : Defensive spread of 216/228/0 or 160/252/32 is to prevent the 2.3% chance of 2hko by LO Psychic after rocks.
Relevant Calcs :
4 Atk Gligar Earthquake vs. -1 0 HP / 0 Def Victini: 258-306 (75.6 - 89.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
4 SpA Life Orb Victini Psychic vs. 192 HP / 0 SpD Eviolite Gligar: 121-142 (37.9 - 44.5%) -- 2.3% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Life Orb Victini V-create vs. 192 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Gligar: 148-175 (46.3 - 54.8%) -- 60.5% chance to 2HKO
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