Tyranitar (0/3)

[PISTOLERO]

Tyranitar

Sandy​

Overview
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• Pursuit trapper
• eats Lati@s
• sets up sand
• takes Arceus-Dark and Arceus-Ghost
• takes Darkrai
• weak to Primal Groudon and Kyogre
• slow
• sand is worse now due to Primal formes

Sandy
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name: Sandy
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Pursuit
move 3: Stone Edge
move 4: Low Kick / Toxic / Thunder Wave / Counter
ability: Sand Stream
item: Leftovers / Smooth Rock / Shuca Berry
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
nature: Careful

Moves
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• Stealth Rock is always needed
• Pursuit traps Lati@s and Mega Gengar
• Stone Edge for Ho-Oh, Yveltal
• Low Kick for Arceus-Dark and Darkrai
• Toxic for catching Primal Groudon
• Thunder Wave for crippling things
• Counter for countering
• Roar for phazing

Set Details
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• max SpDef and HP to eat Darkrai and Lati@s
• Shuca Berry alongside Counter, otherwise use another item
• max Spe and HP can catch unsuspecting Ho-Oh off guard
• Lum Berry to shake off a burn and to anti-lead Darkrai

Usage Tips
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• trap Lati@s and Gengar with Pursuit
• set up Stealth Rock
• check the things you are supposed to
• spread status too
• try not to switch Ttar into EQ from Ho-Oh / Salamence

Team Options
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• Primal Kyogre and Groudon appreciate the removal of Lati@s
• Calm Mind Arceus appreciate it too, and appreciate Ttar checking Ho-Oh
• clerics to heal status from Tyranitar
• clerics also appreciate removal of Gengar
• Lati@s check opposing Primal formes

Other Options
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• Rock Tomb
• Fire Blast
• Ice Beam
• Rest
• Earthquake
• don't use Mega it's bad

Checks & Counters
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• Primal Groudon
• Primal Kyogre
• Xerneas
• Arceus-Ground
• Blaziken
• Genesect
• Ferrothorn

 

[PISTOLERO]

This is QC ready. Please advise on the slashes for Tyranitar, Pursuit seems to be the only move that 100% of Tyranitar would carry, but I think that Low Kick is also nigh-on mandatory as without it Arceus-Dark wins (also helps vs Darkrai).

 

[CyberWolf]

Isn't Payback at least viable for anti-leading deo-s and chople for darkrai, mgar and m2

 

[Didoy75]

Isn't a physically defensive set (with Shuca Berry & Counter) viable in this meta ?
It could be very useful to deal with Ho-Oh (that usually eat every team) and Counter's surprise factor can save your team against PDon, EKiller, Salamence & others
I think you should, at least, mention it.

 

[Steve Angello]

Hey bro,
Shuca Counter Tyranitar should be max defensiv but at least you mentioned that the set exists so it does not matter at all :]

 

[PROBLEMS]

ttar set i used vs edgar - not going to lie these ev's are abit strange but mixed def works fine but as steve mentioned the shuca set does need some def evs. I use shuca as a mence check i dont feel counter is worth mentioning personally as its just for one thing and its really inconsistent lol. I personally think Twave should be the go to option for ttar now as it really needs to para things to put in some work for team mates otherwise its just sand/rocks/mencecheck/ho-oh switch in which 'can' be dead weight

SIMPLETON (Tyranitar) (F) @ Shuca Berry

Trait: Sand Stream

EVs: 248 HP / 176 Def / 84 SDef

Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

- Stealth Rock

- Thunder Wave

- Pursuit

- Rock Slide

 

[Sweep]

reassigning