Overview
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Sableye is a great stop to physical attackers in general, particularly Mega Kangaskhan, as it can burn them using Prankster Will-O-Wisp before they can attack. Prankster Quash gives Sableye the ability to disrupt speedy attackers by allowing your its partner to get their an attack in before the opponent foe can strike. It fits well on teams with a weakness to physical attackers or teams who that aren't quite fast enough and need some support. While it carries Taunt, its main role is not to prevent Trick Room or Tailwind being set up, so if this is your aim, Thundurus-I is a better choice. Its niche over Thundurus is that it fits better on teams with a weakness to physical attackers or teams who aren't quite fast enough and need some support. (<-- This is kind of redundant, so you might want to reword it.) Faster Taunts threaten Sableye, (AC) as it is naturally slower than other Prankster Taunt users. Your team must be able to capitalisze (Smogon is 'murican :/) on the support Sableye provides, as Sableye has next to no offensive presence. If the opponent is not troubled by Quash or Will-O-Wisp, Sableye becomes dead weight fast. Its average bulk is quite a drawback. Quash is great vs against teams with Trick Room and or Tailwind, (AC) as it nullifies the opponent'(add apostrophe)s Speed advantage and wastes a turn of their field conditions. Sableye has a unique moveset and no other Pokemon can fulfill the role it provides. (This last sentence is pretty fluffy, so I would just remove it.)
Prankster
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name: Prankster
move 1: Will-O-Wisp
move 2: Quash
move 3: Feint / Taunt / Fake Out
move 4: Protect / Foul Play / Recover
ability: Prankster
item: Sitrus Berry / Leftovers
evs: 252 HP / 72 Def / 184 SpD
nature: Impish / Careful
Moves
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Will-O-Wisp allows Sableye to threaten almost all of the physical attackers in the tier, as if they don't switch out they risk a being burned, as well as wear things down with residual damage. Prankster Quash ignores Tailwind, Trick Room and faster Pokemon, allowing your Sableye's partner to move before a threat and take it out. Feint can break Protect and Quick / Wide Guard for a turn, ensuring a KO on something trying to defend, Taunt lets you prevent status to you and your Sableye and its partners and also stops opponents foes from using Protect. Fake Out can disrupt opposing leads and buy a turn for yourself your Pokemon. Sableye is immune to Fake Out, as well as having the move itself, so it'(add apostrophe)s almost guaranteed you'll that it'll be able to cause an opposing Pokemon to flinch something. Protect lets Sableye protect itself from an incoming attack or Taunt while the threat is removed by a partner, whereas (this is just a transition word. you can use another one if you'd like) Foul Play gives Sableye some damage output without investing in Attack. Recover gives reliable healing, (RC) and is great for stalling burnt physical attackers. Detect can be used over Protect if you fear Imprison, but its very rare, (AC) so and you probably won't see it.
Set Details
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252 HP EVs are used to aid Sableye's fairly poor bulk. 184 Special Defencse (again, 'murican) EVs allow Sableye to live a Mega Charizard Y's sun-(add hyphen)boosted Charizard Y Heat Wave, as well as a Ludicolo's rain-(add hyphen)boosted Ludicolo Hydro Pump. The remaining 72 EVs are put into Defense, and with an Impish nature, (AC) Sableye can live Bisharp's Life Orb-boosted lives a Life Orb Bisharp Knock Off with a little room to spare. Sitrus Berry is used normally to improve Sableye'(add apostrophe)s longevity, however but Leftovers can be used if using Protect for a more gradual form of healing. An alternate spread of 252 HP / 68 Def / 188 SpD with a Careful nature can be used if you want Sableye to take hits better from special attackers better, as when faced with Sableye, physical attackers will usually Protect while a special attacker their specially attacking partner deals with it Sableye. The 68 Defense EVs are used is to live an Adamant Life Orb Bisharp's Life Orb-boosted Knock Off in case Will-O-Wisp misses. If using Foul Play, you can drop your Sableye's Speed IVs to 0 and use a Relaxed or Sassy nature so that Sableye can OHKO Aegislash with Foul Play by moving Foul Play hits after Aegislash it changes to Blade forme and OHKOes.
Usage Tips
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Sableye has a good match-up against almost every physical attacker in the tier, as they won't want to risk the burn and most of the time will either Protect or switch out most of the time. Sableye's role is to disrupt the opponent as much as it can while its teammates take advantage of this and do deal damage. Quash can be very effective, (AC) as it effectively nullifies all forms of speed control in place, allowing your Pokemon to get use a move in that it wouldn't have been possible be able to otherwise, taking a lot of pressure off your Sableye's partner. It also helps while Trick Room is up, (RC);(ASC) for example, Quashing an Amoonguss while under Trick Room is up, (RC) and Substituting with your Sableye's partner to avoid a Spore. Leading with Sableye can be very disruptive to your opponent, (RC); (ASC) however, (AC) Sableye can be switched in also switch in and support its teammates late-(add hyphen)game, (AC) thanks to using its 3 three immunities and support a little later.
Team Options
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Pokemon whose special bulk is acceptable but whose physical lack bulk is lacking on the physical side appreciate the burn support Sableye provides,; (ASC) such Pokemon include as Sylveon, Mega Gardevoir, (AC) and Mega Charizard Y. Steel Types Steel-types that can sponge Fairy-type attacks, (AC) such as Heatran and Aegislash, (AC) help and are helped, —(This is the HTML entity for the em dash—)both are quite slow, bulky, (AC) and very powerful, (AC) so they appreciate and in return like the Quash and burn support that Sableye provides. Sableye is threatened by Fire-(add hyphen)types like such as Mega Charizard Y and Heatran, (AC) as it can't burn them, so partners like Heatran and Keldeo fit well to switch-in to switch into ("switch-in" is a noun, and "switch in" is a verb) these attacks. Partners like Mega Charizard Y and Mega Abomasnow benefit from Quash, as it can protect allow Mega Charizard Y to use Overheat on a from a scarfed Choice Scarf Landorus-T before being hit by its Rock Slide and hit it with Overheat before it attacks,. (add period) while Mega Abomasnow is slow, so it can be protected by Quash while it lets off a Blizzard, but be careful, (AC) as this using Mega Abomasnow stacks a weakness to Fire-types. Mega Kangaskhan is a good partner, (AC) as Sableye can burn the Fighting-(add hyphen)types that threaten it, as well as switch-in to switch into Fighting attacks, use Quash to let Mega Kangaskhan KO a faster threat, and burn an opponent a foe, (AC) weakening its physical power and allowing to weaken its offence vs Kang Mega Kangaskhan to so it can set up with Power-(add hyphen)Up Punch easier more easily.
Other Options
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Sableye gets Helping Hand, however but it is not an ideal choice and is a role provided better with by another Pokemon. Sableye can use Lagging Tail with Trick, as due to Prankster, (AC) Sableye seldom affected by Lagging Tail's effect of making you the user move last in your its priority bracket, Sableye is not really affected by it. Iron Ball can also be used with Trick to remove opponents a foe's Ground-type immunitiesy and halve their speed, which works well with Ground-types teammates such as like Landorus-T and Rhyperior. Mental Herb can protect Sableye from opposing Taunts from faster things Pokemon such as like Thundurus-I and Whimsicott, allowing Sableye to let off a Taunt them in return. Knock Off lets you Sableye remove troublesome items like Sitrus Berriesy and Leftovers, as well as preventing Sableye from being completely shut down by for being Thundurus Taunt bait. Snarl lowers both opponents foes' Special Attack by 1 one stage, (AC) which is effective when combined with the burns from Will-O-Wisp. Mega Sableye is generally not a very good use of your mega slot Mega Evolution, as its proficiency at stallbreaking doesn't really apply to Doubles, (AC) where as stall teams do not doesn't exist, and Cresselia is a better Calm Mind user is better done by Cresselia.
Checks & Counters
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**Typing Advantage**: Fairy-types such as Mega Gardevoir and Sylveon can easily OHKO Sableye with Hyper Voice. Mega Mawile has a 75% chance to OHKO Sableye with Play Rough even while burnt. Mega Diancie can OHKO Sableye with Moonblast and has Magic Bounce, (AC) so it can't be threatened by Will-O-Wisp, and can OHKO with Moonblast. Fire-types such as like Heatran and Rotom-(add hyphen)H also can't be burnt, and as a result, (AC) all Sableye can do if it isn't carrying Snarl is Quash in the hope that a partner can deal with them. Sableye isn't particularly bulky, (AC) so neutral attacks do take their toll without recovery. Talonflame can't be burned and can ignore Quash with faster priority.
**Strong Special Attackers** - any Any special attacker that can 2HKO Sableye is a check to it. Sableye can't do anything meaningful to them unless they are weak to Foul Play and can't Recover stall against them. Some, (AC) like Hydriegon and Latios, (AC) can OHKO Sableye, (AC) with Draco Meteor. Slower special attackers like such as Rotom-W and Aegislash also do not mind Quash; however, (AC) Aegislash must watch out for Foul Play.
**Utility**: Pretty much all of the other Prankster Taunt users are faster than Sableye, and it is vulnerable to this. Also, (AC) you might be surprised by a can never call random Taunt users like Keldeo or Talonflame, so they may might get a sneaky Taunt in. Whimsicott can also Encore Sableye into an un-(remove hyphen)favorable move. Safeguard users (give some examples) are annoying as it leaves Sableye unable to burn anything, but however they can be Taunted. Talonflame and Keldeo can use Quick Guard to block priority moves from Sableye.
**Miscellaneous**: Hariyama and Conkeldurr can use Guts to absorb burns and become more powerful.
