ORAS UU: The Next Best Thing V2 (Toxicroak - Submission Stage)

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LLH

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Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

Knock off allows toxicroak to hit things like doublade and chandelure more reliably without going into 50/50 plays with sucker punch with the expense of a priority. It can still deal with slower setup mons but needs support against faster mons.

Edit: My bad for posting this without double checking. Thanks to The Haymaker for pointing that out.
 
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Ramses

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Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance / Sucker Punch
- Pursuit
- Drain Punch
- Gunk Shot

So this is a set I've fooled around with the advent of Alakazam since everyone and their mother is using it. Basically any competent player wouldn't dare leave in their Alakazam against Toxicroak for fear of Sucker Punch easily OHKOing it. So they do the obvious thing and switch-out to toss in their Doublade or Sableye to annoy you. Wrong. They get sniped by a Pursuit which takes out their precious Alakazam and they'll be left in shock that they lost the cornerstone of their team. Pursuit is also good for catching a little weakened Mega Beedrill looking to switch-out to avoid Sucker. You could run Sucker too actually running a pretty effective AoA set, but SD is used to threaten slower teams.
 

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Icy Wind Toxicroak

Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icy Wind
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

In this set Sword Dance is replaced by Icy Wind which is there to enable Toxicroak to outspeed a faster opponent than it thus making Sucker Punch less needed. Knock Off is there to have a strong Dark attack with a good starting power plus the utility to remove even two items a match thanks to the Icy Wind support. The Ice-type move stacks residual damage and allows us to use Gunk Shot or Drain Punch more freely without being forced out too much.
 
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Sableye-Lure Bulky Toxicroak

Toxicroak @ Lum Berry
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

Sableye is a common switch into Toxicroak and is an annoying Pokemon to beat in general. This set effectively lures in a Sableye by using Swords Dance on the predicted switch and hitting it with +2 Knock Off after absorbing a Wil-O-Wisp with the Lum Berry. After Stealth Rocks, a +2 Knock off has a solid chance at OHKO'ing.

Hope you guys like it!
 
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LLH said:


Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

Knock off allows toxicroak to hit things like doublade and chandelure more reliably without going into 50/50 plays with sucker punch with the expense of a priority. It can still deal with slower setup mons but needs support against faster mons.

Edit: My bad for posting this without double checking. Thanks to The Haymaker for pointing that out.
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-Magic- said:

Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance / Sucker Punch
- Pursuit
- Drain Punch
- Gunk Shot

So this is a set I've fooled around with the advent of Alakazam since everyone and their mother is using it. Basically any competent player wouldn't dare leave in their Alakazam against Toxicroak for fear of Sucker Punch easily OHKOing it. So they do the obvious thing and switch-out to toss in their Doublade or Sableye to annoy you. Wrong. They get sniped by a Pursuit which takes out their precious Alakazam and they'll be left in shock that they lost the cornerstone of their team. Pursuit is also good for catching a little weakened Mega Beedrill looking to switch-out to avoid Sucker. You could run Sucker too actually running a pretty effective AoA set, but SD is used to threaten slower teams.
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Christo. said:
Sableye-Lure Bulky Toxicroak

Toxicroak @ Lum Berry
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

Sableye is a common switch into Toxicroak and is an annoying Pokemon to beat in general. This set effectively lures in a Sableye by using Swords Dance on the predicted switch and hitting it with +2 Knock Off after absorbing a Wil-O-Wisp with the Lum Berry. After Stealth Rocks, a +2 Knock off has a solid chance at OHKO'ing.

Hope you guys like it!
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nameless90 said:
Icy Wind Toxicroak

Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icy Wind
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch
- Knock Off

In this set Sword Dance is replaced by Icy Wind which is there to enable Toxicroak to outspeed a faster opponent than it thus making Sucker Punch less needed. Knock Off is there to have a strong Dark attack with a good starting power plus the utility to remove even two items a match thanks to the Icy Wind support. The Ice-type move stacks residual damage and allows us to use Gunk Shot or Drain Punch more freely without being forced out too much.
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leng loi

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Voting Christo because that looks like great support for something like Zam or Snorlax.

Would vote Magic but it's pretty situational because most mons that are nice to trap do really well against Croak and most of the time I'd rather have koff or sucker.
 
Alpha Kittens

Alpha Kittens

Toxicroak's sets are all the same... swords dance is really its only viable option.
I vote Christo because Toxicroak, with its (relatively) low base speed for an offensive mon in the UU metagame, is too risky to use with Sucker Punch as a cleaner and a 6-0 setup. This Toxicroak is for wallbreaking mons like sableye (mentioned) and Blissey because of its ability to take a thunder wave and eventually force it out with Drain punch.
 
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