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Necrozma-Dusk-Mane @ Ultranecrozium Z Ability: Prism Armor EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Swords Dance - Photon Geyser - Stone Edge - Earthquake I know this set has obviously been covered, but I just want to reiterate how good it is, and personally I feel this will be standard...

Why is Magearna's viability considered to be worse in the post Arena ban metagame?

I really think Charm is better than you guys make it out to be. I'll preface this by saying that no, Goth cannot reliably trap Celesteela with it as a crit while asleep can easily result in it getting koed with subsequent heavy slams, but the Ferrothorn spiking is a non-issue if you have a...

I've played with this team for a long time now and I want to retire it and give back to the thread in the process. I managed to peak at 1908 a few months back on the ubers ladder thanks to the immense consistency of this team. If anyone has any ideas for improving this team I'd be happy to hear...

Actually Nayrz wants you to use Bold on that, but that spread is inferior to the 252 Hp 160 Def 96 Speed timid you had before. The marginal defense increase doesn't change any notable Groudon or Mence feats and now you're forced to eat Draco Meteor from Mix Rayquaza instead of outspeeding, you...

Not QC, but the mixed set should probably be: Draco Ascent Extremespeed V-create Reason being is dropping Extremespeed makes Ray almost dead weight vs the hyper offense teams, while only giving it a situational move in return. I'd relegate Earthquake and Aqua Tail to moves because the above is...

I don't necessarily condemn this change, but why is Volt Switch becoming the only slash after it was unslashed for so long? Also to the op in Flash Cannon moves it's mentioned that it hits stuff that is resistant to fleur cannon. Literally the only mon I can think of is (borderline at that)...

Is there any reason at all Ice Punch is still slashed? Last gen it could be used to hit the latis, but with them gone I literally cannot think of any targets that aren't hit harder by Ice Beam (or Low Kick in offensive Yvetals case); Lando T, Zygarde, Mence, Phys def Giratina etc all get hit...

Kind of nitpicky, but I'd stop mentioning Klefki much throughout the analysis and put Magearna instead. The latter is a much more used and effective mon due to the prankster nerf from last gen. I honestly don't think I've even seen keys used this gen.

To add to what Hack mentioned, the main draw of using Dragonceus is the pressure it puts on the most common rocker Pdon which is particularly beneficial to Ho-Oh balance teams. Imo, these are the main types of builds that benefit most from Dragonceus' role compression (soft Sala/Ray check...

Going up to 96 speed evs is faster than all Palkia meaning you win instead of lose in a 1 v 1 scenario. I don't know if the max speed timid Landorus benchmark is worth bothering with given how rare it is.

If the standard spread is going to be faster than all Yvetal, it might as well go faster than the very close Palkia and Landorus benchmarks also.

Small nitpick in counter section, but you can't crit Mega Slowbro.

The SD set is outclassed by Ghostceus imo. It can fit in Extremespeed which makes it harder to revenge kill and ghost stab is just way more spammable than dragon. Having to rely on stab outrage means even if you get a kill with it, you're going to get killed by a fairy next turn. Having such a...

Grammy voter wtf? Fine I'll concede this very situational use, although if you have a healthy Arceus-support form you'd probably be switching that in to check Mence. Still doesn't make Skill Swap any less sub optimal of a move over the utilities of Protect or even Earthquake.

That makes it Earthquake vulnerable which will probably make it lose to Mence.

The Skill Swap slash has me baffled. It literally only has utility vs the nearly non existant Mega Sableye (probably because it sucks), and even if you force rocks up doing this Defogceus will likely be able to remove it in a few turns, and Sableye will have burned you in the process. It makes...

"Deoxys-A can come in with ease". I'd reword this part because it most certainly cannot.

Well it seems your not taking your time to read my post considering I clearly said one on one when referring to Wallceus vs Ho-Oh. Anyway Ho-Oh clearly wins unless Arceus manages to hit it with Return at low HP. It obviously doesn't enjoy getting Roared and eating more Stealth Rock but Arceus...

I took my time to read, I just missed the fact that Giratina-O is even getting near a mention as a check. That is more or less, exactly what I said, and I wouldn't be surprised if Arceus actually lost one on one in neutral weather if it had used Recover a few times earlier in the battle since...