Originally Posted by Fat Pocket
Yea, definitely mention Dugtrio as teammates. Heatran and TTar are the bane of Victini and Drought Teams in general, and Dugtrio eliminates them for Victini to spam V-create.
You can mention teammates when using Victini outside of Drought teams. Other non-chlorophyll Grass mons such as Virizion, Breloom, and Celebi fits the bill. Dragon-types are also great for checking both Heatran and Water-types.
Physical Attacker
~ Mention Fighting Gem. It has some cool points in bluffing Victini as choiced, while hitting Heatran / TTar, the main recipients of BB, as hard as possible, which Sun teams would definitely appreciate.
~ Mention Charcoal for 20% boost on its V-create without the LO recoil or being choice-locked
Choice Scarf
~ Flare Blitz and Brick Break bullet points go under Set Comments, since they are slashed in the main set.
Other Option
~ Remove the mention of Fire Punch. Fire Blast does more damage than Fire Punch, even with 0 SpA investment.
~ Remove mention of ThunderPunch.
~ T-Wave and Will-O-Wisp deserves a mention for crippling its switch-in. T-Wave is nice for the same speed advantage provided by Trick Room. Will-O-Wisp provides the fast residual damage to quickly bring even bulky opponents such as Slowbro into V-create KO range; not to mention it cripples physical attackers.
~ Sunny Day is always worth mentioning to allow Victini to provide the favorable weather condition himself without the help of Ninetales.
~ Wouldn't hurt to mention some of its rich special movepool, such as STAB Psychic, Searing Shot, VStar-boosted Fire Blast, Thunder, and Focus Blast (not in Drought Team of course), SolarBeam / Grass Knot, and Shadow Ball, all of which can be used for some sort of mixed / special offense approach. It's worthy to note that Sunny Day + Focus Blast is nice for a KO against 252 HP / 192+ SpD TTar
~ Substitute is worth mentioning, since Victini is easily revenge-killed after the speed / defense drops.
~ Sleep Talk - Victini is naturally bulky and resists Breloom's STAB moves, making Sleep Talk a good fit.
Checks & Counters
~ Should mention that getting SR up as early and long as possible is a nice way to checkmate Victini
~ Dugtrio deserves a special mention for quickly dispatching Victini locked into V-create.
~ Need more emphasis on how V-create can be used against Victini (without Trick Room), since it leaves it vulnerable to revenge-kills. Terrakion, Landorus, Latios, and Gengar for instance, don't even need Scarf to revenge Victini after the speed / special drop. Scarf Mence can attempt an Moxie Outrage sweep.
~ Although rare, physically defensive Hippowdown can remove the Sun-boost and stall out Scarf Victini's V-create. Caution readers to be wary of Final Gambit, though.
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