Electivire (QC : 0/3)

I know this thing has a lot of options but I don’t want to clutter with million slashes. I also need help on the most efficient move combinations and EVs for better all-around coverage.

[Overview]

• Electivire the eternal noobmon
• Good coverage but not-so-hot speed yaada yaada
• Legitimately viable in RU though

[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Wild Charge
move 2: Ice Punch / Hidden Power Ice
move 3: Cross Chop / Earthquake
move 4: Hidden Power Grass / Flamethrower
item: Life Orb / Expert Belt
ability: Motor Drive
nature: Naive
EVs: 252 Atk / 32 SpA / 224 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

• Wild Charge is finally a physical STAB that sucks less
• I think first slashes go together, and second slashes go together.
• Ice-type coverage hits Grassers and Grounds, CC or EQ for additional SE coverage
• HP Grass hits annoying Quagsire, Rhydon, etc, while Flamethrower hits Ferroseed if you don’t go for Cross Chop
• EVs designed to outspeed Max Speed Rotom, but it walls you regardless, so you may drop down to 216 EVs to outspeed Max Speed 90’s, and put the rest in SpA. Notable Base 90’s in RU include Lilligant, Moltres, and Porygon-Z.
• 252 / 252 spread is also an option if you can consistently get the motor drive boost, as it allows you to outspeed CS Krookodile, most variants of Sharpedo after the Speed Boost, and speed tie with CS Primape.

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

• Pretty independent as sweepers go
• Spikes and Stealth Rock always helps an offensive mon like this. He’ll force a lot of switches with his possible coverage options.
• Electric-type attack lures to make it fast
• EQ Resists or immunes patch up his only weakness
• Lots of Super Effective coverage so Expert Belt can be used over Life Orb for faking Choice Items (which will not work very often thanks to the fact that he’s a notable user of Expert Belt) and avoiding the big recoil on Wild Charge. It loses a lot of power on Neutral Wild Charges, though.

[Other Options]

• Full Physical LO
• Choice Sets
• Thunderbolt, Volt Switch
• Meditate
• Vital Spirit to absorb Sleep

[Checks and Counters]

• Any faster offensive mon count as a check. Not hard to OHKO Electivire physically. Notably Dugtrio traps and kills.
• Bulky Grounds such as Sandslash, Quagsire, Claydol, or Rhydon can check depending on the moveset
• Defensive Ghost-type Rotom with Will-O-Wisp walls all his sets
• Prankster Sableye checks it with Priority Will-O-Wisp, but Special versions with Thunderbolt will bypass it.
• On the subject of Sableye, in general if Electivire can't hit something Super Effectively, it will most likely lose to it.

K I tried out the set that you have in the OP, and I really really didn't like it. I have no idea why you would go mixed, because Hidden Power is fucking piss-ass weak with little investment.

imo the set should just be a straight physical attacker like this:

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: Wild Charge
move 2: Ice Punch
move 3: Cross Chop
move 4: Earthquake
item: Life Orb
ability: Motor Drive
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

Earthquake and Cross Chop have a lot of overlapping coverage, but Earthquake has one huge use: to wreck the Electric-types that Electivire is switching into.

Yeah, I tried several sets out, didn't really work out for me. The thing over there is basically what they have for the UU Electivire on site so I assumed that should work.. guess not xD

Oh and now I'm stuck in the snowstorm in the Northeast so I'll be out of power pretty soon (I'm privileged to have my internet still working) No testing sets for me in 2 hours or so when my computer battery will run out (unless I can find another power supply). They say that we won't get power until 4 more days or something. That means I'm putting this back on the market, and I'll finish with the Omastar one in this 2 hour frame I have.

Edit: New World Order is taking this over