Simisear
[Overview]
- High Speed and Attacking stats
- Access to nasty plot
- Good offensive typing
- Weakness to stealth rock and bad deffensive typing
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Fire Blast
move 3: Grass Knot
move 4: Hidden Power Ground
item: Life Orb
ability: Gluttony
nature: Timid/Modest
evs: 252 SAtk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Nasty Plot and high speed makes it a dangerous sweeper
- Fire Blast is a very powerful STAB move
- Grass Knot to hit water- and rock- types.
- Hidden Power Ground to hit other Fire types harder (Hp Ground is prefered 'cos emboar)
- Screens and Wynaut support helps a lot in setting up due to its fraility.
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Life Orb give him much needed power.
- Loves spikes support to get more KO's
- Needs spinner, as it's frail so SR+LO recoil will make set-up difficult.
- Hidden Power Rock can be used to hit Pelipper and Mantine, who wall this set otherwise. It's useful for balloon users too.
- Taunt can be used to set up easily on walls
- Expert Belt can be used if you don't like recoil.
- Hidden Power Grass can be used for reliability, use Focus Blast over Hp ground then.
[SET]
name: Choice
move 1: Overheat
move 2: Grass Knot
move 3: Hidden Power Ground
move 4: Fire Blast
item: Choice Specs
ability: Gluttony
nature: Timid/Modest
evs: 252 SAtk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- With Choice Specs, he can hit hard right of the bat without needing a turn to boost
- However, Choice Scarf makes him a good revenge killer for set up sweepers, as well as letting him outspeed faster threats.
- Fire Blast is better to finish off opponents and sweep late game
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Timid is preferred as the ability to outspeed jynx and haunter distinguishes itself from magmortar. However, modest is better on scarf set.
- Loves spikes support to get more KO's, simisear forces a lot of switches.
- Needs spinner, as it will be switching a lot.
- Hidden Power Rock can be used to hit Pelipper and Mantine, who wall this set otherwise. It's useful for balloon users too. Focus Blast is useful to hit the likes of miltank.
- Choice Scarf can be used too
[Other Options]
- A Physical set using moves like Fire Punch,Brick Break, Flame Charge or Crunch can be used.
- Hone Claws boost his Atk stat and it can be used in a physical boosting set
- It has goods support moves, like Yawn, Torment or Will-O-Wisp, but his defenses are so bad to pull it off.
- It's one of the few Gen V pokemon getting Sleep Talk
- Slowking and Mantine sport great special defense, so they can switch rather easily and KO back. Lanturn is good too, because it doesn't take much of grass knot.
- Bulky fire-types like specially defensive Flareon or Camerupt can switch on almost anything, stopping Simisear cold.
- Faster pokemon, especially when they have a SE attack, can usually take out Simisear.
- Strong priority such as Absol's Sucker Punch or an Aqua Jet from Carracosta usually KO it due to his poor defenses
[Dream World]
Simisear gets Blaze of the dream world, which is a really good ability and should be the used instead of gluttony, because it can throw even more powerful Fire Blast when using this ability. However Gluttony can find some use with pinch berries.
