Cresselia

[Aurorusite]

Overview
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An insane 120 / 120 / 130 bulk makes Cresselia one of the bulkiest Pokemon in the entire metagame. Cresselia's ability, Levitate, is very useful to deal with common Earthquakes and helps her partner use it freely. With her bulk and movepool, Cresselia is one of the best support Pokemon; she can also easily set up Trick Room. Despite Cresselia's huge bulk, she is not impossible to take down. Powerful super effective STAB moves, such as Shadow Ball from Aegislash and Knock Off from Bisharp, deals lots of damage to her. Some Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Salamence, and Mega Mawile, have enough power to hurt Cresselia badly. Though Cresselia has a decent offensive movepool, she has mediocre offenses, and decline in popularity of Fighting-type Pokemon hurt Psychic-type offensively, meaning that Taunt can shut her down easily.

Trick Room
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name: Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Sunny Day
ability: Levitate
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
evs: 236 HP / 204 Def / 68 SpD
nature: Relaxed

Moves
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Trick Room allows slow Pokemon such as Mega Camerupt and Mega Mawile to sweep. Psychic or Psyshock is Cresselia's STAB move; Psychic hits harder overall, but Psyshock hits Pokemon with low Defense, such as Sylveon and Milotic, harder. Ice Beam hits Landorus-T and Mega Salamence hard. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to power up her partner's moves. Safeguard blocks some annoying status moves, such as Swagger, Spore, and Thunder Wave, which can waste important turns of Trick Room. Sunny Day shuts down opposing rain and is helpful if Cresselia's partner is Mega Camerupt, boosting power of its Fire-type moves deadly levels.

Set Details
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236 HP and 204 Defense EVs allow Cresselia to survive two of Mega Mawile's Play Roughs, while the remaining 68 Special Defense EVs increase her special bulk. Mental Herb is used to block Taunt, which is often used to stop her setting Trick Room. Sitrus Berry increases Cresselia's longevity, increasing her chance to get a Trick Room up.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used mainly as Trick Room setter. After Trick Room is up, use either Safeguard to block status moves, Helping Hand to boost her partner's moves, or her STAB move and Ice Beam to attack foes. Cresselia is bulky enough to potentially set up Trick Room multiple times. Mental Herb blocks Taunt once, so don't be too afraid of it if you need to get Trick Room up.

Team Options
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All Pokemon that enjoy Trick Room support are good partners for Cresselia. Powerful Trick Room Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Mawile, Mega Camerupt, and Mega Abomasnow, are some examples. Amoonguss works well in Trick Room, with the ability to outspeed almost everything and put foes to sleep. Slow and bulky Fake Out users such as Scrafty and Hariyama increase the chance for Cresselia to get Trick Room up. Landorus-T can use Intimidate to weaken a physical attacks aimed at Cresselia and then U-turn into a Trick Room sweeper.

Support
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name: Support
move 1: Icy Wind / Thunder Wave
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Moonlight / Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Moonlight
ability: Levitate
item: Rocky Helmet / Sitrus Berry / Leftovers
evs: 252 HP / 172 Def / 84 SpD
nature: Bold

Moves
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Icy Wind slows down both opposing Pokemon, deals an okay amount of damage, and can't be shut down by Taunt. Thunder Wave targets only one Pokemon, but it won't activate Defiant or Competitive. Psychic is the primary STAB option, hitting decently hard against targets that are weak to it. Psyshock is weaker than Psychic, but it targets Defense instead of Special Defense such as Milotic, Mega Charizard Y, and Sylveon. Moonlight gives Cresselia a recovery move. Ice Beam is a great coverage move, because despite Cresselia's weak Special Attack stat, Ice is a great offensive typing and hits many common Pokemon such as Mega Salamence, Landorus-T, and Garchomp 4x super effectively. Ice Beam should be used only if you don't run Icy Wind, however. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to boost her partner's power and pick up surprising KOs. Safeguard can block Spore, Thunder Wave, and Will-O-Wisp. Moonlight can also be used in this slot if you want to use both Ice Beam and Moonlight. Sunny Day can be used if rain teams give you problems, and it boosts the power of Fire-types, such as Heatran.

Set Details
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A Bold nature, 252 HP EVs, and 172 Defense EVs allow Cresselia to survive two of Adamant Mega Kangaskhan's Returns. 84 Special Defense EVs increase Cresselia's special bulk. EVs can be optimized in many ways; 52 Speed EVs allow Cresselia to outspeed positive natured base 100s after Icy Wind, and 212 Special Attack EVs allow her to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T. Sitrus Berry increases Cresselia's longevity. Leftovers recovers more HP in the long run than Sitrus Berry does, though. With Leftovers, 100 Defense EVs are enough to let Cresselia to survive two Returns from Adamant Mega Kangaskhan. Rocky Helmet works well with Cresselia's bulk and allows her to annoy physical attackers, especially Mega Kangaskhan.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used to support her team. Using her is simple: first she should use a speed control move, and then she should either attack with her Psychic-type STAB move and Ice Beam, support with Helping Handm or heal herself with Moonlight. Cresselia works well during any stage of battle, and she is easy to switch in due to her massive bulk. While Cresselia can tank hits well, try to avoid powerful super effective attacks such as Bisharp's Knock Off.

Team Options
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Any Pokemon that enjoys speed control is a good partner for Cresselia, such as Bisharp, Mega Kangaskhan, Breloom, Hydreigon, and Sylveon. Landorus-T and Garchomp work well with Cresselia, as they can use Earthquake safely, and Cresselia can even boost their Earthquakes with Helping Hand. Mega Charizard Y is a good partner for Cresselia; it enjoys her ability to provide speed control, KOes many Pokemon that threaten her, such as Aegislash and Bisharp, and enjoys Helping Hand, while she can beat Pokemon that threaten Charizard, such as Salamence and Landorus-T, and Moonlight heals her even more in sun. Other Fire-types, such as Heatran, Volcarona, and Talonflame, can beat Steel-types, which wall Cresselia. Heatran also enjoys speed control.

Other Options
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With Calm Mind, Cresselia becomes really threatening; she gains offensive pressure and becomes virtually invulnerable against special attacks, even super effective ones. Moonblast allows Cresselia to hit Dark-types, such as Scrafty and Hydreigon, but it is otherwise pretty weak. Skill Swap allows Cresselia to swap abilities with her target. For example, it can take some dangerous abilities away from Pokemon, such as Mega Kangaskhan and Sylveon or steal Intimidate and use it against foes. Expert Belt allows Cresselia to play more offensively, giving her enough power to use either Hidden Power Ground or Fire to hit Steel-types. Hidden Power Fighting is, however, no longer legal. With Expert Belt, Cresselia doesn't need any Special Attack investment to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T. Swagger can be helpful to shut down foes with its confusion chance, and it works well with Thunder Wave. Rain Dance can be used if Cresselia is used on a rain team. Light Screen or Reflect can be used to increase Cresselia and her partner's bulk for five turns. Cresselia can, of course, use Protect, as it is a great move on anything in VGC. However, most of the time, Cresselia prefers to have a support or coverage move instead. Lastly, Chesto Berry + Rest can be used for one-time full healing. However, they take up Cresselia's item and one moveslot, so Moonlight is generally the better option, unless Cresselia is used on a non-sun weather team and recovery is necessary.

Checks & Counters
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**Dark-types**: Dark-types are a pain for Cresselia. Most of them don't care about Cresselia's attacks, as they are immune to Psychic, and can hit her hard with their Dark-type STAB moves. Bisharp is especially problematic due to its raw power, Knock Off, Steel typing, and the fact that it gets a Defiant boost from Icy Wind.

**Ghost-types**: While not as troublesome as Dark-types, Ghost-types still have powerful STAB moves to hit Cresselia hard. Gengar has Taunt, which can shut Cresselia down, and Aegislash can use Cresselia as setup bait with Substitute, as it really doesn't care about anything Cresselia uses.

**Taunt**: Taunt users, such as Thundurus and Gengar, can simply prevent Cresselia from using her support moves, bar Icy Wind, which can easily make her dead weight.

**Steel-types**: Steel-types can cause problems for Cresselia, as they typically resist Cresselia's moves.

 

[Aurorusite]

ready for QC checks

 

[tofucocoa]

looks good; a couple of things though. i'd like to see sunny day in set comments of the trick room set and out of OO because of its synergy with mega camerupt. you should also mention it in set comments of the support set as well, as it's a very nice check to rain teams and synergizes well with charizard, heatran, etc.

with expert belt in OO, mention alongside it HP ground and fire and how HP fighting is impossible to get.

put rest+chesto in OO.

otherwise: QC 1/2

 

[TheMantyke]

Pretty cool stuff, few things to add on top of lucariojr:

Given that Cress is using the rest of its EVs to invest in bulk after living the Kanga hit, I'd switch the EV spread to max HP. 252 / 172 / 84 sounds good. Also mention that you can also run 252 HP / 100 Def with leftovers to always live Adamant Mega Kanga's Return factoring in Leftovers recovery. With sitrus, you can run 252 / 84 Def and always live two Adamant Mega Kangaskhan Returns, but you risk an Adamant Mega Kangaskhan rolling low enough to not activate your Sitrus, then rolling high enough to KO you.

With the Expert Belt Mention, touch on that it lets you run no EVs in SpAtk to OHKO 4 HP Landorus as oppose to 116 SpAtk Evs without.

Once that and lucariojr's stuff is implemented: QC 2/2

 

[Aurorusite]

Changes done.


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[GatoDelFuego]

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Overview
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A insane 120 / 120 / 130 bulk makes Cresselia her using 'her' instead of 'it' isn't wrong, but you have to be sure that it's incredibly consistent throughout the whole analysis. I'll trust you with making sure that's the case. I only changed this because it needs a subject; Cresselia wasn't introduced yet! one of the bulkiest Pokemon in the entire metagame. Cresselia's ability, Levitate, is very useful to deal with common Earthquakes, and helps her partner use it freely. Cresselia is still one of the best support Pokemon in the game, (RC) with her bulk, (RC) and movepool. Cresselia also has a decent offensive movepool, making her very versatile Pokemon. With her bulk, she can easily also set up Trick Rooms. Cresselia has gone down, however, due to Dark-types getting small buff in form of Knock Off and Steel losing Dark-resist, more powerful Ghost-types such as Aegislash, and new Mega-evolutions with sheer power enough to take even Cresselia down pretty quickly, meaning that Cresselia is not as invulnerable as in 2013. Cresselia also didnt lost herold flaws. Rephrase these passages to not reference 'new' things and don't mention 2013. Something like "However, Aegislash and Mega Evolutions such as [X] have enough power to take her down quickly" She has mediocre offenses, and also the fact that Fighting-type Pokemon is less common than before, hurting Psychic-type offensively, meaning that and Taunt can easily shut her easily down. Taunt can easily make Cresselia dead weight, because she loses most of her support options. Despite these flaws, Cresselia is still very valuable supportive Pokemon, that can fit easily on most teams.

Trick Room
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name: Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Sunny Day
ability: Levitate
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
evs: 236 HP / 204 Def / 68 SpD
nature: Relaxed

Moves
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Trick Room is main move of this set, allows to slow Pokemon such as Mega Camerupt and Mega Mawile to sweep. . (extra period) Psychic or Psyshock is a Cresselia's STAB move; Psychic hits harder overall, but Psyshock hits Pokemon with low Defense such as X harder. Ice Beam is a good coverage move, hits Landorus-T and Mega Salamence hard. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to power up her partner's moves. Safeguard blocks some annoying status moves, like such as Swagger, Spore, (AC) and Thunder Wave, which can waste important turns of Trick Room. Sunny Day is helpful tool to shut down opposing rain, and its good move is helpful if Cresselia's partner is Mega Camerupt, boosting its moves at to deadly levels.

Set Details
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236 HP and 204 Defense EVs allows Cresselia to live two of Mega Mawile's Play Roughs, while remaining 68 Special Defense EVs increases her special bulk. Mental Herb is used to block Taunt, which is often used to stop setting Trick Room. Sitrus Berry increases a the durability of Cresselia, increasing her chance to get a Trick Room up.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used mainly as Trick Room setter. After Trick Room is up, use either Safeguard to block status moves, Helping Hand to boost her partner's moves, or attack with Psychic-STAB moves and Ice Beam. Cresselia is bulky enough to potentially set up Trick Room multiple times. Mental Herb blocks Taunt once, so don't be too afraid of it if you need manage to get Trick Room up.

Team Options
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All Pokemon that enjoy a Trick Room support are good partners to Cresselia. Powerful Trick Room Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Mawile, Mega Camerupt, and Mega Abomasnow, are some examples enjoys Trick Room. Amoonguss works well in Trick Room, with ability to outspeed almost everything and put opponents to sleep. Slow and bulky Fake Out users increases the chance for Cresselia to get Trick Room up; examples of these include Hariyama and Scrafty. Landorus-T can use Intimidate to weaken a physical attacks aimed at Cresselia, and then U-turn into Trick Room sweeper, giving Cresselia ability to set Trick Room easier.

Support
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name: Support
move 1: Icy Wind / Thunder Wave
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Moonlight / Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Moonlight
ability: Levitate
item: Rocky Helmet / Sitrus Berry / Leftovers
evs: 252 HP / 172 Def / 84 SpD
nature: Bold

Moves
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Icy Wind slows down both opposing Pokemon, and deals a nice amount of damage, and Taunt can't be shut it down by Taunt. Thunder Wave targets only a one Pokemon, but it won't activate Defiant or Competitive-abilities. It makes target almost always go last, has chance to parahax, and target will be paralyzed rest of battle. Psychic is a primary STAB option, hitting decently hard against targets that are weak to it. Psyshock is weaker than Psychic, but it uses targets Defense instead of Special Defense, which can be useful for hitting Pokemon with low Defense but high Special Defense, such as Milotic, Mega Charizard Y, (AC) and Sylveon harder than Psychic. Moonlight gives Cresselia a recovery move. Ice Beam is a great coverage move, because despite Cresselia's weak special attack, 4x weakness to Ice is pretty common, and Ice in general is great offensive typing, so it gives her option to hit Mega Salamence, Landorus-T, (AC) and Garchomp hard. Ice Beam should be used only if you don't use have Icy Wind, however. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to boost her partner's power and pick up surprising KOs. Safeguard can block moves like Spore, Thunder Wave, (AC) and Will-O-Wisp. Moonlight can be used also on this slot if you want to use both Ice Beam and Moonlight. Sunny Day can be also used if rain teams gives you problems, and it can used to boost power of Fire-types, like such as Heatran.

Set Details
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With A Bold nature, 252 HP EVs, and 172 Defense EVs allows Cresselia to live 2 Adamant Mega Kangaskhan's Returns. 84 Special Defense EVs increases Cresselia's special bulk. EVs can be optimized in many ways; 52 Speed EVs allows Cresselia to outspeed a positively natured base 100s after Icy Wind, and 212 Special Attack EVs allows her to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T at cost of losing lots of bulk. Sitrus Berry increases longevity of Cresselia by giving her a healing boost. Leftovers recovers more in long run than Sitrus Berry, though. With Leftovers, 100 Defense EVs is are enough to live two of Returns from Adamant Mega Kangaskhan. Rocky Helmet works well with Cresselia's bulk, and allows her to annoy physical attackers, especially Mega Kangaskhan.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used to support her team. Using her is simple: first turns she should use a speed control moves, then attack with her Psychic STAB move and Ice Beam, or support with Helping Hand or heal itself with Moonlight. Cresselia works well with any stage of battle, and she easy to switch due to her massive bulk. While Cresselia can tank hits well, try to avoid powerful super effective attacks such as Bisharp's Knock Off.

Team Options
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Any Pokemon that enjoys speed control is a good partner to Cresselia, such as Bisharp, Mega Kangaskhan, Breloom, Hydreigon, and Sylveon. Landorus-T and Garchomp works well with Cresselia, as they can use Earthquake safely, and Cresselia can even boost their Earthquakes with Helping Hand. Mega Charizard Y is a good partner to Cresselia; it enjoys her's ability to provide speed control, kills KOes many Pokemon that threatens her, such as Aegislash and Bisharp, and enjoys Helping Hand boost from her, while she can beat Pokemon that threatens Mega Charizard Y, like such as Salamence and Landorus-T, and Moonlight heals her even more in sun. Other Fire-Types, such as Heatran, Volcarona, and Talonflame, can beat Steel-types that walls Cresselia. Heatran also enjoys speed control.

Other Options
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Calm Mind can help with Cresselia's weak Special Attack. With Calm Mind, Cresselia becomes really threatening, due to the fact that she can actually put on some offensive pressure after Calm Mind, and she becomes virtually invulnerable against special attacks, even against a super effective ones, unless it crits. Moonblast allows Cresselia to hit Dark-types, such as Scrafty or Hydreigon, hard. It's otherwise, however, pretty weak. Skill Swap is interesting move that allows Cresselia to swap abilities with her target. For example, it can take some dangerous abilities away from many Pokemon, like Mega Kangaskhan and Sylveon, or steal Intimidate from opponent, and use it against opponents. Expert Belt allows Cresselia to play more offensively. With Expert Belt, Cresselia has enough power to use either Hidden Power Ground or Fire, giving Cresselia an okay option to hit a Steel-types. Hidden Power Fighting is however no longer legal. With Expert Belt, Cresselia doesn't need any Special Attack investment to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T. Swagger can be helpful to shut down opponents with its confusion chance, and it works well with Thunder Wave. Rain Dance can be used if Cresselia is used in a rain team, and wants to bring rain back. Light Screen or Reflect can be used to increase Cresselia's and her partner's bulk for a five turns. Cresselia can of course use Protect, as it is a great move on anything in VGC. However, most of time, Cresselia prefers to have support or coverage move on this slot instead. Lastly, Chesto Berry + Rest can be used for one-time full healing, and it also removes status effects from Cresselia. However, they take both item and one move slot, so Moonlight is generally better option, unless Cresselia is used on non-sun weather team and recovery is necessary.

Checks & Counters
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**Dark-types:** Dark-types are pain for Cresselia. Most of them doesnt don't care about attacks that Cresselia uses at them, since as they are immune to Psychic-type, and can hit hard with their STAB Dark moves. Bisharp is especially problematic, (RC) due to its raw power, Knock Off, Steel typing, and the fact it gets a Defiant boost from Icy Wind.

**Ghost-types:** While not as troublesome as Dark-types, they Ghost-types still have powerful STAB moves to hit Cresselia hard. Gengar has Taunt, which can shut Cresselia down, and Aegislash can use Cresselia as setup bait with Substitute, as it really doesn't care about anything Cresselia uses.

**Taunt:** Taunt users, such as like Thundurus and Gengar, can simply prevent Cresselia by from using her support moves, bar Icy Wind, which can easily make her dead weight.

**Steel-types:** Steel-types can cause problems for Cresselia, as they typically resist Cresselia's moves.

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[tofucocoa]

u should pester GP; bumping it here wont do u much good

 

[P Squared]

gato using bold!! *__*

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Overview
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An insane 120 / 120 / 130 bulk makes Cresselia one of the bulkiest Pokemon in the entire metagame. Cresselia's ability, Levitate, is very useful to deal with common Earthquakes, (remove comma) and helps her partner use it freely. With her bulk and movepool, Cresselia is one of the best support Pokemon in the game with her bulk and movepool. Cresselia also has a decent offensive movepool. With her bulk,; (semicolon) she can also easily also set up Trick Room. Despite Cresselia's huge bulk, she is not impossible to take down. Powerful STAB super effective STAB moves, such as Shadow Ball from Aegislash or and Knock Off from Bisharp, (comma) deal lots of damage to her. Some Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Kangaskhan, Mega Salamence, and Mega Mawile, (comma) has have enough power to hurt Cresselia badly. Though Cresselia has a decent offensive movepool, she has mediocre offenses, and the decline in popularity of also the fact that Fighting-type Pokemon is less common than before, hurting Psychic-type offensively, meaning that Taunt can shut her easily down easily.

Trick Room
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name: Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Sunny Day
ability: Levitate
item: Mental Herb / Sitrus Berry
evs: 236 HP / 204 Def / 68 SpD
nature: Relaxed

Moves
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Trick Room allows slow Pokemon such as Mega Camerupt and Mega Mawile to sweep. Psychic or Psyshock is Cresselia's STAB move; Psychic hits harder overall, but Psyshock hits Pokemon with low Defense, such as Sylveon and Milotic, harder. Ice Beam hits Landorus-T and Mega Salamence hard. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to power up her partner's moves. Safeguard blocks some annoying status moves, such as Swagger, Spore, and Thunder Wave, which can waste important turns of Trick Room. Sunny Day is helpful to shuts (you use "is helpful" later in this sentence too) down opposing rain, (remove comma) and is helpful if Cresselia's partner is Mega Camerupt, boosting the power of its Fire-type moves of it to deadly levels.

Set Details
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236 HP and 204 Defense EVs allow Cresselia to live survive two of Mega Mawile's Play Roughs, while the remaining 68 Special Defense EVs increase her special bulk. Mental Herb is used to block Taunt, which is often used to stop her from setting Trick Room. Sitrus Berry increases the durability of Cresselia's longevity, increasing her chance to get a Trick Room up.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used mainly as Trick Room setter. After Trick Room is up, use either Safeguard to block status moves, Helping Hand to boost her partner's moves, or attack with Psychic-STAB moves her STAB move and Ice Beam to attack foes. (parallelism) Cresselia is bulky enough to potentially set up Trick Room multiple times. Mental Herb blocks Taunt once, so don't be too afraid of it if you need to get Trick Room up.

Team Options
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All Pokemon that enjoy a Trick Room support are good partners to for Cresselia. Powerful Trick Room Mega Evolutions, such as Mega Mawile, Mega Camerupt, and Mega Abomasnow, are some examples. Amoonguss works well in Trick Room, with the ability to outspeed almost everything and put opponents foes to sleep. Slow and bulky Fake Out users such as Hariyama and Scrafty increase the chance for Cresselia to get Trick Room up; examples of these include Hariyama and Scrafty. Landorus-T can use Intimidate to weaken a physical attacks aimed at Cresselia, (remove comma) and then U-turn into a Trick Room sweeper.

Support
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name: Support
move 1: Icy Wind / Thunder Wave
move 2: Psychic / Psyshock
move 3: Moonlight / Ice Beam
move 4: Helping Hand / Safeguard / Moonlight
ability: Levitate
item: Rocky Helmet / Sitrus Berry / Leftovers
evs: 252 HP / 172 Def / 84 SpD
nature: Bold

Moves
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Icy Wind slows down both opposing Pokemon, deals an okay amount of damage, and can't be shut down by Taunt. Thunder Wave targets only a one Pokemon, but it won't activate Defiant or Competitive. Psychic is a the primary STAB option, hitting decently hard against targets that are weak to it. Psyshock is weaker than Psychic, but it targets Defense instead of Special Defense, which can be useful for hitting Pokemon with low Defense but high Special Defense, such as Milotic, Mega Charizard Y, and Sylveon. Moonlight gives Cresselia a recovery move. Ice Beam is a great coverage move, because despite Cresselia's weak Special Attack stat, 4x weakness to Ice is pretty common, and Ice in general is a great offensive typing and hits many common Pokemon, so it gives her option to hit such as Mega Salamence, Landorus-T, and Garchomp, 4x super effectively hard. Ice Beam should be used only if you don't run use Icy Wind, however. Helping Hand allows Cresselia to boost her partner's power and pick up surprising KOs. Safeguard can block Spore, Thunder Wave, and Will-O-Wisp. Moonlight can also be used also on in this slot if you want to use both Ice Beam and Moonlight. Sunny Day can be also used if rain teams give you problems, and it can used to boosts the power of Fire-types, such as Heatran.

Set Details
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A Bold nature, 252 HP EVs, and 172 Defense EVs allow Cresselia to live 2 survive two of Adamant Mega Kangaskhan's Returns. 84 Special Defense EVs increase Cresselia's special bulk. EVs can be optimized in many ways; 52 Speed EVs allow Cresselia to outspeed a positive-natured base 100s after Icy Wind, and 212 Special Attack EVs allow her to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T at cost of losing bulk. Sitrus Berry increases Cresselia's longevity of Cresselia by giving her a healing boost. Leftovers recovers more HP in the long run than Sitrus Berry does, though. With Leftovers, 100 Defense EVs are enough to live let Cresselia survive two of Returns from Adamant Mega Kangaskhan. Rocky Helmet works well with Cresselia's bulk, (remove comma) and allows her to annoy physical attackers, especially Mega Kangaskhan.

Usage Tips
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Cresselia should be used to support her team. Using her is simple: first she should use a speed control move, and then she should either attack with her Psychic-type STAB-move (remove hyphen) and Ice Beam, or support with Helping Hand, (comma) or heal itself herself with Moonlight. Cresselia works well with during any stage of battle, and she is easy to switch in due to her massive bulk. While Cresselia can tank hits well, try to avoid powerful super effective attacks such as Bisharp's Knock Off.

Team Options
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Any Pokemon that enjoys speed control is a good partner to for Cresselia, such as Bisharp, Mega Kangaskhan, Breloom, Hydreigon, and Sylveon. Landorus-T and Garchomp work well with Cresselia, as they can use Earthquake safely, and Cresselia can even boost their Earthquakes with Helping Hand. Mega Charizard Y is a good partner to for Cresselia; it enjoys her ability to provide speed control, KOes many Pokemon that threaten her, such as Aegislash and Bisharp, and enjoys Helping Hand, while she can beat Pokemon that threaten Charizard, such as Salamence and Landorus-T, and Moonlight heals her even more in sun. Other Fire-types, such as Heatran, Volcarona, and Talonflame, can beat Steel-types, which that wall Cresselia. Heatran also enjoys speed control.

Other Options
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Calm Mind can help with Cresselia's weak Special attack. With Calm Mind, Cresselia becomes really threatening, due to the fact she can actually put on some; she gains offensive pressure after Calm Mind, and she becomes virtually invulnerable against special attacks, even against a super effective ones. Moonblast allows Cresselia to hit Dark-types, such as Scrafty or and Hydreigon, but it is otherwise. It's otherwise, however, pretty weak. Skill Swap allows Cresselia to swap abilities with her target. For example, it can take some dangerous abilities away from many Pokemon, like such as Mega Kangaskhan and Sylveon, (remove comma) or steal Intimidate, (remove comma) and use it against foes opponents. Expert Belt allows Cresselia to play more offensively. With Expert Belt, Cresselia has, giving her enough power to use either Hidden Power Ground or Fire, giving Cresselia an okay option to hit Steel-types. Hidden Power Fighting is, (comma) however, (comma) no longer legal. With Expert Belt, Cresselia doesn't need any Special Attack investment to OHKO 4 HP Landorus-T. Swagger can be helpful to shut down opponents foes with its confusion chance, and it works well with Thunder Wave. Rain Dance can be used if Cresselia is used in on a rain team. Light Screen or Reflect can be used to increase Cresselia and her partner's bulk for five turns. Cresselia can, (comma) of course, (comma) use Protect, as it is a great move on anything Pokemon in VGC. However, most of the time, Cresselia prefers to have a support or coverage move on this slot instead. Lastly, Chesto Berry + Rest can be used for one-time full healing. However, they take up Cresselia's both item and one moveslot, so Moonlight is generally the better option, unless Cresselia is used on a non-sun weather team and recovery is necessary.

Checks & Counters
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**Dark-types:**: (colon goes outside) Dark-types are a pain for Cresselia. Most of them don't care about Cresselia's attacks that Cresselia uses at them, as they are immune to Psychic, and can hit it hard with their STAB Dark-type STAB moves. Bisharp is especially problematic due to its raw power, Knock Off, Steel typing, and the fact that it gets a Defiant boost from Icy Wind.

**Ghost-types:**: (colon goes outside) While not as troublesome as Dark-types, Ghost-types still have powerful STAB moves to hit Cresselia hard. Gengar has Taunt, which can shut Cresselia down, and Aegislash can use Cresselia as setup bait with Substitute, as it really doesn't care about anything Cresselia uses.

**Taunt:**: (colon goes outside) Taunt users, such as Thundurus and Gengar, can simply prevent Cresselia from using her support moves, bar Icy Wind, which can easily make her dead weight.

**Steel-types:**: (colon goes outside) Steel-types can cause problems for Cresselia, as they typically resist Cresselia's moves.

 

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