So after using Mega-Pinsir in 1v1 way too much, and being told that ExtremeSpeed was better than Return/Frustration on -ate users, I decided to make this really bizarre set, which may or may not be terrible (haven't gotten the chance to use it too much yet)...
Ho-Oh @ Sky Plate/Life Orb/Safety Goggles (if you use Spore)
Ability: Aerilate
Happiness: 0
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 SDef / 252 Spd
Careful Nature
- Frustration
- Sacred Fire
- Shift Gear / Coil
- Milk Drink / Spore / Earthquake / Thousand Waves (not Arrows) / Low Kick
If people run maximum or at least middle happiness on Imposters, this thing has a really powerful, Imposter-proof set of spammable attacks.
• Frustration is the Aerilate-boosted STAB that hopefully gives you an advantage against Imposter;
• Sacred Fire is the obvious Shedinja counter and physical attacker crippler;
• Setup moves are always nice; this thing isn't quite powerful enough to do very much damage unboosted against the numerous physical walls in BH.
• I used Milk Drink in the last slot because Stealth Rock is everywhere; if you want, you could replace it with one of the listed Ground-type moves (which provide extremely good coverage with Fire + Flying), as long as you don't use Thousand Arrows, which makes this poor bird die to Chansey. Low Kick works if, like
E4 Flint, you wall all your sweepers with FF Aegislash. Finally, Spore is an option if you want more time to set up against things; just make sure you use Safety Goggles so Chansey can't take advantage of you.
Anyway, this is still very much a work in progress...thoughts? General ideas about the -ate abilities?