Hello! New to Ubers. On your Sassy sets, what does the spread of defensive EVs protect against? the 248/92/168?
The miniscule number difference are probably not relevant, but I've seen people throw around varying spreads in close proximity: 248 HP / 100 Def / 160 SpD, for example.
Thank you!
EDIT: Also if anybody can help me decide on this... I would like to know if a NON-AUTOTOMIZE (maybe a Choice set) Celesteela would use either Adamant or Jolly? And if so, Choice Band or Choice Scarf? I wanna benefit from them Heavy Slams, so I'm thinking Adamant/Band, but it might be overkill...
Adamant puts you at 221 speed, Jolly puts you at 243. Jolly outspeeds Tyrantrum, Garchomp, Aegislash, Bewear, Inceneroar, Magnezone, Bisharp, Breloom, Metagross, Volcanion, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Mew, Zapdos... *deep breath* Magearna, Crawdaunt, Omastar, Scizor (Mega), Tapu Bulu, Landorus-T, Rotom-Wash, Mandibuzz, Venusaur, and Tyranitar variants. Adamant gets outsped by all of those, and speed ties with Tyranitar. And that's only with no boosts.
A lot of those are pretty scary.
Obviously, scarf is going to change these numbers, but for Adamant/Band specifically, you have to decide whether it's worth being slower than Volcanion, Zapdos, Inceneroar, Magnezone, etc. If I'm not mistaken, a lot of those pokes have the potential to OHKO a non Def/SpD invested Celesteela.
68 SpA Zapdos Thunderbolt vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Celesteela: 248-294 (73.8 - 87.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Magnezone Thunderbolt vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Celesteela: 480-566 (142.8 - 168.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 172+ Def Zapdos: 78-93 (20.3 - 24.2%) -- possible 6HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Magnezone: 40-47 (14.2 - 16.7%) -- possible 6HKO
Just to give an example.
252 Atk Choice Band Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Magnezone: 54-64 (19.2 - 22.7%) -- possible 5HKO
However, all that being said, if even Adamant/Band has a hard time OHKOing these pokes, I don't think outspeeding them is necessarily going to solve the problem, considering they can just OHKO Celesteela in revenge.
252 Atk Incineroar Flare Blitz vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Celesteela: 354-416 (105.3 - 123.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Volcanion Flamethrower vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Celesteela: 480-566 (142.8 - 168.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
vs.
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Incineroar: 328-388 (98.7 - 116.8%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Earthquake vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Volcanion: 258-304 (85.4 - 100.6%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
So those pokes
are scary but Celesteela might just not want to stay in on them either way, all things considered. Also, Celesteela outspeeds a lot of relevant mons either way, so it's kind of up to you to play around which ever set you choose to go with.