Hmm, maybe you need those slots because you get walled by ghosts if you don't have scrappy? :]Slaking@Life Orb
Scrappy / Mold Breaker
-Extremespeed
-Hi Jump Kick / Close Combat
-why would you even
-need these two slots
You're right about Rayquaza and Dialga but I like throwing on a Dark-type to resist Stored Power. Otherwise, it's a fun set that can catch people off guard. I suppose Dark Pulse or Judgment could replace Draco, but the purpose of the set was to just spam unresisted dragon moves.Draco meteor paired with set up is silly, and why not use a stronger dragon like rayquaza or dialga... Regardless it is still complete imposter fodder...
As to the zekrom: it has nowhere near enough power to break stall, is slower than lugia so will struggle with roost, and dragon rush's accuracy makes it not worth it...
Im starting to regress to my original opinion that sheer force is just not worth it in this meta :/
I use a Contrary Rayquaza in BH (with V-Create, nonetheless), and I have a feeling that it would really love the idea of Escavalier coming into greater usage. :PI think part of why escavalier doesnt tend to get used is that people dont see what role it has. I prefer using it as a pivot with magic bounce and uturn, which makes it one of the best switchins to giratina in the tier and allows it to hurt their switch and allow me to get a counter in with a very powerful u-turn. (my preferred set is gyro ball/u-turn/recover/stealth rock, spikes or rapid spin). However, escavalier has an immense amount of versatility. It can run prankster to be able to hit 2 gyro balls before the opponent can hit you twice with copycat, or to have a fast encore or spore, or revenge kill a mon (also with copycat). And not only can it fill either of these two roles, but it can also be a very good tank with flash fire removing its weakness and making it nearly impossible to ko.
so yeah. use escavalier more.... a lot more...
The only thing, aside from typing, that Dialga has over Rayquaza is Defense and Sp. Def. Rayquaza is slightly faster, which helps, and can use V-Create and Draco Meteor with great power, since it has both 150 Atk and Sp. Atk.Frankly contrary vcreate mons are on the whole really not giod, which is why i listed flash fire third. It is to my mind clearly an inferior option 9.9
Id actually suggest replacing your contrary ratquaza. Its incredibly weak to imposters. If you really want to use a contrarymon id reccomend dialga
Set:
Dialga@leftovers
Contrary
Neutral (!!!) nature (or timid if you dont mind weaker vcreate)
-Substitute
-V-Create
-Draco Meteor
-Recover/coverage move of choice (superpower, overheat, leaf storm, etc)
Hmmm, well: I've beaten many Imposter Pokemon with the Contrary Pokemon itself (due to move misses, as well as moving first, among other things; if they switch into a V-Create, it gives me an extra speed boost; since Rayquaza has higher Attack, its V-Creates are a bit more potent, especially in the sun), as well as a Heart Swap Rhydon (it switched-in, I believe, taking an attack, and then I easily finished it off, even without boosts); since Dragon Tail has low priority, it isn't much of a risk, unless the move misses.Actually its trivial to stop contrary mons in bh. Imposter pokemon can come in on any nonsubbed contrary mon and beat it, prankster heart swap rhydon demolishes all contrary mons without leaf storm, unaware pokemon can usually trivially wall all but the most powerful contrary mons (modest kyu-w is the only mon whose neutral draco meteor has even a chance to 2hko unaware lugia).
Regardless, the advantages of dialga are several. It is the only mon that can have its substitute survive dragon tails, giving it opportunities to set up without being in a position to immediately get demolished by an impostermon. A sub also allows you to at least put pressure on whatever they try to pass the boosts too (you also force rhydon to baton pass because 2 dmeteors will ko rhydon i believe.)
I did have a Rhydon switch in on V-Create, if my memory serves me well (which is how I was able to defeat it after it used Heart Swap), since the battle was a while ago, as well as had opponents bring Imposters in, as I mentioned previously. It is obvious that all Pokemon have weaknesses, and I am in no way denying this, but the same thing works in reverse (Protip: not everything the opponent throws at you always works). It is not as if my team is consisting of a single Rayquaza...I dont really know what to say to this...
Basically your entire argument for rhydon and imposters is that your opponent will switch in stupidly on moves they cant take, instead of doing somethung intelligent like swicthing rhydon in on vcreate, or bringing an imposter in after a kill... Or when even stupid play cant prevent it from stopping your sweeping you basically just say "that pokemon has weaknesses". Protip: all mons have exploitable weaknesses.
Please please please just accept that unlike you i actually have a clue what im doing and listen to me...
Also i'd like to point out there is absolutely zero reason to use rock head in bh seeing as magic guard completely outclasses...
However, I disagree that it can take +6 Gengar's Aura Sphere. +6 Timid Gengar has a 93.75% chance to OHKO Escavalier with Stealth Rock on the field. I's not really a problem though, as most Gengar you face will never get past +2.(and actually can take a lot of boosted attacks, like +6 gengar aura sphere)