Heatran (Defensive) [QC 3/3; GP 2/2]


http://www.smogon.com/bw/pokemon/heatran/uber

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing that makes it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran is capable of checking most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants, which is invaluable for slower, defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter especially against sun teams focused on Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran that is also very useful for its high burn rate. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and safe switch-in, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison, and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to help with its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats it is supposed to check and is great with entry hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for the team but if you have the move someplace else you can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon with a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you use your Heatran for checking special attackers such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to give Heatran a temporary immunity to Ground-type attacks and make Heatran serve as a coutner to SubToxic Gliscor. Stone Edge allows Heatran to OHKO Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock if just phazing it out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice can OHKO Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but doesn't have any other use. Taunt can pester stall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is THE Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses while Heatran can take care of Genesect and Ho-Oh for Grass Arceus. Together, Heatran and Grass Arceus check the metagame's biggest threats such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, to a certain extent Zekrom, as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather conditions, although for non-rain teams, you will need a secondary Palkia check, such as Deoxys-D. However, Kyogre is particularly effective with this core as it covers a number of weaknesses that the core struggles with, such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran as it forces a lot of switches thanks to its typing and makes its Roar much more dangerous in general. Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus and non-rain Palkia which tend to pester Heatran while Skarmory is good for Ground Arceus and Ghost Arceus.</p>

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Designed to use tranner's sexy as fuck typing to check important threats like Ho-Oh, Ray and Genesect
  • Lava Plume is a STAB that burns a lot
  • Protect is very important for scouting Choice Specs Ogre's attack since he switchs in easy and it also racks up leftovers recovery and burn/toxic damage
  • Roar lets Heatran phaze out threats and works well with hazards
  • Stealth Rock is a good move on Tranner cause he sets it up easily against the typical sun teams with Ho-Oh which are the ones where you really want it up fast
  • If you have SR someplace else, Toxic is great to cripple shit
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
  • max physical bulk with a bit of spdef to tank a LO Focus blast from darkrai at full health
  • you can use an spdef spread instead if you want tranner to focus more on checking guys like latios
  • air balloon can be used to dick with gliscor and if you want to avoid a random earthquake
  • stone edge can be used to OHKO ho-oh after SR, HP Ice can OHKO rayquaza after sr, Taunt can be used so you aren't spikes fodder for mons under rain and to just dick with stall some
  • OMG Heatran Grassceus is THE SHIT. The synergy is godlike as most of heatran's problems are covered by grassy and vice versa. The two also check the metagame's biggest threats like Palkia and Ho-Oh and are effective against both rain and sun archetypes. P useful in just about every weather too although keep in mind you'll need something like deo-d to check palkia when its not raining.
 
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Meh, it only makes like a 1% loss in bulk (which you only notice on OHKOs or near them) so it's not like you lose anything.

I'll write this up tomorrow.
 
qc approved 3/3

" However, Kyogre is particularly effective with this core as it covers a number of weaknesses that it struggles with, like Ghost-Arceus, as well as forms the only viable FWG core in the Ubers metagame."
not correct information and who cares about fwg anyway
 
[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing that makes it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran is capable of checking most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants,(AC) which is invaluable for slower, defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter especially against sun teams focused on Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran that is also very useful for its high burn rate. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and easy safe switch-in, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison,(AC) as well as give and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to help with his its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats he it is supposed to check and is great with hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for the team but if you have the move someplace else you can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon with a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you use your Heatran for checking special attackers, like such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to make Heatran serve as a Toxic Gliscor counter as well as give Heatran a temporary immunity to the Ground-type moves it is so horribly vulnerable to. Stone Edge allows Heatran to OHKO Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock if just phazing it out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice can OHKO Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but doesn't have any other use. Taunt can pester Sstall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is THE Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses while Heatran can take care of Genesect and Ho-Oh for Grass Arceus. Together, Heatran and Grass Arceus check the metagame's biggest threats like such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, to some extent, Zekrom,(AC) as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather conditions, although for non-rain teams, you will need a secondary Palkia check, like such as Deoxys-D. However, Kyogre is particularly effective with this core as it covers a number of weaknesses that it the core struggles with, like Ghost-Arceus such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran as it forces a lot of switches thanks to his its typing and makes its Roar much more dangerous in general. Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus or and non-rain Palkia which tend to pester Heatran while Skarmory is good for Ground Arceus or and Ghost Arceus.</p>


looks good, changed "he" to "it" for uniformity

gp 1/2
 
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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing that, makesing it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran i's capabileity tof checking most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants, which is invaluable for slower, defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter, and is especially effective against sun teams focbusedilt around Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran thatnd is also very useful for its high burn rate as well. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and safe switch-in to it, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move of choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison, and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to help wmithigate its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats ithat is supposed to checks and is great in conjunction with hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for ithes team,(AC) but if your team haves the move somepln acnother Pokelsmon, He youatran can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon wby putting them on a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you usare yoursing Heatran for the purpose of checking special attackers such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to make Heatran serve as a counter to SubToxic Gliscor cas well as(uhh wait, why areit these twou points different? aIsnt wthe eqmove immunity rellated to being aimmune subtoxic gliscor counter??)give Heatran a temporary immunity to the Ground-type moves it is so horribly vulnerable to. Stone Edge allows HOHKOeatran to OHKOs Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock, making it an option if just phazing itHo-Oh out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice can OHKOes Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but doeisn't havuse anyful other uwise. Taunt clets Heatran pester stall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is THE<em>the</em>(or you coulda use caps but arent used into analyses)Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together,(AC) as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses,(AC) while Heatran can takde carel ofwith Genesect and Ho-Oh, ftwo big threats to Grass Arceus. Together,is Hdefeatran and Grassive Arcoreus choveckrs the metagame's biggest threats,(AC) such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and Zekrom to soma certain extent, Zekrom, as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams,(AC) while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather conditions, although for non-rain teams, you will nrequired a secondary Palkia check, such as Deoxys-D. However, Kyogre is particularly effective with this core,(AC) as it covers a number of weaknesses that the core struggles with, such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran,(AC) as it forces a lot of switches thanks to its typresistangces,(AC) and makes its Roar much more deffective. Of angerousll ints genuseral.s, Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus and non-rain Palkia,(AC) which tend to pester Heatran,(AC) while Skarmory is good for dealing with Ground Arceus and Ghost Arceus.</p>

Amcheck ^_____^
[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing, making it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran's ability to check most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants is invaluable for defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter, and is especially effective against sun teams built around Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran and is very useful for its high burn rate as well. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and safe switch-in to it, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move of choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison, and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to mitigate its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats that it checks and is great in conjunction with hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for its team, but if your team has the move on another Pokemon, Heatran can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon by putting them on a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you are using Heatran for the purpose of checking special attackers such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to make Heatran serve as a counter to SubToxic Gliscor as well as give Heatran a temporary immunity to the Ground-type moves it is so horribly vulnerable to(both of these are co-related, js.). Stone Edge OHKOes Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock, making it an option if just phazing Ho-Oh out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice OHKOes Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but isn't useful other wise. Taunt lets Heatran pester stall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is <em>the</em>(or you could use caps but arent used into analyses)Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together, as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses, while Heatran can deal with Genesect and Ho-Oh, two big threats to Grass Arceus. This defensive core covers the metagame's biggest threats, such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and Zekrom to a certain extent, as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams, while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather condition, though for non-rain teams, you will require a secondary Palkia check, such as Deoxys-D. Kyogre is particularly effective with this core, as it covers a number of weaknesses that the core struggles with, such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran, as it forces a lot of switches thanks to its resistances, and makes Roar much more effective. Of all its users, Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus and non-rain Palkia, which tend to pester Heatran, while Skarmory is good for dealing with Ground Arceus and Ghost Arceus.</p>
 
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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing that, makesing it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran i's capabileity tof checking most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants, which is invaluable for slower, defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter, and is especially effective against sun teams focbusedilt around Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran thatnd is also very useful for its high burn rate as well. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and safe switch-in to it, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move of choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison, and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to help wmithigate its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats ithat is supposed to checks and is great in conjunction with entry hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for ithes team,(AC) but if your team haves the move somepln acnother Pokelsmon, He youatran can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon wby putting them on a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you usare yoursing Heatran for the purpose of checking special attackers such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to give Heatran a temporary immunity to Ground-type attacks and make Heatran serve as a coutner to SubToxic Gliscor. counter to SubToxic Gliscor cas well as(uhh wait, why areit these twou points different? aIsnt wthe eqmove immunity rellated to being aimmune subtoxic gliscor counter??)give Heatran a temporary immunity to the Ground-type moves it is so horribly vulnerable to. Stone Edge allows HOHKOeatran to OHKOs Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock, making it an option if just phazing itHo-Oh out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice can OHKOes Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but doeisn't havuse anyful other uwise. Taunt clets Heatran pester stall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is THE <em>the</em>(or you coulda use caps but arent used into analyses) Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together,(AC) as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses,(AC) while Heatran can takde carel ofwith Genesect and Ho-Oh, ftwo big threats to Grass Arceus. Together,is Hdefeatran and Grassive Arcoreus choveckrs the metagame's biggest threats,(AC) such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and to a certain extent Zekrom to soma certain extent, Zekrom, as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams,(AC) while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather conditions, although for non-rain teams, you will nrequired a secondary Palkia check, such as Deoxys-D. However, Kyogre is particularly effective with this core,(AC) as it covers a number of weaknesses that the core struggles with, such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran,(AC) as it forces a lot of switches thanks to its typresistangces,(AC) and makes its Roar much more d effective. Of angerousll ints genuseral.s, Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus and non-rain Palkia,(AC) which tend to pester Heatran,(AC) while Skarmory is good for dealing with Ground Arceus and Ghost Arceus.</p>

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Lava Plume
move 2: Protect
move 3: Roar
move 4: Stealth Rock / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]

<p>Heatran has an excellent typing, making it a great defensive check to some of the metagame's most dangerous Pokemon. In particular, Heatran's ability to check most Rayquaza and Ho-Oh variants is invaluable for defensive teams. Because it can check so many Pokemon, it's a reliable Stealth Rock setter, and is especially effective against sun teams built around Ho-Oh.</p>

<p>Lava Plume is a solid STAB move for Heatran and is very useful for its high burn rate as well. As Choice Specs Kyogre is a common and safe switch-in to it, Protect is incredibly important to Heatran to scout Kyogre's move of choice. It also helps to rack up passive damage from a Lave Plume burn or Toxic poison, and gives Heatran an extra turn of Leftovers to mitigate its glaring lack of reliable recovery. Roar allows Heatran to phaze out the threats that it checks and is great in conjunction with entry hazards for punishing switches. Stealth Rock allows Heatran to provide valuable utility for its team, but if your team has the move on another Pokemon, Heatran can use Toxic instead to cripple Pokemon by putting them on a death timer.</p>

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

<p>The given EV spread maximizes Heatran's physical bulk with a small amount invested in Special Defense so that Heatran will always survive Darkrai's Life Orb-boosted Focus Blast at full health. You can choose to move all the Defense investment into Special Defense if you are using Heatran for the purpose of checking special attackers such as Latios. Air Balloon can be used to give Heatran a temporary immunity to Ground-type attacks and make Heatran serve as a coutner to SubToxic Gliscor. make Heatran serve as a counter to SubToxic Gliscor as well as give Heatran a temporary immunity to the Ground-type moves it is so horribly vulnerable to(both of these are co-related, js.). Stone Edge OHKOes Ho-Oh after Stealth Rock, making it an option if just phazing Ho-Oh out isn't enough for your team. Hidden Power Ice OHKOes Rayquaza after Stealth Rock but isn't useful other wise. Taunt lets Heatran pester stall teams and prevent Ferrothorn from having a chance to use Spikes in the rain.</p>

<p>Grass Arceus is THE Heatran partner. The two have such fantastic synergy together, as Grass Arceus covers Heatran's Kyogre and Palkia weaknesses, (RC) while Heatran can deal with Genesect and Ho-Oh, two big threats to Grass Arceus. This defensive core covers the metagame's biggest threats, such as Palkia, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and to a certain extent Zekrom to a certain extent, as well as many others. Heatran is also effective in general against sun teams, while Grass Arceus tends to be difficult for many rain teams to handle. The duo has the advantage of being effective under any weather condition, though for non-rain teams, you will require a secondary Palkia check, such as Deoxys-D. Kyogre is particularly effective with this core, as it covers a number of weaknesses that the core struggles with, such as Ghost Arceus.</p>

<p>Spikes support is helpful for Heatran, as it forces a lot of switches thanks to its resistances, and makes Roar much more effective. Of all its users, Deoxys-D and Skarmory have the best synergy with Heatran. Deoxys-D can check Fighting Arceus and non-rain Palkia, which tend to pester Heatran, while Skarmory is good for dealing with Ground Arceus and Ghost Arceus.</p>


2/2 stamped kingler also, but that was a lot of prose changes!
 
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