Diancie

[BreloomMyHomie]

implemented and ty

 

[HeaLnDeaL]

Okay, so there's a lot, so I'm just going to copy and paste your current OP and add comments in bold.

[Overview]
+Great typing offensively
+Has 2 amazing STABs and a very helpful coverage move
+High Speed
+High Special Attack and Physical Attack Stat, allowing it to go mixed
+Has Rock Polish, allowing it to outspeed scarfers and weather abusers after it sets one up.
+A Great Check to Talonflame except a small number of Talonflame run Steel Wing
-Awful base 50 speed in its base form, which limits on what Diancie can do before mega evolving.
-Bad Defensive Typing, which limit on what Diancie can switch into.
-Terrible HP Stat, canceling out the 110/110 bulk

[Set]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: Moonblast
move 2: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
move 3: Diamond Storm
move 4: Protect / Hidden Power Fire
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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-In the first slot, we have Moonblast using "we" is still talking in first person; it's kinda a GP thing but spark and snobalt already asked you to stop, which is arguably Diancie's best STAB since fairy is such a fantastic type in CAP. Furthermore, Earth Power and Moonblast is an extraordinary pair of moves as it covers so much of the tier. Moonblast is to nuke pokemon that don't resist fairy give examples of both things it can get a supereffective hit against and KO and things that it can neutrally hit and KO, and Earth Power hits the types that do resist fairy for super effective damage, steel and poison list a few specific steel and poison mons that it KOs. However, it does only have a base power of 95, not being able to pick up KOs on bulky water types and ground types, even though they take it neutrally why are you only listing bulky waters and grounds when pretty much any bulky mon with a neutral typing can do this. Also, your ordering is very weird since you go from talking about Moonblast to Earth Power to a base 95 move (moonblast) again. You should keep things grouped together rather than sprinkling information throughout.
-Diamond Storm picks up KOs against flying type pokemon such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Pidgeot, Talonflame; Also KOs fire type pokemon like Mollux and Volkraken. However, it does have a tiny chance to miss, so be cautious when using this move. This last sentence isn't super relevant.
-Mega Diancie lures bulky steel types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which you can 2HKO them with HP fire on the switch. Since its STABs are necessary, HP Fire could be replaced over Earth Power or Protect. However, losing that one speed IV will not let you speed tie with other base 110s, which can cost you an entire game.
-Protect is run on Diancie to get a free mega evolution and the speed boost it gets after it mega evolves. It's also used to scout what your opponent's choiced pokemon would like to lock itself into. On the other hand, because of how predictable protect is, you can replace protect over HP Fire, making this set a more deadly All-Out Attacker.

Set Details
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Naive:
-Used to take non steel type priority physical moves better such as gale wings brave bird, mach punch, and sucker punch. Furthermore, you don't want to lower Diancie's attack or special attack since this is a mixed set.
EVS:
-Max Speed to outspeed base 108s and speed tie with other base 110s after mega evolving.
-Only 4 attack evs because the reason you run Diamond Storm is to OHKO the common fire type and flying type pokemon, which you can do without a lot of investment.
-Max special attack for higher damage output with moonblast and earth power or Hidden Power Fire.

Usage Tips
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-If you choose to run Protect over HP fire on AOA Mega Diancie, always lead off with it so you can get that Magic Bounce and speed boost. Be careful sometimes when you use protect, as its high predictability can let your opponent set up and putting a dent on your team. You contradict yourself here, saying you should always lead with protect and then saying that protect is risky. You probably should just say something like "If running Protect, using it let's Diancie mega evolve safely, allowing it to attack next turn with its higher Speed stat. However, protect might also let the opponent set up for free, so be careful and try to judge if the opponent's Pokemon has any set up moves." Furthermore, you're still speaking in first person.
-If you're running HP fire over Protect on Diancie, mega evolve it on a pokemon you have a good matchup on. Still using first person
-If you're using HP fire Mega Diancie, try and predict the steel types that normally check it such as Scizor to come in and bop em with it. Still using first person
-Because Mega Diancie is very frail, don't switch this into any pokemon that might have a super effective move. Only switch your Diancie in when you know you can check/counter your opponent's pokemon. Some pokemon that Diancie can switch into safely are Talonflame, Mew, and Fidgit. Mega Diancie still has to worry about Steel Wing, though I admit it's a low chance.


Team Options:
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Volt Turn:
-Volt Turn pairs well with AOA Mega Diancie, seeing how its very frail and needs to get into the battle safely to nuke something.
Colossoil+Magnezone: A very well known core to run with Mega Diancie. Mega Diancie can't hit steel types like Mega Scizor or Ferrothorn for an ample amount of damage without HP fire, so Magnezone is the perfect partner. With it's magnet pull ability, it can trap Steel types and harm them with HP fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking your opponents team. However, while Magnezone can trap steel type pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell has become a popular item on steel type pokemon such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn. If you don't know what shed shell is, it's an item that prevents you from being trapped by abilites like Shadow Tag and Magnet Pull. You do not have to explain what Shed Shell is and I also don't think it's common on Ferrothorn. Colossoil, being able to lure those pokemon in, can knock off their shed shells so they have to make some predictions to prevent them from being trapped by Magnezone. Colossoil also baits in bulky steel types to come in and U-Turns so Magnezone can trap them and kill them with Hidden Power Fire for Mega Diancie to have a field day. Colossoil also U-Turns on the predicted Tomohawk switch, so Diancie will get a good matchup and be able to nuke something.
Hyper Offense:
-Hyper Offense is a well known playstyle to use when using Diancie; After getting up Stealth Rocks on your opponents side, Diancie can do what it does best: Pressure most hazard controllers such as Latios, Mollux, Malaconda, and Excadrill since it has a good matchup vs most of them.
Diancie+Talonflame : Diancie+Talonflame is a well known hyper offense core because the things that Diancie has trouble with are primarily steel types, which are taken care of with SD talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp.
Mollux: Cawmodore is one of the more used fairy checks in CAP. Scarf Mollux can check BD cawmodore, take a +6 Bullet Punch, and ohko with a lava plume. In what world does Scarf Mollux use Lava Plume. Additionally, Scarf Mollux can trick it's choice scarf onto Chansey, another counter to Mega Diancie. This will cripple Chansey, so that it won't be able to heal up and seismic toss over and over.
Trappers:
-Trappers trap checks/counters to Mega Diancie. It's pretty self explanatory. However, it's very risky to run trappers, as it's very predictable for you to bring them in. For example, if you switch into your Gothitelle and your opponent doubles into his/her Colossoil with Pursuit, your strategy is history. Make the right plays, and these trappers can do well for Mega Diancie. You're basically saying "Run Trappers, wait don't run trappers, wait be careful." Try to be more consistent here in your writing.
Gothitelle: Gothitelle also pairs well with Diancie, seeing how it has trouble with the things Gothitelle usually traps such as Chansey, Mega Venusaur, and Amoonguss. Gothitelle can cripple Chansey by tricking its choiced item and Gothitelle 2hkos any variant of Mega Venu and Amoonguss with Psychic. Why does gothitelle have it's own category when it is most relevant trapper? Just merge this with trappers and make it sound consistent.
Magnezone: Diancie struggles with bulky steel types if its not carrying HP fire, so Magnezone is a great partner for it. Its ability, Magnet Pull, allows it to trap Diancie's common counters and ohko/2hko them with HP fire. You already mentioned magnezone, you shouldn't be redundant by listing it again.
Balanced:
-Balanced is a great playstyle to play with AOA Diancie, as bulky walls can counter its checks and cover up its weaknesses.
Ferrothorn+Diancie: Water, Grass, Ground, Steel. Hmmm, I wonder what can switch into all those types: Ferrothorn. Not only can it switch into all those types, but it also makes a great hazard setter and has access to Leech Seed for recovery and Thunder Wave, allowing Diancie to outspeed faster mons than itself.
Mollux: With the mixed wall variant, Mollux makes a great hazard setter/control and has reliable recovery. It's also a switch in to scarf Keldeo, one of Diancie's checks. However, be cautious of the HP ground sets.
Speed Control:
-Teammates that provide speed control through Tailwind, Sticky Web, or paralysis can counterbalance Diancie's poor base 50 speed before mega evolution and helps give Diancie a lot more opportunities to pressure the opponent.
Fidgit-Fidgit makes an excellent tailwind user, giving 6 turns of tailwind instead of 4.
Thundurus I and Klefki: Priority thunderwave which provide speed control make these pokemon great partners for Diancie.
Necturna: Can set up Sticky Web with its ability to have one sketch move.

Steel Type Checks:
-Mons that check the notable steel types, Jirachi, Scizor, and Metagross make outstanding teammates. Some examples are Cyclohm, Skarmory, and bulky fire types such as Mollux and Heatran.

Okay seriously, you don't need to relist so many mons even if the partners can be used on balanced or HO teams... You probably shouldn't even be splitting Team Options into HO and balanced. Rather, if a specific teammate only works on a single playstyle then say so when describing the teammate. If it can work on multiple teamstyles, then done bother mentioning it. Right now this just looks like a mess.

[Set]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Diamond Storm
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Rash
evs: 64 HP / 252 SpA / 192 Spe

Moves
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-Rock Polish:
+Doubles your speed stat, allowing you to outspeed common scarfers in the CAP and OU tier such as Volkraken, Mollux, Keldeo, Magnezone, Jirachi, Landorus T, and Plasmanta. Furthermore, you also outspeed weather abusers such as Mega Swampert, Kingdra, Kabutops, Tornadus T, Mega Houndoom, and Excadrill.
-Opposing speed control in general is in an issue; whether you're playing Sticky Web/Tailwind Offense, or Trick Room. How does this line relate at all? Usage tips should stay out of moves.
-Moonblast:
+Probably the most important move to run on Mega Diancie. Moonblast helps you beat Colossoil, Mega Altaria, and Tomohawk, 3 of the most viable pokemon the tier. Furthermore, Moonblast 2hkos other common threats in CAP such as Cyclohm, Keldeo, Strategem, Mega Slowbro, Gyarados (Both Regular and Mega), Mega Manectric, Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham, Rotom W, Diggersby, Azumarill, Kyurem B, Necturna, Garchomp, and Politoed(Physically Defensive Spread). As you guys can see, fairy is such an effective offensive type. :] Seriously what are you talking about here. Moonblast OHKOs, not 2HKOs, Cyclohm, Keldeo, Mega Lopunny/Cham. Also, a long list like this isn't necessary. List the two or so bulkiest things it OHKOes, and then a few things that it 2HKOs.
-Not very effective against common steel type pokemon like mega scizor, jirachi, and ferrothorn.
-Only 95 Base Power, so it can't OHKO bulky ground types and water types like Hippowdon, Gliscor, Gastrodon, and Rotom W, while they can do a significant chunk of damage back. Not sure why listing only ground and water types is needed. Just list a few relevant mons that take neutral hits.
-Diamond Storm:
+Ohkoes threats in the CAP metagame such as Talonflame, Volkraken, Mollux, Mega Pinsir, Syclant, Thundurus I, and both Mega Charizards. Also, it 2hkoes pokemon such as Aurumoth and Pyroak.
+High Accuracy than Stone Edge while keeping the same power, but be cautious when using this move as it can still miss.
+High Chance to raise its defense by one stage.
-Earth Power:
+A great coverage move on Mega Diancie, allowing you to hit Kitsunoh, Heatran, Metagross(Both Mega and regular), Naviathan, Empoleon, Excadrill, Jirachi, Magnezone, Fidgit, Klefki, Krilowatt, and Plasmanta for super effective damage. Stop with the pointlessly long lists. Say it hits most steel and poison types and then give a few examples of the bulkier ones that it OHKOs and mention anything important that it doesn't OHKO.
-Ferrothorn and Mega Scizor eat it like a delicious Filet Mignon cooked by Gordon Ramsey.
-Hidden Power Fire:
+You can get past Ferrothorn and lure in Scizor.
-You give up some power against Metagross.

Set Details
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-192 Speed+Rash:
-After setting up a rock polish, you outspeed jolly sand rush Excadrill, the fastest weather abuser in the game, and ohko it with an Earth Power. 252+ SpA Mega Diancie Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Excadrill: 358-422 (99.1 - 116.8%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO. Don't list calcs, just say that it will almost always OHKO. Rash Nature as opposed to Mild is used over timid because you don't need much speed if you're running Rock Polish. It also ups the chance to ohko Excadrill and prevents you from taking more damage from talonflame's brave bird.
-252 SPA, 0 Attack, 64 HP
-Because Moonblast+EarthPower have very few switch ins and are very significant moves on Diancie, you're going to want to invest in max special attack for more damage output. get rid of first person
- You might be wondering, why run 0 Attack on a mixed Mega Diancie? Well, Diamond Storm OHKOs all variants of Volkraken, offensive variants of mollux, and all the pokemon mentioned above without any investment. While you can't pick of the KO on defensive molluxs with Diamond Storm, Earth Power has a high chance of knocking it out. Get rid of first person
252+ SpA Mega Diancie Earth Power vs. 252 HP / 176+ SpD Mollux: 376-444 (95.4 - 112.6%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO simply say that it OHKOs bulky mollux most of the time without SR support (guaranteed with SR)
-64 EVs is the remainder, so I'd just put in in HP. stop with the first person and explain why HP is more important than the other stats.

[Usage Tips]
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-Don't Rock Polish right away. A lot of beginners/inexperienced players do this with other pokemon such as Cawmodore and they die after they ohko 1-2 pokemon. Wait until all of Mega Diancie's checks/counters are gone. This maybe a sweeper, but not an early game sweeper.
-I suggest rock polishing up on pokemon such as Revenankh, defensive Malaconda, Aurumoth, Fidgit, Mew, and other pokemon that can't hit you for a good amount of damage.
-Play Mega Diancie safe unless you are forced to make predictions. What I mean by this is Mega Diancie's attacks do super effective damage to a majority of CAP/OU. There's no reason for you to predict unless your game comes down to a 50/50. This last line just sounds like bad advice... I'd probably change this bullet to say "Due to Mega Diancie's frailty, playing it safe is usually a smart move." Unless you're meaning something differently... But telling someone not to predict is just weird.

[Team Options]
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-Balanced:
-Because this isn't max speed MDiancie, try running pokemon that can take care of its checks. For example, Keldeo can kill Diancie with a Scald, so run a water and fighting resist to patch that weakness. Latios/Latias make great switchins to keldeo. Also, you can't always rely Mega Diancie as your hazard preventer, as most hazard setters can beat Diancie 1v1. Not only do Latios/Latias make great switchins to keldeo, they also are immune to ground, help you take care of fighting spam, and make great hazard controllers. Furthermore, this is a Diancie without Protect, so it is essential for you to have safe switch ins. The reason being is so that you can mega evolve freely and come back later to nuke something or even sweep.
-Hyper Offense (Read Set 1 Team Options)
-Volt Turn (Red Set 1 Team Options) If you think some teammates are shared, then just copy/paste them again. Also, my general advice for the first set's Team Options still applies here.
-Hazard Stacking Offense is a great playstyle for RP Diancie, as hazards can help it pick up the KOs it wants, especially with a +SPA Nature. Furthermore, it threatens most defog/rapid spin users such as Kitsunoh(Usually it's not meteor mash+defog), Excadrill, latios, mollux, latias, and malaconda.
-Scolipede and Fidgit make great suicide leads for hazard stacking offense and picking them is based on preference. If you want a hazards, taunt, and tailwind support, I'd go with Fidgit. If you want hazards and endeavor support, go with Scolipede.
-Trappers (Read Set 1 Team Options)
-Wall Breakers has a similar function as to what Trappers normally do, break walls; and Diancie has trouble doing so, so that's why I suggest pairing Diancie up with some wallbreakers such as Serperior and Manaphy. These mons can weaken or remove mons that could otherwise check Diancie.
-Nasty Plot Celebi baton passing to a RP Diancie is very scary, especially since +2 252+ SpA Mega Diancie Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Mega Metagross: 462-544 (153.4 - 180.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO. So if you have the guts to stay in not fearing bullet punch from Mega Metagross, you can ohko one of the biggest checks to Diancie at +2 Don't post the whole calcs, just the end result/consequence, etc.

[Strategy Comments]
Other Options
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Calm Mind:
-Calm Mind 3 attacks Diancie is ok, but with threats like mixed syclant with Earthquake, Rain Offense, Scarfed Volkraken and Scarf Landorus T lying around, it makes CM Diancie hard to sweep. However, it definitely is an effective move when it comes to fighting stall.
Psychic:
-Psychic can be used over protect to hit Mega Venus and Amoongusses for super effective damage. However, Diamond Storm, Moonblast, Earth Power, are more viable moves to run on Diancie.
Heal Bell:
-Heal Bell is a great utility move Diancie can run; However, pokemon like Cyclohm and Chansey fit the role better.
Stealth Rock:
-Diancie forces switches pretty well, allowing it to set up its hazards.
Regular Diancie:
-Regular Diancie can be used to set up screens, rocks, and TR, but generally outclassed by mons such as Fidgit, Azelf, and Klefki.
Magnet Rise:
-Magnet Rise can be used to handle mons that rely on their ground coverage to beat Diancie such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Landorus T, Colossoil, and Garchomp.

Checks and Counters
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**Steel Types**: Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Scizor, and Skarmory can check diancie with a steel stab and fully wall them unless they I think you mean Diancie here, so you shouldn't say they since they implies the steel types happen to carry HP Fire. You need to specifically mention Bullet Punch users, too

**Water Types**: Because Mega Diancie is so frail with its low HP stat, all viable water type pokemon such as Krilowatt, Scarf Volkraken, Scarf Keldeo, Azumarill, Rotom Wash, and Slowbro can easily ohko Diancie with their Water STABs. However, do know that all pokemon mentioned except Azumarill get 2hkoed/ohkoed by one of its STABs

**Ground Types**: Ground Types such as Sand Rush Drill, Hippowdon, Gliscor, and Landorus T all check and are able to heavily damage if not ohko Diancie with their STABs. However, Rash variants of Mega Diancie either ohko or 2hko all of these pokemon mentioned.

**Grass Types**: Grass Types such as Mega Venusaur, Necturna, and Celebi all check Mega Diancie, being able to ohko it with their Grass STABs. However, Necturna does get 2hkoed by moonblast whether it's the defensive set or the sash sticky web set.

**Chansey**: Physically Defensive Eviolite Chansey can take every notable move Mega Diancie carries and can counter it with softboiled recovery and seismic toss for damage. However, when it's eviolite is knocked off, Diamond Storm 2hkoes it after stealth rocks.
0 Atk Mega Diancie Diamond Storm vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Chansey: 322-379 (45.7 - 53.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock.

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

Srry bout you having to comment on this. Yea, I'm really new at writing analyses. I only did this because I want to help CAP in some way, but after reading your post, I think i'm doing the opposite for you guys :/. I just felt useless not doing anything except battling in my favorite tier. Idk how to improve my writing. Maybe you or spark can help me with that since you always get good comments on your skeletons no matter what. For the speed control comment, cb told me to say that.

 

[KhosroTheGreat]

I'm sure you'll get used to writing analyses, Tech. You did pretty well on your first try, iirc.

I'd really recommend reading some other people's analyses - this gives you a bit of the style, format and content that should be used/included. Maybe you could even imitate analyses (what I mean by this is that you would sort of write in a similar style and format to other analyses that have been previously written - the content is obviously different because it's a different Pokemon). I know this helped me when I was starting to write analyses. I very much struggled with GP stuff initially (I still kinda do), but I think it gets better after the first analysis. Keep going at it - I'm sure you'll be happy with your own growth at the end. And, in addition, your battling ability also grows as you are able to apply your newfound knowledge and analysis of the metagame to your battles.

 

[sparktrain]

I'll be on PS later if you wanted to work on this in a piratepad or PM, Tech. I've found that working on analyses with others in real time is really helpful in terms of efficiency.

And don't be hard on yourself! There's a bunch of good information here, we just need to iron out some of the details before the second QC check.

 

[HeaLnDeaL]

Don't get too down about things. The comments are there to guide you towards what you need to do, so just try to take the criticism and use it to better your analysis. Everyone, even veteran writers here in CAP, still receives suggestions from QC when writing a new mon. The more you do, the more you'll get used to it.

Also, you need to post and say what you edited in the OP every time you edit it. I made my comments on Saturday, and on Sunday you edited it without telling us. If I didn't check the edit date then I would have had no idea you edited and thus were ready for more comments, etc.

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

implemented.

 

[cbrevan]

Hey tech, you got a good core of info and you got the formatting down, good job. Most of my suggestions are gonna be small stuff regarding mentions and examples.

Overview
- Just say the amazing coverage move is Earth Power, no need to make the reader guess.

(Set 1) Moves
- Toxicroak isn't really relevant at all (its very niche), so mention some more relevant Poison-types such as Mollux/Plasmanta
- Mention Diamond Storm has a guaranteed 2hko on Pyroak

(Set 1) Usage Tips
- Don't need to say the set name since its implied it AOA
- Fidgit sometimes runs Earth Power so I would hardly call it a safe switch in

(Set 1) Team Options
- You don't need to explain what Shed Shell does. Tell us what mons normally run Shed Shell (in Magnezone's case the only relevant ones are Skarmory and Ferrothorn)
- Magnezone can also check Water-types that may trouble Diancie, and Colossoil can provide Rapid Spin support.

(Set 2) Moves
- Don't need to say CAP and OU tiers, its just the CAP metagame
- I'm not sold on 95 base power really being a drawback when its the most powerful special fairy move outside of pixelate boosted Hyper Voice and 95 base power is pretty respectable in its own right. Moonblast's inability to ohko everything isn't that big of a deal since Rock Polish Diancie is a cleaner and relies on the other team being sufficiently weakened anyways.
- I'm not sure how Heatran, Jirachi, and Krillowat are 3 of the most relevant mons in CAP, they're relevant but there are a ton of things more relevant than they are (see: entire S and A+ ranks). If anything you should mention how Earth Power hits Metagross the hardest.


(Set 2) Set Details
- Natures are explained poorly, its hard to tell what you're actually talking about. You don't need to mention Mild at all, just that Rash gives Diancie more power while not making it more susceptible to priority attacks and Timid isn't needed due to Rock Polish.
- Don't need to mention how boosting Spde/Def is bad, just say extra evs go into hp for bulk and easier set up.

(Set 2) Usage Tips
- Diancie can be used early game to soften up walls such as Ferrothorn, Pyroak, Tomohawk, etc. You Rock Polish late game when Diancie's checks have been weakened enough for it to sweep.
- Against offensive teams that rely on speed to check Diancie, Rock Polish can be used to end the game
- Don't mention Malaconda

(Set 2) Team Options
- Mention what mons hold Shed Shell (Ferrothorn, Skamory)
- Powerful wallbreakers such as Manaphy, Kyurem-B, Hoopa-U, and Specs Volkraken can soften up the opposing team and allow Diancie to sweep.

Other Options
- Sharpen can be used to break through Chansey

Checks and Counters
- Mega Venusaur has to be wary of Psychic
- Every Chansey is physically defensive so you don't need to call it Physically Defensive Chansey.

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

implemented

 

[cbrevan]

Not much else for me to add, good job.

QC 2/3

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

implemented and working on making it into paragraphs

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

Put it in paragraph form

 

[sparktrain]

Hey BreloomMyHomie, my comments are in bold

[Overview]

Diancie has one of the best offensive typings in the CAP metagame and is commonly seen taking advantage of its high offensive stats, gaining a 50 60 (100->160) base stat boost in both Attack and Special Attack when it mega evolves. This makes Diancie capable of running a Mixed Set, rather than a fully Physical or Special Attacker. In addition to it's amazing typing and offensive base stats, it has an outstanding movepool. It has amazing STABs such as Diamond Storm and Moonblast and has Earth Power for a coverage move, allowing Diancie to hit Steel-Types. Furthermore, Diancie also has some excellent setup moves, the most notable being Rock Polish, allowing it to outspeed common weather abusers after it gets one up.

One of Diancie's main drawbacks is its terrible HP stat. While Diancie does have incredible defense stats in its base and mega form, it's HP stat, in a way, negates the high defenses it naturally has. In addition, it also has an awful speed stat of 50, which limits what Diancie can do before mega evolving. Furthermore, it's typing is pretty mediocre in terms of weaknesses. It's weak to Water, Ground, Grass, and has a Quad Weakness to Steel, limiting the amount of mons Diancie can actually switch into. (also leaves it susceptible to some common priority)

[Set]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: Moonblast
move 2: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
move 3: Diamond Storm
move 4: Protect / Hidden Power Fire
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Moonblast is arguably Diancie's best STAB since fairy is such a fantastic type in CAP. Furthermore, Earth Power and Moonblast is an extraordinary pair of moves as it covers so much of the tier. Moonblast is to nuke Dragon, Fighting, and Dark type pokemon such as Cyclohm, Hoopa Unbound, and Tomohawk, and Earth Power hits the types that do resist fairy for super effective damage, steel and poison (and Fire). Some steel and poison pokemon Earth Power KOs are Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta. Diamond Storm picks up KOs against flying type pokemon such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Pidgeot, and Talonflame. It also hurts fire types such as Mollux, Pyroak, and Volkraken. Mega Diancie lures bulky steel types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which it can 2HKO them with HP fire on the switch. Since its STABs are necessary, HP Fire could be replaced over Earth Power or Protect. However, losing that one speed IV will not let it speed tie with other base 110s. Finally, Protect is run on Diancie to get a free mega evolution and the speed boost it gets after it mega evolves. It's also used to scout what opposing choiced pokemon would like to lock itself into. On the other hand, because of how predictable protect is, HP Fire can be run over Protect, making this set a more deadly All-Out Attacker.

Set Details
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The EV spread is pretty simple and standard. Max Special Attack to increase Diancie's damage output with the Moonblast, Earth Power, and HP Fire. Mega Diancie tend to run max speed and a Speed-boosting nature on the All Out Attacker set to outspeed notable base 108s such as Keldeo and Terrakion. Naive nature preferred over Hasty to prevent it from taking more damage from physical attacks, especially priority moves such as Talonflame's Brave Bird, Mach Punch, and Sucker Punch.

Usage Tips
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If Diancie carries Protect over HP Fire on this set, always (I'd say "usually recommended" or something similar just to avoid absolute terms, as the opponent can take advantage of the free turn) lead off with it to get that Magic Bounce and speed boost. If running Protect, using it let's Diancie mega evolve safely, allowing it to attack next turn with its higher Speed stat. However, protect might also let the opponent set up for free, so be careful and try to judge if the opponent's Pokemon has any set up moves. If Diancie has HP Fire over Protect, mega evolve it on a pokemon it will have a good matchup on. Some pokemon Diancie has a good matchup on are Cyclohm, Talonflame, and Sableye. Furthermore, try and predict the steel types that normally check Diancie and bop them with HP Fire. In addition, because Mega Diancie is very frail, don't switch this into any pokemon that might have a super effective move. For example, don't switch Diancie on a Kitsunoh because it could be offensive with Meteor Mash instead of the predicted defensive set. (switching Diancie into Kitsunoh is a pretty bad idea anyway, Speed ties / EP damage rolls / Shadow Strike make this a shaky matchup for Diancie regardless). Only switch Diancie in on a favorable matchup. Some pokemon that Diancie can switch into safely are Talonflame, Mew, and Sableye.


Team Options:
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Magnezone checks Water Types that Diancie struggles with and Colossoil provides Rapid Spin support. (ik cbrevan suggested this part, but I don't really see why Rapid Spin support is required for Diancie; it's not particularly hazard weak and it has Magic Bounce. Colo's other benefits are more important to mention) Diancie can't (always) rely on its ability Magic Bounce to prevent hazards, simply because most hazard setters have a move that threatens Diancie out(EX:Ferrothorn). Colo+Mag is also a very well known Volt-Turn core to run in CAP. Mega Diancie can't hit steel types like Mega Scizor or Ferrothorn for an ample amount of damage without HP fire, so Magnezone is the perfect partner. With its magnet pull ability, it can trap (many/several) Steel types and harm them with HP fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap steel type pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is something to take into consideration. Shed Shell is used on Steel Types such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn to prevent them from being trapped by Magnet Pull. Colossoil, being able to lure those pokemon in, can knock off their shed shells so they have to make some predictions to prevent them from being trapped by Magnezone. Colossoil also baits in bulky steel types to come in and U-Turns so Magnezone can trap them and kill them with Hidden Power Fire for Mega Diancie to have a field day. Colossoil also U-Turns on the predicted Tomohawk switch, so Diancie will get a good matchup and be able to nuke something.
Another core that has Diancie is Diancie+Talonflame. The things that Diancie has trouble with are primarily steel types, which are taken care of with SD talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Gothitelle also pairs well with Diancie, seeing how it has trouble with the things Gothitelle usually traps such as Chansey, Mega Venusaur, and Amoonguss. Gothitelle can cripple Chansey by tricking its choiced item and Gothitelle 2hkos any variant of Mega Venu and Amoonguss with Psychic. Steel Type Checks such as Cyclohm, Mollux and Heatran are also great Diancie partners. (add Volk here too, it wallbreaks for Diancie and obliterates Steels including Heatran thanks to Water STAB, which is important if Diancie isn't running EP)


[Set]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Diamond Storm
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Rash
evs: 64 HP / 252 SpA / 192 Spe

Moves
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Rock Polish doubles Diancie's speed stat, allowing it to outspeed the majority of the tier, including weather abusers such as Mega Swampert, Kingdra, Tornadus T, and Excadrill. Moonblast is probably Diancie's most prevalent and optimal STAB, allowing it to kill Dragon, Dark, and Fighting types such as Mega Altaria, Cyclohm, Sableye, Keldeo, and Tomohawk.
Diamond Storm ohkoes common threats in the metagame such as Talonflame, Mollux, Mega Pinsir, Syclant, and both Mega Charizards. It also 2hkoes Pyroak as well as Aurumoth.
Earth Power is to hit Steel and Poison type pokemon that resist Moonblast such as Heatran, Mollux and Plasmanta. Hidden Power (Fire) can also be run on Diancie to get past Ferrothorns and lure in Scizors. However, running this other Earth Power will give up some power on Diancie against Metagross.

Set Details
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Max Special Attack with a Rash Nature maximizes Diancie's Moonblast and Earth Power damage output. Fairy+Ground Coverage is very solid in this Metagame, ground coverage being able to hit the Steel and Poison types that resist fairy. (this stuff goes under Moves) 192 Speed is specifically to outspeed Jolly Sand Rush Excadrill, the fastest weather abuser in the game, and almost always will ohko it with an Earth Power. There are 64 Speed EVs left, which should be put into HP because Diancie doesn't necessarily need investment to ohko Fire and Flying types with Diamond Storm, also giving Diancie some more bulk. Mild over Rash isn't bad either, but Mild makes diancie more suspectible to Physical Priority attacks, mainly Talonflame's Brave Bird and Arghonaut's Aqua Jet. Finally, it is not recommended to run a +Speed Nature due to Rock Polish.

[Usage Tips]
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It is not recommended to not Rock Polish right away.(due to the prevalence of Bullet Punch, bulky stuff that can wall it, etc) Diancie early game can soften up walls such as Ferrothorn, Pyroak, and Tomohawk, but it's certainly not an early game sweeper. A lot of beginners/inexperienced players do this with other pokemon such as Cawmodore and they die after being checked by Cyclohm and Zapdos. <- is this sentence needed Wait until all of Mega Diancie's checks/counters are gone or weakened and then use Rock Polish to clean up late game. When playing offensive teams that have no priority and rely on speed to beat Diancie, Rock Polish can be used to end them. Pick the right pokemon to set up on with Diancie. Some mons it can set up on are Revanankh, Aurumoth(way too shaky), Mew, and Sableye. Finally, due to Diancie's frailty, playing it safe is the best way to use it, especially when it's the win condition in a game.

Add in a statement about mega evolving as soon as Diancie gets an opportunity (it won't be as easy w/out protect) so it can take advantage of its increased Speed for revenge killing as well as Magic Bounce throughout the match.

[Team Options]
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Diancie+Talonflame is a well known hyper offense core because the things that Diancie has trouble with are primarily steel types, which are taken care of with SD Talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Nasty Plot Celebi baton passing to a RP Diancie is very scary, since an Earth Power ohkos Mega Metagross at +2. Just be careful of Bullet Punch. Furthermore, it can resist Ground and Water type attacks, two of Diancie's weaknesses. In addition, Steel Type checks are necessary so that Diancie can be preserved until all of its checks are gone so that it can sweep late game. Some Steel Type checks are Mollux, Heatran, and Cyclohm (Volk here too, good wallbreaker + momentum grabber with U-turn). Lastly, with it's magnet pull ability, Magnezone can trap (many/several) Steel types and harm them with HP fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap steel type pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is definitely an item Steel Types tend to run, preventing Magnezone from trapping holders. Notable Shed Shell users are Skarmory and Ferrothorn.

[Strategy Comments]
Other Options
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Calm Mind Diancie can shut down balanced teams if used correctly, but with threats like Syclant, Scarfed Volkraken, Scizor and Ferrothorn lying around, it makes CM Diancie sweeping a lot harder. Psychic can be used over Protect on the All Out Attacker set to hit Venusaur for super effective damage. However, Hidden Power Fire is a more viable coverage move to run. Heal Bell is a great utility move Diancie can use; However, pokemon such as Cyclohm and Chansey fit the role better. Diancie forces switches pretty well, so it can use Stealth Rock to get hazards up easily. Sharpen is a very cool move to run on Diancie, because it 2HKOes Chansey one of its usual counters, with +1 Diamond Storm. Magnet Rise can be used to handle mons that rely on their ground coverage to beat Diancie such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Colossoil, and Garchomp. A regular Diancie set with screens, rocks, and TR is okay, but generally outclassed by Fidgit, Azelf, and Klefki. (remove screens + Klefki mention imo, TR + competition with Persistent Fidgit is the more important point here)


Checks and Counters
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**Steel Types**: Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Scizor, and Skarmory (emphasis on sdef skarm, physically defensive skarm is much shakier) can check Diancie with a steel stab and fully wall them unless Diancie has HP Fire. Also, be careful of some non-Steel types that have notable steel moves worth considering. (EX: Mega Medicham's Bullet Punch.)
Some additions:

• Mega Metagross - tanks Earth Power once if necessary, Bullet Punch OHKOes
• Jirachi - SDef variants wall Diancie completely, offensive variants can tank Earth Power once, Iron Head OHKOes regardless of Jirachi's Atk investment
• Cawmodore - outspeeds and threatens with Steel STAB, healthy Cawmodore can use non-HP Fire Diancie as setup bait

**Water Types**: Because Mega Diancie is so frail with its low HP stat, all viable water type pokemon such as Krilowatt, Scarf Volkraken, Scarf Keldeo, Azumarill, Rotom Wash, and Slowbro can easily ohko Diancie with their Water STABs. However, do know that all pokemon mentioned except Azumarill get 2hkoed/ohkoed by one of its STABs

**Ground Types**: Ground Types such as Sand Rush Drill (bulky Exca tanks EP, so it works too), Hippowdon, Gliscor, and Landorus T all check and are able to heavily damage if not ohko Diancie with their STABs. However, Rash variants of Mega Diancie either ohko or 2hko all of these pokemon mentioned.

**Grass Types**: Grass Types such as Mega Venusaur, Necturna, and Celebi all check Mega Diancie, being able to ohko it with their Grass STABs. However, Necturna does get 2hkoed by Moonblast, whether it's the defensive set or the sash sticky web set. (imo "most variants of Necturna are 2HKOed by Moonblast" could work here since it references more sets) In addition, Venusaur does have to be cautious of Psychic variants. (Serp is a good check as well, as it outspeeds, threatens an OHKO with Leaf Storm, and can tank Moonblast once if necessary)

**Chansey**: Eviolite Chansey can take every notable move Mega Diancie carries and can counter it with Softboiled recovery and seismic toss. However, it can get past it with Sharpen, or just knocking off it's Eviolite since Diamond Storm will 2HKO it after either of those choices. (This could be misinterpreted as Diancie knocking off Chansey's Eviolite, change this to "Diamond Storm is a 2HKO if Chansey's Eviolite has been removed" or something along those lines. Mention this before Sharpen since it's more relevant)

Perhaps make a section for specially bulky mons with Chansey included (Clefable, Sylveon, etc) since they can all wall Diancie if they're healthy enough.

Address this stuff then take it to GP, good work QC 3/3

 

[BreloomMyHomie]

thanks sparky, ready for GP :]

 

[Lumari]

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diancie

[Overview] [OVERVIEW]

Diancie has one of the best offensive typings in the CAP metagame and is commonly seen taking advantage of its high offensive stats, gaining a 60 base stat boost in of 60 to both its base Attack and Special Attack when it Mega Evolves. This makes Diancie capable of running a Mixed Set mixed set, rather than a fully physical or special Attacker one. In addition to it's its amazing typing and offensive base stats, it has an outstanding movepool, (AC) It has with amazing STAB moves such as Diamond Storm and Moonblast and has Earth Power for a coverage move, allowing Diancie to hit Steel-types. Furthermore, Diancie also has some excellent setup moves, the most notable being Rock Polish, allowing it to outspeed common weather abusers sweepers after it gets one up.

One of Diancie's main drawbacks is its terrible HP stat. While Diancie does have incredible defense stats in its base and Mega forme, its HP stat, in a way, negates the its naturally high defenses it naturally has. In addition, it also has an awful base Speed stat of 50, which limits what Diancie can do before mega evolving. Furthermore, it's its typing is pretty mediocre in terms of weaknesses defensively. It's weak to Water, Ground, and Grass(RC) and has a Quad quadruple weakness to Steel, limiting the amount of mons number of Pokemon Diancie can actually switch into and makes making it more susceptible to common priority such as Aqua Jet and Bullet Punch.
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[Set] [SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Moonblast
move 2: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
move 3: Diamond Storm
move 4: Protect / Hidden Power Fire
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Moonblast is arguably Diancie's best STAB since fairy move because Fairy is such a fantastic type in CAP. Furthermore, Earth Power and Moonblast is form an extraordinary pair of moves, (AC) as it covers so much of the tier. Moonblast is used to nuke Dragon-, Fighting-, and Dark-type (add hyphens) Pokemon such as Cyclohm, Hoopa Unbound Hoopa-U, and Tomohawk, and Earth Power hits the types that do resist Fairy for super effective damage: Steel, Poison, and Fire. Some Steel- and Poison-type (add hyphens) Pokemon that Earth Power KOes are Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta. Diamond Storm picks up KOs against flying type Flying-type pokemon such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Pidgeot, and Talonflame. It also hurts fire types Fire-types such as Mollux, Pyroak, and Volkraken. Mega Diancie lures bulky steel types Steel-types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which it can 2HKO them with HP fire Hidden Power Fire on the switch. Since its STAB moves are necessary, HP Hidden Power Fire could be replaced used over Earth Power or Protect. However, losing that one speed IV will not let it speed tie cause Mega Diancie to lose out on Speed tying with other base 110s. Finally, Protect is run on Diancie to get a free Mega Evolution and the resulting Speed boost it gets after it mega evolves. It's also used to scout what move opposing choiced pokemon Choice item users would like to lock itself themselves into. On the other hand, because of how predictable Protect is, HP Hidden Power Fire can be run over Protect, making this set a more deadly all-out attacker.

Set Details
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The EV spread is pretty simple and standard. Maximum Special Attack to increase Diancie's damage output with the Moonblast, Earth Power, and HP Hidden Power Fire. Mega Diancie tend to run max speed maximum Speed and a Speed-boosting nature on the All-out (add hyphen) Attacker set to outspeed notable base 108s such as Keldeo and Terrakion. A Naive nature is preferred over Hasty to prevent it from taking more damage from physical attacks, especially priority moves such as Talonflame's Brave Bird, Mach Punch, and Sucker Punch.

Usage Tips
========
If Diancie carries Protect over HP Hidden Power Fire on this set, it's usually recommended to lead off with it to immediately get that Magic Bounce and the Speed boost. If running Protect, using it let's Protect should be used to let Diancie Mega Evolve safely, allowing it to attack next turn with its higher Speed stat. However, protect it might also let the opponent set up for free, so be careful and try to judge if the opponent's Pokemon has any set up moves. If Diancie has HP Hidden Power Fire over Protect, Mega Evolve it on a Pokemon it will have a good matchup on against, (comma) such as Cyclohm, Talonflame, or Sableye. Some pokemon Diancie has a good matchup on are Cyclohm, Talonflame, and Sableye. Furthermore, try and to predict the steel types Steel-types that normally check Diancie and bop them with HP Hidden Power Fire. In addition, because Mega Diancie is very frail, don't switch this into any Pokemon that might have a super effective move. Only switch Diancie in on a favorable matchup. Some Pokemon that Diancie can switch into safely are Talonflame, Mew, and Sableye.


Team Options:
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Magnezone checks Water-types (add hyphen) that Diancie struggles with, (AC) and Colossoil beats Steel-types that Diancie can't ohko OHKO with Earth Power such as Jirachi. Diancie can't always rely on its ability Magic Bounce to prevent entry hazards, simply because most hazard setters have a move that threatens Diancie out, (comma)(EX:Ferrothorn) such as Ferrothorn's Gyro Ball / Iron Head. (idk) Colo+Mag Colossoil + Magnezone is also a very well-known (add hyphen) Volt-Turn core to run in CAP. Mega Diancie can't hit Steel-types (add hyphen) like Mega Scizor or and Ferrothorn for an ample amount of damage without Hidden Power Fire, so Magnezone is the perfect partner, (AC) With as it can use its Magnet Pull ability, it to can trap several Steel-types (add hyphen) and harm them with Hidden Power Fire HP fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-type (add hyphen) Pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is something to take into consideration. Shed Shell is often used on Steel-types (add hyphen) such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn to prevent them from being trapped by Magnet Pull. Colossoil, being able to lure those Pokemon in, can knock off remove their Shed Shells with Knock Off so they have to make some predictions to prevent them from being trapped by Magnezone. Colossoil and also baits in bulky Steel-types to come in and U-Turns so bring in Magnezone with U-turn can trap them and kill them with Hidden Power Fire for Mega Diancie to have a field day. Colossoil also U-turns on the predicted Tomohawk switch (RC) so Diancie will get a good matchup and be able to nuke something heavily damage a foe.
Another potential core that has Diancie is Diancie + Talonflame. (add spaces) The things threats that Diancie has trouble with are primarily Steel-types, (add hyphen) which are taken care of with SD Swords Dance Talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Gothitelle also pairs well with Diancie, seeing how it has trouble with the things threats Gothitelle usually traps, (AC) such as Chansey, Mega Venusaur, and Amoonguss. Gothitelle can cripple Chansey by Tricking its choiced Choice item and Gothitelle 2hkos 2HKOes any variant of Mega Venusaur and Amoonguss with Psychic. Steel-type checks such as Cyclohm, Mollux, Heatran, and Volkraken are also great Diancie partners.


[Set] [SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Diamond Storm
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Rash
evs: 64 HP / 252 SpA / 192 Spe

Moves
========
Rock Polish doubles Diancie's Speed stat, allowing it to outspeed the majority of the tier metagame, including weather abusers sweepers such as Mega Swampert, Kingdra, Tornadus-T, (add hyphen) and Excadrill. Moonblast is probably Mega Diancie's most prevalent (prevalent = common, you can't possibly mean that... pick something more appropriate) and optimal STAB move, allowing it to kill Dragon-, Dark-, and Fighting-types (add hyphens) such as Mega Altaria, Cyclohm, Sableye, Keldeo, and Tomohawk. Earth Power is used to hit Steel- and Poison-type (add hyphens) Pokemon that resist Moonblast, (AC) such as Heatran, Mollux, (AC) and Plasmanta. Fairy + Ground (add spaces) coverage is very solid in this metagame, with Ground coverage being able to hit the Steel- and Poison-types (add hyphens) that resist Fairy. (probably should axe this one cause you've pretty much said this already)
Diamond Storm ohkoes OHKOes common threats in the metagame such as Talonflame, Mollux, Mega Pinsir, Syclant, and both Mega Charizard formes. It also 2hkoes 2HKOes Pyroak as well as Aurumoth. Hidden Power Fire can also be run on Diancie to get past Ferrothorns Ferrothorn and lure in Scizors Scizor. However, running this over Earth Power will give up some power on Diancie against Metagross.

Set Details
========
Maximum Special Attack investment with a Rash Nature maximizes Diancie's Moonblast and Earth Power special moves' damage output. 192 Speed is specifically to outspeed Jolly Sand Rush Excadrill, the fastest weather abuser sweeper in the game, and almost always will ohko OHKO it with an Earth Power. There are 64 Speed EVs left, which should be put into HP because Diancie doesn't necessarily need Attack investment to ohko OHKO Fire- and Flying-types (ad hyphens) with Diamond Storm, also giving Diancie some more bulk. Mild over Rash isn't bad either, but Mild this makes Diancie more suspectible to physical priority attacks, mainly Talonflame's Brave Bird and Arghonaut's Aqua Jet. (what's the upside? If there's no reason to use it, why mention it?) Finally, it is not recommended to run a +Speed Nature Speed-boosting nature due to Rock Polish rendering this unnecessary. (or w/e)

Usage Tips (remove brackets)
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It is not recommended to not set up Rock Polish right away due to the prevalence of Bullet Punch users and simply just common Pokemon that wall it Mega Diancie indefinitely. Diancie Early-game, (add hyphen and comma) it can soften up walls such as Ferrothorn, Pyroak, and Tomohawk, but it's certainly not an early-game (add hyphen) sweeper. Wait until all of Mega Diancie's checks and counters are gone or weakened, (AC) and then use Rock Polish to clean up late-game. (add hyphen) When playing offensive teams that have no priority and rely on speed to beat Diancie, Rock Polish can be used to end them. Pick the right Pokemon to set up on with Diancie, (comma) Some mons it can set up on are such as Revanankh, Mew, and or Sableye. These are also some Pokemon that you should Mega Evolve on, since as first priority when using Rock Polish Diancie is to find an opportunity to do that so that it can take advantage of its increased Speed for revenge killing as well as getting the Magic Bounce for the entirety of the game. (I kinda don't get what this sentence is getting at; do you mean you should generally try to Mega Evolve and boost on the same turn? Either way, this could use some more clarity) Finally, due to Diancie's frailty, playing it safe is the best way to use it, especially when it's the win condition wincon in a game.

Team Options (remove brackets)
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Diancie + Talonflame (space) is a well-known (add hyphen) hyper offense core because the things that Diancie primarily has trouble with are primarily Steel-types, which are taken care of with SD by Swords Dance Talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Nasty Plot Celebi Baton Passing Nasty Plot boosts to a RP Rock Polish Diancie is can make it very scary threatening, since an because Earth Power ohkos OHKOes Mega Metagross at +2. Just be careful of Bullet Punch. Furthermore, it can resist Celebi resists Ground- and Water-type (add hyphen) attacks, two of Diancie's weaknesses. In addition, Steel-type (add hyphen) checks are necessary so that Diancie can be preserved until all of its checks are gone so that it and can sweep late-game. (add hyphen) Some Steel Type checks Good options are Mollux, Heatran, Volkraken, and Cyclohm. Lastly, with it's magnet pull its Magnet Pull ability, Magnezone can trap many Steel-types (add hyphen) and harm them with HP fire Hidden Power Fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-type pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is definitely an item Steel-types (add hyphen) tend to run, preventing Magnezone from trapping holders them reliably. Notable Shed Shell users are Skarmory and Ferrothorn.

[Strategy Comments] [STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
========
A Calm Mind set Diancie can shut down balanced teams if used correctly, but with threats like Syclant, Scarfed Choice Scarf Volkraken, Scizor and Ferrothorn lying around, it makes CM Diancie sweeping becomes a lot harder. Psychic can be used over Protect on the All-out (add hyphen) Attacker set to hit Venusaur for super effective damage. However, Hidden Power Fire is a more viable coverage move to run. Heal Bell is a great utility move Mega Diancie can use; however, Pokemon such as Cyclohm and Chansey fit the role better. Diancie forces switches pretty well, so it can use Stealth Rock to get entry hazards up easily. Sharpen is a very cool move to run on Diancie, because it 2HKOes Chansey, (AC) one of its usual counters, with +1 Diamond Storm. Magnet Rise can be used to handle mons Pokemon that rely on their ground Ground-type coverage to beat Diancie, (AC) such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Colossoil, and Garchomp. A regular Diancie set with rocks and TR Stealth Rock and Trick Room is okay usable, but Fidgit overall just outclasses that set in both aspects.


Checks and Counters
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**Steel-types**: (add hyphen, do so throughout) Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Scizor, and specially defensive Skarmory can check Mega Diancie with a steel stab Steel-type STAB move and fully wall them unless Diancie has HP Fire non-Hidden Power Fire variants. In adidtion addition, Mega Metagross and Cawmodore both threaten Diancie with their Steel STAB moves, (AC) and Cawmodore uses non-Hidden (add hyphen)Power Fire sets as setup bait. Specially defensive Jirachi just walls the all-out attacker (remove hyphen) set completely, and offensive sets can take one Earth Power too and ohko it OHKO Mega Diancie regardless of its Attack investment. Also Additionally, be careful of some non-Steel-types (add hyphen) that have notable are known to run Steel-type coverage moves, (AC) worth considering such as Mega Medicham's Bullet Punch.

**Water-types**: Because Mega Diancie is so frail with its low HP stat, all viable Water-type (add hyphen) pokemon such as Krilowatt, Choice Scarf Volkraken, Choice Scarf Keldeo, Azumarill, Rotom-Wash, (add hyphen) and Slowbro can easily OHKO Diancie with their Water STAB moves. However, do know that all Pokemon mentioned except Azumarill get 2hkoed/ohkoed OHKOed or 2HKOed by one of its Mega Diancie's STAB moves

**Ground-types**: Ground-types (add hyphen) such as Sand Rush and bulky Excadrill, Hippowdon, Gliscor, and Landorus-T (add hyphen) all check and are able to heavily damage if not OHKO Diancie with their STAB moves. However, Rash variants of Mega Diancie either ohko or 2hko OHKO or 2HKO all of these Pokemon mentioned.

**Grass-types**: Grass-types (add hyphen) such as Mega Venusaur, Necturna, Celebi, and Serperior all check Mega Diancie, being able to ohko OHKO it with their Grass STAB moves. However, most variants of Necturna does get 2HKOed by Moonblast. In addition, Venusaur does have to be cautious of Psychic variants.

**Chansey**: Eviolite Chansey can take every notable move Mega Diancie carries and can counter it by recovering off damage with Soft-Boiled recovery and hitting it with Seismic Toss. However, Diamond Storm is a 2HKO 2HKOes Diancie if its Eviolite has been removed. Diancie also can get past it with Sharpen.

 

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[OVERVIEW]

Diancie has one of the best offensive typings in the CAP metagame Metagame and is commonly seen taking advantage of its high offensive stats, gaining a boost of 60 to both its base Attack and Special Attack when it Mega Evolves. This makes Mega Diancie capable of running a mixed Set, set rather than a fully physical or special one. In addition to its amazing typing and offensive stats, it has an outstanding movepool, with amazing STAB moves such as Diamond Storm and Moonblast and Earth Power for coverage to hit Steel-types. Furthermore, Mega Diancie also has some excellent setup moves, the most notable being most notably Rock Polish, allowing which allows it to outspeed common weather sweepers after it gets one up a single use.

One of Mega Diancie's main drawbacks is its terrible HP stat. While Diancie does have incredible defense stats Defense and Special Defense in both its Base base and Mega formes, its HP stat, in a way, negates its naturally high defenses those stats. In addition, its base forme also has an awful based 50 Speed stat of 50, which limits what Diancie can do before mega evolving Mega Evolving. Furthermore, its typing is pretty mediocre defensively, wich a quadruple weakness to Steel as well as. It's weaknesses to Water, Ground, and Grass and has a quadruple weakness to Steel, limiting the number of Pokemon that Diancie can actually switch into and making it more susceptible to common priority moves such as Aqua Jet and Bullet Punch.

[SET]
name: All-out All-Out Attacker
move 1: Moonblast
move 2: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
move 3: Diamond Storm
move 4: Protect / Hidden Power Fire
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Moonblast is arguably Diancie's best STAB move because Fairy is such a fantastic type in the CAP metagame. Furthermore, Earth Power and Moonblast form an extraordinary pair of moves, as it they covers so much of the tier. Moonblast is used to nuke take down (I personally don't like "nuke" but it's up to you) Dragon-, Fighting-, and Dark-type Pokemon such as Cyclohm, Hoopa-U, and Tomohawk, and Earth Power hits all the types that do resist Fairy for super effective damage. Some Steel- and Poison-type Pokemon that Earth Power KOes are Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta. Diamond Storm picks up KOs against Flying-type pokemon Pokemon such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Pidgeot, (Vulpix...!) and Talonflame. It also hurts Fire-(remove space)types such as Mollux, Pyroak, and Volkraken. Mega Diancie lures bulky Steel-types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which it can 2HKO with Hidden Power Fire on the switch. Since its STAB moves are necessary, Hidden Power Fire could be used over Earth Power or Protect. However, losing that one speed IV will cause Mega Diancie to lose out on speed tying with other base 110s. Finally, Protect is run to get a free safely Mega Evolution Evolve and the resulting Speed boost. It's also used to scout what move opposing Choice item users would like to ultimately lock themselves into. On the other hand, because of how predictable Protect is, Hidden Power Fire can be run over Protect instead, making this set a more deadly all-out attacker. Hidden Power Fire can also be used over Earth Power, though Mega Diancie needs both of its STAB moves. Mega Diancie lures bulky Steel-types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which it can 2HKO with Hidden Power Fire on the switch. However, losing that one Speed IV will cause Mega Diancie to lose out on Speed tying with other base 110 Speed Pokemon. (This was a better place for it)

Set Details
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The EV spread is pretty simple and standard. Maximum Special Attack to EVs increase Diancie's damage output with Moonblast, Earth Power, and Hidden Power Fire. Mega Diancie tend to should run maximum speed Speed EVs and a Speed-boosting nature on the All-out Attacker set to outspeed notable base 108s Speed Pokemon such as Keldeo and Terrakion.(space)A Naive nature is preferred over Hasty to prevent it Mega Diancie from taking more damage from physical attacks, especially priority moves such as Talonflame's Brave Bird, (who's?) Mach Punch, and (who's?) Sucker Punch.

Usage Tips
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If Diancie carries running Protect over Hidden Power Fire on this set, it's usually recommended to lead off with it immediately Diancie to get obtain Magic Bounce and the Speed boost. Protect should be used to let Diancie Mega Evolve safely, allowing it to attack next turn with its higher Speed stat. However, it might also let the opponent foe set up for free, so be careful and try to judge if the opponent's Pokemon has any set(remove space)up moves. If Diancie has Hidden Power Fire over Protect, Mega Evolve it on against a pokemon foe that it has will have a good matchup against, such as Cyclohm, Talonflame, or Mega Sableye. Furthermore, try to predict the Steel-types that normally check Mega Diancie and bop surprise them with Hidden Power Fire. In addition, because Mega Diancie is very fairly (in the overview, you imply that Mega Diancie's bulk, while not great, isn't terrible) frail, don't switch this it into any Pokemon that might have a super effective move. (Do you mean when you send Diancie in initially? If so, it'll still be in its base forme) Only switch Mega Diancie in on a favorable matchup. Some Pokemon that Diancie can switch into safely are against foes like Talonflame, Mew, and Sableye.


Team Options:
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Magnezone checks Water-types that Mega Diancie struggles with, and Colossoil beats Steel-types that Mega Diancie can't OHKO with Earth Power such as Jirachi. Mega Diancie can't always rely on its ability Magic Bounce to prevent entry hazards, simply because most setters have a move that threatens Diancie it out, such as Ferrothorn's Gyro Ball / or Iron Head. (So what should you run to compensate for this?) Colossoil(space)+(space)Magnezone is also a very well-known Volt-(RH)Turn core to run in CAP that works especially well here. Mega Diancie can't hit Steel-types like Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn for an ample amount of damage without Hidden Power Fire, so Magnezone is the perfect partner, as it can use its Magnet Pull ability to trap several Steel-types and harm hurt them with its own Hidden Power Fire. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-types Pokemon for Mega Diancie, Shed Shell is often used on Steel-Types Steel-types such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn often run Shed Shell (do you really need these examples?) to prevent themselves from being trapped by Magnet Pull. Colossoil, being able to lure those Pokemon in, can remove their Shed Shells with Knock Off and also baits in bulky Steel-types to bring in Magnezone with U-Turn U-turn. Colossoil can also U-Turns use U-turn on the a predicted Tomohawk switch-in so that Mega Diancie will can get a good matchup and be able to heavily damage a foe either Tomohawk or whatever it switches to.
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Another potential core teammate is Diancie + Talonflame. The threats that Mega Diancie has trouble with are primarily Steel-types, which are taken care of with Swords Dance Talonflame takes care of. Furthermore, Mega Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Gothitelle also pairs well with Mega Diancie, seeing how it as Mega Diancie has trouble with the threats that Gothitelle usually traps, such as Chansey, Mega Venusaur, and Amoonguss. Gothitelle can cripple Chansey by Tricking its Choice item onto it and 2HKOes any variant of Mega Venusaur and Amoonguss with Psychic. Steel-type checks such as Cyclohm, Mollux, Heatran, and Volkraken are also great Diancie partners for Mega Diancie.


[SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Diamond Storm
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Rash
evs: 64 HP / 252 SpA / 192 Spe

Moves
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Rock Polish doubles Mega Diancie's Speed stat, allowing it to outspeed the majority of the metagame, including weather sweepers such as Mega Swampert, Kingdra, Tornadus-T, and Excadrill. Moonblast is probably Mega Diancie's most prominent and optimal STAB move, allowing it to kill KO Dragon-, Dark-, and Fighting-types such as Mega Altaria, Cyclohm, Mega Sableye, Keldeo, and Tomohawk. Earth Power is used to hit Steel- and Poison-types Pokemon that resist Moonblast, such as Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta. (remove line break) Diamond Storm OHKOes common threats such as Talonflame, Mollux, Mega Pinsir, Syclant, and both Mega Charizard formes. It also 2HKOes Pyroak as well as and Aurumoth. Hidden Power Fire can also be run on Diancie to get past Ferrothorn and lure in (Mega Diancie does the luring, not the move) Mega Scizor. However, running this it over Earth Power will give up some power on against Mega Metagross (what about the other threats that EP hits?).

Set Details
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Maximum Special Attack investment with a Rash Nature nature maximizes the damage output of Mega Diancie's special moves' damage output. Because this set uses Rock Polish, a Naive nature is not necessary. 192 Speed is specifically EVs are used to outspeed Jolly Sand Rush Excadrill, the fastest weather sweeper in the game, at +2 and almost always will OHKO it with an Earth Power. There are remaining 64 Speed EVs left, which should be put into HP because Mega Diancie doesn't necessarily need Attack investment to OHKO Fire- and Flying-types with Diamond Storm. Finally, it is not recommended to run a Speed-boosting nature due to Rock Polish rendering this unnecessary.

Usage Tips
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It is not recommended that set up Rock Polish right away due to the prevalence of Bullet Punch users and simply just common Pokemon that wall Mega Diancie indefinitely completely. Early-game, it can soften up walls such as Ferrothorn, Pyroak, and Tomohawk, but it's certainly not an early-game sweeper. Wait until all of Mega Diancie's checks and counters are gone or weakened, and then use Rock Polish to clean up late-game. When playing against offensive teams that have no priority users and rely on speed Speed to beat Mega Diancie, Rock Polish can be used to end them. Pick the right Pokemon to set up on with Mega Diancie, such as Revanankh, Mew, or Mega Sableye. Try to find a way to Mega Evolve and boost on the same turn, usually against a slower Pokemon that Mega Diancie can easily knock out KO. Finally, due to Mega Diancie's frailty, playing it safe is the best way to use it, especially when it's the wincon in a game on your team.

Team Options
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Mega Diancie + Talonflame is a well known hyper offense core because Mega Diancie primarily has trouble with Steel-types, which are taken care of by Swords Dance Talonflame. Furthermore, Mega Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. (In the future, don't copy/paste stuff like this.) Celebi can Baton Passing Nasty Plot boosts to a Rock Polish Mega Diancie can to make it very threatening, because an with Earth Power OHKOes OHKOing Mega Metagross at +2. Just be careful of Bullet Punch users. Furthermore, Celebi resists Ground- and Water-type attacks, covering two of Mega Diancie's weaknesses. In addition, Steel-type checks such as Mollux, Heatran, Volkraken, and Cyclohm are necessary so that Mega Diancie can be preserved until all of its checks are gone and it can therefore sweep late-game. Good options are Mollux, Heatran, Volkraken, and Cyclohm. Lastly, with its Thanks to Magnet Pull ability, Magnezone can trap many Steel-types and harm hit them with Hidden Power Fire, enabling Mega Diancie to have an easier time nuking sweeping the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-type Pokemon for Mega Diancie, Shed Shell is definitely an item Steel-types tend to run Shed Shell, most notably Skarmory and Ferrothorn, preventing Magnezone from trapping them reliably. Notable Shed Shell users are Skarmory and Ferrothorn.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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A Calm Mind set can shut down balanced teams if used correctly, but with threats like Syclant, Choice Scarf Volkraken, Mega Scizor, (AC) and Ferrothorn lying around, sweeping a lot harder with it is quite difficult. Psychic can be used over Protect on the All-out All-Out Attacker set to hit Mega Venusaur for super effective damage. However, Hidden Power Fire is generally a more viable coverage move to run. Heal Bell is a great utility move that Mega Diancie can use; however, bulkier Pokemon such as Cyclohm and Chansey fit the role of a cleric better. Mega Diancie forces switches pretty well, so it can set up use Stealth Rock to get entry hazards up easily. Sharpen is a very cool move to run on Diancie, because Mega Diancie it 2HKOes Chansey, one of its usual counters, with +1 Diamond Storm. Magnet Rise can be used to handle Pokemon that rely on their Ground-type coverage attacks to beat Mega Diancie such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Colossoil, and Garchomp. A regular Diancie set with Stealth Rock and Trick Room is usable, but Fidgit overall just outclasses that set in both aspects.


Checks and Counters
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**Steel-types**: Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and specially defensive Skarmory can check Mega Diancie with a Steel-type STAB move and fully wall non-Hidden Power Fire variants. In addition, Mega Metagross and Cawmodore both threaten Diancie with their Steel-type STAB moves, and Cawmodore uses non-Hidden Power Fire sets as setup bait. Specially defensive Jirachi walls the all-out-attacker All-Out Attacker set completely, and offensive sets can take one Earth Power and OHKO Mega Diancie regardless of its Jirachi's Attack investment. Additionally, be careful of some non-Steel-types that are known to run Steel-type coverage moves, such as Mega Medicham, which runs's Bullet Punch.

**Water-types**: Because Mega Diancie is so fairly frail, all viable Water-type pokemon Pokemon such as Krilowatt, Choice Scarf Volkraken, Choice Scarf Keldeo, Azumarill, Rotom-W, and Slowbro can easily OHKO Diancie it with their STAB moves. However, do know that all of Pokemon mentioned except Azumarill get OHKOed or 2HKOed by one of Mega Diancie's STAB moves.

**Ground-types**: Ground-types such as Sand Rush and bulky Drill Excadrill, Hippowdon, Gliscor, and Landorus-T all check Mega Diancie and are able to heavily damage if not OHKO Diancie or even OHKO it with their STAB moves. However, Rash variants of Mega Diancie can either OHKO or 2HKO all of these Pokemon.

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur, Necturna, Celebi, and Serperior all check Mega Diancie, being able to OHKO it with their STAB moves. However, most variants of Necturna do get 2HKOed by Moonblast. In addition, Mega Venusaur does have has to be cautious of Psychic variants.

**Chansey**: Eviolite Chansey can take every notable move Mega Diancie carries and can counter it by recovering off damage with Soft-Boiled and hitting it with Seismic Toss. (period) However, Diamond Storm 2HKOes Chansey if its Eviolite has been removed. Mega Diancie also can get past it Chansey with Sharpen.

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Diancie has one of the best offensive typings in the CAP metagame and is commonly seen taking advantage of its high offensive stats, gaining a boost of 60 to both its base Attack and Special Attack when it Mega Evolves. This makes Mega Diancie capable of running a mixed set rather than a fully physical or special one. In addition to its amazing typing and offensive stats, it has an outstanding movepool, with amazing STAB moves such as Diamond Storm and Moonblast and Earth Power for coverage to hit Steel-types.no need for both of these terms Furthermore, Mega Diancie also has some excellent setup moves, most notably Rock Polish, which allows it to outspeed common weather sweepers after a single use.

One of Mega Diancie's main drawbacks is its terrible HP stat. While Diancie does have incredible Defense and Special Defense in both its base and Mega formes, its HP, in a way, negates its those stats. In addition, its base forme has an awful base 50 Speed before Mega Evolving, which limits what Diancie can do before Mega Evolving. Furthermore, its typing is pretty mediocre defensively, with a quadruple weakness to Steel as well as weaknesses to Water, Ground, and Grass, limiting the number of Pokemon that Diancie can actually switch into and making it more susceptible to common priority moves such as Aqua Jet and Bullet Punch.

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: Moonblast
move 2: Earth Power / Hidden Power Fire
move 3: Diamond Storm
move 4: Protect / Hidden Power Fire
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Moonblast is arguably Diancie's best STAB move because Fairy is such a fantastic type in the CAP metagame. Furthermore, Earth Power and Moonblast form an extraordinary pair of moves, as they cover so much of the tier. Moonblast is used to take down Dragon-, Fighting-, and Dark-type Pokemon such as Cyclohm, Hoopa-U, and Tomohawk, and Earth Power hits all the types that resist Fairy for super effective damage. Some Steel- and Poison-type Pokemon that Earth Power KOes are Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta. Diamond Storm picks up KOs against Flying-type Pokemon such as Mega Pinsir, Mega Pidgeot, and Talonflame. It also hurts Fire-types such as Mollux, Pyroak, and Volkraken. Finally, Protect is run to safely Mega Evolve and obtain the resulting Speed boost. It's also used to scout what move opposing Choice item users ultimately lock themselves into. On the other hand, because of how predictable Protect is, Hidden Power Fire can be run instead, making this set a more deadly all-out attacker. Hidden Power Fire can also be used over Earth Power, thought Mega Diancie needs both of its STAB moves to differentiate itself from [other attacker] or "to fill its niche" . Mega Diancie lures bulky Steel-types in such as Ferrothorn and Scizor, which it can 2HKO with Hidden Power Fire on the switch. Since Because its STAB moves are necessary, Hidden Power Fire could be used over Earth Power or Protect. However, losing that one Speed IV will cause Mega Diancie to lose out on in Speed ties tying with other base 110 Speed Pokemon.

Set Details
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Maximum Special Attack EVs increase Diancie's damage output with Moonblast, Earth Power, and Hidden Power Fire. Mega Diancie should run maximum Speed EVs and a Speed-boosting nature to outspeed notable with the examples there's no need for this base 108 Speed Pokemon such as Keldeo and Terrakion. A Naive nature is preferred over Hasty to prevent Mega Diancie from taking more damage from physical attacks, especially priority moves such as Talonflame's Brave Bird, Breloom's Mach Punch, and Colossoil's Sucker Punch.

Usage Tips
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If running Protect over Hidden Power Fire, it's usually recommended to lead with Diancie to obtain Magic Bounce and the Speed boost. Protect should be used to let Diancie Mega Evolve safely, allowing it to attack next turn with its higher Speed stat. However, it might also let the foe to set up for free, so try to judge if the opponent's Pokemon has any setup moves. If Diancie has Hidden Power Fire over Protect, Mega Evolve against a foe that it has a good matchup against, such as Cyclohm, Talonflame, or Mega Sableye. Furthermore, try to predict the Steel-types that normally check Diancie and bop them with Hidden Power Fire. No, absolutely not, do not use "bop" in an analysis. Replace bop with 'hit' or 'attack' or ANYTHING else In addition, because Mega Diancie is very frail, don't switch it this into any Pokemon that might have be able to hit it with a super effective move. Only switch Diancie in on a favorable matchup. Some Pokemon that Diancie can switch into safely are Talonflame, Mew, and Sableye.


Team Options:
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Magnezone checks Water-types that Diancie struggles with, and Colossoil beats Steel-types that Diancie can't OHKO with Earth Power such as Jirachi. Magnezone also beats Steel-types, so I'm unsure about these two examples. Magnezone as a check for Water-types...that's something I've unheard of. Diancie can't always rely on its ability Magic Bounce to prevent entry hazards, simply because most setters have a move that threatens Diancie out, such as Ferrothorn's Gyro Ball / Iron Head. Colossoil + Magnezone is also a very well-known Volt-Turn core to run in CAP. This was just explained before; I would say just remove it. Mega Diancie can't hit Steel-types like Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn for an ample amount of damage without Hidden Power Fire, so Magnezone is the perfect partner, as it can use its Magnet Pull ability to trap several Steel-types and harm them with Hidden Power Fire. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-type Pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is often used on Steel-Types such as Skarmory and Ferrothorn to prevent them from being trapped by Magnet Pull. Colossoil, being able to lure those Pokemon in, can remove their Shed Shells with Knock Off and also baits in bulky Steel-types to bring in Magnezone with U-turn. Colossoil also U-turns on the predicted Tomohawk switch so Diancie will get a good matchup and be able to heavily damage a foe.
This core makes a lot of sense, now that I've read it. Instead I would remove the first two sentences of the paragraph and replace the Pokemon with other teammates.
Another potential core is Diancie + Talonflame. The threats that Diancie has trouble with are primarily Steel-types, which are taken care of with by Swords Dance Talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Gothitelle also pairs well with Diancie, seeing how it has trouble with the threats Gothitelle usually traps, such as Chansey, Mega Venusaur, and Amoonguss. Gothitelle can cripple Chansey by Tricking its Choice item and 2HKOes any variants of Mega Venusaur and Amoonguss with Psychic. Steel-type checks such as Cyclohm, Mollux, Heatran, and Volkraken are also great Diancie partners.


[SET]
name: Rock Polish
move 1: Rock Polish
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Diamond Storm
item: Diancite
ability: Clear Body
nature: Rash
evs: 64 HP / 252 SpA / 192 Spe

Moves
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Rock Polish doubles Diancie's Speed stat, allowing it to outspeed the majority of the metagame, including weather sweepers such as Mega Swampert, Kingdra, Tornadus-T, and Excadrill. Moonblast is probably Mega Diancie's most prominent and optimal STAB move, allowing it to kill KO Dragon-, Dark-, and Fighting-types such as Mega Altaria, Cyclohm, Sableye, Keldeo, and Tomohawk. Earth Power is used to hit Steel- and Poison-type Pokemon that resist Moonblast, such as Heatran, Mollux, and Plasmanta.
Diamond Storm OHKOes common threats such as Talonflame, Mollux, Mega Pinsir, Syclant, and both Mega Charizard Evolutions formes. It also 2HKOes Pyroak as well as Aurumoth. Hidden Power Fire can also be run on Diancie to get past Ferrothorn and lure in KO a lured Scizor. However, running this over Earth Power will give up some power on against Metagross.

Set Details
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Maximum Special Attack investment with a Rash Nature maximizes Diancie's special moves' damage output. 192 Speed EVs are is specifically to outspeed Jolly Sand Rush Excadrill, the fastest weather sweeper in the game, and Mega Diancie almost always will OHKO it with an Earth Power. There are 64 Speed EVs left, which should be put into HP because Diancie doesn't necessarily need Attack investment to OHKO Fire- and Flying-types with Diamond Storm. Finally, it is not recommended to run a Speed-boosting nature due to Rock Polish boosting Mega Diancie's Speed to the necessary levels rendering this unnecessary.

Usage Tips
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It is not recommended set up Rock Polish right away due to the prevalence of Bullet Punch users and simply just common Pokemon that wall Mega Diancie indefinitely. Early-game, it Diancie can soften up walls such as Ferrothorn, Pyroak, and Tomohawk, but it's certainly not an early-game sweeper. Wait until all of Mega Diancie's checks and counters are gone or weakened, and then use Rock Polish to clean up late-game. When playing offensive teams that have no priority and rely on speed to beat Diancie, Rock Polish can be used to end them. Pick the right Pokemon to set up on with Diancie, such as Revanankh, Mew, or Sableye. Try to find a way to Mega Evolve and boost on the same turn, usually against a slower Pokemon Diancie can easily knock out. Finally, due to Diancie's frailty, playing it safe is the best way to use it, especially when it's the wincon in a game.

Team Options
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Diancie + Talonflame is a well known hyper offense core because Diancie primarily has trouble with Steel-types, which are taken care of by Swords Dance Talonflame. Furthermore, Diancie can take care of Talonflame's checks, such as Cyclohm and defensive Garchomp. Celebi Baton Passing Nasty Plot boosts to a Rock Polish Diancie can make it very threatening, because an Earth Power OHKOes Mega Metagross at +2; (SC) just I like it like this to link the sentences be careful of Bullet Punch. Furthermore, Celebi resists Ground- and Water-type attacks, two of Diancie's weaknesses. In addition, Steel-type checks are necessary so that Diancie can be preserved until all of its checks are gone and it can sweep late-game. Good options are Mollux, Heatran, Volkraken, and Cyclohm. Lastly, with its Magnet Pull ability, Magnezone can trap many Steel-types and harm them with Hidden Power Fire, enabling Diancie to have an easier time nuking cleaning up the opponent's team. However, while Magnezone can trap Steel-type Pokemon for Diancie, Shed Shell is definitely an item Steel-types tend to run, preventing Magnezone from trapping them reliably. Notable Shed Shell users are Skarmory and Ferrothorn.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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A Calm Mind set can shut down balanced teams if used correctly, but with threats like Syclant, Choice Scarf Volkraken, Scizor, (AC) and Ferrothorn lying around, sweeping is a lot harder. Psychic can be used over Protect on the all-out attacker set to hit Mega Venusaur for super effective damage. However, Hidden Power Fire is a more viable coverage move to run most of the time. Heal Bell can be used for team support, (AC) is a great utility move Mega Diancie can use; however, (RC) Pokemon such as Cyclohm and Chansey fit the role better why?. Diancie forces switches pretty well, so it can use Stealth Rock to get entry hazards up easily. Sharpen is a very cool move to run on Diancie, because it 2HKOes Chansey, one of its Mega Diancie's usual counters, with +1 Diamond Storm. Magnet Rise can be used to handle Pokemon that rely on their Ground-type coverage to beat Diancie such as Hippowdon, Gliscor, Colossoil, and Garchomp. A regular Diancie set with Stealth Rock and Trick Room is usable, but Fidgit overall just outclasses that set in both aspects.


Checks and Counters
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**Steel-types**: Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Scizor, and specially defensive Skarmory can check Mega Diancie with a Steel-type STAB move and fully wall non-Hidden Power Fire variants. In addition, Mega Metagross and Cawmodore both threaten Diancie with their Steel STAB moves, and Cawmodore uses non-Hidden Power Fire sets as setup bait. Specially defensive Jirachi walls the all-out-attacker set completely, and offensive sets can take one Earth Power and OHKO Mega Diancie regardless of its Attack investment. Additionally, be careful of some non-Steel-types that are known to run Steel-type coverage moves, such as Mega Medicham's with Bullet Punch.

**Water-types**: Because Mega Diancie is so frail, all viable Water-type Pokemon such as Krilowatt, Choice Scarf Volkraken, Choice Scarf Keldeo, Azumarill, Rotom-W, and Slowbro can easily OHKO Diancie with their STAB moves. However, do know that all Pokemon mentioned except Azumarill get OHKOed or 2HKOed by one of Mega Diancie's STAB moves.

**Ground-types**: Ground-types such as Sand Rush and bulky Excadrill, Hippowdon, Gliscor, and Landorus-T all check and are able to heavily damage if not OHKO Diancie with their STAB moves. However, Rash variants of Mega Diancie either OHKO or 2HKO all of these Pokemon.

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur, Necturna, Celebi, and Serperior all check Mega Diancie, being able to OHKO it with their STAB moves. However, most variants of Necturna do get 2HKOed by Moonblast. In addition, Mega Venusaur does have to be cautious of Psychic variants.

**Chansey**: Eviolite Chansey can take every notable move Mega Diancie carries and can counter it by recovering off damage with Soft-Boiled and hitting it with Seismic Toss However, Diamond Storm 2HKOes Chansey if its Eviolite has been removed. Diancie also can get past it Chansey with Sharpen.

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Every use of "Diancie" here should be "Mega Diancie" instead, except for uses where only non-Mega Diancie is being talked about. Be sure to include that.

 

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