And what exactly is Virizion going to do back to Pyroar? I was thinking about doing a specially defensive set but then I looked at the tier and realized that the only relevant special attacker that Virizion does well against is Water-types and Lilligant and Cacturne as most other Grass-types have dual typing to damage Virizion (and Electric-types, but tbh a lot of them are going to be Volt Switching out anyways or have dual typing to hit hard anyways). All the other common special attackers all do Super Effective damage against Virizion, Psychic / Flying / Poison / Ice / Fire.
Virizion @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 228 HP / 252 SpD / 28 Spe
Careful Nature
- Giga Drain
- Roar
- Synthesis
- Taunt
252 SpA Life Orb Pyroar Fire Blast vs. 228 HP / 252+ SpD Virizion: 250-296 (65.7 - 77.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
BROKEN
Raseri and I were talking one day about a bulky Viriz set. He immediately noticed that Virizion had a great support movepool so we figured a sp. def set could work the best as it just chews hits. Another example of this mons bulk is that a modest Samurott's ice beam fails to 2 hit ko. This set pairs very well with hazard stack as it can shuffle your opponents team around with roar. The speed is there to outpace lead barbaracle by one point and prevent it from getting up rocks. Lastly giga drain is there simply for reliable STAB and synthesis is there to obviously heal yourself reliably.
I'm really wondering why you wouldn't just choose a different special wall seeing as how small the pool of specially based Pokemon is that Virizion stops and can actually do something against.
Edit: also the point of this thread is to create discussion on the sets and the current subject, so no salty responses pls :^)
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