I know that many people have thrown wishiwashi out the window for its horrendous base speed and its loss of stats at 25% health. However, I really think Wishiwashi has a place competitively and especially in doubles. Wishiwashi with rain boosted surf and instruct from oranguru should normally result in a cleaned out floor by the end of that turn and I think that's where Wishiwashi has a chance, I haven't created the sets for these pokemon yet but I'd like to hear some opinions on how well you think the pokemon I have for this team could work for VGC. I'll list the pokemon and their potential roles.
Toxapex- A good pokemon in general, it will serve the role of tentacruel but better with its ludicrously high defensive stats it will perform as a support/tank being capable of taking a number of hits and that regenerator ability will serve nicely. Moves like Toxic spikes, Baneful bunker, and recover would work really well.
Pelliper- I'm really glad pelliper got the buffs it needed in gen 7 cause now I get to see this derpy looking fuck a lot more! His new ability drizzle gives him a 100% accuracy with hurricane a very strong flying type move and to go on top of that his Special attack stat got boosted to a very respectable 95 base stat, which unlike politoad, makes pelliper useful. Pelliper does have the downside of a 4x weakness to electricity but I fell like drizzle and hurricane make more than up for it. Pelliper gots a solid movepool including roost, protect, and tail wind to go on top of hurricane as well.
Wishiwashi- The main man of the team.The team is looking rather weak to electric types but I plan to fix that with my reserves. Wishiwashi is probably going to be the most controversial member of the team. Wishiwashi Schooling form has some ridiculously high base stat totals including 130-140s from attack to special defense. Now it does have really low health and speed which is why everyone is putting it down but I can't look past the potential in those other 4 stats. Wishiwashi will serve as an offensive tank and even has a way to regenerate health with rest talk (I know rest talk died in gen 4 but it could work now with the metagame slowing down). Now overall the gen 7 metagame is going to really slow down with a lot of the new rules and overall new pokemon being a lot slower so I don't think wishiwashi's speed is going to be that big of a problem. I think a wishiwashi set could be rest talk with earthquake and surf.
Oranguru- The monkey with a plan. Oranguru will probably be really common in VGC and any doubles format to be honest. This is because of one move and one move only, instruct. Instruct plus telepathy will allow for two earthquakes or stab rain boosted surfs from wishiwashi a turn and this should end up with the other team not looking too well at the end of the turn. Oranguru also has some other nice moves to help support wishiwashi such as Trick room, Quash, Taunt, and after you just to name a few moves and those aren't even it's TMs. Personally I don't intend on giving oranguru much for offense since it really doesn't have much.
RESERVES
I'm still in debate over which pokemon are going to be in my reserves but here are the pokemon I have competing for a sport
Smeargle- Smeargle would make for a good lead as it can boost a stat like special defense or speed and then baton pass to wishiwashi.
Kommo-o - Kommo-o has a really good stat distribution and could switch with Wishiwashi to change things up for a team that seems prepared to take on wishiwashi. Kommo-o has high stats all over the board except speed which is a decent 85 base. Kommo-o has access to some great moves like like clanging scales and outrage to attack and dragon dance to boost its stats and it can take more than a hit from anything except fairy moves. Kommo-o has some great move coverage too with flash cannon (to deal with fairy types) and many fighting type moves.
Tapu KoKo- Tapu KoKo can really take advantage of pelliper's drizzle gaining a 100% accuracy boosted thunder and it gains the benefits of electric terrain making for a ridiculous boosted thunder. Tapu Koko Also has electro ball with his speed and the electric terrain boost and it will do excessive damage. Tapu Koko also has access to agility further boosting electro ball. Tapu Koko definitely has a spot on this team in my opinion.
Please give me your opinions and critic my team and I'm more than open to set ideas, other team options, or other game plans for wishiwashi.
Toxapex- A good pokemon in general, it will serve the role of tentacruel but better with its ludicrously high defensive stats it will perform as a support/tank being capable of taking a number of hits and that regenerator ability will serve nicely. Moves like Toxic spikes, Baneful bunker, and recover would work really well.
Pelliper- I'm really glad pelliper got the buffs it needed in gen 7 cause now I get to see this derpy looking fuck a lot more! His new ability drizzle gives him a 100% accuracy with hurricane a very strong flying type move and to go on top of that his Special attack stat got boosted to a very respectable 95 base stat, which unlike politoad, makes pelliper useful. Pelliper does have the downside of a 4x weakness to electricity but I fell like drizzle and hurricane make more than up for it. Pelliper gots a solid movepool including roost, protect, and tail wind to go on top of hurricane as well.
Wishiwashi- The main man of the team.The team is looking rather weak to electric types but I plan to fix that with my reserves. Wishiwashi is probably going to be the most controversial member of the team. Wishiwashi Schooling form has some ridiculously high base stat totals including 130-140s from attack to special defense. Now it does have really low health and speed which is why everyone is putting it down but I can't look past the potential in those other 4 stats. Wishiwashi will serve as an offensive tank and even has a way to regenerate health with rest talk (I know rest talk died in gen 4 but it could work now with the metagame slowing down). Now overall the gen 7 metagame is going to really slow down with a lot of the new rules and overall new pokemon being a lot slower so I don't think wishiwashi's speed is going to be that big of a problem. I think a wishiwashi set could be rest talk with earthquake and surf.
Oranguru- The monkey with a plan. Oranguru will probably be really common in VGC and any doubles format to be honest. This is because of one move and one move only, instruct. Instruct plus telepathy will allow for two earthquakes or stab rain boosted surfs from wishiwashi a turn and this should end up with the other team not looking too well at the end of the turn. Oranguru also has some other nice moves to help support wishiwashi such as Trick room, Quash, Taunt, and after you just to name a few moves and those aren't even it's TMs. Personally I don't intend on giving oranguru much for offense since it really doesn't have much.
RESERVES
I'm still in debate over which pokemon are going to be in my reserves but here are the pokemon I have competing for a sport
Smeargle- Smeargle would make for a good lead as it can boost a stat like special defense or speed and then baton pass to wishiwashi.
Kommo-o - Kommo-o has a really good stat distribution and could switch with Wishiwashi to change things up for a team that seems prepared to take on wishiwashi. Kommo-o has high stats all over the board except speed which is a decent 85 base. Kommo-o has access to some great moves like like clanging scales and outrage to attack and dragon dance to boost its stats and it can take more than a hit from anything except fairy moves. Kommo-o has some great move coverage too with flash cannon (to deal with fairy types) and many fighting type moves.
Tapu KoKo- Tapu KoKo can really take advantage of pelliper's drizzle gaining a 100% accuracy boosted thunder and it gains the benefits of electric terrain making for a ridiculous boosted thunder. Tapu Koko Also has electro ball with his speed and the electric terrain boost and it will do excessive damage. Tapu Koko also has access to agility further boosting electro ball. Tapu Koko definitely has a spot on this team in my opinion.
Please give me your opinions and critic my team and I'm more than open to set ideas, other team options, or other game plans for wishiwashi.
