Project National Dex OU: Break This Core

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Behold!



Camerupt @ Assault Vest
Ability: Solid Rock
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Overheat
- Tera Blast

Given EVs to outspeed Mega Mawile. Even with tera, Tapu Koko can't 2HKO Camerupt with crits.

Calcs:
252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 116 HP / 0 SpD Mawile-Mega: 290-344 (107.4 - 127.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tapu Koko: 354-416 (125.9 - 148%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Tera Ice Tapu Koko Hidden Power Ice vs. 32 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Camerupt: 67-81 (23.1 - 28%) -- 82.1% chance to 4HKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Fire Blast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tera Ice Tapu Koko: 428-506 (152.3 - 180%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tapu Koko: 354-416 (125.9 - 148%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[jzplr]

Landorus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 152 HP / 132 Atk / 224 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- U-turn
- Defog

132 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 116 HP / 0 Def Mawile-Mega: 270-320 (100 - 118.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
132 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tapu Koko: 372-440 (132.3 - 156.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Tera Ice Tapu Koko Hidden Power Ice vs. 152 HP / 0 SpD Tera Ground Landorus-Therian: 192-228 (53.7 - 63.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
132 Atk Tera Ground Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Ice Tapu Koko: 248-294 (88.2 - 104.6%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO

Landorus-Therian kills Mawile-Mega and if you Tera Ground you win the 1v1 against Tapu Koko if they Tera Ice.

This replay demonstrates this particular Landorus-Therian set taking advantage of an otherwise nearly perfect counterteam.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldex-2120724331-gviolln5pul2w64dbydsraaco3mhn0rpw?p2

 

[K302]

Voting is up! Ends Monday!

Volcarona @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Flame Body
Hidden Power: Ground
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 248 HP / 200 Def / 60 Spe
Timid Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Flamethrower
- Hidden Power [Ground]
- Roost
Just qd in front of either of them and you insta win because maw doesn’t have sucker and koko will lose to Volc just roosting and clicking qd. Maw clicking knock doesn’t matter because once you boost you can just win the game right there because most Koko offenses do not like a boosted Volc.

Great Tusk @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Headlong Rush
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Ice Spinner

252 Atk Tera Ground Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Ice Tapu Koko: 300-354 (106.7 - 125.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
gg

Gouging Fire @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Poison
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Atk / 32 SpD / 88 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Flare Blitz
- Earthquake
- Morning Sun

Pretty simple set.
Gouging fire is a great check to M-Mawile and Tapu Koko. The given EVs spread allows Gouging Fire to outpseed Tapu Koko at +1 and OHKO it with Flare Blitz (Earthquake at +1 2HKO's Tera ice Tapu Koko). It also OHKO's M-Mawile with Flare Blitz at +1. M-Mawile can only hit Gouging Fire with Knock Off and Play Rough (it's not running sucker punch in the set) which are both resisted by tera Poison.

NOTE: You can use Earthquake but it is less effective for removing huge threats like this in one go.

CALCS:
+1 136 Atk Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Koko: 282-333 (100.3 - 118.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Tapu Koko Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 32 SpD Gouging Fire in Electric Terrain: 79-93 (19 - 22.4%) -- possible 5HKO

+1 136 Atk Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. 116 HP / 0 Def Mawile-Mega: 408-480 (151.1 - 177.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
136 Atk Gouging Fire Flare Blitz vs. 116 HP / 0 Def Mawile-Mega: 270-320 (100 - 118.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Mawile-Mega Play Rough vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tera Poison Gouging Fire: 59-70 (14.2 - 16.9%) -- possible 6HKO
252+ Atk Mawile-Mega Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tera Poison Gouging Fire: 85-101 (20.5 - 24.3%) -- guaranteed 5HKO

Landorus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 152 HP / 132 Atk / 224 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- U-turn
- Defog

132 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 116 HP / 0 Def Mawile-Mega: 270-320 (100 - 118.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
132 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tapu Koko: 372-440 (132.3 - 156.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Tera Ice Tapu Koko Hidden Power Ice vs. 152 HP / 0 SpD Tera Ground Landorus-Therian: 192-228 (53.7 - 63.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
132 Atk Tera Ground Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Ice Tapu Koko: 248-294 (88.2 - 104.6%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO

Landorus-Therian kills Mawile-Mega and if you Tera Ground you win the 1v1 against Tapu Koko if they Tera Ice.

This replay demonstrates this particular Landorus-Therian set taking advantage of an otherwise nearly perfect counterteam.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldex-2120724331-gviolln5pul2w64dbydsraaco3mhn0rpw?p2

Behold!



Camerupt @ Assault Vest
Ability: Solid Rock
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Overheat
- Tera Blast

Given EVs to outspeed Mega Mawile. Even with tera, Tapu Koko can't 2HKO Camerupt with crits.

Calcs:
252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 116 HP / 0 SpD Mawile-Mega: 290-344 (107.4 - 127.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tapu Koko: 354-416 (125.9 - 148%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Tera Ice Tapu Koko Hidden Power Ice vs. 32 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Camerupt: 67-81 (23.1 - 28%) -- 82.1% chance to 4HKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Fire Blast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tera Ice Tapu Koko: 428-506 (152.3 - 180%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ SpA Camerupt Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tapu Koko: 354-416 (125.9 - 148%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Gouging Fire

 

[bodi]

 

[Wriothesley<3]

Gouging fire

 

[Maxy Kohler]

 

[myself12]

camerupt

 

[K302]

Congratulations to Flames Of Elixir for winning this week of Break this Core!

Our new core will be Kartana + Latias-Mega!



How will YOU break this core? Submissions end Friday!

Sets

Latias-Mega (F) @ Latiasite
Ability: Levitate
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Roost
- Ice Beam
- Thunder

Kartana @ Fightinium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Knock Off
- Sacred Sword
- Leaf Blade
- Swords Dance

 

[Ineros]

Darkrai @ Choice Specs
Ability: Bad Dreams
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Focus Blast
- Sludge Bomb
- Ice Beam

This is why you run aura sphere mtias in this tier. click dark pulse and you are gucci, just have the luck to not get haxed by thunder which is pretty easy anyways being real

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Houndoom-Mega @ Houndoominite
Ability: Solar Power
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Bomb
- Nasty Plot

Click three buttons. Hope you don't get thunderhaxed. Win.

 

[K302]

Voting is up! Ends Monday!

Darkrai @ Choice Specs
Ability: Bad Dreams
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Focus Blast
- Sludge Bomb
- Ice Beam

This is why you run aura sphere mtias in this tier. click dark pulse and you are gucci, just have the luck to not get haxed by thunder which is pretty easy anyways being real

Houndoom-Mega @ Houndoominite
Ability: Solar Power
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Sludge Bomb
- Nasty Plot

Click three buttons. Hope you don't get thunderhaxed. Win.

 

[Illouri]

darkrai

 

[RunicPower413]

Darkrai

 

[Dahness]

Darkrai

 

[K302]

Congratulations to Ineros for winning this week of Break this Core!

Our new core will be Diancie-Mega + Gouging Fire!



How will YOU break this core? Submissions end Friday!

Sets

Gouging Fire @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Heat Crash
- Earthquake
- Morning Sun

Diancie-Mega @ Diancite
Ability: Magic Bounce
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 28 Atk / 228 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Diamond Storm
- Spikes

 

[Illouri]

Landorus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 152 HP / 200 Atk / 24 Def / 132 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Stone Edge
- Defog

EV'd to always ohko mega diancie and 2hko goug while also living 3 heat crashes at -1 due to Intimidate.

 

[Ineros]

Venusaur-Mega @ Venusaurite
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 80 SpA / 20 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Giga Drain
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis

Not going to lie, this core kinda stumped me for a bit until I realized the Wonderful Frog existed. You wall everything this core does to you because you have thick fat and you don’t get 2hkod from heat crash because you are chunky. Also this isn’t the actually good set in drag/fire z which is nice. The EVs allow to 2hko gouging with earth power, outspeed Pokémon trying to creep mmaw, and maxing physdef for other threats like Waterpon and Mlop.

+1 252+ Atk Gouging Fire Heat Crash (80 BP) vs. 248 HP / 156+ Def Thick Fat Venusaur-Mega: 134-158 (36.9 - 43.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after 1 layer of Spikes
80 SpA Venusaur-Mega Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Gouging Fire: 176-208 (50.1 - 59.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
28 Atk Diancie-Mega Diamond Storm vs. 248 HP / 156+ Def Venusaur-Mega: 111-132 (30.5 - 36.3%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after 1 layer of Spikes

 

[Dabman1069]

Torterra @ White Herb
Ability: Shell Armor
Tera Type: Fire / Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Headlong Rush
- Seed Bomb
- Smack Down / Protect / Tera Blast

Courtesy of me me showing my sister these two mons and asking her what she thought could beat this and her saying "turtle", tort here actually does a really good job here because of taking nothing from heat crash because of its weight and also out speeding +1 gouging after a shell smash by 1 point without a +spe nature. The white herb allows u to beat gouging in a worse case scenario when u come in on it dding, u shell smash as they either hit you or dd again and due to your defense being neutral again you can tank a heat crash from that situation.

The last slot is pretty up in the air, you can run smack down to help vs opposing flyers such as corvi or skarm which dont mind taking a stone edge, protect allows u to scout a gouging tera in case it wants to tera ground against you to live headlong and lastly tera blast fire allows u to hit the aforementioned steel birbs.

A tera type of fire is used to allow u to be immune to will o and resist heat crash from gouging, bullet punch from sciz and moonblast from diancie-m.

Calcs:
+2 252+ Atk Gouging Fire Heat Crash (40 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Torterra: 254-300 (76.7 - 90.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Headlong Rush vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Gouging Fire: 644-758 (183.4 - 215.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Seed Bomb vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Ground Gouging Fire: 428-506 (121.9 - 144.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Seed Bomb vs. 0 HP / 0- Def Diancie-Mega: 522-614 (216.5 - 254.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[K302]

Voting is up! Ends Monday!

Torterra @ White Herb
Ability: Shell Armor
Tera Type: Fire / Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Headlong Rush
- Seed Bomb
- Smack Down / Protect / Tera Blast

Courtesy of me me showing my sister these two mons and asking her what she thought could beat this and her saying "turtle", tort here actually does a really good job here because of taking nothing from heat crash because of its weight and also out speeding +1 gouging after a shell smash by 1 point without a +spe nature. The white herb allows u to beat gouging in a worse case scenario when u come in on it dding, u shell smash as they either hit you or dd again and due to your defense being neutral again you can tank a heat crash from that situation.

The last slot is pretty up in the air, you can run smack down to help vs opposing flyers such as corvi or skarm which dont mind taking a stone edge, protect allows u to scout a gouging tera in case it wants to tera ground against you to live headlong and lastly tera blast fire allows u to hit the aforementioned steel birbs.

A tera type of fire is used to allow u to be immune to will o and resist heat crash from gouging, bullet punch from sciz and moonblast from diancie-m.

Calcs:
+2 252+ Atk Gouging Fire Heat Crash (40 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Torterra: 254-300 (76.7 - 90.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Headlong Rush vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Gouging Fire: 644-758 (183.4 - 215.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Seed Bomb vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Ground Gouging Fire: 428-506 (121.9 - 144.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO

+2 252+ Atk Torterra Seed Bomb vs. 0 HP / 0- Def Diancie-Mega: 522-614 (216.5 - 254.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Venusaur-Mega @ Venusaurite
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 80 SpA / 20 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Giga Drain
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis

Not going to lie, this core kinda stumped me for a bit until I realized the Wonderful Frog existed. You wall everything this core does to you because you have thick fat and you don’t get 2hkod from heat crash because you are chunky. Also this isn’t the actually good set in drag/fire z which is nice. The EVs allow to 2hko gouging with earth power, outspeed Pokémon trying to creep mmaw, and maxing physdef for other threats like Waterpon and Mlop.

+1 252+ Atk Gouging Fire Heat Crash (80 BP) vs. 248 HP / 156+ Def Thick Fat Venusaur-Mega: 134-158 (36.9 - 43.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after 1 layer of Spikes
80 SpA Venusaur-Mega Earth Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Gouging Fire: 176-208 (50.1 - 59.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
28 Atk Diancie-Mega Diamond Storm vs. 248 HP / 156+ Def Venusaur-Mega: 111-132 (30.5 - 36.3%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after 1 layer of Spikes

Landorus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 152 HP / 200 Atk / 24 Def / 132 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Stone Edge
- Defog

EV'd to always ohko mega diancie and 2hko goug while also living 3 heat crashes at -1 due to Intimidate.

 

[RunicPower413]

Venu

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Torterra lol

 

[K302]

Our voting has left us with a tie! We need a tiebreak vote for either Torterra or Venusaur-Mega!
Congratulations to Dabman1069 for winning this week of Break this Core!

Our new core will be Iron Valiant + Ogerpon-Wellspring!



How will YOU break this core? Submissions end Friday!

Sets

Ogerpon-Wellspring (F) @ Wellspring Mask
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Power Whip
- Ivy Cudgel
- Superpower
- Swords Dance

Iron Valiant @ Choice Specs
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Focus Blast
- Thunderbolt
- Psyshock

 

[Ineros]

Iron Boulder @ Booster Energy / Rockium Z
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Mighty Cleave
- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
- Zen Headbutt

Here I gave you options for sets in case ur running Koko or something btt it both function the same. Once boosted, you Ohko both of them or, as a bonus if ur running rock z, you don’t need to boost at all. Because of tera you can setup on both of them without getting ohkod and then you clean up.

252 Atk Iron Boulder Continental Crush (175 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Water Ogerpon-Wellspring-Tera: 313-369 (103.9 - 122.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO - ohkos with +2 cleave too

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Valiant Focus Blast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Iron Boulder: 259-306 (80.6 - 95.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 Atk Iron Boulder Zen Headbutt vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Iron Valiant: 270-318 (93.4 - 110%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO

252 Atk Wellspring Mask Tera Water Ogerpon-Wellspring-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tera Grass Iron Boulder: 149-176 (46.4 - 54.8%) -- 64.5% chance to 2HKO - shows you can beat pon no matter what.

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Zeraora @ Choice Band
Ability: Volt Absorb
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Plasma Fists
- Close Combat
- Blaze Kick
- Play Rough

Tera and click plasma fists two times.

Calcs for further proof

252 Atk Choice Band Tera Electric Zeraora Plasma Fists vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Iron Valiant: 322-380 (111.4 - 131.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 Atk Choice Band Tera Electric Zeraora Plasma Fists vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring: 340-402 (112.9 - 133.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO