Resource National Dex OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers

[piuy]

Where's a good place to ask about the purpose of certain sample team EV Spreads?

 

[about15gals]

oftentimes the analyses for the sets will list reasons for the ev spreads, but you could also ask about them in the national dex ou room on showdown or the national dex ou discord, the appropriate RMT thread is also workable in the main smogon discord

 

[ayeush]

If I were to put just one legendary/mythical on my team for Natdex OU, which one would y'all recommend?

 

[WilhelmTheOkay]

If I were to put just one legendary/mythical on my team for Natdex OU, which one would y'all recommend?

The most plug and play legendaries are Landorus-Therian, Zamazenta-Hero, and Terapagos. Best Mythical would probably be Mega Diancie.

 

[shadowpea]

vr seems to say mega latios is good while mega latias sucks now. why is that? also, why not regular latios?

 

[Ineros]

vr seems to say mega latios is good while mega latias sucks now. why is that? also, why not regular latios?

Latias is just so passive and needs cm to boost when such sets are extremely bad in this metagame due to coverage issues, latios in comparison brings a ton of the defensive utility latias has while having a ton of offensive power to threaten common defensive cores.

The reason why you’d use mega latios over regular is simply because its bulk being higher allows it to take hits from stuff like Charizard y / Zapdos / hp ice pivot Koko / some pon sets better. Being able to use roost and having all that longevity / defensive utility as a breaker is a major reason why something like choiced / Lorb latios isn’t used.