Any recommended teammates for M-Diancie besides mag? I've been building a team around her for a while.
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Pokémon Diancie
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Talonflame and Rotom-W are pretty good partners, especially if you use protect, as they can easily handle most things that scare MDiancie out and take pitiance from them, e.g. iron head/bullet punch/gigadrain.
Now that I have added Rotom-W, I have a problem. They're both really weak and outsped by M-Sceptile. Any ideas on how to counter that? :P
Diancie's a hard one to build around, I've noticed, because she needs to be brought in at just the right time to be used effectively. All her checks and counters need to be gone, and priority needs to not exist on any of the opposing mon.
Diancie's a hard one to build around, I've noticed, because she needs to be brought in at just the right time to be used effectively. All her checks and counters need to be gone, and priority needs to not exist on any of the opposing mon.
I don't find building around Diancie all that difficult her weaknesses are very easy to patch up. As I have said you could try as a good offensive option Talonflame, I use the banded version but I am aware there are SpD SD variants that might fit better here. Other offensive choice I would say off the top of my mind is Scizor, and again it doesn't compound any existing weaknesses of Diancie. If not some additional choices would be Amoonguss or to a lesser degree Clefable, if you aren't looking for an offensive option.
That said... it is possible to take on Mega-Sceptile with base form Diancie as you can easily survive a gigadrain at full health and hit back with moonblast. I have survived and killed MScepts that way, at least I did from +Spe natured ones.
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252 SpA Life Orb Sceptile Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 0- SpD Diancie: 273-322 (89.8 - 105.9%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO
That's not gonna work so well. The thing is, all of Diancie's best partners (Rotom-W, Talonflame, Magnezone) all share weaknesses with them (Grass, Water, Ground) making it difficult to build a team that isn't easy to break through.
That's not gonna work so well. The thing is, all of Diancie's best partners (Rotom-W, Talonflame, Magnezone) all share weaknesses with them (Grass, Water, Ground) making it difficult to build a team that isn't easy to break through.
I don't find prediction to be all that difficult to utilize in this situation, especially with protect, aside that you have Scizor and Amoonguss as choices. I don't really consider zone a very good partner for Diancie since I don't see it adding anything else that Rotom-W already should cover, plus with the threat of Dugtrio as more trapping cores emerge to support MMence I'd be even more wary. However, if you are hoping for a less risky core, since Rotom-W/Talon/Diancie all require good prediction, not sure what to recommend because MScept, especially speedy ones, aren't all that easy to cover in the first place since they do have good coverage in general. I'd be leaning more on Scizor for the role you are looking for since he gives you priority and threatens Clefable well who can be a pain to break through and you do not want to set up CM, as well as resisting both STAB of MScept, and would have to rely on Focus miss.
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My thoughts exactly with Magnezone. All it does is trap steels and it's just too sluggish to do much else.
That and you'd only compound your issue with being more wary about MScept since he can be very easily capitalized on for a boost, I mean the popular sets are choice locked either scarf or specs.
How about choice scarf latias for a mega diancie partner? It resists water, grass and ground, takes bullet punch okay when you're in a pinch, and it can even revenge kill mega sceptile with draco meteor, or at least get it to switch out. Plus, diancie can take the dragon moves aimed at latias and vice versa in the case of water, grass and ground.
For bullet punch you'd need a second partner though, probably rotom w since it resists and can burn things. Combined with hazards = winning by switching between the three.
For bullet punch you'd need a second partner though, probably rotom w since it resists and can burn things. Combined with hazards = winning by switching between the three.
Choice Scarf Latias would be a cool partner, actually, but then the team would lose out on hazard removal since Latias is the ideal defogger. I guess that means no HP Ice + Choice Scarf Rotom-W w/trick :P
True. Maybe just defensive latias then? Draco meteor, recover/ wish for wish passing, defog, and something else with lefties. Alternatively just put an excadrill beside it or some other rapid spinner.
Does anyone here actually play with a Mega Diancie? Of over 200 battles on the ladder, I have not seen a single solitary one. I'm just not sure if I'm the only one on the M-Diancie train or not. I kinda want to see what others are doing with her, because all of my attempts to make a good team around her have proven unsuccessful.
I play her :P I've also seen others my only guess is your timezone hasn't been all that lucky.
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Hm. I'll keep trying to finish this team because Diancie is my favorite mega design-wise.
I lucked out and managed to get this Diancie from the GS event:
30/2-3/31/31/31/31 Timid
Was wondering what I can do with it in terms of a mega Diancie set :o
30/2-3/31/31/31/31 Timid
Was wondering what I can do with it in terms of a mega Diancie set :o
You sure as hell aren't going to be able to run mixed with that. You need HP Fire to round out Earth Power and Moonblast on a pure Special set, and Diamond Storm is weak as fuck with that mix of IVs and Timid.
Sadly not much since you want to be able to play mixed with MDiancie rather than a dedicated special attacker since you miss out on Diamond storm, she still doesn't exactly have much moves to go by. What you want is Naive with good IVs all around generally.
I'll just say that from the battles I've had CM sets aren't all that good since you take too much damage in the process of setting up and can be easily forced out by priority and scarf users (i.e. Lando-T). It is just better to start out hitting hard as you can and the problem with Psyshock too is that you kinda want Diamond storm to muscle through Mew, dealing 46% and up depending on how much investment you provide.
Run Ancient Power
I think I've finally mastered my Diancie team. I have a group of mon who have good synergy together but are weak to M-Sceptile. You can't counter every mon, after all. HP Fire Latios is just amazing alongside Diancie, who lures in Ferrothorn and Scizor. Then Latios is sent out, and since they aren't expecting Hidden Power Fire, they usually switch in. The final verdict here is that Diancie does have a few niches - stopping Mega Sableye, birdspam, and the latis. But it does have its flaws, it has annoying weaknesses to grass, water, steel, and ground, and it's hp is low.
You've opted to not run Atk EVs? You kinda miss out on some good damage there against sponges, e.g. Clef, Mew, Azu, Sylveon. Which can be pretty handy as they tend to be EVd towards SpD. Aside that you also end up with more issues against Zapdos, which higher up has more popularity. Why not run SE on Lando-T you're already lacking in power due to running Jolly and gimping the rock coverage more by using Rockslide, and this does matter when you use Lando-T to check MMence (which is always important to consider).
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Judging from the learnset and move tutor leaks it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Nature Power turns into Power Gem in caves so that's probably how they made that picture.
:O that may be true in fact you can see the rock terrain at the bottom of the picture.
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