built this team around quick feet mgarThis team is great. Never used it, but I faced it on the ladder a few times and Scarf Chansey completely dunked me in the rounds you won. Took me three tries to figure out that its actually scarf. As someone that got beaten by it quite a bit, definately would recommend (if being beaten by it lets me recommend it).
On another note, I'm stealing this concept from Gen 8 BH:
Gengar-Mega @ Flame Orb
Modest Nature
Ability: Quick Feet
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 76 SpD / 252 Spe
- Tail Glow
- Moongeist Beam
- Secret Sword / Sludge Bomb
- Spore / Lovely Kiss / Moonblast / Taunt / King's Shield / Sludge Bomb
Quick Feet Mega Gengar. The idea is that you force a switch (on NDM or something), Tail Glow up, and start sweeping. As soon as they reveal their Hazer (and they will do so, very quickly), Spore them, TG again, and continue on your path of destruction. Lovely Kiss can be run in case they're Safety Goggles or something but you'd usually want Spore. A huge perk of running this is that its a sweeper that is a self-improof. With Quick Feet, you are faster than Impostor and can OHKO them with Moongeist Beam. 76 SpD EVs ensures that you will OHKO Eviolite Impostor, but you can run 216 if you want to OHKO Impostor after rocks or a layer of spikes. However, you will have to risk the speed tie on Choice Scarf Impostors or switch out, but since they will almost certainly Moongeist Beam you can just run to a Normal-type or something.
As for other options for this set (and it has tons), Moonblast hits Yveltal and bulky Dragon-types (most notably Giratina). Taunt shuts down Hazers through Safety Goggles and also stop healing. King's Shield bypasses atespeeders provided that Mega Gengar has enough HP remaining. Finally, Sludge Bomb is a powerful secondary STAB option that doesn't really hit much besides Xerneas and Mega Audino, but its powerful nontheless.
Now, why would you use this over the standard MGar sets?
This set has its own disadvantages. For one, its bulk will be severely compromised, as between the burn and the forced drop on Special Defense, you will be a lot less capable of taking hits than if you were running other sets. But then, who cares about bulk when you're cleanly sweeping the opposing team? Also, it can't beat Unaware Pokemon that does not die to Moongeist Beam, most notably Yveltal and Arceus. However, sleep can be used to muscle past them.
- Normalize is something else entirely, so I won't go over it.
- All non-moldy sets (other than Normalize) either lose to Shedinja or Impostor (unless you run both Judgment and a moldmove, which is kinda stupid).
- Moldy Shell Smash (and Quiver Dance) does not pack enough power to KO certain targets, most notably Registeel, Regigigas, and Dialga.
- Moldy Tail Glow is outsped and revenge killed by Mega Mewtwo Y, which is really important since Mega Mewtwo Y is one of the largest threats in the meta.
- This set is immune to status, which shields it from Prankster Glarers and whatnot.
- It does not rely on Spooky Plate, which makes it less weak to Knock Off. In fact, Mega Gengar only needs its item for one turn, because as soon as its burned it don't need the Flame Orb anymore.
Here's a team built around this Mega Gengar set. Mewtwo is for breaking, and targets mons that Gengar has trouble with, like Yveltal and Primal Kyogre. After the opposing team is sufficiently weakened Gengar comes in and sweep, and honestly not much can stop it from doing so. Audino improofs Mewtwo, Gengar self-improofs, Pdon improofs Audino but lets it set rocks, Gira improofs Pdon (and Audino, but it can't do anything back), and Audino improofs Gira and Registeel. Blue Flare on Mewtwo is mostly filler and I'll probably change it to Focus Blast or something. The five orbs kinda just happened and is mostly an accident.
EDIT: I forgot to say this but this team is far from perfect and can use lots of improvements, therefore to anyone reading this I'm using this as an excuse to get some comments to improve my team. Any constructive advice will be appreciated!
https://pokepast.es/624260d2b6cc0432
idea behind this team is pretty simple. eevee subs and boosts up, taunts any phazers prior to the boost, then passes to any teammate here. might go spin over tglow on yveltal tho. this is the most important calc for the team:
+3 252 SpA Gengar-Mega Moongeist Beam vs. +1(simulates eviolite) 252 HP / 252 SpD Gengar-Mega(250 HP): 542-642 (76.9 - 91.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO; make sure to sleep before moongeisting
sacred fire pdon is there so it isnt forced to lower its defensive utility with v-create, kind of a modified fvm alright thats it bye
Mega Rayquaza (
Garchomp-Mega
Aerodactyl-Mega
Arceus
Ho-Oh
Magearna
Necrozma-Dusk-Mane
Aegislash
Blaziken-Mega
Cresselia
Greninja-Ash
Slowbro-Mega
Solgaleo
Zekrom
Charizard-Mega-Y (Poison Heal, Aerilate, Triage)
Deoxys-Attack
Metagross-Mega (Magic Bounce, Regenerator, Tough Claws)
Necrozma-Ultra
Palkia (Drizzle, Tinted Lens, Swift Swim)
Pheromosa
Rayquaza (Aerilate, Triage, Tough Claws)
Sableye-Mega
Scizor-Mega (Flash Fire)
Steelix-Mega (Flash Fire, Prankster, Regenerator)
Suicune (Magic Bounce)
Swampert-Mega
Tapu Fini (Fur Coat)
Aggron-Mega (Regenerator, Prankster)
Ampharos-Mega (Prankster, Galvanize)
Darmanitan-Zen (Regenerator, Fur Coat)
Diancie
Gardevoir-Mega (Tinted Lens, Pixilate)
Giratina-Origin (Magic Bounce, Prankster, Mold Breaker)
Heatran (Magic Bounce, Levitate)
Heracross-Mega (Triage, Tinted Lens)
Hoopa-Unbound
Lucario-Mega (Steelworker)
Lugia (Aerilate, Magic Bounce)
Marowak-Alola (Tinted Lens, Tough Claws)
Nihilego (Sand Stream, Levitate)
Regirock (Sand Stream)
Reshiram (Turboblaze, Poison Heal, Desolate Land)
Sceptile-Mega
Stakataka (Steelworker, Sand Stream, Levitate)
Toxapex
Venusaur-Mega (Flash Fire)
Xurkitree (Galvanize)
Zeraora (Snow Warning, Teravolt)
S -> C
