Imo the main thing holding this back is the massive amount of steelspam and the prediction reliance of it. It is decent if you want a pivot with breaking potential but being choice locked as an electric can be super annoying. This results in on paper being an insane breaker while in reality Tox gets walled easily by most rockers. Its nice for extra insurance against flying types like Crobat but gets worn down super quickly by rocks + uturn. Overall it does well against teams without a wall such as Coba builds but there will always be the risk the opponent brings a Mega Lix or Registeel and Tox is just walled forever.: I would disagree with this nomination given the performance Toxtricity is having in the tour. It's less a pokemon and more of a wake-up slap against teams that over-prep for Raikou but are underprepared for this mon. Defensive stats are lacklustre but they serve well enough against more defence-oriented teams. Nomming arguably one of the strongest breakers in the tier to the B ranks is something that deserves a little clarification, surely.
Unrelated but:
Raikou @ Fightinium Z
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Aura Sphere
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I also recently remade stall for probably about the 6th time at this point lol. The build is kind of weird (as always) so here are the roles of each of the members:
- I started with umbreon because the main reason I remade it was to see if it improved now with access to umbry. Its a great spdef sponge vs mons like volcanion and is also the cleric.
- Ofc the backbone of every stall team, necessary to not lose instantly to setup mons like coba. I wasnt 100% sure about the item but helmet has been working well for passive damage and leftys arent really needed anyways.
- I went with spdef twave toge because the team needs a good mdoom mu and zarude is already walled by ches so physdef wasnt needed anyways.
- Mega Agg is now banned so lix is the best rocker for stall atm. A lot of my old stall builds used rocks zong to wall nidoqueen but luckily umbreon can do that now. The evs kill Mdoom after rocks, then a spdef dump to take hits from mons like raikou better.
- Good to have a rock solid zarude wall and a backup raikou check while providing spikes. Taunt is a bit of a filler move because idt it needs wood hammer here, but there are plenty of good moves for the last slot, I was even considering stupid tech like zen headbutt for rose but decided it was too stupid even for stall.
- This is my salazzle wall, unfortunately there arent any good salazzle counters for stall users besides this, when i tried gigalith a while ago it sucked. The evs and sleep talk could probably be changed if there is anything better to slot on, im not a huge fan of tspikes so I didnt bother slotting them but they could def be tried. s/o to DerpyBoi for the idea.
Ty for reading my incoherent nonsense