Toxtricity is one of the most potent sweepers and breakers in PU. It’s nearly perfect coverage in Electric/Normal/Poison with the added boosted damage of its sound moves thanks to Punk Rock makes Toxtricity one of the strongest Special Attackers in the tier.
Toxtricity’s main problematic set is Shift Gear, which takes advantage of its ability to force switch-ins to gain Speed on potential revenge killers and scarfers. As it stands, a +2 Modest Toxtricity has no reliable Choice Scarf revenge killers, and its use of Throat Spray in conjunction with its powerful moves allows it to set up quickly on weakened threats that struggle to deal with its move combination. Sets such as Specs, Boots, Scarf are more linear since they threaten the meta in a more linear fashion, making use of its coverage options to either nuke a specific target, function as a pivoting mon or revenge kill would-be-checks.
Its most common Tera type is Normal, which boosts the damage of Boomburst to gigantic levels, but Teras such as Ghost have been utilized to flip matchups on revenge killers such as Arcanine with Extreme Speed, works as a reliable spinblocker, flips matchup on Fighting-types expecting Tera Normal, and allow it to use Tera Blast Ghost vs. threats like Golurk and Palossand.
This does not mean that Toxtricity is unbeatable though, a big portion of the meta is able to hit it for reliable damage due to its awkward typing. It’s also easily revengeable prior to Tera by a plethora of faster mons due to its mediocre speed before setup. Defensive Tera such as Ghost and Steel, which are used on many Pokemon in the tier are able to take a hit and revenge Toxtricity. All in all, Toxtricity is a potential sweeper that requires solid positional play, or a powerful breaker with a decent number of stops, but its offensive potential, ability to flip matchups and different sets make it a worthy candidate for a suspect test.
The voting requirements are a minimum GXE of 78 with at least 50 games played. In addition, you may play 1 less game for every 0.2 GXE you have above 78 GXE, down to a minimum of 30 games at a GXE of 82. As always, needing more than 50 games to 78 GXE is fine.
| GXE | minimum games |
| 78 | 50 |
| 78.2 | 49 |
| 78.4 | 48 |
| 78.6 | 47 |
| 78.8 | 46 |
| 79 | 45 |
| 79.2 | 44 |
| 79.4 | 43 |
| 79.6 | 42 |
| 79.8 | 41 |
| 80 | 40 |
| 80.2 | 39 |
| 80.4 | 38 |
| 80.6 | 37 |
| 80.8 | 36 |
| 81 | 35 |
| 81.2 | 34 |
| 81.4 | 33 |
| 81.6 | 32 |
| 81.8 | 31 |
| 82 | 30 |
Suspect information:
- There will be no draws allowed for any potential qualifiers. If you qualify with draws, your suspect requirements will not count, and you will not be allowed to vote. There is no way to actively enforce ties to prevent abuse, so they will be disallowed. Use stall at your own risk.
- All games must be played on the Pokémon Showdown! PU ladder on a new alt with the following format: "PUTC (nickname)”. For example, PUTC asa or PUTC shitar.
- Do NOT impersonate other people in your ladder alt, do NOT use any usernames which are offensive, flame-baiting, or targeting specific users, and do NOT use usernames which could be interpreted as breaking any of the username rules on Pokémon Showdown! Failure to abide to this will result in you being barred from voting in this suspect, and potential infractions.
- The suspect test will last for 16 days, ending on May, 27th 11:59pm GMT -4.
