Meloetta [Banned]

[tondas]

[SET]
name: Celebrate
move 1: Celebrate
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Shadow Ball / Thunderbolt
item: Normalium Z
ability: Serene Grace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Celebrate, when powered through Normalium Z, grants Meloetta a one-time +1 boost to all of its stats, allowing it to hit harder, take more hits, and outspeed threats such as Choice Scarf Gardevoir and +1 Tyrantrum.
• Psychic is Meloetta's strongest STAB option, serving as a way to break through Pokemon such as Nidoqueen and Roserade.
• Focus Blast is able to punch through those resistant or immune to Psychic like Registeel, Mega Steelix, and Umbreon.
• Shadow Ball rounds off Meloetta's coverage due to its ability to deal super effective damage to the likes of Bronzong and Cresselia, which otherwise resist or don't mind its attacks.
• Thunderbolt is a viable alternative that allows Meloetta to muscle past checks such as Mandibuzz and Mantine.

Set Details
========

• Maximum investment in Special Attack and Speed alongside a Timid nature optimizes Meloetta's offensive presence.
• Serene Grace doubles the chances of Psychic and Shadow Ball dropping the opponents Special Defense, occasionally coming in handy for breaking past Pokemon like Florges and Mantine more easily.
• Normalium Z is necessary in order to power up Celebrate one time.

Usage Tips
========

• Before using its Z-Move, Meloetta can come in and out of the field in order to throw off coverage moves to chip away at the opposing team.
• Z-Celebrate is best utilized late-game where Meloetta can capitalize on its all-around stat boosts. However, careful planning of Z-Celebrate is advised due to its use only being one-time, so the removal or weakening of specially bulky Pokemon like Florges, as well as Bronzong and Mantine if lacking appropriate coverage, is necessary before attempting to sweep.
• Meloetta can find good opportunities to use Z-Celebrate on forced switches or against passive Pokemon like Mega Steelix and Gligar.
• One can choose to keep Meloetta's coverage move ambiguous in order to optimize its matchups, as checks such as Milotic and Bronzong are far less consistent if Meloetta is carrying the appropriate move and reveals it against them.
• Avoid status whenever possible, as they're quite detrimental to Meloetta's role as a late-game cleaner. For instance, Toxic can limit Meloetta's number of turns on the field while Paralysis slows it down to a crawl.

Team Options
========

• Physical wallbreakers such as Barbaracle, Tyrantrum, and Swords Dance Feraligatr form an excellent offensive core with Meloetta, as they're able to blitz past specially defensive Pokemon while Meloetta can dispatch Pokemon like Bewear and Quagsire in return.
• Fighting-types like Virizion and Toxicroak thrive off of Meloetta's ability to break past Pokemon such as Dragalge and Gligar if Toxicroak lacks Ice Punch. Their ability to threaten Steel- and Dark-types as well as specially defensive walls like Milotic and Umbreon is highly appreciated by Meloetta.
• Threats to Meloetta like Mandibuzz and Escavalier are handled effectively by Pokemon such as Mega Ampharos and Ninetales, the former also serving as an offensive pivot with Volt Switch.
• Various other pivots such as Gligar and Rotom-C are vital in bringing Meloetta in safely and luring in Pokemon for it to take advantage of such as Mega Abomasnow and Roserade. Gligar is notably able to wear down Steel-types with Earthquake and set Stealth Rock, allowing Meloetta to become more threatening late-game by virtue of wearing down switch-ins and allowing it to spam Psychic more liberally.

 

[roman]

[SET]
name: Celebrate
move 1: Celebrate
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Shadow Ball / Thunderbolt
item: Normalium Z
ability: Serene Grace
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

name: Z-Celebrate
move 1: Celebrate
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Shadow Ball / Focus Blast
move 4: Thunderbolt / Calm Mind
item: Normalium Z
ability: Serene Grace
nature: Timid
evs: 40 HP / 252 SpA / 216 Spe

better set atm, spread lets you creep just as much stuff but leaving you above scarf croak/garde/cham

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Celebrate, when powered through Normalium Z, grants Meloetta a one-time +1 boost to all of its stats, allowing it to hit harder, take more hits, and outspeed threats such as Choice Scarf Gardevoir and +1 Tyrantrum.
• Psychic is Meloetta's strongest STAB option, serving as a way to break through Pokemon such as Nidoqueen and Roserade.
• Focus Blast is able to punch through those resistant or immune to Psychic like Registeel, Mega Steelix, and Umbreon.
• Shadow Ball rounds off Meloetta's coverage due to its ability to deal super effective damage to the likes of Bronzong and Cresselia, which otherwise resist or don't mind its attacks.
• Thunderbolt is a viable alternative that allows Meloetta to muscle past checks such as Mandibuzz and Mantine.

* fix to reflect set changes

Set Details
========

• Maximum investment in Special Attack and Speed alongside a Timid nature optimizes Meloetta's offensive presence.
• Serene Grace doubles the chances of Psychic and Shadow Ball dropping the opponents Special Defense, occasionally coming in handy for breaking past Pokemon like Florges and Mantine more easily.
• Normalium Z is necessary in order to power up Celebrate one time.

* fix to reflect ev change on main set
* you can mention modest spread w/ 72 hp / 252 spa / 184 spe, but talk about drawbacks of being slower than all those scarves + ttrum

Usage Tips
========

• Before using its Z-Move, Meloetta can come in and out of the field in order to throw off coverage moves to chip away at the opposing team.
• Z-Celebrate is best utilized late-game where Meloetta can capitalize on its all-around stat boosts. However, careful planning of Z-Celebrate is advised due to its use only being one-time, so the removal or weakening of specially bulky Pokemon like Florges, as well as Bronzong and Mantine if lacking appropriate coverage, is necessary before attempting to sweep.
• Meloetta can find good opportunities to use Z-Celebrate on forced switches or against passive Pokemon like Mega Steelix and Gligar.
• One can choose to keep Meloetta's coverage move ambiguous in order to optimize its matchups, as checks such as Milotic and Bronzong are far less consistent if Meloetta is carrying the appropriate move and reveals it against them.
• Avoid status whenever possible, as they're quite detrimental to Meloetta's role as a late-game cleaner. For instance, Toxic can limit Meloetta's number of turns on the field while Paralysis slows it down to a crawl.

* delete 1st line, you definitely shouldn't leave meloetta out to be chipped by rocks and attacks before trying to set up, especially when in the next line you say that you should only use it during the late-game
* mega lix cripples mel w/ toxic, replace w/ better example
* remove the 4th tip, mel should never gonna get the opportunity to reveal coverage before you set up (it should not be on the field).. and after you set up you'll be using it so there's no reason to ever hide your coverage
* talk about setting up on choice-locked pokemon (-2 rose / -2 goodra etc)
* talk about weakening checks with pursuit before setting up, you can add it to the bullet about utilizing mel late-game or make a new one, it doesnt matter to me

Team Options
========

• Physical wallbreakers such as Barbaracle, Tyrantrum, and Swords Dance Feraligatr form an excellent offensive core with Meloetta, as they're able to blitz past specially defensive Pokemon while Meloetta can dispatch Pokemon like Bewear and Quagsire in return.
• Fighting-types like Virizion and Toxicroak thrive off of Meloetta's ability to break past Pokemon such as Dragalge and Gligar if Toxicroak lacks Ice Punch. Their ability to threaten Steel- and Dark-types as well as specially defensive walls like Milotic and Umbreon is highly appreciated by Meloetta.
• Threats to Meloetta like Mandibuzz and Escavalier are handled effectively by Pokemon such as Mega Ampharos and Ninetales, the former also serving as an offensive pivot with Volt Switch.
• Various other pivots such as Gligar and Rotom-C are vital in bringing Meloetta in safely and luring in Pokemon for it to take advantage of such as Mega Abomasnow and Roserade. Gligar is notably able to wear down Steel-types with Earthquake and set Stealth Rock, allowing Meloetta to become more threatening late-game by virtue of wearing down switch-ins and allowing it to spam Psychic more liberally.

* pursuit support for the cm set should be the first bullet point, wearing down doublade is very important for cm's success
* i assume we are talking about physical walls in the 1st bullet. if we are then you can remove bewear, it isn't a physical wall, and remove quagsire, it isn't used and threatens mel w/ toxic anyway. replace the examples
* you should remove the gligar example, glig does nothing to viriz except maybe toxic (not prevalent) and nearly every croak runs ice punch specifically to beat gligar.. replace the example
* remove abomasnow example, mel takes MIN 70 damage + hail damage + potential rocks and has to set up before killing w/ blast... replace it with something else
252 SpA Meloetta Focus Blast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Abomasnow-Mega: 248-294 (77.2 - 91.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Abomasnow-Mega Wood Hammer vs. +1 0 HP / 0 Def Meloetta: 181-214 (53 - 62.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and hail damage
252+ Atk Abomasnow-Mega Ice Shard vs. +1 0 HP / 0 Def Meloetta: 61-73 (17.8 - 21.4%) -- guaranteed 4HKO after Stealth Rock and hail damage

1/3

 

[MrAldo]

tondas has the check been implemented? Please mention us if so

 

[tondas]

held off until after the suspect and this ended up getting nuked. sry about how much time this took to get out of wip, will make sure something like this doesn't happen again