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Moltres ohkos Araq, Scizor, Bisharp and Celebi in an ideal world where it doesn't miss. It can set up agility on malt and Bisharp as it lacks knock off and technically walls both. Agility making it faster than celebi and terrak. It is immune to webs and can prevent an Araq lead as it isnt sash. Flame body can burn stuff. Bulky Sciz eats psychZ from celebi. Pressures Malt and walls Scizor pretty well. Bug-Z dents Scizor and ohkos Araq and Bisharp at +2. It helps vs Terrak and eats 2 SE. Unboosted BP also doesn't prock it's berry. Overall an annoying core with a good match-up, but ofc this team has its counter measures. E.g. Terrak still 2ohkos scizor with CC so it can't always risk hard switching and moltres has to look out for QA and Sucker + needs chip on Terrak to clean.
Inspired by research week with my choices here a bit.
As seen in the below calcs roserade will ohko everything except araquanid after rocks. Obviously actually hp firing scizor will be pretty impossible unless a SD hasn't been used yet, and bisharp can hit you pretty hard with priority too, as seen in calcs below. But as long as not chipped, you can survive their hits.
Scarf roserade has the advantage in this matchup of being a fairly uncommon mon, and able to revenge kill +1 altaria and terrakion both of which it will outspeed. I replaced dazzling gleam with spikes on this roserade set as dazzling gleam won't hit anything harder than any of it's other moves, and so being able to spikes on a predicted swap is likely to be more useful, as the enemy has no hazard removal of their own, if it can be got up it'll make the job much easier, making it easier for blastoise to deal with stuff such as scizor.
Blastoise in this matchup is there to be a hazard remover that won't trigger defiant, as there are no ghost types. It also outspeeds scizor and deals lethal damage to it, while a +2 quick attack is easilly lived due to it's natural bulk. It can also easily live any unboosted or boosted attacks from bisharp and ohko it with aura sphere.
252+ SpA Mega Launcher Blastoise-Mega Water Pulse vs. 124 HP / 4 SpD Scizor: 199-235 (63.7 - 75.3%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock and 1 layer of Spikes
+2 252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Scizor Quick Attack vs. 104 HP / 0 Def Blastoise-Mega: 160-188 (49.2 - 57.8%) -- 97.7% chance to 2HKO
252+ Atk Black Glasses Bisharp Sucker Punch vs. 104 HP / 0 Def Blastoise-Mega: 126-148 (38.7 - 45.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252+ Atk Black Glasses Bisharp Sucker Punch vs. 104 HP / 0 Def Blastoise-Mega: 250-295 (76.9 - 90.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Black Glasses Bisharp Sucker Punch vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Roserade: 208-246 (79.3 - 93.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Scizor Bullet Punch vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Roserade: 199-235 (75.9 - 89.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Roserade Sludge Bomb vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Celebi: 288-338 (84.4 - 99.1%) -- 75% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
252 SpA Roserade Leaf Storm vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Terrakion: 452-534 (139.9 - 165.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Roserade Sludge Bomb vs. 72 HP / 0 SpD Altaria-Mega: 276-326 (89.3 - 105.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
252 SpA Technician Roserade Hidden Power Fire vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Bisharp: 256-302 (94.4 - 111.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
basic offensive core that happens to really annoys webs. aero can prevent araq from getting its webs up, threatening malt with ice fang, etc. Ape sets up on zor or bish and hits everything hard, even altaria with a boosted z-move.
Magneton @ Electrium Z
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Emboar holding the Choice Scarf item allows you to outspeed all mons of this team, except for Altaria-Mega after raising a Dragon Dance. With this coverage he manages to hit most of the team in an absurdly strong way.
252 Atk Reckless Emboar Wild Charge vs. 144 HP / 0 Def Araquanid: 244-288 (77.9 - 92%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Reckless Emboar Flare Blitz vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Bisharp: 452-534 (166.7 - 197%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Emboar Superpower vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Bisharp: 748-888 (276 - 327.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Emboar Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Bisharp: 210-248 (77.4 - 91.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Reckless Emboar Flare Blitz vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Celebi: 452-534 (132.5 - 156.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Reckless Emboar Flare Blitz vs. 124 HP / 0 Def Scizor: 904-1068 (289.7 - 342.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Emboar Superpower vs. 0 HP / 36 Def Terrakion: 396-468 (122.6 - 144.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
And to complete the core, we have a Magnezone who can deal with Altaria-Mega since she does not have Earthquake and has Z-Move to hit hard, especially Araquanid.
252 SpA Magneton Flash Cannon vs. 72 HP / 0 SpD Altaria-Mega: 236-282 (76.3 - 91.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Magneton Gigavolt Havoc (175 BP) vs. 144 HP / 0 SpD Araquanid: 426-504 (136.1 - 161%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Magneton Gigavolt Havoc (175 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Bisharp: 363-427 (133.9 - 157.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Magneton Hidden Power Fire vs. 124 HP / 0 SpD Scizor: 300-356 (96.1 - 114.1%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Magneton Gigavolt Havoc (175 BP) vs. 124 HP / 0 SpD Scizor: 325-384 (104.1 - 123%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Hey, just letting y'all know before i make voting that Ivi's core will not be accepted because scarf emboar is unviable in UU and doesn't fit with magneton. Remember, the premise of this project is that every team has viable countermeasures.
The idea behind this team was to build around DD Refresh Mega-Altaria which has proven to be a fantastic late game sweeper, while still easing up a team’s match-up against Balance and Stall. I added Terrakion as it pressures a lot of Malts checks like Rotom-H, Moltres, MegaLix, Mega Aggron etc. Fightinium-Z helping me nuke past the latter. Rotom-H provides me with Defog support, but more importantly a switch into Scizor, MegaLix etc. Will-O-Wisp allows me to punish certain Pokemon making them potential set-up opportunities for Terrakion and Malt. Empoleon gives me an answer to Primarina which would otherwise just claim something each time. It acts as my SR user and I chose Roar on this team as some set-up sweepers could prove to be problematic. Scarf Krookodile gives me speed control, Pursuit support and an electric immunity. Crunch is chosen to ease my Celebi and Latias match-up. Amoonguss patched up a lot of holes for the team with checking Maero, Malt etc. Spore support is nice for my set-up sweepers.
Give this your best shot to break by our good ol' Thursday voting time. Good to be back on track.
On mobile so no pretty sprites: Nidoking + Scizor.
With Rotom being the sole ground resist, and 4/6 Pokémon weak to its STABs + Ice Beam, Nidoking pretty much claims one every time it comes in, and it gets many opportunities against Amoonguss, Altaria, Terrak, and Emp. If the user opts to hard switch into Rotom, then crippling it with Sludge Wave opens up a Scizor sweep. Scizor set would be SD/BP/Bug Bite/Roost with LO. Just chip Emp (or dodge a burn lol).
This team does not like Thousand Arrows. It 2HKO's the majority of the team either straight up or after rocks. However, it gets outrun by Krookidile, and is very frail. This is where SD Iron Plate Scizor comes in and reeks havoc. With Zydoge ruining Rotom's day with Thousand Arrows, Scizor is basically free to click SD+Bullet Punch. It also runs through Krookidile at +1 with Bug Bite, as Scizor lives all of Krook's attacks, even after rocks. Outrage, while locking yourself into it isn't the best idea, can break through Krookidile and Amoongus.
-1 252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Krookodile: 147-174 (44.4 - 52.5%) -- 77.7% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 72 HP / 0 Def Altaria-Mega: 169-201 (54.6 - 65%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 236 HP / 0 Def Rotom-Heat: 696-820 (232 - 273.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 252 HP / 160+ Def Amoonguss: 183-216 (42.3 - 50%) -- 91% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Terrakion: 402-474 (124.4 - 146.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 252 HP / 72 Def Empoleon: 378-446 (101.6 - 119.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
zoom zoom (autonomize) clanger can set up on amoon or krook and threaten to sweep, forcing malt to come in and mega. Easy switch to Empoleon. Ice Beam is nice for sniping Unevolved Altaria and putting more direct pressure on Celebi/Latias than Toxic (not cteaming).
Thanks for clarifying. I kind of got excited about my first participation in this mini-event. It was fun anyway and I will try to participate in the next one.
