Battle Spot Mandibuzz

[Ika Ika Musume]

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Foul Play
move 2: Roost
move 3: Taunt
move 4: Iron Defense / Toxic / U-turn / Knock Off
item: Rocky Helmet / Leftovers
ability: Overcoat / Big Pecks
nature: Impish
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Mandibuzz functions as a decent defensive check to Gyarados, Dragapult, Excadrill, and in some cases Mimikyu, whilst frustrating slower pPokemon with Taunt. Foul Play dents physical attackers and is Mandibuzz's primary way of preventing setup. Roost is there for longevity whilst Taunt can hamper pokemon such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, Aegislash, Toxapex, and Galarian Corsola. The last move can be dependent on what you need for the team; Iron Defense allows Mandibuzz to set up alongside sweepers such as Gyarados whilst Brave Bird does respectable damage, Toxic racks up passive damage, U-turn gets Mandibuzz out of unfavourable matchups, and Knock Off is good for getting rid of items from Galarian Corsola as well as removing Choice Scarf. When it comes to ability, the standard is Overcoat, but Big Pecks can be situationally useful in preventing Mandibuzz from getting Defense drops from switching into Max Phantasm.

Mandibuzz likes to have bulky Pokemon that can take Ice-, Electric-, and Rock-type attacks from Galarian Darmanitan, the Rotom formes, and Tyranitar. Snorlax is a pretty decent option at tanking up the hits from these Pokemon, as is Conkeldurr. Mandibuzz also likes having other bulky Pokemon around to support it such as Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Galarian Corsola to create very tanky cores.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Ika Ika Musume, 165529]]
- Quality checked by: [[marilli, 70760], [Theorymon, 29010]]
- Grammar checked by: [[lotiasite, 302985]]

 

[Theorymon]

Mandibuzz is a pretty similar to how it was prebank in SM! The main things I'd add are mentioning Corviknight under Taunt (that's a major target for it).

Also, I think we generally try to avoid more than 4 slashes for moves (it looks pretty messy on the dex lol). I'd personally just regulate Brave Bird to a mention, since the other 4 moves have pretty useful utility outside of damage.

Otherwise, QC Approved 1/2!

 

[Ika Ika Musume]

Done

 

[YodaJr]

Do you know how to get toxic on Mandibuzz?
Serebii shows it as an egg move but with no apparent way to pass it down.
I caught a yellow aura vullaby lvl 60 and it did not have toxic and was not able to learn toxic from the "remember a move" guy.
It seems it is not currently available.

 

[Chompman]

Do you know how to get toxic on Mandibuzz?
Serebii shows it as an egg move but with no apparent way to pass it down.
I caught a yellow aura vullaby lvl 60 and it did not have toxic and was not able to learn toxic from the "remember a move" guy.
It seems it is not currently available.

Only Mandibuzz is able to learn toxic from the "remember a move" guy.

 

[marilli]

QC 2/2
aside from the questionable 'quitting' thing, huh. Is someone picking this up?

 

[lotiasite]

check

[SET]
name: Defensive Wall(redundant)
move 1: Foul Play
move 2: Roost
move 3: Taunt
move 4: Iron Defencse / Toxic / U-Tturn / Knock Off
item: Rocky Helmet / Leftovers
ability: Overcoat / Big Pecks
nature: Impish
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe (again with the 4 speed)

[SET COMMENTS]
Mandibuzz functions as a decent defensive check to Gyarados, Dragapult, Excadrill, (AC) and in some cases Mimikyu, whilst frustrating slower pPokemon with Taunt. Foul Play dents physical attackers, especially since it is STAB and its Mandibuzz's primary way of preventing set(remove space)up. Roost is there for longevity whilst Taunt can hamper pokemon such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, Aegislash, Toxapex, (AC) and Galarian-(RH) Corsola. The last move can be dependent on what you need for the team,;(SC) Iron Defence allows youse allows Mandibuzz to set up alongside sweepers such as Gyarados whilst Brave Bird does respectable damage, Toxic racks up passive damage and, (AC) U-turn gets Mandibuzz out of unfavourable Mmatchups, and Knock Off is good for getting rid of items from Galarian-(RH) Corsola as well as taking offremoving Choice Scarfs. When it comes to ability, the standard is Overcoat, but Big Pecks can be situationally useful in preventing Mandibuzz from getting defencDefense drops from switching into Max Phantasm. The EVs are Maximum HP and Maximum Defence investment for the most physical bulk.

Mandibuzz likes to have bulky pPokemon that can take Ice/Electric/Rock -(AH), (AC) Electric-(AH), (AC) and Rock-(AH)type attacks from Galarian Darmanitan, the Rotom Formesformes, (AC) and Tyranitar. Snorlax is a pretty decent option at tanking up the hits from these pPokemon, as is Conkeldurr. Mandibuzz also likes having other fat pbulky Pokemon around to support it such as Toxapex, Ferrothorn, (AC) and Galarian Corsola to create very tanky cores.

gp 1/1

 

[Ika Ika Musume]

implemented

 

[Theorymon]

Mandibuzz is onsite!