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by the way post it on the vr thread so everyone else can get it too

sorry i'm late to say happy b day but I think you should write some analyses

Hai there thank you for the birthday wishes yea I have ran a lot of diancie sets I like a lot of em tbh, for the encore set I either run 3 attacks encore (storm press blast) or 2 attacks sr encore. 248/156/20 with +def nature is good from my experience it let's it avoid a 2 shot from +2 shadow claw from life orb mimikyu a 2 shot from slowbro scald survive a +2 Gengar sludge wave after sr. Encore is key move here as it let's dian do a lot of funky stuff like locking slowbro into slack off or empoleon into roost chesnaught into knock/spikes prevents dian into being a setup foughter for many many setup sweepers of the tier. U can run speed on the set to creep with mons like goodra emp and ches if u really want to u can even creep upto umb, the loss of bulk is admitting annoying but the faster encores also are super important. Diancies ability to sit on noivern and cycl is huge this set is not good on bulkier playstyles its best on balanced and offensive teams it provides a good defensive backbone while being not passive. This is the important part. Diancies bulky sets r sometimes passive but encore flips that completely, like slowbro thinking its free calm mind gets completely screwed.

Now for the bulky setup sets I usually go max sp.atk +sp.atk nature usually diamond storm/ID cm kiss and one of stored power or body press.
If its diamond press usually I go 156/100 on both defenses and 252+ sp.atk quiet lets u win against registeel. Encore cm is also pretty fine not amazing but perfectly usable.
Idt there's a clear ev spread for diancie since its so damn customizable as it entirely depends on ur team and which pokemons u want to beat it runs a lot of good sets

so this makes it worthy of an a rank despite the water types running around? okay, I get it.

Yes I believe so, look at the ru waters, slowbro can get completely screwed up locking into cm/slack off suicune can get locked into sub/cm basculegion is setup fought for the cm sets especially if it looks into shadow ball and Tera water still sits on it. Quagsire is kinda bad mu tbh. Gastrodon again kinda setupfoughter for the cm sets. Obviously water mu r not ideal and u aren't running the multiple sets at same time but diancies water mu aren't as horrible as it looks at first. Diancies main thing is its support sets are meant to fill a gap in ur team as a noivern+entei counter while not being passive. Support sets aren't meant to sweep teams and counter everything while bulky setup sets ofcourse need checks weakened like other setup sweepers. Otr is still best set by countrymile and its explosive aswell

was I too hard on basculegion-f?