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all of these sets have existed for literal years

Shuckle has a built in focus sash with Sturdy that allows it to hold Mental Herb, has access to Encore to goob various leads that could otherwise exploit it, and is bulky enough that other than Double Iron Bash no multi-strike moves can OHKO it and prevent webs going up. Slurpuff has no...

reserving trick room setting Calyrex-Ice Calyrex-Ice @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Ice Plate Ability: As One (Glastrier) Tera Type: Water / Fairy EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 SpD Brave Nature - Glacial Lance - High Horsepower / Close Combat - Seed Bomb / Swords Dance - Trick Room

This is a team report I made 8 months ago about the first team I hit 1800 with. Looking back, it's absolutely terrible. The things that stick out most are stone edge Marshadow, chesto berry Zygarde, slow SD Groudon, tera Ghost Darkceus (instead of tera Poison) and no entry hazards. I got a few...

I think that Behemoth Blade/Wild Charge/TB Ground is the closest to solving Zacian's 4MSS and that contributes to why I believe its very high ceiling is worth building for. I'm curious what you think about my assertion that +3 Zacian with that coverage only has 4 (common) things it can't OHKO*...

I think that much more important calcs result from having less defense: a higher chance for Life Orb Marshadow Rock Tomb to OHKO and the greater investment Primal Groudon needs to OHKO with Stone Edge. 252 Atk Life Orb Technician Marshadow Rock Tomb vs. 248 HP / 204+ Def Ho-Oh: 406-478 (97.8 -...

this is a war crime I agree with all of Bobsican's arguments. The fact that the two best Dark resists in the tier are both slower than Chien-Pao and also that one of them is weak to Ice and boosts the damage of Crunch against itself is kinda diabolical. Icicle Crash's flinch chance means...

Zacian often gets called a tera hog as a knock on its viability. But what if it wasn't? I find Behemoth Blade + Tera Blast Ground + Wild Charge Zacian to be incredible useful and consistent, but the sentiment around Zacian's viability has never been worse. Part of it is understandable: Xerneas...

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I invested 196 EVs into speed to hit 265 (1 more than -1 Eternatus) and 108 into attack (which gives a 75% chance of dropping max phys bulk Ho-Oh from full with Stone Edge) with a Rash nature and the rest in special attack. I really value the guaranteed chance (especially on a webs team!) and...

Why would you ever run Refresh over sub? Blocking Glare or twave or toxic from being used in the first place has so much more value than curing a status after it's been inflicted. If you sub on a status move, then you waste your opponent's turn and provide utility for yourself. Refresh at most...

Shouldn't this be a knock against its viability? Sticky Web teams are inherently unreliable and Zekrom has the capacity to underperform both on and off webs teams. The two webs setters in the meta are both in B-. Giratina-Altered shares the trait of being amazing on one single playstyle and not...

There are no relevant grass, bug, or fighting types. Uninvested Aeroblast does pathetic damage to most of the meta, even on a crit. You do decent damage to Groudon at the cost of losing 1/4 health to stealth rocks every switch and letting in Zacian, Eternatus, Yveltal, Kyogre, Necrozma-Dusk...

:zekrom: B+ -> B-/C+ I don't understand how this thing was ever thought of so highly. I've tried using it on multiple teams and it's horribly inconsistent and requires so much support in the teambuilder. You either get outsped by Zacian even after a Dragon Dance or are starving for power by...

Two Cool Sets: Tera Poison Stallkiller Darkceus + Tera Fire Ingrain Xerneas I'm sure other people have run this Arceus-Dark set before, but I thought it up independently for my own teams. It doubles as a Xerneas check as well as a midgame progress maker/defensive piece against stall, HO, and...