Aggron 2 (QC: 0/2)

[luser]

[SET]
name: Band
move 1: Head Smash
move 2: Heavy Slam
move 3: Avalanche
move 4: Rock Blast / Bulldoze / Superpower / Low Kick / Fire Blast / Flash Cannon / Earthquake
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
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Aggron's phenomenal ability in Sturdy almost guarantees that it will be able to attack before being KOed. Head Smash is an incredibly powerful attack, overpowering foes like non-Will-o-Wisp Volcanion, Offensive Kyurem, Assault Vest Glastrier, and even neutral targets such as non-physically defensive Heatran, and non-Custap Berry Primarina. Heavy Slam nails various Fairy-type Pokemon like Sylveon, Aromatisse, and Clefable. Avalanche beats common Dragon- and Ground-types like Landorus-T, Naganadel, Choice Scarf and Choice Band Garchomp, and Assault Vest Goodra. Another of Aggron's strengths is its variety of coverage options, running Rock Blast for Crustle and Zapdos; Bulldoze for opposing Aggron and Choice Specs Magnezone; Superpower for Fast Heatran, non-Chople Berry Tyranitar, and Life Orb and Choice Scarf Urshifu; Low Kick for non-Chople Berry Tyranitar, and Registeel; Fire Blast for Avalugg without Bulldoze, Kartana, and Ferrothorn; Flash Cannon for opposing Aggron without Bulldoze and Crustle without Bulldoze; and Earthquake for Bulk Up Zeraora

EVs
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252 Attack EVs and a boosting nature maximizes offensive potential, while 252 Speed EVs Speed tie opposing Aggron and outspeed as many foes as possible, notably Primarina and Crustle. If using a special attack, use a Naughty nature, and otherwise use an Adamant nature.

Usage Tips
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Against foes potentially running Endure who get OHKOed by other moves than Head Smash such as Galarian Moltres and Galarian Darmanitan, opt for a weaker attack, namely Avalanche for Galarian Moltres and Heavy Slam for Galarian Darmanitan. Various threats with Endure that weaker moves can't OHKO force Aggron into 50/50s, most notably Custap Berry Primarina. Although only Head Smash OHKOs, opposing Primarina can Endure and use the recoil to bypass Sturdy. Here, Heavy Slam would beat it if it uses Endure turn 1.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Metal Burst and Custap Berry can also be used, however it suffers from a lot of common counters such as Will-o-Wisp users, and struggles to OHKO many Pokemon without Choice Band that can use a weak or resisted move to avoid dying to Metal Burst.

[CREDITS]
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[luser]

ready for QC!

 

[Mishlef]

AMQC and there was a decent amount of stuff that I left just because I didn’t want to be too exhaustive on a qc 0/2 but I think this should be a good start at least also feel free to ignore any and all of this if I’m totally off the mark
Green = add
Red = Remove
Orange = Change
Blue = Comments

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[SET]
name: Band
move 1: Head Smash
move 2: Heavy Slam
move 3: Avalanche
move 4: Rock Blast / Bulldoze / Superpower / Low Kick / Fire Blast / Flash Cannon/Earthquake (added reliability against regieleki and bulk up zera might be worth considering as a slash less useful now that rachi is banned but could be worth considering)
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
Aggron's phenominal ability in Sturdy almost guarantees that it will be able to attack before going down (being KO’d might be the proper term, going down sounds weird personally). Head Smash is an incredibly powerful attack, overpowering foes like non-Will-o-Wisp Volcanion, Offensive Kyurem, non-Will-o-Wisp Arcanine (burn up arcanine also wins), Assault Vest Glastrier, and even neutral targets such as Heatran without Physically Defensive investment, and non-Custap Berry Primarina. Heavy Slam nails various Fairy-type Pokemon like Sylveon, Aromatisse, and Clefable. Avalanche beats common Dragon- and Ground-types like Landorus-T, Haban Berry Dragon Dance Zygarde (you can arguably keep this but I’ve always seen this set as the most niche of the 4 so potentially find another target although idk if there is something more relevant), non-Custap Berry Choiced Garchomp (Haban Chomp bulks avalanches and clicks sd), and Assault Vest Goodra. Another of Aggron's strengths is its plentiful coverage options (this feels subjective you call it plentiful coverage I call it 4mss but it’s fine you can keep it), running Rock Blast for Crustle and Zapdos; Bulldoze for opposing Aggron and Choice Specs Magnezone; Superpower for non-Chople Berry Urshifu-S (AV bulks for it sort of) and all Heatran (bulky heatran just lives); Low Kick for all Heatran (same as before) and Registeel (ttar is like a potential target for both fighting moves but idk about the chople calc) ; Fire Blast for Avalugg without Bulldoze, Kartana, and Ferrothorn; and Flash Cannon for opposing Aggron without Bulldoze and Crustle without Bulldoze.

EVs
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252 Attack EVs and a boosting nature maximizes offensive potential, while 252 Speed EVs Speed tie opposing Aggron and outspeed as many foes as possible, notably Primarina and Crustle. If using a special attack, use a Naughty nature, and otherwise use an Adamant nature.

Usage Tips
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Head Smash is a risky move, dealing recoil and potentially missing (seems sort of fluffy you're just explaining the move’s description). If another move is more accurate and can kill as well, such as Heavy Slam against Togekiss, it is preferred for more consistency (similar stuff here seems sort of obvious). Against foes potentially running Endure but get OHKOed to other moves as Galarian Moltres and Galarian Darmanitan, opt for a weaker attack, namely Avalanche for Galarian Moltres and Heavy Slam for Galarian Darmanitan. Various threats with Endure that weaker moves can't OHKO force Aggron into 50/50s, most notably Custap Berry Primarina. Although only Head Smash OHKOs, opposing Primarina can Endure and use the recoil to bypass Sturdy. Here, Heavy Slam would beat it if it uses Endure turn 1.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Metal Burst and Custap Berry can also be used, however it suffers from a lot of common counters such as Will-o-Wisp and Fake Out (the most relevant fake out user being Rilla doesn’t even use fake out to break aggron’s sturdy so it doesn’t click it and zera is the only other relevant one I can think off) users, and struggles to OHKO many Pokemon with weak or resisted attacks without Choice Band.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[linux user, 545212]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2], [username3, userid3]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]

 

[luser]

forgot to mention but implemented, skipped over eq for eleki (avalanche kills) although mentioned it for bulk up zera.

 

[Itchy]

archiving