[SET]
Glass Cannon (Ninetales Alola) @ Focus Sash / Choice Specs / Never Melt Ice /
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost / Ice
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Freeze Dry / Aurora Veil
- Encore / Moonblast
- Protect / Icy Wind
[SET COMMENTS]
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales plays a heavy offensive role while supporting a team with weather control. Alolan Ninetales becomes a serious offensive threat with its powerful Ice and Fairy type STAB attacks.
- Blizzard and Moonblast act as Alolan Nintale's powerful STAB attacks. Freeze Dry helps with water types and Icy Wind gives speed control. Encore locks Pokemon into setup or status moves and Aroura Veil Increases the whole teams defense. Moves like Encore and Protect are not as useful on Choice Specs sets because they lock the Pokemon into the moves.
- Gohst is a good Tera type on Alolan Nintales to gain immunity to normal type moves like Fake Out and Extreme Speed. Ice Tera is a good type to increase the power of Alolan Ninetale's Ice type moves. (give examples of calcs that allow alolan-ninetales to ohko/2hko certain pokemon)
- Alolan Ninetales, Blizzard can OHKO Garchomp, Dragapult, and Whimsicott. Additionally, Blizzard can 2HKO Sneasler, Rillaboom, both Ursaluna formes, and Amoonguss.
- Choice Specs Alolan Ninetales can ...
(Please talk about the item differences somewhere)
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales can provide a lot of damage output but is less bulky and does not work as well as a supportive piece on teams.
[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales Alola) @ Light Clay / Never Melt Ice / Covert Cloak
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost / Water
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Aurora Veil
- Encore / Protect
- Icy Wind / Freeze Dry
[SET COMMENTS]
- As a Screen Setter, Alolan Ninetale’s role is to set up Aurora Veil and support their team. Aloan Nintales makes use of its Light Clay to extend the duration of Aurora Veil, another niche option Never Melt Ice increases the damage of Alolan Ninetale’s Ice type attacks like Blizzard. Covert Cloak allows Alolan Ninetales to ignore the second affects from moves like Fake Out and Dire Claw.
- Tera Water is a good defensive tera type that turns most of Alolan Nintale’s weaknesses into neutral or resisted attacks. Ghost Tera is good to setup Aurora Veil quicker by ignore Fake Out, It additionally resists Poison type moves like Dire Claw.
- (252+ Atk Sneasler Dire Claw vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Ninetales-Alola in Snow: 126-150 (85.1 - 101.3%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO it takes 4 evs not this many evs, mention different calcs dm me if you need help finding calcs) This set is also built to withstand a Flare Blitz from Incineroar with minimal attack investment. (again, it takes minimal investment to live incin flae blitz 12 Atk Incineroar Flare Blitz vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Ninetales-Alola in Snow: 132-156 (83 - 98.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO) The speed EVs allow Nintails to outspeed Garchomp, Typhlosion-H, and Indeedee-M.
- This set is primarily support and the most supportive Alolan Ninetales set. However, this set does not do as much damage and is not as flexible.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Teambuilding
============
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales is good with powerful sweepers like Garchomp and Dragonite to damage Pokemon Alolan Nintales has trouble with. Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales needs speed control because it is very frail. Glass Cannon is good on offensive focused teams, it gives them weather control and provides a lot of damage.
- Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales plays well with setup Pokemon like Annhilape, Kingambit and Gholdengo. Screen Setter Alolan Nintales plays better with Fake Out support to help set up screens better.
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales and Screen Setter Alolan Nintales have a bad matchup into Sneasler and Gholdengo. Pokemon like Garchomp and Volcarona are effective Pokemon to cover these weaknesses.
Strategy Comments
============
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales is a powerful sweeper able to harness weather control. This Pokemon shines under tailwind and with support to cover its weaknesses. Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales is a supportive screen setter able to take weather control and defend its team with Aroura Veil. It plays best with defensive offensive Pokemon next to it to support.
- Playstyle: Glass Cannon Alolan Nintales may not want to lead if it's holding the choice specs item because of fake out. Glass Cannon Alolan Nintales plays best put in after tailwind is set up. (this whole part is just kind of wrong, you have tera ghost to avoid fake out if necescary and tailwind should be priority so you can set it up and get speed control+an attack off. alola tales is usually used as an early game damage dealer or a cleaner, talk about that) Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales may be a good lead to start the game with an Aroura Veil to defend their team. Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales is not good in the late game as it fails to support its team then.
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales and Screen Setter Alolan Nintales are countered by Steel, Poison, and Fire type Pokemon. Good ways to keep these Pokemon in check is with powerful ground-type Pokemon like Garchomp. (What about screens ninetales? Also instead of talking about garchomp which is more of a teambuilding choice, I would like you to talk about how you can position alolan ninetales to do better into teams, such as pivoting it around to avoid powerful attacks and get rid of foes that resist its attacks so it can clean up the game)
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Glass Cannon (Ninetales Alola) @ Focus Sash / Choice Specs / Never Melt Ice /
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost / Ice
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Freeze Dry / Aurora Veil
- Encore / Moonblast
- Protect / Icy Wind
[SET COMMENTS]
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales plays a heavy offensive role while supporting a team with weather control. Alolan Ninetales becomes a serious offensive threat with its powerful Ice and Fairy type STAB attacks.
- Blizzard and Moonblast act as Alolan Nintale's powerful STAB attacks. Freeze Dry helps with water types and Icy Wind gives speed control. Encore locks Pokemon into setup or status moves and Aroura Veil Increases the whole teams defense. Moves like Encore and Protect are not as useful on Choice Specs sets because they lock the Pokemon into the moves.
- Gohst is a good Tera type on Alolan Nintales to gain immunity to normal type moves like Fake Out and Extreme Speed. Ice Tera is a good type to increase the power of Alolan Ninetale's Ice type moves. (give examples of calcs that allow alolan-ninetales to ohko/2hko certain pokemon)
- Alolan Ninetales, Blizzard can OHKO Garchomp, Dragapult, and Whimsicott. Additionally, Blizzard can 2HKO Sneasler, Rillaboom, both Ursaluna formes, and Amoonguss.
- Choice Specs Alolan Ninetales can ...
(Please talk about the item differences somewhere)
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales can provide a lot of damage output but is less bulky and does not work as well as a supportive piece on teams.
[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales Alola) @ Light Clay / Never Melt Ice / Covert Cloak
Ability: Snow Warning
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost / Water
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Blizzard
- Aurora Veil
- Encore / Protect
- Icy Wind / Freeze Dry
[SET COMMENTS]
- As a Screen Setter, Alolan Ninetale’s role is to set up Aurora Veil and support their team. Aloan Nintales makes use of its Light Clay to extend the duration of Aurora Veil, another niche option Never Melt Ice increases the damage of Alolan Ninetale’s Ice type attacks like Blizzard. Covert Cloak allows Alolan Ninetales to ignore the second affects from moves like Fake Out and Dire Claw.
- Tera Water is a good defensive tera type that turns most of Alolan Nintale’s weaknesses into neutral or resisted attacks. Ghost Tera is good to setup Aurora Veil quicker by ignore Fake Out, It additionally resists Poison type moves like Dire Claw.
- (252+ Atk Sneasler Dire Claw vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Ninetales-Alola in Snow: 126-150 (85.1 - 101.3%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO it takes 4 evs not this many evs, mention different calcs dm me if you need help finding calcs) This set is also built to withstand a Flare Blitz from Incineroar with minimal attack investment. (again, it takes minimal investment to live incin flae blitz 12 Atk Incineroar Flare Blitz vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Ninetales-Alola in Snow: 132-156 (83 - 98.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO) The speed EVs allow Nintails to outspeed Garchomp, Typhlosion-H, and Indeedee-M.
- This set is primarily support and the most supportive Alolan Ninetales set. However, this set does not do as much damage and is not as flexible.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Teambuilding
============
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales is good with powerful sweepers like Garchomp and Dragonite to damage Pokemon Alolan Nintales has trouble with. Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales needs speed control because it is very frail. Glass Cannon is good on offensive focused teams, it gives them weather control and provides a lot of damage.
- Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales plays well with setup Pokemon like Annhilape, Kingambit and Gholdengo. Screen Setter Alolan Nintales plays better with Fake Out support to help set up screens better.
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales and Screen Setter Alolan Nintales have a bad matchup into Sneasler and Gholdengo. Pokemon like Garchomp and Volcarona are effective Pokemon to cover these weaknesses.
Strategy Comments
============
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales is a powerful sweeper able to harness weather control. This Pokemon shines under tailwind and with support to cover its weaknesses. Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales is a supportive screen setter able to take weather control and defend its team with Aroura Veil. It plays best with defensive offensive Pokemon next to it to support.
- Playstyle: Glass Cannon Alolan Nintales may not want to lead if it's holding the choice specs item because of fake out. Glass Cannon Alolan Nintales plays best put in after tailwind is set up. (this whole part is just kind of wrong, you have tera ghost to avoid fake out if necescary and tailwind should be priority so you can set it up and get speed control+an attack off. alola tales is usually used as an early game damage dealer or a cleaner, talk about that) Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales may be a good lead to start the game with an Aroura Veil to defend their team. Screen Setter Alolan Ninetales is not good in the late game as it fails to support its team then.
- Glass Cannon Alolan Ninetales and Screen Setter Alolan Nintales are countered by Steel, Poison, and Fire type Pokemon. Good ways to keep these Pokemon in check is with powerful ground-type Pokemon like Garchomp. (What about screens ninetales? Also instead of talking about garchomp which is more of a teambuilding choice, I would like you to talk about how you can position alolan ninetales to do better into teams, such as pivoting it around to avoid powerful attacks and get rid of foes that resist its attacks so it can clean up the game)
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bdudeinthehouse.670676/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flarefox_7.657713/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rauvgc.589964/
Grammar checked by:
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