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I put some boomer techs such as expert belt and toxicheal focus punch breloom (technician aint for me) Maybe I should put in a better weavile switch in, but most weavile sets dont run low kick anymore so I think magnezone works (idk if it'd even kill tbh)
I put some boomer techs such as expert belt and toxicheal focus punch breloom (technician aint for me) Maybe I should put in a better weavile switch in, but most weavile sets dont run low kick anymore so I think magnezone works (idk if it'd even kill tbh)
: The team's primary breaker, Latias' specs Draco Meteor threatens pretty much everything that isn't a Fairy type, specially defensive Steel type, or Blissey and Slowking. Specs Psychic gives Latias a spammable STAB option to hit Fairy types and other Psychic-weak mons without the drawback of Draco Meteor. Surf is mainly on this set to hit Heatran, as even SpDef Heatran gets 2HKO'd by specs Surf after rocks. Surf also gives Latias an option to hit Tyranitar without dropping its SpAtk. Lastly, Sleep Talk is on this set to take advantage of Breloom's Spore which would otherwise greatly annoy this team.
: The team's cleaner, Scarf Garchomp's main role is to revenge kill faster threats and to clean up against a weakened team late game. Outrage and EQ hit everything not named Skarmory or Togekiss for at least neutral damage, and will be the moves of choice when you come in late game to clean up. Dual Chop is for a mid-game Dragon STAB option that breaks Focus Sash and Substitute while also avoiding being locked into the attack for multiple turns like Outrage. Fire Blast is to try and hit Steel types like Scizor and Skarmory on the switch so you can force them into an uncomfortable position of either trying to heal and let Magnezone come in for free or switch out to avoid getting trapped by Zone and not being able to take future hits as well.
: The team's sweeper, DDance Dragonite can easily break through teams after getting the opportunity to boost once or twice, so long as there isn't a healthy Clefable or Quagsire on the other team. Extreme Speed also gives the team some valuable priority, which can help against Weavile, as it dies to +1 ESpeed after rocks. Lum Berry is the item of choice to give Dragonite setup opportunities on mons like Rotom-Wash who would want to status Dragonite.
: Magnezone does Magnezone things. You try and bring it in with a double switch or U-turn on a steel type like Skarmory or Scizor coming in, and then proceed to KO them. Zone also provides the team a powerful STAB Flash Cannon to demolish Fairy Types, as well as pivoting with Volt Switch. Not much else to say about Magnezone really.
: The team's 'glue' so to speak, Jirachi provied many things for the team. It provides Stealth Rocks, safe pivoting with U-Turn, speed control with Thunder Wave, and a way to deter Fairy types from switching in a Dragon type attack with Doom Desire. It generally acts as a buffer between the opposing teams threats (mainly special attackers) and the rest of its teammates.
: The final member of the team, I wanted something that could handle Weavile yet still pose an offensive threat, so I chose Azumarill. I chose your standard Band Azu moveset, but with Facade over Superpower to let Azu be a threat even if it were to get burned. For its EVs, I chose to invest enough speed to outspeed uninvested Tyranitar and put the rest into HP so Azumarill could take hits slightly better.
Mew's expert belt set serves to take advantage of the tremendous coverage it has access to and forces the opponent to try and scout out their moveset. Earthquake is there for Heatran who generally comes in on Mew for free and serves to delete Heatran instantly which I replaced over Focus Punch for those who remember me using it during OLT, it also instantly deletes Magnezone which flamethrower does not. Energy Ball beats water types primarily and Ice Beam hits a lot of things super effectively. Flamethrower is for Scizor mainly. Mew also has an extremely customizable moveset where it can change up the coverage it wants to run or even run Nasty Plot. Mew can also be a great attacking lead with this set since the opponent has to try and scout out its moveset. Ebelt also means opponents can not hope to simply let it wear itself down. This set, unfortunately, struggles against Unaware Clefable but this is where some of its teammates come in.
Mixed Nidoking does what it does best which is to break bulky cores and force guesses from opponents. It's not the easiest thing to use or bring in but it is very rewarding when you can get it in on a double. Ice Beam is pretty self-explanatory, Sludge Wave OHKOs Clefable and Earth Power is reliable ground STAB. Focus Punch is mostly for Blissey which otherwise walls it. Unfortunately, Focus Punch requires prediction because Nidoking isn't able to get Superpower for some reason but it will allow Nidoking to kill Blissey with Sludge Wave afterward.
The Choice Scarfer for this team that does a great job at revenge killing and punching holes into the opposition. It 2HKOs most clefable and gliscor variants and many offensive mons can not come in safely. However it's major flaw is that Staraptor will wear itself down over the course of a game and is best used as a cleaner. However, it can also be a good lead that can pivot to safely scout or dent a hole early on.
The team's primary Latias switch-in and defogger. While it is passive, it is there to pivot around a lot and occasionally pick off weakened mons at low health. It also serves as a defensive Zam check in some capacity.
I loved using this in UU where it acts as a good check to a lot of setup sweepers and in OU it can do that decently well. Given that Cosmic Power Clefable can threaten a lot of teams on Team Preview, Milotic is one way of dealing with it thanks to Haze, it's also ev'ed to outspeed Adamant Azumarill that has setup Belly Drum to stop its sweeps short. It also enables it to deal with slower setup sweepers like Suicune. It's also a good scald switch-in since getting burnt means activating Marvel Scale. It is one of two defensive glues on this team that can help win PP stall wars if needed.
The classic Unaware Clefable that has been a staple in this metagame forever. It is the rocker of this team and wish-tect is standard stuff. Clefable is mostly there to deal with the dragons of this tier like Dnite and Garchomp, it's the other glue of this team and can provide cleric support. to give teammates like Mew and Nidoking extra longevity on switches.
: The team's big breaker, it can already cleave through many teams defensive cores alone. Even offensive mons who are slower than Heracross get smashed hard, letting it have some sort of use against any team with a bulky wall or slow pivot. Being able to destroy Slowbro and Tangrowth with Megahorn, as well as being able to cleanly 2HKO Skarmory with CC and Clefable with Facade makes it easier for Garchomp to sweep late game. It can have trouble against more offensive teams, however, and can be straight up deadweight against full blown HO.
: Heracross' favourite partner on the team, Future Sight Slowbro is a great pivot that enables its wallbreaking capabilities even further. Future Sight also helps in breaking Heracross' best answer on stall, the (albeit rare) Neutralizing Gas Weezing. Being able to counter and check a lot of physical attackers in the tier, namely Infernape, Staraptor, and Garchomp, while healing with Regenerator is also really nice for this team. Calm Mind lets Slowbro bolster its weaker SpDef stat to let it help check more mons in the tier while also letting it become a potent win condition in its own right.
: The team's rocker, standard SpDef Heatran sort of stuff. Flash Fire was chosen to deal with opposing Heatran better 
(with Thunderbolt): Starmie without Thunderbolt can be dealt with rather easily by a healthy Slowbro. But a Starmie that carries Thunderbolt can be quite the threat, and needs to be played around carefully with some good pivoting.
: More of an annoyance than an actual threat to the team, Trick Scarf shenanigans can be annoying for the team since nothing really wants to be tricked a Scarf.
: A relatively reliable rocker, Blissey may be a momentum loss but stops Alakazam from completely running over the team. Despite being a para spam team this set does not run T-wave but rather healing wish to revive crucial mons depending on the matchup. Most often this is Infernape as it does not appreciate coming in on rocks and killing itself with flare blitzes, though you could just as easily store it for later or revive Nidoking or one of the electric walls, namely the recovery-lacking Rotom-wash. 
: While not as common in BDSP as it is in SwSh due to the lack of heavy duty boots, defensive Zapdos is still a reliable pivot and utility mon. A high base speed allows Zapdos to outspeed jolly Breloom with little investment and punish it by threatening to paralyze it with discharge or static contact. Being speedy also allows Zapdos to quickly u-turn out after defogging on switch-ins that Zapdos cannot touch like Gliscor or Blissey.
: You should not bring Aggron out until mid-game at the earliest, but once it is in, and it can set up on a respectable amount of the meta, Aggron instantly becomes very threatening to many teams, even if their checks are still healthy due to its powerful dual stab and earthquake coverage. Usually, you will be setting up on the likes of Clefable, Scizor, Blissey, Azelf, Jirachi, Celebi, and occasionally Latias (especially after it draco's something else) or even Staraptor if it's not locked into Close Combat. 204 speed EVs allows Aggron to outspeed the likes of Alakazam after a rock polish and begin threatening KOs. I'll leave some calcs below.
: Banded Infernape is a great way to gain momentum in a game and keep opponents trapped in volt/turn hell. Banded u-turns, blitzes and close combats primarily weaken checks to Nidoking and Aggron, and punish paralyzed Latias hard. It is also the offensive check for offensive threats to the team like Weavile and Breloom, making it the most common benefactor of Healing Wish. Due to an otherwise general lack of priority and speed on the team without setup, I would not recommend losing mach punch for thunder punch coverage. 
: While Weavile does not want to lock into crash vs. rotom or throat chop vs. zapdos, it still forces an uncomfortable position as rotom lacks recovery and infernape lacks bulk.
: Both faster than every member of the team and able to apply serious pressure, especially with life orb psyshock sets since Blissey will not appreciate this. 
: Keep rotom alive. Just keep it alive at all costs. 
: While both Infernape and Nidoking outspeed and threaten to KO it, you should be careful to not allow it to come in on the likes of Blissey or Rotom. Zapdos will almost always beat it due to its resistance of both STAB but you will likely have to sac something to spore in order for it to win the 1v1. 
: Despite the sniper set being the obvious choice from team preview, sniper Kingdra still fits well into the current BDSP meta and is capable of muscling through almost any team other than full stall. Often times you might not even need to double dance, as agility will help you break through or at least weaken offensive teams and focus energy is often all that is needed for fatter/balance teams. Kingdra also has a good defensive typing and natural bulk that allow it to freely set up in front of the likes of Heatran, Rotoms, offensive water types (especially choice-locked ones), and even Clefable, as a sniper crit Hydro Pump has a 93.8% chance to OHKO standard phys. def sets and Moonblast will do max 83%.
: Standard scarf Celebi set tbh. Gains momentum, baits in Heatran, deals damage with leaf storm, cleans up weakened teams with psychic but mostly provides healing wish support to this team. Often times I will set up with Kingdra early to break and once it's either weakened or status'd healing wish into it to allow it to set up again and sweep.
: Ol' reliable. Tanks physical hits for days, gets up hazards and is one of 2 hazard removers for the team. Knock is also crucial for removing choice scarfs from Washtoms who might come in on it so that they cannot trick Kingdra or Dnite when they try to set up.
: Without having a type weakness to priority moves Volbeat is guaranteed to enable you to set rain every game. It's usefulness beyond that will vary based on the offensiveness of the enemy team and how you use it. Encore can put a stop to setup sweepers that might speed-boost beyond what Kingdra or Qwilfish can handle or simply deny any momentum or usefulness from an opponent that does not want to be locked into any one move. Thunder Wave is copium for hoping that one of the sweepers/breakers might still be able to out-speed something in the late game if/when your setters have died.
: Certainly the most underrated mon on this team. Measly base stats are enhanced not only by Swift Swim but the fact that having Swift Swim enables you to run adamant nature Life Orb. In the case where your opponent has multiple answers for water spam in the form of dragon or grass types, Poison Jab and the insanely high powered Explosion, potentially SD boosted pack one hell of a punch. While it's severe lack of bulk often means you will not be SDing, it has a natural resistance to three of the most common forms of priority in BDSP (Mach Punch, Bullet Punch and Ice Shard). Also don't worry if you can't SD before Lati comes in because you OHKO with Explosion. Below are some relevant calcs.
