Saw the Bisharp + Scizor-M core on the Natdex Good Cores thread and wanted to give it a try, noticed that they both had pretty meh speed stats so I decided to make a webs team to support them!
This mon can be extremely threatening. Its ability, Defiant, allows it to punish Intimidate, Defog, opposing web teams, and in the offchance that it comes in on a Shadow Ball or a Moonblast and has any stats lowered, with a +2 attack boost. Those first two are the most important, as punishing Defog on a team so reliant on hazards like this one is very important. Sucker Punch is a great priority move and can hit flying types/levitate users/other mons who avoid webs through other means if you predict correctly.
Scizor and Bisharp both look as if they'd go poorly together, both being steels and all, however they have their synergy. While Bish has trouble hitting other Dark types, Sciz can hit them with a Technician-boosted STAB Bug Bite and make them hurt. While Bish is also bad at threatening fighting types, Scizor tears through them with Technician-boosted Dual Wingbeats. Conversely, Scizor is scared of Intimidate, but guess just what Bisharp loves!
Unfortunately, both of these types do have a common weakness, and that is to Fire. Fortnuately, Manaphy can help with that role! It's base 100 speed stat isn't exactly threatening under normal circumstances, but on webs, it's dangerous! That, combined with good bulk, a diverse movepool, and access to one of the best setup moves in the game makes it a great choice for this team.
This team wanted a couple more things. A spinblocker to keep those webs up, and a Fire type to threaten those Steels that this team has been pretty lackluster on up to this point. Calm Mind lets it gain a greater offensive and defensive presence. I gave it HDB as to not lose HP from rocks, as my team was otherwise not too threatened by rocks and couldn't really fit any hazard removal due to stacking weaknesses to both ground and fire, which I did not want. I could've used Donphan for that tbf, but it lacks setup moves and speed to be offensively threatening alongside my other mons. But yeah, Blacephalon is threatening and Beast Boost only pushes that further.
Landorus on this team is an offensive sweeper with Stealth Rocks. EQ hit's everything except for whatever SE can also hit. It's typing (ground+flying) allows it to also serve a great defensive role on this team while maintaining offensive pressure. Intimidate pushes this further, as a large amount of physical mons begin hitting like wet gloves after one. And of course, Stealth Rocks creates additional offensive pressure, which the opponent doesn't want to defog away, because then it'll make Bisharp even scarier.
Lastly, we need the actual web setter, lol. This mon doesn't do much besides set webs. It can paralyze the opponent with Stun Spore, get out if it needs to with U-Turn (letting it set up webs later should the opponent sneak in a Defog or Rapid Spin, or if it gets taunted) and hurt the opponent with Moonblast. It's speed is great, however, so while there will be games where you just get webs up and die, usually you can at least paralyze your opponent as well.
This mon can be extremely threatening. Its ability, Defiant, allows it to punish Intimidate, Defog, opposing web teams, and in the offchance that it comes in on a Shadow Ball or a Moonblast and has any stats lowered, with a +2 attack boost. Those first two are the most important, as punishing Defog on a team so reliant on hazards like this one is very important. Sucker Punch is a great priority move and can hit flying types/levitate users/other mons who avoid webs through other means if you predict correctly. Scizor and Bisharp both look as if they'd go poorly together, both being steels and all, however they have their synergy. While Bish has trouble hitting other Dark types, Sciz can hit them with a Technician-boosted STAB Bug Bite and make them hurt. While Bish is also bad at threatening fighting types, Scizor tears through them with Technician-boosted Dual Wingbeats. Conversely, Scizor is scared of Intimidate, but guess just what Bisharp loves! Unfortunately, both of these types do have a common weakness, and that is to Fire. Fortnuately, Manaphy can help with that role! It's base 100 speed stat isn't exactly threatening under normal circumstances, but on webs, it's dangerous! That, combined with good bulk, a diverse movepool, and access to one of the best setup moves in the game makes it a great choice for this team. This team wanted a couple more things. A spinblocker to keep those webs up, and a Fire type to threaten those Steels that this team has been pretty lackluster on up to this point. Calm Mind lets it gain a greater offensive and defensive presence. I gave it HDB as to not lose HP from rocks, as my team was otherwise not too threatened by rocks and couldn't really fit any hazard removal due to stacking weaknesses to both ground and fire, which I did not want. I could've used Donphan for that tbf, but it lacks setup moves and speed to be offensively threatening alongside my other mons. But yeah, Blacephalon is threatening and Beast Boost only pushes that further. Landorus on this team is an offensive sweeper with Stealth Rocks. EQ hit's everything except for whatever SE can also hit. It's typing (ground+flying) allows it to also serve a great defensive role on this team while maintaining offensive pressure. Intimidate pushes this further, as a large amount of physical mons begin hitting like wet gloves after one. And of course, Stealth Rocks creates additional offensive pressure, which the opponent doesn't want to defog away, because then it'll make Bisharp even scarier. Lastly, we need the actual web setter, lol. This mon doesn't do much besides set webs. It can paralyze the opponent with Stun Spore, get out if it needs to with U-Turn (letting it set up webs later should the opponent sneak in a Defog or Rapid Spin, or if it gets taunted) and hurt the opponent with Moonblast. It's speed is great, however, so while there will be games where you just get webs up and die, usually you can at least paralyze your opponent as well.
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