This team has a pretty hard time dealing with mold breaker.
Example:
Basculin-Blue-Striped @ Choice Specs
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 48 HP / 40 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Mud Shot
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Fire]
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Hidden Power Fire vs. 252 HP / 68 SpD Scizor-Mega: 292-344 (84.8 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
Bulk is to live bug bite into bullet punch.
0 Atk Technician Scizor-Mega Bug Bite vs. 48 HP / 40 Def Basculin: 186-219 (63.4 - 74.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 Atk Technician Scizor-Mega Bullet Punch vs. 48 HP / 40 Def Basculin: 62-73 (21.1 - 24.9%) -- guaranteed 5HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 92+ SpD Altaria-Mega: 188-222 (53.1 - 62.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
This one is way better than special rampardos: it doesn't have to worry about blizzard missing or damage rolls. Ice beam has 16 pp and is 10% to freeze so you've got an 80% chance to freeze before your last ice beam. You're also doing between 3.1 and 12.7% net damage per turn if the altaria spams roost, so the odds are heavily in the Basculin's favor here to either freeze or get it in range to kill.
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Mud Shot vs. 80 HP / 0 SpD Magnezone: 316-372 (104.9 - 123.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Easy Money, 95% of the time
Edit: why doesn't pinsir get roost. I was so excited when I came up with maranga berry to get past altaria but it can't do it with toxic/rest, unfortunately. Also non-mega HP fire doesn't 2hko scizor so oh well looks like the end for that.
Some more:
Maranga berry spdef zapdos can do it as well I'm sure, but I should probably stop editing this post. The advantage of that is obviously it cannot get paralyzed by zap cannon like mew can. It would just be a worse victini at that point though, so no need to do that I guess.
Example:
Basculin-Blue-Striped @ Choice Specs
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 48 HP / 40 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Mud Shot
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Fire]
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Hidden Power Fire vs. 252 HP / 68 SpD Scizor-Mega: 292-344 (84.8 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
Bulk is to live bug bite into bullet punch.
0 Atk Technician Scizor-Mega Bug Bite vs. 48 HP / 40 Def Basculin: 186-219 (63.4 - 74.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 Atk Technician Scizor-Mega Bullet Punch vs. 48 HP / 40 Def Basculin: 62-73 (21.1 - 24.9%) -- guaranteed 5HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 92+ SpD Altaria-Mega: 188-222 (53.1 - 62.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
This one is way better than special rampardos: it doesn't have to worry about blizzard missing or damage rolls. Ice beam has 16 pp and is 10% to freeze so you've got an 80% chance to freeze before your last ice beam. You're also doing between 3.1 and 12.7% net damage per turn if the altaria spams roost, so the odds are heavily in the Basculin's favor here to either freeze or get it in range to kill.
252+ SpA Choice Specs Mold Breaker Basculin Mud Shot vs. 80 HP / 0 SpD Magnezone: 316-372 (104.9 - 123.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Easy Money, 95% of the time
Edit: why doesn't pinsir get roost. I was so excited when I came up with maranga berry to get past altaria but it can't do it with toxic/rest, unfortunately. Also non-mega HP fire doesn't 2hko scizor so oh well looks like the end for that.
Some more:
Blastoise-Mega @ Blastoisinite
Ability: Mega Launcher
EVs: 172 HP / 252 SpA / 84 Spe
Mild Nature
- Fake Out
- Aura Sphere
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Ice Beam
only issue is altaria, similar ice beam scenario to basculin but does a little less damage.
Ability: Mega Launcher
EVs: 172 HP / 252 SpA / 84 Spe
Mild Nature
- Fake Out
- Aura Sphere
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Ice Beam
only issue is altaria, similar ice beam scenario to basculin but does a little less damage.
Mew @ Maranga Berry
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Flamethrower
- Toxic
- Roost
toxic+roost stalls altaria forever, especially at +1 after maranga berry. zap cannon into gigavolt can technically 2hko but you need to hit a zap cannon and get a high roll on both, so not likely at all.
you could in theory miss toxic and get fire blast burned on alt, and then it will pp stall you. maybe rest>roost is better and having a fourth move like defense curl with a ton of pp.
204+ SpA Magnezone Zap Cannon vs. 0 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 151-178 (44.2 - 52.1%) -- 16% chance to 2HKO
204+ SpA Magnezone Gigavolt Havoc (190 BP) vs. +1 0 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 159-187 (46.6 - 54.8%) -- 64.5% chance to 2HKO
also not a guaranteed ohko on scizor but lives bug bite into bullet punch.
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Flamethrower
- Toxic
- Roost
toxic+roost stalls altaria forever, especially at +1 after maranga berry. zap cannon into gigavolt can technically 2hko but you need to hit a zap cannon and get a high roll on both, so not likely at all.
you could in theory miss toxic and get fire blast burned on alt, and then it will pp stall you. maybe rest>roost is better and having a fourth move like defense curl with a ton of pp.
204+ SpA Magnezone Zap Cannon vs. 0 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 151-178 (44.2 - 52.1%) -- 16% chance to 2HKO
204+ SpA Magnezone Gigavolt Havoc (190 BP) vs. +1 0 HP / 252+ SpD Mew: 159-187 (46.6 - 54.8%) -- 64.5% chance to 2HKO
also not a guaranteed ohko on scizor but lives bug bite into bullet punch.
Victini @ Maranga Berry
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Flamethrower
- Toxic
- Rest
just a bit better than the mew because it walls alt a little harder, can't be burned, doesn't need to get a roll/avoid crit from scizor, and has a roll to ohko zone
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Flamethrower
- Toxic
- Rest
just a bit better than the mew because it walls alt a little harder, can't be burned, doesn't need to get a roll/avoid crit from scizor, and has a roll to ohko zone
Maranga berry spdef zapdos can do it as well I'm sure, but I should probably stop editing this post. The advantage of that is obviously it cannot get paralyzed by zap cannon like mew can. It would just be a worse victini at that point though, so no need to do that I guess.
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