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Calyrex-Ice @ Loaded Dice
Ability: As One (Glastrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Icicle Spear
- Bullet Seed
- High Horsepower
- Trick Room

Try rolling the dice with the white mare in BSS Regulation I! Calyrex-I uses Icicle Spear and Bullet Seed in tandem with Loaded Dice to threaten high damage. It is particularly good at breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield as well as Substitute Eternatus and Gliscor sets with Icicle Spear; additionally, it threatens Dondozo and Kyogre with Bullet Seed. High Horsepower threatens Zacian-C and Terastallized Koraidon. Tera Fire provides resistances to Zacian-C's Behemoth Blade and Koraidon's Flare Blitz as well as an immunity to burn from Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire. For Calyrex-I to unlock its true sweeping potential, it must set up Trick Room, leaving it vulnerable to faster, powerful sweepers such as Calyrex-S and Flutter Mane. Lunala and Ursaluna-B are capable of taking a hit from both sweepers and easily revenge killing them while appreciating Trick Room. Alomomola and Hatterene are great partners capable of healing Calyrex-I; Hatterene can even set up Trick Room for it. Koraidon, Zacian-C, and Ho-Oh are also threatening to Calyrex-I, especially when it is unable to Terastallize. Choice Scarf Miraidon can easily KO these foes with its STAB attacks before Calyrex-I proceeds to snowball later in the game.
 
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Content is overall pretty good but this Calyrex set is very particular about what makes it tick so hopefully this doesn’t come off as too harsh.

Terapagos’ tera shell applies to all hits of MH moves so it’s still pretty safe as long as it’s as full health. I would personally reword the note about multi hit moves since as is it implies that Dondozo has substitute variants when those variants are extremely rare and somewhat gimmicky. Bullet Seed with loaded dice is rather just Calyrex’s strongest move to hit Dondozo with, making it less consistent as a check.

Calyrex will generally take damage in the process of setting up trick room and grabbing a KO, so it appreciates cleric teammates like Alomomola and Hatterene, the latter of which can set trick room for Calyrex before it even hits the field. I also think a better ground type partner is Ursaluna BM, as it has similar switchin opportunities as Ting-Lu while making far better use of trick room turns.

Heres a team I made for BSSPL last year that used this exact set https://pokepast.es/80a70ca9d569c2b7

I’ll check this again once this is implemented, and as always feel free to ask me questions on discord!
 
I moved the bit about easily breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield from the 2nd to the 3rd sentence, as it makes sense contextually to just keep those breaking mentions together. Lmk if that changes too much of the nuance.
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Calyrex-Ice @ Loaded Dice
Ability: As One (Glastrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Icicle Spear
- Bullet Seed
- High Horsepower
- Trick Room

Try rolling the dice with the white mare in BSS Regulation I! Calyrex-I uses Icicle Spear and Bullet Seed in tandem with Loaded Dice threatening a lot of to threaten high damage. (AP) It is particularly good at while easily breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield (RP) Calyrex-I is particularly good at breaking substitute as well as Substitute Eternatus and Gliscor sets with Icicle Spear; (ASC) additionally, it and threatens and Dondozo and Kyogre with Bullet Seed. High Horsepower threatens Zacian-C and Terastalized Terastallized Koraidon. Tera Fire provides resistances to Zacian-C's Behemoth Blade and Koraidon's Flare Blitz as well as an immunity to burn from Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire. For Calyrex-I to unlock its true sweeping potential, (AC) it must set up Trick Room, (AC) leaving Calyrex-I it vulnerable to faster, powerful sweepers such as Choice Specs Calyrex-S and Flutter Mane. Lunala and Ursaluna-B are capable of taking a hit from both sweepers and easily revenge KOing killing them while appreciating Trick Room. Alomomola and Hatterene are great partners capable of cleric healing Calyrex-I (RP); (ASC) Hatterene can even set up Trick Room for Calyrex-I it. Koraidon, Zacian-C, (AC) and Ho-Oh are also threatening to Calyrex-I, especially when it is unable to Terastallize. A partner Choice Scarf Miraidon can easily KO them these foes with its STAB attacks before Calyrex-I proceeds to snowball later in the game.
 
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