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[SET]
Calm Mind (Cresselia) @ Covert Cloak / Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Level: 50
Tera Type: Electric / Poison / Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Moonblast / Thunderbolt / Stored Power
- Stored Power / Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
[SET COMMENTS]
* With its great bulk and the advent of Terastallization, Cresselia is a formidable defensive presence with the ability to take over late in the game.
* **Calm Mind**: Calm Mind allows Cresselia to bolster its defensive profile while also increasing its damage output.
* **Moonblast**: While lacking STAB, Moonblast has no immunities, which makes it Cresselia’s most reliable offensive move.
* **Stored Power**: While blanked by Dark-types, Stored Power allows Cresselia to threaten walls like Unaware Dondozo and more reliably win Calm Mind wars against foes like Flutter Mane. It also allows Cresselia to potentially beat Heatran with sheer power should it accrue enough boosts.
* **Thunderbolt** - Thunderbolt allows Cresselia to immediately threaten Urshifu-R and is a great general attacking move if used with an Electric Tera.
* **Ice Beam**: Ice Beam allows Cresselia to immediately threaten the many Ice weak Pokémon in the metagame, such as Dragonite, Landorus-T, and Ting-Lu
Other Options
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* **Substitute**: While difficult to fit, Substitute can protect Cresselia from debilitating status from the likes of Dondozo and Clodsire, giving it a wider reach against slower paced teams without relying on Covert Cloak as much.
* **Lunar Dance**: While seemingly odd on a defensive set, Lunar Dance allows Cresselia to bring back a battered teammate in the event it itself cannot finish the game, giving formidable partners such as Chien-Pao and Ursaluna a second chance to break down the opponent.
Items
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* **Covert Cloak**: Covert Cloak guards Cresselia from adverse effects such as flinches and Defense drops that would otherwise impede its ability to take over the endgame. It also negates the passive damage from Garganacl’s Salt Cure, allowing Cresselia to heavily punish it.
* **Leftovers**: Leftovers’s passive recovery allows Cresselia to better conserve its limited Moonlight PP, more safely set up against powerful attackers like Flutter Mane, and be a more active presence on the field by not mandating it use a turn to heal off every hit it takes manually.
Tera Types
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* **Electric-type**: Thanks to Levitate, Tera Electric grants Cresselia a complete lack of weaknesses, giving it an extremely diverse defensive profile courtesy of its immense bulk. It also guards against paralysis, minimizing the chance of an ill-timed lost turn ruining a sweep.
* **Poison-type**: Tera Poison protects Cresselia against Toxic, allowing it to more safely set up against Pokémon like Clodsire. It also grants security against even Tera Fairy Choice Specs Flutter Mane by allowing Cresselia to resist Fairy.
* **Fairy-type**: Tera Fairy grants Cresselia a crucial resistance to Dark, allowing it to better take on foes like Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/derpysux.528485/
Quality Checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/greilmercenary9.336524/
Grammar Checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/ut.523866/
[SET]
Calm Mind (Cresselia) @ Covert Cloak / Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Level: 50
Tera Type: Electric / Poison / Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Moonblast / Thunderbolt / Stored Power
- Stored Power / Thunderbolt / Ice Beam
[SET COMMENTS]
* With its great bulk and the advent of Terastallization, Cresselia is a formidable defensive presence with the ability to take over late in the game.
* **Calm Mind**: Calm Mind allows Cresselia to bolster its defensive profile while also increasing its damage output.
* **Moonblast**: While lacking STAB, Moonblast has no immunities, which makes it Cresselia’s most reliable offensive move.
* **Stored Power**: While blanked by Dark-types, Stored Power allows Cresselia to threaten walls like Unaware Dondozo and more reliably win Calm Mind wars against foes like Flutter Mane. It also allows Cresselia to potentially beat Heatran with sheer power should it accrue enough boosts.
* **Thunderbolt** - Thunderbolt allows Cresselia to immediately threaten Urshifu-R and is a great general attacking move if used with an Electric Tera.
* **Ice Beam**: Ice Beam allows Cresselia to immediately threaten the many Ice weak Pokémon in the metagame, such as Dragonite, Landorus-T, and Ting-Lu
Other Options
=========
* **Substitute**: While difficult to fit, Substitute can protect Cresselia from debilitating status from the likes of Dondozo and Clodsire, giving it a wider reach against slower paced teams without relying on Covert Cloak as much.
* **Lunar Dance**: While seemingly odd on a defensive set, Lunar Dance allows Cresselia to bring back a battered teammate in the event it itself cannot finish the game, giving formidable partners such as Chien-Pao and Ursaluna a second chance to break down the opponent.
Items
==========
* **Covert Cloak**: Covert Cloak guards Cresselia from adverse effects such as flinches and Defense drops that would otherwise impede its ability to take over the endgame. It also negates the passive damage from Garganacl’s Salt Cure, allowing Cresselia to heavily punish it.
* **Leftovers**: Leftovers’s passive recovery allows Cresselia to better conserve its limited Moonlight PP, more safely set up against powerful attackers like Flutter Mane, and be a more active presence on the field by not mandating it use a turn to heal off every hit it takes manually.
Tera Types
==========
* **Electric-type**: Thanks to Levitate, Tera Electric grants Cresselia a complete lack of weaknesses, giving it an extremely diverse defensive profile courtesy of its immense bulk. It also guards against paralysis, minimizing the chance of an ill-timed lost turn ruining a sweep.
* **Poison-type**: Tera Poison protects Cresselia against Toxic, allowing it to more safely set up against Pokémon like Clodsire. It also grants security against even Tera Fairy Choice Specs Flutter Mane by allowing Cresselia to resist Fairy.
* **Fairy-type**: Tera Fairy grants Cresselia a crucial resistance to Dark, allowing it to better take on foes like Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/derpysux.528485/
Quality Checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/greilmercenary9.336524/
Grammar Checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/ut.523866/
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