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[SET]
Shadow Sweeper (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Focus Sash / Life Orb / Leftovers
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Timid Nature
Tera Type: Fairy / Fighting
- Astral Barrage
- Draining Kiss / Tera Blast
- Psyshock / Psychic / Encore
- Nasty Plot / Calm Mind / Encore
[SET COMMENTS]
* With absurd offensive stats and an ability that takes that further, Calyrex-S is the king of sweeping in Battle Stadium Singles!
* **Draining Kiss**: Despite the low Base Power, Draining Kiss deals plenty of damage to Dark-types like Chien-Pao, especially if using Tera Fairy.
* **Psyshock versus Psychic**: Psyshock is preferred for the massive damage potential against Blissey, but Psychic will OHKO Koraidon.
* **Encore**: Calyrex-S is able to outspeed any relevant foe without a Choice Scarf, making Encore an especially dangerous option even if it comes at the cost of a Psychic-type STAB move or setup option.
* **Nasty Plot versus Calm Mind**: Nasty Plot Calyrex-S is nearly impossible to wall, making it an especially deadly option with Focus Sash. While not as immediately dangerous for sweeping, Calm Mind lets Calyrex-S set up more easily without a Focus Sash with some minor EV tweaking.
Other Options
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* **Expanding Force**: If using Calyrex-S on a Psychic Terrain team with Indeedee-M, Expanding Force is much more powerful than other Psychic-type options. However, this does come with the risk of Miraidon or Rillaboom weakening Expanding Force with their own Terrain.
Items
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* **Focus Sash**: Despite Calyrex-S's reasonable bulk, Focus Sash is an excellent item for reducing the pressure for it to Terastallize, in addition to potentially revenge killing powerful adversaries like Choice Scarf Koraidon and Booster Energy Flutter Mane.
* **Life Orb**: Life Orb makes Calyrex-S less reliant on boosts to clean teams, at the cost of being more vulnerable to priority from the likes of Urshifu-R.
* **Leftovers**: If using Calm Mind, Leftovers is a reasonable option for increased longevity, especially if it is getting free turns with Encore.
* **Lum Berry**: Lum Berry severely punishes bulky users of Yawn such as Ursaluna-B and Hippowdon, as well as stopping Booster Energy Flutter Mane from hitting Tera Fairy Calyrex-S with Thunder Wave.
* **Spell Tag**: While mostly outclassed by Life Orb, Spell Tag makes sense if another teammate needs Life Orb more.
Alternate EV Spreads
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* **20 HP / 4 Def / 220 SpA / 12 SpD / 252 Spe with Timid**: This EV spread is to be used with Calm Mind, allowing Calyrex-S to withstand Timid Choice Specs Miraidon's Electro Drift after a boost.
Tera Types
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* **Tera Dependency: Medium / Low**: Calyrex-S's typing makes it extremely vulnerable to Sucker Punch from the likes of Chien-Pao and faster Ghost-type attacks from foes like Booster Energy Flutter Mane, making Terastallization a gateway into opening up sweeps. However, if using Focus Sash, this becomes less important.
* **Fairy**: Tera Fairy Calyrex-S's crown jewel for Tera types, giving it an important resistance to Dark, as well as turning Draining Kiss into a reasonable secondary armament.
* **Fighting**: Tera Fighting is a good alternative to Tera Fairy because it offers similar advantages against Dark-types with the bonus of dealing massive damage to Ursaluna-B and Chi-Yu with Tera Blast, as well as not being weak to Scizor's Bullet Punch.
* **Normal**: While a more niche Tera type due to its lack of offensive benefits, Tera Normal can be paired with Encore to ambush Ghost-type revenge killers like Flutter Mane and opposing Calyrex-S.
* **Ghost**: Tera Ghost makes Astral Barrage into a terrifying sweeping move, but the lack of any defensive benefits makes it a niche option, especially when not using Focus Sash.
[SET]
Choice Item (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Timid Nature
Tera Type: Fairy / Fighting
- Astral Barrage
- Psyshock / Psychic
- Draining Kiss / Tera Blast
- Trick / Tera Blast
[SET COMMENTS]
* As One combines with a Choice item to either turn Calyrex-S into a revenge killer or potent cleaner.
* **Psyshock versus Psychic**: Psyshock is usually the best option for a secondary STAB move, since it allows even Choice Scarf Calyrex-S to usually 2HKO Blissey, a problem for Calyrex-S on stall teams otherwise. Psychic is much stronger against Koraidon though, with Choice Scarf sets being able to OHKO offensive Koraidon that aren't Terastallized with it.
* **Draining Kiss versus Tera Blast**: Despite its low Base Power, Draining Kiss is still enough to cleave through Chien-Pao and restores a good amount of HP when using Tera Fairy. However, Tera Blast's higher Base Power makes it a reasonable alternative for this set, with Tera Blast Fairy letting Choice Scarf Calyrex-S 2HKO Chi-Yu in particular.
* **Trick**: Trick is an effective way of punishing Calyrex-S's more defensive checks, with Ting-Lu in particular loathing it. Just note that most Blissey can get around Trick by using Fling, so this is not entirely reliable against stall teams.
* **Choice Scarf versus Choice Specs**: Calyrex-S's insane Speed might make Choice Scarf seem like overkill, but gaining the ability to outspeed Choice Scarf Koraidon and Miraidon, as well as Speed-boosted Flutter Mane and Iron Bundle, is an extremely rare and valuable quality for a Choice Scarf revenge killer. Choice Specs is still worth considering for its impressive wallbreaking power though, especially since Psyshock cleanly 2HKOes Blissey.
Other Options
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* **Future Sight**: Future Sight is an interesting tool against defensive teams, as if you force out special walls with strong physical Pokemon, Calyrex-S's Future Sight is likely to deal a huge amount of damage to their response later!
* **Expanding Force**: If using Calyrex-S on a Psychic Surge team with Indeedee-M, Expanding Force outdamages even Astral Barrage! Just note that Miraidon and Rillaboom are common enough that maintaining the boosted Expanding Force can be tricky.
* **Nasty Plot or Calm Mind**: If using Trick, it's feasible to carry a setup move over a Psychic-type STAB move, especially if certain defensive foes like Ting-Lu have been saddled with it. However, setting up still should not be the main purpose of this set, as Encore does a better job of facilitating that.
Tera Types
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* **Tera Dependency: High**: With no Encore or Focus Sash to get around this, Calyrex-S's Dark and Ghost weaknesses are highly exploitable, meaning Terastallization is often key to stopping a revenge kill.
* **Fairy**: Tera Fairy is the best crown to be wearing against Dark-types like Chien-Pao, making Draining Kiss viable as a bonus.
* **Fighting**: Tera Fighting is an alternative to Fairy, making Calyrex-S more vulnerable to Flutter Mane in exchange for OHKOing Chi-Yu with Tera Blast. Just note that being locked into Tera Blast Fighting is a problem against other Ghost-types.
* **Normal**: Tera Normal is a niche option, since it provides no offensive benefit, but it can be useful for Choice Specs Calyrex-S to dodge an OHKO from Choice Scarf Calyrex-S and Flutter Mane with a Speed boost.
[SET]
Substitute (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Leftovers
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Timid Nature
Tera Type: Fairy
- Substitute
- Encore
- Astral Barrage
- Draining Kiss
[SET COMMENTS]
* Calyrex-S is a a devastating user of Encore thanks to its regal Speed stat, which when combined with Substitute, lets it turn the tables on common Sucker Punch users like Chien-Pao and Urshifu-S!
* **Draining Kiss**: While Tera Blast Fairy is certainly feasible, Draining Kiss's healing factor, when combined with Leftovers, makes it worth the power drop.
* **Leftovers**: While Calyrex-S doesn't tend to focus on bulk, Encore and Substitute work together to make it last long enough on the field for Leftovers to have an impact.
Tera Types
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* **Tera Dependency: Medium**: Calyrex-S can effectively use Encore and Substitute to avoid the worst of its common Dark and Ghost weaknesses, but Terastallization provides an extra layer of flexibility that still makes it a strong option.
* **Fairy**: While other Tera types like Normal are feasible, Draining Kiss is important enough on this set that Tera Fairy is by far the best option, especially for the important resistance to Dark.
[CREDITS]
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