
Chi-Yu @ Choice Specs
Ability: Beads of Ruin
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Heat Wave
- Dark Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Snarl
Chi-Yu sears the competition in Doubles OU! Great Special Attack, Beads of Ruin, and Choice Specs ensure Chi-Yu threatens heavy damage on practically the entire tier, aided by a strong matchup into meta threats like Gholdengo and Amoonguss. Beads of Ruin also massively benefits Chi-Yu's offensive teammates, such as Iron Bundle and Sylveon, which help form an offensive core that brute-forces past many teams. Snarl negates the relative frailty of these teammates, which Beads of Ruin exacerbates. Chi-Yu is incredibly physically frail, struggling to take even resisted hits and falling to priority from common threats like Dragonite and Palafin. As such, redirection and priority-negating support from allies like Indeedee-F, Farigiraf, and Amoonguss is recommended. Chi-Yu also suffers from a poor defensive typing, leaving it weak to common spread moves like Earthquake and Rock Slide. For these reasons, Speed control from the likes of Murkrow and Iron Bundle is useful.
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