(Priority Attacker) Dragonite @ Choice Band
Level: 100
Adamant Nature
Tera Type: Normal
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
- Extreme Speed
- Dragon Claw / Outrage
- Iron Head
- Stomping Tantrum / Fire Punch
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Level: 100
Adamant Nature
Tera Type: Normal
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
- Extreme Speed
- Dragon Claw / Outrage
- Iron Head
- Stomping Tantrum / Fire Punch
[SET COMMENTS]
- Dragonite is on of the best phisical attackers, thanks to high base stat, and Inner Focus ability, that blocks intimidate and potential flinch, from Fake Out especially.
- Dragonite runs Extreme Speed, can attack in priority and with Choice Band can damage faster pokemon like Chien Pao, Ogerpon, Landorus-i, Tornadus, keeping continue pressure.
- Depending on team choice, Dragon Claw and Outrage are the common stab, the first more conservative, the second more oppressive, but without choosing target and forcing dragonite on the field until confusion.
- Iron Head is really important to delete diancie, if not boosted in defense, and to ruin possible fairy tera pokemons like Raging Bolt, Gholdengo.
- Stomping Tantrum offers coverage hitting Iron Hands, steel types like Gholdengo, Kingambit, and fire types like Incineroar, Heatran.
- Fire Punch is a solid variant that touches better pokemons like Sinistcha, Bronzong.
- Dragonite usually wants normal tera, with a boosted Extreme Speed can be overwhelming while gains a decent defensive typing.
- Dragonite's best partner is Chien Pao, because they have a fantastic sinergy. Chien pao's Sword Of Ruin supports Dragonite to take some kos: Extreme Speed with tera normal kills Landorus, Tornadus, Ogerpon Wellspring and Hearthflame, with no hp investments. Chien pao also can remove with ice spinner psychic terrain and can threaten with Throat Choap pokemon like Farigiraf, both things that would block Extreme Speed.
- Dragonite appreciates also hazards setter, like Glimmora and Ting Lu, because they can put in range of Extreme Speed or other Dragonite attacks opposing pokemon.
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