BSS Clodsire

[Theorymon]

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Recover
move 3: Yawn / Toxic
move 4: Stealth Rock / Protect / Poison Jab / Toxic
item: Leftovers / Black Sludge
ability: Unaware / Water Absorb
nature: Careful / Impish
evs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
tera type: Flying / Steel / Poison

[SET COMMENTS]

* While Clodsire is lacking in physical bulk compared to Dondozo and Skeledirge, it makes up for it in having a fantastic support movepool.

* Yawn is very effective at forcing switches, which is especially dangerous if Stealth Rock is set up.

* Poison Jab is Clodsire's best move against Tera Fairy Rotom-W, which is an especially important target when using Water Absorb.

* Protect, in addition to benefiting from Leftovers, pairs well with Yawn.

* Body Press isn't particularly strong, but it does prevent Clodsire from being totally walled by Tera Steel Hydreigon if using a physically defensive spread.

* Black Sludge may seem appealing, but it punishes Clodsire for Terastalliizing unless it becomes Tera Poison, so Leftovers is preferred unless Leftovers is already on something else.

Tera Types
========

* **Flying-type**: With a Flying Tera type, Clodsire no longer has to worry about Earthquake or Fissure.

* **Steel-type**: A Steel Tera type allows Clodsire to take on powerful Dragon-type attacks, without the worry of Gholdengo dealing massive damage.

* **Poison-type**: With Tera Poison, Clodsire not only becomes a better check to Grass- and Water-types such as Meowscarda and Rotom-W, but it can also safely run Black Sludge to punish users of Trick.

* **Fairy-type**: A Fairy Tera type will stop powerful Dragon-type attacks cold without making Clodsire weak to Earthquake, but it comes at the cost of compromising its ability to check Gholdengo.

Abilities
========

* **Unaware**: If you're planning to use Clodsire to its fullest defensive potential, Unaware is the best bet against setup foes.

* **Water Absorb**: Water Absorb sacrifices overall defensive potential in exchange for being able to wall Rotom-W without needing to Terastallize. If setting up Stealth Rock is important, this can be worth it.

EV Spreads
========

* **252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe with Careful**: Maximizing Special Defense is Clodsire's best hope for handling powerful special attackers such as Choice Specs Hydreigon.

* **252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe with Impish**: Clodsire's Defense may be mediocre, but with maximum investment, it can pull stunts such as usually avoiding a 2HKO from Jolly Dragonite's Outrage with Leftovers.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Theorymon, 29010]]
- Quality checked by: [[Butch Hardnight, 265677], [DerpySuX, 528485]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Sulo, 528036]]

 

[Theorymon]

OK NOW this is ready! I added the Water Absorb stuff and dual EV spreads.

I'll admit the EV spreads are sorta generic, but I felt like I needed a section to highlight the differences between physically defensive and specially defensive. If there are better crafted EV spreads out there though, I wouldn't object to using them!

 

[DerpySuX]

Looks good overall, I’d mention a poison tera type though, as it is quite a good defensive typing all things considered, by shedding the ground typing you’re able to sit on water and grass types more effectively, you particularly fuck over Meowscarada, as banded flower trick is really its only hope of breaking past clod, and remaining a poison type allows Clodsire to make use of black sludge for recovery, which heavily discourages trick

 

[Theorymon]

Great point about Tera Poison and Black Sludge, added that in!

This is now ready for a GP check!

 

[Sulo]

add remove comment
ac = add comma, rc = remove comma, ap = add period

cloddy woddy

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Recover
move 3: Yawn / Toxic
move 4: Stealth Rock / Protect / Poison Jab / Toxic
item: Leftovers / Black Sludge
ability: Unaware / Water Absorb
nature: Careful / Impish
evs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
tera type: Flying / Steel / Poison

[SET COMMENTS]

* While Clodsire is lacking in physical bulk compared to Dondozo and Skeledirge, it makes up for it in having a fantastic support movepool.

* Yawn is very effective at forcing switches, which is especially dangerous if Stealth Rock is set up.

* Poison Jab is Clodsire's best move against Tera Fairy Rotom-W, a Rotom-W with a Fairy Tera type, which is an especially important target when using Water Absorb.

* Protect, in addition to benefiting from Leftovers, pairs well with Yawn.

* Body Press isn't particularly strong, but it does prevent Clodsire from being totally walled by Tera Steel Hydreigon if using a physically defensive spread.

* Black Sludge may seem appealing, but it punishes Clodsire for Terastalliizing unless it becomes Tera Poison, so Leftovers is preferred unless Leftovers is already on something else.

Tera Types
========

* **Flying-type**: With a Flying Tera type, Clodsire no longer has to worry about Earthquake or Fissure.

* **Steel-type**: A Steel Tera type allows Clodsire to take on powerful Dragon-type attacks, without the worry of Gholdengo dealing massive damage.

* **Poison-type**: With Tera Poison, Clodsire not only becomes a better check to Grass- and Water-types Grass and Water Pokemon such as Meowscarda and Rotom-W, but it can also safely run Black Sludge to punish users of Trick.

* **Fairy-type**: A Fairy Tera type will stop powerful Dragon-type attacks cold without making Clodsire weak to Earthquake, but it comes at the cost of compromising its ability to check Gholdengo.

Abilities
========

* **Unaware**: If you're planning to use Clodsire to its fullest defensive potential, Unaware is the best bet against setup foes. (I removed the hyphen here; however, if you meant set-up in the past tense, like "Volcarona was set-up, but Clodsire was able to check it", then keep it.)

* **Water Absorb**: Water Absorb sacrifices overall defensive potential (rc) in exchange for being able to wall Rotom-W without needing to Terastallize. If setting up Stealth Rock is important, this can be worth it.

EV Spreads
========

* **252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe with Careful**: Maximizing Special Defense is Clodsire's best hope for handling powerful special attackers Special Attackers such as Choice Specs Hydreigon.

* **252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe with Impish**: Clodsire's Defense may be mediocre, but with maximum investment, it can pull stunts such as usually avoiding a 2HKO from Jolly Dragonite's Outrage with Leftovers.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Theorymon, 29010]]
- Quality checked by: [[Butch Hardnight, 265677], [DerpySuX, 528485]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Sulo, 528036]]

GP 1/1
GP Team done

 

[Theorymon]

Thanks a lot for the check, our favorite mudboi is now onsite!