OU Dondozo

[GrimtheImpy]

Dondozo @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Waterfall
- Curse
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

Dondozo is a fat fish and nearly impossible for many physical attackers to take down! Unaware and obscene defensive stats ensure it always finds a place on stall and make it a contender for a slot on balance teams, crucially letting it check many of OU's physical attackers like Great Tusk, Dragonite, and Cinderace. Curse allows Dondozo to more comfortably take on these attackers, especially the likes of Tera Ghost Ceruledge and Life Orb Zamazenta that can otherwise 3HKO it through Rest. Tera Fighting allows Dondozo to better take on Kingambit, especially Black Glasses and Tera Dark variants that can run over stall teams, and Choice Band Tyranitar while giving it a great neutral typing against foes such as Iron Hands. Dondozo is best paired with specially defensive Pokemon like Blissey, Clodsire, and Ting-Lu to complement its physical walling prowess, as they can cover massive threats such as Kyurem, Raging Bolt, and Gholdengo. Running Corviknight as another physical wall alongside Dondozo works really well, since Corviknight can take on Grass-types such as Rillaboom, Ogerpon, and Ogerpon-W, especially with Tera Dragon for the latter, as well as absorb Knock Off.

Now, grab a popcorn bowl and check out this replay with a Dondozo team from OLT playoffs.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ou-972777

 

[Marnie]

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Dondozo @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Waterfall
- Curse
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

Dondozo is a fat fish and nearly impossible for many physical attackers to take down! Unaware and obscene defense stats ensure it always finds a place on stall and makes it a contender for a slot on Balance teams. (mention examples of common phys attackers you can handle) Curse allows Dondozo to not be passive in the face of more comfortably take on these physical attackers, especially that try to wear it down and allows it to more comfortably take on the likes of Tera Ghost Ceruledge and Life Orb Zamazenta that can otherwise 3HKO it through Rest. which may attempt to wear it down with. Rest is Dondozo’s only form of recovery which, while putting it to sleep for 2 turns making it vulnerable, is partially offset by Sleep Talk which allows Dondozo to have a 2 in 3 chance to act for those sleep turns. (resttalk is pretty straightforward and since this isnt an analysis, it can be fully ommitted so you can have more room to talk about more important things) Tera Fighting allows Dondozo to better take on Kingambit, especially Black Glasses + Tera Dark variants that can run over stall teams, and Ogerpon which, while it could beat with Curse. and Choice Band Tyranitar while being a great neutral typing against XXX. Dondozo is best paired with specially defense Pokemon such as Blissey on stall teams and Ting-Lu to compliment it’s Physical walling prowess. (give examples of special attackers that they help check for dozo) Running Corviknight as another physical wall alongside Dondozo works really well since Corviknight can take on Grass-types such as Ogerpon and Rillaboom and both generally appreciate having each other to alleviate the pressure of taking many physical attacks. (instead, mention corv's ability to absorb knock off for dozo + frees up corv to run tera dragon for waterpon since dozo handles the gambit mu)

lmk when this is implemented, would like to take a look at it again. also please reread your writeup again cause there are some instances where sentences just stop abruptly.

 

[Marnie]

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Dondozo @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Waterfall
- Curse
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

Dondozo is a fat fish and nearly impossible for many physical attackers to take down! Unaware and obscene defense stats ensure it always finds a place on stall and makes it a contender for a slot on Balance teams, crucially checking many of teams. Many of OU’s physical attackers like Great Tusk and Dragonite (+ace too) get completely walled by this behemoth of a Siluriforme. Curse allows Dondozo more comfortably take on these physical attackers, especially the likes of Tera Ghost Ceruledge and Life Orb Zamazenta that can otherwise 3HKO it through Rest. Tera Fighting allows Dondozo to better take on Kingambit, especially Black Glasses + Tera Dark variants that can run over stall teams, and Choice Band Tyranitar while being a great neutral typing against the foes such as Landorus-T. (not really a relevant threat to stall nor do you need to tera against it. just mention one of the grasses or iron hands instead) Dondozo is best paired with specially defense Pokemon like Blissey, Clodsire, or on stall teams and Ting-Lu on balance teams to compliment it’s Physical walling prowess as they can cover massive threats to Dondozo such as Kyurem, Raging Bolt, and Gholdengo. Running Corviknight as another physical wall alongside Dondozo works really well since Corviknight can take on Grass-types such as Rillaboom, Ogerpon, and Ogerpon-W, especially with Tera Dragon for the latter, as well as absorb Knock Off for Dondozo. and Ogerpon-W, especially with Tera Dragon. It also acts as a Knock Off absorber and in return, Dondozo can check Kingambit for Corviknight.

same colors, 1/1

 

[GrimtheImpy]

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[Ascension Evermore]

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GP 1/1 GP Team done, lmk if character count needs to be cut down

Dondozo

Dondozo @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Waterfall
- Curse
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

Dondozo is a fat fish and nearly impossible for many physical attackers to take down! Unaware and obscene defense defensive stats ensure it always finds a place on stall and makes make it a contender for a slot on balance teams, crucially checking letting it check many of OU’s OU's (ASCII apostrophe) physical attackers like Great Tusk, Dragonite, and Cinderace. Curse allows Dondozo to more comfortably take on these physical attackers (repetitive), especially the likes of Tera Ghost Ceruledge and Life Orb Zamazenta that can otherwise 3HKO it through Rest. Tera Fighting allows Dondozo to better take on Kingambit, especially variants with Black Glasses + and Tera Dark variants that can run over stall teams, and Choice Band Tyranitar while being giving it a great neutral typing against foes such as Iron Hands. Dondozo is best paired with specially defense defensive Pokemon like Blissey, Clodsire, or and Ting-Lu to compliment it’s complement its physical walling prowess, (AC) as they can cover massive threats such as Kyurem, Raging Bolt, and Gholdengo. Running Corviknight as another physical wall alongside Dondozo works really well, (AC) since Corviknight can take on Grass-types such as Rillaboom, Ogerpon, and Ogerpon-W, especially with Tera Dragon for the latter, as well as absorb Knock Off for Dondozo.


Now, (AC) grab a popcorn bowl and check out this replay with of a Dondozo team from OLT playoffs.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9ou-972777