Contrary is an interesting tech, but Incineroar could just use Blaze to not trigger the Attack boost.+1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Fairy Enamorus Play Rough vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Fire Incineroar: 171-202 (43.4 - 51.2%) -- 5.9% chance to 2HKO
Nobody's though of using Contrary yet to invert Intimidate, and Enamorus is the strongest user. If only it learned Brave Bird, you could do this:
+1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Flying Enamorus Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Steel Incineroar: 228-269 (57.8 - 68.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Sadly, mega can't use items so no choice specs252+ SpA Choice Specs Pixilate Tera Fairy Gardevoir-Mega Hyper Beam vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Steel Incineroar: 198-234 (50.2 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
gardevoir does 50% minimum to him/her, pixilate for 1.2 boost tera, specs idk what else tldr it does 50%+ (or at least it's higher than the other submission)
Couldn't Incineroar Tera Ghost to avoid the attack? Tri Attack is not Tera Blast Stellar so it does have an immunity. Also, you may want to give it a Modest nature to pump the damage up a bit.252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Stellar Porygon-Z Tri Attack vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Incineroar: 138-164 (35 - 41.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
by the time you posted this i'd edited that my calc was illegal, yesCouldn't Incineroar Tera Ghost to avoid the attack? Tri Attack is not Tera Blast Stellar so it does have an immunity. Also, you may want to give it a Modest nature to pump the damage up a bit.
knew something was too good to be trueon a critical hit
Yes, I mentioned Kangaskhan a few posts above, using the exact same set! Somebody previously noted that Stoutland can do it as well and hits harder.-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Sword of Ruin Tera Stellar (First Use) Chien-Pao Tera Blast (100 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Incineroar: 140-166 (35.5 - 42.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
To my disappointment, attempting the same Lash Out intimidate punish with Chien-Pao only broke 33.2%, which is quite funny. But I realized this less interesting Stellar Tera strat would be better anyways. Sword offsets Intimidate, and Stellar has no NVE types. Plain and simple.
Edit: Not gonna make a third post in a row, but I noticed base Kangaskahn can just barely squeak out Captain while I was mucking about with M-Kang and Zacian’s inability to get past plain ol Agent with Stellar Tera. I’m not gonna submit everything with a way to tech Intimidate and an attack stat north of garbage to Agent for being able to use Stellar Terablast, but this Kang Captain seems worth noting:
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Normal Kangaskhan Giga Impact vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Rock Incineroar: 167-197 (42.3 - 50%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Stakeout Tera Dark Mabosstiff Lash Out vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Fairy Incineroar: 196-231 (49.7 - 58.6%) -- 99.6% chance to 2HKO