Hahakomori

[macle]

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[Overview]

• Hahakomori can Baton Pass numerous boosts
• Its a great sweeper
• All Steel-types wall it.
• Grass/Bug typing is good.

[SET]
name: Sword Dance
move 1: Sword Dance
move 2: Leaf Blade
move 3: X-Scissor
move 4: Baton Pass / Shadow Claw
item: Life Orb
nature: Jolly
ability: Chlorophyll
evs: 6 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed

Set Comments:

• Main Focus of set is to sweep.
• Sword Dance allows Hakakori to reach a Attack stat of 610.
• Jolly nature allows you to reach 310 Speed.
• Leaf Blade and X-Scissor are the main attacks for it.
• Baton Pass allows you to pass your Sword Dance to a different Pokemon.

Additional Comments:

• In the sun, Hakakomri's Speed with increase to 620, making it fast and powerful.
• If you want to just Baton Pass Sword Dance to other Pokemon, move the Attack EVs into HP and change the item to Leftovers.

Teammates & Counters:

• Steel-types wall this specially Skarmory and Nattorei but you can Baton Pass out to a Pokemon that can take of the Steel-type Pokemon.

[SET]
name: Baton Pass Agility
move 1: Baton Pass
move 2: Agility
move 3: X-Scissor
move 4: Leaf Blade
item: Leftovers
nature: Jolly
ability: Chlorophyll
evs: 6 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed
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Set Comments:

• Set is used to Baton Pass Agility rather than sweep a team.
• Leaf Blade and X-Scissor are for STAB.

Additional Comments:

• You can move all the Attack EVs into HP to make Hahakomori more defensive.

Teammate and Counters:

• Steel-types wall this set. Fire-types can easily deal with them.
• Pokemon like Infernape, Heatran, and Metagross enjoy the Speed being passed to them.
• Heatran is an especially good partner to Hahakomori since it can take Fire-, Psychic-, and Flying-type attacks aim at it.

[Team Options]

• Magnezone can trap Steel-types that wall it.
• Heatran loves the Speed boost and has great defensive typing with Hahakomori.

[Optional Changes]

• Hahakomori can Baton Pass a ton of things like Claw Sharpen and Calm Mind but its best to stick to either Agility or Sword Dance.

[Counters]

• Steel-types wall Hahakomori.

[Dream World]

• Hahakomori gets the ability Dust-Proof in Dream World.
• This allows it to not take damage from weather.
• Doesn't really help Hakakomori.

 

[macle]

bump for rd to check it out

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Looks good format-wise, marked as done.

 

[Venser]

On the Agility set, Bug + Normal provides better coverage than Bug + Grass (despite STAB). Bug + Ghost is also an alternative depending on what you want to hit.

 

[Farewell]

Me First can be 'situational' good. Say you are facing a Flying type trying to Brave Bird you, your other moves are weak to it, and Me First gives it a 50% (pseudo STAB) boost. After a Swords Dance, it might be enough to knock-out the flying type.

Also works for numerous foes that have super-effective attacks they are weak to, such as a Dragon move vs a Dragon, a physical Ghost move vs a Ghost, etc.