| Pokemon | Uses | Usage% | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Valiant | 9 | 45% | 55.56% |
| Landorus-Therian | 9 | 45% | 33.33% |
| Zapdos | 8 | 40% | 37.50% |
| Kingambit | 5 | 25% | 80% |
| Keldeo | 5 | 25% | 60% |
| Chandelure | 5 | 25% | 20% |
| Ambipom | 5 | 25% | 20% |
| Slowking-Galar | 4 | 20% | 75% |
| Iron Leaves | 4 | 20% | 50% |
| Hawlucha | 4 | 20% | 25% |
| Torkoal | 4 | 20% | 0% |
| Walking Wake | 4 | 20% | 0% |
| Pelipper | 3 | 15% | 66.67% |
| Iron Treads | 3 | 15% | 66.67% |
| Barraskewda | 3 | 15% | 66.67% |
| Terapagos-Terastal | 3 | 15% | 66.67% |
| Raging Bolt | 3 | 15% | 33.33% |
| Weavile | 3 | 15% | 33.33% |
| Rillaboom | 2 | 10% | 100% |
| Heatran | 2 | 10% | 100% |
| Skarmory | 2 | 10% | 100% |
| Primarina | 2 | 10% | 100% |
| Keldeo-Resolute | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Gliscor | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Clefable | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Corviknight | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Kyurem | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Volcarona | 2 | 10% | 50% |
| Gholdengo | 2 | 10% | 0% |
| Cinderace | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Hydrapple | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Ting-Lu | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Hoopa-Unbound | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Ursaluna | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Hatterene | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Zamazenta-* | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Deoxys-Defense | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Dragapult | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Magnezone | 1 | 5% | 100% |
| Galvantula | 1 | 5% | 0% |
| Iron Moth | 1 | 5% | 0% |
| Glimmora | 1 | 5% | 0% |
| Grimmsnarl | 1 | 5% | 0% |
Chilly Reception, Freeze Dry, Infernal Parade
N/A
Dazzling Gleam, Play Rough, Spirit Break, Work UpN/A
Pokémon: Dodrio
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation: Normal/Flying
Ability: Rock Head
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp. Def
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: No Damage Brave Birds and Double Edges.
Pokémon: Dedenne
Gem: Electric Gem
Type After Activation: Electric/Fairy
Ability: Triage
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp Atk, +1 Sp. Def
New Moves: Calm Mind
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Priority Draining Kiss/Parabolic Charge.
Pokémon: Iron Thorns
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation: Rock/Ice
Ability: Skill Link
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Icicle Spear
Removed Moves: Dragon Dance
Competitive Overview: An attempt to emulate the Loaded Dice Iron Thorns set in a way.
Seems a bit meh as is, Rock Head is amazing for it but it's still pretty frail even boosted and isn't really naturally strong or fast enough to be all that effective at first glance. Maybe add an Attack boost, which I'd prefer over Speed since Swords Dance might make a Speed boost broken and SD is one Dodrio's most unique qualities
Comfey but a rat, should be a fine wincon
Pretty powerful would be a pretty good wincon with SD
Pokémon: Mamoswine
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: similar mamoswine to before, but you trade the ability to run an item for speed and technician. technician in particular makes ice shard much stronger and bulldoze, rock tomb, and even avalanche viable attacking options.
Mamoswine @ Ice Gem
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash / Avalanche
- Ice Shard
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Tomb / Knock Off
This would get vetoed, as Mamoswine's natural power and amazing offensive typing makes giving it both a Speed and Attack boost at the same time along with Technician for Icicle Spear a very dangerous prospect. I recommend removing either the Attack or Speed boostView attachment 615528
Pokemon: Electivire
Gem:
Type After Activation: Electric/Flying
Ability: Delta Stream
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Defense, +1 Speed
New Moves: Acrobatics
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Delta Stream gives Electivire no weaknesses, which allows it to survive a few attacks. It also just becomes a really strong attacker with acrobatics, supercell slam, and earthquake.
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Pokemon: Volbeat
Gem:Electric Gem
Type After Activation: Bug/Electric
Ability: Speed Boost
Stat Boosts: +3 Sp Attack
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Energy Ball
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: He's a lightning bug so I think he deserve to finally be an electric type. With tail glow, thunderbolt, energy ball, and bug buzz, Volbeat can become a terrifying sweeper (even with it's 47 base Sp Attack).
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Pokemon: Abomasnow
Gem:
Type After Activation: Ice/Grass
Ability: Snowstorm - This pokemon does 50% more damage in snow
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Sp Attack, +1 Speed
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: This is a mixed attacker that can be extremely strong in the snow it sets up. It also already has a decently wide movepool with options such as blizzard, leaf storm, energy ball, wood hammer, etc.
I was very on the fence with this one since it's Electivire, but I think the combination of Delta Stream, the stat boosts, and Electivire good enough stats and movepool would get this vetoed, as this thing would be simulateously hard to take on defensively while having the bulk to muscle past revenge kill attempts. I recommend removing the Attack or Speed boost, forcing Electivire to run a set up move in Bulk Up or Trailblaze to be as effective
This would get vetoed as you can only boost one stat by +2 at most, so you have to move one of the Special Attack boosts elsewhere
Super strong on paper but Abomasnow's middling stats balance this out nicely, should be a decent breaker
Pokémon: Decidueye-Hisui
Gem:
Type After Activation: Fighting / Flying
Ability: Grand Strategy (Whenever this Pokemon uses a move, if it moved last this turn (or whatever the analytic condition is), it gets +1 Spe.)
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves:
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: strange mon. gets buffs to Atk and defenses so it can survive moving last and get the Grand Strategy buff. With enough buffs from its ability and gem, it can be seriously threatening to a team, but takes some time to get going. i am not giving it acrobatics
Pokémon: Politoed
Gem:
Type After Activation: Water / Electric
Ability: Electric Surge
Stat Boosts: +1 SpA, +1 SpD, +1 Spe
New Moves: Parabolic Charge, Thunderbolt
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: much less weird mon. drop a drizzle and then swap to electric mode for a thunderstorm. very powerful, with double boosted STABs when both rain and terrain are up, but comes at the downside of not being able to run a damp rock for maximum raininess.
This would unfortunately get vetoed as the Hidden Gem must retain the holder's primary typing, so this would have to be Grass/Flying (which might be for the better as this looks quite powerful)
Not a huge fan of adding another Electric Surge Hidden Gem but this is overall fine
Pokémon: Roaring Moon
Gem: Flying
Type After Activation: Flying/Dark
Ability: Strong Jaw
Stat Boosts: +1 Def
New Moves: Psychic Fangs
Removed Moves: Crunch
Competitive Overview: Acrobatics Flying Gem combined with Strong Jaw boosted Jaw Lock, Fire Fang, and Psychic Fangs.
Pokémon: Tyranitar
Gem: Electric
Type After Activation: Electric/Dark
Ability: Magic Guard
Stat Boosts: +1 Att, SpA
New Moves: Wild Charge
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Has potential to go mixed, uses recoiless Wild Charge, immune to its own sandstorm chip, combines with blasting any pesky water types that might cause it problems. Can also just be ran as a Sand setter and boost into a potent killer with strong Wild Charges.
Pokémon: Quaquaval
Gem: Ice
Type After Activation: Ice/Water
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD, Spe
New Moves: Ice Shard
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Technician Triple Axel combined with boosted Ice Shard, Aqua Jet, & Rapid Spin. Also has SD and Aqua Step. Can grab a KO and get +1 Att with Moxie before transforming or the turn you use Triple Axel or Ice Shard.
This would unfortunately get vetoed as the Hidden Gem must retain the holder's primary typing, so this would have to be Dragon/Flying. That said, I don't know how I feel about giving a mon as powerful as Roaring Moon the option to become a Flying-type again
This would also unfortunately get vetoed for the same reason as Roaring Moon, so it would have to be Rock/Electric
Cautiously not vetoing this but this should be a very strong cleaner with Qua being able to stack a bunch of boosts so quickly. Would be more comfortable if it didn't have the Speed boost (since it can just boost with Aqua Step anyway) but I'm not sure if it's necessary to remove
Pokémon: Mudsdale
Gem: View attachment 615805 Electric
Type After Activation:
Ability: Charge Up - Heals 1/8 maximum hp upon successfully landing an attack (aka Joltemons shell bell as an ability)
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves: Supercell Slam, Wild Charge
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: Mudsdale gets sick of all the flying types running around and hits them with some Electric STAB. Stat buffs aim towards making Mudsdale an offensive tank, whose extra Defense buffs via Stamina or perhaps even Curse can further augment said bulk. Given normal Mudsdale struggles with a lack of recovery (and thus normally runs leftovers), the new ability aims to remedy such issues and provide extra incentive to play offensively.
Pokémon: Noivern
Gem: View attachment 616721 Flying
Type After Activation:
Ability: No Guard
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpA, +1 Spe
New Moves: Inferno
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: I love No Guard. Post-Transformation you get No Guard Hurricane + Inferno to play around with. Paired with high speed, Noivern becomes really nice for burn spreading. Main weakness here is that it doesn’t really want to click Dragon STABs after using its gem. Draco Meteor drains from the gem’s stat buffs, and Dragon Pulse isn’t really all that viable of an alternative. I mean if you really want to, No Guard Dragon Rush exists, except the attack buff was kinda thrown in for flavor, Noivern still only has a base 70 Attack Stat.
Pokémon: Crabominable
Gem:View attachment 616728 Ice
Type After Activation:
Ability: Inversion - Summons Trick Room on Switch-In
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD, +1 Acc
New Moves: Gyro Ball
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: Ice Hammer for the -1 speed, then summons trick room. Fun combo, except that does require that Crab actually lives a round first. While Inversion is a really strong ability, the mechanics of gem transformations kinda balances it out, since Crab can really only activate the ability once.
Seems like a decent tank with its unique offensive profile, not much else to say
Inferno seems more annoying than anything, but No Guard Noivern in general should be fun, as was a similar Noivern sub from Slate 1
Sounds super strong, probably not broken as it's far from impossible to stall out Trick Room turns but this would be one of the best wincons in the tier I think
Pokémon: Gengar
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Levitate
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 SpD
Movepool Changes:
Competitive Overview: Sits on common grounds like Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Fairly hard to switch into on account of respectable power and status spreading capabilities.
Pokémon: Zapdos
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Magic Guard
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD
Movepool Changes:
Competitive Overview: Returns to its RBY roots as a mixed attacker. Work Up lets it more effectively pressure Landorus-T, Gliscor, and Heatran. Fairy coverage is a niche option for improving the matchup against Ting-Lu and Raging Bolt.
Pretty neat, especially with Chilly Reception giving Gengar a very unique new option. I cautiously think that Nasty Plot would be fine on this, since it's Speed isn't boosted and its STABs are weak, plus Gengar is still pretty frail and gets a worse defensive typing
Like this one a lot, very interesting buff to an OU staple that won't push it over the edgelol morpeko and mandibuzz have the same boosts
Pokémon: Mandibuzz
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 Def
New Moves: Gunk Shot, Assurance, Body Press
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Niche option to flip Mandibuzz's role on its head, now being able to actually abuse Weak Armor to get a potential surprise late game sweep with its good STABs and coverage in either Gunk Shot or Bone Rush. Body Press make non-Gem sets a much better answer to Kingambit and even lets it run IronPress sets like a Dark-type Skarmory.
Mandibuzz (F) @ Flying Gem
Ability: Weak Armor
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Knock Off
- Acrobatics
- Bone Rush / Gunk Shot
- Roost
Pokémon: Morpeko
Gem: Electric Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Hunger Switch
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 Def
New Moves: Ice Spinner, Sucker Punch, Low Kick
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: ngl I ran out of ideas, but getting +1 from Aura Wheel into Gem activating into getting more and more boosts plus the fun option of Power Trip could actually make Morpeko a potent cleaner with some help. Plus, it gets to use its best STAB move without being forced to use up the gem when on Dark-type Aura Wheel turns.
Morpeko @ Electric Gem
Ability: Hunger Switch
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Aura Wheel
- Ice Spinner
- Knock Off / Power Trip
- Protect
Pokémon: Kyurem-Black
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Transistor
Stat Boosts: +1 Spe
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: Dragon Dance, Ice Fang, Icicle Spear, Scale Shot
Competitive Overview:
Kyurem-Black is one of the few Ubers that can totally be balanced just by removing a few moves. The removal of its set up moves and usable physical Ice STAB returns KyuB to its Gen 6/7 form as a terrifying midspeed wallbreaker handicapped by being forced to run special Ice moves or no Ice moves at all. KyuB's best set likely wouldn't be its Hidden Gem (more than likely it'd be like Boots 4 Attacks or something), but the gem is a great option as its only way to boost its Speed, making it a potential cleaner that doesn't have to deal with not being able to switch moves like a Scarf set would, with the added benefit of making Fusion Bolt a sort of pseudo-STAB with Transistor.Kyurem-Black @ Ice Gem
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Outrage
- Earth Power
Non-Gem Sets, since it's an Uber unban:
Kyurem-Black @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
Kyurem-Black @ Choice Specs
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Freeze-Dry
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
Kyurem-Black @ Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Dragon Claw / Avalanche
- Fusion Bolt
- Iron Head
Pokémon: Dodrio
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation: Normal/Flying
Ability: Rock Head
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 Sp. Def
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: No Damage Brave Birds and Double Edges.
Pokemon: Electivire
Gem:
Type After Activation: Electric/Flying
Ability: Delta Stream
Stat Boosts: +1 Defense, +1 Speed
New Moves: Acrobatics
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Delta Stream gives Electivire no weaknesses, which allows it to survive a few attacks. It also just becomes a really strong attacker with acrobatics, supercell slam, and earthquake.
Pokémon: Decidueye-Hisui
Gem:
Type After Activation: Grass / Flying
Ability: Grand Strategy (Whenever this Pokemon uses a move, if it moved last this turn (or whatever the analytic condition is), it gets +1 Spe.)
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves:
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: strange mon. gets buffs to Atk and defenses so it can survive moving last and get the Grand Strategy buff. With enough buffs from its ability and gem, it can be seriously threatening to a team, but takes some time to get going. i am not giving it acrobatics
Pokémon: Noivern
Gem:Flying
Type After Activation:
Ability: No Guard
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpA, +1 Spe
New Moves: Inferno
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: I love No Guard. Post-Transformation you get No Guard Hurricane + Inferno to play around with. Paired with high speed, Noivern becomes really nice for burn spreading. Main weakness here is that it doesn’t really want to click Dragon STABs after using its gem. Draco Meteor drains from the gem’s stat buffs, and Dragon Pulse isn’t really all that viable of an alternative. I mean if you really want to, No Guard Dragon Rush exists, except the attack buff was kinda thrown in for flavor, Noivern still only has a base 70 Attack Stat.
Pokémon: Zapdos
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Magic Guard
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD
Movepool Changes:
Competitive Overview: Returns to its RBY roots as a mixed attacker. Work Up lets it more effectively pressure Landorus-T, Gliscor, and Heatran. Fairy coverage is a niche option for improving the matchup against Ting-Lu and Raging Bolt.
Pokémon: Mandibuzz
Gem: Flying Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 Def
New Moves: Gunk Shot, Assurance, Body Press
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Niche option to flip Mandibuzz's role on its head, now being able to actually abuse Weak Armor to get a potential surprise late game sweep with its good STABs and coverage in either Gunk Shot or Bone Rush. Body Press make non-Gem sets a much better answer to Kingambit and even lets it run IronPress sets like a Dark-type Skarmory.
Mandibuzz (F) @ Flying Gem
Ability: Weak Armor
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Knock Off
- Acrobatics
- Bone Rush / Gunk Shot
- Roost
Pokémon: Jumpluff
Gem: Flying
Type After Activation:
Ability: Simple
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 Spe
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: A completely ass mon made into a terrifying late game sweeper, outspeeding literally the entire unboosted meta including scarf Dragapult, and bringing an outstanding 687 Attack along with it. It's held back by a few very large flaws however. It's only real attacking types are Grass and Flying, both of which are resisted by steel (U-Turn isn't a particularly great option due to losing the boosts when switching out) and the fact that it's literally a fucking Jumpluff otherwise.
Pokémon: Dedenne
Gem: Electric Gem
Type After Activation: Electric/Fairy
Ability: Triage
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp Atk, +1 Sp. Def
New Moves: Calm Mind
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Priority Draining Kiss/Parabolic Charge.
Pokemon: Volbeat
Gem:
Type After Activation: Bug/Electric
Ability: Speed Boost
Stat Boosts: +2 Sp Attack, +1 Defense
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Energy Ball
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: He's a lightning bug so I think he deserve to finally be an electric type. With tail glow, thunderbolt, energy ball, and bug buzz, Volbeat can become a terrifying sweeper (even with its 47 base Sp Attack).
Pokémon: Politoed
Gem:
Type After Activation: Water / Electric
Ability: Electric Surge
Stat Boosts: +1 SpA, +1 SpD, +1 Spe
New Moves: Parabolic Charge, Thunderbolt
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: much less weird mon. drop a drizzle and then swap to electric mode for a thunderstorm. very powerful, with double boosted STABs when both rain and terrain are up, but comes at the downside of not being able to run a damp rock for maximum raininess.
Pokémon: Mudsdale
Gem:Electric
Type After Activation:
Ability: Charge Up - Heals 1/8 maximum hp upon successfully landing an attack (aka Joltemons shell bell as an ability)
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves: Supercell Slam, Wild Charge
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: Mudsdale gets sick of all the flying types running around and hits them with some Electric STAB. Stat buffs aim towards making Mudsdale an offensive tank, whose extra Defense buffs via Stamina or perhaps even Curse can further augment said bulk. Given normal Mudsdale struggles with a lack of recovery (and thus normally runs leftovers), the new ability aims to remedy such issues and provide extra incentive to play offensively.
Pokémon: Morpeko
Gem: Electric Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Hunger Switch
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 Def
New Moves: Ice Spinner, Sucker Punch, Low Kick
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: ngl I ran out of ideas, but getting +1 from Aura Wheel into Gem activating into getting more and more boosts plus the fun option of Power Trip could actually make Morpeko a potent cleaner with some help. Plus, it gets to use its best STAB move without being forced to use up the gem when on Dark-type Aura Wheel turns.
Morpeko @ Electric Gem
Ability: Hunger Switch
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Aura Wheel
- Ice Spinner
- Knock Off / Power Trip
- Protect
Pokémon: Porygon-Z
Gem: Electric
Type After Activation:
Ability: Transistor
Stat Boosts: +1 Spe
New Moves: Volt Switch
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Porygon goes mental and turns into an electric type or something idk. Gains STAB on Thunderbolt without needing a turn to Conversion 2 and gets to keep a very nice Ghost immunity. Transistor gives it an even bigger boost, and Volt Switch allows it to pivot around using it's massive SpA stat. It can also get a SpA boost thanks to Download making it hit even harder than it already does.
Pokémon: Iron Thorns
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation: Rock/Ice
Ability: Skill Link
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Icicle Spear
Removed Moves: Dragon Dance
Competitive Overview: An attempt to emulate the Loaded Dice Iron Thorns set in a way.
Pokémon: Mamoswine
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: similar mamoswine to before, but you trade the ability to run an item for speed and technician. technician in particular makes ice shard much stronger and bulldoze, rock tomb, and even avalanche viable attacking options.
Mamoswine @ Ice Gem
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash / Avalanche
- Ice Shard
- Earthquake / Bulldoze
- Rock Tomb / Knock Off
Pokemon: Abomasnow
Gem:
Type After Activation: Ice/Grass
Ability: Snowstorm - This pokemon does 50% more damage in snow
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Sp Attack, +1 Speed
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: This is a mixed attacker that can be extremely strong in the snow it sets up. It also already has a decently wide movepool with options such as blizzard, leaf storm, energy ball, wood hammer, etc.
Pokémon: Quaquaval
Gem: Ice
Type After Activation: Ice/Water
Ability: Technician
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD
New Moves: Ice Shard
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Technician Triple Axel combined with boosted Ice Shard, Aqua Jet, & Rapid Spin. Also has SD and Aqua Step. Can grab a KO and get +1 Att with Moxie before transforming or the turn you use Triple Axel or Ice Shard.
Pokémon: Crabominable
Gem:Ice
Type After Activation:
Ability: Inversion - Summons Trick Room on Switch-In
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD, +1 Acc
New Moves: Gyro Ball
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: Ice Hammer for the -1 speed, then summons trick room. Fun combo, except that does require that Crab actually lives a round first. While Inversion is a really strong ability, the mechanics of gem transformations kinda balances it out, since Crab can really only activate the ability once.
Pokémon: Gengar
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Levitate
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 SpD
Movepool Changes:
Competitive Overview: Sits on common grounds like Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Fairly hard to switch into on account of respectable power and status spreading capabilities.
Pokémon: Kyurem-Black
Gem: Ice Gem
Type After Activation:
Ability: Transistor
Stat Boosts: +1 Spe
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: Dragon Dance, Ice Fang, Icicle Spear, Scale Shot
Competitive Overview:
Kyurem-Black is one of the few Ubers that can totally be balanced just by removing a few moves. The removal of its set up moves and usable physical Ice STAB returns KyuB to its Gen 6/7 form as a terrifying midspeed wallbreaker handicapped by being forced to run special Ice moves or no Ice moves at all. KyuB's best set likely wouldn't be its Hidden Gem (more than likely it'd be like Boots 4 Attacks or something), but the gem is a great option as its only way to boost its Speed, making it a potential cleaner that doesn't have to deal with not being able to switch moves like a Scarf set would, with the added benefit of making Fusion Bolt a sort of pseudo-STAB with Transistor.Kyurem-Black @ Ice Gem
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Outrage
- Earth Power
Non-Gem Sets, since it's an Uber unban:
Kyurem-Black @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
Kyurem-Black @ Choice Specs
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Freeze-Dry
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
Kyurem-Black @ Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability: Teravolt
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Dragon Claw / Avalanche
- Fusion Bolt
- Iron Head
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Flying: Electivire, Noivern, JumpluffElectric: Porygon-Z, Morpeko (SV), PolitoedIce: Gengar, Kyurem-B (SV), Mamoswine
Pokemon: Electivire
Gem:
Type After Activation: Electric/Flying
Ability: Delta Stream
Stat Boosts: +1 Defense, +1 Speed
New Moves: Acrobatics
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Delta Stream gives Electivire no weaknesses, which allows it to survive a few attacks. It also just becomes a really strong attacker with acrobatics, supercell slam, and earthquake.
Pokémon: Dedenne
Gem: Electric Gem
Type After Activation: Electric/Fairy
Ability: Triage
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp Atk, +1 Sp. Def
New Moves: Calm Mind
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Priority Draining Kiss/Parabolic Charge.
Pokémon: Crabominable
Gem:Ice
Type After Activation:
Ability: Inversion - Summons Trick Room on Switch-In
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD, +1 Acc
New Moves: Gyro Ball
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: Ice Hammer for the -1 speed, then summons trick room. Fun combo, except that does require that Crab actually lives a round first. While Inversion is a really strong ability, the mechanics of gem transformations kinda balances it out, since Crab can really only activate the ability once.
Extra Notes:
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Pokemon: Flapple
Gem:
Type After Activation: Grass/Ground
Ability: Gravity Field - Summons gravity on switch in
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Speed
New Moves: Earthquake, Gravity
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Flapple's whole gem gimmick relies on abusing gravity and it does so it multiple ways. The first way is through earthquake as it now affects the flying pokemon that flapple struggles to hit. The second is through dragon rush, being a strong move with low accuracy. Using gravity will increase the accuracy and make dragon rush actually viable. Finally, there is a little known mechanic with his signature move, grav apple. The mechanic is where the move actually does 50% more damage under gravity, which would make grav apple an extremely strong move.
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Pokemon: Zamazenta
Gem:
Type After Activation: Fighting/Rock
Ability: Bulletproof
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Accuracy
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: Body Press
Competitive Overview: There isn't much to this. Rock type makes it have a better matchup against flying types, the accuracy boost is for stone edge, and I thought bulletproof was a decent ability for zamazenta (making it immune to energy ball, focus blast, and aura sphere).
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Pokemon: Palossand
Gem:
Type After Activation: Ghost/Poison
Ability: Stamina
Stat Boosts: +1 Defense, +1 Sp Defense
New Moves: Toxic
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: This is a toxic stalling tank with it's buffed defenses, shore up, and stamina. It isn't super tanky, as it lacks the ability to run leftovers and you need to have sludge bomb on it's moveset, but overall it could be a solid wall.
Big fan of this, this was before your time but this reminds me a lot of Tart Apple Flapple from JolteMons, which was a super fun mon to use and this looks better than that
Not a fan of this one, Zamazenta is already a near S-Tier threat in OU and giving it an easier time against Flying-types that isn't that committal might push it over the edge, while on the opposite end of the spectrum it losing Body Press seems like an unnecessary nerf. I think I'd rather have something similar to this on a worse mon
Toxic is a pretty good buff for Palossand, though I'm not too sure how effective the gem will be,
Pokémon: Magmortar
Gem: Ground Gem
Type After Activation: Fire/Ground
Ability: Sheer Force
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed, +1 Acc
New Moves: Earth Power
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Sheer Force Breaker. +1 Acc makes it more viable to run Fire Blast/Focus Blast.
Pokémon: Mamoswine
Gem: Rock Gem
Type After Activation: Ice/Rock
Ability: Skill Link
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Iron Defense
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Strong dual STABs and given Iron Defense so it has some viability with Body Press, as well. Unfortunately (or maybe? fortunately?) it has no way to boost its strong Atk stat outside of Curse, and it's typing means a Fighting type can and will decimate you.
Pokémon: Weezing
Gem: Poison Gem
Type After Activation: Poison
Ability: Prankster
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Atk, +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Defog
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Weezing loses a niche with losing Levitate/NGas, but gains a new one with its Prankster priority set of support moves.
Simple and probably pretty good, not much else to sayShould be pretty scary breaker, the boosts to its bulk actually worry me a bit since Mamo's high HP will make it somewhat hard to revenge kill even with an awful defensive typing, said awful defensive typing is enough to not veto it though
Neat Defogger versus Gholdengo for non-Gem sets, Prankster in Gem is okay but honestly instead of utility I see Gem sets going more offensive with Weezing's weird offensive profile + Prankster Pain Split
Pokémon: Metagross
Gem: Ground Gem
Type After Activation: Steel/Ground
Ability: Bulletproof
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Steel/Ground is a very good typing combined with Bulletproof making it immune to moves like Focus Blast and Shadow Ball
Pokémon: Hydreigon
Gem: Rock Gem
Type After Activation: Dark/Rock
Ability: Rock Head
Stat Boosts: +1 Att, +1 Def
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Did you know this Pokemon has Head Smash, Rock Slide, and Stone Edge? Very adaptable with regular Nasty Plot, Dragon Dance (with or without gem), Bulky Roost, Physical, Special, and even Mixed.
Pokémon: Kommo-o
Gem: Poison Gem
Type After Activation: Dragon/Poison
Ability: Serene Grace
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD, Spe
New Moves: Rapid Spin
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Does its usual Kommo-o stuff but can blast Fairies with Poison Jab and Serene Grace for Poisoning
Seems just okay, not sure if just making it Ground and giving an ability that's about as good for it as Clear Body puts Metagross over the hump
Should be a very effective surprise option for Hydreigon, I like it
I like Rapid Spin for Kommo-o, Gem seems okay as a lure with Swords Dance sets but I'm not too sure about it past that
Pokémon: Copperajah
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Water Absorb
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: a good rocks setter with a typing that now grants copperajah an electric immunity. water absorb, inspired by its pkmn sword dex entry, removes copperajah's water weakness, giving it a fairer matchup vs the meta's waters like waterpon and wake.
Copperajah @ Ground Gem
Ability: Heavy Metal
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Earthquake
- Whirlwind / Knock Off
Pokémon: Ampharos
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Mold Breaker
Stat Boosts: +1 Acc, +2 SpA
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: set up with agility + gem boosted power gem/mbeam to become a lategame sweeper/cleaner; +1 acc allows for more accurate thunders/focus misses while mold breaker is useful for bypassing unaware. however, because its typing gets arguably worse upon transforming, it's a large commitment.
Ampharos @ Rock Gem
Ability: Static
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Agility
- Thunder
- Power Gem
- Focus Blast
Pokémon: Tornadus
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Magic Bounce
Stat Boosts: +1 Acc, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: torn gains crobat's typing and mbounce to become a reliable hazard control option. the accuracy boost upon transforming is because all of its main moves (bleakwind/hurricane, focus miss, etc) are all extremely inaccurate
Tornadus (M) @ Poison Gem
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hurricane / Bleakwind Storm
- Sludge Bomb
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Focus Blast / Heat Wave
It'll have trouble setting up the Gem since it's so slow, but once it gets that it seems pretty decent as a tankShould be an alright cleaner behind screens, not much else to sayPretty interesting, seems effective both as a sweeper with Plot, kinda being a stallbreaker with Magic Bounce + beating Clef naturally, and could interestingly be effective early game since it can prevent hazards early and just be an early nuisance for the opponent. I would probably give this Poison Jab and Gunk Shot (and maybe giving it Superpower back) to open up physical sets with Acrobatics:dragagle:Gem seems alright, basically being Nidoking with special bulk, but those move buffs should make Dragalge pretty interesting even as a non-Gem mon, especially Specs sets with Earth Power now being able to hit everything extremely hard in combination with STABs and Thunderbolt
Pokémon: Dragalge
Gem: Ground
Type After Activation: Poison / Ground
Ability: Corrosion
Stat Boosts: +1 SpA, +1 SpD, +1 Spe
New Moves: +Earth Power, Spikes
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: BIG special defense. clodsire typing and corrosion let it sit on Some special attackers as long as they're not able to kill it or whatever.
Pokemon: Flapple
Gem:
Type After Activation: Grass/Ground
Ability: Gravity Field - Summons gravity on switch in
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Speed
New Moves: Earthquake, Gravity
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Flapple's whole gem gimmick relies on abusing gravity and it does so it multiple ways. The first way is through earthquake as it now affects the flying pokemon that flapple struggles to hit. The second is through dragon rush, being a strong move with low accuracy. Using gravity will increase the accuracy and make dragon rush actually viable. Finally, there is a little known mechanic with his signature move, grav apple. The mechanic is where the move actually does 50% more damage under gravity, which would make grav apple an extremely strong move.
Pokémon: Magmortar
Gem: Ground Gem
Type After Activation: Fire/Ground
Ability: Sheer Force
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed, +1 Acc
New Moves: Earth Power
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Sheer Force Breaker. +1 Acc makes it more viable to run Fire Blast/Focus Blast.
Pokémon: Metagross
Gem: Ground Gem
Type After Activation: Steel/Ground
Ability: Bulletproof
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD, Spe
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Steel/Ground is a very good typing combined with Bulletproof making it immune to moves like Focus Blast and Shadow Ball
Pokémon: Copperajah
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Water Absorb
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpD
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: a good rocks setter with a typing that now grants copperajah an electric immunity. water absorb, inspired by its pkmn sword dex entry, removes copperajah's water weakness, giving it a fairer matchup vs the meta's waters like waterpon and wake.
Copperajah @ Ground Gem
Ability: Heavy Metal
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Earthquake
- Whirlwind / Knock Off
Pokémon: Dragalge
Gem: Ground
Type After Activation: Poison / Ground
Ability: Corrosion
Stat Boosts: +1 SpA, +1 SpD, +1 Spe
New Moves: +Earth Power, Spikes
Removed Moves:
Competitive Overview: BIG special defense. clodsire typing and corrosion let it sit on Some special attackers as long as they're not able to kill it or whatever.
Pokémon: Krookodile
Gem: Ground
Type After Activation:
Ability: Armor Tail
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 SpD, +1 Spe
New Moves: Spikes, Parting Shot, Rapid Spin, Swords Dance
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Adds some really nice utility to Krookodile that turns it into a more offense-oriented Ting-Lu with way less bulk but pivoting and Spin, plus SD + Moxie + Gem to end games
Pokemon:ZamazentaHitmontop
Gem:
Type After Activation: Fighting/Rock
Ability: Bulletproof
Stat Boosts: +1 Attack, +1 Speed +1 Accuracy
New Moves: N/A
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: There isn't much to this. Rock type makes it have a better matchup against flying types, the accuracy boost is for stone edge, and I thought bulletproof was a decent ability for the top (making it immune to energy ball, focus blast, and aura sphere).
Pokémon: Mamoswine
Gem: Rock Gem
Type After Activation: Ice/Rock
Ability: Skill Link
Stat Boosts: +1 Def, +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Iron Defense
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Strong dual STABs and given Iron Defense so it has some viability with Body Press, as well. Unfortunately (or maybe? fortunately?) it has no way to boost its strong Atk stat outside of Curse, and it's typing means a Fighting type can and will decimate you.
Pokémon: Hydreigon
Gem: Rock Gem
Type After Activation: Dark/Rock
Ability: Rock Head
Stat Boosts: +1 Att, +1 Def
New Moves: None
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Did you know this Pokemon has Head Smash, Rock Slide, and Stone Edge? Very adaptable with regular Nasty Plot, Dragon Dance (with or without gem), Bulky Roost, Physical, Special, and even Mixed.
Pokémon: Ampharos
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Mold Breaker
Stat Boosts: +1 Acc, +2 SpA
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: set up with agility + gem boosted power gem/mbeam to become a lategame sweeper/cleaner; +1 acc allows for more accurate thunders/focus misses while mold breaker is useful for bypassing unaware. however, because its typing gets arguably worse upon transforming, it's a large commitment.
Ampharos @ Rock Gem
Ability: Static
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Agility
- Thunder
- Power Gem
- Focus Blast
Pokémon: Sandaconda
Gem: Rock
Type After Activation:
Ability: Sand Rush
Stat Boosts: +2 Atk, +1 SpD
New Moves: Ice Fang, Ice Spinner, Slack Off
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Very lategame cleaner that looks to sweep with a late Sand Spit activation into Gem activating and giving you doubled Speed that you're allowed to fully invest in due to the +2 Atk boost plus potentially more from Coil. Slack Off potentially gives non-Gem sets something to do in the crowded OU Ground market since having Glare + recovery + Coil is something, Gem sets can also use it to be a safer wincon with Coil that can try to bulk its way to victory after Sand ends
Pokemon: Palossand
Gem:
Type After Activation: Ghost/Poison
Ability: Stamina
Stat Boosts: +1 Defense, +1 Sp Defense
New Moves: Toxic
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: This is a toxic stalling tank with it's buffed defenses, shore up, and stamina. It isn't super tanky, as it lacks the ability to run leftovers and you need to have sludge bomb on it's moveset, but overall it could be a solid wall.
Pokémon: Weezing
Gem: Poison Gem
Type After Activation: Poison
Ability: Prankster
Stat Boosts: +1 Sp. Atk, +1 Sp. Def, +1 Speed
New Moves: Defog
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Weezing loses a niche with losing Levitate/NGas, but gains a new one with its Prankster priority set of support moves.
Pokémon: Kommo-o
Gem: Poison Gem
Type After Activation: Dragon/Poison
Ability: Serene Grace
Stat Boosts: +1 SpD, Spe
New Moves: Rapid Spin
Removed Moves: None
Competitive Overview: Does its usual Kommo-o stuff but can blast Fairies with Poison Jab and Serene Grace for Poisoning
Pokémon: Tornadus
Gem:
Type After Activation:
Ability: Magic Bounce
Stat Boosts: +1 Acc, +1 Def, +1 SpD
New Moves: n/a
Removed Moves: n/a
Competitive Overview: torn gains crobat's typing and mbounce to become a reliable hazard control option. the accuracy boost upon transforming is because all of its main moves (bleakwind/hurricane, focus miss, etc) are all extremely inaccurate
Tornadus (M) @ Poison Gem
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hurricane / Bleakwind Storm
- Sludge Bomb
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Focus Blast / Heat Wave
Pokémon: Pecharunt
Gem: Poison
Type After Activation:
Ability: Toxic Chain
Stat Boosts: +1 Atk, +1 SpA, +1 SpD
New Moves: Toxic Spikes, Iron Defense
Removed Moves: N/A
Competitive Overview: Added power and bulk (with the boosts referencing each of the Loyal Three's highest stats) helps Nasty Plot Pecharunt either sweep or stallbreak more easily. Even if it doesn't win, it's gonna Toxic like 2 or 3 things before it goes down, with Malignant Chain having a crazy 65% chance to badly poison. Forever walled by Kingambit.
