[SET]
Landorus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Flying / Ground
Jolly Nature
- Headlong Rush
- Dragon Ascent
- Defog / Spikes / Stealth Rock
- U-turn
[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its immense attack stat and use of strong STAB moves in Headlong Rush and Dragon Ascent, Landorus-T functions as a Choice Scarf wallbreaker. Landorus-T's dual stabs provide great coverage as Headlong Rush and Dragon Ascent deal immense damage to a wide variety of targets from Great Tusk to Iron Hands, Gouging Fire to Tyranitar. U-Turn is a core move for Landorus-T syngerizing with it's ability intimdate and allowing it to pivot off of incoming switch-ins such as Ting-Lu, Rotom-W, and Corviknight. Defog can be used as a way to secondary form of hazard removal whilst also giving the user the potential to bluff non-scarf sets, other options include running hazards of it's own in order to take advantage of incoming switch-ins that Landorus-T can't handle such as Rotom-Wash and Skarmory. In regards to Tera both STABs are viable options further improving the potency of it's moves or a defensive Tera such as Water or Dragon can be used to abuse switch-ins that think Landorus-T is gonna be forced out or KO'd. Landorus-T has a great matchup against bulky walls such as Toxapex, Great Tusk, and Tyranitar. However, Landorus-T struggles against bulky walls such as Ting-Lu, Corviknight while also struggling against priority users like Rotom-W and Volcanion. Some wallbreakers that provide beneficial matchups versus Ting-Lu include Iron Valiant, Ogerpon-W and Rotom-W while Iron Moth and Gouging Fire provide options to beat Corviknight. Volcanion struggles to beat RegenVest Toxapex thanks to its monstrous special defense stat while Rillaboom can beat Rotom-W since it resists both of its STABs and doesn't take too much damage from Freeze-Dry. Another huge threat to Landorus-T is Beak Blast, since all of its moves make contact and will thus be burned by Beak Blast. To counter this, you can directly switch-in to a bulky special attacker, such as Gholdengo, Volcanion, or Rotom-W, to take the hit and threaten to set-up or use a strong STAB attack.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gambit_gamin.652656/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/giagantic.220859/
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Grammar checked by:
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Landorus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Flying / Ground
Jolly Nature
- Headlong Rush
- Dragon Ascent
- Defog / Spikes / Stealth Rock
- U-turn
[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its immense attack stat and use of strong STAB moves in Headlong Rush and Dragon Ascent, Landorus-T functions as a Choice Scarf wallbreaker. Landorus-T's dual stabs provide great coverage as Headlong Rush and Dragon Ascent deal immense damage to a wide variety of targets from Great Tusk to Iron Hands, Gouging Fire to Tyranitar. U-Turn is a core move for Landorus-T syngerizing with it's ability intimdate and allowing it to pivot off of incoming switch-ins such as Ting-Lu, Rotom-W, and Corviknight. Defog can be used as a way to secondary form of hazard removal whilst also giving the user the potential to bluff non-scarf sets, other options include running hazards of it's own in order to take advantage of incoming switch-ins that Landorus-T can't handle such as Rotom-Wash and Skarmory. In regards to Tera both STABs are viable options further improving the potency of it's moves or a defensive Tera such as Water or Dragon can be used to abuse switch-ins that think Landorus-T is gonna be forced out or KO'd. Landorus-T has a great matchup against bulky walls such as Toxapex, Great Tusk, and Tyranitar. However, Landorus-T struggles against bulky walls such as Ting-Lu, Corviknight while also struggling against priority users like Rotom-W and Volcanion. Some wallbreakers that provide beneficial matchups versus Ting-Lu include Iron Valiant, Ogerpon-W and Rotom-W while Iron Moth and Gouging Fire provide options to beat Corviknight. Volcanion struggles to beat RegenVest Toxapex thanks to its monstrous special defense stat while Rillaboom can beat Rotom-W since it resists both of its STABs and doesn't take too much damage from Freeze-Dry. Another huge threat to Landorus-T is Beak Blast, since all of its moves make contact and will thus be burned by Beak Blast. To counter this, you can directly switch-in to a bulky special attacker, such as Gholdengo, Volcanion, or Rotom-W, to take the hit and threaten to set-up or use a strong STAB attack.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gambit_gamin.652656/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/giagantic.220859/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/
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