Hey, I came up with a Gengar set that will 1v1 Chansey 100% of the time. Here it is:
Gengar @ Black Sludge
Ability: Cursed Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Wonder Room
- Mean Look
- Pain Split
- Shadow Ball
It's job is solely to remove Chansey, or else I would have focus blast. It can easily switch in to a toxic or seismic toss, and mean look Chansey. From there it will never be able to be KO'd due to pain split being Chansey's nightmare. Wonder room + shadow ball can always 3hko chansey, and if it can't 2hko, a spdef drop is inevitable.
Make sure to tell me how much this sucks and why I should never offer advice <3
Gengar @ Black Sludge
Ability: Cursed Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Wonder Room
- Mean Look
- Pain Split
- Shadow Ball
It's job is solely to remove Chansey, or else I would have focus blast. It can easily switch in to a toxic or seismic toss, and mean look Chansey. From there it will never be able to be KO'd due to pain split being Chansey's nightmare. Wonder room + shadow ball can always 3hko chansey, and if it can't 2hko, a spdef drop is inevitable.
Make sure to tell me how much this sucks and why I should never offer advice <3
isn't unstoppable but it's pretty dangerous no matter what. It's pretty hard to deal with consistently without losing a pokemon. It's not the most overpowered pokemon at the moment, but it's a threat.
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has potential but is completely stopped by rillaboom at the moment. Rillaboom's grassy glide is the most common move to revenge kill it. It could also be weak to mach punch or vacuum wave but those aren't move that are seen very often. Swords dance with speed boost lets you easily beat teams that aren't prepared for it. It still struggles to set up because it's very frail but if you can find the opportunity, it can pay off. I found that avalugg and slowbro can wall it thanks to their good physical defense and not being weak to any of scolipede's moves. However, Scolipede's true strength comes from its coverage. With poison jab, megahorn and earthquake, it can hit 11/18 types super effectively. I've seen games where it takes out half of the opponent's team without even setting up swords dance because its coverage is that good. It's pretty dangerous and if rillaboom is banned, I think it could become a good pokemon.
isn't a pokemon I've seen people discuss much despite being a pretty good one. Assault vest lets you survive special hits with ease making goodra one of the best answers to gengar, special dragapults and other special threats. Sap sipper lets you take the many grass moves of the format letting you deal with tangrowth, rillaboom and roserade rather easily. Its coverage is also great letting it choose moves to hit certain targets. For example, sludge bomb can deal with gengar and power whip can take out roserade. While all of these attributes are nice, let's not forget goodra's weaknesses. Low physical bulk and no recovery makes it so you have to play carefully with it. I think it can fill a really nice role on a team that needs it.
is one of my favorite set but I haven't talked about it much so here we go. The main reason you'll find to not use defensive cloyster is that avalugg is just better. While avalugg does have better bulk, recovery and roar, cloyster's movepool lets it function quite well. The three main moves are teleport, spikes and toxic spikes. Teleport is really good. Avalugg usually makes you lose momentum whereas cloyster can let you get right back into attacking with teleport. Your physical bulk is good enough to teleport safely on physical attackers. Another thing you can do instead of teleporting is setting up spikes or toxic spikes. I've mentionned in my post about how to beat chans-lugg how big of a difference spikes can make because a lot of attacks are just a bit too weak to 2HKO or 1HKO. Spikes also helps pokemons like gengar and scolipede OHKO tangrowth after a boost letting them keep up with their sweep. The fact that it can also deal serious damage to the most common spinner being avalugg thanks to ice beam makes it a good pokemon to set up spikes and keep them up. Lastly, Cloyster's electric and grass resists are more useful than avalugg's steel and rock resists which are never seen. Cloyster can deal with rillaboom, dracozolt, zeraora or tangrowth more easily than avalugg thanks to those interesting resists. No recovery makes me believe closyter fits better on more offensive teams while avalugg works on fatter teams.
is probably the best pokemon to beat some of the most dangerous threats the current meta has to offer most importantly, rillaboom. Thanks to lightning rod, it can also stop zeraora and it makes dracozolt wonder if it should use something else than bolt beak. Other than that, it can stop other less important but still threatening physical attackers such as shell smash cloyster, scarf urshifu, melmetal or dragon dance kyurem. It's also the best teammate for tangrowth since it resists every type that hits tangrowth super effectively. It also carries stealth rock, roar and scorching sands to add utility to your team. Now rhyperior has some obvious weaknesses notably being weak to the ever present poison type and having poor special defense. It's still worth a slot on multiple teams thanks to currently being the best anti-meta mon.
is the best offensive normal type in inverse in my opinion. The scarf set can outspeed and OHKO dragapult and gengar who are both great offensive pokemons and it can also revenge kill weakened zeraora, band urshifu and alakazam. The nasty plot set can deal some of the highest damage in inverse and breaks any slower pokemon with an unresisted STAB. The interesting part about PZ is how much it destroys slow, bulky teams. Unresisted STAB means it can run tri attack as its only attacking move and have other moves such has nasty plot, substitute, recover or even hyper beam to beat more defensive teams. Scarf PZ can simply trick its scarf onto chansey and set up to take it out. Porygon-Z is one of the most brutal pokemon if used well and I highly recommend trying to one-shot a chansey with hyper beam if you're a chansey hater.
is potentially really good but is in a tough spot at the moment. Melmetal can hit insanely hard and 1-2HKO any pokemon who doesn't resist double iron bash. However, it's walled by rhyperior and avalugg, two amazing pokemons that you are more likely to see than not. It can run ice beam to be able to 2HKO avalugg with it but locking yourself into a move that weak is basically like giving your opponent a free switch after hitting it. Melmetal can chip down Rhyperior since it doesn't have recovery but that's not a plan that works often. Now, if we exclude these two hard-counter, melmetal has very good matchups overall. It can use ice punch to hit less bulky ice types and darkest lariat to hit fairies and Tyranitar. Melmetal's bulk is also good enough to take super effective hits and retaliate with powerful double iron bashes. Basically, melmetal is a very strong but inconsistent pokemon that would need team support to succeed. With enough effort, I'm sure it could be used succesfully.
is insanely hard to stop without counters to it. Unless you have avalugg or a bulky grass resist such as cloyster, slowbro, hippowdon, rhyperior or quagsire, rillaboom is going to take out most of your pokemons. Even if you do have the right counters to it, rillaboom can just click u-turn to chip and switch. Even then, all of these except quagsire and rhyperior get 2hkoed by a swords dance boosted wood hammer. As for offensive counter-play, rillaboom's grassy glide is really powerful and can take out pokemons such as alakazam, gengar, cinderace, porygon-z, scolipede or dragapult and it can also finish off weakened zeraora or urshifu. It can easily take out the dangerous tangrowth, volcarona or dracozolt and it makes sure flying types are never seen. It's very easy for rillaboom to almost win the game on its own after taking out or weakening the opponent's grass resist. Rillaboom's bulk is also quite good at 100/90/70. I've seen it survive a grassy surge boosted grass knot from alakazam. In short, rillaboom hits incredibly hard, has a very strong priority, has an amazing offensive STAB and can take a hit or two meaning rillaboom can do anything it wants to. Rillaboom restricts teambuilding and can be a problem even if you have a decent counter to it. I believe it is a problem in the current metagame and it's not rare to end up with a rillaboom speed tie since it's so incredibly hard to counter or even check.
is an important pokemon because of its speed and its versatility. Having a fast pokemon like dragapult is very important since it can revenge-kill multiple pokemons who would be harder to check defensively such as alakazam, gengar or urshifu. It also has multiple set choices to potentially mix up the opponent and it can u-turn to give you the advantage. The dragon dance set is quite powerful because dragon is only resisted by dragon meaning pult's dragon dart is very spammable. Phantom Force lets you hits the normal types and the last slot was usually a move to hit dragons such as scald or thunderbolt. However, Draco Meteor seems like it would work better since it KOs avalugg after a bit of chip from dragon darts on the switch. This would let it get rid of the biggest threat to its sweep and become the threat it used to be pre-dlc. I only had the idea of adding draco meteor to bait and beat lugg today and haven't tested it so maybe it's not the way to go but it seems reliable enough. As for the specs set, it's the fastest draco meteor spammer and dragon only being resisted by dragon means draco meteor spam is a good strategy. Dragapult also has access to fire, water or electric coverage to hit those dragons super effectively. Shadow ball lets you hit normals and u-turn lets you pivot. Dragapult is an overall really solid choice for speed control, can fit on many teams and is a threat you should not underestimate.
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