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So Swords Dance Pancham is the mon we'll be building around in our next workshop which will be held tomorrow 20th December at 6pm GMT (around this time) in the #littlecup channel on IRC, Mambo will be posting here before the workshop starts by 15 minutes.
We did it, we built the team! The workshops had some few flaws (mainly because Mambo is silly) but we were able to do it. Thanks to Fiend Hound, Sken, Infamy, fitzy72 and other people, special shoutout to Rowan for saving the workshop, and this team was the result of our work:
You can now start nominating stuff for the next workshop. Don't nominate standard things that everyone has made a team around already or Yagura will dance for you (and nobody wants that).
Only Pokemon in LC that can set Stealth Rock and spinblock. Iron Fist boosts 1/2 the set; Drain Punch is decent recovery and Ice Punch is good coverage.
We have to try something new sometimes, I have seen particular interest on LC trick room on that playstyle , so yeah maybe it is a good idea to try something that looks different than what we seen everytime in ladder( The meta is super stable atm), my suggestion is Solosis, because it carries the biggest Spattack and is a huge threar on Trick room and is also cute
Karrablast is really solid with the right support, having No Guard Megahorn that nukes things thanks to its high Attack, Drill Run for Steel- and Fire-types, Knock Off, and Pursuit. It can also either run a Choice Scarf set or a wallbreaker with Swords Dance.
I'd like we to build about Guts Taillow. It's a very underrated pokemon which hits 19 speed, gets a powerfull 140 BP stab (facade), is able to birdspam (usefull with all the fighting types in the tier), and gets U-turn, one of the best moves in Little Cup. And it gets STAB priority too! I know its durability isn't big but it can sweep late game really easily. Anyway I'm not talking more about Guts Taillow, I'll let some calcs speak for themselves.
236 Atk Guts Taillow Facade (140 BP) vs. 76 HP / 212+ Def Chinchou: 24-28 (96 - 112%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
236 Atk Guts Taillow Facade (140 BP) vs. 76 HP / 212+ Def Eviolite Chinchou: 16-19 (64 - 76%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
236 Atk Guts Taillow Facade (140 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Magnemite: 12-15 (63.1 - 78.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
236 Atk Guts Taillow Facade (140 BP) vs. 76 HP / 0 Def Pawniard: 12-15 (54.5 - 68.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
236 Atk Guts Taillow Facade (140 BP) vs. 68 HP / 196 Def Amaura: 12-14 (48 - 56%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
I say we build around that old school mix kid. With 0 EVs and neutral nature, that guy has 16 speed. With 252 Atk EVs and 236 SpAtk EVs he reaches 16 Atk and 16 SpAtk. Just. Fucking. Wow.
252 Atk Elekid Brick Break vs. 76 HP / 0 Def Pawniard: 28-36 (127.2 - 163.6%) -- Nothing more to say
252 Atk Elekid Brick Break vs. 68 HP / 196 Def Amaura: 24-32 (96 - 128%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Elekid Brick Break vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Magnemite: 14-18 (73.6 - 94.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
236 SpA Elekid Psychic vs. 0 HP / 36 SpD Eviolite Mienfoo: 12-16 (57.1 - 76.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
236 SpA Elekid Psychic vs. 132 HP / 116 SpD Eviolite Croagunk: 24-32 (104.3 - 139.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
236 SpA Elekid Thunderbolt vs. 236 HP / 76 SpD Eviolite Archen: 18-24 (72 - 96%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
236 SpA Elekid Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Eviolite Ponyta: 9-12 (42.8 - 57.1%) -- 12.1% chance to 2HKO (that's a lil bad)
236 SpA Elekid Thunderbolt vs. 156 HP / 52 SpD Fletchling: 30-36 (130.4 - 156.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
236 SpA Elekid Psychic vs. 76 HP / 156 SpD Eviolite Timburr: 12-16 (48 - 64%) -- 96.5% chance to 2HKO
236 SpA Elekid Thunderbolt vs. 92 HP / 156+ SpD Eviolite Solid Rock Tirtouga: 10-15 (43.4 - 65.2%) -- 99.6% chance to 2HKO
236 SpA Elekid Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tirtouga: 30-36 (142.8 - 171.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO