[SET]
name: Defensive Wall
move 1: Roost
move 2: Whirlwind
move 3: Thunder Wave
move 4: Toxic / Psychic / Ice Beam
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Multiscale
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Owing to Lugia's high natural bulk, decent defensive typing, and invaluable ability in Multiscale, it serves as a potent blanket check and emergency switchin to some of AG's most potent threats, including Mega Rayquaza, Zacian-C, and Ultra Necrozma. Access to valuable support moves such as Whirlwind and Toxic and Thunder Wave allows it to accrue chip damage or cripple the aforementioned threats, allowing them to be more easily handled. Roost is chosen over Recover in order to have a better matchup against Swords Dance Primal Groudon and a paralyzed Zacian-C by negating super effective damage from their coverage moves and Wild Charge. Whirlwind is vital in shutting down setup sweepers such as Swords Dance Primal Groudon, Mega Rayquaza, Zacian-C, Xerneas, and Swords Dance Arceus formes, which may take advantage of Lugia's relative passiveness, while also allowing Lugia to rack up chip damage alongside entry hazards. However, it cannot be relied on to phaze some threats such as Dragon Tail Zygarde-C and Dynamax users. Thunder Wave allows Lugia to outspeed offensive threats and freely use Roost on them in order to have Multiscale up versus their attacks, making them much easier to deal with. In particular, it punishes Zacian-C, Mega Rayquaza, and Eternatus. Toxic allows Lugia to cripple switch-ins such as Ho-Oh and Yveltal while chipping away at offensive Pokemon such as Mega Rayquaza and Primal Groudon. Psychic, and Ice Beam to a lesser extent, are options in order to prevent Lugia from being trapped and removed by Mega Gengar; Ice Beam can also deter Dragon Tail Zygarde-C from setting up and damage Mega Rayquaza and Yveltal, although it is relatively weak. Multiscale is what enables Lugia to switch-in reliably to threats such as Mega Rayquaza, and so keeping it intact by preventing Lugia from being statused and keeping it at full HP is vital. Hence, a variant of this set with Leftovers and with Substitute over Thunder Wave can be run, which notably allows Lugia to defeat Dragon Tail Zygarde-C. Opting for this variant, however, mandates a great deal of entry hazard removal for Multiscale to function, and this set is also more prone to being trapped by Mega Gengar.
Lugia is very passive and so fits mainly on fatter balance teams and stall teams. Dragon Tail Zygarde-C can heavily take advantage of non-Substitute Lugia, as it is faster than Lugia. Therefore, strong Zygarde-C checks such as Ice Beam or Perish Song support Arceus forms work well with it. Yveltal also massively threatens Lugia and can only be statused in return. Strong Yveltal switch-ins such as Diancie, Chansey, Tyranitar or Ho-Oh to an extent can help mitigate this. Tyranitar also provides Pursuit support in order to combat Mega Gengar and Lunala, which dispose of non-Psychic sets, but Tyranitar must be used carefully, as its ability can break Multiscale. Additionally, Lugia cannot handle being statused and so is forced out by bulky status users such as Ho-Oh, Eternatus and Necrozma-DM, making status absorbers such as Necrozma-DM and Ho-Oh and Rest users such as Zygarde-C, Giratina, and Primal Groudon are good partners. Clerics such as Chansey, Diancie, and Xerneas significantly assist Lugia in this regard as well, in the case it does get statused. Stealth Rock is useful in order to rack up chip damage with Whirlwind; often a key way for stall teams to damage the opposing team's wallbreakers; and so the aforementioned Necrozma-DM, Primal Groudon, and support Arceus forms pair well with it as well as Spikes Ferrothorn. If a Leftovers + Substitute set is opted for, reliable Defoggers such as Ho-Oh and support Arceus forms as well as Magic Bounce users such as Mega Diancie and Mega Sableye are recommended. Gothitelle is a major vulnerability for Lugia and the stall style builds it features on, and it is not possible to patch up this weakness.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[ice-master-523, 464176]]
- Quality checked by: [[Guardsweeper, 360582], [pichus, 374620]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]
name: Defensive Wall
move 1: Roost
move 2: Whirlwind
move 3: Thunder Wave
move 4: Toxic / Psychic / Ice Beam
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Multiscale
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Owing to Lugia's high natural bulk, decent defensive typing, and invaluable ability in Multiscale, it serves as a potent blanket check and emergency switchin to some of AG's most potent threats, including Mega Rayquaza, Zacian-C, and Ultra Necrozma. Access to valuable support moves such as Whirlwind and Toxic and Thunder Wave allows it to accrue chip damage or cripple the aforementioned threats, allowing them to be more easily handled. Roost is chosen over Recover in order to have a better matchup against Swords Dance Primal Groudon and a paralyzed Zacian-C by negating super effective damage from their coverage moves and Wild Charge. Whirlwind is vital in shutting down setup sweepers such as Swords Dance Primal Groudon, Mega Rayquaza, Zacian-C, Xerneas, and Swords Dance Arceus formes, which may take advantage of Lugia's relative passiveness, while also allowing Lugia to rack up chip damage alongside entry hazards. However, it cannot be relied on to phaze some threats such as Dragon Tail Zygarde-C and Dynamax users. Thunder Wave allows Lugia to outspeed offensive threats and freely use Roost on them in order to have Multiscale up versus their attacks, making them much easier to deal with. In particular, it punishes Zacian-C, Mega Rayquaza, and Eternatus. Toxic allows Lugia to cripple switch-ins such as Ho-Oh and Yveltal while chipping away at offensive Pokemon such as Mega Rayquaza and Primal Groudon. Psychic, and Ice Beam to a lesser extent, are options in order to prevent Lugia from being trapped and removed by Mega Gengar; Ice Beam can also deter Dragon Tail Zygarde-C from setting up and damage Mega Rayquaza and Yveltal, although it is relatively weak. Multiscale is what enables Lugia to switch-in reliably to threats such as Mega Rayquaza, and so keeping it intact by preventing Lugia from being statused and keeping it at full HP is vital. Hence, a variant of this set with Leftovers and with Substitute over Thunder Wave can be run, which notably allows Lugia to defeat Dragon Tail Zygarde-C. Opting for this variant, however, mandates a great deal of entry hazard removal for Multiscale to function, and this set is also more prone to being trapped by Mega Gengar.
Lugia is very passive and so fits mainly on fatter balance teams and stall teams. Dragon Tail Zygarde-C can heavily take advantage of non-Substitute Lugia, as it is faster than Lugia. Therefore, strong Zygarde-C checks such as Ice Beam or Perish Song support Arceus forms work well with it. Yveltal also massively threatens Lugia and can only be statused in return. Strong Yveltal switch-ins such as Diancie, Chansey, Tyranitar or Ho-Oh to an extent can help mitigate this. Tyranitar also provides Pursuit support in order to combat Mega Gengar and Lunala, which dispose of non-Psychic sets, but Tyranitar must be used carefully, as its ability can break Multiscale. Additionally, Lugia cannot handle being statused and so is forced out by bulky status users such as Ho-Oh, Eternatus and Necrozma-DM, making status absorbers such as Necrozma-DM and Ho-Oh and Rest users such as Zygarde-C, Giratina, and Primal Groudon are good partners. Clerics such as Chansey, Diancie, and Xerneas significantly assist Lugia in this regard as well, in the case it does get statused. Stealth Rock is useful in order to rack up chip damage with Whirlwind; often a key way for stall teams to damage the opposing team's wallbreakers; and so the aforementioned Necrozma-DM, Primal Groudon, and support Arceus forms pair well with it as well as Spikes Ferrothorn. If a Leftovers + Substitute set is opted for, reliable Defoggers such as Ho-Oh and support Arceus forms as well as Magic Bounce users such as Mega Diancie and Mega Sableye are recommended. Gothitelle is a major vulnerability for Lugia and the stall style builds it features on, and it is not possible to patch up this weakness.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[ice-master-523, 464176]]
- Quality checked by: [[Guardsweeper, 360582], [pichus, 374620]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]
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