
[SET]
name: Stealth Rock
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Crunch / Superpower
move 4: Pursuit
item: Tyranitarite
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 148 HP / 252 Atk / 108 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Tyranitar serves as a valuable Stealth Rock setter and Pursuit trapper due to its powerful STAB moves, great bulk, a Rock / Dark typing, allowing it to handle Ghost- and Flying-types well. Stone Edge threatens common Defoggers in Tornadus-T, Zapdos, and Rotom-W to ensure its Stealth Rock will be staying on the field. Crunch dents Pokemon like Dragapult and Gholdengo while doing sizable damage to Gastrodon and Ferrothorn. Alternatively, Superpower can be used over Crunch to immediately threaten Kingambit, Ting-Lu, and Ferrothorn, but it leaves Mega Tyranitar unable to pressure Pokemon like Gholdengo, Clodsire, and Reuniclus. Pursuit traps Pokemon like Tapu Lele, Dragapult, Tornadus-T, and Gholdengo. 108 Speed EVs allow Mega Tyranitar to outspeed Gholdengo. Mega Tyranitar's middling defensive typing leaves it extremely vulnerable to Pokemon such as Mega Lopunny, Great Tusk, and Zamazenta. As such, defensive Pokemon like Zapdos, Gholdengo, and Toxapex pair well with Mega Tyranitar, as they cover the threats it would struggle with. Toxapex in particular appreciates Mega Tyranitar trapping Heatran and Gholdengo with Pursuit, after which it can then stack Toxic Spikes. This, along with Mega Tyranitar's Stealth Rock, wears down each other's checks like Great Tusk, Landorus-T, and Zamazenta. Mega Tyranitar also appreciates Pokemon that can deal with Ground-types, such as Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Tangrowth. Fighting-type partners such as Iron Valiant and Zamazenta greatly appreciate Mega Tyranitar removing Pokemon like Gholdengo and Reuniclus. Mega Tyranitar's sand enables Excadrill, which is a great offensive partner to it. Excadrill is able to snipe Pokemon like Mega Diancie and Kingambit, while Tyranitar deals with Flying-types like Zapdos and Mega Charizard Y in return. Mega Tyranitar can also chip Pokemon like Rotom-W and Landorus-T, which enables Excadrill break past them more easily.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[hidin, 589564]]
- Quality checked by: [[Sulo, 528036], [ChrisPBacon, 544502]]
- Grammar checked by: [[deetah, 297659]]
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