Meloetta [QC 0/3]

[CKBTW]

[OVERVIEW]

• Meloetta is a great pokemon in the 1v1 metagame due to a good typing and great special bulk alongside a good special attack and a decent movepool to choose from.
• Meloetta has access to Hyper Beam and Laser Focus allowing it to break through many bulky pokemon such as Magearna, Deoxys-S and Clefable.
• Meloetta has a good matchup against top tier threats such as magearna, Tapu Lele, Porygon-Z and Mega Gardevoir.
• Meloetta is able to live many strong hits from pokemon in the 1v1 metagame such as Charizard Mega X's outrage and KO non specially defensive variants back.
• Meloetta faces competition from other strong psychic and normal type special attackers such as Porygon-Z and Tapu Lele due to the fact that Meloetta has a lower speed stat than them and both are able to hit harder than it.
• Due to its lack of powerful coverage it can't do much to pokemon that can resist or are immune its STAB such as mega sableye and aegislash.

[SET]
name: Z Hyper Beam
move 1: Hyper Beam
move 2: Laser Focus
move 3: Calm Mind
move 4: Uproar
item: Normalium Z
ability: Serene Grace
nature: Modest
evs: 160 HP / 60 Def / 192 SpA/ 96 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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• Hyper Beam is a strong STAB move that can be used with Normalium Z in order to remove the recharge effect and garuntee a hit. It also helps it OHKO non Specially Defensive variants of Mega Charizard X.
• Calm Mind allows meloetta to boost its already good spa and spd which it often needs in certian matchups.
• Laser Focus can be used with calm mind to garuntee a crit on pokemon that try to stall meloetta out.
• Uproar is used as a sound move to bypass sub allowing it to beat jumpluff and sub torrent greninja.

Set Details
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• The HP, Def and SpD EVs allow meloetta to survive a 252+ Zard X Outrage and a Z fleur cannon followed by 2 more fleur cannons from magearna.
• The Modest nature and SpA EVs are just leftovers put in to increase the damage meloetta can dish out.

Usage Tips
========

• Meloetta can get away with just Clicking Its Z move against most pokemon as most of the time it kills them in one turn, such as Mega Charizard X and naganadel.
• Against pokemon like magearna it will have to cm 3 times then laser focus before Z moving or against Deoxys-S It will have to Predict taunt and use Z Hyper Beam or laser focus.
• Against pokemon that use substitute like jumpluff and whimsicott it will have to cm up a few times and uproar, In the case of jumpluff just spamming Uproar should get you a win.

Team Options
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• Teamates that are able to beat mega gyara and beat steel types that threaten it make good teamates.
• Zeraora makes for a good teamate because it is able to beat both steel types that threaten it and beat mega gyarados while making up for meloetta's low speed while meloetta is able to beat things that threaten zeraora such as magearna and tapu lele.
• Magearna can also make a good partner as it is able to beat mega gyarados and beat most steel types that threaten meloetta, While meloetta can beat most of the fire types that threaten magearna and meloetta can make sure that magearna doesn't have to 50/50 with other magearnas.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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• Z Celebrate can be ran over calm mind, But it requires you to put alot of EVs in speed for it to do its purpose, And can only be used once, Unless you like doing nothing.
• Psyshock can be ran over uproar for psychic STAB, But you're losing out on the ability to beat subseeders such as whimsicott and jumpluff.

Checks and Counters
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**Mega Gyarados**: Mega Gyarados can live any attack meloetta uses against it and OHKO you with a dragon dance boosted crunch.

**Steel Types**: Steel types such as Genesect are able to resist all your attacks and 2HKO Meloetta with a super effective bug buzz, Mega Mawile is able to KO Meloetta with Play Rough + Sukcer Punch or Play Rough twice.

**Dragonite** Dragonite is able to live any of meloettas attack thanks to multiscale and KO meloetta back with Z Fly + Extreme Speed

**Ghost Types** Ghost types such as aegislash are immune to all of meloettas attacks and are able to eventually KO meloetta with their own attacks.

**Crustle** Crustle lives all your attacks because of Sturdy, resists normal type attacks and OHKOs meloetta with a shell smash boosted Z Rock Wrecker.

**Zeraora** Zeraora's plasma fists turns normal type attacks into electric type attacks, and it is able to beat psyshock variants with bulk up + Z Gigavolt Havoc.


[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[CKBTW,475826 ]]
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[CKBTW]

Btw i'm alive, Ready for qc.

 

[Rei]

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AMQC Add what you agree with or what for an offical QC member. There are a whole bunch of typos and other things that do not follow the grammar standards for analysis, so here is a link that should help you with that https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spelling-and-grammar-standards.3588427/

[OVERVIEW]

• Meloetta is a great pokemon in the 1v1 metagame due to a good typing and great special bulk alongside a good special attack and a decent movepool to choose from.
• Meloetta has access to Hyper Beam and Laser Focus allowing it to break through many bulky pokemon such as Magearna, Deoxys-S and Clefable.
• Meloetta has a good matchup against top tier threats such as magearna, Tapu Lele, Porygon-Z and Mega Gardevoir. because of its great special bulk and access to Calm Mind and Laser Focus.
• Meloetta is able to live many strong hits in the 1v1 metagame from Pokemon such as Charizard Mega X's outrage and KO them back.
• Meloetta faces competition from other strong psychic and normal type special attackers such as Porygon-Z and Tapu Lele. Why does it face competition from these Pokemon? Mention what PZ and Tapu Lele can take of that Meloetta cant.
• Due to its lack of powerful coverage it can't do much to pokemon that can resist its STAB. Expand on this point and give some Pokemon Meloetta cannot beat like Mega Sableye etc.

[SET]
name: Z Hyper Beam
move 1: Hyper Beam
move 2: Laser Focus
move 3: Calm Mind
move 4: Uproar
item: Normalium Z
ability: Serene Grace
nature: Modest
evs: 160 HP / 60 Def / 192 SpA/ 96 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Hyper Beam is a strong STAB move that can be used with Normalium Z in order to remove the recharge effect and garuntee a hit. that can help with Mega Charizard X and Greninja. Add these because Z-Hyper Beam OHKOs these.
• Calm Mind allows meloetta to boost its already good spa and spd which it often needs in certian matchups. such as Tapu Fini.
• Laser Focus can be used with calm mind to garuntee a crit on pokemon that try to stall meloetta out. This is helpful against Pokemon like Clefable and Magearna.
• Uproar is used as a sound move to bypass sub allowing it to beat jumpluff and sub torrent greninja.

Set Details
========

• The HP, Def and SpD EVs allow meloetta to survive a 252+ Zard X Outrage and a Z fleur cannon followed by 2 more fleur cannons from magearna.
• The Modest nature and SpA EVs are just leftovers put in to increase the damage meloetta can dish out.

Usage Tips
========

• Meloetta can get away with just Clicking Its Z move against most pokemon. like Mega Charizard X. Try to find another example to make sure this point stands.
• Against pokemon like magearna it will have to cm 3 times then laser focus before Z moving or against Deoxys-S It will have to Predict taunt and use Z laser focus reword the Deoxys-S statement as its a 50/50 of it using Taunt or Amnersia as Z-Hyper Beam should be able to OHKO it.
• Against pokemon that use substitute like jumpluff and whimsicott it will have to cm up a few times and uproar, In the case of jumpluff just spamming Uproar should get you a win
• Add about being careful around Dark-types like Mega Sableye, Mega Gyrarados and Mega Tyranitar as these can either wall or OHKO Meloetta after a Dragon Dance
• I would also add a point about strong phyiscal attackers like Mega Lopunny, Mega Pinsir, Mega Metagross and Mega Mawile as these can either OHKO or 2KO Meloetta before it can take of them.

Team Options
========

• Teamates that are able to beat mega gyarados Make sure you spell out each Pokemon and beat steel types that threaten it make good teamates.
• Zeraora makes for a good teamate because it is able to beat both steel types that threaten it and beat mega gyarados while making up for meloetta's low speed. add period while meloetta is able to beat things that threaten zeraora such as magearna and tapu lele.
• Magearna can also make a good partner as it is able to beat mega gyarados and beat most steel types that threaten meloetta, While meloetta can beat most of the fire types that threaten magearna like Mega Charizard X. Add period.and meloetta can make sure that magearna doesn't have to 50/50 with other magearnas.
• Add Water-types like Tapu Fini because it can beat Fire-types like Heatran, Mega Blaziken, Mega Mawile. While Mega Slowbro can help with Mega Metagross.
• Add Fire-types like Heatran, Mega Charizard Y, and Mega Charizard x as these can beat Mega Metagross, Genesect, and Mega Mawile while Mega Chairzard X helps with Zeraora.
• Add Dragon-types like Haxorus, Naganedal and Garchomp as these helps with Zeraora, Magnezone and Mega Pinsir and Choice Scarf varients of Haxorus and Garchomp helps with Mega Lopunny. Naganedal can help with Genesect with Flamethrower.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• Z Celebrate can be ran over calm mind, But it requires you to put alot of EVs in speed for it to do its purpose, And can only be used once, Unless you like doing nothing. This needs some explantion, as what is the + of using this over Z Hyper Beam?
• Psyshock can be ran over uproar for psychic STAB, But you're losing out on the ability to beat subseeders such as whimsicott and jumpluff. Mention that it helps vs Fighting-types.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Mega Gyarados**: Mega Gyarados can live any attack meloetta uses against it and and 1HKO OHKOS Meloetta you with a +1 with crunch after a Dragon Dance. Would maybe expand on this to include Mega Tyranitar.

**Genesect**: Genesect is able to resist all your attacks and 2HKO You with a super effective bug buzz. Expand this to Steel-types as Mega Metagross with at least 56 attack evs 2KO it so Meloetta cannot win. Mega Mawile while can be slow, can attack pn the set up of laser focus, then live a laser focus Hyper Beam from Mega Mawile then ko it.

**Dragonite** Dragonite is able to live any of meloettas attack thanks to multiscale and KO you back with Z Fly + Extreme Speed Would expand this to include Strudy Pokemon like Donphan as ground z to ice shard ohkos or endeavor into ice shard.

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**Ghost Types** Ghost types such as Aaegislash are immune to all of Mmeloetta's attacks and are able to eventually KO you dont use you to refer to Meloetta, you mean the player. Meloetta with their own attacks. Add Mega Sableye, its pretty common.

Same here
**Crustle** Crustle lives all your Meloetta's attacks because of Crustle's Ssturdy and it resists normal type attacks, and KOs you Meloetta back with a shell smash boosted Z Rock Wrecker.

**Fast Physical Attackers**: Mega Pinsir OHKOS with Giga Impact and Mega Lopunny its a roll but in lops favor of Fake Out into Giga Impact.

**Zeraora**: Zeraora's Plasma Fists turn Normal-type moves to Electric, so its walled.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[CKBTW,475826 ]]
- Quality checked by: [[, ], [, ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

 

[Ginger Princess]

Judging Yami's AMQC. Tagging CKBTW in case he implemented stuff i disagree with.

Hyper Beam is a strong STAB move that can be used with Normalium Z in order to remove the recharge effect and garuntee a hit. that can help with Mega Charizard X and Greninja. Add these because Z-Hyper Beam OHKOs these.

So, Z-Hyper Beam does not reliably beat all Mega Char x saying 'non-Specially defensive' would have to be necessary

Calm Mind allows meloetta to boost its already good spa and spd which it often needs in certian matchups. such as Tapu Fini.

Same thing here, non-Taunt Tapunium Tapu Fini is the correct statement.

Meloetta can get away with just Clicking Its Z move against most pokemon. like Mega Charizard X.

Again, like non-specially defensive Mega Charizard X.

I would also add a point about strong phyiscal attackers like Mega Lopunny, Mega Pinsir, Mega Metagross and Mega Mawile as these can either OHKO or 2KO Meloetta before it can take of them.

Mega Lopunny should never be able to beat Meloetta. Even sub falls to Uproar. Mega Pinsir should be a roll, although this EV spread is guaranteed with giga impact. QC will fix that later.

Add Water-types like Tapu Fini because it can beat Fire-types like Heatran, Mega Blaziken, Mega Mawile.

So. Mega Mawile is not a fire type. Also, Meloetta should definitely beat Heatran and Mega Blaziken. Unless you mean taunt Heatran.

Aight its kinda late and I don't think adding on any more will add any more meaning. Basically, your examples just need improvement. Using the Pokemon calculator and getting yourself familiar with the common strategies and the best plays a set can make will help you with this.

Will do my own qc in a bit

 

[Ginger Princess]

heyo, when/if you return, let me know, so we can unarchive this