MEGA SLOWGRO
Slowgro (Slowbro-Galar) @ Slowbronite
Ability: Regenerator
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 224 Def / 32 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Slack Off
- Shell Side Arm
- Scald
Its no secret I am not fond of defensive pokemon (Finch plz the ppl want to know) but this set right here fits incredibly niche into our current metagame and stands out for its ability to set up against and beat a large number of both offensive and defensive sets getting high usage.
Especially with the utility of type changing as a mega this mon deals with ALL THREE S tier attackers: Cinderace, Magearna, Landorus-T along with countless other big names like Melmetal, Tapu Lele, Excadrill, Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Mega Scizor and with the right predictions and mega even Rillaboom can get 50/50'd . In general with access to mega you have one of the most versatile physical walls in the game with the ability to change types and abuse regenerator.
Given its immunity to toxic it can deal with and set up against a wide variety of defensive mons such as Both Clefable's, Blissey, Moltres, Slowbro, Corvinight, Alomomola, Reuniclus, and defensive Zapdos.
With screens you are damn near invulnerable and can set up on almost anything easily beating stuff this thing has no right to such as Kartana, banded Weavile, Tyranitar and Rillaboom, Gliscor is effectively neutralized while screens are up and at +1 with screens you beat specs koko even if youre already turned into a water type.
Biggest threats:
Haze Toxapex can beat this set, however scald can be switched to psychic to remove this problem, without haze pex is passively useless against this and having a regen t spike absorb can help your pex matchup even if its losing to haze. if you do not have psychic you can certainly bluff it since its more common than scald in usage on slowgro.
Trapper Heatran can beat this set(along with theoretically almost all the other mons that exist) however with screens up u can do some 50/50 shennanigans with toxic/vs earthpower since your scald becomes something like 1.9x as powerful when you mega.
Specs Greninja is annoying out here on some dark pulse shit luckily u can plop a blissey on basically any team and now u get regen + momentum off switching out and gren is typically not that hard to chip especially if you run screens with this thing.
Hydreigon is also scary to deal with but like with Greninja, blissey solves this issue positively.
Gastrodon is always annoying but here its no different, clear smog hard walls this set otherwise you can beat it with screens up
Mega Gyarados: annoying for any fat mon but u can hax burn it and then its useless
Prediction Advantage:
This mon has an unusual advantage with its mega type change where predictions are reduced even further in likelyhood since your opponent has to consider u mega-ing or staying unmega'd or even switching to regenerate. Playing with this mon feels like youre a turn or two ahead and a lot of teams are totally unprepared.
Matchup vs Current Meta
Most teams will have at most 1 mon stopping this set from sweeping, and those mons (Pex) are typically already being strained and pressured by other members of your team. Out of our current 7 samples, 2 teams have only a sole defensive check (Gastrodon, Toxapex) 2 have only one offensive check(Ash Gren) and the best prepared team had 2 viable counter play options(Mega Gyara, Rillaboom) which can both be played around.
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