Hey Kids! Have you ever got sick of Tapu Leles and Darkrais one shotting teams? Have you wished your oppenments Tapu Kokos would stop pivoting and create Quark Drive? Or maybe you just want to annoy your oppenent by using some random lower tier mon? Well there you go!
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That One Accelerating Centipede:
Protect+Life Orb
Scolipede @ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- X-Scissor
- Poison Jab
- Earthquake
- Protect
WHY SCOLIPEDE?:
Yes this guy right here. The greatest thing it ever had was getting speed boost from gamefreak...plus it's suprisingly good offensive movepool. It has this niche where using one protect it deletes the fastest offensive threats and break semi bulky variants of it. It could use it's speed boosts to finish off games. Here are some notable damage calculations.
252+ Atk Life Orb Scolipede X-Scissor vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Darkrai: 343-406 (122 - 144.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Scolipede Poison Jab vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Tapu Koko: 351-416 (102.3 - 121.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO (2 hit OHKO for reflect Kokos)
252+ Atk Life Orb Scolipede Poison Jab vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele: 398-468 (141.6 - 166.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Scolipede Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Diancie-Mega: 239-283 (99.1 - 117.4%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Scolipede Earthquake vs. 32 HP / 0 Def Iron Crown: 260-307 (79 - 93.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Here is a team i made:
Scolipede Offense
Scolipede in this team takes care of common speedy threats and takes care of the Tapus that Keldeo and Meowscarada does not manage well. Which in return manages physical walls like Gliscor and Ferrothorn. Diancie-Mega also appreciates Scolipede threatening Greninjas and delete overconfident Heatrans. Tera Ground on Scolipede also gives it an extra push to parry electro shots and increase effective damage on archaludon and suprises Toxapexes. This team while somewhat lacking in dedicated defensive mons, has enough sustainability thanks to Glowking and Zapdos, both which compliment their flaws quite effectively.
Anti Lead...Lead
Scolipede @ Focus Sash
Ability: Speed Boost
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Spikes
- Poison Jab
- Aqua Tail
- Earthquake
This is designed to go all out after using spikes after using attacks,Bug STAB is replaced with aqua tail in favor of hoping to punish ground types that otherwise wall it's attacks. This is leaning more towards HO instead of offense due to lack of pivoting moves. However, gives you more reasons to lead with it in case you don't want your attacks to go to waste.
Swords Dance
Scolipede @ Waterium Z
Ability: Speed Boost
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Megahorn
- Earthquake
- Aqua Tail
This with Swords Dance would hit like a truck, focus sash is optional as feel free to replace it with Focus sash, Waterium-Z to delete wannabe walls. Great against Bulkier teams that otherwise only have 1-2 fast threats.