Project National Dex OU: Break This Core (on hiatus)

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scarf fini, as a reminder that this thing is still on the vr for w/e reason

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Enamorus (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Stellar
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Tera Blast
- Healing Wish

Moonblast

: 252 SpA Enamorus Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Samurott-Hisui: 452-534 (140.8 - 166.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
: 252 SpA Enamorus Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Medicham-Mega: 366-432 (140.2 - 165.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
: 252 Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega Fake Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Enamorus: 98-116 (33.9 - 40.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

 

[K302]

Voting is up! Ends Monday!

Rillaboom @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Grassy Glide
- Wood Hammer
- U-turn
- Knock Off

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252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Grassy Glide vs. 0 HP / 4 Def in Grassy Terrain: 604-712 (188.1 - 221.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Grassy Glide vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Dark in Grassy Terrain: 302-356 (94 - 110.9%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Grassy Glide vs. 0 HP / 0 Def in Grassy Terrain: 288-340 (110.3 - 130.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Sharpness Razor Shell: vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Grass : 87-103 (25.5 - 30.2%) -- 0.6% chance to 4HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
252 Atk Sharpness Razor Shell vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Tera Grass : 87-103 (25.5 - 30.2%) -- 0.6% chance to 4HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery

Scarf Lele
lol click moonblast

EDIT: since i sniped a lot of people's immediate reaction to this duo, here's an optimized (not) version of scarf lele JUST for this core. do not run this speed lol you can outspeed great tusk and landorus at +1 with regular lele. however, i did my best to also adjust it for general laddering.

Tapu Lele @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Psychic Surge
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 80 HP / 252 Def / 176 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Psychic
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast

explanation of "min/max" spread and water tera

176 speed with + nature is funny enough a jump point and hits 297. dumping the rest into our weakest defense points since uninvested STAB moonblast OHKOs both. and this core is all physical. however, this bulk actually does come in handy vs another matchup, that being the best special wallbreaker in the meta.

defensive calcs

252 Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega Zen Headbutt vs. 80 HP / 252 Def Tapu Lele in Psychic Terrain: 134-158 (44.5 - 52.4%) -- 21.5% chance to 2HKO
252 Atk Sharpness Tera Dark Samurott-Hisui Ceaseless Edge vs. 80 HP / 252 Def Tapu Lele: 178-210 (59.1 - 69.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Sharpness Tera Dark Samurott-Hisui Razor Shell vs. 80 HP / 252 Def Tapu Lele on a critical hit: 229-271 (76 - 90%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Sharpness Tera Dark Samurott-Hisui Razor Shell vs. 80 HP / 252 Def Tera Water Tapu Lele on a critical hit: 114-135 (37.8 - 44.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
theoretically with this spread, you can swap into anything but knock off here. kind of crazy

worthy of note: regular lele also lives one vs both of these (but not the razor shell crit)
252 Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega Zen Headbutt vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele in Psychic Terrain: 179-211 (63.7 - 75%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Sharpness Tera Dark Samurott-Hisui Ceaseless Edge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele: 236-278 (83.9 - 98.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Razor Shell vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele on a critical hit: 306-361 (108.8 - 128.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO

tera water vs others

this is a tech taught to me by the legendary Xurkiyee (though not for scarf LOL)

click Tera Water vs Yard and all your troubles melt away. well, pray it doesn't click solar beam on your lele first.
252 SpA Charizard-Mega-Y Weather Ball (100 BP Fire) vs. 80 HP / 0 SpD Tera Water Tapu Lele in Sun: 126-149 (41.8 - 49.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
0 SpA Tera Water Tapu Lele Psyshock vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Charizard-Mega-Y in Psychic Terrain: 171-202 (57.5 - 68%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

additionally, you take Surging from Tera Water urshifu
252 Atk Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Surging Strikes (3 hits) vs. 80 HP / 252 Def Tera Water Tapu Lele on a critical hit: 120-144 (39.8 - 47.8%) -- approx. 3HKO
0 SpA Tera Water Tapu Lele Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 195-229 (57.1 - 67.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Tera Water Tapu Lele Psychic vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike in Psychic Terrain: 238-282 (69.7 - 82.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Zapdos @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Static
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 120 HP / 252 Def / 136 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Hurricane
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]

EVs outspeed Choice Scarf Hisuian Samurott, rest is dumped into Max Def because Zapdos kills both of these two with STAB without investment LOL. Tera Electric to kill Samurott with Volt Switch and dodge the Ice weakness from Medicham.

Also don't free mirror im hating for no reason sorry

Enamorus (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Stellar
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Tera Blast
- Healing Wish

Moonblast

: 252 SpA Enamorus Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Samurott-Hisui: 452-534 (140.8 - 166.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
: 252 SpA Enamorus Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Medicham-Mega: 366-432 (140.2 - 165.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
: 252 Atk Pure Power Medicham-Mega Fake Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Enamorus: 98-116 (33.9 - 40.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO

scarf fini, as a reminder that this thing is still on the vr for w/e reason

booster val, any set w moonblast and spatk click click

#FreeMirror

 

[Sami]

zapdos

 

[Ineros]

Tapu lele

 

[BananaBro_Chaos]

lele

 

[Darkness 789]

Lele

 

[slug]

lele, grr

 

[RunicPower413]

Lele

 

[Kin+ak (✧∇✧)]

Tapu Fini

 

[BrisingrDraconis]

Ival

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Iron valiant

 

[sh0shin]

valiant

 

[K302]

Congratulations to sh0shin for winning this week of Break this Core!

Our new core will be Iron Crown + Dragonite!



How will YOU break this core? Submissions end Friday!

Sets

Iron Crown @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 84 HP / 172 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 20 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Stored Power
- Focus Blast
- Tachyon Cutter

Dragonite @ Dragonium Z
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch

#FreeMirror

 

[Ineros]

Ting-Lu @ Leftovers
Ability: Vessel of Ruin
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 8 Def / 248 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Ruination
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind

Ting-Lu is so bulky that it can even take dragon z’s and focus blasts from iron crown and dragonite and whirlwind them out, severely limiting how they function. Tera ghost makes sure you truly stonewall iron crown while giving the same defensive typing against dnite and, as a bonus, keep stealth rock against the great tusk that is usually found on these cores.

+1 252 Atk Dragonite Devastating Drake (190 BP) vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Ting-Lu: 390-459 (75.8 - 89.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

The nature can also be impish to take less damage from dragon z, although not necessary since you want a careful nature for a ton of other threats.

 

[BrisingrDraconis]

Garchomp @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Rough Skin
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang
- Swords Dance

Ohko dragonite with scale shot if rocks are up, >50% chance to ohko without rocks, garchomp doesn't take any chip. Ohko crown with eq if rocks are up, >50% chance to ohko without rocks. If crown teras to water, eq still 2hkos. Crown can only do ~50% with tachyon, tera steel if crown tera waters to try to tachyon twice. Also you just outspeed crown at +1.

Calcs

252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Dragonite: 344-416 (106.5 - 128.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO (rocks up, no multiscale)
252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 301-364 (93.1 - 112.6%) -- approx. 56.3% chance to OHKO (no rocks, multiscale up)

252 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Iron Crown: 326-386 (95.3 - 112.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Tera Water Iron Crown: 163-193 (47.6 - 56.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock

172 SpA Tera Water Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Garchomp: 168-200 (47 - 56%) -- approx. 75.4% chance to 2HKO
172 SpA Tera Water Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tera Steel Garchomp: 84-100 (23.5 - 28%) -- approx. 80.3% chance to 4HKO

 

[K302]

Voting is up! Ends Monday!

Garchomp @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Rough Skin
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang
- Swords Dance

Ohko dragonite with scale shot if rocks are up, >50% chance to ohko without rocks, garchomp doesn't take any chip. Ohko crown with eq if rocks are up, >50% chance to ohko without rocks. If crown teras to water, eq still 2hkos. Crown can only do ~50% with tachyon, tera steel if crown tera waters to try to tachyon twice. Also you just outspeed crown at +1.

Calcs

252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Dragonite: 344-416 (106.5 - 128.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO (rocks up, no multiscale)
252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 301-364 (93.1 - 112.6%) -- approx. 56.3% chance to OHKO (no rocks, multiscale up)

252 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Iron Crown: 326-386 (95.3 - 112.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Garchomp Earthquake vs. 84 HP / 0 Def Tera Water Iron Crown: 163-193 (47.6 - 56.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock

172 SpA Tera Water Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Garchomp: 168-200 (47 - 56%) -- approx. 75.4% chance to 2HKO
172 SpA Tera Water Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Tera Steel Garchomp: 84-100 (23.5 - 28%) -- approx. 80.3% chance to 4HKO

Ting-Lu @ Leftovers
Ability: Vessel of Ruin
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 8 Def / 248 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Ruination
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind

Ting-Lu is so bulky that it can even take dragon z’s and focus blasts from iron crown and dragonite and whirlwind them out, severely limiting how they function. Tera ghost makes sure you truly stonewall iron crown while giving the same defensive typing against dnite and, as a bonus, keep stealth rock against the great tusk that is usually found on these cores.

+1 252 Atk Dragonite Devastating Drake (190 BP) vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Ting-Lu: 390-459 (75.8 - 89.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

The nature can also be impish to take less damage from dragon z, although not necessary since you want a careful nature for a ton of other threats.

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Garchomp

 

[RunicPower413]

Lil Chomp

 

[sh0shin]

Ting Lu the Bing Problem

 

[GOATED im_m0rtal.]

Ting Lu

 

[K302]

We need a tiebreaking vote between Thing-lu and Garchomp to determine the winner of the last week of BTC!
Our new core will be Urshifu-Rapid-Strike + Raging-Bolt!



How will YOU break this core? Submissions end Friday!

Sets

Raging Bolt @ Dragonium Z
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 20 Atk
- Thunderclap
- Thunderbolt
- Calm Mind
- Draco Meteor

Urshifu-Rapid-Strike @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Unseen Fist
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Surging Strikes
- Close Combat
- U-turn
- Ice Spinner

 

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Tapu Bulu @ Fightinium Z
Ability: Grassy Surge
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 116 HP / 128 Atk / 128 Def / 136 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Horn Leech
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge

:urshifu:

252 Atk Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Ice Spinner vs. 116 HP / 128 Def Tapu Bulu: 138-164 (44.5 - 52.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery

u live 2 spinners with 1 turn of terrain recovery yes this is optimal i checked, horn leech kills after rocks

:raging bolt:

+1 252+ SpA Raging Bolt Thunderbolt vs. 116 HP / 0 SpD Tapu Bulu: 131-155 (42.2 - 50%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery

did not ev for this since this takes less evs than the optimal shifu bench but u live twice after 1 turn terrain, sd up then kill it with ur z move

evs are optimal, speed for zone, rest in atk

if u want to run lefties over fight z and re-ev for rocks damage u can but change some moves so u fit high horsepower

ping me if u want the bulu to live the moves after 2 turns of terrain

 

[Wellhell]

Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Calm Mind
- Encore
- Thunderbolt

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252+ SpA Thunderbolt vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Tera Electric : 127-150 (43.7 - 51.7%) -- 10.9% chance to 2HKO
252+ SpA Thunderclap vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Tera Electric 99-117 (34.1 - 40.3%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Tera Electric Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tera Water 422-498 (123.7 - 146%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[Hittite Jumpscare]

Thundurus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Volt Absorb
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Tera Blast
- Thunderbolt
- Grass Knot
- U-turn

Tera Blast goes brrr. Raging Bolt can sruvive one tera blast, but Thunderus with tera Fairy is immune to everything Raging Bolt has.

252 SpA Tera Fairy Thundurus-Therian Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 426-504 (124.9 - 147.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Tera Fairy Thundurus-Therian Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Raging Bolt: 312-368 (79.7 - 94.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO