Project National Dex OU Next Best Thing: Cycle 34 - Medicham-Mega (Voting)

[TailGlowVM]

Protective Pads Wallbreaker

Urshifu-Rapid-Strike @ Protective Pads
Ability: Unseen Fist
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Surging Strikes
- Close Combat
- U-turn
- Focus Punch / Thunder Punch

This set is well-known in OU. While you don't usually exploit Urshifu-R being Choice-locked the way you do with many other wallbreakers, Protective Pads allows it to use Surging Strikes without fearing Ferrothorn's Iron Barbs or Rocky Helmet from Pokemon like Corviknight, and you can use U-turn more freely. Focus Punch is the preferred option for the last slot because the added power is enough to KO Mega Scizor and Corviknight with Focus Punch into Close Combat, but Thunder Punch is an alternative when used with Tapu Koko so you can 2HKO Toxapex while hitting Tapu Fini harder.

 

[Dorron]

Voting time!
Electrium-Z by HydreigonTheChild
Endure by GiyuForPresident
Protective Pads by TailGlowVM

Last day to vote: Thursday 3rd
Good luck everyone!​

 

[Bored Pikachu]

protective pads

 

[Arishem]

pads

 

[TheSorcer3r]

Endure

 

[The Dragon Master]

pads

 

[Pro_Hybrid]

Electrium Z

 

[Dorron]

Congratulations and welcome to the HoF TailGlowVM!

And now, one of the classic big boys.

Tyranitar has been a important member of every OU generation, and National Dex isn't less. It can act as a wallbreaker or a special wall able to Pursuit trap foes like Latias-Mega and Slowking-Galar. Its wide movepool makes it a great Pokemon to use in a project like Next Best Thing, so here we are! Who will come up with the best set? You can use both standard and mega. Good luck everyone!

Deadline: Sunday 6th
Banned Sets​

 

[ezra]

Dd

 

[Giyu]

DOUBLE DANCE TYRANITAR


Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Iron Defense
- Rock Slide
- Body Press

This Tyranitar set can definitely pack a punch, with the heightened special defense in sand and Iron Defense build up, it's really hard to kill after setup. After setting up strong defenses, you move on to the offensive boosts. Dragon Dance now makes Tyranitar fast and hit like a truck. Steel types that threatened Tyranitar threaten it no more because of max boosted Body Press. Rock Slide is there for the STAB and it can initiate really helpful flinches.

 

[Icegod777]

Tyranitar @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 48 SpD / 168 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Lash Out
- Pursuit
- Superpower

So yeah this is the standard CB set for TTar except it has the move Lash Out, which baits Lando-T to switch in and then it gets destroyed or takes heavy damage at the same time, it doesn't have to sub out one of it's stabs or superpower for ice punch because lash out is 75 bp and crunch is 80 bp so not much of a difference. Calcs: (I made lash out's power be 140 because the intimidate drop)

-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Lash Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Landorus-Therian: 280-330 (87.7 - 103.4%) -- 25% chance to OHKO
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Lash Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Landorus-Therian: 280-330 (87.7 - 103.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Lash Out vs. 0 HP / 12 Def Landorus-Therian: 276-325 (86.5 - 101.8%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Lash Out vs. 0 HP / 12 Def Landorus-Therian: 276-325 (86.5 - 101.8%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Lash Out vs. 252 HP / 112+ Def Landorus-Therian: 226-267 (59.1 - 69.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

 

[Dorron]

Voting time!

Double Dance by GiyuForPresident
Lash Out by Icegod777

Last day to vote: Thursday 10th
Good luck everyone!​

 

[Bored Pikachu]

lash out

 

[Redgoop115]

lash out

 

[Arishem]

Lash out

 

[adem]

ddance

 

[WM2N]

Voting for double dance

 

[TheSorcer3r]

double dance

 

[Dorron]

And my vote goes to Lash Out, so congrats Icegod777 for winning your best cycle.

Love is in the air! But nobody would submit a thing for Alomomola so...


Lopunny is one of the best pivots in the tiers thanks to having access to Fake Out +U-Turn and its excellent Speed tier which allows it to act as your Speed control without wasting a Choice Scarf slot. It can perform well with a Encore+PuP set aswell. But Lopunny has a lot of unused but useful moves. Who will come up with the best set? Good luck everyone!

Deadline: Sunday 13th
Banned Sets​

 

[ezra]

Lopunny @ Lopunnite
Ability: Limber
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fake Out
- Close Combat
- Return
- Triple Axel

u kill lando (yay)

 

[ChrisPBacon]

Lopunny-Mega @ Lopunnite
Ability: Limber
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Toxic
- Close Combat
- Return
- Fake Out
click toxic on a predicted zap/bro/tang/buzz in order to cripple them for lop and its teammates.

 

[WM2N]

Lopunny-Mega @ Lopunnite
Ability: Limber
Happiness: 0
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fake Out
- Frustration
- Close Combat
- Healing Wish

The fast Healing Wish is for team support, you revive a teammate from your battered team like weavile that could clean up the opponent quite hard, scoring you the win for the unexpected surprise as the opponent usually will be unable to stop the healing wish + they don't know the set until it's revealed

 

[ezra]

Please stop copying the first 3 moves of my set

 

[Giyu]

Lopunny-Mega @ Lopunnite
Ability: Scrappy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Endure
- Reversal
- Fake Out
- Return

I've returned with the Endure + Reversal set but on Lopunny-Mega this time. At one HP reversal has a BP of 200.

Calculations

252 Atk Lopunny-Mega Reversal (200 BP) vs. 248 HP / 168+ Def Corviknight: 253-298 (63.4 - 74.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 Atk Lopunny-Mega Reversal (200 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Diancie-Mega: 312-367 (129.4 - 152.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 Atk Lopunny-Mega Reversal (200 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Kommo-o: 279-328 (95.8 - 112.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

 

[Dorron]

It's voting time!

Triple Axel by NVK
Toxic by ChrisPBacon
Healing Wish by WM2N
EnduVersal by GiyuForPresident

Last day to vote: Thursday 17th
Good luck everyone!​