Mirror Coat by Jaytop31
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Project Next Best Thing (on pause until the metagame settled)
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Mirror Coat
Choice Specs
Choice Scarf by Heracross2.0
Katy
Banned deucer.
And this Weeks winner is Jaytop31 with their Mirror Coat Milotic, Congratulations. Your Milotic will go in the Hall of Fame shortly.
Toxicroak sees a surge in usage, with being 1 of the best fighting-types in the tier.
It can perform either as a physical wallbreaker or as a special wallbreaker, carrying a lot of great moves from its amazing dual-stab combination up to great coverage. What else can we do with this Pokemon, which sees a thrive in Usage in RU? Let's see some new spicy sets!
Submission end on next Sunday 10 PM at GMT +1
Toxicroak sees a surge in usage, with being 1 of the best fighting-types in the tier.
It can perform either as a physical wallbreaker or as a special wallbreaker, carrying a lot of great moves from its amazing dual-stab combination up to great coverage. What else can we do with this Pokemon, which sees a thrive in Usage in RU? Let's see some new spicy sets!
Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
- Sucker Punch / Earthquake
Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
- Sucker Punch / Earthquake
Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
Submission end on next Sunday 10 PM at GMT +1
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Toxicroak @ Black Sludge
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Swords Dance
- Gunk Shot
- Focus Punch
The main problem with Physical Toxicroak is that it lacks a reliably powerful Fighting-type STAB, having been cheated out of CC in Gen 4 and Gen 8. The set attempts to remedy that by turning Toxicroak's switchins into setup fodder. You set up a Sub, maybe a SD if the switch-in can't threaten you (like Bronzong lacking Psychic), and clicking Focus Punch is often a GG, or at least a sack. It doesn't seem like it should work, but trust me, it does.
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Physically Defensive Croak
Assault Vest Toxicroak
Toxicroak @ Assault Vest
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
- Sucker Punch
This set gives up the power boost provided by Life Orb in order to have a slight increase in Toxicroak's SpD with the added bonus of being able to use one more offensive move.
Dry Skin is mandatory in order to have another way to recharge our hp other than Drain Punch.
Toxicroak @ Assault Vest
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Gunk Shot
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
- Sucker Punch
This set gives up the power boost provided by Life Orb in order to have a slight increase in Toxicroak's SpD with the added bonus of being able to use one more offensive move.
Dry Skin is mandatory in order to have another way to recharge our hp other than Drain Punch.
Choice Scarf
Toxicroak @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Gunk Shot
- Knock Off
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
Scarf Toxicroak plays the same role as the other scarfers but, with it's base 85 speed Toxicroak is able to outspeed common scarfers such as Passimian, Gardevoir, Braviary and Goodra, letting him be able to revenge kill them with it's gunk shot after a bit of chip damage. On the other hand, the lack of life orb and set-up moves such as Sword Dance cut-off a lot of fire power to Toxicroak.
Toxicroak @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Gunk Shot
- Knock Off
- Drain Punch / Low Kick
Scarf Toxicroak plays the same role as the other scarfers but, with it's base 85 speed Toxicroak is able to outspeed common scarfers such as Passimian, Gardevoir, Braviary and Goodra, letting him be able to revenge kill them with it's gunk shot after a bit of chip damage. On the other hand, the lack of life orb and set-up moves such as Sword Dance cut-off a lot of fire power to Toxicroak.
Berry Special Attacker
Toxicroak @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Belch
- Vacuum Wave/ Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
Toxicroak is lucky enough to have a decent Spa stat and great Spa moves. One Nasty Plot brings his stats up high enough to start breaking hoes in the enemy. Belch is the Focus of this set, after using a Nasty Plot, you will most likely have taken some damage, and Sitrus Berry will restore some of this lost health, as well as enabling Belch to be used. Belch has a 120 BP with STAB becomes very powerful. Vacuum Wave is helpful priority against enemy, enabling Toxicroak to also be a revenge killer. Focus Blast can be run instead for more power. Shadow Ball helps him hit Ghost types that might try to comes in on a VWave/ Focus Blast.
Toxicroak @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Belch
- Vacuum Wave/ Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
Toxicroak is lucky enough to have a decent Spa stat and great Spa moves. One Nasty Plot brings his stats up high enough to start breaking hoes in the enemy. Belch is the Focus of this set, after using a Nasty Plot, you will most likely have taken some damage, and Sitrus Berry will restore some of this lost health, as well as enabling Belch to be used. Belch has a 120 BP with STAB becomes very powerful. Vacuum Wave is helpful priority against enemy, enabling Toxicroak to also be a revenge killer. Focus Blast can be run instead for more power. Shadow Ball helps him hit Ghost types that might try to comes in on a VWave/ Focus Blast.
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Toxicroak @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 112 HP / 60 Atk / 120 Def / 216 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Bulk Up
- Drain Punch
- Gunk Shot
- Counter
The given set is designed to lure and remove popular offensive threats like Drapion or Toxicroak as well as defeating Steelix in a 1vs1 situation. Getting Toxicroak and Drapion out of the way could be very benefical if your own team wants to make use of TSpikes within the game. After the opponent's poison type is defeated you can really punish your opponent if he is trying to Defog the TSpikes away. That is why Milotic or Braviary are great team partners for this set because they not only punish the opponent's Defog but also benefit if Toxicroak is able to remove opposing Toxicroak, which would wall Milotic, and Steelix, which gives Braviary a hard time during the match. Getting rid of Steelix also helps Pokémon like CM Gardevoir with Draining Kiss to unfold its full potential.
A 216 EV investment into speed with a jolly nature guarantees that Toxicroak outspeeds base 80 max speed Pokémon like Gardevoir, Goodra and Passimian. The HP and the Def investement in combination with a Shuca Berry allow Toxicroak to live a +2 EQ from Drapion, a +2 Gunk Shot from LO Toxicroak and OHKO them in return with counter. Steelix gets 2HKO with a Counter followed by a Drain Punch. The rest of the EVs went into Atk and e.g. guarantee that +1 Atk Toxicroak 2HKO Mantine and it will not get PP stalled in 1vs1 vs BU Scrafty.
+2 252 Atk Life Orb Toxicroak Gunk Shot vs. 112 HP / 120 Def Toxicroak: 265-312 (79.1 - 93.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
+2 252 Atk Drapion Earthquake vs. 112 HP / 120 Def Shuca Berry Toxicroak: 204-241 (60.8 - 71.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
0 Atk Steelix Earthquake vs. 112 HP / 120 Def Shuca Berry Toxicroak: 114-135 (34 - 40.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Stealth Rock
60 Atk Toxicroak Drain Punch vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Scrafty: 162-192 (48.5 - 57.4%) -- 47.3% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
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Katy
Banned deucer.
Alright guys let's start the voting phase for this weeks Pokemon Toxicroak!
Here are our 5 Submissions for this week:
Sub+FPunch by Heracross2.0
Assault Vest by nameless90
Choice Scarf by Jaytop31
Berry Attacker by MegaBanette69
Shuca Berry by CMx
Vote for your favorite Toxicroak-Set. Voting ends on Wednesday 10 PM GMT+1.
Sorry ReadTheMango that I couldn't include your set.
Here are our 5 Submissions for this week:
Sub+FPunch by Heracross2.0
Assault Vest by nameless90
Choice Scarf by Jaytop31
Berry Attacker by MegaBanette69
Shuca Berry by CMx
Vote for your favorite Toxicroak-Set. Voting ends on Wednesday 10 PM GMT+1.
Sorry ReadTheMango that I couldn't include your set.
Nah my bad Katy, been caught up with work stuff. Gonna vote for Berry Attacker, but I also love subpunch.
Katy
Banned deucer.
The winner by 2 Votes is MegaBanette69 with their Berry Attacker Toxicroak, Congratulations, Your submission will go into the Hall Of Fame soon.
As the tiers are all a bit unstable and that counts for RU as well, I will pause this Thread until the Metagame stabilized, thanks to all participants and voters here, you are all awesome with your submissions so stay tuned and as soon as the Metagame stabilized i will continue.
As the tiers are all a bit unstable and that counts for RU as well, I will pause this Thread until the Metagame stabilized, thanks to all participants and voters here, you are all awesome with your submissions so stay tuned and as soon as the Metagame stabilized i will continue.