Project Next Best Thing: USUM UU (Week 45: Jellicent - Submissions)

[vivalospride]

The backwards

 

[PapaBisexual]

eht

 

[lhce628]

I vote for eht

but I wanna know why AV metagross was not banned in the first place

 

[pokemonisfun]

all of these sets look quite good, gonna go with Retrowaves because I love power up punch lol

 

[vivalospride]

InvejaMata looks fun

 

[Darksafadao]

Retrowaves

 

[Sage]

Congrats to eht for winning week four! Your set will be added to the archive shortly. Week five will be up soon as well~

 

[Sage]

Our next pokemon will be none other than Alola's pseudo legendary, Kommo-o!

The dragon gained some new tools in USUM with movepool additions like Close Combat giving it a viable niche in the UU tier. While it has some well established sweeper sets, let's see what we can come up with using its gigantic movepool!

Sets are due 2/24/18 EST Morning. The following Sets are blacklisted:

Belly Drum Kommo-o

Kommo-o @ Salac Berry
Ability: Soundproof
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Belly Drum
- Drain Punch
- Ice Punch / Poison Jab / Earthquake

Dragon Dance Kommo-o

Kommo-o @ Life Orb / Dragonium Z
Ability: Soundproof
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Close Combat
- Ice Punch

 

[Euphonos]

Kommo-o @ Choice Specs
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 56 HP / 252 SpA / 200 Spe
Modest Nature
- Clanging Scales
- Focus Blast
- Flash Cannon
- Sleep Talk

While the Choice Specs set is one of the most effective sets early in the Sun and Moon metagame, the prevalence of Breloom and Amoonguss makes Sleep Talk worth recognizing; it serves as one of the most effective Sleep absorbing Pokemon in the metagame while dealing massive damage to the opposition. Clanging Scales is one of the main reasons for choosing Kommo-o over some of the deadliest Dragon types; while it has a drawback of lowering its Defense by one stage, at least Kommo-o can stay for long and fire as many as possible without fear of Special Attack drops unlike Draco Meteor. Another STAB attack worth noting here is Focus Blast, though it is used sparingly due to accuracy issues, but it can deal a massive amount of damage to a point that it can decimate Scizor in one hit, hence the drop in Flamethrower. Therefore, Flash Cannon is the filler move for Kommo-o to deal with Fairy-types that are immune to Clanging Scales and are resistant to Focus Blast. The EVs are set such that it can outrun Adamant Breloom variants while maximizing its damage output as much as possible.

 

[sparrow]

Kommo-o @ Life Orb
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 32 HP / 244 SpA / 232 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Clanging Scales
- Focus Blast
- Flash Cannon
- Autotomize

This version of Kommo-o functions as a breaker as well as a late game win condition for its team, I found that running it as a late game cleaner on hazard stack builds to be quite effective. The main draw to using this set on a HO team is its ability to threaten stall builds with out the speed boost, whilst giving its user the opportunity to late game clean versus more offensive teams with the click of a button. STAB Focus Blast can 2HKO Blissey, provided it hits, and having the option to change moves forces your opponent to think carefully about their next move versus Kommo-o. For instance, Kommo-o is really only walled by something such as Mantine. Autotomize eliminates your opponents chances of catching Kommo-o with the revenge KO especially against bulky builds and offence. I feel that this particular set enables me to get the most out of Kommo-o. The Speed EVs let you outpace Jolly Breloom as well as Choice Scarf Latias at +2.

 

[Hogg]

Kommo-o @ Dragonium Z
Ability: Overcoat
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Outrage
- Close Combat
- Stealth Rock

This is pretty good at getting rocks up

Use soundproof if you have another reliable Spore switch

 

[PyProd]

Reserving resttalk defensive Kommo-o

lol what an awful shiny

Kommo-o (M) @ Rocky Helmet / Leftoves
Ability: Overcoat / Bulletproof / Soundproof
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Brick Break / Drain Punch
- Dragon Tail
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

Just a defensive Kommo-o set. It's SpD and can achieve some things like tanking unboosted Latias's DM, and take on a few of strong special attackers like Serperior, Manectric-Mega, and can tank some physical hits as well and just phaze setups. It can regain HP with Rest and Drain Punch if chosen while it can still continue to check setups with Sleep Talk into Dragon Tail. Rocky Helmet helps Kommo-o to punish some U-Turns stuff or physical attackers that touch it too much but it can be replaced by Leftovers to boost recovery and avoid some KO's. It checks bulky Water types too as it doesn't let them boost and lives a +2 Ice Beam from Suicune if it has to. It adops Overcoat which allows it to switch into Amoonguss and Breloom's Spore but it can also adopt Bulletproof which immunes it to Shadow Ball or Sludge Bomb or Soundproof if it just wants to troll Sylveon :'). Brick Break breaks Screens while Drain Punch boosts recovery, they're all 2 STABs. Dragon Tail allows Kommo-o to phaze, RestTalk is usual recovery combo. However this set justs leaves Altaria-Mega in and is a niche for Fairies but in a tier where so many teams have a Scizor, I think that's not important. The set is also really passive and weak to Taunt and stuff. Well, I could continue but I think I'm done with this.

Calcs

252 SpA Latias Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 264-312 (74.5 - 88.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 76 Atk Gliscor Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Kommo-o: 184-217 (51.9 - 61.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (can phaze it)
200 SpA Contrary Serperior Leaf Storm over 3 turns vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 292-345 (82.4 - 97.4%) -- not a KO
200 SpA Serperior Leaf Storm vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 49-58 (13.8 - 16.3%) -- possible 7HKO
200 SpA Contrary Serperior Leaf Storm over 2 turns vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 146-173 (41.2 - 48.8%) -- not a KO (phazes before the stallbreaker boosts itself too much)
252 SpA Manectric Hidden Power Ice vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 78-94 (22 - 26.5%) -- 17.5% chance to 4HKO (tanks the non-present HP Ice Serp)
252 SpA Manectric Hidden Power Ice vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 78-94 (22 - 26.5%) -- 17.5% chance to 4HKO
+2 0 SpA Suicune Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Kommo-o: 166-196 (46.8 - 55.3%) -- 74.2% chance to 2HKO

Thanks to Ahzee for letting me know about this set's existence.

 

[Sage]

Sorry for the delay folks, here's the slate for week 5.

Euphonos' Sleep Talk Specs Kommo-o

Kommo-o @ Choice Specs
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 56 HP / 252 SpA / 200 Spe
Modest Nature
- Clanging Scales
- Focus Blast
- Flash Cannon
- Sleep Talk

Sparrow's Autotomize Kommo-o

Kommo-o @ Life Orb
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 32 HP / 244 SpA / 232 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Clanging Scales
- Focus Blast
- Flash Cannon
- Autotomize

Hogg's SD Rocks Kommo-o

Kommo-o @ Dragonium Z
Ability: Overcoat
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Outrage
- Close Combat
- Stealth Rock

PyProd's Rest Talk Kommo-o

Kommo-o (M) @ Rocky Helmet / Leftoves
Ability: Overcoat / Bulletproof / Soundproof
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Brick Break / Drain Punch
- Dragon Tail
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

You have about 48 hours from this post to vote.

 

[pdt]

sparrow because special kommo-o has a good m/u vs. both stall and offense

 

[SuckyTheClown]

I vote Sparrow because i feel like a lot of people dont expect special kommo-o since its z move was banned

 

[Mac3]

voting pyprod, used to use a set looking a bit like that on stall in early sm ru, was fun

 

[Jade]

KACAW

 

[Darksafadao]

KACAW

 

[ehT]

hoggo

 

[vivalospride]

KACAW

 

[hs]

sparrow

 

[PyProd]

I dunno why, I really like Hogg's one.

 

[PapaBisexual]

wacak

 

[MemeDankster]

hogg

 

[Sage]

My vote goes to Euphonos, the tier is desperately in need of Breloom checks and that's a good one, along with Kommo-o hitting surprisingly hard on the special end.

Congrats to sparrow for winning Week Five! Your set will be posted in the Hall of Fame shortly.

Week Six will be up very soon!