Rock Polish Golurk aka
Cleaner Golurk
Golurk @
Life Orb
Ability:
Iron fist
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Poltergeist
- Earthquake
- Drain Punch
-
Rock Polish
General idea
Here we have a Golurk that uses Rock Polish to fix its low Spe in order to clean more effectively. Keep in mind that Golurk is quite bulky despite its weaknesses, so it might use rock Polish twice on certain conditions due to its set of immunities and resistances.
Poltergeist + Earthquake is the dual STAB combination, whereas Drain Punch (boosted by Iron Fist) is here for both coverage and recovery.
- Iron Fist is clearly the preferred choice here because we don't use Dynamic Punch and we like the fact that sometimes the opponent might miss its move. Poltergeist doesn't have 100% accuracy, but 90% is still high.
EVs (spread) and item
The Jolly nature + 252 Spe EVs are chosen to reach 229 Spe points and 458 points after a Rock Polish (+2 Spe boost).
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/nu-speed-tiers.3662269/
Life Orb is a good substitute of Choice Band considering that leaves you the freedom to change attacking move although the drop in power is relevant.
This is acceptable because this Golurk
doesn't have to OHKO/2HKO things
from full health.
Team(mates) support
All things that helps Golurk to set-up with more ease are welcome such as screens. Hazards support is always appreciated to ensure KOs especially considering the difference in power with the CB set.
VoltTurn support is appreciated to make Golurk enter into the battlefield without lowering its health is too good to pass up.
Burn is the real problem. Also, you have to get rid of buky Waters/Grass or, at least, weaken them to the point they are still KOed by Golurk.
In return, Golurk is a heavy hitter with three immunities to work with.