[SET]
Offensive Nasty Plot (Gholdengo) @ Air Balloon / Ghostium Z / Fightinium Z
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Make It Rain / Recover
- Focus Blast
[SET COMMENTS]
Gholdengo is a good wallbreaker and glue for offense and hyper offense teams thanks to Nasty Plot, its ability and typing blocking entry hazard removal from Terapagos and Tornadus-T, and its useful resistances to threats such as Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant. Nasty Plot allows Gholdengo to boost its already immense Special Attack to even greater heights, allowing it to OHKO Pokemon such as Heatran and Tapu Koko. Make It Rain is a high basepower STAB that can allow a boosted Gholdengo to killPokemon that Shadow Ball can't, such as Gliscor, Offensive Garchomp, and Landorus-Therian, OHKOing all after a boost. Recover can be slotted over Make It Rain in order to increase Gholdengo’s longevity and allowing it to check threats like Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele longer. Focus Blast is a move that compliment’s Gholdengo’s ghost stab, punching holes into would be switch in’s, like Kingambit, Ting-Lu, and Heatran. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to spin block and threaten out Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Terapagos lacking Flamethrower in a pinch. Ghostium-Z is an absolute nuke, and in tandem with Nasty Plot, allows gholdengo to OHKO specially defensive Garchomp, Moltres, and Toxapex, while also OHKOing the previously mentioned Heatran, without relying on the shaky accuracy of Focus Blast. Fightinium-Z is another option that allows Gholdengo to bypass Focus Blast’s accuracy, also notably OHKOing Ting-Lu and Assault Vest Melmetal after a boost.
Gholdengo acts as a valuable asset for most offensive team structures with its ability to deny hazard control, while also having incredible wallbreaking potential. Pokemon such as Glimmora, Ting Lu, and Samurott-Hisui benefit from Gholdengo’s hazard keeping abilities, and the latter two enjoys Gholdengo’s unique typing, which can help blanket check Fairy and Fighting foes such as Tapu Lele and Mega Medicham. Other Pokemon that enjoy Gholdengo’s wallbreaking capabilities include Raging Bolt and Urshifu-Rapid-Strike, as they benefit immensely from Gholdengo removing and overwhelming checks like Ferrothorn and Slowbro. Gholdengo fears Pokemon such as Kingambit and Samurott-Hisui. Therefore, Pokemon that can reliably deal with these Dark-types are greatly appreciated, such as Great Tusk and Zamazenta. Having Pokemon immune to Ground-type attacks to help against threats such as Great Tusk and Garchomp is very appreciated, even if Gholdengo is donning an Air Balloon, and as such, Pokemon such as Landorus-Therian, Zapdos, and Moltres are outstanding partners. Moltres is an especially great teammate due to its ability to check the fearsome Fire-types in the tier that Gholdengo struggles against, like Charizard-Mega-Y and Volcarona.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Offensive Nasty Plot (Gholdengo) @ Air Balloon / Ghostium Z / Fightinium Z
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Make It Rain / Recover
- Focus Blast
[SET COMMENTS]
Gholdengo is a good wallbreaker and glue for offense and hyper offense teams thanks to Nasty Plot, its ability and typing blocking entry hazard removal from Terapagos and Tornadus-T, and its useful resistances to threats such as Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant. Nasty Plot allows Gholdengo to boost its already immense Special Attack to even greater heights, allowing it to OHKO Pokemon such as Heatran and Tapu Koko. Make It Rain is a high basepower STAB that can allow a boosted Gholdengo to killPokemon that Shadow Ball can't, such as Gliscor, Offensive Garchomp, and Landorus-Therian, OHKOing all after a boost. Recover can be slotted over Make It Rain in order to increase Gholdengo’s longevity and allowing it to check threats like Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele longer. Focus Blast is a move that compliment’s Gholdengo’s ghost stab, punching holes into would be switch in’s, like Kingambit, Ting-Lu, and Heatran. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to spin block and threaten out Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Terapagos lacking Flamethrower in a pinch. Ghostium-Z is an absolute nuke, and in tandem with Nasty Plot, allows gholdengo to OHKO specially defensive Garchomp, Moltres, and Toxapex, while also OHKOing the previously mentioned Heatran, without relying on the shaky accuracy of Focus Blast. Fightinium-Z is another option that allows Gholdengo to bypass Focus Blast’s accuracy, also notably OHKOing Ting-Lu and Assault Vest Melmetal after a boost.
Gholdengo acts as a valuable asset for most offensive team structures with its ability to deny hazard control, while also having incredible wallbreaking potential. Pokemon such as Glimmora, Ting Lu, and Samurott-Hisui benefit from Gholdengo’s hazard keeping abilities, and the latter two enjoys Gholdengo’s unique typing, which can help blanket check Fairy and Fighting foes such as Tapu Lele and Mega Medicham. Other Pokemon that enjoy Gholdengo’s wallbreaking capabilities include Raging Bolt and Urshifu-Rapid-Strike, as they benefit immensely from Gholdengo removing and overwhelming checks like Ferrothorn and Slowbro. Gholdengo fears Pokemon such as Kingambit and Samurott-Hisui. Therefore, Pokemon that can reliably deal with these Dark-types are greatly appreciated, such as Great Tusk and Zamazenta. Having Pokemon immune to Ground-type attacks to help against threats such as Great Tusk and Garchomp is very appreciated, even if Gholdengo is donning an Air Balloon, and as such, Pokemon such as Landorus-Therian, Zapdos, and Moltres are outstanding partners. Moltres is an especially great teammate due to its ability to check the fearsome Fire-types in the tier that Gholdengo struggles against, like Charizard-Mega-Y and Volcarona.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/spookcooke.669621/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/ineros.658067/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/username.XXXXXX/
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