Phase 1
With our new Thundgsire core we still have 2 big aspects to tackle:
-How are we going to deal with priority? Especially when it comes to Fake out+ Extreme speed revenge killers.
-How are we going to clear the field of Thundurus biggest enemy? Stealth Rock.
To answer this question is much easier than the last, any normal type can certainly do the job with recover+ rapid spin+ normal move but it seems hard to me to believe that a normal type would be very good to our core but I indeed have gone for the normal type approach.
Phase 2
Of all the normal type I saw a few had me intrigued, Regigigas, even if his ability is painful it has amazing bulk and 80 attack is not the end of the world for a wall/supporter and it can run boomburst even if it comes from 80 Sp.Atk, Kangaskhan , has a beautiful ability in scrappy letting me scrappy spin away and fake out+ extreme speed and still having really good bulk, Milktank while a weird choice has stealth rocks if needed and really good speed and scrappy, Meloetta even if its shut down completely by the master of STABmons, Sableye, Boufallant can absorb Spore which is cool now that it doesn’t really need soundproof and even Porygon 2 if Knock off wasn’t so common.
Phase 3
Pokémon @ Leftovers
Ability:Changes
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 SAtk or Atk
Calm or Careful Nature
- Boomburst/ Extreme speed if Physical
- Recover
- Rapid Spin
- Whirlwind or other filler move/Luster purge if Meloetta/Fake out if Physical
I decided to cut Boufallant, because grass immunity isn’t that big of a deal and more situational, Milktank is just like Kanga but only better in defence while we want a special wall, I don’t see Meloetta being good in a meta full of Knock off spam same with Porygon, This let’s us between 2 major contenders, Kanga and Regi.
Phase 3
Now it’s really hard to choose but because I know The Reptile wanted to do a Kanga set I decided to do a Regi set, even if I would totally choose Regi either way, the biggest problem I see with this set is that a ghost type can come in and make you completely useless but you have whirlwind if you want to phase them out.
Regigigas @ Leftovers
Ability: Slow Start
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Calm Nature
- Boomburst
- Recover
- Whirlwind/Heal bell/Other Normal move that can be more useful as team building goes
- Rapid Spin
I do have to agree that extreme speed might be a much better choice because after 5 turn this thing has 160 base ATK, but boomburst just hits hard all around even after the 5 turns and it seems as the teambuilding goes another priority user will come into the team as this is STABmons and you can’t have a STABmons team without priority.