Metal Sound
Toxtricity @ Throat Spray
Ability: Punk Rock
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Metal Sound
- Boomburst
- Overdrive
- Substitute / Shift Gear
(I know some other guy reserved Sub Throat Spray, if this set is a no go and overlaps too heavily with that one I’ll remove the Sub slash)
Metal Sound is a safe move to throw out against something you force out if your foe has multiple resists, something like Ferrothorn + Seismitoad + Aegislash. Metal Sound both eases your prediction and pops your Throat Spray letting you pose more of a threat. This set is fairly nice against Ferrothorn actually, doing a ton of damage after it gets to -2 (+1 252 SpA Punk Rock Toxtricity Boomburst vs. -2 252 HP / 252+ SpD Ferrothorn: 175-206 (49.7 - 58.5%) -- 69.5% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery). Of course you OHKO basically everything else once they’re hit with a Metal Sound, besides bulky Excadrill I guess. Last move is kind of a toss-up since I don’t think this set needs a Poison move too much. Substitute is nice as it lets you ease prediction more on forced switches, also lets you juke Ferrothorn’s Leech Seed. Shift Gear lets you pose an offensive threat if you can get a free turn to use it, and works better against faster teams, where Metal Sound mostly only helps with defensive cores.