Adrenaline Orb Gapdos
Zapdos-Galar @ Adrenaline Orb
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Acrobatics
- Close Combat
- Stomping Tantrum
- Substitute
Essentially, when you predict your opponent to go to Lando-T (Or any Intimidate mon, but Lando-T is by far the most relavant), you swap in this thing. Instantly you’re at +1 Attack and Speed thanks to Defiant and Adrenaline Orb, and then you click Sub. Unless Lando has Stone Edge, it can’t break the Sub, and you proceed to sweep, since Sub protects you from priority and stuff like Fini and Corv that could otherwise take a hit and OHKO back. You also outspeed and OHKO Dragapult with Acrobatics, so no Infiltrator shenanigans. You don’t even have to worry about Brave Bird recoil since Adrenaline Orb lets you use Acrobatics instead. CC and Stomping Tantrum are standard coverage. This set works very well if two conditions are fulfilled: 1. Opponent must have an Intimidate mon. 2. You correctly predict Intimidate mon coming in and switch to Gapdos. Outside of that this set is a bit of dead weight, but given how common Lando-T is it works as a great way to punish Lando and get some cool sweeps.
+1 252 Atk Zapdos-Galar Acrobatics (110 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dragapult: 331-391 (104.4 - 123.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Zapdos-Galar @ Adrenaline Orb
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Acrobatics
- Close Combat
- Stomping Tantrum
- Substitute
Essentially, when you predict your opponent to go to Lando-T (Or any Intimidate mon, but Lando-T is by far the most relavant), you swap in this thing. Instantly you’re at +1 Attack and Speed thanks to Defiant and Adrenaline Orb, and then you click Sub. Unless Lando has Stone Edge, it can’t break the Sub, and you proceed to sweep, since Sub protects you from priority and stuff like Fini and Corv that could otherwise take a hit and OHKO back. You also outspeed and OHKO Dragapult with Acrobatics, so no Infiltrator shenanigans. You don’t even have to worry about Brave Bird recoil since Adrenaline Orb lets you use Acrobatics instead. CC and Stomping Tantrum are standard coverage. This set works very well if two conditions are fulfilled: 1. Opponent must have an Intimidate mon. 2. You correctly predict Intimidate mon coming in and switch to Gapdos. Outside of that this set is a bit of dead weight, but given how common Lando-T is it works as a great way to punish Lando and get some cool sweeps.
+1 252 Atk Zapdos-Galar Acrobatics (110 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dragapult: 331-391 (104.4 - 123.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
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