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roserade a- > a
hello everyone
i want to nom rose up for this set that absolutely abuses a bunch of passive trends atm. it comes in against some top metagame threats like mandibuzz, milotic, and rotom cut and uses them to freely set up hazards or just beat them 1v1. it hits extremely hard, 2hkoing every steel type except bronz which drops after even a small bit of chip and using registeel as spikes fodder. even pokemon like 252 / 252+ mandi and cresselia struggle to come in after they've been poisoned as that + rocks will let roserade outright beat mandibuzz and run through cresselia's recovery quickly. rose has a great mu against hazard control too, able to OHKO rotom-h and gligar after rocks, ohko m stoise and rotom c, and 1v1 the aforementioned mandibuzz (lacking bb). z lets it bluff a choice item and it can run any of spikes, toxic spikes, hp fire in the third slot, giving it good versatility.
here's a replay of me using it against tdk in rupl-- keep in mind that rose will definitely fare better against rotom-c if you have a ground type like m lix that can more easily pressure the rotom c player to click leaf storm (or a sr setter that beats it), otherwise they'll just keep volt switching.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-732797403
also if any of you guys are wanting to try this poke out feel free to take the team i used some in r11 ssnl and this week of rupl
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also want to add to some of the discussion points
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moltres a > a-
have to agree here. i think choice scarf is a really terrible pick for slower balance teams as relying on it to revenge kill a plethora of metagame threats just pressures it way too much with the crippling sr weakness. on teams with more means of revenge killing its fine but i still wouldn't use it over other choice scarf users like gardevoir, ttrum, or flygon unless i needed to.
i also definitely support a medicham ranking and the froslass drop
thanks for reading!!!
roserade a- > a
hello everyone
i want to nom rose up for this set that absolutely abuses a bunch of passive trends atm. it comes in against some top metagame threats like mandibuzz, milotic, and rotom cut and uses them to freely set up hazards or just beat them 1v1. it hits extremely hard, 2hkoing every steel type except bronz which drops after even a small bit of chip and using registeel as spikes fodder. even pokemon like 252 / 252+ mandi and cresselia struggle to come in after they've been poisoned as that + rocks will let roserade outright beat mandibuzz and run through cresselia's recovery quickly. rose has a great mu against hazard control too, able to OHKO rotom-h and gligar after rocks, ohko m stoise and rotom c, and 1v1 the aforementioned mandibuzz (lacking bb). z lets it bluff a choice item and it can run any of spikes, toxic spikes, hp fire in the third slot, giving it good versatility.
here's a replay of me using it against tdk in rupl-- keep in mind that rose will definitely fare better against rotom-c if you have a ground type like m lix that can more easily pressure the rotom c player to click leaf storm (or a sr setter that beats it), otherwise they'll just keep volt switching.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-732797403
also if any of you guys are wanting to try this poke out feel free to take the team i used some in r11 ssnl and this week of rupl
View attachment 111002
also want to add to some of the discussion points
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moltres a > a-
have to agree here. i think choice scarf is a really terrible pick for slower balance teams as relying on it to revenge kill a plethora of metagame threats just pressures it way too much with the crippling sr weakness. on teams with more means of revenge killing its fine but i still wouldn't use it over other choice scarf users like gardevoir, ttrum, or flygon unless i needed to.
i also definitely support a medicham ranking and the froslass drop
thanks for reading!!!
I do agree strongly with the majority of this but I do strongly disagree with the moltress drop, due to the rise of pokemon such as shaymin the defense set has become rather potent recently and it's wallbreaking skills are as amazing as ever with very few pokemon wanting to switch in or attempt to set up on the flame turkey, while it's choice scarf set is good I do honestly think that the wallbreaker set is worthy of the current moltres rank for how much of an iron grip it holds against bulky teams and teams in general.