[SET]
Glass Cannon (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Focus Sash
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Astral Barrage
- Psychic / Encore / Disable
- Encore / Disable / Nasty Plot
- Protect
[SET COMMENTS]
Set Details
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- Focus Sash Calyrex-S is a strong attacker and disruptor capable of swinging games around, threatening many common Pokemon such as both Calyrex formes, Amoonguss, and Koraidon.
- Encore is great in scaring off many moves such as Fake Out from Rillaboom and Incineroar, Calm Mind from Terapagos, Protect, and much more. Disable, on the other hand, is useful to shut down powerful moves that can easily stop Calyrex-S, most notably Wide Guard from the likes of Lunala and Zamazenta-C. Nasty Plot can boost Calyrex-S's sweeping power, letting it OHKO Assault Vest Iron Hands with Psychic. Encore and Disable help Terapagos in particular, helping it set up even in the face of threatening Fighting-types like Urshifu-R and Koraidon.
- Focus Sash increases Calyrex-S's survivability, letting it survive the many attacks that can OHKO it such as Moongeist Beam from Lunala and Electro Drift from Miraidon, letting Calyrex-S hit hard, live an attack, and then retaliate.
- Tera Ghost boosts the power of Astral Barrage, letting Calyrex-S always OHKO Tera Ghost Incineroar and Ursaluna while also OHKOing Lunala most of the time.
Teambuilding
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- Dark-types like Incineroar and Chi-Yu are issues for Calyrex-S, as Calyrex-S has no good way of breaking through them. Farigiraf is another struggle for Calyrex-S thanks to Farigiraf's immunity to Astral Barrage and access to Foul Play. Even with Disable, Zamazenta-C and Lunala are still bothersome for Calyrex-S, with both using Wide Guard and Lunala in particular threatening huge damage into Calyrex-S with Moongeist Beam. Urshifu-R can threaten Calyrex-S, using Tera Water or Tera Stellar to OHKO Calyrex-S with Surging Strikes.
- Fighting-type Pokemon such as Urshifu-R and Zamazenta-C are great partners for Calyrex-S, providing good coverage into Dark-types while also threatening opposing Zamazenta-C, letting Calyrex-S more freely use Astral Barrage. Calyrex-S is able to help these Fighting-type Pokemon by using Astral Barrage to break through Ghost-types like Flutter Mane.
- Dark-type Pokemon like Chi-Yu and Incineroar are able to break down Farigiraf and Lunala with Dark Pulse and Knock Off, respectively. Chi-Yu has the added benefit of threatening Zamazenta-C thanks to Overheat. Additionally, Chi-Yu's Beads of Ruins allows Calyrex-S to OHKO bulky Calyrex-I with Tera Ghost Astral Barrage and 2HKO Zamazenta-C with Psychic or Astral Barrage. Calyrex-S, in return, can threaten Pokemon like Iron Hands and Urshifu-R, which normally scare off the aforementioned Dark-types.
- Terapagos and Koraidon both heavily appreciate Focus Sash Calyrex-S's presence, as it threatens Fighting-types for Terapagos and helps out into Ghost-types for Koraidon. With Disable, Calyrex-S can also deny Wide Guard from the likes of Lunala, letting Terapagos freely Terastalize and use Tera Starstorm. This, in conjunction with Encore, can force theWide Guard user to Struggle. In return, Terapagos is able to be a reliable switch in for Ghost-type attacks that heavily threaten Calyrex-S. Koraidon, on the other hand, is able to chunk many threats to Calyrex-S such as Lunala, Zamazemta-C, and Farigiraf, helping create openings for Calyrex-S to sweep.
- Rillaboom is a good partner to threaten Urshifu-R while also providing Fake Out support. Rillaboom can also use U-turn to chip down Lunala and Farigiraf, notably breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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