I like Moonblast / Thunderbolt / Fire Blast / Soft-Boiled the most. You can run Calm Mind instead of Fire Blast for stall too, but missing out on Ferrothorn is often undesirable. Thunderbolt is mandatory to deal with Toxapex. While it doesn't actually 2HKO Toxapex, it's enough to PP stall Toxapex's Recover. It's also nice to wear down Heatran quickly.
One thing to note is that if you run Calm Mind, then Stored Power is a possible option in the last slot to break through Chansey/Unaware mons easier, but there's better stallbreakers out there so it's usually just best to go LO + 3 Attacks.
Z-Fly is generally the go to I guess and the complimentary coverage for it, if it is not mono-attacking, tends to be Earthquake for Steel types as opposed to making it dual STAB.
To add onto what Finch said, Dragon type moves in general have become somewhat of a rarity in OU, simply because Dragon honestly isn't that great of an offensive type anymore. Fairy is immune to it and Steel resists it, which are two of the most common types in OU, and it only deals SE damage to other Dragon types.
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Focus Blast Clefable was definitely an idea I saw floating around when I played in ORAS OU, so it isn't a bad set persay, just not well suited to the current metagame. The main "lure" Clefable set at the moment (Life Orb), prefers running Fire Blast + Thunderbolt as coverage because pressuring Toxapex more heavily is a lot more important than pressuring Heatran, as Toxapex can recover HP way easier, and in the same vein, you can usually just chip Heatran in the long run with stuff like Knock Off Ferrothorn, entry hazards, and repeated Thunderbolts from Clefable itself.
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The last time I played was during BW/BW2 weather apocalypse. Now I've come back and everything is confusing, there's things like mega pokemon and z moves. I want to get back into competitive battling but these new things are a bit off putting to have to learn about. Also I haven't bought any of the mainline pokemon games since Black 2 so I have no idea about any new moves, abilities, items, or pokemon. I'm not sure where to start again.
In a nutshell:
Soul Dew is unbanned (in both OU and UU) since it's been nerfed. The only banned items I can think of are the respective Mega Stones of the banned Mega Evolutions if the base Pokémon is allowed.
Steel and Fairy are almost definitely the two best types right now.
It doesn't -- at least not particularly well. Stealth Rock Mega Diancie usually matches up quite well with stall in general, tbh
Rotom-W only has so many moveslots to work with, and people almost always prefer some combination of Defog, Volt Switch, Hydro Pump, Will-O-Wisp, Pain Split, Thunder Wave, etc so Rest is harder to fit into the set. Also, Rotom-W's nature of a pivot means it wants to keep momentum, and taking a turn to heal with Rest sort of defeats that purpose. Pain Split can at least damage the opponent while healing and can be used more than once in battle since it's not reliant on the Chesto Berry.
Some pinch berries (Iapapa, Figy, etc.) were buffed to give 50% hp back when a pokemon falls to 25%. This is often much better than Chesto because Rest takes a moveslot and a turn to use, while pinch berries do not. Also, in part because of power creep, Toxic is not super common so Rotom doesn't need Rest to solve status. For most teams, it's easier just to kill Rotom than to try and stall it out. The popularity of Toxapex, Chansey, Clefable, Magearna, Heatran, and Ferrothorn is another built-in reason not to run Toxic, since they all block it. The mechanic with pinch berries is important too. Unlike Chesto, you don't need a turn to heal. It's common for players to strategically play these berries to double swap or revenge kill and get a free heal once per game instead of letting Rotom get hit another time, give up another turn, and possible die if your opponent hits hard.
