Doom Desire Jirachi:
With the recent surge of Future Sight brought into the meta by Slowbro/Slowking, I decided to take a look into the capabilities of Doom Desire Jirachi. Given the ability for Jirachi to serve as a pivot I decided to focus this set on dealing powerful hits to help cover the counters of other pokemon. Notable uses I've thought about are aiding Spectrier in combating Tyranitar, Regieleki combating Landorus, as well as encouraging Heatran to stay in on strong ground moves. In my experiences using this on ladder this usually ended up with the opponent taking a trade or a heavy hit while keeping my pokemon in good condition. I was wondering if anyone else had decided to look into Doom Desire Jirachi given the recent surge of Future Sight, and was also wondering if there were any significant factors holding this strategy back?
Jirachi @ Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet/Modest Nature
- Doom Desire
- U-turn
- Protect/Body Slam/Iron Head/Future Sight
- Wish/Future Sight
While Doom Desire-Jirachi sounds not bad on paper it is held back by plenty of factors in the current metagame, given the rise of Knock off on a lot of teams to remove annoying items such as your listed Leftovers and moreso Heavy-Duty Boots the strategy won't pay off that much as Future Sight would. Slowbro, Slowking-Galar, and even regular Slowking can do that job better, due to having a better typing and a better defensive movepool to come with them, such as Slack Off and Regenerator to use this strategy in a long term and to pressure consistently.
Jirachi just doesn't have these traits and moreover its typing isnt the best given the recent rise of Ground-types in the current metagame such as Landorus-t, Garchomp, Nidoking, and other more fringe options. Moreover Jirachi fears strong faster attackers such as Cinderace. Also the recent popularity of Blissey and also Dark-types such as bulky Roost-Hydreigon and Mandibuzz mean that Jirachi has issues against them and Jirachi also faces the surge of Corviknight as a great slot in bulky team variants and Doom Desire won't do too much to Corviknight with Doom Desire nor Future Sight and Corviknight can just Roost that damage taken off.
Jirachi faces too many issues in the current metagame to act like a great Future Sight / Doom Desire-user and that slot is taken away mainly by Slowbro, Slowking, and the super popular Galarian Slowking as they provide a better defensive typing, pressure more Pokemon with better coverage and having the longterm in sense of Slack Off and Regenerator with the former two and Regenerator for the latter.
I just think, when you look for a potent Future Sight-user you should keep your eyes open for these 3 Pokemon.