Does scarf fini more often run max hp or max sp. attack
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Max hp has been commonly seen a lot more lately for the ability to better check the likes of Urshifu-R, Dragapult, Weavile, and Heatran , tho you could run some spa for favorable for some better rolls or damage output
magnezone can help remove annoying steel-types that would otherwise hinder you, like corviknight, skarmory, ferrothorn, melmetalWho are the best partner's for calm mindand SD
on a bulky offence team?
Also what pokemon should i use for a trick spam team as i love nothing better then gifting opposing mons dud items
grounds like garchomp or lando are also good at pressuring galarian slowking/toxapex/clefable or getting up rocks so ur fini + aegi core here can break past them easily
might be good to have a defensive backbone in something like buzzwole or defensive lando to switch into faster revenge killers - mainly zera, kart, or rilla
usually when building around a trick lure, you want to think about mons that would specifically pair well with the targets you want to cripple: for example, trick tapu fini or clefable are good at targeting slowking, toxapex, and sometimes heatran, making them good partners alongside volcarona, weavile, or other similar win conditions
Hazard stack. Didn't think of that usually i just fit rock's and be done with it. Thanks.
I noticed buzzwole has been climbing and having an answer to faster threats and dark spam is nice. Definately gonna try magnezone tho. Seems right up my ally that one
For trick lurers i was thinking something like jirachi, fini or togekiss (tho i think it need's to much support right now) supporting with like weavile.
Thank you both for help. Its appreciated.
i like metagross because meteor mash
Usual spread is just a copy of the PhysDef Spread, 252 HP / 164 SpD / 92 Spe Careful. If you don't value the speed as much, 28 Spe and 48 Spe are good benchmarks to hit too.
Here you can find the spread I created for SpDef Lando-T (and other spreads for other Pokémon if you need them). Decide how much speed you want and if you need specific defensive calcs, you can absolutely tweak the spread if you want, especially because Rillaboom is declining in usage.
Max HP, arbitrary speed benchmark (modest/timid zone, modest/timid tran, smth faster—whatever is best for ur team, but usually a zone or tran benchmark), rest dumped in SpD, careful unless ur rlly fast, in which case jolly may be more efficient.
Lando can really run whatever EVs you want and get away with it. Just look at what ur targeting and go from there.
Katy
Banned deucer.
It's 252 HP / 80 SpA / 176 SpD currently for Assault Vest Galar Slowking. With a Calm nature it can live 2 Shadow Balls from Specs Dragapult and the remaining EVs are just put into its Special Attack.
Hope it helped :)
To add into this they also do include about 12 investment into Defense in order to living Surginf Strikes from Urshifu-R from full.
Slowking-Galar @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 12 Def / 124 SpA / 120 SpD
Calm Nature
- Future Sight
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Scald
252 SpA Choice Specs Dragapult Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 120+ SpD Assault Vest Slowking-Galar: 164-194 (41.6 - 49.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
it only needs 120 spdef + calm nature to live two shadow balls from specs pult - the 176 benchmark is for specs koko
the 12 def is nice to survive cb urshifu's surging strikes in a pinch essentially for free
cutting down on the spdef means that this gking has a bit more offensive potential, able to annoy teams with its coverage and status more easily while its future sights pack a bigger punch
For 'pex running scald + knock, is there any significant advantage to running Relaxed over Bold? I understand that you're doing marginally more damage and 'pex's speed is poor anyways, but does the loss of speed come in to play at all?
it lets it outspeed alolawak in TR and knock off its club before you get destroyed by ground coverage
How exactly does the endless battle clause function? Will it activate mid game if you use specific moves, or will it prevent them in teambuilder? Or will it stop an endless setup after some time?
1000 turns, it’ll notify you after every hundred starting a few hundred in iirc
How do you deal with rain when using HO. Barra is annoying asf
Rillaboom and other forms of priority help. Roost Dragonite also helps w Barraskeeda and can fit.
Celesteela mad annoying and underrated. Doesn’t die, hard to switch into Heavy Slam, Flamethrower, and Leech Seed. Even when you Knock its lefties it won’t die. What do u think?
It never makes progress with all of the Regenerator Water types being used, it is susceptible to Magnezone, and it hates common interactions like Heatran, not being able to Protect vs Urhsifu-R, anything involving Volcarona, and encountering any Electric type as a whole. Celesteela is sneaky good vs HO teams that lack switch-ins to its limited offensive profile combined with LeechTect to stall offensive momentum, but otherwise it is a liability in all honesty.
It can work, but it is usually worse than SDef normal Slowking. It saw a usage in WCoP -- it tends to run a similar spread to standard variants, but you can opt to run some SAtk to help make use of the coverage.
how many spa evs is recommended? and I've also heard dragon tail was used with this; is it recommended on AV?