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SM OU Next Best Thing Season 2, Week 29: Gliscor

Week 27: Thundurus-Therian
:sm/thundurus-therian:

Your goal this week is to post creative and viable movesets for Thundurus-therian that are NOT listed as sample sets in its SmogDex entry. You have 7 days from now to post sets, after which the voting phase will begin.
Deadline: 26th July 2025 11:30PM, GMT + 5:30.
 
Thundurus-Therian @ Iapapa Berry
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Toxic
- U-turn
- Knock Off

Utility thundurusT
Toxic check every counter of Thundurus ( Latios/Latias , gastrodon, bulu spdef etc... except Mega Venusaur )

Knock off deal with chansey , magearna and can also work for gliscor .Moreover it check all the passive pokemon that uses leftos, black sludge, berry etc.

Uturn for pivoting on ground type that check thundurusT or scarf user like landoT +uturn with a Jolly nature allow to 2hko Mega zam and pressure him
 
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Thundurus-Therian (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Thunderbolt

think it as torn t, knock off support, u-turn but unlike torn, has solid breaking power with bolt beam and an electric immunity
 
Thundurus-Therian (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 30 Atk
- Discharge
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast

Choice Scarf Thundurus-T for a fast option able to punish weakened teams with base 145 SpA Discharges, or as a surprise answer to targets like Garchomp with Hidden Power Ice, which would otherwise outspeed and kill with Z-Stone Edge. Volt Switch will be the preferred option throughout the game to build up damage and keep momentum, but bear in mind Stealth Rocks eat this set alive. You can potentially drop Focus Blast for an emergency Defog support, but Thundy really wants that coverage when things like Heatran are running around.
 
Submissions for Week 27 are now closed. The voting phase has now begun.

The submissions are:
1. Utility by Leroux_Carnage
2. U Turn + Knock Off by tpfire
3. Choice Scarf by clematis

Deadline: 7th August 2025, 11:30PM GMT + 5;30
 
Week 28: Kyurem

:sm/kyurem:
Your goal this week is to post creative and viable movesets for Kyurem that are NOT listed as sample sets in its SmogDex entry. You have 7 days from now to post sets, after which the voting phase will begin.
Deadline: 22nd August 2025 11:30PM, GMT + 5:30.
 
Kyurem @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 68 Def / 72 SpD / 116 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Toxic
- Substitute
- Roost

Balance Staller Kyurem

Flips a lot of its bad matchups like double regen cores and setup sweepers. Toxic can cripple things like cresselia and volcarona, that would normally use it as setup fodder, as well as things like slowbro which can reverse PP stall you. Sub + toxic lets it get a free toxic on things that would be brought in to force it out, like tapu koko and victini.

EVs: 116 speed outspeeds defensive landorus, 68 defense lets its sub survive a kartana leaf blade, rest is pooled into spdef.
 
Balance Staller Kyurem by mysticalbruh1 has won NBT Week 28 as no other movesets were submitted after 2 weeks.

Note: I'm going to be retiring this thread since I feel that I have run out of interesting pokemon to feature in it.
 
approved by Drachenkeule

Hello, SM Community. I'm FavMon=Garchomp, and I will be running the Next Best Thing as of now. It's been a while since the last round. To continue where we left off, our next featured Pokémon will be...

Week 29: Gliscor
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Gliscor is one of SM OU's most defining Pokémon, owing to its solid defensive typing, movepool, and incredible ability in Poison Heal, protecting it from status ailments after activating its Toxic Orb. This lets it consistently threaten Heatran and is the Ground-type that Toxapex is most afraid of. It can sweep the opposition with Swords Dance or dive into its utility options, where it can either set up Stealth Rock or remove hazards with Defog and then provide Knock Off support, bring a teammate in with U-turn, or spread status with Toxic.
Your goal this week is to post creative and viable movesets for Gliscor that are NOT listed as sample sets in its SmogDex entry. You have 7 days from now to post sets, after which the voting phase will begin.
Deadline: 8th November, 2025, 11:30, GMT-5
 
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
- Taunt
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Roost

Taunt is extremely underrated on Gliscor. It's very clutch to alleviate the weakness of Gliscor's builds into aggressive playstyle (especially against set-up move users) while the combination of Taunt + Knock Off allows Gliscor to 1v1 a lot of usual walls on fatter structure like Skarmory.
 
Gliscor @ Electric Seed
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Acrobatics
- Rock Polish

With screens this can surprise stuff quite well... and with poison heal u can be quite resistant to more common stall attempts as well as more resilience with electric seed giving u def boosts. It can also be interestingly unique
 
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