[SET]
Iron Moth @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 76 Def / 180 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Overheat
- Sludge Wave
- Dazzling Gleam / Acid Spray / Bug Buzz
- Protect / Endure
[SET COMMENTS]
* Iron Moth is able to utilize its great offensive typing, huge movepool, and the Booster Energy item to quickly eliminate important threats like Iron Crown, Alolan Ninetales, and Sylveon.
* Overheat can OHKO Metagross, Corviknight, and Alolan Ninetales.
* Sludge Wave easily gets rid of Fairy-type Pokemon like Primarina and Iron Valiant.
* Dazzling Gleam notably beats Fighting-type Pokemon like both Urshifu formes and Great Tusk. Acid Spray is commonly used to get KOs on Pokemon that are usually difficult for Iron Moth to get rid of otherwise, like Skeledirge and Volcarona. Finally, Bug Buzz can easily handle non-Assault Vest Hoopa-U.
* Protect is most commonly used to prevent Custap Berry users like Skeledirge and Primarina from going first with an attack. Endure is used for a similar reason, with it being more useful against Hoopa-U due to Hyperspace Fury breaking Protect, but it also risks Iron Moth into getting hit by Encore from Primarina.
* The EVs allow Iron Moth to survive an Adamant Choice Band Sucker Punch from Urshifu-S.
* Since Iron Moth's biggest issue tends to be its weakness to Water-type Pokemon like Manaphy and Dondozo, Grass-type Pokemon like Meowscarada and Serperior often make as good teammates for it.
[SET CREDITS]
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Iron Moth @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 76 Def / 180 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Overheat
- Sludge Wave
- Dazzling Gleam / Acid Spray / Bug Buzz
- Protect / Endure
[SET COMMENTS]
* Iron Moth is able to utilize its great offensive typing, huge movepool, and the Booster Energy item to quickly eliminate important threats like Iron Crown, Alolan Ninetales, and Sylveon.
* Overheat can OHKO Metagross, Corviknight, and Alolan Ninetales.
* Sludge Wave easily gets rid of Fairy-type Pokemon like Primarina and Iron Valiant.
* Dazzling Gleam notably beats Fighting-type Pokemon like both Urshifu formes and Great Tusk. Acid Spray is commonly used to get KOs on Pokemon that are usually difficult for Iron Moth to get rid of otherwise, like Skeledirge and Volcarona. Finally, Bug Buzz can easily handle non-Assault Vest Hoopa-U.
* Protect is most commonly used to prevent Custap Berry users like Skeledirge and Primarina from going first with an attack. Endure is used for a similar reason, with it being more useful against Hoopa-U due to Hyperspace Fury breaking Protect, but it also risks Iron Moth into getting hit by Encore from Primarina.
* The EVs allow Iron Moth to survive an Adamant Choice Band Sucker Punch from Urshifu-S.
* Since Iron Moth's biggest issue tends to be its weakness to Water-type Pokemon like Manaphy and Dondozo, Grass-type Pokemon like Meowscarada and Serperior often make as good teammates for it.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bern.563650/
Quality checked by:
[insert user link]
Grammar checked by:
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