Kommo-o @ Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 248 HP / 188 Def / 72 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Body Press
- Flamethrower
- Taunt / Toxic
As I was struggling to find something to handle Grass types and help against Dark spam, while not crumbling to Shadow Ball AND providing either SR/Defog (yeah that's a lot but the team has holes) I remembered Bulletproof Kommo-O.
Strong matchup against heatran, zeraora and many steel types; actual resistance to surging strikes; immunity to specs pult's shadowball; access to one of rocks/defog to take pressure off lando; strong matchup against grass and darkspam: these traits are unique to kommo-o and this team appreciates them all.
rocks to make lando only have to run defog, press as the main damaging move, flamethrower to reliably ohko kart, taunt is filler but its useful to prevent slowking's teleport and clefable doing anything dangerous.
72 evs should outspeed any version of spdef tran, rest is phys def to better take on what it's supposed to.
lefties for longevity, helmet to punish physical attackers (esp surging strikes). if you run helmet, rest>taunt is viable. you choose.
this makes playing around specs kyurem rly dangerous, but makes it easier to deny shadowball spam. slowking can theoretically pivot into pult to scout, either living two dracos or pivoting out to kommo-o to blank shadowball. spdef slowking takes up to 60% from shadowball, it's hefty but it's what we have to work with here.
EDIT: added toxic as an alternative to taunt because kommo-o can spread poison to mons that Melmetal has no reason to paralyze, like the aforementioned Clefable and Slowking, making it easier to click hex with Dragapult. Pretty much every steel type will flee from kommo-o anyway. Only issue is that you become completely fodder to Toxapex, but you have ways to pressure it anyway.
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: changed the evs for Slowking for Nidoking whenever boots get knocked as well as better rolls against Moonblast from Tapu Lele, while still having some physdef for Urshifu-R.
: changed the evs giving it some speed for speedy Skarmory , while the Special Defense helps stomach +1 Flamethrower from offensive Volcarona after rocks. Knock Off instead of Toxic here since you are able to lure in and remove items from the same targets that Urshifu-R would be dealing like Corviknight and Tangrowth.
oh wait sorry I meant
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, Non Draco 
or maybe choiced mons who're locked into a move volc can take, are simply setup opportunities. There's many other examples, but you get the point, volc is one of the top threats in the current meta.
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as well as hitting 
for greater damage, as it could have a Rock-Type move for you. Psychic is generally preferred, as the slows are setup fodder anyway, and pex and urshifu are big targets, since urshifu can simply just kill it and pex can haze away everything otherwise.
, as long as it carries toxic, completely sits on this particular set. Urshifu can easily revenge kill with banded aj, as long as you're in range. Dual wingbeat 
does well vs all Volcarona, and this is no exception. However, when you compare this list of checks to other threats, its decently small, and manageable with team support, which is why volc is as good as it is.
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