We all due respect, but this is just wrong. There's a considerable amount of skarm that are running enough speed for timid zone - enough to the point where most tran can't realistically should be scouting to see whether they can even pivot in safely or not. If you're forcing yourself to scout practically every time, then I don't think you can necessarily call it a lure.
I checked the strategy page, the calculator, and the set compendium, and I didn't see 180 speed skarmory on any of those places. The closest was a person on the set compendium advocating for a 176 speed skarmory, which ties this particular heatran, which is quite worse. Timid zone is slower than a 180 speed skarm by 2 points, and faster than this heatran by 1 point, so I assumed that since the closest benchmark I found on here, the amount of skarm running more than 176 is probably not that considerable (especially since most people that dont want to see zone go for shed shell and not speed investment since it doesn't require you to guess and lets you just set spikes and switch out, which is probably more reliably good against zone in particular than playing body press mind games). The new skarmory OU analysis that passed QC also doesn't list any speed evs, even in the other options(it does mention shed shell).We all due respect, but this is just wrong. There's a considerable amount of skarm that are running enough speed for timid zone - enough to the point where most tran can't realistically should be scouting to see whether they can even pivot in safely or not. If you're forcing yourself to scout practically every time, then I don't think you can necessarily call it a lure.
Weavile @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Icicle Crash
- Knock Off
- Low Kick
This isn't the best lure by any means, but it still works out nicely when needed - against teams that rely on Heatran (+ a couple of soft checks), you can take advantage of the fact that its often forced to pivot into it and position yourself for a few free early game kills.
252+ Atk Weavile Low Kick (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 260-306 (67.3 - 79.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Sadly, we cannot admit this as a lure to Heatran, since its just Skarm's most common set but with a bit more investment on Speed. I hope you submit something next week, though!
Skarmory @ Rocky Helmet
Bold Nature
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 76 HP / 252 Def / 180 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
- Spikes
- Body Press
- Iron Defense
- Roost
this is a pretty standard skarmory set, but the real difference here is the heavy speed investment, which lets it outspeed the heatran and double tap it with body press while it's switching in(and another one because you outspeed), or click iron defense and then OHKO on the next turn. Rocks are nice here for guaranteeing the KO. calcs for both going for double body press and iron defense into body press:
+2 252+ Def Skarmory Body Press vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 384-454 (99.4 - 117.6%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
252+ Def Skarmory Body Press vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 192-228 (49.7 - 59%) -- 75.8% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Def Skarmory Body Press vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 192-228 (49.7 - 59%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
+2 252+ Def Skarmory Body Press vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Heatran: 384-454 (99.4 - 117.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock(I know it gets a lefty turn, but it's still guaranteed OHKO). The only thing that is iffy is SD kart, but that is kinda iffy even with full defense investment
As for what you are sacrificing, it's actually not that much. You still wall non mixed chomp, every lando in existence, choiced kartana, every rilla ever... And this spread actually is also faster than fully invested neutral nature magnezone, letting you get a two-for-one lure deal (non iron defense ones just go down, against iron defense you might have to use your sturdy, but probably not since its still a high percent chance to KO it with body press before it gets you).
A great thing to notice is that if everything goes well, skarm will take a grand total of 0 damage from heatran, which means it can just continue playing basically as normal
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query, could you please clarify where the line is drawn for how much a normal set can be modified?
Sorry, you can only vote for 2 lures this week, as stated in my post. Please edit or i wont be able to count your votes :[
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