[SET]
(Stallgia) Lugia @ Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Ability: Multiscale
Level: 50
Tera Type: Poison / Fairy / Normal
EVs: 236 HP / 204 Def / 68 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic Noise
- Whirlwind
- Substitute
- Recover
[SET COMMENTS]
With impressive bulk, reliable recovery through Recover and the utility of Psychic Noise, Lugia stands out as one of the metagame’s most frustrating stallers, often forcing opponents to forfeit after sheer exhaustion.
Psychic Noise: Psychic Noise prevents Dondozo and Garganacl from recovering HP via Leftovers or status moves with healing effects, crippling their longevity.
Whirlwind: Whirlwind forces switches to sweeper checks like Lunala and Miraidon, who can put Lugia in a tough spot due to its lack of Special Defense investment.
Substitute: Substitute makes harder for revenge killers like Choice Band Koraidon and Landorus-T to take Lugia down, enhancing its ability to stall out turns successfully.
Recover: Recover ensures Lugia’s staying power, allowing him to set up Substitutes and shrug off damage.
[Other Options]
Protect: Protect grants Lugia an extra turn of Leftovers, synergizing well with Recover to restore its HP more effectively.
Calm Mind: Calm Mind improves Lugia’s longevity and helping resist moves like Terapagos’s Tera Starstorm and Eternatus’s Dynamax Cannon after a boost.
Aeroblast: Aeroblast pressures Dark-types like Ting-Lu, Wo-Chien and Tera Dark Clodsire, which are immune to Psychic Noise. Paired with Calm Mind, it also becomes a more effective late-game cleaning tool.
[Items]
Leftovers: Leftovers pairs perfectly with Lugia’s bulk and recovery, making its stall strategy more consistent and overwhelming against offensive teams.
Rocky Helmet: Rocky Helmet punishes psychical attackers like Urshifu-S’s Surging Strikes with solid chip damage, adding passive pressure after Lugia lands one of his moves.
Heavy Duty Boots: Heavy Duty Boots prevents Stealth Rock from breaking Multiscale, granting Lugia an extra turn to set up stall or boost its stats.
[Tera Types]
Tera Dependency: Medium: Terastallization is often necessary to bolster its defensive profile and improving its stalling potential against specific threats.
Poison: Tera Posion reduces the damage from Flutter Mane’s Moonblast and Urshifu-R’s Close Combat, while allowing Lugia to absorb Toxic Spikes from Pokémon like Sneasler and Toxapex. It also prevents poisoning.
Fairy: Tera Fairy turns the tables on Miraidon’s Draco Meteor and Dragonite’s Scale Shot by giving it immunity, while retaining its Fighting resistance and withstanding Dark-Type attacks.
Normal: Tera Normal counters Calyrex-S’s Astral Barrage by removing Lugia’s Ghost weakness, granting it an extra turn to set up Substitute and stall out turns.
Water: Tera Water provides Lugia a key resistance to Chien-Pao’s Icicle Crash and Chi-Yu’s Overheat. But leaves it vulnerable to Miraidon’s Electro Drift and Tera Electric Zacian-C’s Tera Blast.
(Stallgia) Lugia @ Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Ability: Multiscale
Level: 50
Tera Type: Poison / Fairy / Normal
EVs: 236 HP / 204 Def / 68 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic Noise
- Whirlwind
- Substitute
- Recover
[SET COMMENTS]
With impressive bulk, reliable recovery through Recover and the utility of Psychic Noise, Lugia stands out as one of the metagame’s most frustrating stallers, often forcing opponents to forfeit after sheer exhaustion.
Psychic Noise: Psychic Noise prevents Dondozo and Garganacl from recovering HP via Leftovers or status moves with healing effects, crippling their longevity.
Whirlwind: Whirlwind forces switches to sweeper checks like Lunala and Miraidon, who can put Lugia in a tough spot due to its lack of Special Defense investment.
Substitute: Substitute makes harder for revenge killers like Choice Band Koraidon and Landorus-T to take Lugia down, enhancing its ability to stall out turns successfully.
Recover: Recover ensures Lugia’s staying power, allowing him to set up Substitutes and shrug off damage.
[Other Options]
Protect: Protect grants Lugia an extra turn of Leftovers, synergizing well with Recover to restore its HP more effectively.
Calm Mind: Calm Mind improves Lugia’s longevity and helping resist moves like Terapagos’s Tera Starstorm and Eternatus’s Dynamax Cannon after a boost.
Aeroblast: Aeroblast pressures Dark-types like Ting-Lu, Wo-Chien and Tera Dark Clodsire, which are immune to Psychic Noise. Paired with Calm Mind, it also becomes a more effective late-game cleaning tool.
[Items]
Leftovers: Leftovers pairs perfectly with Lugia’s bulk and recovery, making its stall strategy more consistent and overwhelming against offensive teams.
Rocky Helmet: Rocky Helmet punishes psychical attackers like Urshifu-S’s Surging Strikes with solid chip damage, adding passive pressure after Lugia lands one of his moves.
Heavy Duty Boots: Heavy Duty Boots prevents Stealth Rock from breaking Multiscale, granting Lugia an extra turn to set up stall or boost its stats.
[Tera Types]
Tera Dependency: Medium: Terastallization is often necessary to bolster its defensive profile and improving its stalling potential against specific threats.
Poison: Tera Posion reduces the damage from Flutter Mane’s Moonblast and Urshifu-R’s Close Combat, while allowing Lugia to absorb Toxic Spikes from Pokémon like Sneasler and Toxapex. It also prevents poisoning.
Fairy: Tera Fairy turns the tables on Miraidon’s Draco Meteor and Dragonite’s Scale Shot by giving it immunity, while retaining its Fighting resistance and withstanding Dark-Type attacks.
Normal: Tera Normal counters Calyrex-S’s Astral Barrage by removing Lugia’s Ghost weakness, granting it an extra turn to set up Substitute and stall out turns.
Water: Tera Water provides Lugia a key resistance to Chien-Pao’s Icicle Crash and Chi-Yu’s Overheat. But leaves it vulnerable to Miraidon’s Electro Drift and Tera Electric Zacian-C’s Tera Blast.
