Deoxys-Defense @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Poison
EVs: 252 HP / 68 Def / 188 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Cosmic Power
- Stored Power
- Night Shade
- Recover
This set aims to beat opposing CM sweepers, sweep itself, and be a threatening mid-to-late game cleaner/breaker.
First off, Cosmic Power, the main draw of the set. Cosmic Power, of course, raises both your defenses, allowing you to ignore the biggest issue of CM sweepers: their reliance on natural physical bulk and Scald burns to survive strong hits. This allows you to use a variety of physical attackers, even Krookidile as starting points to start boosting. Of course, against gamers with massive numbers like Crawdaunt or mons that threaten Toxic such as Okidogi, Geezing, and Umbreon, Tera Poison is a must just to survive and continue your sweep. Just make sure you can actually… like… beat whatever you’re facing though. I think Umbreon can beat you in the PP stalling war.
Next in the set is Stored Power, and while you may not be the damage dealing machine you could be with Calm Mind, the extra bulk all around paired with Deo-D’s amazing natural bulk means that you don’t really care. 260 BP is a lotta damage, you gotta realize, and it means getting 2HKO’s and not OHKO’s, who cares! You’re the bulkiest thing on the planet!
Night Shade is a must, as it allows consistent damage into resists and is what wins the war in CM battles.
Recover is also self explanatory, as otherwise you’d be stuck relying on lefties as a slow bulky sweeper.
But, the REAL lynchpin that makes this set work is Pressure. Pressure on this mon automatically lets you play it SO much more aggressively and lets you mess with certain mons to an insane degree. Pressure alone makes this mon a solid pick for Stall Teams, but think about it for a sec. You want to click big damage buttons into the sweeper right? Well have fun doing that when suddenly they’re only usable like 4 times max. Additionally, this is what saves Deo-D in CM wars, as you are given the ability to wear down and limit the amount of times you can get damaged. Pressure turns 8 PP moves into risky 4 time clicks, turn 16 PP moves into limited edition 8 PP moves, and 32 and above is usually a pipe dream tbh for PP depletion, unless you pair this mon with other Pressure Gamers of its kind (Vincune and Vintei come to mind)
No matter what, this mon allows you to do some crazy team support by cinching endgames and generally being a big bulky blob who sits there and pressure stalls.
Also, and this is important: You can PP Stall Chansey. It can be done. I’ve ran the numbers and the following conditions must be met:
You MUST have 7 PP worth of Recover, or else it won’t work.
You MUST have lefties.
You must NEVER get para’d on recover turns or else it won’t work.
You cannot switch in, and cannot start the sequence with 53 HP missing.
You have a few turns of leeway where you’ll be able to get para’d and live, but otherwise T-wave is a killer and makes you slower, so it is set-dependent, but under perfect conditions you can boost (so that Shadow Ball does peanuts), and recover such that you stall out Seismic Toss’s effective 16 PP. To make the matchup more consisten, you could run 232 speed EVs and a neutral nature to always outspeed Chansey after being Para’d, which makes the recover sequence true.
Max Stored Power is still a 6HKO so you probably don’t win anyways, but I crunched the numbers. And it’s possible. Maybe. I think I did it right though.
This guy fits best on Stall, BO, and Balance. (Ordered from Fits Best - Fits Eh).
Stall ofc loves this guy cause its some offensive firepower on the passive stall team, and it means that you can kinda win some matchups due to them not being able to click their big buttons enough times (the hoodra matchup /w draco comes to mind)
BO also loves this guy cause he’s able to do less PP stalling team support and more “switch in and start clicking buttons and making progress”, which is appreciated by the teamstyle
Balance is where it fits ok, on balance you’d want another set, and Balance oft doesn’t really need a guy like this, nor is able to fit em easily in, but you could probably run it decently OK.
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REPLAY ZONE: (featuring everyone’s favorite pressure staller:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2177107339?p2( i threw by not predicting the obvious trick but like i was right there)