SET]
Name: Choice Specs
move 1: Psychic
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Thunderbolt / Hidden Power Fire
Item: Choice Specs
Ability: Psychic Surge
Nature: Timid
evs:252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Tapu Lele is a great Choice Specs user due to its Psychic typing, wide movepool, and Psychic surge, making it a powerful wallbreaker on Fairy teams. Psychic is a powerful STAB move under Psychic terrain allowing it to threaten Fire- and Poison-types that resist Moonblast such as Rotom-H, Mega Venusaur, and Toxapex while Moonblast threatens Dark-and Dragon-types such as Mandibuzz, Mega Sableye, Latios, and Dragonite. Focus Blast is to nail Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Heatran, and Melmetal which resist both of Tapu Lele's STAB moves. Thunderbolt allows Tapu Lele to hit Flying-types such as Celesteela and Mantine, and Water-types such as Slowbro and Tapu Fini. However, Hidden Power Fire is an option for a more reliable way to hit Steel-types such as Scizor and Mega Scizor. 252 Special Attack EVs is to make Tapu Lele as strong as possible while 252 Speed EVs with a Timid nature allows it to outpace Pokemon such as Mega Garchomp, Nidoking, and Heatran. Its ability Psychic Surge also has the benefit of blocking priority, nullifying checks such as Scizor, and Bisharp although it can’t switch into them.
All teammates appreciate Tapu Lele's ability to deal with Poison-types such as Mega Venusaur, Nidoking, and Galarian Weezing while providing Psychic Terrain, preventing priority moves from Pokemon like Mega Scizor, Mega Lopunny, and Dragonite. Tapu Koko easily checks Water- and Flying-types that give Tapu Lele trouble such as Urshifu-R, Slowking, Celesteela and Tornadus-Therian with Thunderbolt. Tapu Bulu easily checks Ground-types such as Garchomop, and Choice Scarf Landorus-T. Mega Diancie is a great Stealth Rock setter, and Tapu Lele appreciates its ability to check threatening Fire-, Flying-, and Bug-types such as Volcarona, Zapdos, and Mega Pinsir is great. Additionally, it can break through Steel-types with the combination of Mystical Fire and Earth Power. Klefki is a great partner due to its Poison immunity, Steel neutrality, and ability to set up dual screens so it can help Tapu Lele survive attacks better . It can also threaten physical setup sweepers such as Excadrill and Mega Scizor with Foul Play, while Thunder Wave allows Tapu Lele to threaten an OHKO on Pokemon such as Gengar and Urshifu, and Spikes can wear down the opposing team allowing Tapu Lele to claim KOs more easily.
[SET]
name:
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Moonblast
move 4: Focus Blast
Item: Fightinium Z
Ability: Psychic Surge
Nature: Timid
Evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
With its decent natural bulk, good offensive typing, and Fightinium Z attached to blow away counters such as Blissey with an All Out Pummeling, Tapu Lele is a great setup sweeper on Fairy teams. Calm Mind allows Tapu Lele to setup on Pokemon such as Mega Sableye and Kommo-o, and become a fearsome sweeper. Its ability to setup on Poison-types such as Galarain-Weezing and Mega Venusaur thanks to its shoring of special bulk is quite useful. Psychic is the main STAB, hitting very hard in conjunction with Psychic Terrain especially after a Calm Mind boost and deals with threatening Poison-types like Mega Venusaur and Toxapex. Moonblast offers Tapu Lele a decently strong Fairy STAB move to nail Dark- and Dragon-types such as Mega Sableye, Dragonite, and Latios. Focus Blast powered up to a brutally powerful All-Out Pummeling can smash usual counters like Blissey, while nailing Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Offensive Mega-Scizor and Heatran with a single boost. Maximum Special Attack investment allows Tapu Lele to hit as hard as possible, and 252 Speed with a Timid Nature is there to outspeed threats such as Nidoking, Heatran, and Mega-Garchomp, while speed tying with Pokemon such as Kyurem and Galarian Darmanitan.
Tapu Lele's teammates appreciate its ability to deal with Poison-types such as Mega Venusaur, Nidoking, and Galarian Weezing, letting them pressure the opposing team even more. Tapu Koko can check faster threats to Tapu Lele such as Cinderace, Hydreigon, and Urshifu-S, while taking care of a hard-wall in Celesteela, so Tapu Lele can more easily sweep. Tapu Bulu is great at removing Ground-types such as Garchomp, Choice Scarf Landorus-T, and Mega Garchomp. While dealing with water types that check Tapu-Lele such as Urshifu-R, and Mega Swampert. Mega Diancie can bounce entry hazards like Stealth Rock and Spikes that would wear down Tapu Lele, and It can OHKO Steel-types such as Mega Scizor in Psychic Terrain and Heatran with Mystical Fire and Earth Power. It can also setup Stealth Rock itself to help Tapu Lele more easily sweep and KO Flying-, Fire-, and Bug-types such as Zapdos, Torkoal, and Mega Pinsir with Diamond Storm. Klefki's assortment of moves is perfect for Tapu Lele due to it having dual screens to allow Tapu Lele to take hits better , Thunder Wave to slow down threats that Tapu Lele is otherwise unable to outspeed such as Gengar and Mega Lopunny, Spikes to chip opponents down to Tapu Lele's KO range, and Foul Play to punish physical attackers that normally threaten Tapu Lele such as Mega Scizor, Excadrill, and Melmetal. Additionally, its immunity to Poison-type attacks is always useful against Poison-types like Alolan Muk, and Galarian Slowking. Mimikyu helps with the Ghost- and Psychic matchup, defeating Pokemon such as Aegislash and Galarian Slowking.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Fairy
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Psyshock can replace Thunderbolt or Hidden Power Fire on Tapu Lele's Choice Specs set to pressure special walls like Blissey and Galarian Slowking instead of being walled by it. Shadow ball is a good move on the Choice Specs set letting it hit Pokemon such as Aegislash and Galarian Corsola. Choice Scarf can be opted for in lieu of Choice Specs and is great for outspeeding faster pokemon such as Garchomp, and Keldeo. However, Tapu Lele loses its ability to act as a strong wallbreaker without Choice Specs.
Checks and Counters
===================
Fairy
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**Steel-types**: Steel-types such as Jirachi, Aegislash, can come into Tapu Lele's attacks and threaten it with their STAB moves. Ferrothorn, Heatran , and Celesteela, while needing to be wary of its coverage, can come in when its Choice-locked into a move like Psychic and Moonblast and force it out.
**Specially Defensive Walls**: Specially defensive walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking completely wall Tapu Lele, forcing it out by threatening it with Toxic or Sludge Bomb, respectively. However, both of these Pokemon need to be wary of Psyshock Tapu Lele variants.
**Status**: Poison and Paralysis, both heavily cripple Tapu Lele. Paralysis slows down Tapu Lele allowing it to be OHKOed by slower pokemon such as Mega Garchomp, and Alolan Muk, and Toxic puts it on a timer limiting its effectiveness throughout the game.
** Revenge Killers**: Faster Pokemon such as Choice Scarf Excadrill, Both Urshifu forms, Gunk Shot Greninja, and Cinderace take care of Tapu Lele with their powerful STAB or coverage attacks. However, they need to be cautious of Choice Scarf Tapu Lele variants.
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Name: Choice Specs
move 1: Psychic
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Thunderbolt / Hidden Power Fire
Item: Choice Specs
Ability: Psychic Surge
Nature: Timid
evs:252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Tapu Lele is a great Choice Specs user due to its Psychic typing, wide movepool, and Psychic surge, making it a powerful wallbreaker on Fairy teams. Psychic is a powerful STAB move under Psychic terrain allowing it to threaten Fire- and Poison-types that resist Moonblast such as Rotom-H, Mega Venusaur, and Toxapex while Moonblast threatens Dark-and Dragon-types such as Mandibuzz, Mega Sableye, Latios, and Dragonite. Focus Blast is to nail Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Heatran, and Melmetal which resist both of Tapu Lele's STAB moves. Thunderbolt allows Tapu Lele to hit Flying-types such as Celesteela and Mantine, and Water-types such as Slowbro and Tapu Fini. However, Hidden Power Fire is an option for a more reliable way to hit Steel-types such as Scizor and Mega Scizor. 252 Special Attack EVs is to make Tapu Lele as strong as possible while 252 Speed EVs with a Timid nature allows it to outpace Pokemon such as Mega Garchomp, Nidoking, and Heatran. Its ability Psychic Surge also has the benefit of blocking priority, nullifying checks such as Scizor, and Bisharp although it can’t switch into them.
All teammates appreciate Tapu Lele's ability to deal with Poison-types such as Mega Venusaur, Nidoking, and Galarian Weezing while providing Psychic Terrain, preventing priority moves from Pokemon like Mega Scizor, Mega Lopunny, and Dragonite. Tapu Koko easily checks Water- and Flying-types that give Tapu Lele trouble such as Urshifu-R, Slowking, Celesteela and Tornadus-Therian with Thunderbolt. Tapu Bulu easily checks Ground-types such as Garchomop, and Choice Scarf Landorus-T. Mega Diancie is a great Stealth Rock setter, and Tapu Lele appreciates its ability to check threatening Fire-, Flying-, and Bug-types such as Volcarona, Zapdos, and Mega Pinsir is great. Additionally, it can break through Steel-types with the combination of Mystical Fire and Earth Power. Klefki is a great partner due to its Poison immunity, Steel neutrality, and ability to set up dual screens so it can help Tapu Lele survive attacks better . It can also threaten physical setup sweepers such as Excadrill and Mega Scizor with Foul Play, while Thunder Wave allows Tapu Lele to threaten an OHKO on Pokemon such as Gengar and Urshifu, and Spikes can wear down the opposing team allowing Tapu Lele to claim KOs more easily.
[SET]
name:
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psychic
move 3: Moonblast
move 4: Focus Blast
Item: Fightinium Z
Ability: Psychic Surge
Nature: Timid
Evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
With its decent natural bulk, good offensive typing, and Fightinium Z attached to blow away counters such as Blissey with an All Out Pummeling, Tapu Lele is a great setup sweeper on Fairy teams. Calm Mind allows Tapu Lele to setup on Pokemon such as Mega Sableye and Kommo-o, and become a fearsome sweeper. Its ability to setup on Poison-types such as Galarain-Weezing and Mega Venusaur thanks to its shoring of special bulk is quite useful. Psychic is the main STAB, hitting very hard in conjunction with Psychic Terrain especially after a Calm Mind boost and deals with threatening Poison-types like Mega Venusaur and Toxapex. Moonblast offers Tapu Lele a decently strong Fairy STAB move to nail Dark- and Dragon-types such as Mega Sableye, Dragonite, and Latios. Focus Blast powered up to a brutally powerful All-Out Pummeling can smash usual counters like Blissey, while nailing Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Offensive Mega-Scizor and Heatran with a single boost. Maximum Special Attack investment allows Tapu Lele to hit as hard as possible, and 252 Speed with a Timid Nature is there to outspeed threats such as Nidoking, Heatran, and Mega-Garchomp, while speed tying with Pokemon such as Kyurem and Galarian Darmanitan.
Tapu Lele's teammates appreciate its ability to deal with Poison-types such as Mega Venusaur, Nidoking, and Galarian Weezing, letting them pressure the opposing team even more. Tapu Koko can check faster threats to Tapu Lele such as Cinderace, Hydreigon, and Urshifu-S, while taking care of a hard-wall in Celesteela, so Tapu Lele can more easily sweep. Tapu Bulu is great at removing Ground-types such as Garchomp, Choice Scarf Landorus-T, and Mega Garchomp. While dealing with water types that check Tapu-Lele such as Urshifu-R, and Mega Swampert. Mega Diancie can bounce entry hazards like Stealth Rock and Spikes that would wear down Tapu Lele, and It can OHKO Steel-types such as Mega Scizor in Psychic Terrain and Heatran with Mystical Fire and Earth Power. It can also setup Stealth Rock itself to help Tapu Lele more easily sweep and KO Flying-, Fire-, and Bug-types such as Zapdos, Torkoal, and Mega Pinsir with Diamond Storm. Klefki's assortment of moves is perfect for Tapu Lele due to it having dual screens to allow Tapu Lele to take hits better , Thunder Wave to slow down threats that Tapu Lele is otherwise unable to outspeed such as Gengar and Mega Lopunny, Spikes to chip opponents down to Tapu Lele's KO range, and Foul Play to punish physical attackers that normally threaten Tapu Lele such as Mega Scizor, Excadrill, and Melmetal. Additionally, its immunity to Poison-type attacks is always useful against Poison-types like Alolan Muk, and Galarian Slowking. Mimikyu helps with the Ghost- and Psychic matchup, defeating Pokemon such as Aegislash and Galarian Slowking.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Fairy
--------
Psyshock can replace Thunderbolt or Hidden Power Fire on Tapu Lele's Choice Specs set to pressure special walls like Blissey and Galarian Slowking instead of being walled by it. Shadow ball is a good move on the Choice Specs set letting it hit Pokemon such as Aegislash and Galarian Corsola. Choice Scarf can be opted for in lieu of Choice Specs and is great for outspeeding faster pokemon such as Garchomp, and Keldeo. However, Tapu Lele loses its ability to act as a strong wallbreaker without Choice Specs.
Checks and Counters
===================
Fairy
--------
**Steel-types**: Steel-types such as Jirachi, Aegislash, can come into Tapu Lele's attacks and threaten it with their STAB moves. Ferrothorn, Heatran , and Celesteela, while needing to be wary of its coverage, can come in when its Choice-locked into a move like Psychic and Moonblast and force it out.
**Specially Defensive Walls**: Specially defensive walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking completely wall Tapu Lele, forcing it out by threatening it with Toxic or Sludge Bomb, respectively. However, both of these Pokemon need to be wary of Psyshock Tapu Lele variants.
**Status**: Poison and Paralysis, both heavily cripple Tapu Lele. Paralysis slows down Tapu Lele allowing it to be OHKOed by slower pokemon such as Mega Garchomp, and Alolan Muk, and Toxic puts it on a timer limiting its effectiveness throughout the game.
** Revenge Killers**: Faster Pokemon such as Choice Scarf Excadrill, Both Urshifu forms, Gunk Shot Greninja, and Cinderace take care of Tapu Lele with their powerful STAB or coverage attacks. However, they need to be cautious of Choice Scarf Tapu Lele variants.
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