Toxicroak
Adamant (+Attack -spec att)
Brick break/Cross chop
Sucker punch
Thunder punch
Ice punch
252 Attack
252 Speed
4 HP
Dry skin
Choice Band
While toxicroak is generally outclassed in ou it actually forms a very good duo with infernape. Infernape is countered by starmie,latias,vaporeon and tentacruel.But guess what toxicroak can handle each nicely. Against infernape they will each most likely use surf or hydro pump.Toxicroak can come in because of dry skin and hit the former 2 with sucker punch for heavy damage and the latter 2 with thunderpunch,most tentacruel will be outsped they rarely use enough speed evs and vaporeon will never not be outsped. As for latias and starmie you have a choice banded super effective powerful priority attack. In return infernape can counter toxicroak's counters in ou ; hippopowdon and all steels neutral to fighting, take will o wisp shot at toxicroak and take weaker fire attacks. Now they both have a weakness to ground, flying and psychic the ones who run psychic jirachi or celebi most notably are both crushed by infernape and outsped. Skarmory who often runs the only common flying move in the tier gets roasted by infernape and ground is common in earthquake but is very easy to patch with a flying type or a levitator. As for moves brick break or cross chop is a old age battle although brick break may be preferable as there is not a big power difference and brick break has a helpful side effect. Sucker punch and thunderpunch were already mentioned and ice punch is for gliscor and dragons on the switch. This duo is so potent that there are no counters or checks for both of them. They can ONLY be revenge killed. Also of note that tentacruel on the swords dance runs enough speed to outspeed toxicroak possibly making it faster then toxicroak however if it goes for more speed then it loses bulk making it easier to down with infernape so if you really don't mind losing the power and are that paranoid about 176 evs speed tentacruel go ahead however the lost power is more of a minus then the speed is a plus. Nasty plot infernape should always be used with this set with grass knot ,fire blast/flamethrower and close combat.
Adamant (+Attack -spec att)
Brick break/Cross chop
Sucker punch
Thunder punch
Ice punch
252 Attack
252 Speed
4 HP
Dry skin
Choice Band
While toxicroak is generally outclassed in ou it actually forms a very good duo with infernape. Infernape is countered by starmie,latias,vaporeon and tentacruel.But guess what toxicroak can handle each nicely. Against infernape they will each most likely use surf or hydro pump.Toxicroak can come in because of dry skin and hit the former 2 with sucker punch for heavy damage and the latter 2 with thunderpunch,most tentacruel will be outsped they rarely use enough speed evs and vaporeon will never not be outsped. As for latias and starmie you have a choice banded super effective powerful priority attack. In return infernape can counter toxicroak's counters in ou ; hippopowdon and all steels neutral to fighting, take will o wisp shot at toxicroak and take weaker fire attacks. Now they both have a weakness to ground, flying and psychic the ones who run psychic jirachi or celebi most notably are both crushed by infernape and outsped. Skarmory who often runs the only common flying move in the tier gets roasted by infernape and ground is common in earthquake but is very easy to patch with a flying type or a levitator. As for moves brick break or cross chop is a old age battle although brick break may be preferable as there is not a big power difference and brick break has a helpful side effect. Sucker punch and thunderpunch were already mentioned and ice punch is for gliscor and dragons on the switch. This duo is so potent that there are no counters or checks for both of them. They can ONLY be revenge killed. Also of note that tentacruel on the swords dance runs enough speed to outspeed toxicroak possibly making it faster then toxicroak however if it goes for more speed then it loses bulk making it easier to down with infernape so if you really don't mind losing the power and are that paranoid about 176 evs speed tentacruel go ahead however the lost power is more of a minus then the speed is a plus. Nasty plot infernape should always be used with this set with grass knot ,fire blast/flamethrower and close combat.