[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Pursuit
move 4: Earthquake / Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 48 SpD / 168 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Tyranitar is a strong physical attacker and trapper with extremely spammable STAB attacks in Crunch and Stone Edge. Pursuit threatens not only Ghost-Types and Psychic-Types, but also many neutral pokemon due to Tyranitars 134 Base Attack being boosted by Choice Band. With its 4th move Earthquake it can kill notable targets such as Mega Mawile, Magearna and Tapu Koko. An option over Earthquake is Fire Punch which offers OHKOs on Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn while preserving a move to hit Mega Mawile, and Magearna, albeit being weaker. The Speed investment is to get the jump on slower threats such as many Magearnas and Mega Mawile and the bulk is designed to strengthen Tyranitars Volcarona and Tapu Lele matchup, specifically avoiding the OHKO from a Choice Specs Tapu Lele's Moonblast.
Tyranitar has incredible offensive synergy with Charizard-Mega-Y due to the fact that Tyranitar can target down the few pokemon that threaten out Charizard-Mega-Y which includes Blissey, Latias-Mega, and Toxapex, and can even trap a majority of them. Tyranitar also partners well with many Psychic-Types and Ghost-Types such as Mega Latias or Tapu Lele due to resisting Ghost and Dark attacks which they are weak to and in return they resist Fighting for Tyranitar. Tapu Fini is another great partner to Tyranitar because it allows Tyranitar to switch into Scalds from targets like Slowbro and Toxapex, making those matchups very safe for Tyranitar to take advantage of. Finally Tyranitar pairs well with Sand Rush Excadrill due to it setting up Sand for it to use and also chipping down Excadrills threats, notably trapping Slowbro, which Excadrill cant threaten, and many Flying-Types that Excadrill cannot touch such as Moltres, Zapdos, and Corviknight. Mega Medicham benefits greatly from Tyranitars Pursuit support due to Medichams STAB combination naturally bringing Psychic-Types in, which Tyranitar can trap and pick off easily.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Running Stealth Rocks on Tyranitar in the fourth slot can be viable but losing out on the Mega Mawile matchup combined with the difficulty Tyranitar has coming in on the majority of the National Dex meta makes it extremely unrewarding. Ice Punch can also be used in the fourth slot to get surprise kills on Garchomp and Gliscor as well.
Checks and Counters
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**Super-Effective Coverage**: Mega Latias, Mega Charizard Y, and Gengar would all seem to lose outright to Tyranitar, but they all get access to Fighting-Type coverage moves to take massive chunks out of any Tyranitars that come in their way.
**Water-Types**: All Water-Type Pokemon can threaten Tyranitar out and prevent Tyranitars from switching in on them. Scald burns from Pokemon such as Slowbro and Toxapex cripple Tyranitar to a degree that makes it unusable, and strong Water-Type hits from the likes of Choice Specs Greninja and Mega Swampert make it impossible for Tyranitar to do anything due to their immense power.
**Steel-Types**: Many Steel-Types have the opportunity to switch in on, and get opportunities off of Tyranitar by resisting Stone Edges and generally taking little damage due to massive natural bulk. Due to Tyranitar running Earthquake commonly and the Steel-Types that don't have a weakness to Ground all being neutral to its STABs, many Steel-Types can be put in a tricky spot if the Tyranitar user guesses correctly.
[CREDITS]
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name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Pursuit
move 4: Earthquake / Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 48 SpD / 168 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Tyranitar is a strong physical attacker and trapper with extremely spammable STAB attacks in Crunch and Stone Edge. Pursuit threatens not only Ghost-Types and Psychic-Types, but also many neutral pokemon due to Tyranitars 134 Base Attack being boosted by Choice Band. With its 4th move Earthquake it can kill notable targets such as Mega Mawile, Magearna and Tapu Koko. An option over Earthquake is Fire Punch which offers OHKOs on Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn while preserving a move to hit Mega Mawile, and Magearna, albeit being weaker. The Speed investment is to get the jump on slower threats such as many Magearnas and Mega Mawile and the bulk is designed to strengthen Tyranitars Volcarona and Tapu Lele matchup, specifically avoiding the OHKO from a Choice Specs Tapu Lele's Moonblast.
Tyranitar has incredible offensive synergy with Charizard-Mega-Y due to the fact that Tyranitar can target down the few pokemon that threaten out Charizard-Mega-Y which includes Blissey, Latias-Mega, and Toxapex, and can even trap a majority of them. Tyranitar also partners well with many Psychic-Types and Ghost-Types such as Mega Latias or Tapu Lele due to resisting Ghost and Dark attacks which they are weak to and in return they resist Fighting for Tyranitar. Tapu Fini is another great partner to Tyranitar because it allows Tyranitar to switch into Scalds from targets like Slowbro and Toxapex, making those matchups very safe for Tyranitar to take advantage of. Finally Tyranitar pairs well with Sand Rush Excadrill due to it setting up Sand for it to use and also chipping down Excadrills threats, notably trapping Slowbro, which Excadrill cant threaten, and many Flying-Types that Excadrill cannot touch such as Moltres, Zapdos, and Corviknight. Mega Medicham benefits greatly from Tyranitars Pursuit support due to Medichams STAB combination naturally bringing Psychic-Types in, which Tyranitar can trap and pick off easily.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Running Stealth Rocks on Tyranitar in the fourth slot can be viable but losing out on the Mega Mawile matchup combined with the difficulty Tyranitar has coming in on the majority of the National Dex meta makes it extremely unrewarding. Ice Punch can also be used in the fourth slot to get surprise kills on Garchomp and Gliscor as well.
Checks and Counters
===================
**Super-Effective Coverage**: Mega Latias, Mega Charizard Y, and Gengar would all seem to lose outright to Tyranitar, but they all get access to Fighting-Type coverage moves to take massive chunks out of any Tyranitars that come in their way.
**Water-Types**: All Water-Type Pokemon can threaten Tyranitar out and prevent Tyranitars from switching in on them. Scald burns from Pokemon such as Slowbro and Toxapex cripple Tyranitar to a degree that makes it unusable, and strong Water-Type hits from the likes of Choice Specs Greninja and Mega Swampert make it impossible for Tyranitar to do anything due to their immense power.
**Steel-Types**: Many Steel-Types have the opportunity to switch in on, and get opportunities off of Tyranitar by resisting Stone Edges and generally taking little damage due to massive natural bulk. Due to Tyranitar running Earthquake commonly and the Steel-Types that don't have a weakness to Ground all being neutral to its STABs, many Steel-Types can be put in a tricky spot if the Tyranitar user guesses correctly.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[username1, userid1]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
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