Ubers Zygarde

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Zygarde @ Leftovers
Ability: Power Construct
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Coil
- Substitute
- Glare

Behold, the majestic behemoth from Kalos – Zygarde’s titanic Coil-boosted physical bulk makes it one of the sturdiest setup sweepers in Ubers, allowing it to stand against the tier’s ferocious wallbreakers such as Swords Dance Groudon and Necrozma-DM. Substitute ignores status attempts from defensive Pokemon like Toxic from Groudon and Necrozma-DM as well as the secondary effects of some moves like Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire and Yveltal’s Knock Off, especially with the extra bulk acquired in Complete forme. Moreover, using Substitute on the switch generates a free turn for it to use Glare on the things that normally force it out, such as Xerneas and Kyogre; teammates like Blissey or Eternatus can switch into these threats, with the latter being able to also stop Marshadow from trying to steal away its boosts and spread Toxic against defensive Kyogre. In return, both appreciate Zygarde’s capability to take on Necrozma-DM and Groudon consistently. Offensively, partners like Groudon or Marshadow can wallbreak early-game to overload their shared checks in Lunala and Xerneas, respectively, with the former also being able to incinerate Bulk Up Zarude and Buzzwole with a lure set's sun-boosted Fire coverage.

Here's a replay from SCL showcasing this Zygarde set dismantling the opposing team:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ubers-586679
 
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It doesnt take on SD ray reliably, replace with different physical sweeper such as NDM. Substitute is good also just to guarantee free turns on switches to Glare things that would normally force it out, as well as avoiding taking any damage from some of the weaker pokemon in the tier, and letting it not-fear the secondary effects of some moves (like Knock Off from slower Yveltal/Yveltal in general if you have a sub up in complete form).

Exploitable special bulk is misleading, it actually has massive special bulk, its just that the special attacks in the tier all hit it for super-effective damage, so change it to weakness to special attackers like Kyogre & Xerneas.

Toxic Spikes is far from standard with Eternatus, when mentioning it talk about spreading status conditions with Toxic as well as appreciating Zygarde taking on Necrozma-DM very consistently. Tangrowth isnt really worth mentioning as anything special, change that to Zarude if you want to keep that part.

Specify that the lure factor on Groudon is a fire-type move to hit those two.

QC 1/1, the phrasing is a bit weird on occassion but I dont know much about GP stuff.
 
remove add / fix (comments); (AC=add comma; RC=remove comma; SC=semicolon)
GP 1/1 with some misc edits to keep char count in check, it's 1017 w/o spaces now
Zygarde @ Leftovers
Ability: Power Construct
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Coil
- Substitute
- Glare

Behold, the majestic behemoth from Kalos – Zygarde’s titanic Coil-boosted physical bulk further boosted by Coil makes it one of the sturdiest setup sweepers in Ubers, allowing it to stand against the tier’s ferocious wallbreakers such as Swords Dance Groudon and Necrozma-DM. Substitute takes advantage of defensive Pokemon by ignoring ignores status attempts from defensive Pokemon like Toxic from Groudon and Necrozma-DM as well as the secondary effects of some moves like Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire burns and Yveltal’s Knock Off, especially after with the extra bulk granted acquired in Complete forme. Moreover, using Substitute on the switch generates a free turn for it to use Glare on the things that normally forces force it out, such as Xerneas and Kyogre; (SC) Hence, it appreciate teammates like Blissey or Eternatus that can switch into these threats, with the latter being able to also check stop Marshadow from trying to steal away its boosts and spreads spread Toxic against defensive Kyogre. In return, both appreciates appreciate Zygarde’s capability to take on Necrozma-DM and Groudon consistently. Offensively, partners like Groudon or Marshadow can wallbreak early-game (AH) to overload their shared checks in Lunala and Xerneas, (AC) respectively, with the former potentially running a lure set also being able to incinerate Bulk Up Zarude and Buzzwole with its a lure set's sun-boosted Fire coverage.

Here's a replay from SCL showcasing this Zygarde set dismantling the opposing team:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ubers-586679
 
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