1 month anniversary since the last post
time to share some creative sets
all of these sets have been tested and worked very well
Blaziken @ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 80 Atk / 252 SpA / 176 Spe
Mild Nature
- Superpower / High Jump Kick
- Fire Blast
- Coverage
- Protect
Fire Blast Blaziken that sacrifices some speed to be able to still ohko aegislash with fire blast and therefore not become a huge momentum suck with -2 drops. I used hjk personally because I also didn't want superpower drops but use what you want. This set is nice because often you'll get into a endgame situation where if your opp predicts your overheat and switches, you can't sweep anymore on the mon you were targetting with overheat, but with fireblast you don't get dropped. It get why people run so much speed on blaze: gotta catch those landots. But, when I put hitting landot second turn blaze is out vs not getting drops on fire stab, usually, for me, not getting drops wins out.
Deoxys-Attack @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Psycho Boost
- Superpower
- Extreme Speed
- Protect / Knock OFf
Life Orb Deo-a is all about nuking things then getting out of the way. Obviously this only fits on hyper offense (but tbf does any deo fit on anything besides ho) and the life orb damage is really nice for getting certain kos such as washtom and making espeed on talon be able to revenge kill. 4 attacks was something I used for a while but that's only if your team has serious problems with steels.
(Btw I only got this idea from someone's dpotw interview where they said they wanted to use this set)
Lucy In The Sky (Diancie) @ Life Orb
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 148 HP / 252 Atk / 108 SpA
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Diamond Storm
- Moonblast
- Trick Room
- Protect
The current ""standard"" set for diancie is stratos' spread that runs around 208 spa with a boosting nature. When I first used that spread I really didn't like it because I felt like diamond storm was so much better (and anti-intimidate clear body is absolutely fabulous) and I tended to go straight for it most of the time. In addition, weakness policy was pretty bleh because everyone expected it and I didn't really want to be taking any super effective hits, even though many of them were secondary coverage. So, I made this spread with life orb. For an example of how powerful this set is,
it hits harder than diancie-mega diamond storm. That in itself it definitely worth it in my eyes. Being able to 2hko landot is really nice too. Diancie as a setter has many weaknesses, such as LandoT + Some Mon sweeps and Aegislash but I've found it to be a powerful sweeper that provides loads of damage. In addition, after your 5 turns of going first you're often in a position where you have enough def boosts to just set trick room again. EVs are to max atk and guarantee ohko on Keldeo with Moonblast, then rest in HP. I could see someone using a stone plate but the extra damage on moonblast is nice too for ohko on dragons/fighting types.
Gengar-Mega @ Gengarite
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Sludge Bomb / Shadow Ball
- Will-O-Wisp
- Trick Room
- Protect
Watching Mizu and Croven use Gothitelle, I really liked it (not having to predict switches and just trapping things to die is great) but felt that Gothitelle had obvious weaknesses (lack of recovery, poor bulk, no offensive pressure by itself) that could be offset by using Gengar-Mega. Admittedly, the teams I made around Gengar-Mega are still a WIP but I've more having trouble with my own laziness and not building a good compostiion rather than gengar-mega having weaknesses I can't fix. It's got good synergy with Scrafty (as shown by the number of scrafty teams posted during the Gengar-Mega teambuilding week) and in general has very good damage as well.
252+ SpA Mega Gengar Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Aegislash-Shield: 248-294 (76.5 - 90.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
do note that mega gengar can't ohko aegislash which is annoying
It also has issues with talon and bulky attackers such as hydreigon, heatran, etc.