Yoshiblaze
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This was originally the plan, but the first buffing slate had extremely low participation (only 2 subs for Abomasnow and 3 more Absol iirc), which was especially concerning for a new Pet Mod at the time. The current plan is now to do all of the buffing slates after all of the normal slatesYoshiblaze, would you be okay with making the upcoming slates alternate between the usual and doing this? As far as I'm aware, this has only been done for those featured in the first slate, Abomasnow and Absol, and I'm curious on how the submitters would try to buff the already existing pokemon without changing the taste behind it.
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Mawile @ Mawilite Y
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Pain Split
- Knock Off
- Super Fang
Other Options: Seismic Toss, Iron Head, Taunt, Toxic
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Pain Split
- Knock Off
- Super Fang
Other Options: Seismic Toss, Iron Head, Taunt, Toxic
This thing looks really interesting. Intimidate in its pre-Mega form + 105 Defense + Fur Coat means that any physical attacker without a super effective STAB move can really only dream of even touching this thing. And with that Steel/Fairy-typing, you might not even have a super effective move. This means that Mega Mawile Y can get up rocks super easily and mess with thing with Super Fang, Knock Off, and Pain Split. It's Special Defense is certainly suspect, however, and it is very passive without a gimmicky Bulky Swords Dance set or something.
Garchomp @ Garchompite Y
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
252 SpA Garchomp Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-Therian: 271-319 (84.9 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Garchomp Draco Meteor vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Tornadus-Therian: 246-289 (82 - 96.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Draco Meteor
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
252 SpA Garchomp Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Landorus-Therian: 271-319 (84.9 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Garchomp Draco Meteor vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Tornadus-Therian: 246-289 (82 - 96.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
This is the definition of an offensive Stealth Rock. A lot of OU's Stealth Rockers and forms of hazard control have to fear this. Landorus gets easily 2HKOed by Draco Meteor, Heatran and Excadrill are vaporized by Earth Power, Z-Move Tornadus gets OHKOed if it switches into Draco with Rocks up, Ferrothorn and Mega Scizor get Fire Blasted, Tapu Koko has to choose between Defogging and dying or getting damage off, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Very few rockers and Defoggers (only Clefable, Chansey, Rotom-Wash, and Mega Diancie and Mamoswine, though the latter two cannot switch-in safely) willingly want to toy with Mega Garchomp Y, making it effective at getting rocks up on the opponent's side of the field and keeping rocks off your side of the field and punishing your opponent for trying to change that.
Oh, I guess you could use it on a Sun team, but I'd rather use SD+Rockium Garchomp + Mega Charizard Y instead, personally.
Heracross @ Heracronite Y
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Megahorn
- Close Combat
- Meteor Mash / Stone Edge / Earthquake
- Swords Dance
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Megahorn
- Close Combat
- Meteor Mash / Stone Edge / Earthquake
- Swords Dance
Mega Heracross Y is very simple. You weaken the opponent's team a little, you get in, Mega Evolve, SD up, and clean house. Simple as that. Perfect accuracy Megahorn is very spammable and Close Combat patches up most of its resists. It's coverage depends on what you want to beat: Meteor Mash hits Clefable, Mega Latias Y, and Mega Gengar X, Stone Edge hits the Charizards, Zapdos, and Tornadus-T, and Earthquake hits Toxapex before it can Haze you.
Latias (F) @ Latiasite Y
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Roost
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
Other Options: Defog, Thunder Wave, Roar, Toxic, Draco Meteor
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Roost
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
Other Options: Defog, Thunder Wave, Roar, Toxic, Draco Meteor
Dragon/Fairy-type with reliable recovery and 195 Special Defense.
Yeah, it doesn't take a genius to figure out how could that is. We're lucky that it has mediocre 80/90 bulk on the physical side and that it has a very meh ability or else it would be blatantly broken. However, I wouldn't be too surprised if this is the first thing to be suspected.
Manectric @ Manectite X
Ability: Lightning Rod
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thunder Fang
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Volt Switch
Ability: Lightning Rod
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thunder Fang
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Volt Switch
Strong Jaw-boosted STABs in Thunder Fang and Crunch are of course nice and all, but the thing that really makes Manectric is its Speed tier. Being the same as Manectric Y's, at 135 Manectric speed ties with Alakazam X and both Lopunnies and outspeeds Gyarados Y, Heracross Y, Glalie X, Latios X, and everything below. Nothing in that list really appreciates taking a Thunder Fang or Crunch, making Manectric very important in the speed battle and kind of anti-meta, really.
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This Discussion slate went super well, but it's as good as time as any
Slate 11:
Mega Medicham Y: Ability Limit of 5
Mega Pidgeot X: Ability Limit of 4
Mega Pinsir Y: Ability Limit of 4
Medicham gets a 5 Ability Limit as, like Mawile, it needed a broken ability with its extremely low stats to do much of anything. However, please be reasonable, last slate with Mawile went really well, so hopefully this will too.
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And for one more announcement, introducing Mega Mirrors' first new council member: Failure999!
If anyone else wants to be a part of the council, please contact privately me through the forums or on Discord.
Mega Medicham Y: Ability Limit of 5
Mega Pidgeot X: Ability Limit of 4
Mega Pinsir Y: Ability Limit of 4
Slate 11 - Medicham, Pidgeot, Pinsir
Slate 12 - Sableye, Scizor, Sharpedo
Slate 13 - Blaziken, Sceptile, Swampert
Slate 14 - Slowbro, Steelix, Venusaur
Slate 15 - Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Necrozma
(Likely) Forum Tournament
Buffing Slate 2 - Ampharos, Audino, Banette
Slate 12 - Sableye, Scizor, Sharpedo
Slate 13 - Blaziken, Sceptile, Swampert
Slate 14 - Slowbro, Steelix, Venusaur
Slate 15 - Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Necrozma
(Likely) Forum Tournament
Buffing Slate 2 - Ampharos, Audino, Banette
Medicham gets a 5 Ability Limit as, like Mawile, it needed a broken ability with its extremely low stats to do much of anything. However, please be reasonable, last slate with Mawile went really well, so hopefully this will too.
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And for one more announcement, introducing Mega Mirrors' first new council member: Failure999!
If anyone else wants to be a part of the council, please contact privately me through the forums or on Discord.
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