Perish Song
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I might be extremely biased towards this Pokemon, but I personally think people are largely overestimating this thing with Grassy Terrain and I'm annoyed to comment on people suggesting this thing is now A- worthy in viability rankings, lol. I definitively don't discredit the Terrain, I think Grassy Terrain is easily the best terrain, very easy to make cores and partially explains the success of Tapu Bulu in SM. What I disagree with is people often bring up the potential sets for Rillaboom that involve setup (the ones that are centered around Bulk Up and Sub/Leech Seed, I don't disagree SD + 3 attacks has potential.), which invalidates all that as you are wasting all your Terrain turns to set up on your own. Rillaboom's niche should be all about providing the terrain to its team, rather than wasting all of it on itself. When you focus on setup sets too much, the Terrain isn't particularly helpful for any of its teammates. If you consider the fact that Rillaboom always had access to Bulk Up sets and failed to stand on its own in the OU metagame, I don't see how having Grassy Terrain now will change that.
Rillaboom @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 48 HP / 252 Atk / 208 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Wood Hammer
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Superpower
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 48 HP / 252 Atk / 208 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Wood Hammer
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Superpower
I've been toying with this set lately and I think it's pretty good right now. Scarf has always been one of main sets for Rillaboom and running Scarf U-turn allows teams to further utilize the benefits of Grassy Terrain. Been running 208 Speed as its just enough to outspeed Zeraora and the rest is probably overkill lol. Superpower and Knock Off are 2 good moves that complete the set. People already use Hawlucha with this thing and I can see Rillaboom having a niche in offense with its terrain. It gets even better when Magnezone drops with DLC so the core doesn't have to worry about Corviknight majorly.
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