Durant @ Liechi Berry
Ability: Hustle
EVs: 12 HP / 248 Atk / 248 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Hone Claws
- Iron Head
- Crunch
Basically, this set capatilizes on Durant's ability to force out threats that are commmon in the current metagame, such as Cresselia, Reuniclus. Slowking, non Scarf variants of Meloetta, Aromatisse, and a good amount of other mons; this lets it set up a Sub and get a free Hone Claws boost; this also lets it avoid status moves such as Spore and Will-o-Wisp. The current EV spread lets it get the Liechi Berry boost after 3 Subs. As for the last two moves, they have good coverage together, hitting a large portion of the tier. X-Scissor should pretty much never be used, as Crunch hits pretty much everything relevant that X-scissor hits, as well as hitting Doublade (which is pretty damn important, considering it would wall it normally), as well as Jellicent.
Edit: Theoretically, Salac would be a better choice, but seeing as it outspeeds such a large portion of the tier and the only common scarfers are Meloetta, who it beats albeit taking a large amount of damage from Hyper Voice, and Moltres who takes a fuck ton from Crunch, and only barely lives an unboosted Crunch when rocks are up (and even then, Life Orb Moltres has been much more common than Scarf, although that's definitely not to say that Scarftres is bad lol), idt it's really worth it. also llamas a shit