Considering Toucannon's speed is bad (Base 60 puts it on par with Incineroar and Primarina, neither of which are fast by any definition), the only things it'll be outspeeding are walls and the like, who won't really be directly attacking Toucannon anyway, so it doesn't really mind the -3 Priority on the actual attack, and the priority on the charge-up allows it to punish even Fake Out users by giving them a burn. There's really no reason to use Brave Bird over Beak Blast. Most of the 'mons that CAN bypass Toucannon's Beak Blast can basically murk it with Stone Edge and thus are things that Toucannon needs to stay away from anyway.Whilst Beak Blast is an interesting move, -3 priority and a potentially wasted move-slot depending on match-up makes it more gimmicky than actually useful; especially because they have to make actual contact. Might be a cool suicide move however.
I guess a full contact mon, like the set i run for Kartana, and that doesn't want to hit a King's Shield or Beak Blast.Although I love Toucannon, even its main niche (the Beak Blast set) is almost useless since Sun/Moon introduced the new item Protective Pads.
Quoting Serebii:
"An item to be held by a Pokémon. These pads protect the holder from effects caused by making direct contact with the target."
I don't really know which Pokémon can make full use of this new item, but it can completely hinder Toucannon's utility as suicide physical burner, since Protective Pads ignore items/abilities/effects when making contact with the Pokémon (like Beak Blast's burn, Static, Poison Point, Flame Body, Rough Skin, Iron Barbs, and Rocky Helmet/Sticky Barb)
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I believe it's like Focus Energy where you just get an increased chanceHow much does Z-Tailwind boost your crit rate?Regular levels?Could make an interesting Skill Link set.
I opted for Overheat over Roost since if it takes a hit it likely won't take it well enough that Roosting will help, and the only type that resists it's other 3 moves is Steel and it's got enough SpAtk that it'll hurt them a decent bit and punish the switch (idk bout ohko or anything but yeh) and the SpAtk drop won't hurt ya since you're mostly relying on your Atk for the rest of your movesThanks for the response Drangonn. So the skill link Bullet Seed, Rock Blast, Blast Beak, Roost set is what you'd think is the best way to utilize the Mon?
Swellow is a much better Bird and has been using a specs set for ages..i dont get why not use beak blast in a stallbreaker set?? if anything, beakblast would be the best option since most likely your opponent will get burned and if its a phys attacker then that gives you a little opportunity to stall with roost. also this has to be the best normal/flying type right after braviary and staraptor (swellow is really fragile and facade set is way to predictable) so im gonna give this bird some love
the only thing I can think of would be for pokes that run stuff like Brave Bird or Flare Blitz, where taking recoil + iron barbs or something would hurt MASSIVELY and life orb already wasn't an option so you're not sacrificing too much. that and frail revenge killersquestion is, why the hell would you use protective pads over a much more useful item???? i don't see it