Quick announcement for everyone here. We're working on things slowly and I'll start doing more team descriptions to pick up the slack. Apologies to all of you waiting for your teams but we'll get to it over the next week
Here's a team Zesty43 made around the requested mon. If you have any questions let Zesty, I or Jase know and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. In the mean time enjoy the teams and have a good one :)I'd like to request a team (preferably balance) built around Choice Band Ho-Oh because its such a strong wallbreaker that is quite durable when paired with regenerator
Ho-Oh @ Choice Band
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Sacred Fire
- Brave Bird
- Earthquake
- Toxic
Banded Ho Oh's primary job in the tier is a devastating wallbreaker that dents the tier's top threats with its extremely potent stab combination while at the same time using its massive special bulk and good defensive typing to take hits from the likes of special groundceus and dusk mane. Therefore the ev spread and set reflects ho oh's role in this maximising its bulk without compromising its speed tier greatly. As ho oh's stab is unresisted in the tier bar the rare tyranitar and rockceus, defog was chosen as a filler over earthquake as ho oh can get off a free defog occasionally lessening the strain on the team's primary defogger while earthquake has limited merits in the current metagame.
From there to complement ho oh a primary defogger and a check to primal groudon carrying a rock move is needed so giratina origin fits this description perfectly acting as a great secondary defogger and a check to primal groudon. The speed evs are used to outspeed adamant dusk mane with maximum defense to be able to take on swords dance groudon variants. Thunder wave is the status of choice on giratina to cripple faster targets including support arceus variants enabling band ho oh to outspeed these threats and 2hko them. A check to primal ogre is also necessary on the team and primal groudon acts as a good soft check on the team. The set of choice on groudon is swords dance eruption that acts as a 'catch all' to the meta and can be used to target its various checks with the appropriate move and severely dent switch ins with eruption. In addition to checking the primal twins, good checks were needed to faster stronger attackers such as yveltal specs or life orb and marshadow. For this fairyceus was chosen as a good support arceus form to complement the team providing stealth rock and a check to the aforementioned threats.
While Ho Oh's special bulk is astronomical, it still has a tendency to fall to strong special wallbreakers such as lunala and mega mewtwo y or be picked off by certain special attackers once weakened such as mega gengar carrying thunder. Therefore lum berry tyranitar was added to the team to act as a solid pursuit user with the ability to trap will o wisp gengar variants reliably along with other special wallbreakers. The last slot was dedicated to a fast physical cleaner that can take advantage of banded ho oh's wallbreaking prowess and taunt Mewtwo Mega X was used that also gives the team some much needed speed control.
From there to complement ho oh a primary defogger and a check to primal groudon carrying a rock move is needed so giratina origin fits this description perfectly acting as a great secondary defogger and a check to primal groudon. The speed evs are used to outspeed adamant dusk mane with maximum defense to be able to take on swords dance groudon variants. Thunder wave is the status of choice on giratina to cripple faster targets including support arceus variants enabling band ho oh to outspeed these threats and 2hko them. A check to primal ogre is also necessary on the team and primal groudon acts as a good soft check on the team. The set of choice on groudon is swords dance eruption that acts as a 'catch all' to the meta and can be used to target its various checks with the appropriate move and severely dent switch ins with eruption. In addition to checking the primal twins, good checks were needed to faster stronger attackers such as yveltal specs or life orb and marshadow. For this fairyceus was chosen as a good support arceus form to complement the team providing stealth rock and a check to the aforementioned threats.
While Ho Oh's special bulk is astronomical, it still has a tendency to fall to strong special wallbreakers such as lunala and mega mewtwo y or be picked off by certain special attackers once weakened such as mega gengar carrying thunder. Therefore lum berry tyranitar was added to the team to act as a solid pursuit user with the ability to trap will o wisp gengar variants reliably along with other special wallbreakers. The last slot was dedicated to a fast physical cleaner that can take advantage of banded ho oh's wallbreaking prowess and taunt Mewtwo Mega X was used that also gives the team some much needed speed control.