[SET]
name: Calm Mind
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Aura Sphere
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Latias is incredibly hard to knock out thanks to its good defensive typing, which lets it check multiple threatening Pokemon, notably Rillaboom, Mega Charizard Y, and Urshifu-R, access to Levitate, and amazing base stats; notably, it packs a stellar Speed stat for a defensive Pokemon, outspeeding common threats such as Kartana, Mega Medicham, and Tapu Lele. These traits allow it to find multiple opportunities to set up Calm Mind throughout a match. This, in tandem with its diverse movepool, makes it a fantastic sweeper on bulky teams. Psyshock is the preferred Psychic-type move, as it's able to hit Chansey and Blissey and also allows Mega Latias to beat opposing Calm Mind users such as Clefable, Tapu Fini, and Reuniclus by hitting their unboosted Defense stat. It's nicely complemented by Aura Sphere, which hits Steel- and Dark-types that resist Psyshock, like Heatran, Weavile, and Mega Tyranitar. Mystical Fire can also be used, as it hits Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn harder, as well as giving it a way to hit Mega Sableye. However, with enough boosts, Latias can break through the former two, and without Aura Sphere, Pokemon like Mega Tyranitar, Heatran, and Hydreigon are able to freely come in on Latias and beat it.
Mega Latias fits incredibly well on balance teams, where its defensive qualities can be supported by other Pokemon, like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Corviknight, to create incredibly tough defensive cores. They also help check Pokemon that threaten Latias, like Ash-Greninja, Weavile, and Mega Garchomp. Offensive teammates such as Weavile, Swords Dance Gliscor, and Calm Mind Clefable are also useful for pressuring Pokemon that check Latias, like Reuniclus, Heatran, Toxapex, and Weavile. Dark-types such as Mega Tyranitar, Weavile, and Ash-Greninja can pivot into Mega Latias and threaten it with their STAB attacks. As such pairing it up with Pokemon that resist Dark like Buzzwole, Clefable, and Tapu Fini is greatly appreciated. Mega Latias is also incredibly prone to being chipped down long term, either by status from foes like Toxapex, Blissey, and Heatran, or by Stealth Rock. As such, teammates that can help mitigate these weaknesses are incredibly useful. Status absorbers such as Chansey, Clefable, and Gliscor are incredibly potent teammate for Latias; the former two are also able to provide Latias with cleric support, which can relieve it of any status conditions. Defog support from teammates like Corviknight, Tapu Fini, and Gliscor is also incredibly valuable for removing Stealth Rock, which bothers Latias.
[SET]
name: BoltBeam
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Thunder
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
The near-perfect coverage of Ice Beam and Thunder makes it incredibly hard to switch into Mega Latias, especially once it is boosted. It also gives it better defensive utility, as it checks foes like Gliscor, Landorus-T, Manaphy, and Rockium-Z Garchomp. Thanks to its defensive profile, it can be run alongside offensive Pokemon like Weavile, Greninja, or Kartana. Thunder is preferred over Thunderbolt, as despite its inaccuracy, its increased chance to paralyze lets Latias potentially beat Pokemon like Clefable, Reuniclus, and Toxapex. However, it's unfortunately very weak against neutral foes when unboosted, which causes it to require more support in terms of entry hazards and status effects. Due to the lack of Psyshock, it struggles against opposing Calm Mind users.
Due to Latias's lack of immediate power, entry hazard support from teammates like Clefable, Heatran, Ferrothorn, and Skarmory can help it wear down checks like Heatran, Gastrodon, and Mega Tyranitar. Other bulky sweepers such as Calm Mind Clefable, Bulk Up Corviknight, and Swords Dance Gliscor appreciate Latias's ability to spread paralysis with Thunder to defensive Pokemon such as Toxapex, Heatran, and Ferrothorn, allowing these teammates to find more setup opportunities to devastate opposing teams. Teammates like Toxapex, Gliscor, and Clefable appreciate Latias's ability to check Manaphy and offensive Ground-types like Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Garchomp, making them stellar teammates.
[SET]
name: Stored Power
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Stored Power
move 3: Substitute / Refresh / Reflect Type
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Stored Power Mega Latias trades immediate power and defensive utility for the potential to become a devastating Calm Mind sweeper, capable of breaking through every non-Dark-type Pokemon in the tier. This set forgoes a secondary coverage move in favor of utility moves that help Latias with some of its biggest issues and can even allow it to use status-reliant checks like Gastrodon, Heatran, and Ferrothorn as setup fodder. Substitute lets it dodge status conditions; however, it has to play more carefully around them, as it cannot directly switch into them. It also comes with the added benefit of allowing Latias to dodge critical hits and pesky secondary effects from foes like Greninja, Kyurem, and Tapu Lele while also allowing it to escape from Weavile and Tyranitar's Pursuit. Refresh allows Latias to shrug off status conditions from foes like Toxapex, Clefable, Heatran, and Landorus-T. This lets it stay healthy and not force it to Roost as much, making it more efficient at sweeping; it also makes it easier to set up on the aforementioned foes, as Latias doesn't have to worry about getting crippled by status. Reflect Type can be used to copy the type from foes like Heatran, Toxapex, and Ferrothorn, allowing it to ignore their status moves and resist their and other foes', like Mega Mawile, Ash-Greninja, and Hydreigon, attacks.
Because Mega Latias needs time to set up in order to be threatening, and it is practically useless until it sets up, pairing it with other setup sweepers like Swords Dance Gliscor or Calm Mind Reuniclus help should Mega Latias fail to find a setup opportunity. Teammates such as Choice Band Weavile and Heatran that present an immediate offensive presence complement Latias nicely. Due to this set's complete inability to hurt Dark-types like Weavile, Mega Tyranitar, Hydreigon, and Ash-Greninja, pairing it with status spreaders like Heatran, Gliscor, and Toxic Spikes from Toxapex is near mandatory; furthermore, teammates that can deal with these Dark-types, like Tapu Fini, Buzzwole, and Clefable, make for stellar teammates. Since it needs to boost to function properly, Latias is completely walled by Haze Toxapex, and as such, teammates that can take advantage of it like Tapu Lele, Gliscor, and Whirlpool Tapu Fini make for good teammates.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Mega Latias doesn't have to run Calm Mind; sets utilizing two coverage moves alongside a status move for a more utility-based approach also work. Defog can be run, as Latias threatens common entry hazard setters like Landorus-T, Heatran, and Ferrothorn if it carries the right coverage. Thunder Wave can also be run to support its offensive teammates, like Tapu Lele, Garchomp, and Magnezone. Wish lets it heal up teammates like Heatran, Landorus-T, and Tapu Fini. However, all these options are incredibly passive and dropping coverage hurts Latias's matchup against rain teams if it loses Thunder and Heatran if it loses Aura Sphere.
Checks and Counters
===================
**Chansey and Blissey**: Mega Latias is almost entirely unable to beat Chansey and Blissey due to their insanely high special bulk and tendency to run status moves that cripple Latias. However, if Latias manages to get enough Calm Mind boosts, it can beat them with either Psyshock or Stored Power, if it has them. Stored Power variants with Refresh can beat these Pokemon 1v1.
**Status**: Getting statused cripples Latias immensely, as poison makes it unable to stay in on the field for long amount of times and set up Calm Mind, burn makes it have to Roost more often, and paralysis hinders its good speed stat, leaving it outsped by Pokemon such as Bisharp, Mega Mawile, and Heatran. Stored Power variants can avoid these status conditions through multiple means, though.
**Dark-types**: Dark-types such as Weavile, Mega Tyranitar, Ash-Greninja, and Hydreigon counter the Stored Power set and can threaten Latias out with their powerful STAB attacks. Latias must also be wary of Pursuit from Weavile and Mega Tyranitar, as it threatens to KO it even if it tries to switch out, however they cannot switch into Aura Sphere.
**Steel-types**: Steel-types such as Heatran, Ferrothorn, and Mega Mawile live any unboosted it from Latias and threaten it out with either status or the threat of an OHKO. However, (add comma) they all struggle switching into repeated Aura Spheres.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[pannuracotta, 517892]]
- Quality checked by: [[Zneon, 487629], [Avery, 497633]]
- Grammar checked by: [[dex, 277988]]
name: Calm Mind
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Psyshock
move 3: Aura Sphere
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Latias is incredibly hard to knock out thanks to its good defensive typing, which lets it check multiple threatening Pokemon, notably Rillaboom, Mega Charizard Y, and Urshifu-R, access to Levitate, and amazing base stats; notably, it packs a stellar Speed stat for a defensive Pokemon, outspeeding common threats such as Kartana, Mega Medicham, and Tapu Lele. These traits allow it to find multiple opportunities to set up Calm Mind throughout a match. This, in tandem with its diverse movepool, makes it a fantastic sweeper on bulky teams. Psyshock is the preferred Psychic-type move, as it's able to hit Chansey and Blissey and also allows Mega Latias to beat opposing Calm Mind users such as Clefable, Tapu Fini, and Reuniclus by hitting their unboosted Defense stat. It's nicely complemented by Aura Sphere, which hits Steel- and Dark-types that resist Psyshock, like Heatran, Weavile, and Mega Tyranitar. Mystical Fire can also be used, as it hits Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn harder, as well as giving it a way to hit Mega Sableye. However, with enough boosts, Latias can break through the former two, and without Aura Sphere, Pokemon like Mega Tyranitar, Heatran, and Hydreigon are able to freely come in on Latias and beat it.
Mega Latias fits incredibly well on balance teams, where its defensive qualities can be supported by other Pokemon, like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Corviknight, to create incredibly tough defensive cores. They also help check Pokemon that threaten Latias, like Ash-Greninja, Weavile, and Mega Garchomp. Offensive teammates such as Weavile, Swords Dance Gliscor, and Calm Mind Clefable are also useful for pressuring Pokemon that check Latias, like Reuniclus, Heatran, Toxapex, and Weavile. Dark-types such as Mega Tyranitar, Weavile, and Ash-Greninja can pivot into Mega Latias and threaten it with their STAB attacks. As such pairing it up with Pokemon that resist Dark like Buzzwole, Clefable, and Tapu Fini is greatly appreciated. Mega Latias is also incredibly prone to being chipped down long term, either by status from foes like Toxapex, Blissey, and Heatran, or by Stealth Rock. As such, teammates that can help mitigate these weaknesses are incredibly useful. Status absorbers such as Chansey, Clefable, and Gliscor are incredibly potent teammate for Latias; the former two are also able to provide Latias with cleric support, which can relieve it of any status conditions. Defog support from teammates like Corviknight, Tapu Fini, and Gliscor is also incredibly valuable for removing Stealth Rock, which bothers Latias.
[SET]
name: BoltBeam
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Thunder
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
The near-perfect coverage of Ice Beam and Thunder makes it incredibly hard to switch into Mega Latias, especially once it is boosted. It also gives it better defensive utility, as it checks foes like Gliscor, Landorus-T, Manaphy, and Rockium-Z Garchomp. Thanks to its defensive profile, it can be run alongside offensive Pokemon like Weavile, Greninja, or Kartana. Thunder is preferred over Thunderbolt, as despite its inaccuracy, its increased chance to paralyze lets Latias potentially beat Pokemon like Clefable, Reuniclus, and Toxapex. However, it's unfortunately very weak against neutral foes when unboosted, which causes it to require more support in terms of entry hazards and status effects. Due to the lack of Psyshock, it struggles against opposing Calm Mind users.
Due to Latias's lack of immediate power, entry hazard support from teammates like Clefable, Heatran, Ferrothorn, and Skarmory can help it wear down checks like Heatran, Gastrodon, and Mega Tyranitar. Other bulky sweepers such as Calm Mind Clefable, Bulk Up Corviknight, and Swords Dance Gliscor appreciate Latias's ability to spread paralysis with Thunder to defensive Pokemon such as Toxapex, Heatran, and Ferrothorn, allowing these teammates to find more setup opportunities to devastate opposing teams. Teammates like Toxapex, Gliscor, and Clefable appreciate Latias's ability to check Manaphy and offensive Ground-types like Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Garchomp, making them stellar teammates.
[SET]
name: Stored Power
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Stored Power
move 3: Substitute / Refresh / Reflect Type
move 4: Roost
item: Latiasite
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Stored Power Mega Latias trades immediate power and defensive utility for the potential to become a devastating Calm Mind sweeper, capable of breaking through every non-Dark-type Pokemon in the tier. This set forgoes a secondary coverage move in favor of utility moves that help Latias with some of its biggest issues and can even allow it to use status-reliant checks like Gastrodon, Heatran, and Ferrothorn as setup fodder. Substitute lets it dodge status conditions; however, it has to play more carefully around them, as it cannot directly switch into them. It also comes with the added benefit of allowing Latias to dodge critical hits and pesky secondary effects from foes like Greninja, Kyurem, and Tapu Lele while also allowing it to escape from Weavile and Tyranitar's Pursuit. Refresh allows Latias to shrug off status conditions from foes like Toxapex, Clefable, Heatran, and Landorus-T. This lets it stay healthy and not force it to Roost as much, making it more efficient at sweeping; it also makes it easier to set up on the aforementioned foes, as Latias doesn't have to worry about getting crippled by status. Reflect Type can be used to copy the type from foes like Heatran, Toxapex, and Ferrothorn, allowing it to ignore their status moves and resist their and other foes', like Mega Mawile, Ash-Greninja, and Hydreigon, attacks.
Because Mega Latias needs time to set up in order to be threatening, and it is practically useless until it sets up, pairing it with other setup sweepers like Swords Dance Gliscor or Calm Mind Reuniclus help should Mega Latias fail to find a setup opportunity. Teammates such as Choice Band Weavile and Heatran that present an immediate offensive presence complement Latias nicely. Due to this set's complete inability to hurt Dark-types like Weavile, Mega Tyranitar, Hydreigon, and Ash-Greninja, pairing it with status spreaders like Heatran, Gliscor, and Toxic Spikes from Toxapex is near mandatory; furthermore, teammates that can deal with these Dark-types, like Tapu Fini, Buzzwole, and Clefable, make for stellar teammates. Since it needs to boost to function properly, Latias is completely walled by Haze Toxapex, and as such, teammates that can take advantage of it like Tapu Lele, Gliscor, and Whirlpool Tapu Fini make for good teammates.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Mega Latias doesn't have to run Calm Mind; sets utilizing two coverage moves alongside a status move for a more utility-based approach also work. Defog can be run, as Latias threatens common entry hazard setters like Landorus-T, Heatran, and Ferrothorn if it carries the right coverage. Thunder Wave can also be run to support its offensive teammates, like Tapu Lele, Garchomp, and Magnezone. Wish lets it heal up teammates like Heatran, Landorus-T, and Tapu Fini. However, all these options are incredibly passive and dropping coverage hurts Latias's matchup against rain teams if it loses Thunder and Heatran if it loses Aura Sphere.
Checks and Counters
===================
**Chansey and Blissey**: Mega Latias is almost entirely unable to beat Chansey and Blissey due to their insanely high special bulk and tendency to run status moves that cripple Latias. However, if Latias manages to get enough Calm Mind boosts, it can beat them with either Psyshock or Stored Power, if it has them. Stored Power variants with Refresh can beat these Pokemon 1v1.
**Status**: Getting statused cripples Latias immensely, as poison makes it unable to stay in on the field for long amount of times and set up Calm Mind, burn makes it have to Roost more often, and paralysis hinders its good speed stat, leaving it outsped by Pokemon such as Bisharp, Mega Mawile, and Heatran. Stored Power variants can avoid these status conditions through multiple means, though.
**Dark-types**: Dark-types such as Weavile, Mega Tyranitar, Ash-Greninja, and Hydreigon counter the Stored Power set and can threaten Latias out with their powerful STAB attacks. Latias must also be wary of Pursuit from Weavile and Mega Tyranitar, as it threatens to KO it even if it tries to switch out, however they cannot switch into Aura Sphere.
**Steel-types**: Steel-types such as Heatran, Ferrothorn, and Mega Mawile live any unboosted it from Latias and threaten it out with either status or the threat of an OHKO. However, (add comma) they all struggle switching into repeated Aura Spheres.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[pannuracotta, 517892]]
- Quality checked by: [[Zneon, 487629], [Avery, 497633]]
- Grammar checked by: [[dex, 277988]]
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