[SET]
Trick Room Attacker (Diancie) @ Hard Stone / Covert Cloak / Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Dragon / Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Diamond Storm
- Protect
- Body Press
- Trick Room
[SET COMMENTS]
- Diancie is a premier Trick Room attacker due to its fantastic bulk which allows it to set Trick Room for itself frequently, as well as a snowball effect while stacking Defense boosts from Diamond Storm, which hits a majority of the metagame for at least neutral damage and makes it extremely difficult to remove with physical attacks.
- Diancie's ability, Clear Body, provides crucial immunity to Intimidate that would otherwise be a nuisance to Diancie's damage output throughout the game.
- Boosts from aforementioned Diamond Storm create a threatening combination with Body Press, allowing Diancie to deal strong single target damage neutrally to a majority of the metagame and trade damage with opposing Trick Room attackers like Iron Hands.
- Diancie runs Hard Stone to further boost its signature move, Diamond Storm, dealing STAB spread damage. Hard Stone also allows Diancie to make consistent progress into one of its biggest checks, Landorus.
- Hard Stone can often be replaced with Covert Cloak to assist with its capability to set and make the most of its Trick Room turns. It is used to block Fake Out, which is normally threatening to Diancie's ability to position itself to fire off attacks or reset Trick Room. Conversely, Leftovers are used to increase Diancie's longevity and make use of its immense natural bulk.
- Diancie has two premier tera typings. Dragon tera is the most common and used to add Water and Grass type resistance, but also has an advantage in the current metagame due to lack of threatening Fairy type attacks and being better into Landorus Sludge Bomb. Grass is used to add resistance to Diancie's to Ground, Grass, and Water type attacks, as well as improve its matchup into Amoonguss, which underspeeds Diancie in Trick Room.
- Minimum speed investment with 0 IVs is optimal on most Diancie sets due to its threatening presence in Trick Room, as well as underspeeding threats like Ursaluna-Bloodmoon in Trick Room.
- Common Checks to Diancie include Gholdengo and Landorus because of their consistent ability to OHKO Diancie.Gholdengo is especially threatening to Diancie because it is immune to Diancie's Body Press, and resists Diamond Storm while threatening a OHKO back. Ogerpon formes that deal threatening Grass type super effective damage, as well as Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel. Ursaluna formes are also threatening for Diancie, threatening OHKOes before Diancie terastallizes and speed tying minimum speed Diancie in Trick Room, which can be troublesome for it to defeat. Okidogi can also prove difficult for Diancie, as it resists both its attacking moves, and threatens large damage in return.
- Good teammates for Diancie include Pokemon that can threaten its checks, like Gholdengo and Iron Hands. Ogerpon-H and Ogerpon-W are often paired with Diancie due to Follow Me redirection, and strong STAB combinations to complement Diancie. Ogerpon-H is often paired with Diancie to threaten Gholdengo, and Ogepon-W for Landorus.
- Roaring Moon and Landorus are strong additions to Diancie cores to provide a faster mode, as well as threaten aforementioned threats to Diancie like Okidogi and Gholdengo. Trick Room attackers like Ursaluna and Torkoal that take advantage of Diancie's Trick Room setting and healing partners like Sinistcha and Amoonguss that increase Diancie's longevity are also greatly appreciated.
- Fake Out support from Pokemon like Rillaboom and Incineroar is appreciated by Diancie, allowing it to use Trick Room more easily. With the latter being able to assist with increasing Diancie's natural bulk due to its Intimidate.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/smudge.550367/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/eragon.587701/
Grammar checked by:
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Trick Room Attacker (Diancie) @ Hard Stone / Covert Cloak / Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Dragon / Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Diamond Storm
- Protect
- Body Press
- Trick Room
[SET COMMENTS]
- Diancie is a premier Trick Room attacker due to its fantastic bulk which allows it to set Trick Room for itself frequently, as well as a snowball effect while stacking Defense boosts from Diamond Storm, which hits a majority of the metagame for at least neutral damage and makes it extremely difficult to remove with physical attacks.
- Diancie's ability, Clear Body, provides crucial immunity to Intimidate that would otherwise be a nuisance to Diancie's damage output throughout the game.
- Boosts from aforementioned Diamond Storm create a threatening combination with Body Press, allowing Diancie to deal strong single target damage neutrally to a majority of the metagame and trade damage with opposing Trick Room attackers like Iron Hands.
- Diancie runs Hard Stone to further boost its signature move, Diamond Storm, dealing STAB spread damage. Hard Stone also allows Diancie to make consistent progress into one of its biggest checks, Landorus.
- Hard Stone can often be replaced with Covert Cloak to assist with its capability to set and make the most of its Trick Room turns. It is used to block Fake Out, which is normally threatening to Diancie's ability to position itself to fire off attacks or reset Trick Room. Conversely, Leftovers are used to increase Diancie's longevity and make use of its immense natural bulk.
- Diancie has two premier tera typings. Dragon tera is the most common and used to add Water and Grass type resistance, but also has an advantage in the current metagame due to lack of threatening Fairy type attacks and being better into Landorus Sludge Bomb. Grass is used to add resistance to Diancie's to Ground, Grass, and Water type attacks, as well as improve its matchup into Amoonguss, which underspeeds Diancie in Trick Room.
- Minimum speed investment with 0 IVs is optimal on most Diancie sets due to its threatening presence in Trick Room, as well as underspeeding threats like Ursaluna-Bloodmoon in Trick Room.
- Common Checks to Diancie include Gholdengo and Landorus because of their consistent ability to OHKO Diancie.Gholdengo is especially threatening to Diancie because it is immune to Diancie's Body Press, and resists Diamond Storm while threatening a OHKO back. Ogerpon formes that deal threatening Grass type super effective damage, as well as Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel. Ursaluna formes are also threatening for Diancie, threatening OHKOes before Diancie terastallizes and speed tying minimum speed Diancie in Trick Room, which can be troublesome for it to defeat. Okidogi can also prove difficult for Diancie, as it resists both its attacking moves, and threatens large damage in return.
- Good teammates for Diancie include Pokemon that can threaten its checks, like Gholdengo and Iron Hands. Ogerpon-H and Ogerpon-W are often paired with Diancie due to Follow Me redirection, and strong STAB combinations to complement Diancie. Ogerpon-H is often paired with Diancie to threaten Gholdengo, and Ogepon-W for Landorus.
- Roaring Moon and Landorus are strong additions to Diancie cores to provide a faster mode, as well as threaten aforementioned threats to Diancie like Okidogi and Gholdengo. Trick Room attackers like Ursaluna and Torkoal that take advantage of Diancie's Trick Room setting and healing partners like Sinistcha and Amoonguss that increase Diancie's longevity are also greatly appreciated.
- Fake Out support from Pokemon like Rillaboom and Incineroar is appreciated by Diancie, allowing it to use Trick Room more easily. With the latter being able to assist with increasing Diancie's natural bulk due to its Intimidate.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/smudge.550367/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/eragon.587701/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.104/
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