SV OU AV Tusk BO (Almost got to 1500!!)

[Pando067]

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Teambuilding Process

I was on SV OU Lure That Threat and I wanted to make a lure for Zoroark-H. And I did. I made AV Tusk and I wanted to test it out.

I knew that tusk would love wish support from something fat like scream tail so now tusk can actually come in multiple times without being chipped to death.

I also wanted to use amoonguss, toxapex's shadow and I thought that regen, clear smog, and spore were really good support moves.

I wanted to make sure that my team had powerful wallbreakers that would make up for my more passive members so I chose greninja (one of my favs, don't sleep on it) and dragonite, both great mons in sv ou. Sad that gren fell off tho :(

Lastly, I wanted to be able to pressure opposing BO/Balance/Stall teams with set up that couldn't be burned, oh wait! That's just baxcalibur!


Team Composition

Great Tusk @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 60 Atk / 196 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Rapid Spin

This is the star of the show (not really, gren, bax, and dnite stole the spotlight lol). I love great tusk and I really wanted to make it work. Great tusk is GREAT. It's one of the most common mons in the meta right now. AV tusk is used to lure powerful special attackers like zoroark-h, valiant, and gholdengo. All of them think they can slap tusk around. This is where AV comes in because AV let's tusk survive grass knot from specs zoroark-h and moonblast from valiant.

Offensive Calcs

60 Atk Great Tusk Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Iron Valiant: 156-184 (53.9 - 63.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
60 Atk Tera Steel Great Tusk Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Zoroark-Hisui: 280-330 (111.5 - 131.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
60 Atk Great Tusk Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 192-228 (60.9 - 72.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
60 Atk Great Tusk Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 300-354 (95.2 - 112.3%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO

Defensive Calcs

252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Great Tusk: 330-390 (76 - 89.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Steel Great Tusk: 82-97 (18.8 - 22.3%) -- possible 5HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Zoroark-Hisui Grass Knot (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Great Tusk: 286-338 (65.8 - 77.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Zoroark-Hisui Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Steel Great Tusk: 214-254 (49.3 - 58.5%) -- 98.8% chance to 2HKO
252 SpA Gholdengo Make It Rain vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Great Tusk: 150-177 (34.5 - 40.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Gholdengo Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Great Tusk: 100-118 (23 - 27.1%) -- 53.5% chance to 4HKO
244 SpA Choice Specs Walking Wake Hydro Steam vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Steel Great Tusk in Sun: 213-252 (49 - 58%) -- 96.9% chance to 2HKO
244 SpA Choice Specs Walking Wake Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Steel Great Tusk in Sun: 320-378 (73.7 - 87%) -- guaranteed 2HKO244 SpA Choice Specs Walking Wake Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 196+ SpD Assault Vest Great Tusk: 231-273 (53.2 - 62.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Baxcalibur @ Never-Melt Ice
Ability: Thermal Exchange
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Glaive Rush
- Icicle Crash
- Ice Shard

This is a fairly common variant of SD bax. This version does similar damage with icicle spear with 4 hits and also boosts the power of ice shard with never melt ice. This variant of bax is meant to slaughter stall after dozo and dirge are taken care of (not to difficult to do with dragonite and greninja). Bax is able to set up on a lot of mons because it has great natural bulk and it forces a lot of switches.

Offensive Calcs

+2 252 Atk Tera Dragon Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 252 HP / 192+ Def Toxapex: 316-372 (103.9 - 122.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 252 Atk Never-Melt Ice Baxcalibur Icicle Crash vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Great Tusk: 428-506 (98.6 - 116.5%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
+2 252 Atk Never-Melt Ice Baxcalibur Icicle Crash vs. 252 HP / 172+ Def Amoonguss: 710-836 (164.3 - 193.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Skeledirge: 213-252 (51.8 - 61.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tera Dragon Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Dondozo: 186-220 (36.9 - 43.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Never-Melt Ice Baxcalibur Icicle Crash vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Corviknight: 252-297 (63.1 - 74.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
+2 252 Atk Tera Dragon Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 296-349 (93.9 - 110.7%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
+2 252 Atk Never-Melt Ice Baxcalibur Icicle Crash vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Azumarill: 216-255 (53.4 - 63.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Defensive Calcs

0 Atk Corviknight Brave Bird vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Baxcalibur: 124-147 (33.4 - 39.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Atk Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Baxcalibur: 106-125 (28.5 - 33.6%) -- 0.3% chance to 3HKO

Greninja @ Choice Specs
Ability: Protean
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Ice Beam
- Grass Knot

Greninja doesn't deserve to fall to UU. It's still fairly decent despite its severe nerfs. Specs gren hits a variety of mons for super effective, even bulky walls like clodsire, slowking, and skeledirge get hit extremely hard by gren. Gren also threatens non-booster valiant and roaring moon. Gren is threatened by a light breeze so you need to be careful about taking too much chip. Not only that, but gren also fears faster threats like meowscarada and valiant with booster. Gren isn't exactly the bulkiest mon as evident by the calcs so be careful to keep it away from danger. It will die to any strong neutral hit (e.g. glaive rush from bax) or a somewhat strong super effective move (e.g. body press from dozo).

Offensive Calcs

252 SpA Choice Specs Greninja Dark Pulse vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Slowking: 224-266 (56.9 - 67.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Greninja Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Clodsire: 330-390 (71.2 - 84.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Protean Greninja Ice Beam vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Clodsire: 270-320 (58.3 - 69.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Greninja Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Skeledirge: 396-468 (96.3 - 113.8%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Protean Greninja Grass Knot (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Garganacl: 386-456 (95.5 - 112.8%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Greninja Hydro Pump vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Iron Valiant: 346-408 (119.7 - 141.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO252 SpA Choice Specs Protean Greninja Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Meowscarada: 500-590 (170.6 - 201.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Defensive Calcs

252 Atk Protean Meowscarada U-turn vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Greninja: 284-336 (99.6 - 117.8%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Greninja: 390-458 (136.8 - 160.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Greninja: 295-348 (103.5 - 122.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Def Dondozo Body Press vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Greninja: 244-288 (85.6 - 101%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO

Dragonite @ Choice Band
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- Extreme Speed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch

Base 134 atk with a boosting nature and choice band is nothing to scoff at, especially not when this has a 120 base power stab move. Dragonite is incredibly strong and this set will catch many players off guard because they would just assume it's a dd dnite and switch in dozo. Dozo will proceed to take 40-50% from outrage and them cry because it literally can't do anything to dragonite. Espeed is mandatory for every dnite and eq is excellent in the current meta. Fire punch slams corv which is nice because most steels like gholdengo will fold to eq. With multiscale, scream tail can wish pass into dragonite, letting dnite risklessly switch in.

Offensive Calcs

252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Outrage vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Dondozo: 216-255 (42.8 - 50.5%) -- 2.3% chance to 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Earthquake vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Skeledirge: 366-432 (89 - 105.1%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Fire Punch vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Corviknight: 192-228 (48.1 - 57.1%) -- 42.2% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Earthquake vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Clodsire: 548-646 (118.3 - 139.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 384-452 (121.9 - 143.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Fire Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 288-340 (91.4 - 107.9%) -- 50% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Outrage vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Great Tusk: 196-232 (45.1 - 53.4%) -- 1.2% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Normal Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Azumarill: 264-312 (65.3 - 77.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Normal Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Baxcalibur: 237-279 (63.8 - 75.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragonite Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Kingambit: 314-370 (92 - 108.5%) -- 50% chance to OHKO

Defensive Calcs

252+ Atk Choice Band Huge Power Azumarill Play Rough vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Tera Normal Dragonite: 139-164 (43 - 50.7%) -- 3.1% chance to 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Tera Normal Dragonite: 165-195 (51 - 60.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Protosynthesis Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Tera Normal Dragonite: 267-315 (82.6 - 97.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Tera Ground Volcarona Flamethrower vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 57-67 (17.6 - 20.7%) -- possible 5HKO+1 0 SpA Volcarona Fiery Dance vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 42-49 (13 - 15.1%) -- possible 7HKO
+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Tera Dark Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 268-316 (82.9 - 97.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Scream Tail @ Leftovers
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Poison
EVs: 120 HP / 236 SpD / 152 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dazzling Gleam
- Wish
- Protect
- Encore

Wish, protect, and sometimes encore for a safe switch in. This mon is incredibly fat and it refuses to die. Wish passing for this team is amazing because scream tail has a lot of raw bulk and a solid hp stat, meaning it can heal great tusk for 40% every time it wish passes. Scream tail also enables dragonite, which can tank a hit with multiscale and then heal back up to full from wish. Encore is also useful for stifling set up sweepers that want to use scream tail as set up fodder. Scream tail also walls valiant, which most of my team struggles with. Scream tail also helps against sun teams, something else this team doesn't like. Scream tail hits like a wet noodle, why would you ever go on the offensive unless there is a roaring moon and hydreigon in front of you.

Offensive Calcs

0 SpA Scream Tail Dazzling Gleam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Roaring Moon: 240-288 (68.3 - 82%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Scream Tail Dazzling Gleam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Hydreigon: 268-316 (82.4 - 97.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Uhhhh, this is Scream Tail, why is there an offensive calcs section??

Defensive Calcs

+2 252 SpA Hydreigon Dark Pulse vs. 120 HP / 236 SpD Scream Tail: 186-219 (46.3 - 54.6%) -- 7.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Shadow Ball vs. 120 HP / 236 SpD Scream Tail: 180-214 (44.8 - 53.3%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 120 HP / 236 SpD Scream Tail: 214-252 (53.3 - 62.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
244 SpA Choice Specs Walking Wake Hydro Steam vs. 120 HP / 236 SpD Protosynthesis Scream Tail in Sun: 160-189 (39.9 - 47.1%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery

Amoonguss @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 168 Def / 88 SpD
Bold Nature
- Spore
- Giga Drain
- Clear Smog
- Sludge Bomb

Great typing and excellent bulk allows amoonguss to wall most physical attackers. Amoonguss is never set up fodder because of it's ability to run clear smog and or foul play. Amoonguss also has the coveted 100% accurate sleep in spore. Be careful because amoonguss actually becomes set up fodder for one specific pokemon; Gholdengo. Amoognuss is able to tank hits from great tusk, dragonite, and even kingambit and it can retaliate with a giga drain into tusk or spore for the other two.

Offensive Calcs

0 SpA Amoonguss Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Great Tusk: 234-276 (53.9 - 63.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
0 SpA Amoonguss Giga Drain vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 236-278 (63.6 - 74.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Amoonguss Sludge Bomb vs. +1 252 HP / 0 SpD Hatterene: 110-132 (34.5 - 41.5%) -- 69.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
0 SpA Amoonguss Clear Smog vs. +1 252 HP / 0 SpD Hatterene: 62-74 (19.4 - 23.2%) -- possible 6HKO after Leftovers recovery

Defensive Calcs

252 Atk Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 168+ Def Amoonguss: 195-231 (45.1 - 53.4%) -- 34.8% chance to 2HKO
+1 252+ Atk Dragonite Fire Punch vs. 252 HP / 168+ Def Amoonguss: 272-322 (62.9 - 74.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Kowtow Cleave vs. 252 HP / 168+ Def Amoonguss: 231-273 (53.4 - 63.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Baxcalibur Icicle Spear (4 hits) vs. 252 HP / 168+ Def Amoonguss: 360-432 (83.3 - 100%) -- approx. 6.3% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Protosynthesis Roaring Moon Crunch vs. 252 HP / 168+ Def Amoonguss: 289-342 (66.8 - 79.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Weaknesses



Sun
Sun teams prove to be a threat to this team because there is one answer to them, scream tail. AV tusk could be good after tera but fire types will delete it. The best thing to do it brute force and sometimes bring scream tail in to wish pass and heal its teammates. Greninja is pretty bad into this match up and so is amoonguss. Amoognuss does provide more than gren so sacking gren would probably be better to get a safe switch in.


Hatterene
Hatterene with calm mind can easily set up on a lot of the team because it forces a switch most of the time. Hat can recover a lot of its health back from draining kiss so that could spiral out of control. I forgot to mention this earlier but scream tail might wall hat but it's also set up fodder for it. Best thing to do is bring in amoonguss and clear smog and sludge bomb it to death.


Kingambit
Kingambit is can spiral out of control in the late game if tusk and or amoonguss has fainted. Dragonite can hurt it with eq if it doesn't tera but if it does, then outrage. into gambit. Tusk is the only reliable resist for kingambit. I guess gren kinda resists kingambit's stabs but it literally dies to a light breeze so don't count on it too much. Amoonguss should always spore and tusk should cc if gambit doesn't tera.

Goodbye :)

 

[Motor Hawk]

If you want a good way to deal with some of your threat issues, a variant of Azumarill might do the trick as a replacement for Dragonite. What I would do is swap Tusk over to a more offensive threat/ defensive help, and then Azumarill can either run AV for increased SpD bulk or BDrum/ choice band for wall breaking and high damage output.

 

[Lobby Eeveee]

If you want a good way to deal with some of your threat issues, a variant of Azumarill might do the trick as a replacement for Dragonite. What I would do is swap Tusk over to a more offensive threat/ defensive help, and then Azumarill can either run AV for increased SpD bulk or BDrum/ choice band for wall breaking and high damage output.

Won’t that change make the team fucked by stall?

 

[Pando067]

If you want a good way to deal with some of your threat issues, a variant of Azumarill might do the trick as a replacement for Dragonite. What I would do is swap Tusk over to a more offensive threat/ defensive help, and then Azumarill can either run AV for increased SpD bulk or BDrum/ choice band for wall breaking and high damage output.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll play around with azurmarill a bit.

 

[Motor Hawk]

Won’t that change make the team fucked by stall?

I mean, the team doesn't have a good answer to stall and I'm not going to create a new team you know?