Sinistcha @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Heatproof
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 244 HP / 244 Def / 20 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Matcha Gotcha
- Iron Defense
- Strength Sap
Such a nice mon, and definitely not the reason I'm losing a ton. That is a combination of kor, Oger, and iron moth, but idk what to use. Anyways, this is great and often 3-0s them, many losses are from benching this or getting crit on it. Heatproof is great, lets me wall kor more than not w/ tera, and I may weather the 1st hit to cripple non SD anyways. It also has been near comical vs. the odd gouging fire, they seem to think they have a shot. Fairy is for Kor and Pao mainly, and the dark weakness in general gets flipped, and the dragon immunity can help if I didn't strength sap the cb outrage nite/I want to void crit chances. EVs...may need a change. I notably CANNOT ohko flutter switch ins, or if it's tricked a tail. This is bad, though I do often pick ff caly s switch ins ofc cause they're 4x and often like to come in anyways. Usual enough STABs, I think by now I'm sorta ok w/ less burns, and won't go back to scald. It's worse vs garg, who I might get w/ the item. Iron def seems great to me, I can keep up w/ SD/get a jump on SDers w/ prior set up, and outpace DD. Strength Sap is still mandatory though. Overall I adore this, and don't see a TEAM w/o TEA. Absolutely amazing vs stuff like common non fissure landog, Urshifu RS, Sneasler, etc. Decent into things like Ting lu and Dozo that I don't really ever like.
Klefki @ Lagging Tail
Ability: Prankster
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 244 HP / 52 Def / 36 SpA / 172 SpD / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draining Kiss
- Switcheroo
- Calm Mind
- Thunder Wave
Changed EVs to better 2hko pao, assuming they put their 4 in def I guess. I still live an astral barrage, w/ ok odds vs electro drift from some mir iirc. Mostly I like phys def to get pao, so I may juggle some more EVs(I don't switch in on mir much, and I'm living barrage from unboosed by a healthy margin.) This has been pretty good to make them horribly slow, and can be a wincon alone interestingly enough. The damage is ofc poor, but not always w/ all the fairy weaks around(besides pao this can do something vs. fighting types and such, certainly some of the darks that block pranks.) Fire might need to be ghost for Body Press, but Hoodra isnt common so idk. Fire has helped vs. ofc fire hits, I only really recall for sure Chi Yu and Cinderace i mattered. This is quite good, but unbringable into ting lu obviously....and poor into landog. The reason this isn't Grimm is the pao match up, pretty much. I might change this, but really into using prankster trick/switch lagging tail.
Koraidon @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Orichalcum Pulse
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Flare Blitz
- Bulk Up
- Substitute
- Scale Shot
I got this so I might as well use it, I figured. More fun than mir to me, but probably worse generally. I don't use the sun too well, and don't want to(flutter is a 2nd ghost and moreover bog standard...) The only real reason this is here is as a legend for glis. I really hate those, and they should Toxic my sub and then not break w/ EQ after Bulk Up(this is why not SD.) I couldn't decide the other moves for sure, or the item, but I went normal enough. Scale Shot seems very imporant as otherwise most big names outspeed(mirror, Flutter, pao, Caly S, Mir, etc.) Loaded Dice is a good item for that, though lefties would've saved me in a stall one(maybe.) Flare Blitz uses the sun crucially, and is a lot of damage. This lacks Fire punch, or I'd do that, flare blitz keeps killing it:( Overall I'd say this is one of 3 weak links, though less bad than the other two.
Ditto @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Imposter
Level: 50
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 HP
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 30 Atk
- Transform
No special nonsense for the weird mirror, I figure that won't really happen. This was suggested to me(many times!,) and apparently it was a good idea all along. I suppose there's no need to explain why this works here, and not earlier regs. I finally decided to put this cause it was pointed out Sinistcha can be vulnerable to SD/set up a large, so I can copy that w/ hopefully more spe. Normal tera is just laziness, but ofc is golden into caly s. I figure every type has pros and cons for ditto, and you might as well save shards. This has been pretty good, but early days. I feel like the low unfixable hp is a very minor issue w/ what you WANT to copy.
Iron Moth @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 60 HP / 68 Def / 128 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Energy Ball
- Fiery Dance
- Dazzling Gleam
- Sludge Wave
I have a phobia of t spikes, so I try to keep a grounded poison. Beyond that, this seems really useless, though I did at least fix the EVs(was getting SPA BE lol.) Regular grass tera, w/ energy Ball. Dazzling gleam is for the main dragons. I hardly use this, and Idk if I have really since I fixed EVs(it might have a small use now.) It at least should deal big damage to things like Dozo and ting, but needs to tera. Well I'll try to keep testing it, it LOOKS more promising than oger.
Ogerpon-Cornerstone (F) @ Cornerstone Mask
Ability: Sturdy
Level: 50
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 60 HP / 180 Atk / 12 Def / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Ivy Cudgel
- Knock Off
- Encore
- Horn Leech
I replaced Bastiodon, but honestly I'm not sure this is any better. I wanted a Fissure immune, that move gets on my nerves. Beyond that um, this wasn't chosen for any reason. After bast, I briefly went back to Arboliva who has done well for me in the past, but I ditched that too cause koraidon sun impacts it negatively. This at least is always neutral or better into fire. EVs take a Surging Strike most times, and then just max Spe. Knock Off is for caly s...pfft like they'll let you(tera.) I put encore cause it seemed ok w/ klefki, and ofc in general.
This does awful. Even if I don't count the stinky games where they crit me to win, it isn't great by now. I think half the team works, maybe.