UU Gigalith

[Hilomilo]

[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Rock Blast / Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Toxic
item: Leftovers
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Careful
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Gigalith is a fantastic defensive pick thanks to its access to Stealth Rock alongside firm special bulk with Sand Stream, allowing it to check a plethora of important threats, including Chandelure, Noivern, and Toxtricity. In addition to the enhanced bulk, Sand Stream provides chip damage on foes, disrupts Ninetales's sun, and complicates the use of recovery moves like Roserade's Synthesis and Necrozma's Moonlight. Rock Blast provides a necessary STAB move capable of preventing Substitute users like Salazzle from taking advantage of Gigalith while more easily pressuring Weak Armor Polteageist. Stone Edge offers a more consistently powerful STAB option, though its worse accuracy and inability to bypass Substitute in one turn must be noted. Earthquake dents Steel-types, such as Cobalion and Doublade, and Toxic punishes several defensive switch-ins, including Milotic and Jellicent. Protect can be used over Toxic to scout Pokemon with Choice items while providing Gigalith a free turn of Leftovers recovery. Heavy Slam is an option for nailing Galarian Weezing, a common Defogger and otherwise safe switch-in, while also more heavily pressuring Gardevoir. However, it often proves less consistently useful than Gigalith's listed options. The given EV spread maximizes Gigalith's special bulk, allowing it to blanket check Pokemon like Polteageist and Gardevoir.

Gigalith fits well on both balanced and bulky offensive teams thanks to the excellent role compression it provides with its bulk and movepool. Bulky Water-types like Mantine and Vaporeon have decent synergy with Gigalith thanks to their ability to take on Steel-, Ground-, and Water-types, while Gigalith can check Toxtricity and Heliolisk. Vaporeon can also provide Wish support. Grass-types like Tsareena and Celebi also make for strong partners, appreciating Gigalith's ability to take on Pokemon like Chandelure and Noivern while pressuring the Water- and Ground-types it has shaky matchups against. They also ease its matchup against Heliolisk and Rotom-C. Roserade can provide Spikes to stack entry hazards with Gigalith, though it must be wary of decreased recovery under sand if running Synthesis. Wallbreakers like Mamoswine, which specifically appreciates Gigalith's ability to let it run Knock Off more freely, benefit from the chip damage its Stealth Rock support burdens foes with. Sweepers like Lucario and Calm Mind Chandelure also value the ability to better break past opposing teams with chip from Gigalith's Stealth Rock. The listed examples can also pressure Galarian Weezing, a rather large thorn in Gigalith's side. Answers to Fighting-types, such as Noivern and Doublade, can ease Gigalith's matchup against them.

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[Twilight]

[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Rock Blast / Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Toxic
item: Leftovers
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Careful
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Gigalith is a fantastic defensive pick thanks to its access to Stealth Rock alongside firm special bulk with Sand Stream, allowing it to check a plethora of important threats, including Chandelure, Noivern, Toxtricity, and Heliolisk. In addition to the enhanced bulk, Sand Stream provides chip damage on foes, disrupts Ninetales's sun, and complicates the use of recovery moves like Roserade's Synthesis and Necrozma's Moonlight. Rock Blast provides a necessary STAB move capable of preventing Substitute users like Araquanid and Salazzle from taking advantage of Gigalith. Araq really isn't worth mentioning when it OHKOs you after rocks. Maybe use Poltea as an example because some run White Herb and lowering its Defense on every hit makes it easier to remove. Stone Edge offers a more consistently powerful STAB option, though its worse accuracy and inability to break Substitute must be noted. Stone edge will still break a sub, at least against the Mons you listed anyways. Reword this to say how Stone Edge can't bypass Substitute unlike the multiple hits of Rock Blast, making it more vulnerable to SubToxic Lazzle? I assume this is what you are trying to imply anyways. Earthquake dents Steel-types, such as Cobalion and Doublade, while Toxic punishes several defensive switch-ins, including Milotic and Jellicent. Heavy Slam is an option for nailing Galarian Weezing, a common defogger and otherwise safe switch-in. However, it often proves less consistently useful than Gigalith's listed options. It might be worth mentioning you can OHKO Gardevoir The given EV spread maximizes Gigalith's special bulk, allowing it to blanket check Pokemon like Polteageist and Gardevoir.

Gigalith fits well on both balanced and bulky offensive teams thanks to the excellent role compression it provides with its bulk and movepool. Bulky Water-types like Milotic I'd mention Mantine > Milo simply because it also checks Golisopod and Vaporeon share decent synergy with Gigalith thanks to their ability to take on Steel-, Ground-, and Water-types, while Gigalith can check specially offensive Electric-types well. Mention Vaporeon giving Wish support. Grass-types like Tsareena and Celebi also make for strong partners, appreciating Gigalith's ability to take on Fire-, Flying-, and Poison-types while pressuring the Water- and Ground-types it has shaky matchups against. I would try fitting some examples here, Noivern being a key one because Gigalith is one of the best responses to it, which RK's all of these grass types. Roserade can provide Spikes to stack entry hazards with Gigalith, though it must be wary of decreased recovery under sand if running Synthesis. I'd mention how these grass types check Rotom-C, an Electric-type Gigalith has issues being a pivot into. They also ease the matchup vs Helio. Wallbreakers like Mamoswine, which specifically appreciates Gigalith's ability to let it run Knock Off more freely, benefit from the chip damage its Stealth Rock support burdens foes with. Bring up Cobalion and it also appreciating the slot free to run another coverage option to break/sweep. Sweepers like Lucario and Calm Mind Chandelure also value the ability to better break past opposing teams with chip from Gigalith's Stealth Rock. I would add a statement on how these can pressure Galarian Weezing for Gigalith

I would also add a line on partners that deal with Fighting-types like Virizion so Weezing, Noivern, etc.

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1/2 when done

 

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

I believe Protect should at the very least be mentioned as an alternative option over Earthquake, if you're not slashing it. It's less situational than Heavy Slam and is valuable for recovery, toxic stalling, scouting, etc.

Gigalith isn't actually that great at taking on non-toxtricity electrics. The primary ones by far are Heliolisk and Mowtom, and both can punish it really hard. Plus, they can all just volt on it.

2/2 otherwise

 

[autumn]

GP 1/1

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[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Rock Blast / Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Toxic
item: Leftovers
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Careful
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Gigalith is a fantastic defensive pick thanks to its access to Stealth Rock alongside firm special bulk with Sand Stream, allowing it to check a plethora of important threats, including Chandelure, Noivern, and Toxtricity. In addition to the enhanced bulk, Sand Stream provides chip damage on foes, disrupts Ninetales's sun, and complicates the use of recovery moves like Roserade's Synthesis and Necrozma's Moonlight. Rock Blast provides a necessary STAB move capable of preventing Substitute users like Salazzle from taking advantage of Gigalith while more easily pressuring Weak Armor Polteageist. Stone Edge offers a more consistently powerful STAB option, though its worse accuracy and inability to bypass Substitute in one turn must be noted. Earthquake dents Steel-types, such as Cobalion and Doublade, while and (changing so it doesn't look like you can drop eq for it) Toxic punishes several defensive switch-ins, including Milotic and Jellicent. Protect can be used to scout Pokemon with Choice items, provide Gigalith a free turn of Leftovers recovery, and rack up damage with Toxic. (stuff in qc channel said you'd wanna use it over tox so toxtect isn'y really a thing i'd mention. also add what move you'd drop bc it's not super clear) Heavy Slam is an option for nailing Galarian Weezing, a common Defogger and otherwise safe switch-in, while also more heavily pressuring Gardevoir. However, it often proves less consistently useful than Gigalith's listed options. The given EV spread maximizes Gigalith's special bulk, allowing it to blanket check Pokemon like Polteageist and Gardevoir.

Gigalith fits well on both balanced and bulky offensive teams thanks to the excellent role compression it provides with its bulk and movepool. Bulky Water-types like Mantine and Vaporeon share have decent synergy with Gigalith thanks to their ability to take on Steel-, Ground-, and Water-types, while Gigalith can check Toxtricity and Heliolisk. Vaporeon can also provide Wish support. Grass-types like Tsareena and Celebi also make for strong partners, appreciating Gigalith's ability to take on Pokemon like Chandelure and Noivern while pressuring the Water- and Ground-types it has shaky matchups against. They also ease its matchup against Heliolisk and Rotom-C. Roserade can provide Spikes to stack entry hazards with Gigalith, though it must be wary of decreased recovery under sand if running Synthesis. Wallbreakers like Mamoswine, which specifically appreciates Gigalith's ability to let it run Knock Off more freely, benefit from the chip damage its Stealth Rock support burdens foes with. Sweepers like Lucario and Calm Mind Chandelure also value the ability to better break past opposing teams with chip from Gigalith's Stealth Rock. The listed examples can also pressure Galarian Weezing, a rather large thorn in Gigalith's side. Answers to Fighting-types, such as Noivern and Doublade, can ease Gigalith's matchup against them.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Hilomilo, 313384]]
- Quality checked by: [[Twilight, 344575], [A Cake Wearing A Hat, 388157]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]