Grimmsnarl
Type : Dark , Fairy
Base stats : 95/120/65/95/75/60
Abilities : Prankster / Frisk / Pickpocket (HA)
Taunt
Trick
Reflect
Light Screen
Parting Shot*
Thunder Wave
Spirit Break
Play Rough
Foul Play
Trick
Reflect
Light Screen
Parting Shot*
Thunder Wave
Spirit Break
Play Rough
Foul Play
- Body Press
- Body Slam
- Brick Break
- Bulk Up
- Crunch
- Dazzling Gleam
- Drain Punch
- Fake Out
- False Surrender
- Fire Punch
- Focus Blast
- Foul Play
- Hammer Arm
- Ice Punch
- Leech Life
- Light Screen
- Low Kick
- Nasty Plot
- Parting Shot
- Play Rough
- Protect
- Sleep Talk
- Spirit Break
- Substitute
- Sucker Punch
- Taunt
- Tera Blast
*
- Thunder Punch
- Thunder Wave
- Trick
- Assurance
- Bite
- Chilling Water
- Confide
- Draining Kiss
- Endure
- Fake Tears
- Flatter
- Fling
- Giga Impact
- Hyper Beam
- Imprison
- Low Sweep
- Metronome
- Misty Terrain
- Scary Face
- Swagger
- Take Down
- Thief
- Torment
- Trailblaze
*
*New moves :
Parting shot :
Trailblaze:
Tera Blast
Pros :
Prankster is a get ability giving priority to all of grimmsnarl's non damaging moves .
Grimmsnarl is a mon which gets dual screens prankster , which is great for a generation filled with a ton of hard hitting mons.
Access to parting shot now makes grimmsnarl even more threatning as it can always lower the atk and sp atk stats of the opposing mon that too with priority.
Taunt and trick are finnaly great moves which can shut down any defensive mon .
Though grafaiai is a faster prankster parting shot option , grimmsnarl has access to dual screens which makes it a far better choice
Cons:
Its defensive stats are not all that great for a support mon with 95/65/75 which means it can get worn down pretty quickly
Its speed is really low - 60 , which means it gets outspeed by other faster prankster users like klefki and grafaiai.
Dark types which are abundunt in this generation , are all immune to its prankster moves like twave.
Terastal Potential:
Since most of the time , grimmsnarl is going to be used as a support screens mon , it generally would not be your no1 choice in this regard. Though mostly you would want to have fire terastial so that you can resist the fairy type attacks , grimmsnarl is weak to . Offensive bulk up sets can run either dark or fairy terastial to boost your respective STAB moves.
Potential Sets :
Grimmsnarl @ Light Clay
Ability: Prankster
Tera Type: Steel / Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
IVs: 0 SpAtk
- Parting Shot / Thunder Wave
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Spirit Break
The sp def investments allow grimmsnarl to live 2 moonblast from flutter mane under screens and 2hko in return
160+ SpA Tapu Lele Moonblast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Grimmsnarl through Light Screen: 138-163 (35 - 41.3%) -- guaranteed 3HKO ( evs adjusted to match timid flutter mane)
The dual screens are pretty much self explanatory . Spirit break for a damaging move , thunder wave can be used to paralyze any setup sweeper , and parting shot for priority switches .
Overall , the likes of parting shot and prankster and dual screens makes it the best screen setter in this generation .
Grimmsnarl is also a very good check to roaring moon with reflect support and spirit break.
Other Options :
Offensive Set with bulk up , play rough , crunch and rest with chesto berry , or a trick choice band or iron ball set , although the screens set has much more utility than these ones.
Overall:
I feel like grimmsnarl will be really great in this generation . Its ability and access to dual screens and exceptional support moves like thunder wave and parting shot , make it one of the best screen setter , and overall support mon . Although its defensive stats are not that great , and fairy-dark is a mediocre defensive typing , Grimmsnarl's overall support movepool and awesome ability make it a great and fun pokemon to use .
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