It's been year later and you've have kept your promise 3MoreMinutes, Cinderace is super fucking good lmfao. Please help us get this mon out of the tier now I hate it so much. Anyways, it's time to once again comment on the goofy core you have requested but unlike last year, I had a great time building Terrakion + Skeledirge because I knew exactly what I needed to do in order to make this work and not be complete ass: Sub Skeledirge Offense. I know I know; it's revolutionary, it's innovative, it's the best Skeledirge team ever built? I bet you're wondering how I came to this incredible idea, well this great, wise, and mystical sage (Rafadude) once humbly regaled us with his adventures with Substitute Skeledirge and I thought to myself, "that'll never work. Skeledirge needs Wisp, Dirge always going to suck blah blah blah". But it was only after attempting to build Terrakion + Skeledirge that I was brought back down to reality and finally came to understand what all the talk was about.Sup Runoisch sorry for the wack core (Cinderace is good I promise just probably not SD).
Skeledirge @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 248 HP / 88 Def / 44 SpD / 128 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Slack Off
- Torch Song
- Shadow Ball
- Substitute
This is kind of an experimental set here but the EVs are built to outrun the base 50s and lower such as Iron Hands and Azumarill. while also avoiding Clefable breaking your Substitute with Knock Off allowing you to setup on it without losing your Boots in the process.
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I'm not going to go super in-depth about this team here but long story short: I tried building TerrakDirge with other fours and none of them seemed as potent as this or just had very clear holes so just take my word for this sorry.
Team Notes:
Because of the rarity of Terrakion, people are going to automatically assume that you are running Stealth Rock on Iron Treads instead of Terrakion. You can use this surprise to catch them off guard and set rocks against the likes of Ting-Lu, Tyranitar, Iron Treads, and Hydreigon. Alternatively you can use this to bluff coverage you don't have such as Earthquake in order to scare away threats such as Sandy Shocks, Okidogi, and Iron Hands if you boost to +2. Conversely you can also use this to lure Clefable and sometimes Enamorus in on Iron Treads, since the assumption would be SR/Spin/EQ/Volt Switch looking at this team. Astute players might realize that your Iron Treads is not Rocks because of the lack of Leftovers or Boots. This facade can also get ruined if you accidentally switch Iron Treads into Knock Off as they'll immediately realize that it's Assault Vest. Running Leftovers can solve this although playing around Enamorus is a little bit more annoying without it.
I added Fightinum Z instead of Rockium because Ting-Lu will live the hit from unboosted Close Combat otherwise.
Building a team that is less than great into Sand is not ideal in the year 2023, but Thundy should be able to handle it. Click x if it's SD Giga Impact or Rock Slide however. Skeledirge can also deal with Excadrill in a pinch but it needs to be at peak condition and is notably ruined by Tyranitar if the Excadrill player gets wise and switches out.
There are other mediocre mus such as Enamorus and Meowscarada but both are somewhat outplayable albeit rough to do so.
Anyways, Happy Holidays