intro
i wanted to build around chesnaught so i made this team lol it feels pretty okay
chesnaught has a quite good ability in the current meta- let's look at moves bulletproof blocks:
shadow ball - allows you to pivot into choice-locked dragapult and gholdengo
pyro ball - sits on mono pyro-ball cinderace sets
sludge bomb - allows you to pivot into amoonguss, av pex
other useful moves blocked: aura sphere, bullet seed, energy ball, focus blast (rock blast, seed bomb, weather ball)
additionally, chesnaught has a pretty good matchup into most kingambit sets which is quite useful
teambuilding process
i love chesnaught he's so cool
tried building a "fire/water/grass" core i've never really used one before, av toxapex deals with a majority of special threats in the tier and cinderace provides a lot of utility: spreads burns, pivots, redundant hazard control with tusk
gotta use the goat
hydreigon provides another wincon, a ground immunity, and a pivot into certain choice locked mons
tested a lot of shit here like gholdengo, slowbro, even cyclizar but slowking provides a regen core with toxapex and my interesting (read: kind of shit) set provides another way to beat stall which i wanted to make sure i had
team:
i started out with a subseed iron defense body press set, and while it runs over games and sits on garg it was ultimately a bit too matchup fishy to be actually good i think - i swapped out substitute for spikes, and i felt like i needed instant recovery to actually have this mon be useful as a wall so i swapped out leech for synthesis
this mon is a good physical wall and late game wincon - pivot into one of your regen mons first and then come in on this when safe to do so, during early game when you come in you can just heal up or get a spike off
chesnaught really likes having lefties so try hard not to get this knocked off, be careful bringing this into tusk and only do it if you have to
28 speed evs creep corv
tera steel against band pult and bax
calcs:
252+ Atk Choice Band Dragapult Dragon Darts (2 hits) vs. 228 HP / 252+ Def Chesnaught: 162-192 (43.3 - 51.3%) -- approx. 2% chance to 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Baxcalibur Glaive Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Chesnaught: 199-235 (52.3 - 61.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Meowscarada Flower Trick vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Steel Chesnaught on a critical hit: 72-85 (18.9 - 22.3%) -- possible 5HKO
+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 5 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Chesnaught: 121-143 (31.8 - 37.6%) -- 91% chance to 3HKO
+1 252+ Atk Tera Normal Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Chesnaught: 138-163 (36.3 - 42.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
standard av pex this comes in on pult, ghold, hatt, moth, dirge, volc, wake
bring this in to scout and pivot, bring it in to trap fat mons with infestation and kill them
acid spray lets you beat other pex's without acid spray
bulky ace is another answer to kingambit - you are always guaranteed to get a wisp off on it which makes dealing with it much easier for tusk and chesnaught
wisps help against other physical threats too this lives a darts from band pult and gets a wisp off
otherwise, court change serves as hazard control in a pinch and u-turn can either let you bring in hydreigon to try and sweep or just another wall
tuskothy is tuskothy u know what it do
oftentimes this is your main switch in to opposing tusks, if you trade one-for-one with the other tusk usually it's a favorable trade for this team
this is also your one time switch in to band pult
you almost always want to be clicking knock or getting rocks up, spinning into a ghost type and losing tempo can cost you the game on the spot
np hydreigon can solo a lot of teams late game, dark pulse and earth power feels like good neutral coverage against most mons in the meta which is really all you need once you get a boost
if the enemy does not have a pult or other mon that can break your sub for free, bring this in on something passive sub up get a boost and start firing off hard hits
as a countermeasure to stall i really wanted a:
- regen mon
- and ideally something that can trick
with the absence of torn and glowking this pretty awful set is my solution, this set gets all of its mileage from the fact that nobody is stupid enough to think that you would possibly be running specs on this shit
you get exactly one move to capitalize on your surprise factor so use it well - scout to see their slowking switchin (or make a hard read if you're shiesty, ghold is a common switchin) and blow it up next time
once you fire off your nuke, if you're good one of their mons is dead which means that slowking's job is done; from there you can try to trick something your specs to hamper another one of their mons
evs are just to do more damage, this set really can't switch into anything so almost always pivot in pex first and then if safe you can bring in slowking
regen core means that against stall you're going to be doing a lot of pivoting between these two
calcs
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Psyshock vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Clodsire: 536-632 (115.7 - 136.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Grass Knot (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Dondozo: 506-596 (100.3 - 118.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Gholdengo: 354-418 (93.6 - 110.5%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Psyshock vs. 252 HP / 192+ Def Toxapex: 200-236 (65.7 - 77.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Grass Knot (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 100 SpD Garganacl: 350-414 (86.6 - 102.4%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Slowking Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 84 SpD Amoonguss: 358-422 (82.8 - 97.6%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
playstyle:
this plays pretty bulky offense, you almost always want to lead ace to pivot out or get a wisp off- scout with your pex, bring chesnaught in when safe to spike up, bring tusk into their tusk to trade
you have a few different win cons:
nasty plot hydreigon can wipe lategame once they have no pult or valiant, bring it in safely boost up and start attacking - don't be scared to tera to preserve your sub as you nasty plot up, keeping sub alive can win you the game on the spot if your opponent is unable to get hazards up, pivoting between pex and slowking to get more free health is your best bet against stall - pex can slowly trap their mons and take them out while slowking can fire off nukes and try to trick something specs to cripple it - if you think that you need the regen core to win, make sure you keep hazards off at all costs as rocks mean that switching between these two will no longer gain you health iron defense body press ended up not actually winning me that many games, but the threat is still there: against physical teams once you start boosting up nothing can kill you and you can safely press your way to victory - this requires that they don't have any ghost types; if you don't think chesnaught will win you the game (most games it will not) just keep it as a physical wall and spiker, hazard stacking can still win you games even if ironpress doesn'tthreats:
mixchomp/chainchomp ruins this team you need to lead ace into it and get a wisp off so that you can start pivoting around it, burn dracos with pex and let it chip itself out
banded pult darts 2hkos most mons on this team, you're going to need to burn tera on either hydreigon to kill it or chesnaught so that it can sit on it
tera ground means that pex is probably not a counter to this set (unless you predict and tera? you gotta be real shiesty to do this) so you will need to burn tera on slowking predicting a giga drain, if they have bug buzz as well it's probably over
max speed tera fairy tera blast ruins chesnaught unless you predict and tera (see a pattern here? tera is very interesting) and thus it will sweep your whole team, once it reveals tera fairy bring ace in first to wisp it then you can try to tera with tusk and beat it
banded dnite also dents this team very heavily, again burn a tera (steel/fairy for outrage) and keep hazards up to chip it down
bax requires that you burn tera on chesnaught to get an iron defense off and then you beat it, once you burn tera if they switch out you cannot let it come back in for free or you will probably lose
conclusion:
i think this team is actually not that good but i cracked 1800 for the first time so i wanted to make a writeup anyways
u-turn on cinderace can probably go for something better and im still not sure wtf to do about the slowking slot, but regen cores are so nice to have and make playing the game much easier
HOME waiting room i guess
thanks for reading
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replays:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1864620686-hzsh95pcimxaam9w7ap7hr6r4snbt0ypw well timed tera with hydreigon wins the game
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1864622767-fjxh5a63irycxal8lquevhq33eirwbupw trick the hydreigon so that it can't setup, trade your tusk for their tusk - they can no longer deal with your defensive core so slowly chip them down and utilize your regen core to win the long game
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1864624572-2nark38s9rzqyp0meyoq2vk521iwjw2pw chesnaught safely sets up and sweeps once their special threats are gone
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1865132632-vr96svfgect3y00d8qwts76i6fr83gipw i dont know what happened here
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1864649489-tzjndu2j1a2ea59gcyvb6go8r2fdox5pw against ho take favorable trades and this team is very hard for kingambit to reverse sweep
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1864651789-8079iql1rrk10hqigmwmkh7kh9rmr2upw slowking surprise
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1865126992-0f3heewtenkv4oeiqtm9qyeswwl1swjpw once again trade tusk for tusk and this defensive core is extremely hard to beat, pivot around and get hazards up keep your walls healthy and win the long game
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