[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 6 onwards
**Price Range**: 7-9 points
**Overview**: Regieleki has such an astonishing Speed stat that many Pokemon with a solid Speed tier, maximum Speed investment, and a Choice Scarf still cannot outrun it. It has a solid niche when setting dual screens or removing entry hazards for its teammates, always going first to guarantee the move is used. However, this is Regieleki's only leg up on other Pokemon, as its movepool is not going to galvanize anyone into picking it; since it has no coverage, foes that are immune to Electric run it through to the earth.
Common Roles
========
**Utility Pivot**: Regieleki possesses a solid utility movepool; it is able to set up dual screens or reliably spread paralysis with Thunder Wave with its uncontested Speed tier. It can also pretty freely press a Transistor-boosted Volt Switch to spread chip damage or draw in the Ground-types that deal with it. It can also use Explosion after setting dual screens, immediately dealing lots of damage to the foe and bringing in a teammate safely.
**Cleaner**: Regieleki's Speed tier makes it an amazing late-game cleaner with a damage-boosting item. It may freely click Transistor-boosted STAB attacks once Electric-immune foes are removed from the match.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Thunderbolt, Thunder, Volt Switch, Wild Charge, Supercell Slam
**Setup Moves**: Charge Beam
**Utility Moves**: Reflect, Light Screen, Rapid Spin, Substitute, Thunder Wave, Protect
**Coverage**: Acrobatics, Ancient Power, Body Slam, Explosion, Extreme Speed, Tera Blast
Niche Moves
========
**Electro Ball**: Regieleki's insane Speed tier allows it to smash through slow special walls with a max-power Electro Ball.
**Thunder Cage**: Regieleki can trap foes using Thunder Cage and deal residual damage, stopping bulky foes that may rely on Regenerator but lack ways to get off the field.
**Eerie Impulse**: Regieleki can use Eerie Impulse to prevent specially offensive Pokemon from setting up, which may provide more opportunities to switch out, chip the foe down, or provide extra utility to teammates.
**Magnet Rise**: Against weaker Ground-types, Regieleki may use Magnet Rise to alleviate its singular weakness for extra opportunities to help teammates out with its utility movepool.
Common Items
========
**Light Clay**: Lengthening the time Reflect and Light Screen have on the field is be Regieleki's greatest boon, especially in matchups where the remainder of its team isn't bulky enough to take on certain threats.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Regieleki appreciates extra opportunities to switch in, especially when it wants to remove entry hazards. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to do so and avoid permanent chip damage that may cut into its already pitiful bulk.
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs turns Regieleki into an insane late-game cleaner once Electric-immune Pokemon are removed, as it only further extrapolates the power of its Electric-type STAB moves. It can even run Tera Blast as coverage to hit Pokemon that may be immune to its Electric moves.
Niche Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Since Regieleki's bulk is mediocre, Focus Sash alleviates the issue to give it one guaranteed turn to set up a last-minute Reflect or Light Screen or provide a safe switch by switching in and sacrificing itself.
**Air Balloon**: Regieleki can utilize Air Balloon to avoid Ground-type moves, temporarily preventing it from being revenge killed or checked.
**Other Damage-boosting Items**: Magnet and Silk Scarf are serviceable to boost the Electric- and Normal-type moves that Regieleki has when it may not need the extra boost Choice Specs provides. Alternatively, it can run Life Orb when its health is less valuable and it wants to simply deal extra damage with some flexibility.
**Choice Band**: Although Regieleki lacks physical coverage, Choice Band can catch foes by surprise, and it synergizes well with Explosion.
Tera
========
Regieleki is generally not allowed to Terastallize, but if it is allowed, it should always be made a Tera Captain. It becomes nearly unstoppable with its Speed once it gains coverage, which is why it is nearly always banned. Tera Ice circumvents all of its coverage issues and turns it into a deadly late-game cleaner with nearly perfect BoltBeam coverage. Tera Grass and Water can also allow Regieleki to beat common Ground-types. Many other Tera types work well with it, as it's super versatile as a Tera Captain.
Draft Strategy
========
Regieleki has one amazing trait alongside a host of rather mediocre traits. It can support a team with its limited-but-useful utility movepool. If your team can take advantage of the Ground-type Pokemon that Regieleki lures out, it can provide far more than just utility through its powerful Electric-type moves.
**Ground-type and Electric-immune Answers**: Regieleki in an offensive role needs anything that is immune to its Electric-type STAB moves removed from the game, as it cannot pivot around risk-free with them around. Grass-type Pokemon resist Ground and can hit Ground-types super effectively, thus making Pokemon like Ogerpon, Rillaboom, and Meowscarada great teammates. Additionally, Water- and Ice-type teammates can hit Ground-type foes super effectively and encourage them to be benched. Pokemon with Electric-immune abilities are generally Electric-type themselves, so Ground-type teammates such as Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Excadrill can take them on and force them out reliably.
**Setup Sweepers**: Regieleki is able to set up Reflect and Light Screen pretty reliably and pivot out with Volt Switch to bring in strong setup sweepers, which can handle whatever is attempting to check it. Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Darkrai, and Ogerpon-W can come in after Volt Switch is used and begin to set up in the safety of dual screens.
**Entry Hazards**: Offensive variations of Regieleki appreciate the chip damage racking up to give it earlier cleaning opportunities. Hisuian Samurott has Ceaseless Edge to offensively set up Spikes. Ground-resistant and -immune Pokemon can set up extra entry hazards with few issues and enable it to draw chip damage onto the Ground-types that may want to wall it.
**Secondary Entry Hazard Removal**: Regieleki generally doesn't always want to be utility and it may not even come to a game at all if it's not valuable enough. Grabbing an alternative Pokemon with Rapid Spin can take pressure off of it, as it would be able to run other moves or opt to stay on the bench when its matchup might be poor. There are also Pokemon with Defog that can aid Regieleki in matchups against Ghost-type foes.
**Secondary Speed Control**: Regieleki's ludicrous Speed means nothing is going to be eclipsing its Speed tier, so foes usually opt to run bulk instead of Speed. It want teammates that are relatively fast so that running Speed EVs isn't completely pointless against the team, so any Pokemon between 105 and 130 Speed is an excellent option. Pokemon that reliably run Choice Scarf are also good options.
Checks and Counters
========
**Electric-resistant and -immune Pokemon**: Regieleki has zero offensive options against Pokemon that stop it from using its STAB moves. Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Sandy Shocks, and Landorus-T can remove it from the field with little to no issues. Pokemon that resist Electric moves can also limit the opportunities Regieleki has to deal damage; Hydrapple, Rillaboom, and Raging Bolt are good examples of this.
**Priority Attackers**: Being able to go before Regieleki means neutralizing its only boon and capitalizing on its awful bulk. Pokemon such as Dragonite, Palafin, and Kingambit can all use their respective priority options to get it off of the field, as it cannot tank the strong priority moves coming at it.
**Dual Screens Removal**: Being able to shut down Regieleki's primary utility role puts its functionality in jeopardy, the most popular way being Defog via Pokemon such as Corviknight, Talonflame, and Galarian Weezing, which can slot the move into their sets and make sure setup sweepers aren't as protected. Niche forms of dual screens removal may come from Pokemon with Psychic Fangs like Metagross and Salamence or Pokemon with Brick Break such as Great Tusk and Deoxys-S.
[credits]
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**Draft Order**: Round 6 onwards
**Price Range**: 7-9 points
**Overview**: Regieleki has such an astonishing Speed stat that many Pokemon with a solid Speed tier, maximum Speed investment, and a Choice Scarf still cannot outrun it. It has a solid niche when setting dual screens or removing entry hazards for its teammates, always going first to guarantee the move is used. However, this is Regieleki's only leg up on other Pokemon, as its movepool is not going to galvanize anyone into picking it; since it has no coverage, foes that are immune to Electric run it through to the earth.
Common Roles
========
**Utility Pivot**: Regieleki possesses a solid utility movepool; it is able to set up dual screens or reliably spread paralysis with Thunder Wave with its uncontested Speed tier. It can also pretty freely press a Transistor-boosted Volt Switch to spread chip damage or draw in the Ground-types that deal with it. It can also use Explosion after setting dual screens, immediately dealing lots of damage to the foe and bringing in a teammate safely.
**Cleaner**: Regieleki's Speed tier makes it an amazing late-game cleaner with a damage-boosting item. It may freely click Transistor-boosted STAB attacks once Electric-immune foes are removed from the match.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Thunderbolt, Thunder, Volt Switch, Wild Charge, Supercell Slam
**Setup Moves**: Charge Beam
**Utility Moves**: Reflect, Light Screen, Rapid Spin, Substitute, Thunder Wave, Protect
**Coverage**: Acrobatics, Ancient Power, Body Slam, Explosion, Extreme Speed, Tera Blast
Niche Moves
========
**Electro Ball**: Regieleki's insane Speed tier allows it to smash through slow special walls with a max-power Electro Ball.
**Thunder Cage**: Regieleki can trap foes using Thunder Cage and deal residual damage, stopping bulky foes that may rely on Regenerator but lack ways to get off the field.
**Eerie Impulse**: Regieleki can use Eerie Impulse to prevent specially offensive Pokemon from setting up, which may provide more opportunities to switch out, chip the foe down, or provide extra utility to teammates.
**Magnet Rise**: Against weaker Ground-types, Regieleki may use Magnet Rise to alleviate its singular weakness for extra opportunities to help teammates out with its utility movepool.
Common Items
========
**Light Clay**: Lengthening the time Reflect and Light Screen have on the field is be Regieleki's greatest boon, especially in matchups where the remainder of its team isn't bulky enough to take on certain threats.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Regieleki appreciates extra opportunities to switch in, especially when it wants to remove entry hazards. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to do so and avoid permanent chip damage that may cut into its already pitiful bulk.
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs turns Regieleki into an insane late-game cleaner once Electric-immune Pokemon are removed, as it only further extrapolates the power of its Electric-type STAB moves. It can even run Tera Blast as coverage to hit Pokemon that may be immune to its Electric moves.
Niche Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Since Regieleki's bulk is mediocre, Focus Sash alleviates the issue to give it one guaranteed turn to set up a last-minute Reflect or Light Screen or provide a safe switch by switching in and sacrificing itself.
**Air Balloon**: Regieleki can utilize Air Balloon to avoid Ground-type moves, temporarily preventing it from being revenge killed or checked.
**Other Damage-boosting Items**: Magnet and Silk Scarf are serviceable to boost the Electric- and Normal-type moves that Regieleki has when it may not need the extra boost Choice Specs provides. Alternatively, it can run Life Orb when its health is less valuable and it wants to simply deal extra damage with some flexibility.
**Choice Band**: Although Regieleki lacks physical coverage, Choice Band can catch foes by surprise, and it synergizes well with Explosion.
Tera
========
Regieleki is generally not allowed to Terastallize, but if it is allowed, it should always be made a Tera Captain. It becomes nearly unstoppable with its Speed once it gains coverage, which is why it is nearly always banned. Tera Ice circumvents all of its coverage issues and turns it into a deadly late-game cleaner with nearly perfect BoltBeam coverage. Tera Grass and Water can also allow Regieleki to beat common Ground-types. Many other Tera types work well with it, as it's super versatile as a Tera Captain.
Draft Strategy
========
Regieleki has one amazing trait alongside a host of rather mediocre traits. It can support a team with its limited-but-useful utility movepool. If your team can take advantage of the Ground-type Pokemon that Regieleki lures out, it can provide far more than just utility through its powerful Electric-type moves.
**Ground-type and Electric-immune Answers**: Regieleki in an offensive role needs anything that is immune to its Electric-type STAB moves removed from the game, as it cannot pivot around risk-free with them around. Grass-type Pokemon resist Ground and can hit Ground-types super effectively, thus making Pokemon like Ogerpon, Rillaboom, and Meowscarada great teammates. Additionally, Water- and Ice-type teammates can hit Ground-type foes super effectively and encourage them to be benched. Pokemon with Electric-immune abilities are generally Electric-type themselves, so Ground-type teammates such as Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Excadrill can take them on and force them out reliably.
**Setup Sweepers**: Regieleki is able to set up Reflect and Light Screen pretty reliably and pivot out with Volt Switch to bring in strong setup sweepers, which can handle whatever is attempting to check it. Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Darkrai, and Ogerpon-W can come in after Volt Switch is used and begin to set up in the safety of dual screens.
**Entry Hazards**: Offensive variations of Regieleki appreciate the chip damage racking up to give it earlier cleaning opportunities. Hisuian Samurott has Ceaseless Edge to offensively set up Spikes. Ground-resistant and -immune Pokemon can set up extra entry hazards with few issues and enable it to draw chip damage onto the Ground-types that may want to wall it.
**Secondary Entry Hazard Removal**: Regieleki generally doesn't always want to be utility and it may not even come to a game at all if it's not valuable enough. Grabbing an alternative Pokemon with Rapid Spin can take pressure off of it, as it would be able to run other moves or opt to stay on the bench when its matchup might be poor. There are also Pokemon with Defog that can aid Regieleki in matchups against Ghost-type foes.
**Secondary Speed Control**: Regieleki's ludicrous Speed means nothing is going to be eclipsing its Speed tier, so foes usually opt to run bulk instead of Speed. It want teammates that are relatively fast so that running Speed EVs isn't completely pointless against the team, so any Pokemon between 105 and 130 Speed is an excellent option. Pokemon that reliably run Choice Scarf are also good options.
Checks and Counters
========
**Electric-resistant and -immune Pokemon**: Regieleki has zero offensive options against Pokemon that stop it from using its STAB moves. Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Sandy Shocks, and Landorus-T can remove it from the field with little to no issues. Pokemon that resist Electric moves can also limit the opportunities Regieleki has to deal damage; Hydrapple, Rillaboom, and Raging Bolt are good examples of this.
**Priority Attackers**: Being able to go before Regieleki means neutralizing its only boon and capitalizing on its awful bulk. Pokemon such as Dragonite, Palafin, and Kingambit can all use their respective priority options to get it off of the field, as it cannot tank the strong priority moves coming at it.
**Dual Screens Removal**: Being able to shut down Regieleki's primary utility role puts its functionality in jeopardy, the most popular way being Defog via Pokemon such as Corviknight, Talonflame, and Galarian Weezing, which can slot the move into their sets and make sure setup sweepers aren't as protected. Niche forms of dual screens removal may come from Pokemon with Psychic Fangs like Metagross and Salamence or Pokemon with Brick Break such as Great Tusk and Deoxys-S.
[credits]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flutterfliss.652897/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/scionicle.599989/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/jscurf.608304/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/techno.527276/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/techno.527276/
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