Ribombee @ Focus Sash
Ability: Shield Dust
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Psychic
- Sticky Web
- Stun Spore
Darkrai @ Life Orb
Ability: Bad Dreams
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Dark Pulse
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
So how do you actually beat this? I've wrapped my head around it and I figured unorthodox sets are the closest thing to a check in OU. Darkrai
gets up one Nasty Plot on something it forces out, and it's pretty much unstoppable now. Pretty much nothing switches in and beats Darkrai
, Blissey
getting 2HKOd is just one example, and you'd be risking your one answer by hard switching into the wrong move, Dark resists like Enamorus
do drop to Psychic. This means you have to resort to revenge killers, after a pokemon has already been brought down, a pokemon forcing this is already overbearing, but Darkrai
goes even further. The handful of pokemon faster than Darkrai get screwed over by Webs and ohkod cleanly. So far, answers to Darkrai
pre Tera are;
Boots Zamazenta
(CC or first switch in Body Press), Clear Body Choice Specs Dragapult
, Choice Scarf Enamorus
, Tera Fairy Kingambit
, Tera Grass Choice Band Rillaboom
, and Tera Water Ogerpon Wellspring
(as long as you don't get chipped or flinched)
However when Darkrai
Teras...
It's only Tera Grass Rillaboom
and Tera Water Wellspring
. Tera Fairy Gambit
gets ohkod by Darkrai
's own Tera Fairy Tera Blast if it's running it and doesn't get a chance to do something even when running Iron Head.
Darkrai
feels stupid broken when the only answer is 2 revenge killers that need to burn Tera. I've also seen Tera Poison Sludge Bomb which just ruins both those answers and a bunch of the aforementioned answers, notably loses to Dragapult
and needs to rely on Focus Blast to OHKO Great Tusk
and Zamazenta
though. So both sets aren't exactly uncheckable but having to account for both is a headache.
Any other ideas on how to play into the duo? I'm not too knowledgeable in the tier.