National Dex Toxapex

[red fintans]

note to uploader: EVs correspond to nature
[SET]
Toxapex @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Name: The Pex
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD or 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Steel
Bold / Calm Nature
- Scald / Knock Off
- Toxic / Toxic Spikes
- Haze
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]
Toxapex is a versatile wall that can take on both physical and special hits, thanks to its great defensive stats, typing, and Regenerator, making it difficult to KO. Its typing in particular allows it to check common Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta, and Urshifu-R while its utility moves like Knock Off and Toxic let it cripple them to benefit teammates. Scald can cripple physical attackers like Garchomp and Mega Medicham, discouraging them from directly switching in to take advantage of Toxapex. Scald’s damage output reduces Toxapex's passivity and is also just enough to threaten Water-weak foes like Landorus-T, Iron Boulder, and Mega Diancie; this allows Toxapex to use Recover or Toxic with general safety. Knock Off allows Toxapex to remove valuable items like Choice items, Heavy-Duty Boots, and Leftovers from switch-ins like Tapu Lele, Zapdos, and Ferrothorn. Toxic Spikes allows Toxapex to pressure offensive teams, forcing them to give up momentum to clear it lest they get poisoned. Haze prevents setup sweepers like Gouging Fire and Iron Valiant from exploiting Toxapex, forcing them to attack, and disrupts wincons like IronPress Zamazenta and Volcarona. An EV spread of 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD with a Bold nature allows Toxapex to maximize its physical bulk while surviving two Scorching Sands from Mega Charizard Y. On the other hand, 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD with a Calm nature simply maximizes special bulk. 248 HP EVs are important as it reduces entry hazard damage while benefiting more from Regenerator. Tera Dragon is useful to check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, the latter of which is especially important on specially defensive sets, Tera Fairy helps versus Raging Bolt and Garchomp, and Tera Steel lets it check Serperior and Tapu Lele. The former two are also notable for removing Toxapex’s Ground weakness versus the likes of Great Tusk and Landorus-T. Toxapex, by nature of being a fat wall with little offensive presence, fits like a glove on stall and balance playstyles, sapping momentum but providing valuable utility. Allies on balance that can take advantage of Toxapex through double switches, like Ogerpon-W, Urshifu-R, and Mega Tyranitar, benefit from Toxapex baiting in Ground- and Psychic-types; by using Toxapex as a mid-ground, they can enter the field safely as the opponent switches to a Toxapex check like Gliscor and Choice item Tapu Lele. Teammates that help with the Ground and Psychic weaknesses on the defensive side, such as Landorus-T, Ferrothorn, and Heatran, are useful as well; in return, Toxapex tanks hits from Ice- and Fighting-types like Weavile, Zamazenta, and Mega Lopunny for them.

[CREDITS]
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Quality checked by:
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[sealoo]

pexotron unit 9000

Toxapex @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Name: The Pex
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD or 248 HP / 64 Def / 196 SpD
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Steel
Bold / Calm Nature
- Scald / Knock Off
- Toxic / Toxic Spikes
- Haze
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]
Toxapex is a versatile wall that can take on both physical and special hits depending on its set; its great defensive stats and typing paired with Regenerator make it difficult to KO. Its typing in particular allows it to check common Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta, and Urshifu-R while its utility moves like Knock Off and Toxic lets it cripple them to benefit teammates. Scald is useful to threaten burns on physical attackers like Garchomp and Mega Medicham, discouraging them from directly switching in to take advantage of Toxapex. Scald’s minimal damage output is also enough to threaten Water-weak foes like Landorus-T, Iron Boulder, and Mega Diancie; these allow Toxapex to remain quite safe to click Recover or Toxic as necessary, as Scald prevents it from being too passive. Knock Off allows Toxapex to remove valuable items like Choice items, Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers from switch-ins like Tapu Lele, Zapdos, and Ferrothorn. (if it were up to me i would axe tspikes but i left it cos its in the original set, if no objections ill remove it after QC) keep tspike Haze prevents setup sweepers like Gouging Fire and Iron Valiant from setting up in front of Toxapex, forcing them to attack. think u could add how it generally helps with disrupting wincons like idbp zama and qd volc 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD with a Bold nature allows Toxapex to maximize its physical bulk while surviving two Scorching Sands from Mega Charizard Y. On the other hand, 248 HP / 64 Def / 196 SpD with a Calm nature allows Toxapex to (do something IDK im down to edit the spread cos this is the old spd one). idk either, ask abt this in discord but if you get no further clarification just make it max max hp spd Tera Dragon is useful to check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, the latter of which is especially important on specially defensive sets; Tera Fairy helps versus Raging Bolt and Garchomp; and Tera Steel lets it check Serperior, Tapu Lele, and Iron Boulder boulder ccs u afterwards, cut this. The former two are also notable for removing Toxapex’s Ground weakness versus the likes of Great Tusk, Landorus-T, and Gliscor id cut scor from here, you become vulnerable to tox so it doesnt rly do u any good. tera dragon still loses vs sd. Toxapex, by nature of being a fat wall with little offensive presence, fits like a glove on stall and balance playstyles, sapping momentum but providing valuable utility. Allies on balance that can take advantage of Toxapex through double switches, like Ogerpon-W, Urshifu-R, and Mega Tyranitar, benefit from Toxapex baiting in Ground- and Psychic-types; by using Toxapex as a mid-ground, they can enter the field safely as the opponent switches to a Toxapex check like?. Teammates that help with the Ground- and Psychic-weaknesses on the defensive side, such as Landorus-T, Ferrothorn, and Heatran are useful as well; in return, Toxapex tanks hits from Ice-types like Weavile and Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for them. Finally, a Ground-type is mandatory as a partner to Toxapex or it can be exploited by Volt Switch users such as Raging Bolt and Tapu Koko, so Landorus-T, Gliscor, and Great Tusk are good allies. grounds r mandatory anyw, dont think this needs to be mentioned
[CREDITS]
lazy doing next week

ye

 

[ChrisPBacon]

ngl i like 252 hp / 124 def / 132 spd with a defense boosting nature on pdef sets to eat scarf leles psychic but this is very super duper late so u dont have to add this if u dont wanna

 

[red fintans]

i only just noticed this already got QC so uhh doing soon

 

[red fintans]

GP Team

 

[Sulo]

GP 1/1

THE PEX

[SET]
Toxapex @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Leftovers / Rocky Helmet
Name: The Pex
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD or 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Steel
Bold / Calm Nature
- Scald / Knock Off
- Toxic / Toxic Spikes
- Haze
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]
Toxapex is a versatile wall that can take on both physical and special hits, thanks to depending on its set; this is something that's explained later on + i'm not a fan of framing this as if pex has many other good sets (and sets are self-contained, so you can't cross-reference or make it seem like you are) its great defensive stats, (ac) typing, and Regenerator, making and typing paired with Regenerator make it difficult to KO. Its typing in particular allows it to check common Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta, and Urshifu-R while its utility moves like Knock Off and Toxic let lets it cripple them to benefit teammates. Scald can cripple is useful to threaten burns on physical attackers like Garchomp and Mega Medicham, discouraging them from directly switching in to take advantage of Toxapex. Scald’s minimal damage output reduces Toxapex's passivity and is also just enough to threaten Water-weak foes like Landorus-T, Iron Boulder, and Mega Diancie; this allows these allow Toxapex to use Recover or Toxic with general safety. remain quite safe to click Recover or Toxic as necessary, as Scald prevents it from being too passive. Knock Off allows Toxapex to remove valuable items like Choice items, Heavy-Duty Boots, (ac) and Leftovers from switch-ins like Tapu Lele, Zapdos, and Ferrothorn. Toxic Spikes allows Toxapex to pressure offensive teams, forcing them to give up momentum to clear it lest they allies get poisoned. Haze prevents setup sweepers like Gouging Fire and Iron Valiant from exploiting setting up in front of Toxapex, forcing them to attack, and disrupts wincons like IronPress Zamazenta and Volcarona. An EV spread of 248 HP / 212 Def / 48 SpD with a Bold nature allows Toxapex to maximize its physical bulk while surviving two Scorching Sands from Mega Charizard Y. On the other hand, 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD with a Calm nature simply maximizes special bulk. 248 HP EVs are important as it reduces entry hazard damage while benefiting more from Regenerator. Tera Dragon is useful to check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, the latter of which is especially important on specially defensive sets, remove semicolon, add comma Tera Fairy helps versus Raging Bolt and Garchomp, remove semicolon, add comma and Tera Steel lets it check Serperior and Tapu Lele. The former two are also notable for removing Toxapex’s Ground weakness versus the likes of Great Tusk and Landorus-T. Toxapex, by nature of being a fat wall with little offensive presence, fits like a glove on stall and balance playstyles, sapping momentum but providing valuable utility. Allies on balance that can take advantage of Toxapex through double switches, like Ogerpon-W, Urshifu-R, and Mega Tyranitar, benefit from Toxapex baiting in Ground- and Psychic-types; by using Toxapex as a mid-ground, they can enter the field safely as the opponent switches to a Toxapex check like Gliscor and Choice item Tapu Lele. Teammates that help with the Ground and Psychic weaknesses removed hyphens on the defensive side, such as Landorus-T, Ferrothorn, and Heatran, (ac) are useful as well; in return, Toxapex tanks hits from Ice- and Fighting-types like Weavile, Zamazenta, and Mega Lopunny types like Weavile and Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for them.

[CREDITS]
lazy doing next week :3

GP Team done