[SET]
Gholdengo @ Choice Specs
Ability: Good as Gold
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt / Focus Blast
- Trick
[SET COMMENTS]
With
a Choice Specs
equipped, Gholdengo is an absolutely nuclear wallbreaker, wielding a nigh unresistable STAB combination capable of breaking through many defensive cores once safely on the field. This is
(clarification on the task (getting on the field) could be needed) a relatively easy task considering Gholdengo's naturally solid bulk and stellar typing, giving it no trouble finding opportunities to fire off strong attacks versus passive Pokemon such as Toxapex and Ferrothorn, as well as more dangerous offensive threats such as Sneasler and Iron Valiant. Thunderbolt is capable of effectively hitting Tera Water Garganacl, one of the few Pokemon capable of fending off Gholdengo's
STABs STAB moves, as well as being
its Gholdengo's strongest option
into against Alomomola, Toxapex, and Hisuian Samurott. Focus Blast can
alternatively be used to score an OHKO on Ferrothorn and heavily dent Heatran. Trick allows Gholdengo to
cripple greatly hinder (GP doesn't want to use cripple anymore, I believe) targets such as
Ting Lu, Ting-Lu while simultaneously
(don't think you need simultaneously here, but it's not wrong) shutting down bulky
win-conditions wincons such as Cresselia and Garganacl. A Modest nature can be used for extra power, notably guaranteeing an OHKO on
to Landorus-T from full
HP, but
a Timid
nature allows Gholdengo to outrun Mega Gyarados while also guaranteeing a
Speed tie at worst versus opposing offensive Gholdengo variants. Gholdengo struggles
into versus faster paced team compositions that can deny it the opportunity to reliably fire off its attacks, so teammates who can force in defensive pieces like Landorus-T and Zapdos such as Mega Lopunny and Alomomola can give it the necessary opportunities. Alomomola makes for a particularly great teammate
, (AC) as it is able to keep Gholdengo healthy throughout the course of a game with Wish, giving it more opportunities to use its solid defensive profile to find opportunities to wallbreak.
[CREDITS]
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