[OVERVIEW]
name: Life Orb attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Fusion Bolt
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Protect
item: Life Orb
ability: Teravolt
nature: Hasty
evs: 96 Atk / 160 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
Set Details
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Usage Tips
Team Options
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Checks and Counters
**Fairy types** Tapu Lele is a good checks thanks to it being able to OHKO Kyurem-B with Moonblast. Tapu Fini can also live a hit and can retaliate back with Moonblast.
**Steel types** Other than Heatran, Kyurem-B doesnt really threatens many steels. Aegislash can easly take an Earth Power in Shield Form and KO it after a round of Life Orbi f Hasty, OHKO if it’s Naive
**Trick Room** Kyurem-B hates facing Trick Room, as most of the Pokémon that benefits from it like Diancie and Kangaskhan, can take hits with ease, so it tends to be deadweight in TR matchups.
**Psychic types** Most Psychic-types in the tier are faster or don’t take too much damage from Kyurem-B, and can kill it, like Deoxys-A under Psychic Terrain, Metagross, Tapu Lele and Hoopa under TR.
- Deals well with common force of the metagame like Landorus-T, Zygarde and Heatran. Also the less FWG cores.
- Can be very scary with Speed control, which is something that needs to put in work
- Has a very hard time against Psychic spam and Sun, as it’s slower than most Pokémon on those archetypes.
name: Life Orb attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Fusion Bolt
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Protect
item: Life Orb
ability: Teravolt
nature: Hasty
evs: 96 Atk / 160 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
- Ice beam it’s the main and only stab of the set, able to OHKO most threats such as Landorus, Zygarde and Salamence. It also does great damage to Zapdos and grasses like Mega-Venusaur and Tapu Bulu.
- Fusion Bolt completes the BoltBeam coverage, and is able to hit bulky waters such as Tapu Fini and Milotic as well as rain setters.
- Earth Power is, thanks to Teravolt, able to hit Levitate user such as Rotom-Wash (Heat as well, and OHKO it) but can also OHKO non shuca berry Heatran variants and Tapu Koko.
- Protect helps Kyurem-B stalling out Tailwind and TR.
Set Details
- 252 Speed Hasty lets Kyurem-B outspeed non Choice Scarf variants of Landorus-T, and can speedtie with Tapu Lele
- With 96 Attack investiments, it can OHKO bulky Charizard Y with Fusion Bolt boosted with Life Orb, as well as easly 2HKOing even the bulkiest Tapu Fini.
- Life Orb gives Kyurem-B an amazing damage output and helps picking up knokouts that otherwise wouldn’t without it (Charizard Y, Tapu Koko).
- Teravolt lets it bybass ability like Thick Fat and Levitate, letting it hit for supereffective damage Rotom Wash and Heat as well as the rare Mega Venusaur.
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Usage Tips
- Kyurem-B can be used both early and end game, repsectively to chunk foes and letting partners sweep in middle or end game or to clean up the opposing team when its checks are weakened enough.
- This Pokémon greatly appreciates forms of Speed control like Tailwind and Icy Wind, as it finds itself in an akward speed tier, so put it in situations where is faster than the opponents
- Kyurem-B has a nice bulk, but not the greatest devensive typing, so it can’t really switch into attacks as it gets threatened by Fairy, Dragon and Steel type attacks, and since it uses Life Orb it gets worn down fast.
Team Options
- Teammates like Tapu Koko and Steel-types appreciate things like Landorus, Zygarde and Heatran gone, also gives Fusion Bolt more power with Electric Terrain
- Kyurem-B appreciates forms of speed control, so teammates than can set up Tailwind or use Icy Wind like Zapdos, Suicune or Victini with Glaciate are good partners.
- Pokémon than can scare out Fairies and Psychic-types (Tapu Lele, Diancie, Deoxys-A) like Mega Metagross, Aegislash and Heatran are good partners.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
- A Choice Scarf set with Ice Beam, Fusion Bolt, Iron Head and Rock Slide with a Naive Nature can be used to pick up surprise knock outs on Mega Salamence, Choie Scarf Landorus, Diancie and Charizard Y.
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Checks and Counters
**Fairy types** Tapu Lele is a good checks thanks to it being able to OHKO Kyurem-B with Moonblast. Tapu Fini can also live a hit and can retaliate back with Moonblast.
**Steel types** Other than Heatran, Kyurem-B doesnt really threatens many steels. Aegislash can easly take an Earth Power in Shield Form and KO it after a round of Life Orbi f Hasty, OHKO if it’s Naive
**Trick Room** Kyurem-B hates facing Trick Room, as most of the Pokémon that benefits from it like Diancie and Kangaskhan, can take hits with ease, so it tends to be deadweight in TR matchups.
**Psychic types** Most Psychic-types in the tier are faster or don’t take too much damage from Kyurem-B, and can kill it, like Deoxys-A under Psychic Terrain, Metagross, Tapu Lele and Hoopa under TR.
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