SubRoost Kyurem [WIP]

[LOrd Fernado]

[SET]
name: SubRoost
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Freeze-Dry
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Roost
item: Heavy Duty Boots
ability: Pressure
nature: Timid
tera type: Steel / Poison / Ground
evs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kyurem leverages its solid defensive profile, reliable recovery in Roost, Substitute, and Pressure to annoy the metagame's passive walls, including the likes of Garganacl, Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Gliscor. Pressure can drain other threatening low PP attacks such as Gholdengo's Make It Rain and Iron Valiant's Close Combat, especially behind the safety of its Substitute, which also prevents revenge killing from foes like Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta and Iron Valiant. Freeze Dry + Earth Power grants Kyurem near-perfect coverage, with the former Landorus-T, Gliscor, and Water-types like Hisuian Samurott, Toxapex and Rotom-Wash, while the latter deals with Ice-resistant Pokemon such as Heatran, Gholdengo, or Pokemon weak to Ground-type attacks, like Garganacl. Tera Steel flips Kyurem's matchup against Fairy, Rock, and Steel-type attacks like Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant's Moonblast, Mega Tyranitar's Stone Edge, and Gholdengo's Make It Rain, while Tera Poison does so similarly with Fighting and Fairy-type moves from Mega Lopunny, Iron Valiant, and Tapu Lele. Tera Ground is an offensive alternate used to boost Kyurem's Earth Power to higher levels. The given HP EVs allow Kyurem to make 101 HP Substitutes, which prevent it from being broken by Chansey's Seismic Toss. Teammates like Toxapex, Mega Scizor, Clodsire, and Great Tusk are valuable to switch into revenge killers such as Zamazenta, Iron Valiant, and Tapu Lele respectively, especially if it's not behind a Substitute. Clodsire also provides Spikes to chip down opposing Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn, which can stomach Kyurem's easily, while Mega Scizor and Toxapex can absorb Knock Off from Weavile and Tornadus-T for Kyurem. Revenge killers that reliably deal with offensive teams help complement Kyurem's ability to beat balance teams that they struggle with; these Pokemon include Mega Lopunny and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, the former of which can bring Kyurem safely on foes like Toxapex and Zapdos via U-turn, while the latter appreciates Kyurem overwhelming their Steel-type checks. Magnezone can trap and significantly damage or outright OHKO Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn, with Choice Scarf variants taking care of Swords Dance Kartana as well, which would otherwise threaten Kyurem out.

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[LOrd Fernado]

ready 4 qc

 

[sealoo]

add remove comment

kyu

name: 3 Attacks
move 1: Freeze-Dry
move 2: Earth Power
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Roost
item: Heavy Duty Boots / Never-Melt-Ice Leftovers
ability: Pressure
nature: Modest / Timid
tera type: Ground / Poison
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kyurem sets itself as a solid wallbreaker that uses its Ice STAB to threaten common defensive staples such as Landorus-T, Tornadus-T, and Garchomp. Freeze-Dry cuts through Water-types like Rotom-W, Toxapex and Hisuian Samurott, while Ice Beam is stronger against Pokemon like Ferrothorn, Clefable, and Ting-Lu. Earth Power threatens Ice-resistant targets like Heatran, Mega Mawile, and Gholdengo. Roost keeps Kyurem healthy multiple times during a game, allowing it to switch into Pokemon like Mega Swampert and Rotom-W multiple times. Heavy-Duty-Boots improves Kyurem's longevity, allowing it to safely Roost in front of Pokemon like Mega Swampert. Alternatively, Never-Melt-Ice boots Kyurem's Ice-type STAB move, letting it 2HKO Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Ting-Lu, and OHKO Rotom-W, but it leaves Kyurem very prone to entry hazards. (lefties section here) A Timid nature allows Kyurem to outspeed Great Tusk, although the power boost of Modest comes with other upsides. Tera Ground gives Kyurem a stronger Earth Power that pressures Mega Scizor, Mega Tyranitar, and Gholdengo significantly more. It also guards against common revenge killing attempts from the likes of Iron Valiant and Tapu Koko at high HP and provides Kyurem with a Stealth Rock resistance if running Never-Melt-Ice. (include tera poison here, blocks tox from stuff like pex and fight resist for mlop and fairy resist for val/lele) Kyurem best fits on bulky offense and offense teams that provide it with plenty opportunities for it to enter the field. Pivots such as Mega Lopunny, Tornadus-T, and Landorus-T bring in defensive Pokemon opposing Landorus-T, Tornadus-T, and Rotom-W, which Kyurem preys on. Pokemon that capitalize on the holes Kyurem punches into common defensive Steel-types like Ferrothorn, Gholdengo, and Heatran such as Mega Diancie, Tapu Lele and Kartana pair well with Kyurem, as their attacks become more spammable. Kyurem's weakness to Stealth Rock if not using Heavy-Duty-Boots hinders its ability to wallbreak reliably; thus, it appreciates common entry hazard removers such as Great Tusk, Tornadus-T, and Rotom-W


[SET]
name: SubRoost
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Freeze-Dry
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Roost
item: Heavy Duty Boots
ability: Pressure
nature: Timid
tera type: Steel / Fairy / Ground / Poison
evs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kyurem leverages its solid defensive profile, reliable recovery in Roost, Substitute, and Pressure to annoy the metagame's passive walls, including the likes of Garganacl, Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Gliscor. Pressure can drain other threatening low PP attacks such as Gholdengo's Make It Rain and Iron Valiant's Close Combat, especially behind the safety of its Substitute, which also prevents revenge killing from foes like Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta and Iron Valiant. Freeze Dry + Earth Power grants Kyurem near-perfect coverage, with the former Landorus-T, Gliscor, and Water-types like Hisuian Samurott, Toxapex and Rotom-Wash, while the latter deals with Ice-resistant Pokemon such as Heatran, Gholdengo, and Garganacl (hitting garg is nice and im fine with the mention of it, but reword since it doesnt actually resist Ice). Tera Steel flips Kyurem's matchup against Fairy, Rock, and Steel-type attacks like Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant's Moonblast, Mega Tyranitar's Stone Edge, and Gholdengo's Make It Rain, while Tera Fairy does so similarly with Fighting and Dragon-type moves from Mega Lopunny, Zamazenta, and Baxcalibur. (Tera Poison and Ground are still good for the same qualities listed in the 3a section, you can p much regurgitate that just not word for word ofc) The given HP EVs allow Kyurem to make 101 HP Substitutes, which prevent it from being broken by Chansey's Seismic Toss. Teammates like Toxapex, Mega Scizor, Clodsire, and Great Tusk are valuable to switch into revenge killers such as Zamazenta, Iron Valiant, Choice Scarf Gholdengo, (cutting bc it's super easy to run it out of MIR behind sub, and the MIR is pretty telegraphed from scarf if you happen to not be behind a sub. The other 3 are perfectly fine tho) and Tapu Lele respectively, especially if it's not behind a Substitute. Clodsire also provides Spikes to chip down opposing Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn, which can stomach Kyurem's easily, while Mega Scizor and Toxapex can absorb Knock Off from Weavile and Tornadus-T for Kyurem. Revenge killers that reliably deal with offensive teams help complement Kyurem's ability to beat balance teams that they struggle with; these Pokemon include Mega Lopunny and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, the former of which can bring Kyurem safely on foes like Toxapex and Zapdos via U-turn, while the latter appreciates Kyurem overwhelming their Steel-type checks. Magnezone can trap and significantly damage or outright OHKO Mega Scizor and Ferrothorn, with Choice Scarf variants taking care of Swords Dance Kartana as well, which would otherwise threaten Kyurem out.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[LOrd Fernado]

implemented ready for the gp GP Team

 

[hidin]

ok so this is going to be real sloppy but im going to have to postpone the GP and revoke the QC considering this is literally the old kyurem analysis but with new mons in place. im going to request you rewrite this from scratch, you can take ideas from the old kyu analysis but in the future please do not just copy and paste it

also 3a isnt a reservable set so just write subroost