Dragons of SV OU
I've been spamming quite a lot of Dragons as of lately, I wanna share my experiences for some of them.
Re: Re: Roaring Moon
I've said a few times here that I was always disappointed with its Dragon Dance sets, as its very easy to revenge kill it with abundance of priority running wild right now, and I also believed Roaring Moon had always relied on a good Tera set to not get revengekilled. (Ie, Steel is very common to block Fairy and Ice Shard, while Flying blocks Breloom). But still you needed the correct Tera typing and not running into some specific Pokemon so it felt too much of a gamble. Therefore, I opted for a Choice Band set.
Roaring Moon @ Choice Band
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- U-turn
- Outrage
- Crunch
- Earthquake
This set is rocking a 566 Atk and 370 Speed whenever you enter. This results in some fun knockouts.
Baxcalibur
I've been mainly using the set below, this thing's 145 attack paired with Swords Dance ( Because come on now, it dies to Bullet Punch and Mach Punch so I never really benefited that much from DD sets. Plus there are far greater sweepers.) results in some insane calculations. 145 attack alone is devastating to get rid of quite a lot of things. But since metagame is still largely offensive, I believe the true value of this Pokemon will come once Balance teams develop and meta gets slower. Or it will be relevant in UU, who knows. Another niche this thing has is it can take a hit from unboosted Chien Pao and OHKO back with unboosted Glaive Rush.
Baxcalibur @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Thermal Exchange
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Ice Shard
- Earthquake
- Glaive Rush
Dragonite
Main set I've been using is Band Extremespeed on Tera Normal. The power levels is insane, half of tier is straight out OHKOed, let alone 2hko. With hazards omnipresent Dragonite is one of most vicious cleaners rn.
Im posting this in basically every platform possible, Sorry of this is a repost but this is just hilarious.
DD sets are still strong, you can make a good use of Tera Steel to block Fairy- and Ice-types in one go. Overall Dragonite is still a pretty relevant threat.
Dragapult
Specs set is still omnipresent, havent seen any creative set beside Tera Ghost to boost Shadow Balls. Shoutouts to that one dude who had Band Tera Blast bcuz they didnt wanna run Phantom Force. Its still an incredibly good Pokemon with perfect ish Coverage but for some reason not a lot of people are using it.
Garchomp
Spikes is a v good addition, provides flexibility and is a good electric immune. (Albeit there are next to no good electric mons). Still works well as a good physical tank. Overall I believe is a good mon but I havent explored Chomp enough. I believe the loss of Toxic is very significant.
Cyclizar
Screens + Shed Tail is devolving into something that isnt pleasant to play against. Once Cyclizar catches off something off guard, its almost guaranteed you are losing some drastical momentum. Due to Regenerator Cyclizar only loses 17% HP from that transaction, and it may be used multiple times a battle, unlike Orthworm who can only use it once or twice situationally, so I think Cyclizar is the main problem here. We should get rid of it.
Other unviable crap, I havent tested.