Tyranitar is the [2nd] best choice band user in the tier.
Tyranitar @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk /
4 SpD /
252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Fire Punch
- Ice Punch / Earthquake
I feel like this mon has flown under a lot of people's radars, despite its power. It shares its dark typing with the best of them all in weavile as well as the mon who is praying that weavile gets sent to ubers more than anyone else in the game (
<-poor guy) however it's dark stab isn't what makes it so good, hell weavile is best in class largely because of it's ice stabs, getting priority and a move which someone probably had to get drug tested for when they decided to give it to an ice type with 120 base attack. However ttar's stabs are difficult to switch into for a very similar reason: crunch having that nasty 20% chance to drop physical defence which just means that the scarf fini you just switched in has a [less than] 1/5 chance of getting 2hko'd anyway, and stone edge is similar to triple axel in that it just drops shit left and right. Tyranitar only really needs it stabs to do well and this is shown in that even absolute maximum physical defence toxapex can't switch into either move safely:
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Stone Edge vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 147-174 (48.3 - 57.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Crunch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 118-139 (38.8 - 45.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after sandstorm damage
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Stone Edge vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 220-259 (72.3 - 85.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
Of course tyranitar has 2 other moveslots available to it which lets it hit it's one true nemesis in ferrothorn with odds hugely in its favour to ohko
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Fire Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Ferrothorn: 328-388 (93.1 - 110.2%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
and it ohkos landorus-therian
-1 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 400-472 (104.7 - 123.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
and if you really want to you can bully buzzwole
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyranitar Aerial Ace vs. 152 HP / 0 Def Buzzwole: 332-392 (84.4 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after sandstorm damage
I have found ttar an immensely reliable mon on every team I have put him on and will happily say he is my favourite choice band user. It specs purely into attacking power and is the absolute best mon in this category: with only galarian zapdos really coming close to this level with even buzzwole walling neither of them because of course ttar has flying coverage to hit buzzwole why wouldn't he.
What are your favourite choice mons?
What choice mons do you feel are secretly insane?
What mons (aside from lele) do you think largely benefit from bluffing a choice item like ttar [technically] can with its bulky sr set?