Hey so this is my first rate my team and I wanted to create a team around Nihilego cause that's one of my favorite mons ever.Please let me know if I need to change anything or even if they have Nihilego teams themselves
Zamazenta-Crowned @ Rusted Shield
Ability: Dauntless Shield
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Howl
- Behemoth Bash
- Close Combat
- Ice Fang
This is one of the two pokemon I wanted to use since we don't know whether or not Zamazenta will stay.It's basically here not only here for speed control but also for its bulk. My team really needed a mon that could take hits and dish them back while also being able to set up with relative ease.
Nihilego @ Power Herb
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Meteor Beam
- Power Gem
- Dazzling Gleam
- Grass Knot
This is of course the second pokemon I wanted to use since it's one of my favorite pokemon.This mon is meant to be a cleaner once either the steel types are gone or every one of their pokemon is low enough health to clean up.It's also here as a volc check since I don't have many of thoose on my team.As for the moves I decided to use meteor beam is self explanatory,power gem is my preferred stab option over sludge wave cause i think it hits more important targets for nuetral damage such as heatran,corviknight and landorus.Dazzling Gleam is for the dragons in the tier especially garchomp and grass knot is so that Nihilego doesn't get walled by ground types
Slowking @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- Slack Off
- Future Sight
- Teleport
Slowking is just a great mon for pivoting,future sighting, and as a special wall. It pairs incredibly well with zamazenta because of future sigh support.I also don't have much pivoting on this team so Slowking seemed like a natural pick
Kyurem @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Ice Beam
- Freeze-Dry
- Draco Meteor
This mon is a incredible breaker with very few switch ins.I needed a way to deal with ground types for my Nihilego and Zamazenta and kyurem seemed like a natural pick.I also knew I couldn't rely on my main form of offense Hawlucha that much which is why I needed another offensive mon.
Rillaboom @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Grassy Glide
- Knock Off
- Superpower
Another mon here to counter ground types like swampert,hippowdon,etc.Grassy Terrain also helps Zamazenta with one of its main issues a little bit which is chip damage.Priority in a really strong grassy glide is also nice
Hawlucha @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Stone Edge
- Close Combat
- Acrobatics
This mon is to act as another cleaner/last resort kinda mon.I knew I couldn't rely on just Nihilego to check volc and so Hawlucha is here not only as a way to check it once unburden is activated but also to stop mons that could easily outspeed me with set up and wreck my team like scale shot+swords dance garchomp.Furthermore since I had a rillaboom on my team I firgured i may as well add another deadly sweeper that just so happens to help with Nihilego's main problem which is steel types.
Zamazenta-Crowned @ Rusted Shield
Ability: Dauntless Shield
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Howl
- Behemoth Bash
- Close Combat
- Ice Fang
This is one of the two pokemon I wanted to use since we don't know whether or not Zamazenta will stay.It's basically here not only here for speed control but also for its bulk. My team really needed a mon that could take hits and dish them back while also being able to set up with relative ease.
Nihilego @ Power Herb
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Meteor Beam
- Power Gem
- Dazzling Gleam
- Grass Knot
This is of course the second pokemon I wanted to use since it's one of my favorite pokemon.This mon is meant to be a cleaner once either the steel types are gone or every one of their pokemon is low enough health to clean up.It's also here as a volc check since I don't have many of thoose on my team.As for the moves I decided to use meteor beam is self explanatory,power gem is my preferred stab option over sludge wave cause i think it hits more important targets for nuetral damage such as heatran,corviknight and landorus.Dazzling Gleam is for the dragons in the tier especially garchomp and grass knot is so that Nihilego doesn't get walled by ground types
Slowking @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- Slack Off
- Future Sight
- Teleport
Slowking is just a great mon for pivoting,future sighting, and as a special wall. It pairs incredibly well with zamazenta because of future sigh support.I also don't have much pivoting on this team so Slowking seemed like a natural pick
Kyurem @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Earth Power
- Ice Beam
- Freeze-Dry
- Draco Meteor
This mon is a incredible breaker with very few switch ins.I needed a way to deal with ground types for my Nihilego and Zamazenta and kyurem seemed like a natural pick.I also knew I couldn't rely on my main form of offense Hawlucha that much which is why I needed another offensive mon.
Rillaboom @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Grassy Glide
- Knock Off
- Superpower
Another mon here to counter ground types like swampert,hippowdon,etc.Grassy Terrain also helps Zamazenta with one of its main issues a little bit which is chip damage.Priority in a really strong grassy glide is also nice
Hawlucha @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Stone Edge
- Close Combat
- Acrobatics
This mon is to act as another cleaner/last resort kinda mon.I knew I couldn't rely on just Nihilego to check volc and so Hawlucha is here not only as a way to check it once unburden is activated but also to stop mons that could easily outspeed me with set up and wreck my team like scale shot+swords dance garchomp.Furthermore since I had a rillaboom on my team I firgured i may as well add another deadly sweeper that just so happens to help with Nihilego's main problem which is steel types.
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prefers a Speed boost over a SpA boost, since it already gains one from Meteor Beam. It KOes most mons anyways in mid-to-late game. It needs the speed boost to outspeed faster mons like Zeraora 
and Dragapult 
(although they don't KO Nihilego unless it is previously chipped).
set is more fit for Hyper Offense. Since this is Bulky Offense, I suggest changing it to a Choice Band set.
with Heatran 
. It also benefits from the Grassy Terrain provided by Rillaboom 
doesn't fit on BO, and this team lacks good speed control. I suggest changing Hawlucha to Scarf Lando-T 
. It also provides emergency defogging support.