So upon switching into SR and an Icicle crash, Rotom's at worst at 47% after leftovers. Use Will-o-wisp, Pain Split and Will-o-wisp again if the first one misses. You'll be at something like 230/242 HP after the Pain split, worst case scenario barring crits. After Will-o-miss finally connects, you're pretty much golden. Start spamming Blizzard to prevent Braviary from switching in, and wait until Piloswine dies from the burn. You might have to Pain split once more if the first WoW missed.
while Rotom-F responds with
And even if Rotom comes in with 1% HP, a Pain Split will bring Rotom back to 83%, easily surviving two B-birds and 2HKOing in response.
To say it tickles is an overstatement: even Bravairy's maximum powered Brave Bird has no chance to nab the 3HKO. The Air Balloon gives Probopass a safe switch-in on the duo: don't worry that Braviary pops your balloon before Piloswine does, point is you didn't get EQed to death. If you're facing Piloswine, you Magnet Rise as Pilo thinks he's in the clear after popping your balloon and BAM! They just wasted their turn, and this time the Ground immunity needs to be stalled out instead of just poking at it. While Braviary is known to triumph over Rock types, Power Gem + Toxic Probopass is not one of them. Even if Braviary Roosts to weaken Power Gem, a well-timed Toxic puts the American avian out of the count.
What makes Probopass such a worthy investment is that it requires ZERO investment (not even a positive nature) to 3HKO Pilo and break Brav's Subs, allowing it to compensate for the heavy speed investment by dumping the other EVs in bulk. However, full offensive investment can still be used to bump from 3HKOing-->2HKOing Pilo 100% of the time in exchange for getting 3HKOed by +6 Braviary's Brave Bird (not that it'll get that far if you've played well at all). Flash Cannon easily deals with Pilo whereas Braviary will expose himself to a Toxic sooner or later with those Power Gems shooting his Subs down. This pretty much shows that whether it's defensive or offensive, Magnet Rise Probo handles this core with eyes facing south (hurr hurr).
B)After using Wish, switch into Regirock. Regirock will take the damage and have its health fully recovered due to Alomomola's Wish.
C) Use Curse. After a Curse, Piloswine can't 2HKO Regirock anymore while the rock peak Pokemon demolishes Piloswine with Drain Punch.
Against Braviary, it's even better since Regirock can beat it with a well-timed Toxic after a Roost and prevents itself from being PP stalled or just hit hard with STAB SE Rock Slide.
53 damage, max rolls. So using two turns to get to +2, and another two to attack gives us a dead Probopass... With Braviary barely hanging on to life itself after the recoil and the Power gems. Using Toxic on the first Bulk up results in Braviary dying to poison right after Probopass falls, but if he Subs as you Toxic first turn you're in a worse situation than before, without having to rely on these max damage shenanigans. (7 max rolls, a chance of something like one out of two hundred million... I'd consider this a hard counter, honestly, but the chance is still out there =P)
Wow, that's quite a bummer dude. Hopefully you can find something soon and reserve it as soon as you are able!
Braviary would much rather switch to Piloswine at this point rather than die, idm because
Look what it's switching into! So most of the time it's safe to Head Smash, but just in case Braviary wants to fuck around, that's what Roar is for. Also +6 Braviary,
Still can't -always- OHKO. And by that time it's been Roared out and Simipour can take out Piloswine.
After SR it suvives too!
Braviary can Sub, but Simipour can break it and Rampardos can finish it off, surviving Brave Birds, etc.
Also,
That's 252 HP.
Perhaps I should hit the final nail in the coffin on why this core is shaky. Here's how I predict a haxfree scenario:
You may post as many sets as needed as long as you haven't been proven wrong. You can delete The part of your posts where you post the set since it's basicaly giving it away to the one who reserved it. What I suggest for the future is that you immediatly resereve the mon you want to use and then you modify your post or make another post with the set to make sure no one ninja's you. Sorry for your bad luck, but I have to apply the rules :(
okay cherub and I tested it, and the prediction part came in, meaning he did beat it.
Well the rules did say:
Your core has proven to not be solid counters to the BravPilo core, the main problem being that either poke cannot switch into Pilo's EQ. They can definitely handle Braviary and Pilo with the right moves and spread, but I think it's too late to edit your sets at this point.
This alone is not enough. Your Braviary checks both, but I refuse to call it a counter. After killing Piloswine, you are choice-locked into Superpower, which you used twice, and that means you are at -2 Atk and the opposing SubBU Braviary, which now comes in, can set up on you, as even after SR it can safely use Bulk Up, so you can no longer break its Substitutes, which means you are forced out and have to switch to something you don't have, since you are using only one Pokémon to counter.
Another thing is, if you come in on SubBU Braviary's Substitute, or Bulk Up, you can no longer OHKO it, which means the opposing Braviary can hit you hard with a Brave Bird.
Then, assumed the best case scenario for you; a dead Braviary:
These two attacks will be enough to KO your CB Braviary, even without SR... and you don't even have 80 HP EV's, but 4 (I forgot to change it in the calculator, but it does not matter as it only made you be KO'd easier).
