OU Gastrodon

[Jordy]

Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Ability: Storm Drain
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Scald
- Recover
- Toxic
- Earthquake

Gastrodon has seen a surge in usage over the past couple of months for its ability to take on certain metagame titans. Gastrodon has an amazing Water / Ground typing that, when coupled with its amazing bulk, lets it combat Mega Latios, Magearna, and most variants of Heatran. Its typing also makes it stand out as one of the few Water-types that isn't weak to Electric-type attacks, which ultimately lets it take on Electric-types such as Tapu Koko, something a lot of teams appreciate. Its ability Storm Drain is also a blessing, as it lets Gastrodon successfully combat Ash-Greninja, something most Pokemon simply can't. Access to reliable recovery in Recover lets it constantly switch into these Pokemon and keep them at bay. Gastrodon struggles against Grass-types, which makes Pokemon that can take them on, such as Heatran and Tornadus-T, great partners.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-384173 In this replay, Gastrodon can be seen consistently switching into Greninja, completely neutering it from doing anything in the match.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-380424 Gastrodon consistently keeps Gliscor low in this replay, which allowed for the rest of the team to deal with it.

 

[Jordy]

This is now ready for qc! If anyone has a recent replay of Gastrodon walling other Pokemon than just Greninja (ie Tapu Koko, Magearna, Heatran etc.) that'd be greatly appreciated.

 

[Felixx]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-380424
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-384113
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-384173

Wcop replays where Gastro helped secure the bag

 

[Leo]

The first 2 sentences sound kinda repetitive and I was thinking you could merge them but looking back at it I can kinda see what structure you were going for, maybe try something like not giving examples at first (smt smt check metagame titans that threaten a variety of teams in the current meta or something) and then list the actual examples in the next few sentence as you did. Semantics aside this looks pretty good, I probs wouldnt mention a “recent surge” at the very beginning cause its been a while already and its gonna be even longer when this gets published but thats up to u, 1/1

 

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

colors are mostly self-explanatory if you've ever implemented any gp check

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Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Ability: Storm Drain
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Scald
- Recover
- Toxic
- Earthquake

Gastrodon has seen a surge in usage over the past couple of months for its ability to take on certain metagame titans. Gastrodon has an amazing Water / Ground typing in Water and Ground this that, (AC) when coupled with its amazing bulk, lets it combat Mega Latios, Magearna, and most variants of Heatran. Its typing also makes it stand out as one of the few Water-types that isn't weak to Electric-type attacks, which ultimately lets it take on Electric-types such as Tapu Koko, something a lot of teams appreciate. Its ability Storm Drain is also a blessing, as it lets Gastrodon successfully combat Ash-Greninja, something most Pokemon simply can't. Access to reliable recovery in Recover lets it constantly switch into these Pokemon and keep them at bay. Gastrodon struggles against Grass-types, which makes Pokemon who can take on Grass-types, like Heatran and Tornadus-T pair really well with it that can take them on, such as Heatran and Tornadus-T, great partners.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-384173 In this replay, (AC) Gastrodon can be seen consistently switching into Greninja, completely neutering it from doing anything in the match.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-380424 Gastrodon consistently keeps Gliscor low in this replay, which allowed for its the rest of the team to deal with it.

1/1

 

[Jordy]

colors are mostly self-explanatory if you've ever implemented any gp check

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Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Ability: Storm Drain
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Scald
- Recover
- Toxic
- Earthquake

Gastrodon has seen a surge in usage over the past couple of months for its ability to take on certain metagame titans. Gastrodon has an amazing Water / Ground typing that, when coupled with its amazing bulk, lets it combat Mega Latios, Magearna, and most variants of Heatran. Its typing also makes it stand out as one of the few Water-types that isn't weak to Electric-type attacks, which ultimately lets it take on Electric-types such as Tapu Koko, something a lot of teams appreciate. Its ability Storm Drain is also a blessing, as it lets Gastrodon successfully combat Ash-Greninja, something most Pokemon simply can't. Access to reliable recovery in Recover lets it constantly switch into these Pokemon and keep them at bay. Gastrodon struggles against Grass-types, which makes Pokemon that can take them on, such as Heatran and Tornadus-T, great partners.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-384173 In this replay, Gastrodon can be seen consistently switching into Greninja, completely neutering it from doing anything in the match.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7ou-380424 Gastrodon consistently keeps Gliscor low in this replay, which allowed for the rest of the team to deal with it.

1/1

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