Toad
Seismitoad @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Relaxed Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Scald
- Sludge Bomb / earthquake
- Knock Off
Mega Sableye
It doesn't like taking scald burns or sludge bombs, so when they switch to their cleric to heal, you just bop em with knock off.
Latios / Latias
Can't do much against these other than threaten knock off. LO/specs Draco are too risky to chance staying in on. Pair with Mega Metagross to handle this stuff well.
Excadrill
Scald 2hkoes and EQ doesn't 2kho if it's not a choice set. You could opt to run EQ over sludge bomb, but it hurts your matchup against fini.
Pheromosa
Eh. Screw this thing. You can threaten to burn, but it's not worth staying in.
Skarmory
Scared of scald and knock off. You can just keep setting in its face.
Tapu Fini
Sludge bomb and knock off are really disliked by fini, since they hamper its unrecoverable HP total. Moonblast 3HKos, so you can set rocks and then scare it out with sludge. Water absorb is also nice in the matchup, since going to a steel, will make fini either switch or scald, which you can come back in on.
Zapdos
Again, scald and knock off are just a pain for Zapdos. Zap can't hurt you unless it's either toxic or HP grass. The latter is obviously rare, but for toxic sets (and if your team is weak to status) you can run chesto-resto in place of sludge bomb.
Seismitoad @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Relaxed Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Scald
- Sludge Bomb / earthquake
- Knock Off
Mega Sableye
It doesn't like taking scald burns or sludge bombs, so when they switch to their cleric to heal, you just bop em with knock off.
Latios / Latias
Can't do much against these other than threaten knock off. LO/specs Draco are too risky to chance staying in on. Pair with Mega Metagross to handle this stuff well.
Excadrill
Scald 2hkoes and EQ doesn't 2kho if it's not a choice set. You could opt to run EQ over sludge bomb, but it hurts your matchup against fini.
Pheromosa
Eh. Screw this thing. You can threaten to burn, but it's not worth staying in.
Skarmory
Scared of scald and knock off. You can just keep setting in its face.
Tapu Fini
Sludge bomb and knock off are really disliked by fini, since they hamper its unrecoverable HP total. Moonblast 3HKos, so you can set rocks and then scare it out with sludge. Water absorb is also nice in the matchup, since going to a steel, will make fini either switch or scald, which you can come back in on.
Zapdos
Again, scald and knock off are just a pain for Zapdos. Zap can't hurt you unless it's either toxic or HP grass. The latter is obviously rare, but for toxic sets (and if your team is weak to status) you can run chesto-resto in place of sludge bomb.
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