Project National Dex UU Next Best Thing: Cycle 18 - Crobat (Voting)

[Pubo]

reserving banded steela



Celesteela @ Choice Band
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Seed Bomb
- Heavy Slam
- Stone Edge
- Megahorn / Earthquake

Predict right and get a KO! Really good lure to kill something and enable stuff like Malt.

252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Seed Bomb vs. 252 HP / 200+ Def Rotom-Wash: 174-206 (57.2 - 67.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Seed Bomb vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Swampert: 524-620 (129.7 - 153.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Stone Edge vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Rotom-Heat: 284-336 (93.7 - 110.8%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Stone Edge vs. 88 HP / 0 Def Moltres: 656-776 (191.2 - 226.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 220+ Def Amoonguss: 252-297 (58.3 - 68.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tangrowth: 168-198 (41.5 - 49%) -- 80.1% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock

 

[R8]

Sub Leech Meteor Beam Celesteela

Set

Celesteela @ Leftovers
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 248 HP / 24 SpD / 236 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Substitute
- Leech Seed
- Meteor Beam
- Air Slash

Basically you get free turns agaist quite a bunch of stuff like Skarmory, Hippowdon, certain scizor sets, non fire blast malt, tang, amoongus, slowking, etc... by either starting to setup with Meteor Beam, either weakening your own checks such as electrics or melmetal with sub leech. The spread allows you to outspeed 0 speed Moltres, and make your substitute able to always live Slowking's Scald. We go for a modest nature here because it is the most optimal spread able to do the above while having some SpA investment.

 

[Giyu]

Speed Boosting Celesteela

Celesteela @ Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 23 SpA
- Fire Blast
- Flash Cannon
- Air Slash
- Energy Ball

Thanks R8

 

[N_Mareanie]

Celesteela @ Groundium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 12 SpD / 244 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Leech Seed
- Leech Seed
- Heavy Slam

Speed is to outrun modest specs magneton

Probably a mistake, but your set has Leech Seed listed twice. Please fix this or I won’t include your set in the voting slate

 

[ibleachyourskin]

Probably a mistake, but your set has Leech Seed listed twice. Please fix this or I won’t include your set in the voting slate

Fixed.

 

[N_Mareanie]

Deadline has arrived, voting is now


Weakness Policy by Ka1xo

Choice Band by Pubo

SubLeech + Meteor Beam by R8

Choice Specs by GiyuForPresident

Groundium Z by ibleachyourskin

Voting deadline is April 24th​

 

[Giyu]

SubLeech + Meteor Beam

 

[adem]

BBBBBAND

 

[R1C3M4N]

BAN(D) LIGHT CLAY

 

[Pubo]

weakness policy

 

[3MoreMinutes]

band

 

[N_Mareanie]

Voting is over, congratulations to Pubo and his Choice band set for winning this week! Your victory shall be added to the Hall of Fame shortly.

Cycle 9


Tapu Bulu has had its moments in the meta, once considered a top threat and later considered to be utter dogshit, and now has settled nicely within the B ranks. Are you able to find its new potential to push it back to the top meta threat it once was?

Deadline is April 29th
Banned Sets​

 

[Giyu]

Tapu Bulu @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Spe
Impish Nature
- Horn Leech
- Rock Slide
- Protect
- Leech Seed / Toxic

 

[Pubo]

reserving sub disable bulu


Tapu Bulu @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Bulk Up
- Substitute
- Disable
- Darkest Lariat

Sub against Amoonguss, Tangrowth, and Skarmory, take Sludge Bomb or Brave Bird, Disable next turn and boom! They are now setup fodder! No STAB here because even +6 Horn Leech does negative damage against Celesteela, Skarmory, Amoonguss etc.

+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 220+ Def Amoonguss: 322-379 (74.5 - 87.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Tangrowth: 285-336 (70.5 - 83.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Skarmory: 197-232 (58.9 - 69.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

 

[N_Mareanie]

Voting is up!

Tapu Bulu @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Spe
Impish Nature
- Horn Leech
- Rock Slide
- Protect
- Leech Seed / Toxic

reserving sub disable bulu


Tapu Bulu @ Leftovers
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Bulk Up
- Substitute
- Disable
- Darkest Lariat

Sub against Amoonguss, Tangrowth, and Skarmory, take Sludge Bomb or Brave Bird, Disable next turn and boom! They are now setup fodder! No STAB here because even +6 Horn Leech does negative damage against Celesteela, Skarmory, Amoonguss etc.

+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 220+ Def Amoonguss: 322-379 (74.5 - 87.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Tangrowth: 285-336 (70.5 - 83.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+6 40+ Atk Tapu Bulu Darkest Lariat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Skarmory: 197-232 (58.9 - 69.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Voting deadline is May 2nd

 

[WM2N]

Sub Disable

 

[Kinzo]

sub disable

 

[Pubo]

protect + leech seed

 

[3MoreMinutes]

leech tect

 

[R1C3M4N]

Sub disable

 

[Giyu]

Sub disable

 

[N_Mareanie]

Congratulations to Pubo and his SubDisable set! Your victory shall be added to the Hall of Fame shortly!

And now for something special with cycle 10! I want to thank everyone for participating in this for 10 whole cycles now, so we'll be doing something different today.

Cycle 10


Yes, an unranked Pokemon! Every 10 cycles I'll be putting up an unranked Pokemon in the NDUU tier, and it's up to you guys to find its hidden potential! That'll be the reason for no banned sets either - they don't exist yet! So have fun and create the best Infernape set (not) out there!

Deadline is May 6th​

 

[ezra]

np

 

[R1C3M4N]

Infernape @ Choice Specs
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Fire Blast
- Grass Knot
- HP Ice
- Stone Edge/U-turn/Vacuum Wave

Will provide calcs later but pair this with pursuit and all the switchins are gone.

 

[Pubo]

reserving physically defensive 3 Attacks mixed

Yes. The Ultimate Scizor / Zarude / Bisharp counter is here! (Cobalion? what?)

For some reason Nape typing is really good to check some important threats and, unlike Cobalion, Nape have access to recovery in Slack Off


Infernape @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 252 HP / 224 Def / 32 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Slack Off
- Overheat
- Taunt
- Stealth Rock

252 Atk Zarude Power Whip vs. 252 HP / 224+ Def Infernape: 84-100 (23.5 - 28%) -- 91.9% chance to 4HKO

252+ Atk Choice Band Bisharp Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 224+ Def Infernape: 116-137 (32.5 - 38.4%) -- 98.6% chance to 3HKO


252+ Atk Life Orb Scizor Superpower vs. 252 HP / 224+ Def Infernape: 172-203 (48.3 - 57%) -- 90.2% chance to 2HKO

they are all OHKOed by Overheat too so rank monkey