Regieleki
Type: Electric
Base Stats: HP: 80 / Atk: 100 / Def: 50 / SpA: 100 / SpD: 50 / Spe: 200 / BST: 580
Ability: Transistor - If an Electric-type move is used by Regieleki, it receives a 1.5 (50%) boost.
Notable Moves:
Thunderbolt
Volt Switch
Tera Blast
Thunder Cage
Rapid Spin
Electro Ball
Wild Charge
Acrobatics
Thunder Wave
Substitute
Reflect
Light Screen
Explosion
Ancient Power
Extreme Speed
Terastal Potential:
You can't talk about Pros and Cons without first talking about this. This is the primary and pretty much ONLY reason you run Regieleki, with it serving as arguably the biggest winner of Tera in the entire game. The advent of Tera Blast + Tera Ice allows Regieleki to remove its biggest hurdle in Ground-types at its leisure, and simply beat or vortex everything else out with Volt Switch. In short, Tera launches Regieleki from a niche option to an S rank threat in the current SV OU landscape.
Pros:
- Base 200 Speed makes Regieleki THE fastest Pokémon in the game, notably being able to beat or revenge kill many boosted threats such as Booster Energy Valiant or Basculegion in the rain.
- The coveted BoltBeam coverage gives Regieleki the ability to beat mostly everything it needs to, targetting the Ground-types that it normally can't beat such as Great Tusk, Landorus-T, and Ursaluna, and chipping away at even the bulkiest ones in Clodsire and Ting-Lu.
- Transistor + Volt Switch allows it to chip and vortex away at pretty much everything else before it is able to clean the rest of the team. Bring those HAZARDS.
- Rapin Spin allows it to serve as hazard control in a tier notably devoid of it, giving it extra utility.
Cons:
- Requires Terastallizing to make the best use of it, which can have drawbacks throughout the game (e.g. locking one out of defensive Teraing).
- Incredibly frail, which can backfire if the Regieleki user is not careful with their positioning. No amount of Speed will also save it from most of the priority in the tier as well.
- Lost Assurance which makes physical sets worse. :(
- That said, these cons are so miniscule to the upsides Regieleki brings that they merely serve as footnotes.
Potential Sets
Brokeleki [Offensive Pivot]
Regieleki @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Transistor
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Volt Switch
- Tera Blast
- Rapid Spin
- Standard Regieleki, and very self-explanatory. You pivot around everything with Volt Switch, Tera Blast the things that resist or are immune to it, then clean up eventually.
- Timid beats Booster Valiant and everything under, though Modest can be used if you desire more power at the cost of giving up some benchmarks such as the aforementioned Valiant, or Jolly Basculegion in the rain.
- Choice Specs is an option over HDB that forgoes longevity in place of turning Eleki into a pure breaker, though your reads have to be on-point.
- ESpeed / Sub / Protect / Thunder Cage / whatever are other options you can explore on the 4th slot at your leisure, though it's hard to beat the consistency of Rapid Spin.
- Other Tera-types like Grass can help you beat mons like Gastrodon if you'd rather that.
- If you want a C Rank set, you still have access to Dual Screens if you so choose.
Conclusion:
This is an Uber Pokémon.
