Suicune [WIP]

[hayedenn]

[SET]
name: Substitute + Calm Mind
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Calm Mind
move 3: Scald
move 4: Weather Ball / Ice Beam / Roar
item: Leftovers
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 64 Def / 192 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

• Bulky water that isn't weak to U-Turn
• Give up some defensive utility (like vs terrak) to be an offensive threat
• are able to pressure defensive walls such as ferrothorn with scald burns and non magic guard chansey sets
• substitute is to avoid status and be a general nuisance
• calm mind boosts stats, scald is main attacking move
• weather ball lets suicune threaten desolate land attackers that would otherwise wall it such as heatran and cinderace
• ice beam hits water absorb pokemon such as landorus-t, roar phazes setup sweepers such as mew and garchomp
• ev spread lets suicune outspeed modest heatran and live choice band adapt terrak cc after rocks

Paragraph 2:

• suicune fits best on bulky offense and semistall teams that like its ability to check common threats such as cinderace and barraskewda as well as threaten the opposing team offensively
• if foregoing weather ball, a desolate land check such as zygc is necessary
• other defensive walls such as slowking-galar and ferrothorn pair well with suicune as they shore up the weaknesses to sd chomp/zapdos-galar/terrakion
• specially-defensive walls such as zygc and chansey pair well
• entry hazards removal is necessary bc suicune runs leftovers so corv/mandi
• unaware walls such as mew/mandi shore up suicune's weaknesses to physical setup sweepers

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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- theoretically shield or an immunity like vabsorb can work but suicune has no reliable form of recovery and appreciates regenerator's ability to heal off chip damage

Checks and Counters
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**Desolate Land**: if foregoing weather ball suicune cannot threaten any desolate land pokemon

**Magic Guard Chansey and Blissey**:

**Powerful Physical Attackers**: Suicune is not able to consistently switch into Adapt/TC mons due to its defensive-typing and lack of non-regenerator recovery

**Entry Hazards**: Suicune runs lefties so it is susceptible to entry hazards

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[beauts, 484270/]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

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