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Project UU Matchmaking v4 - Week 29: - Special Salamence! (Submissions!)
- Thread starter Rae
- Start date
Amoongus
Week 22: Meteor Beam Nihilego
Nihilego @ Power Herb
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 80 HP / 176 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Meteor Beam
- Sludge Wave
- Thunderbolt
- Grass Knot
A terrifying special sweeper in the tier, Meteor Beam Nihilego is able to absolutely tear through unprepared teams, boosting it's stats to such a degree it's frankly ridiculous. However, it's rather prone to Steel-type Pokemon and revenge killers like Lycanroc and Azumarill. How'll you help this parasite leech off of the metagame for success? 5 days to submit
Krookodile @ Focus Sash
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Stealth Rock
- Taunt
Krookodile is a common lead on hyper offense teams as a reliable Stealth Rock setter that can get them up by living any attack with Focus Sash. It is also a great way of dealing with Jirachi and Aegislash for Nihilego.
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Zygarde-10% @ Choice Band
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Extreme Speed
- Outrage
- Glare
Zydog is a great partner to Nihilego because zydog can remove steel types like celesteela and aegislash who annoy Nihilego.Additionaly Nihilego can kill off grass types like tapu bulu,Tangrowth and Zarude who annoy Zydog.
Here are some calcs
Spdef steela:252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Celesteela: 178-211 (44.7 - 53%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Defensive Steela:252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Celesteela: 144-169 (36.1 - 42.4%) -- 94.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
Sub+toxic Aegislash:252 Atk Choice Band Zygarde-10% Thousand Arrows vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Aegislash-Blade: 638-752 (196.9 - 232%) -- guaranteed OHKO.
THE RETURN - Roserade
Roserade @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Leaf Storm
- Sludge Bomb
- Spikes
- Sleep Powder
welcome back everyone! Krook wins last round, yadayadayada, but this project is coming back! Lets jump right into it and I’m sorry that this post is messing its because I’m making it at 11pm at night! This week we’ll be looking at Roserade, an amazing spiker who’s shot up in usage recently. What do you plan to pair this flower with? 5
Roserade @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Leaf Storm
- Sludge Bomb
- Spikes
- Sleep Powder
welcome back everyone! Krook wins last round, yadayadayada, but this project is coming back! Lets jump right into it and I’m sorry that this post is messing its because I’m making it at 11pm at night! This week we’ll be looking at Roserade, an amazing spiker who’s shot up in usage recently. What do you plan to pair this flower with? 5
Buzzwole @ Leftovers / Rocky Helmet / Life Orb / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 152 HP / 252 Atk / 104 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Close Combat
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Roost
Buzzwole greatly appreciates the spikes support it gets from Roserade, making its already difficult to switch into attacks a pain to deal with. Since this is a more offensive version of Roserade, it can deal with RestTalk Primarina, Amoonguss, and Keldeo a for Buzzwole. Buzzwole being able to break through Steel-types such as Celesteela, Jirachi, and Aegislash also benefit Roserade's offensive presence.
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Azelf @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Psychic
- Knock Off
- U-turn
- Flamethrower
Azelf is a great pick to go with azelf, taking advantage of the spikes set to break through checks like aegislash and jirachi. It can also pivot to bring in Roserade.
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Rotom-Wash @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Volt Switch
- Pain Split
- Trick
Rotom-Wash is an excellent partner for Roserade for a variety of reasons:
- It is able to use its Water typing to handle the faster Fire types that threaten Roserade
- It can threaten damage on and sponge hits from the Steel types that Roserade cannot hurt
- It keeps momentum up throughout a game, forcing more and more damage in combination with Roserade's Spikes
- It can freely come in on Earthquakes that Roserade does not appreciate taking due to only being neutral to them
- It can help make up for Roserade's only decent speed tier using its Scarf set
- Switch in on the Grass-types that threaten Rotom and threaten them in return with its Poison-type STAB moves
- Absorb Spore attempts from Amoonguss that would stall the team's momentum
- Force damage throughout a game with Spikes and possible poisons from Sludge Bomb
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Krookodile @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Knock Off
- Earthquake
- Toxic
Krookodile + Roserade form a pretty neat hazards combo, Krook being able to pressure a lot of common removers with its stabs and Toxic, while acting as an offensive check to Aegislash, Jirachi, Nihilego and Tentacruel that can all bother Rose. Bulky Krook with (a lot of) HP investment is worth considering, since it makes it more reliable at checking the aforementioned, and overall gives it more defensive presence and ability to soft check a bunch of other threats.
In return, Roserade can Spikes on a bunch of krook switch-ins, notably bullying the regen grasses, rotom wash and other waters depending on your investment (full hp/even fatter variants are better in that regard).
The two together are great at making progress since our removals arent great and can lose to either, and both bring an insane amount of utility in only two slots.
...but the buzzer is the superior rose partner cant lie
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Buzzwole wins! thank you everyone for voting, onto the next week!
Week 24 - Pivot Azelf
Azelf @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Psychic
- Knock Off
- U-turn
- Flamethrower
Azelf has proven to be an incredibly versatile Pokemon that can take advantage of its high Speed tier and offensive capabilities to run this fast support set, making it an amazing pivot for teammates while using Knock Off to get rid of opposing Pokemon's items. I'm sure plenty of Pokemon appreciates its utility and offensive presence, so lets see who does it best! 5 days to submit!
Week 24 - Pivot Azelf
Azelf @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Psychic
- Knock Off
- U-turn
- Flamethrower
Azelf has proven to be an incredibly versatile Pokemon that can take advantage of its high Speed tier and offensive capabilities to run this fast support set, making it an amazing pivot for teammates while using Knock Off to get rid of opposing Pokemon's items. I'm sure plenty of Pokemon appreciates its utility and offensive presence, so lets see who does it best! 5 days to submit!
@ Leftovers Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
Krookodile helps azelf by wearing down its checks with stealth rocks wear down stuff in addition to u-turn gaining momentum of stuff such as moltres-g, umbreon, and incineroar. Toxic can also help against pokemon like umbreon, incineroar and can force moltres-g to rest which makes it easier to take advantage of.
Thank you for the submissions gamers! Time to vote!
HydreigonTheChild with Krookodile!
Monky25 with Thundy-T!
two days to vote, you know the drill!
HydreigonTheChild with Krookodile!
Monky25 with Thundy-T!
two days to vote, you know the drill!
