varanus_komodoensis
they call me Varanus
What's a good ev spread for a quiet honedge? (soon to be aegislash once its ev trained/leveled). And would this moveset be ok for it?
Shiny Aegislash@assault vest? (already have a mon holding leftovers in my battle team)
Nature: Quiet
IVs: 31/31/0/31/31/31
-Shadow Ball
-Flash Cannon
-Kings Shield
-Sacred Sword/Shadow Sneak?
I'm thinking 252 SpA/252 Spd/6 Hp for the EV spread but I don't know if I should spread the EVs around more. So basically this was an unexpected shiny hatch (was breeding for a normal competitive honedge when the shiny one hatched) and I've decided to add it to my wifi battle team. My current battle team is under reconstruction and so far 4 mons have been decided on. Shadow ball will be the primary attack that I use and it gets stab. Flash cannon gets stab and also gives me a move that will kill fairy's, which is good since none of my other 4 team members know any steel or poison type moves. Kings shield because it seems to be a staple of any aegislash moveset (I've never used one before). I'm thinking about sacred sword as the last move because so far I don't have any fighting type moves in my wifi team, but I don't know if shadow sneak would be better to have.
You have a good set going on here for Aegislash, but Aegislash does not benefit at all from Speed investment. Aegislash typically is a Special or Mixed set, which Quiet nature benefits. Aegislash needs all of the defense investment it can get, but it's already so slow that it doesn't benefit from Speed. Because Aegislash is slow, it needs Shadow Sneak as a priority move to finish off opponents when you are both low on health. Finally, I've never tried Assault Vest on Aegislash, but it gets more use out of Leftovers or Weakness Policy. You can try Assault Vest but I think you'll find that Weakness Policy is better on it because your opponent will suffer greatly from the mistake of using a super-effective move against you in Shield Forme. Also, you cannot use King's Shield while holding an Assault Vest, which means that you will never be able to enter Shield Forme. This is a huge disadvantage to Aegislash because you lose out on a Protect that lowers the opponent's Attack.
A typical Quiet Aegislash looks like this:
Aegislash @ Leftovers/Weakness Policy
Quiet
Stance Change
31/31/31/31/31/x
244 HP/12 Def/252 SpAtk
Shadow Ball
Flash Cannon/Sacred Sword
King's Shield
Shadow Sneak
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