Here's my nomination
Its a little diffrent from usually but very effective if well played.
Item@Heracrossite
Nature: Brave
Abillity: Moxie - Skill link
IV's: 0 Spd
Ev's: 252 Attk / 252 Hp / 4 Sp.def
- Pin Missles
- Rock Blast
- Earthquake / Brick Break / Focus Punch
- Substitute
I used this set back in the days when there was no tier system yet or neither OU really well announced
and I loved it, since well Heracross is one of my favorite mons aswell.
Oke first of the bat. 185 Base power is insane.
being second highest with his attack stat of the metagame only beaten by M-mewto X is already fame worthy.
There is one thing noticebly with M-heracross however, he obtains bulk with sheer force but loses speed in the progress
so why not take advantage of the drop in speed and make him usefull in Trick room? He has an base 75 speed which sets on him sort of
on the borderline for being well used in Trick room, but with the average speed of the OU metagame 75 speed is quite good to take advantage of.
I would like to start of that every M-heracross NEEDS to have
substitute in order to avoid being crippled by status such as Burns or toxics.
This also garantuees his safety for 1 turn against incoming threats like Talonflame. This set aims for Trick room support and Gale wings ignores the Trick room and kills M-heracross in one hit, however in order to nail Talfonflame there is still the luck factor with Rock blast's horrible acc that comes in play when it hits you win when it misses you lose but the win is very satisfying.
Pin missles is his main stab of choice, being a 125 base power + Stab move outclasses Megahorn with more chance to get crits and also pierces through substitutes, as a side bonus it will also not receive rocky helmet damage or Iron barbs damage. As stated before
Rock blast is there for killing flying types and fire types just alike and takes advantage of skill link too. The third option is an prefence, If you are affraid that Heracross will struggle against Aeglislash you pick
EQ, If you dont want Screens to stop you from doing your job
Brick break is a solid choice with Stab power.
Focus Punch in combination with Substitute can really payof but whenever your forced to attack, it will leave undesired but nevertheless its a solid choice of move aswell.
Partners:
I tried severall partners for M-heracross
but the best partner in my expercience turns out to be Slowbro.
Slowbro is a great Trick Room setter and he can take physical flying types quite well. If M-heracross misses Rock blast you can swap to Slowbro take a hit and force a switch to Talonflame.
He can also take psychic hits and fire hits which would otherwise be fatal for M-heracross. combined with a good Special sponge and these three become an solid core. ( I used Florges as the third partner, and she provided Wish support for Heracross aswell )
If this set would be chosen we can try to follow an Trick room based team.