Conquer Phoenix
Falling Light
In it to be it
In it to be it
IN!
As a heads up, I'll be out of town again from July 9-31 and may or may not have internet access during the beginning of the trip.
votin snorlax
i'll be in the tour
so are we just gunna ignore the sign up form
Username & PS Alt: Lugia-sama (Bury Tow)
Time-Zone: GMT -5
PO/PS Name?: Charizard_Rulez84
Wi-Fi Friend Code?: 1848-2888-8103
Why do you want to join?: other guild didn't seem to like me I dunno lol, so I'll try another
Number of badges of Serebii Leagues?: 0 currently, I've had up to 6 on pokegyms but leagues tend to reset before I can get all badges
Battling Experience?: been competitive since gen 5(current steel leader in trinity league fairy leader on pokegyms)
Referrer?: none
Welcome! Right now you're in Default Rank. Though an OU battle with the war team, council, or I can straighten that up by launching you to Rank 1! Enjoy yourself, right now we have a CCAT and Tour going so hop on in.
Thanks a lot , I got your PM i'm usually on my phone and cant use discord, but when I get the chance i'll head to the discord!
I can have that battle anytime you wish
as for the CCAT I like reuniclus ^_^
and i'll join in on the tour
Username & PS Alt: my PS name same as serebii name
Time-Zone: gmt -5
Durant @ Darkinium Z
Ability: Hustle
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Hone Claws
- X-Scissor
- Iron Head
- Crunch
Oh so here we got a nice little bugger; Durant! Durant packs quite a punch with its ability Hustle, and while it causes all his moves to have Stone Edge accuracy this can be remedied by one use of Hone Claws, which boosts those moves to over 100% accuracy after a +1. Essentially nabbing a +3 in conjunction with the Hustle boost and Z-Hone Claws. The crux of this set is Z-Hone Claws which is a Swords Dance and an accuracy boost in one turn! Let's not forget that better then average 109 base speed. Its this deadly combo of speed and power that makes Durant an excellent late game sweeper. The moveset is standard enough, I felt we could forgo Superpower for Crunch this time as Doublade is absolutely prominent in the tier and pretty much a hard stop to this hard working ant. It can also double as nuke that won't miss should we need it thanks to Blackhole Eclipse. Outspeeding Durant naturally is a hard thing to do in this tier, as 109 does outspeed a good chunk. Scarfers like HP Fire Shaymin, Fire Punch Flygon, and Flamethrower Zoroark can be a bit troublesome. The last two are rare though, from what I see, so be sure to scout for those scarves. Let's not forget Salazzle as a check as well. While most walls would be hard pressed to take a hit from Durant after a z-boost, they can still do so and do so well enough to cripple Durant. Notable mentions goes to bulky waters like Quagsire, Pyukumuku even Qwilfish or the ubiqutious Chesnaught who all eat from full and can proceed to either Haze away the boost or Roar away, so we need to ensure these are sufficiently weakened which brings home the point of hazard neccesity. With the exclusion of Superpower, certain Steels and Fires can give us a hard time as well. Registeel can eat and cripple with T-Wave and Torkoal/Rotom-H can plain roast us so we'll need to weaken those as well.
As mentioned, Durant is known for its late game sweepin capabilities! Once the opposition has been sufficiently weakened via rocks and general attackin this ant can go to town on the enemy with very little to stop it. Or depending on our team, Durant can easily be the one to punch holes for the rest of the team. Durant has poor special defense though so don't expect it to stand up in the face of STAB special hits. Though Durants resistances and decent physical defense still do help it to find many set up opportunities and +2 Hustle boosted attacks DO hurt. Don't believe me? Take a look. These are calcs on the tiers premier physical walls after the Z-Hone Claws.
+2 252 Atk Hustle Durant Iron Head vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Gligar: 160-190 (48 - 57%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
+2 252 Atk Hustle Durant X-Scissor vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Milotic: 289-342 (73.3 - 86.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
+2 252 Atk Hustle Durant Iron Head vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Chesnaught: 217-256 (57.1 - 67.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
It just needs the proper team support and we're ready to flow. So Spikes/Rocks to help achieve 2HKOs and we'll need other mons to pressure Durant checks and counters such as special attackers. Chesnaught or Froslass can set up spikes as well Froslass can do so very quickly, but her frailty lends us to have to act quickly on them, but Chesnaught has more staying power. In the end, not a lot can stand to take more then 2 boosted hits from this little ant!
RU Viability Rankings
Reuniclus @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast
Reuniclus is pretty fat and can sponge most non supereffective physical attacks. It also acts as a secondary wincon with Calm Mind and can help a lot with stall. Psyshock lets it outpace other Calm Mind users like Comfey. With Magic Guard Reuniclus provides the team with a switch in for Pokemon that try to poison and/or burn like Mantine, Gligar, Milotic, etc.
Thank you I appreciate the warm welcome , I got the pm am excited to have some fun battles, I got some cool mons to useHello, Charizard_Rulez84 welcome to the guild and thank you for entering the tournament. I've already taken the liberty and PM'ed a pc box of 30 Pokemon, and lastly if you're using a smartphone, Discord has an app so you'll possibly be able to connect with us if you have access to a tablet or smartphone.
-00swms
So where is our main chat??
So where is our main chat??
I am starting to love mega pinsir now, it does everything I need for a sweeper. I just need to work on the timing of getting it out there.