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MetalSonic

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MetalSonic

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SuMo RU CCAT
Fourth Mon Nominations



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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!

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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.

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Diancie @ Passho Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power

Diancie! The offensive stealth rockin variant. This Diancie makes its mark being a fantastic check to mons like Zoroark, Salazzle, Honchkrow, Kommo-O, and Swellow! The Passho is very cool as it turns her into a kind of e-check to Sharpedo and Kingdra as well. Moonblast and Diamond Storm are very appreciable STABs and its hard to turn down D-Storm with its 50% chance to highten our defense by 2. Lastly we have Earth Power as it helps clear out Doublade for Reuni as well as just roundin out coverage against Steel types in general as its compounds her offensiveness. Quiet Nature so her bulk isn't compromised as well as the damage output from Diamond Storm though you can change it to Modest w/Power Gem if it turns out we'd appreciate the speed. She works well to check Dark and Bugs type attacks that threaten Reinu and can come in on the fire types that scare out Durant as well and use the subsequently forced switches to set up rocks.

RU Viability Rankings

Diancie has been chosen! Coming in on most of our previous mons' weaknesses, setting up rocks, and being able to hit hard back are all reasons why she found herself on this team. But now, it's time to get in on the next member!

Fourth Mon Nominations shall end on
June 29'th 12:00 PM UTC -6

Get on it then. Suggest that fourth member! We're halfway into the team. Nows the time to really hunker down and figure out what it is we may really need at this point. Maybe somethin to cover certain types that can still spam their STABs? Or some weird anti-meta mon? A good old fashioned scarfter? or some sun check? ^^;
DECIDE AND POST

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Hey remember this? Well I do! Don't forget to get that fourth mon suggested! Cmon now!
 

Conquer Phoenix

Falling Light
Ok so he is my pick


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Bruxish the ugly fish pokemon (In my Ash is pokedex voice)

Bruxish @ Life Orb
Ability: Strong Jaw
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Psychic Fangs
- Aqua Jet
- Crunch


This small pink weapon is a strong physical attacker in the ru tier. Able to take out unaware pokes that let it set. Sword dance is a must on it if we want to complete destroy teams. Aqua jet is a good clean up took for bruxish to finish up in the late game. Crunch handles brozong and cless from tanking or setting up on your team. Durant checks and handles pokes that check bruxish from sweeping with the fish not able to come in on any attacks or take down any super wall checks it has.
 

55afrothunder

Her shoes Christian

MetalSonic

Orderan' Defendan'

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credits to American-Pi

Update

Added;

Heavy Cottonee
Moon Pineco (Counter, Pin Missle, Sand Tomb, Stealth Rock)
Dream Tyrogue (HA) (Helping Hand, Mach Punch)
Love Pidgey (Defog, Brave Bird, Steel Wing)
Dream Shellder (HA) (Rock Blast, Mud Shot, Icicle Spear, Rapid Spin)
Dream Aron (HA) (Head Smash, Iron Head, Stealth Rock, Superpower)
Heavy Ekans (Sucker Punch, Iron Tail)
Heavy Klink
Dream Mr. Mime (HA) (Nasty Plot, Icy Wind, Fake Out, Teeter Dance)


Do remember if you can hit that 1500 mark, you get a free mon from the Hatchery to!​
 
to be honest I didn't think I could do it, but was told by our great leader that I could, and I know I said I wasn't gonna stay up all night again but I just felt I could do it if I was determined enough, I was so close multiple times but kept losing 1 game away and would lose like 3-5 times in a row, I was only 5 pts away in that last battle and i was like cmon i cant lose again, i was very determined to win that match, so here it is a few games the last one there is the one I go over 1500 :D

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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-595850446
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brandyjay

GET IN THE BAG
Hello my good folks. Top tip of the day for low tiers is Z-Hypnosis Exeggutor. You hit like a truck.

Also Z-Snatch Moxie Mightyena for trolls
 

brandyjay

GET IN THE BAG
Nomming

Roserade @ Black Sludge
248hp / 244 def / 16 speed Timid
Natural Cure

Spikes
Giga Drain
Sludge Bomb
Rest

Spikes which provides exactly what durant wants. Best defensive spikes in the tier. Provides support to reun in absorbing dangerous status like para and sleep.

Deals with stuff like shaymin which rips the team to shreds rn. And it absorbs tspikes for diance.

Went for rest bc it is more reliable than synthesis. Can go SpD of we want to hard counter special attackers. Pretty open on spread.
 

00swms

Chaos Theory
Aleatorio Tournament

Hello, members of VO I’ve extended the deadline of the tournament until June 30, 2017. Once we’ve hit that deadline activity wins will be given to members to who proactive and sent message via VMs. In the cases were both sides were active equally in sending vms or both were not active in sending vms. There will steep penalty to for getting an activity win instead of losing six Pokémon in the first round of the tournament you will instead lose 12 Pokémon of my choice that round. Quick reminder!!!!!

-00swms
 

MetalSonic

Orderan' Defendan'
SuMo RU CCAT
Fourth Mon Votan


Well, admittedly, that took a bit, but we have our fourth member nominations at last!

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Bruxish @ Life Orb
Ability: Strong Jaw
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Psychic Fangs
- Aqua Jet
- Crunch


Bruxish the ugly fish pokemon (In my Ash is pokedex voice):
This small pink weapon is a strong physical attacker in the ru tier. Able to take out unaware pokes that let it set. Sword dance is a must on it if we want to complete destroy teams. Aqua jet is a good clean up took for bruxish to finish up in the late game. Crunch handles brozong and cless from tanking or setting up on your team. Durant checks and handles pokes that check bruxish from sweeping with the fish not able to come in on any attacks or take down any super wall checks it has.

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Goodra @ Assault Vest
Ability: Sap Sipper
EVs: 240 HP / 228 SpD / 42 SPATK
Calm Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Sludge Wave
- Dragon Tail

This mon is very bulky and can take a specs draco from Kingdra Kommo-o Dragalge and kill them with it's own draco, fire blast and sludge wave for coverage, dragon tail is there in case we need to get a mon out that has set up on us despite the minus atk nature still works :)

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Roserade @ Black Sludge
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 248 HP / 244 Def / 16 Spe
Timid Nature
- Giga Drain
- Spikes
- Sludge Bomb
- Rest

Spikes which provides exactly what durant wants. Best defensive spikes in the tier. Provides support to reun in absorbing dangerous status like para and sleep.
Deals with stuff like shaymin which rips the team to shreds rn. And it absorbs tspikes for diance.
Went for rest bc it is more reliable than synthesis. Can go SpD of we want to hard counter special attackers. Pretty open on spread. 16 Spe does outspeed neutral natures base 60 speed Pokemon though.

Bruxish with her ability and moveset can pressure teams and quite literally tear them down herself or for our other team members to take advantage of as those Strong Jaw boosted attacks are very strong indeed and her speed tier is decent enough along with the priority. Crunch gets through things like Slowbro and Registeel so our Reuniclus and Diancie don't have to worry about their scary shenanigans respectively. Then we have Goodra, a terrific special tank that can be pretty hard to damage on the special side, this is especially appreciated for things like Venusaur, Salazzle, and the plethora of special attackers in the tier that our other members may appreciate help with. Dragon Tail can also be a decent out for things that may be getting out of hand such as set up Snorlax. Lastly, we have Roserade. This spike setter not only sets up spikes to pressure the opponent and turn 2HKOs into OHKOs, she also absorbs t-spikes which may ail our Diancie as well as provide us with a stellar water resist for things like Milotic, Kingdra, and Seismitoad. All of their offensive variants could spell trouble for us at the moment.

Durant @ Darkinium Z
Ability: Hustle
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Hone Claws
- X-Scissor
- Iron Head
- Crunch

Reuniclus @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast

Diancie @ Passho Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power

RU Viability Rankings

Only one of these mons can be crowned fourth team member though! SO vote!
Fourth Member Votan shall end ooon..
July 3'rd 12:AM UTC -6
 
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