Let the Winter Storm charm your hearts and chill your souls.
Winter Storm (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Aurora Veil
- Encore
- Hidden Power Fire
- Freeze-Dry
As our opening act, Alolan Ninetales paves the way for an offensive playstyle. Aurora Veil allows us to to bring in powerful sweepers such as Mega Gyarados, Mega Charizard X, Mega Tyranitar, and Double Dance Zygarde to dismantle teams with ease. Ninetales can easily sway the momentum to our favor, with Encore forcing players to think twice about using certain moves, while allowing us to freely switch in other Pokémon with negligible damage with Aurora Veil backing us up. Ninetales also functions well as a rain check, as it can revenge kill popular rain staples such as Swampert and Kingdra, as well as Pelipper and Ferrothorn, all which take super effective damage from Ninetales.