Monte Cristo
Banned deucer.
approved by arcticblast on showdown :>
So basically, this is about...oh, no, it's not about smeargle, and no it's not about drawing either, don't get cheeky readers :>.
Basically, every pokemon is allowed to learn sketch once, but ONLY ONCE, pretty much giving them 1 free move that can be ANYTHING. It's basically like necturna, inspired by the gen 5 thread.
Because of this, the possibilities are endless: Dragon Dance Metagross, Kyurem-B with a physical Ice move, Quiver Dance Gothitelle, Safeguard Shedinja (although it'll suck anyway)...Many things can be experimented with.
Gardevoir @ Gardevoirite
Ability: Synchronize
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 HP / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Boomburst
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
*timid nature is optional
Now this may look very confusing at first as, boomburst on a pokemon with that speed(before mega) and no STAB? But then, you realize that mega gardevoir has 165 SpA, 100 base speed, and most importantly, pixilate. With pixilate, boomburst becomes a 182 base power fairy move BEFORE STAB. that's extremely strong. Especially coming off mega voir's behemoth special attack and good speed tier. Now for all the poison types trying to get cheeky and absorb that boomburst, mega gardes psychic sub type actually becomes useful! Hitting them with a strong psychic to wash them out of your way. Then to cover the infamous steel type, we have a strong nice, but painfully inaccurate focus blast to hit then, most notably sdef heatran as it gets clean 2HKOd. And finally we have shadow ball, which is mainly to hit that SoB aegislash which will wall and annoy your coverage. Calcs:
Excadrill (M) @ Leftovers / Aggronite / Assault Vest
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Rapid Spin
- Knock Off / Icicle Crash or Ice Punch / Sacred Fire
- Iron Head / Rock Slide
Ok first thing I want to clear up is the option of aggronite and why, aggronite really represents any mega stone but aggron is kewl so yeh, anyways, mega stones can be held by any pokemon and guess what 2 things they do 1. Mevo you into the respective mega if you are that certain pokemon, which is stupid unless your planning to use a mega, but the huge thing for stall and knock off for 2nd part: Users Mega stone cannot be knocked off, tricked or removed. And the latter of those 2 applies for EVERY POKEMON. So it's basically a 100% upgrade from gen V mail since mail could be knocked off. Now the moves are mainly standard spinner, except the sketch move which can either be physical Ice, knock off or sacred fire, the latter 2 can hit skarm or gliscor/landorus, excas #1 counters for solid damage (252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 232+ Def Skarmory: 142-168 (42.5 - 50.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery + burn passive damage = 2HKO but if thats not solid enough you can use vcreate or flare blitz - 252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 184+ Def Gliscor: 240-284 (67.7 - 80.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO - 1 252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Landorus-T: 192-228 (50.2 - 59.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery but if thats not solid enough you can always use icicle miss). While knock off is just always great to have to slap around stall, with those great status immunities and it can also hit offensive hard with LO and specs knocking off with assault vest making it able to tank hits. You can forgo the 3rd slot offensively entirely and use a recovery move like slack off if you don't want to use AV.
Borutorosu (Thundurus) (M) @ Aggronite / Leftovers
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 Spd / 40 HP / 216 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Heart Swap / Topsy Turvey
- Volt Switch / Thunderbolt / Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice] / [Grass]
MIGHTY JAPANESE THUNDURUS LGI
No seriously, Prankster heart swap/topsy is legitimately one of the greatest things to exist, it allows it to check shit so hard. Thunder Wave is to para many threatening sweepers and cripple them to oblivion. Volt Switch can be used for great momentum while forcing you out and particularly lacking in power, and thunder is strong as hell but inaccurate and momentum stopping if it misses, which can be fixed with rain support but still, while thunderbolt is great middle ground between the 2 having solid power and solid accuracy. and Hidden Power is really just picking your poison, as focus blast is really less favored in 2 move coverage. While knock off is annoying and you'd rather have it stay at 65 BP so aggronite is such a solid option, that and who the fuck likes their prankster getting tricked? me neither, but you can go for leftovers to have passive healing. EVs are to survive priority from sweepers like mega luke that are in higher speed tiers or boost their speed:
+2 252 Atk Adaptability Mega Lucario Bullet Punch vs. 40 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 127-150 (41.1 - 48.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 40 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 142-168 (45.9 - 54.3%) -- 5.1% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Pinsir @ Pinsirite
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed / Rapid Spin / Fake Out / Explosion
- Earthquake / Knock Off
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat / Quick Attack or Return(if using rapid spin, explosion or Fake out)
Pinsir got a pretty respectable boost with it's new mega in standard, gaining a niche as the only aerilate pokemon. And now in sketchmons, that niche is huge, giving it access to aerilate extremespeed, fake out or rapid spin. This makes pinsir have quite the threatening image for revenging with fake out + quick attack or extremespeed or go on the more utility route with rapid spin, or you could screw that all and go with SUPER AERILATE CMOBUSTION NUKE HELL YEH in aerilate explosion. Now the first slot is for the sketched aerilate move to use, whichever one you chose. Earthquake and Knock off are to hit aegislash, the first avoiding KS and being stronger and the later removing it's item and being overall useful especially against stall and rotom-w. Swords Dance should always be there, no doubt, it just makes pinsir so strong and the last slot is really a juggle, CC to round off coverage for stuff like skarm, rotom-w and balloon steels or if you chose fake out or rapid spin you chose another aerilate abuse move.
Calcs:
Please, have a go at it and post suggestions, sets, criticism, or anything that could be helpful. (especially banlist, I don't want to end up with a broken meta but I don't want to end up like withy only 2 moves available lol)
They're all welcome :D
Any fan write ups for the threat list are very much appreciated. This can be played in any PS server by choosing Custom Game as a base ^_^ I'm workingon coding this and implementing this onto my server but I simply rarely have time right now because lol lazy, I'll get to it :>.
Now playable on my server(put into the URL bar on a newtab and click enter, PS links are a bit messed up as they take you to the homepage): http://24.22.226.179.psim.us/
And there is only one special rule: Prankster and bacon are gods, undisputed fact
gotta sketch 'em all :]
So basically, this is about...oh, no, it's not about smeargle, and no it's not about drawing either, don't get cheeky readers :>.
Basically, every pokemon is allowed to learn sketch once, but ONLY ONCE, pretty much giving them 1 free move that can be ANYTHING. It's basically like necturna, inspired by the gen 5 thread.
Because of this, the possibilities are endless: Dragon Dance Metagross, Kyurem-B with a physical Ice move, Quiver Dance Gothitelle, Safeguard Shedinja (although it'll suck anyway)...Many things can be experimented with.
- Set-up moves: Shell Smash, Swords Dance, Shift Gear, Quiver Dance, Belly Drum, Tail Glow
- Offensive moves: V-create, Secret Sword, Extremespeed, Brave Bird, Close Combat, Hurricane, Thunder, Blue Flare, Seed Flare, Psystrike, Boomburst
- Defensive/Support moves: Recovery, Entry hazards, Rapid Spin, Spore, Magic Coat, Encore, Perish Song, Knock Off, Heart Swap, Topsy Turvy, Parting Shot
- Ubers
- That's really all for now lol
Gardevoir @ Gardevoirite
Ability: Synchronize
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 HP / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Boomburst
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
*timid nature is optional
Now this may look very confusing at first as, boomburst on a pokemon with that speed(before mega) and no STAB? But then, you realize that mega gardevoir has 165 SpA, 100 base speed, and most importantly, pixilate. With pixilate, boomburst becomes a 182 base power fairy move BEFORE STAB. that's extremely strong. Especially coming off mega voir's behemoth special attack and good speed tier. Now for all the poison types trying to get cheeky and absorb that boomburst, mega gardes psychic sub type actually becomes useful! Hitting them with a strong psychic to wash them out of your way. Then to cover the infamous steel type, we have a strong nice, but painfully inaccurate focus blast to hit then, most notably sdef heatran as it gets clean 2HKOd. And finally we have shadow ball, which is mainly to hit that SoB aegislash which will wall and annoy your coverage. Calcs:
- 252+ SpA Pixilate Mega Gardevoir Boomburst vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Cresselia: 310-366 (69.8 - 82.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
- 252+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Aegislash-Shield: 162-192 (50 - 59.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
- 252+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Focus Blast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Heatran: 158-188 (40.9 - 48.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and 1 layer of Spikes (AV sacred fire set I guess)
- 252+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Focus Blast vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Heatran: 238-280 (61.6 - 72.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
- 252+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Psychic vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Mega Venusaur: 246-290 (67.5 - 79.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Excadrill (M) @ Leftovers / Aggronite / Assault Vest
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Rapid Spin
- Knock Off / Icicle Crash or Ice Punch / Sacred Fire
- Iron Head / Rock Slide
Ok first thing I want to clear up is the option of aggronite and why, aggronite really represents any mega stone but aggron is kewl so yeh, anyways, mega stones can be held by any pokemon and guess what 2 things they do 1. Mevo you into the respective mega if you are that certain pokemon, which is stupid unless your planning to use a mega, but the huge thing for stall and knock off for 2nd part: Users Mega stone cannot be knocked off, tricked or removed. And the latter of those 2 applies for EVERY POKEMON. So it's basically a 100% upgrade from gen V mail since mail could be knocked off. Now the moves are mainly standard spinner, except the sketch move which can either be physical Ice, knock off or sacred fire, the latter 2 can hit skarm or gliscor/landorus, excas #1 counters for solid damage (252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 232+ Def Skarmory: 142-168 (42.5 - 50.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery + burn passive damage = 2HKO but if thats not solid enough you can use vcreate or flare blitz - 252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 184+ Def Gliscor: 240-284 (67.7 - 80.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO - 1 252+ Atk Mold Breaker Excadrill Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Landorus-T: 192-228 (50.2 - 59.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery but if thats not solid enough you can always use icicle miss). While knock off is just always great to have to slap around stall, with those great status immunities and it can also hit offensive hard with LO and specs knocking off with assault vest making it able to tank hits. You can forgo the 3rd slot offensively entirely and use a recovery move like slack off if you don't want to use AV.
Borutorosu (Thundurus) (M) @ Aggronite / Leftovers
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 Spd / 40 HP / 216 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Heart Swap / Topsy Turvey
- Volt Switch / Thunderbolt / Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice] / [Grass]
MIGHTY JAPANESE THUNDURUS LGI
No seriously, Prankster heart swap/topsy is legitimately one of the greatest things to exist, it allows it to check shit so hard. Thunder Wave is to para many threatening sweepers and cripple them to oblivion. Volt Switch can be used for great momentum while forcing you out and particularly lacking in power, and thunder is strong as hell but inaccurate and momentum stopping if it misses, which can be fixed with rain support but still, while thunderbolt is great middle ground between the 2 having solid power and solid accuracy. and Hidden Power is really just picking your poison, as focus blast is really less favored in 2 move coverage. While knock off is annoying and you'd rather have it stay at 65 BP so aggronite is such a solid option, that and who the fuck likes their prankster getting tricked? me neither, but you can go for leftovers to have passive healing. EVs are to survive priority from sweepers like mega luke that are in higher speed tiers or boost their speed:
+2 252 Atk Adaptability Mega Lucario Bullet Punch vs. 40 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 127-150 (41.1 - 48.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 40 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 142-168 (45.9 - 54.3%) -- 5.1% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Pinsir @ Pinsirite
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed / Rapid Spin / Fake Out / Explosion
- Earthquake / Knock Off
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat / Quick Attack or Return(if using rapid spin, explosion or Fake out)
Pinsir got a pretty respectable boost with it's new mega in standard, gaining a niche as the only aerilate pokemon. And now in sketchmons, that niche is huge, giving it access to aerilate extremespeed, fake out or rapid spin. This makes pinsir have quite the threatening image for revenging with fake out + quick attack or extremespeed or go on the more utility route with rapid spin, or you could screw that all and go with SUPER AERILATE CMOBUSTION NUKE HELL YEH in aerilate explosion. Now the first slot is for the sketched aerilate move to use, whichever one you chose. Earthquake and Knock off are to hit aegislash, the first avoiding KS and being stronger and the later removing it's item and being overall useful especially against stall and rotom-w. Swords Dance should always be there, no doubt, it just makes pinsir so strong and the last slot is really a juggle, CC to round off coverage for stuff like skarm, rotom-w and balloon steels or if you chose fake out or rapid spin you chose another aerilate abuse move.
Calcs:
- +1(intimidate)252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Landorus-T: 348-411 (91 - 107.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
- +2 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Gardevoir: 603-711 (216.9 - 255.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
- +2 252+ Atk Mega Pinsir Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Rotom-W: 309-364 (101.6 - 119.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
- +2 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Deoxys-D: 280-331 (92.1 - 108.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
- +2 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Extreme Speed vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 284-335 (94.6 - 111.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
- 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Explosion vs. 40 HP / 0 Def Thundurus: 444-523 (143.6 - 169.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
- 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Explosion vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Rotom-W: 313-369 (102.9 - 121.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
- 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Explosion vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Raikou: 420-495 (130.4 - 153.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
- 252+ Atk Aerilate Mega Pinsir Explosion vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tyranitar: 306-360 (75.7 - 89.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Please, have a go at it and post suggestions, sets, criticism, or anything that could be helpful. (especially banlist, I don't want to end up with a broken meta but I don't want to end up like withy only 2 moves available lol)
They're all welcome :D
Any fan write ups for the threat list are very much appreciated. This can be played in any PS server by choosing Custom Game as a base ^_^ I'm working
Now playable on my server(put into the URL bar on a newtab and click enter, PS links are a bit messed up as they take you to the homepage): http://24.22.226.179.psim.us/
And there is only one special rule: Prankster and bacon are gods, undisputed fact
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