No, I mean Fighting itself is a pretty uncommon type, so there's not much value in c-teaming it.In what world is Keldeo uncommon? Its on basically every single fighting team and gets its far share on water as well. The fighting sample team we have features keldeo as well. It is not uncommon. Thundurus is less common, but still popular on the ladder and it is still a good threat. In fact, the normal sample team gets dumpstered by it, so even well constructed teams can fall to it.
It is not just those two as well. It's a better check to Breloom than Staraptor as they fall to Rock Tomb. Breloom is very common on both Grass and Fighting. Hydro Pump Mega Sharpedo is dangerous to both Staraptor and Bewear, although it can be dealt with Pory2 as long as it has thunderbolt and Knock Off Gliscor (even with Ice Beam, pory2 is still losing eviolite and Raptor does nothing back) come to mind,
Here is recent replay of it doing work against your average fighting team: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7monotype-562160040
Also the replay posted was pretty bad considering how game-changing Mega-Medicham's High Jump Kick miss was and how unwise it was of the Fighting Player to sack Terrakion when he had bullet punch Mega-Medicham on hand to check it. He should've just sacked Kommo-O.
Also regarding the other threats mentioned:
- Breloom is not checked reliably by Mega-Audino, since after a swords dance you are almost OHKOd by Bullet Seed (assuming 3 hits), especially if it's on Grass and is benefitting from the Grassy Terrain. Conversely, Mega-Audino cannot OHKO Breloom without SpA investment. Oh yeah, and Spore.
+2 252+ Atk Technician Breloom Bullet Seed (3 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Audino-Mega in Grassy Terrain: 369-435 (90.2 - 106.3%) -- approx. 31.3% chance to OHKO
+2 252+ Atk Life Orb Technician Breloom Bullet Seed (3 hits) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Audino-Mega: 321-378 (78.4 - 92.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Audino-Mega Dazzling Gleam vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Breloom: 216-254 (82.7 - 97.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
- Gliscor is definitely not checked at all by Mega-Audino since it either runs Taunt, Toxic, or Swords Dance, all of which will beat Mega-Audino 1v1.
- "Hydro Pump Mega-Sharpedo" is checked by Porygon2 regardless of whether it has Thunderbolt or not. You only lose if that Sharpedo gets several clutch defense drops. And also a healthy Staraptor checks, so Mega-Audino definitely isn't necessary to manage this threat.
-1 252 Atk Strong Jaw Sharpedo-Mega Ice Fang vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Staraptor: 136-160 (36.4 - 42.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
0 SpA Sharpedo-Mega Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Staraptor: 192-226 (51.4 - 60.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Strong Jaw Sharpedo-Mega Crunch vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 108-127 (28.9 - 34%) -- 1.8% chance to 3HKO
0 SpA Sharpedo-Mega Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 90-106 (24.1 - 28.4%) -- 96.5% chance to 4HKO
- Keldeo still 2HKOs Mega-Audino with Hydro Pump. Sure, you can then go to Chansey, but at that point M-Audino is at <=50% health and can no longer switch into Secret Sword and can be easily taken out by teammates on Fighting anyways.
252 SpA Choice Specs Keldeo Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Audino-Mega: 219-258 (53.5 - 63%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 SpA Audino-Mega Dazzling Gleam vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Keldeo: 156-186 (48.2 - 57.5%) -- 43.4% chance to 2HKO
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