Age of Kings
of the Ash Legion
Yeah, I'm loving the looks of Suicune and I basically threw it out a few pages back because I remembered that in certain other metas that may not be entirely relevant, Suicune has been an effective utility mon with useful niches. Snarl is another option I didn't consider until now either - if we lose Hitmontop, it's a bit of insurance against Sylveon and the other spread move brigade (conveniently outspeeding the majority of that brigade). If we bank on using Suicune, our last mon should be physical and check Kanga.
I'm a baddie and totally forgot Gyarados doesn't get Rock Slide. With the high incidence of getting flinch off, that gives another point to Landorus-T and having spread flinch seems very helpful given MTI's calcs. I feel that Suicune + Landorus-T makes a better combination than Gyarados + ????. Snarl + Intimidate cripple the enemy team, Landorus makes better use of Rock Slide with Tailwind + Icy Wind support, both help us vs Kanga without going out of our way to sacrifice team synergy for it. I'm also excited about the prospect of double Intimidate + Snarl.
So my proposal would be running Landorus-T and Suicune together:
Landorus @ ???
Adamant
252 Atk / ???
Earthquake
Rock Slide
Superpower
U-Turn / Knock Off / Protect
WITH
Suicune @ ???
Bold
????
Scald
Icy Wind
Tailwind
Snarl
I like Snarl over Protect on Suicune because checking special spread moves > Protect. Since I'm not too keen on running Ice Beam because it doesn't make the best of Suicune's assets in addition to that Garchomp calc, I really think that Bold is preferable over Modest. Is there anything else that Modest is absolutely necessary for?
I'm a baddie and totally forgot Gyarados doesn't get Rock Slide. With the high incidence of getting flinch off, that gives another point to Landorus-T and having spread flinch seems very helpful given MTI's calcs. I feel that Suicune + Landorus-T makes a better combination than Gyarados + ????. Snarl + Intimidate cripple the enemy team, Landorus makes better use of Rock Slide with Tailwind + Icy Wind support, both help us vs Kanga without going out of our way to sacrifice team synergy for it. I'm also excited about the prospect of double Intimidate + Snarl.
So my proposal would be running Landorus-T and Suicune together:
Landorus @ ???
Adamant
252 Atk / ???
Earthquake
Rock Slide
Superpower
U-Turn / Knock Off / Protect
WITH
Suicune @ ???
Bold
????
Scald
Icy Wind
Tailwind
Snarl
I like Snarl over Protect on Suicune because checking special spread moves > Protect. Since I'm not too keen on running Ice Beam because it doesn't make the best of Suicune's assets in addition to that Garchomp calc, I really think that Bold is preferable over Modest. Is there anything else that Modest is absolutely necessary for?