[OVERVIEW]
· Easily deals with Steels / Fires
· Faces competition from special Lando-T
· Lando-T provides intimidate support, while as Landorus hits harder with its sheer force boosted attacks.
· Threatened by speed control / faster mons
· Doesn’t lose power from Bulu and, unlike earthquake users, ground weak mons can’t be protected from Landorus’s EP by Wide Guard.
· Hurt by the increase in Ice-Type coverage attacks due to high usage of Salamence-Mega, Zygarde, and Landorus-T.
[SET]
name: Life Orb Attacker
move 1: Earth Power
move 2: Sludge Bomb / Rock Slide
move 3: Hidden Power Ice
move 4: Protect
item: Life Orb
ability: Sheer Force
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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· Earth Power benefits from Sheer Force and OHKO’s many common threats such as shuca berry Heatran, Aegislash, and Tapu Koko.
· EP 2HKO’s many unboosted neutral mons, such as Tapu Fini and Milotic.
· Sludge Bomb deals with Fairy- and Grass-types such as tapu bulu and tapu fini, and Rock Slide, with a Sheer Force and Life Orb Boost, has a chance to OHKO Mega Charizard Y.
· Hidden Power Ice allows Landorus to deal large amounts of damage to Mega Salamence, Landorus-T, and Zygarde.
· Protect keeps Landorus safe for the turn and stalls out opposing Tailwind and Trick Room.
Set Details
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· 252 Special Attack EVs allow Landorus to get the most damage out of Life Orb and Sheer Force.
· 252 Speed EVs combined with a Timid nature make sure that Landorus will outspeed base 100 Speed Pokemon.
· The leftover 4 EVs are placed in SpDef.
· Life Orb is used in tandem with Sheer Force to boost the power of Landorus’s attacks with secondary effects with the added bonus of receiving no recoil damage from Life Orb.
· A Naïve nature can be used with Landorus if running Rock Slide in order to guarantee the OHKO on bulky versions of Mega Charizard Y.
Usage Tips
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· Landorus’s high powered attacks are very threatening, but its speed tier and lack of general bulk puts it at risk from faster threats.
· Landorus works well both early-game with its ability to chunk many bulky pokemon with Earth Power and late-game once its major threats have been removed and it is free to finish off nearly anything that is below 50% health and doesn’t resist it.
· Landorus does not switch into many attacks well because of its average bulk, but it does benefit from being immune to both ground and electric attacks.
· Its immunity to Electric-type is less useful, as many Electric-types, such as Tapu Koko, Zapdos, and Rotom-W, are either immune to Earth Power or outspeed it and carry Hidden Power Ice.
· Opposing speed control greatly threatens Landorus, as it prefers to move first in order to avoid damage and deal with threats.
· Use your own speed control in order to allow Landorus to keep pressure on the opponent.
Team Options
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· Steel-types pair well with Landorus and appreciate its ability to beat opposing Fire- and Steel-types with Earth Power.
· Steel-types such as Aegislash, Genesect, and Mega Metagross help to deal with Ice-Types such as Kyurem-Black.
· Fairy-types such as Tapu Lele and Bulu also benefit from the removal of Fire- and Steel-types.
· Speed control is appreciated greatly by Landorus. This can come in several forms, such as Icy Wind and Tailwind.
· Partners which are able to switch into Water- and Ice-Type attacks.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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· Focus Blast can be used to deal with Kang / Tyranitar / Snorlax.
· Choice Scarf can be used to alleviate Landorus’ issue with slow speed and surprise opposing Lando-T’s / Zygarde / Mega Mence with HP Ice.
Checks and Counters
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**Ice-types**: Landorus is 4x weak, so it doesn’t like ice types. Ice type coverage moves are also everywhere because of mega mence / lando-t / zygarde. Common ice coverages mons include Zapdos, Tapu Koko, and Mega Metagross, the later 2, however, are ohko'd easily by EP. Ex: Weaville, Kyurem-B, Ninetails-A
**Water-types**: Landorus has little to deal with bulky water types and gets OHKO’d by most water moves. Ex: Milotic, Tapu Fini, Azumarill, Rain mons
**Tailwind and Trick Room**: Landorus is frail and doesn’t like bulky and powerful TR mons moving before it.
**Faster Pokemon**: Landorus is rather frail, and is therefore threatened by faster pokemon such as Genesect, Deoxys-Attack and Mega Salamence.
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