Vespiquen

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Vespiquen is possibly an extremely underrated pokemon, and has the potential to be a somewhat decent staller, when paired with a pokemon with access to rapid spin or defog. Below is the set i am most often tinkering with in both OU and UU.
Bold/Impish Nature (or Calm/Careful Nature, if you switch the defense and special defense EVs)
EV spread: 252 HP, 76 Def, 180 SpD (Def/SpD evs flexible, but this is what i use)
Item: leftovers
Ability: Pressure
Moveset
Defend Order
Protect/Infestation
Heal Order/Roost
Toxic/Attack Order (though any attacking move works fine here, due to her balanced attack stats)

This set mirrors a set from the Battle Tree, and is intended to be a set up staller. Its base bulk allows it to survive a good chunk of hits, and this only rises with more stacks of defend order. The pressure ability is also useful for waiting out low PP moves like fire blast or sucker punch. The presense of attack order and infestation is to allow for steel/poison types or taunt to not be able to completely shut this set down, but possibly a combo with Salazzle may remedy this, allowing for maximum bulk.
This set is countered by taunt users, poison/steel types, and rock type moves (at least early in the setup). This pokemon has potential, and can see results on the right team
Please provide your own sets below, and lets make Vespiquen great
For those who want to see it in action, heres a battle where vespiquen sweeps almost the entire team
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7uu-581370815
 
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1. Vespiquen is unviable.
2. Your opponent is an idiot for bringing a mono-bug team (with Ledian, no less) and spamming Bug-type moves against a Vespiquen.
3. You had a Salazzle that could have done everything Vespiquen did in that battle but faster, but you only used it to poison a Scizor.
4. Sets from the Battle Tree are generally unviable in an OU setting.
5. You need to reserve an analysis before posting.

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