Skeledirge @ Metronome
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
- Alluring Voice
- Torch Song
- Will-O-Wisp
- Slack Off
Vitamins: 25 Iron (or Resist Mochi), 25 Calcium (or Genius Mochi)
Feathers: 6 Health Feathers, 2 Resist Feathers, 2 Genius Feathers
* The last 2 EVs of the 510 total do not affect stats but are included so that the EV diagram in game shows the EVs as maxed
Stats at lvl 100 w/ perfect IVs:
HP : 350
Defense : 299
Sp.Atk.: 350
Sp.Def.: 186
Speed : 168
NPC Advantages: no requirements. gardevoir (life dew), burners (drifblim, arcanine), and paralyzers (bellibolt, umbreon, and dudunsparce) help. sylveon (charm) and intimidators (tauros, staraptor) are useless due to the unaware ability. arboliva is harmful because it lays grassy terrain which boosts sceptile's leaf blade.
Strategy: will-o-wisp. alluring voice until your stats reset. slack off when HP drops below half. 6x torch song. terastalize, alluring voice until shield breaks. optional will-o-wisp (not worth it to break the a long metronome chain for it, especially if HP is fairly high). alluring voice to victory.
Notes: shell bell can be used for additional healing but makes the run slower and isn't really needed due to slack off. a critical hit on the one turn where unaware is suppressed is not a big deal because breaking swipe has low base power and sceptile will be burned, so it's not really necessary to add protect, and not really worth it to lose slack off (but if you do, use a shell bell).
Pros: supereffective tera type, good HP stat, excellent def stat, fantastic spatk stat, no weakneses, resists leaf storm and leaf blade before terastalizing, immune to breaking swipe after terastalizing, torch song gives +1 spatk stage while charging tera orb, slack off heals half of HP bar, will-o-wisp burns when shield is down, alluring voice has 80 base power, 100 accuracy, and deals supereffective (STAB when terastalized) damage. it also induces confusion if sceptile used dragon dance that turn. unaware ability prevents dragon dance from increasing the amount of damage that sceptile can do to skeledirge (and critical hit resilience is massively superior to alternatives that rely on iron defense). metronome boosts damage by a factor that increases with consecutively used attacks (1x,1.2x,1.4x, ...)
Cons: tera type mismatches base type, outsped by sceptile
Overall Rating: 9/10
29 сен 2024