Overview
Standard Sub-Normal Gem
Hitmonlee @ Normal Gem
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 204 Def / 52 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Reversal
- Substitute
- Stone Edge / Toxic / Close Combat / Earthquake
Set Comments
Moves
Set Details
Liechi endure Hitmonlee
Hitmonlee (M) @ Liechi Berry
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Naughty Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 0 Def / 0 SpA / 0 SpD
- Endure
- Fake Out
- Reversal
- Stone Edge / Toxic / Close Combat / Earthquake
Set Comments
Moves
Set Details
Usage Tips
Team Options
Strategy Comments
Other Options
Checks and Counters
Mawile: It can kill you with play rough or sucker punch even if you can kill it with eq and fake out, which you cannot.
Gyarados: Doesn’t mega and beats you with waterfall/eq/crunch spam. Nothing you can do about it, unless you crit both fake out and stone edge, and that only kills non bulky variants
Porygon-Z: This mon usually carries uproar, which goes through sub. Running liechi endure will help with pory allowing you to reversal it, but close combat on sub works too.
Priority: Reversal has no priority, meaning you’re dead if they are able to hit you before you hit them, since you’re at 2 hp.
Protect: If fake out does not hit, due to protect, you don’t get unburden boost since normal gem is not consumed and die.
Anything that resists fighting: effectual 100 BP on reversal doesn’t kill very often.
- Can only really run two sets that are very predicatable
- Countered by any mons that don't use attacking moves
- two sets - Liechi endure or normal gem sub
- unburden allows it to outspeed much of the meta
- reversal is a 200 bp move at less than 4.7% hp
Standard Sub-Normal Gem
Hitmonlee @ Normal Gem
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 204 Def / 52 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Reversal
- Substitute
- Stone Edge / Toxic / Close Combat / Earthquake
Set Comments
Moves
- Fake out consumes normal gem and also activated unburden, which allows it to safely sub 4 times without fear of being outsped.
- Reversal is a move that gains in bp the less hp you have
- Sub is used to safely get down to 1% for that 200 bp reversal, over the less reliable endure
- Close combat is run to beat porygon z, since porygon often runs uproar, which goes through sub.
- Stone edge or rock slide can kill pinsir
- against aegislash and tapu koko, earthquake provides coverage
Set Details
- spread is generic
Liechi endure Hitmonlee
Hitmonlee (M) @ Liechi Berry
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Naughty Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 0 Def / 0 SpA / 0 SpD
- Endure
- Fake Out
- Reversal
- Stone Edge / Toxic / Close Combat / Earthquake
Set Comments
Moves
- Fake out is used to break sturdy.
- Endure is used to get down to 1 hp without dying
Set Details
- Min defences b/c you want to your reversal to reach max power.
- This set requires you to predict their attack
Usage Tips
- Beats everything without a resist to fighting, priority, or a sound move, all 3 of which are not common, but not rare.
Team Options
- Things that beat gyarados and things that can pull off a ground Z move, as many of hitmonlee’s counters are weak to earth.
- Need a pory-z counter if you don’t carry close combat.
Strategy Comments
- This mon is pretty easy to use, though its matchup with aegi may be a little bit rough, as you will have to predict the kings shields
- Hitmonlee is niche, unlike many other mons like zard x which usually 2-1 a team, Hitmonlee either 3-0s a team or is 0-3’d by one
Other Options
- band or scarf.
Checks and Counters
Mawile: It can kill you with play rough or sucker punch even if you can kill it with eq and fake out, which you cannot.
Gyarados: Doesn’t mega and beats you with waterfall/eq/crunch spam. Nothing you can do about it, unless you crit both fake out and stone edge, and that only kills non bulky variants
Porygon-Z: This mon usually carries uproar, which goes through sub. Running liechi endure will help with pory allowing you to reversal it, but close combat on sub works too.
Priority: Reversal has no priority, meaning you’re dead if they are able to hit you before you hit them, since you’re at 2 hp.
Protect: If fake out does not hit, due to protect, you don’t get unburden boost since normal gem is not consumed and die.
Anything that resists fighting: effectual 100 BP on reversal doesn’t kill very often.
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