[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Make it Rain
move 2: Shadow Ball
move 3: Focus Blast / Recover
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Specs
tera type: Fighting / Steel
ability: Good as Gold
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Gholdengo is an excellent wallbreaker thanks to its great typing, high damage output, and good utility movepool. Make It Rain is Gholdengo's strongest viable attack, OHKOing Pokemon like Garganacl, Hisuian Zoroark, Great Tusk, and Scream Tail. Shadow Ball offers great coverage, hitting foes that resist Make It Rain such as Toxapex, Corviknight, Rotom-W, Slowking, Skeledirge, and opposing Gholdengo. Focus Blast offers crucial coverage against Kingambit, which resists both of Gholdengo's STAB moves. Recover, on the other hand, can keep Gholdengo healthy throughout the game, and it can be freely used once Gholdengo lands Trick and loses its Choice Specs. Trick allows Gholdengo to cripple special walls like Clodsire with a Choice lock, consequently making them much easier to wear down or pivot around throughout the game. Tera Fighting has excellent synergy with Gholdengo's Ghost typing, turning its weakness to Dark-type attacks like Kingambit's Sucker Punch into a resistance, and the STAB boost to Focus Blast greatly helps in dealing with Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon, which can otherwise check Gholdengo if they remain healthy. Tera Steel is a valid alternative that dramatically powers up Make it Rain—which becomes so ludicrously strong, it even 2HKOes Clodsire—while preserving the Steel type's great defensive profile. Also, keeping Steel while removing Gholdengo's Ghost and Dark weaknesses can prove useful against Dragapult, Meowscarada, and opposing Gholdengo.
Choice Specs Gholdengo's immediate power and valuable defensive utility give it a solid place on an array of bulkier offensive teams, punching holes for an array of sweepers later in the game, and these teams' stronger defensive backbones give Gholdengo more opportunities to come in and hit hard. Ting-Lu can sponge Ghost- and Dark-type attacks, like Kingambit's Kowtow Cleave and Shadow Ball from Dragapult, Hisuian Zoroark, and opposing Gholdengo. It can also force progress with entry hazard damage alongside Whirlwind, giving Gholdengo an easier time breaking past teams' defensive cores. In return, Gholdengo can block Rapid Spin and Defog to ensure that Ting-Lu's entry hazards remain active, and it handles threats like Breloom and Iron Valiant, which Ting-Lu struggles against. Other hazard setters like Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora similarly appreciate Gholdengo's blocking of all forms of hazard removal. Roaring Moon also has great synergy with Gholdengo, which can deal with attacks like Iron Valiant's Moonblast and Close Combat, Hatterene's Dazzling Gleam, Baxcalibur's STAB moves, and Great Tusk's Close Combat and Ice Spinner, while Roaring Moon can handle Fire-type attacks from Volcarona and Iron Moth. Choice Specs Gholdengo's high immediate power puts a great deal of pressure on physically bulky foes like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Dondozo, which can open up opportunities for Roaring Moon to sweep unimpaired. Swords Dance Iron Valiant can handle Roaring Moon, Meowscarada, and Dragapult for Gholdengo, while Gholdengo can wear down or eliminate Unaware Skeledirge and Dondozo to let Iron Valiant sweep. Faster Ghost-types like Dragapult and Hisuian Zoroark pair well with Gholdengo, as they can wear down and eventually overwhelm their shared checks, like Ting-Lu and Assault Vest Azumarill, with their solid coverage. Hisuian Zoroark in particular is an excellent teammate: it shares Gholdengo's access to Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, and Nasty Plot to bluff numerous Gholdengo sets with Illusion, provides a crucial Ghost immunity to deter opposing Ghost-type attacks, and has a much better Speed stat to catch opponents off-guard. For facing Dragapult, Hisuian Zoroark is immune to Ghost while Gholdengo resists Dragon, and both can OHKO Dragapult if it incorrectly predicts which Pokemon it's facing.
[CREDITS]
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name: Choice Specs
move 1: Make it Rain
move 2: Shadow Ball
move 3: Focus Blast / Recover
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Specs
tera type: Fighting / Steel
ability: Good as Gold
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Gholdengo is an excellent wallbreaker thanks to its great typing, high damage output, and good utility movepool. Make It Rain is Gholdengo's strongest viable attack, OHKOing Pokemon like Garganacl, Hisuian Zoroark, Great Tusk, and Scream Tail. Shadow Ball offers great coverage, hitting foes that resist Make It Rain such as Toxapex, Corviknight, Rotom-W, Slowking, Skeledirge, and opposing Gholdengo. Focus Blast offers crucial coverage against Kingambit, which resists both of Gholdengo's STAB moves. Recover, on the other hand, can keep Gholdengo healthy throughout the game, and it can be freely used once Gholdengo lands Trick and loses its Choice Specs. Trick allows Gholdengo to cripple special walls like Clodsire with a Choice lock, consequently making them much easier to wear down or pivot around throughout the game. Tera Fighting has excellent synergy with Gholdengo's Ghost typing, turning its weakness to Dark-type attacks like Kingambit's Sucker Punch into a resistance, and the STAB boost to Focus Blast greatly helps in dealing with Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon, which can otherwise check Gholdengo if they remain healthy. Tera Steel is a valid alternative that dramatically powers up Make it Rain—which becomes so ludicrously strong, it even 2HKOes Clodsire—while preserving the Steel type's great defensive profile. Also, keeping Steel while removing Gholdengo's Ghost and Dark weaknesses can prove useful against Dragapult, Meowscarada, and opposing Gholdengo.
Choice Specs Gholdengo's immediate power and valuable defensive utility give it a solid place on an array of bulkier offensive teams, punching holes for an array of sweepers later in the game, and these teams' stronger defensive backbones give Gholdengo more opportunities to come in and hit hard. Ting-Lu can sponge Ghost- and Dark-type attacks, like Kingambit's Kowtow Cleave and Shadow Ball from Dragapult, Hisuian Zoroark, and opposing Gholdengo. It can also force progress with entry hazard damage alongside Whirlwind, giving Gholdengo an easier time breaking past teams' defensive cores. In return, Gholdengo can block Rapid Spin and Defog to ensure that Ting-Lu's entry hazards remain active, and it handles threats like Breloom and Iron Valiant, which Ting-Lu struggles against. Other hazard setters like Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora similarly appreciate Gholdengo's blocking of all forms of hazard removal. Roaring Moon also has great synergy with Gholdengo, which can deal with attacks like Iron Valiant's Moonblast and Close Combat, Hatterene's Dazzling Gleam, Baxcalibur's STAB moves, and Great Tusk's Close Combat and Ice Spinner, while Roaring Moon can handle Fire-type attacks from Volcarona and Iron Moth. Choice Specs Gholdengo's high immediate power puts a great deal of pressure on physically bulky foes like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Dondozo, which can open up opportunities for Roaring Moon to sweep unimpaired. Swords Dance Iron Valiant can handle Roaring Moon, Meowscarada, and Dragapult for Gholdengo, while Gholdengo can wear down or eliminate Unaware Skeledirge and Dondozo to let Iron Valiant sweep. Faster Ghost-types like Dragapult and Hisuian Zoroark pair well with Gholdengo, as they can wear down and eventually overwhelm their shared checks, like Ting-Lu and Assault Vest Azumarill, with their solid coverage. Hisuian Zoroark in particular is an excellent teammate: it shares Gholdengo's access to Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, and Nasty Plot to bluff numerous Gholdengo sets with Illusion, provides a crucial Ghost immunity to deter opposing Ghost-type attacks, and has a much better Speed stat to catch opponents off-guard. For facing Dragapult, Hisuian Zoroark is immune to Ghost while Gholdengo resists Dragon, and both can OHKO Dragapult if it incorrectly predicts which Pokemon it's facing.
[CREDITS]
- Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/dreadfury.408271/
- Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/setsusetsuna.548068/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/chimp.197439/
- Grammar checked by:
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