alexwolf
lurks in the shadows
There is something very wrong with what you are saying.This is a half-joke half-serious set.
So everyone and their mothers thought rivalry sucked on haxorus. Here is a simple solution:
Attraxorus!
Haxorus (M) @ Draco Plate / Leftovers
Trait: Rivalry
EVs: 36 HP / 252 Atk / 220 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Substitute
- Swords Dance / Dragon Dance
- Attract
- Outrage
So with the advent of people realizing that their walls should vary in genders to prevent stuff like attract sweeps or rivalry crap, rivalry has fallen in favor. The fact that PO randomizes genders on pokemons by default doesnt help. This Haxorus, however, takes advantage of this.
So, it scares off a poke, and lures in a wall while it substitutes (or swords dance is better in some cases). Lets say its a Skarmory, the best haxorus counter.
Lets say the Skarmory is a MALE! since my haxorus is male too, i get to slam it hard with a +2 draco plate, rivalry boosted outrage.. here are the calcs:
Guranteed 2hko, almost OHKO with some previoud damages. Outstanding, now the premier physical wall is gone.
If the skarmory is a FEMALE, you'd normally be in trouble. Rivalry DECREASES your power. However, this Haxorus is very sexy and can utilize attract. Now the skarmory has a 50% chance of being immobilized, 50% chance that Skarmory can be defeated. If skarmory is immobilized, (which seems like wayy over 50), then here are the calcs when haxorus gets an extra +2 more.
As you can see, it is still a guranteed 2hko.
With this Haxorus, you can basically gurantee a 2hko on skarmory 75% of the time. (50% chance skarm is male, and 50% of the 50% that skarm is female is that she will be immobilized.)
75% is pretty high, as that is higher than the accuracy of focus miss.
This can work pretty well on hyper offensive teams or All dragon teams looking to get rid of skarmory. This works on things like ferrothorn and gliscor too. only bummer is bronzong walls this, but who uses bronzongs?? lol
EDIT: why is this better than the one on site?
higher chance of beating skarmory.
EDIT2: a better justification of the usage of this set is that, WHEN DRAGON DANCE IS USED OVER SWORDS DANCE, HAXORUS HAS A CHANCE TO BEAT SKARMORY AT +1 and rivalry boost, as it does 46% ~ 54% a guaranteed 2HKO with rocks. This solely makes it pretty good for OU, although if SKARMORY is a female and you carry dragon dance, good luck with the attraction.
You say that if a Skarmory of the opposite gender comes in, then you use Attract, and then have a 50% chance to 2hko. This is false, because in order to be able to 2hko opposite gender Skarmory you must be at +4. And to get at +4 you want 2 free turns, one when you use Attract, and one as you use SD for the second time. And this happens only 25% of the time, which is not reliable at all, and kinda ruins your strategy.