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earth power liligant
it finally gets a reason to be used over the likes of venusaur and sceptile. it has higher special atack than saur, and sleep powder helps it net set up opportunities for it to start steam rolling. it doesn't need to run niche sets like sleep powder + dream eater to beat garbodor anymore (lol oras), which is cool. it's beeb said to death, but earth power gives it coverage for steel, poison and fire types, and the most relevant being av mortar and av roar which usually tank a +1 breakneck blitz into giga drain if rocks aren't up, while +1 earth power reliably 2hkos.
vs av mortar:
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Breakneck Blitz (200 BP) vs. 60 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Magmortar: 202-238 (66 - 77.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Giga Drain vs. 60 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Magmortar: 57-67 (18.6 - 21.8%) -- possible 5HKO
vs av roar:
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Breakneck Blitz (200 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Incineroar: 211-249 (53.5 - 63.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Incineroar: 59-70 (14.9 - 17.7%) -- possible 6HKO
if it gets earth power, it's also going to suffer from 4mss since it wants sleep powder and quiver dance, but also grass stab (giga drain/petal dance), earth power and hp ice for grass and flying types, since it doesn't have to run hyper beam, or even z-dream eater to beat venusaur and sceptile easier. alternatively, it can run a scarf set better now that it has almost perfect coverage, with a set like leaf storm/earth power/hp ice/healing wish or giga drain in the last slot. i really like this theorymon.
55 spatk taurus
mixed taurus is now better. that is all.
vs steelix:
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Fire Blast vs. 244 HP / 148 SpD Steelix: 192-229 (54.5 - 65%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
vs slowbro:
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Thunder vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Slowbro: 200-237 (50.7 - 60.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
vs rhydon:
4 SpA Life Orb Tauros Surf vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite Rhydon: 177-213 (42.7 - 51.4%) -- 5.1% chance to 2HKO
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Blizzard vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite Rhydon: 143-169 (34.5 - 40.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
sheer force aurorus
honestly not a bad theorymon. while refrigerate gives it like 108 base power ice type hyper voices and snow warning allows it to hit blizzards and chip, sheer force ice beam hits like 117 base power before factoring in life orb. sheer force also powers up its coverage options like freeze dry and earth power, and even gives it secondary usable stab ancient power which now has 78 base power without life orb. it can run scarf or rock polish to make up for its middling speed. it also gets tbolt to hit waters harder i guess. honestly, snow warning is the better ability but sheer force isn't too bad as well.
storm drain palossand
finally a stealth rocker that 1v1s slowbro. beats other offensive waters like sd samurott w/o knock off, kingler w/o knock off, kabutops and even sd qwilfish. it also walls heliolisk without dark pulse and sort of handles blastoise and vaporeon (toxic is a thing)
just going to renom my clawitzer theorymon, but with more explanation.
adding 5 base speed puts clawitzer at base 64, which is not fast, but better. it now outspeeds base 60s, and with a scarf, speed ties with sceptile. this would make clawitzer a better offensive scarfer that can reliably beat many of the tier's threats as well as provide momentum in the form of u-turn.
it finally gets a reason to be used over the likes of venusaur and sceptile. it has higher special atack than saur, and sleep powder helps it net set up opportunities for it to start steam rolling. it doesn't need to run niche sets like sleep powder + dream eater to beat garbodor anymore (lol oras), which is cool. it's beeb said to death, but earth power gives it coverage for steel, poison and fire types, and the most relevant being av mortar and av roar which usually tank a +1 breakneck blitz into giga drain if rocks aren't up, while +1 earth power reliably 2hkos.
vs av mortar:
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Breakneck Blitz (200 BP) vs. 60 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Magmortar: 202-238 (66 - 77.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Giga Drain vs. 60 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Magmortar: 57-67 (18.6 - 21.8%) -- possible 5HKO
vs av roar:
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Breakneck Blitz (200 BP) vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Incineroar: 211-249 (53.5 - 63.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Lilligant Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Incineroar: 59-70 (14.9 - 17.7%) -- possible 6HKO
if it gets earth power, it's also going to suffer from 4mss since it wants sleep powder and quiver dance, but also grass stab (giga drain/petal dance), earth power and hp ice for grass and flying types, since it doesn't have to run hyper beam, or even z-dream eater to beat venusaur and sceptile easier. alternatively, it can run a scarf set better now that it has almost perfect coverage, with a set like leaf storm/earth power/hp ice/healing wish or giga drain in the last slot. i really like this theorymon.
55 spatk taurus
mixed taurus is now better. that is all.
vs steelix:
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Fire Blast vs. 244 HP / 148 SpD Steelix: 192-229 (54.5 - 65%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
vs slowbro:
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Thunder vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Slowbro: 200-237 (50.7 - 60.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
vs rhydon:
4 SpA Life Orb Tauros Surf vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite Rhydon: 177-213 (42.7 - 51.4%) -- 5.1% chance to 2HKO
4 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Blizzard vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite Rhydon: 143-169 (34.5 - 40.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
sheer force aurorus
honestly not a bad theorymon. while refrigerate gives it like 108 base power ice type hyper voices and snow warning allows it to hit blizzards and chip, sheer force ice beam hits like 117 base power before factoring in life orb. sheer force also powers up its coverage options like freeze dry and earth power, and even gives it secondary usable stab ancient power which now has 78 base power without life orb. it can run scarf or rock polish to make up for its middling speed. it also gets tbolt to hit waters harder i guess. honestly, snow warning is the better ability but sheer force isn't too bad as well.
storm drain palossand
finally a stealth rocker that 1v1s slowbro. beats other offensive waters like sd samurott w/o knock off, kingler w/o knock off, kabutops and even sd qwilfish. it also walls heliolisk without dark pulse and sort of handles blastoise and vaporeon (toxic is a thing)
just going to renom my clawitzer theorymon, but with more explanation.
adding 5 base speed puts clawitzer at base 64, which is not fast, but better. it now outspeeds base 60s, and with a scarf, speed ties with sceptile. this would make clawitzer a better offensive scarfer that can reliably beat many of the tier's threats as well as provide momentum in the form of u-turn.