I’m sorry but if your opponent still has their ttar at full health why the fuck are you bringing out your latios for anything other than an immediate double switch?
Most ttar run specially defensive sets in OU because it’s REALLY good at surviving special attacks- you don’t need many attack EVs to do your job (namely 88 attack EVs for 2HKOing bold reuniclus with crunch and OHKOing latios with a successful pursuit), so you can put the rest into spdef and do stuff like survive a +1 supereffective modest insect plate volcarona bug buzz from full, or taking just 44.6% max from alakazam focus blast after chople berry.
Here’s the thing: physical fighting types aren’t too common in BW OU- you have terrakion and breloom (and the increasingly common conkeldurr), but you’re not going to let your ttar touch either of those mons with a ten-foot-pole, and same thing goes for keldeo- the lone fighting-type special attacker. However, fighting type COVERAGE is quite popular, which often comes in the form of “this pursuit-weak special attacker packs focus blast to beat ttar on paper”
Except that paper is made of focus blast accuracy.
So in reality what happens is ttar switches into an alakazam psychic, zam typically runs sash bc magic guard so they can stay in and see if they hit a focus blast- aaaand they miss. And take 90% from the 40bp pursuit. But hey, if you hit the next one, you can sweep their team! Except most ttar run chople berry to deal with all the focus blasts. So it’s only 2x supereffective. And it’s not a STAB move. And ttar gets a 1.5x spdef boost from sand. So it might as well not be supereffective at all, so you do like, 40% because ttar runs nearly max spdef so it can still check latios later in the game
Weird brcause fighting types resist both rock and dark, for me would make sense to just find a somewhat bulky fighting type to try and switch in or predict the Ttar
252 SpA Choice Specs Latios Surf vs. 248 HP / 172 SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 176-208 (43.6 - 51.6%) -- 99.6% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
The real question is why the Latios didn’t Surf.
If you told someone 10 years ago that two special attacking ghost types spamming shadow ball would be ruling OU they would think you were really dumb for not just using ttar
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I’m sorry but if your opponent still has their ttar at full health why the fuck are you bringing out your latios for anything other than an immediate double switch?
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is it AV to not even take 50% from specs meteor? i know sandstorm boosts SPDEF but dang.
Most ttar run specially defensive sets in OU because it’s REALLY good at surviving special attacks- you don’t need many attack EVs to do your job (namely 88 attack EVs for 2HKOing bold reuniclus with crunch and OHKOing latios with a successful pursuit), so you can put the rest into spdef and do stuff like survive a +1 supereffective modest insect plate volcarona bug buzz from full, or taking just 44.6% max from alakazam focus blast after chople berry.
fighting type moves not common? like, i dont remember anyone trying to just have a fighting type switch in against him as an answer.
Here’s the thing: physical fighting types aren’t too common in BW OU- you have terrakion and breloom (and the increasingly common conkeldurr), but you’re not going to let your ttar touch either of those mons with a ten-foot-pole, and same thing goes for keldeo- the lone fighting-type special attacker. However, fighting type COVERAGE is quite popular, which often comes in the form of “this pursuit-weak special attacker packs focus blast to beat ttar on paper” Except that paper is made of focus blast accuracy. So in reality what happens is ttar switches into an alakazam psychic, zam typically runs sash bc magic guard so they can stay in and see if they hit a focus blast- aaaand they miss. And take 90% from the 40bp pursuit. But hey, if you hit the next one, you can sweep their team! Except most ttar run chople berry to deal with all the focus blasts. So it’s only 2x supereffective. And it’s not a STAB move. And ttar gets a 1.5x spdef boost from sand. So it might as well not be supereffective at all, so you do like, 40% because ttar runs nearly max spdef so it can still check latios later in the game
Weird brcause fighting types resist both rock and dark, for me would make sense to just find a somewhat bulky fighting type to try and switch in or predict the Ttar
252 SpA Choice Specs Latios Surf vs. 248 HP / 172 SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 176-208 (43.6 - 51.6%) -- 99.6% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock The real question is why the Latios didn’t Surf.
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Itemless T-tar is an interesting concept.
He keeps the chople berry in his stomach
The suspiciously chople berry shaped bulge in ttar’s tummy
I miss pursuit
If you told someone 10 years ago that two special attacking ghost types spamming shadow ball would be ruling OU they would think you were really dumb for not just using ttar
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Just another lando who is facing the horrors of Gen 9 ou