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What is a good moveset for Tyranitar? (page 2)

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asked Jul 15, 2010 by ohioscyther
edited Jul 1, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion
Tyranitar (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 8 SDef / 248 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Fire Punch
- Crunch
- Stone Edge

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Tiranitar
Tyranitar
Item: expert belt
Evs: 252 atk 120 hp 68 def 68 sdef
Crunch
Brick break
Thunderpunch
Ice punch
This is a good coverage moveset with 176 normal effectives and 499 super effectives
And with the expert belt it powers up most of its moves.

answered Feb 27 by toxicroaker
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Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Hp / 252 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Curse
- Earthquake
- Rockslide/Stone Edge
- Dragon Tail

answered Mar 23 by ScytheMasta
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Titane @ Chople Berry

Ability: Sand Stream

Nature: Quiet (-Speed, +Attack)

-Ice Fang (Coverage for those Grass and Ground types)

-Stone Edge (STAB, good chance to take off with a critical hit, coverage for Bug types)

-Thunder Fang (Good chance to take off a Water type)

-Earthquake (Really GOOOOOOOOOOOD chance to take off a Steel)

*I recommend you to replace the Ice and Thunder Fangs for Ice and Thunder Punches, because it has more power. I don't have it because I wasted all my Red Shards on training and teaching some moves to my Metagross

answered Apr 2 by VladyAndSamurott
edited Apr 3 by VladyAndSamurott
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Ok here's my one. It's very similar to a couple mentioned before but has a slight twist.

Item: Leftovers / Shell Bell
Ability: Sand-stream
Nature: Careful
EVs: 252 SDef / 252 HP / 4 Atk

-Dragon Dance
-Fire Punch / Brick Break / Earthquake / Aerial Ace (whatever coverage you want)
-Crunch (STAB)
-Stone Edge / Rock Slide (STAB - [power or accuracy])

Shell bell is more for if you want to use your leftovers on one of your other Pokemon. Since this Ttar is going to be dishing out a lot of damage shell bell will provide a good amount of healing anyway.
There may be a better item to use than these, but since Choice items aren't good with dragon dance and focus sashes aren't needed (explained below) I havn't come up with anything better yet.
Perhaps an expert belt if you don't have anything better to use it on.

So the thinking behind this is that with all those SDef EVs + careful nature + the SDef boost from sandstorm it should easily be able to take multiple hits from special attacks so send it out against a special attacker (preferably without focus blast). They hit it, it shrugs it off and dances. The opponent has a choice then of either hitting it again (not usually a great plan) or switching to something with a bit more phys (should have done that last turn). Either way Ttar now has 2 dances up and at this point there's not much that can stand up to it.
Using this set up I've managed to survive Focus Blasts from Alakazam with over 1/4 of my HP remaining so there's not really any special attackers out there that can threaten it enough to need a focus sash.

Its main weakness is if someone switches straight out to a physical attacker with a fighting move and enough speed to beat it while dragon danced, but most people will try hitting it with at least one special attack before realising how useless that is.

Hope you like it, and if you think of a better item for it or any major flaws I'd love to hear it.

answered Apr 23 by CC hello
edited Apr 22 by CC hello

 

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