Gen 9
Diancie @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Grass / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Atk
Relaxed Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Draining Kiss
- Calm Mind
- Body Press
Honestly this is a strange set but who knows. The post-home meta is still fresh, and maybe this will be the straw that breaks NU's back.
Diancie was kind of buffed this generation, merely by the addition of tera. Tera is a simple but fundamental change which can breathe new life into Pokemon like Galarian Articuno and Floatzel, or push them way over the edge, like in the case of Volcarona, Annihilape, and Regieleki. In Diancie's case, Tera Grass allows Diancie to now resist Water, Grass, and Ground and be neutral to Steel. It has a lot of downsides for sure, as you gain notable weaknesses to U-turn, Magma Storm, Sludge Bomb, Hurricane etc, but with Diancie's great defenses, you can tera and easily live the resisted hit, and from there you can kinda just snowball. Tera Water is another option to give Diancie a Steel and Water resistance, keeping the Grass weakness but giving it a way better overall defensive type. Idk, i've never used this set and I thought it sounded cool in my head. Maybe blunder could do a live with this...
Diamond Storm can let you boost up like 42.5% of the time, then with that you can Body Press to damage Steels with your big defenses. Calm Mind can allow you to boost your Special Defense and make your Draining Kiss sting more. I guess with this set Diancie becomes a tank that can boost up on both defense and special defense and have calm mind boosted STAB recovery in Draining Kiss. I know this is probably just lunacy but maybe this could actually work if Gholdengo and Corviknight just magically disappeared.
