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I need one mon that can check majority of them.

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My best answer is Greninja, which can outspeed all of them (if you aren't using a choice scarf yourself, beware of choice scarves) and OHKO them with gunk shot.
Gren is slower than Koko. In a similar vein, Mega Metagross can check every Tapu bar Koko and Scarfed variants of Lele with Shadow Ball/HP Fire. Although Stallbreaker Lele is now considered the best set. Probably the best check is AV Alolan Muk, but it lacks Recovery.
Just try speed EV Pheromosa. On my Battle Showdown, it literally ruled the Tapus.
Yeah, Pheromosa is pretty good, but it doesn't OHKO Fini with Poison Jab, and I kinda doubt it does Koko or Lele, so you would need some prior damage. I would suggest not putting the stress of checking all four Tapus on one Pokemon. The more a Pokemon has to do, the faster it gets worn down and dies, leaving you with no Pokemon to do it's job at all.
It actually did EVERY one of those. Once I had someone use all 4 of them on their team but I OHKO'd them with Poison Jab. So yeah.
Maybe their Tapu Fini didn't have HP or physical defense investment. You still need to prepare for physically defensive Tapu Finis.
If you want to argue show me calc of Adamant LO Poison Jab vs actual Tapu sets
252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Koko: 296-351 (105.3 - 124.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele: 330-390 (117.4 - 138.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tapu Lele: 330-390 (95.9 - 113.3%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 252 HP / 0+ Def Tapu Lele: 302-356 (87.7 - 103.4%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO

252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tapu Bulu: 463-546 (134.5 - 158.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tapu Fini: 231-273 (82.2 - 97.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tapu Fini: 231-273 (67.1 - 79.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Life Orb Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tapu Fini: 172-203 (50 - 59%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
I don't really know what's in vogue when it comes to Tapu EVs so I just used 252 spreads.
specific spreads don't matter, but like i said, tapu fini is NEVER OHKOed by pheromosa unless it has no defense/hp investment and the pheromosa is adamant banded. the chances of a no def/hp fini AND banded phero are pretty slim
Fine, I admit it, I never fought a Tapu Fini before in Showdown. But holy crap are they annoying in-game.
It still checks three of them, which is what the original asker asked.

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I decided to give an anwser for my old self. And here's the conclusion I made.

Tapu Lele

Muk-Alolan is able check it cause of Assualt Vest. With it, Muk can avoid 2HKOs from Moonblast and Focus Blast and then OHKO it with a Poison Jab.

Tapu Fini

I messed with the Showdown damage calculator and realised that Tapu Koko and OHKO Defensive/Calm Mind Tapu Fini with Thunderbolt in Electric Terrain as Long as I bring in Tapu Koko safely. A taunt is also helpful.

Tapu Koko

Pheromosa is able outspeed and OHKO it with Poison Jab as Astronautical mentioned above. Scarfed Landorus/Garchomp is also able to OHKO it with a Earthquake.

Tapu Bulu

Marowak-A is a solid check to Bulu being able to resist its STAB and other moves. A poison move is also able to bring it down.

And that's done. I realised that I need to depend on different mon to check them, not just only one. I will be removing this from the non selected anwser question section.

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All the Tapus are weak to Poison, so I'd suggest using a Poison-Type, like Alolan Muk. I wouldn't use Toxapex or Tentacruel since both are weak to Tapu-Koko's electric attacks. Also, I wouldn't use Salazzle since it's weak to Tapu-Fini's water attacks. Alolan Muk would be immune to Tapu Lele's psychic attacks and takes normal damage from Tapu-Bulu, Tapu-Koko, and Tapu-Fini's attacks.

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Just because they're weak to poison doesn't mean you need to use a poison type Pokemon. Alolan Muk would probably be worse than Pheromosa.
alolan muk does really well against all but koko. but it doesn't have recovery since it has to run assault vest, so you must play it carefully and conservatively
I just based this question on type-advantage, not on held-items or IVs.
Pheromosa can get a type advantage and probably deal more damage with its super effective attacks. It also has higher speed, which means it won't take a hit if it manages to OHKO the opponent.
But, if it does not OHKO, it will take a Psychic-type attack from Tapu Lele.