Could I blanket check Caly-S and Ho-Oh just by using Tyranitar?

Question

I’ve noticed on smogon that Tyranitar appears to do decently well against both so I was wondering if I could use Tyranitar as another form of security against those two (I have other counters). Maybe Lum berry (sacred fire burns) or assault vest T-tar? Singles reg g by the way man I cant figure things like this out

Comments

You'll probably get a better answer if you ask here: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-battle-stadium-forum-rules-simple-questions.3712420/

Answer 1

Smogon kind of let me down again, so I had to do a bit of my own research for this question. Anyways, here's the standard Tyranitar set, which is more than enough to OHKO both Ho-Oh and Calyrex.

Tyranitar @ Sitrus berry/Chople berry
Ability: sand stream
Tera type: rock
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Careful nature
- knock off
- stone edge
- earthquake
- stealth rock

With the Sitrus berry, it should survive 2 hits from non-choice band Ho-Oh's earthquake. If you want to check Tera fairy Ho-Oh or Calyrex, you can replace earthquake with heavy slam. If your opponent uses Tera grass Ho-Oh, this thing becomes useless and you should hope something else on your team can handle it.
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Comments

It's worth noting that Tyranitar isn't currently on https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-bss-viability-rankings-regulation-g.3717293/ , so it may not have many other uses in this format.

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https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-battle-stadium-forum-rules-simple-questions.3712420/page-3
According to one of the people who does quality control for BSS analyses, it should be roughly B rank viability and they just forgot about it last time they updated the rankings.

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Fair play.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH