Duraludon or copperajah for scarlet regulation set I?

Question

I have a team of ogerpon, meowscarada, greninja, cinderaxe and clefairy.
I am looking for tanky utility, I am currently using this duraladon set:

Duraludon @ Eviolite
Ability: Stalwart
Level: 50
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA
Lax Nature
- Protect
- Body Press
- Dragon Tail
- Flash Cannon

so which one? (feel free to change/add movesets)

Comments

You might get a better answer if you ask here: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/vgc-ask-a-simple-question-get-a-simple-answer.3588172/

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Neither of the mons you're talking about are viable in Reg I https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/3766018/ (nor are they viable in any active VGC format) which makes this question a bit silly to ask.
I know it's annoying but in competitive, you can't just pick your favourites then retroactively fit them into whatever format is in front of you. Some mons are bad and that's just life.

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I could've picket any mon but copperajah and duraludon won me a lot of battles due to team synergy, in fact I won one 1-3 with duraludon and copperajah also fills in that role. Just because a pokemon isn't viable doesn't mean you can't use it - I remember a person getting top 3 of an regionals using yanmega - with no competitive usage for more than 6ish years. Duraludons physical bulk lets it live attacks, disrupt with dragon tail and follow me clefable prevents and fighting type attacks with it! I got a 1320 elo using duraludon - but lost it all when I thought my cat team was viable. (my elo WAS NOT 1320 before!), so I have a lot of experience with duraludon and not much with copperajah, so I don't know much about it, all I want to say is say is despite the normal people who decide whats viable, theres always a yanmega.

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Most of the "viable" Pokemon were used by people with more than 75% GXE, which looks like it's roughly 1480 ELO on the current ladder. Have you ever gotten that high?

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so I can't listen to advice from somebody who won 10+ regional championships and won International championships 3 times?

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You're talking about Wolfey, right? He went through every tailwind user in the format and made sure Yanmega was better than all of them. Are you absolutely sure that you need a force switcher and that Duraludon and Copperajah are better than all the other force switchers?

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darn right. I scrolled FOR HOURS! looking for these people.

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So why does your team need a force switcher and why are all the other ones worse?

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duraludon has stalwart and a attacking switching move so there are no other pokemon like him and my friend who told me about the yanmega story told me about copperajah.

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Just archalodon he’s got stalwart and better than both combined

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but not enough defenses

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Assault vest then

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a. my team needs protect, b. that doesn't boost defense.

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*cough* Stamina *cough*

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he needs to be ohko to activate it I forgot! theres only a majority of people that can kill him before a singe boost can be activated I forgot!

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use zamazenta your team need restricted otherwise go to reg F