Rate my gen 7 Kartana Hyper Offense BSS Team (EMERGENCY)

Question

This is played on the 3DS. Because of this, If like to ask you to

• Try to only change up to two Pokémon. If you really, really think I should get rid of more, then feel free to. But if possible, try to limit it to 2, because SOS chaining, breeding, EV Training, and leveling up Pokémon is very tedious and boring.

• Do not suggest Mega Blaziken. I don’t have access to a HA Torchic, so I cannot use Blaziken or Mega Blaziken.

• When I say my ladder is in the 1400s, it might SOUND good, but on the 3DS you start with 1500, so 1497 (my ladder) is actually horrible

• Some pokemon are missing, or have too many IVs in the attacking stat they don’t use. For example, my Nihilego DOES NOT have 0 Attack IVs, because I didn’t feel like Soft Resetting For a Timid Hidden Power Ice 0 Attack IV Nihilego. If you think that the missing IVs are really important, please explain why and provide damage calculations.

• I’m using Moon, not Ultra Moon. So I can’t use Naganadel, Zeraora, Blacephelon, Stakatacool, Dusk Lycanroc, Mimikyunium Z, etc.

Please, please help me. My ladder recently fell into the 1400s. If it dips into the 1300s, I may or may not kill myself. Probably the first one.

This is where the RMT begins

Greninja @ LIfe Orb
Ability: Protean
Naive Nature
EVs; 252 Spe/252 SpA/4 Atk
- Gunk Shot
- Hydro Pump
- ice Beam
- Dark Pulse

Nihilego @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Beast Boost
Timid Nature
EVs: 252 Spe/252 SpA/4 SpD
- Thunderbolt
- Sludge Wave
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Power Gem

Salamence-Mega @ Salamencite
Ability: Intimidate
Adamant Nature
EVs: 252 Spe/252 Atk/4 Def
IVs: 23 SpA
- Dragon Dance
- Double Edge
- Earthquake
- Roost

Mimikyu @ Ghostium Z
Ability: Disguise
Adamant Nature
EVs: 252 Spe/252 Atk/4 SpD
- Swords Dance
- Shadow Claw
- Play Rough
- Shadow Sneak

Landorus-T @ Assault Vest
Ability: Intimidate
Adamant Nature
EVs: 212 HP/44 Atk/4 Def/220 SpD/28 Spe
- Earthquake
- Rock Tomb
- Knock Off
- U-Turn

Kartana @ Steelium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
Jolly Nature
EVs: 252 Spe/252 Atk/4 Def
IVs: 30 SpA
- Swords Dance
- Smart Strike
- Leaf Blade
- Sacred Sword

EDIT: I made some adjustments, please rate it now. I wonder if it's worth getting whole new Greninja and bottle capping it so I can get a HP Fire one...

Comments

You could get access to a HA torchic through trade threads or gts and then breed for ability

I mention bc mega blaziken is op

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Life Orb Nido > Focus Sash Nido. Is that what you meant?

Further, you can select upto how many per battle?

Also, Nihilego seems to work best as SR/TS setter as opposed to hitting hard, although it can pull that off too. Specs is certainly better than Scarf unless you're specifically countering some Pokemon

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@Empty Boxes its main purpose is to check many offensive threats that shut down the rest of my team. Mainly, Tapu Koko. I gave Nidoking a Focus Sash because it gets outsped fairly often, and when he gets outsped, he usually gets OHKOd. Getting 2 non Life Orb boosted moves is astronaomically better than one Life Orb boosted move.

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Why would you use Weavile or Nidoking when they're outclassed by Greninja and Landorus?

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Weavile does get priority ice stab and a stronger knock off, so it has niche. Whether or not it's actually important on this team is another thing. Generally though go with gren and lando

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That’s convenient. I happen to have both of them with the first smogon suggested set I saw. I hope I don’t need to SR for a new Landorus though... my current one is an AV set. I traded it to my Ultra Sun game and taught it Knock Off. It’s an Adamant Nature. Crossing my fingers I don’t need a Jolly one.

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I used Weavile because it checks Landorus-T and Garchomp. I used Nidoking because it has access to Fire Blast and Earth Power. Also, an accurate Poison move can come in handy. Gunk Shot On Greninja has very shaky accuracy.

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swords dance is a bit redundant on kartana. replace it with psycho cut for fighting type coverage.

is that a fire blast i see on that nidoking? hm, i guess you have good luck with rng. if not, i recommend thunderbolt.

icicle crash gets the same treatment as fire blast. ice punch is just better.

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@Twineedle Greninja checks Landorus and Garchomp better. And why would you need poison attacks when you have Kartana for checking fairies? Aside from that, Landorus's advantages far outweigh its lack of fire blast.
@eseer In BSS, Pokemon that Kartana can't one-shot are more common than fighting types, so swords dance is still better than psycho cut.

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@Someone Because Nidoking has far more coverage than Kartana, so I usually lead him, and I don’t want to waste a turn switching to Kartana.

@eseer1337 Swords Dance is mostly just for Celesteela, which is basically hell on earth for Kartana. Unfortunately, most Celesteelas these days carry Flamethrower.

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Landorus is so much stronger than Nidoking (especially with intimidate) that you don't need coverage to use it.