Toxicroak @ Life Orb
Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Cross Chop
- Sucker Punch
- Ice Punch
Trait: Dry Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Cross Chop
- Sucker Punch
- Ice Punch
Mynism's Toxicroak is a great example of a potent Rain threat. Although most Toxicroak sets opt for either Substitute or Bulk Up, going more offensive with Ice Punch allows Toxicroak to plow through the most common physical wall: Gliscor. When backed with Rain support, this Toxicroak is easily capable of breaking common cores.
One of Toxicroak's biggest uses is beating Ferrothorn, one of the most annoying opponents for Rain teams to face. Other than that, Toxicroak has a lot of useful features: Swords Dance, STAB priority and excellent type coverage. Many teams fall apart after a crucial team member like Gliscor is eliminated, opening up holes to sweep through.
Toxicroak has issues with walls like Skarmory and Jellicent. Fortunately, a lot of good sweepers can get past these two opponents. Rotom-W comes to mind as an excellent choice, being able to abuse a perfectly accurate Thunder in Rain. Jirachi can also run a mixed or specially-based set to lure out and KO the two walls with Thunder. Not much is needed to support a potential Toxicroak sweep.
Take it first hand from someone who has been swept by one of these: this set is good. It's tough to beat between its good coverage and priority in Sucker Punch. Your best bets against one of these guys at +2 are Terrakion with Earthquake (4x resist to Sucker Punch plus Justified) or Substitute variants of Landorus, Thundurus, or anything else that can outspeed and threaten Toxicroak.
ReplyDeleteNice to see a purely offensive variant of the Rain abuse Toxicroak! I'm definitely gonna wanna try this one out, it looks like it has some noticable perks in contrast to the Sub Bulk Up or SubSD sets. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention ! I'd like to say that Skarmory isn't a real threat since he takes 7x% from Cross Chop so if SR are up you can force him to go into this killing range.
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