veti
Supreme Overlord
[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
tera type: Poison / Fighting
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner, gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat and enough bulk to use Nasty Plot against passive Pokemon. Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, and Great Tusk that can take its Dark Pulse. Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey. Psyshock can be used to hit Blissey and Clodsire, however Clodsire can terastalize to avoid being KOd if needed. Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity, granting Darkrai OHKOs on Offensive Volcarona and Gouging Fire with +2 Dark Pulse and an OHKO on max HP Great Tusk with unboosted Ice Beam. Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained. Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy- and Fighting-type resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey at +2.
Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Zamazenta, as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu and Galarian Slowking, while Mixed Dragapult and Raging Bolt, especially with Taunt, can help break through Clodsire. Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant, Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Darkrai appreciates support from hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as their hazards and especially Spikes make Darkrai much more threatening, wearing down switch-ins like Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and Heatran, while Darkrai heavily pressures hazard removers like Great Tusk, Corviknight, and Cinderace. Hisuian Samurott and Landorus-T in particular have deeper synergy with Darkrai, Hisuian Samurott wears down Primarina and can switch into Darkrai checks like Blissey and Clodsire and set up Spikes with the switches it forces, while it can also Flip Turn to safely bring in Darkrai on physically defensive Pokemon like Corviknight, Dondozo, and Alomomola to gain free turns. Landorus-T is an excellent physical blanket check and can swap into threatening Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Booster Energy Great Tusk that can threaten Darkrai, and can use U-turn to bring in Darkrai safely on Pokemon like Gliscor and opposing Landorus-T. Gholdengo is an excellent teammate due to it providing a check to Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Enamorus while being able to counter most Zamazenta variants if running a physically defensive set. Rillaboom can threaten answers to Darkrai like Primarina, Ting Lu, and Clodsire, while being able to pivot Darkrai in on Pokemon like defensive Gholdengo, Skarmory, and Corviknight to keep momentum on them. Assault Vest Primarina is an excellent partner that blanket checks many special attackers including Iron Valiant and Deoxys-S while being able to pivot Darkrai in on its checks like Galarian Slowking, and pressures shared walls such as Blissey and terastallized Clodsire for Darkrai to break through.
[SET CREDITS]
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name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
tera type: Poison / Fighting
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner, gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat and enough bulk to use Nasty Plot against passive Pokemon. Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, and Great Tusk that can take its Dark Pulse. Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey. Psyshock can be used to hit Blissey and Clodsire, however Clodsire can terastalize to avoid being KOd if needed. Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity, granting Darkrai OHKOs on Offensive Volcarona and Gouging Fire with +2 Dark Pulse and an OHKO on max HP Great Tusk with unboosted Ice Beam. Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained. Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy- and Fighting-type resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey at +2.
Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Zamazenta, as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu and Galarian Slowking, while Mixed Dragapult and Raging Bolt, especially with Taunt, can help break through Clodsire. Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant, Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Darkrai appreciates support from hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as their hazards and especially Spikes make Darkrai much more threatening, wearing down switch-ins like Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and Heatran, while Darkrai heavily pressures hazard removers like Great Tusk, Corviknight, and Cinderace. Hisuian Samurott and Landorus-T in particular have deeper synergy with Darkrai, Hisuian Samurott wears down Primarina and can switch into Darkrai checks like Blissey and Clodsire and set up Spikes with the switches it forces, while it can also Flip Turn to safely bring in Darkrai on physically defensive Pokemon like Corviknight, Dondozo, and Alomomola to gain free turns. Landorus-T is an excellent physical blanket check and can swap into threatening Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Booster Energy Great Tusk that can threaten Darkrai, and can use U-turn to bring in Darkrai safely on Pokemon like Gliscor and opposing Landorus-T. Gholdengo is an excellent teammate due to it providing a check to Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Enamorus while being able to counter most Zamazenta variants if running a physically defensive set. Rillaboom can threaten answers to Darkrai like Primarina, Ting Lu, and Clodsire, while being able to pivot Darkrai in on Pokemon like defensive Gholdengo, Skarmory, and Corviknight to keep momentum on them. Assault Vest Primarina is an excellent partner that blanket checks many special attackers including Iron Valiant and Deoxys-S while being able to pivot Darkrai in on its checks like Galarian Slowking, and pressures shared walls such as Blissey and terastallized Clodsire for Darkrai to break through.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/veti.612907/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/kd458.633798/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/magcargo.177111/
Grammar checked by:
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