Gets STAB Fake Out, and Facade, giving it another alternative to the CB set, and powering up Fake Out on AV sets. Also gets Ghost immunity, and with Guts is the ultimate Ghost check. Pretty sweet!
252+ Atk Guts Hariyama Facade (140 BP) vs. 252 HP / 208+ Def
Mega Audino: 225-265
(54.8 - 64.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
CC is a roll so this makes it not a roll, and you don't get defense drops.
252+ Atk Guts Hariyama Facade (140 BP) vs. 240 HP / 252+ Def
Musharna: 285-336
(65.8 - 77.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Knock Off when Mushy has no item still doesn't 2HKO, so if it's Colbur, or if it clicks Moonlight on Knock Off, Knock Off is not a reliable way to kill it, as you are taking Burn/Poison damage every turn. Therefore Facade is a solid option to deal with Musharna.
Obvious immediate drawback to using this set is gaining a Fighting weakness though.
252 Atk Primeape Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Hariyama: 510-600
(118.8 - 139.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
It can't switch in, but even Scarf Primeape one shots.
252 SpA Life Orb Floatzel Focus Blast vs. 0 HP / 252 SpD Assault Vest Hariyama: 185-218
(43.1 - 50.8%) -- 50% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
With no recovery, AV Yama will have a lot more issues switching into special attackers with Fighting coverage. Other than that, this is a pretty sweet slate.
Bouffalant is a really cool, yet fairly niche Pokemon in NU currently. It notably checks Specs Swellow/Grass types depending on the ability, and can definitely do work with it's amazing STAB Head Charge. With Ground typing it will be able to check even more Pokemon, and with Sap Sipper won't mind the added Grass weakness. In fact, with Sap Sipper Bouffalant will be immune to Electric, Grass, and Ghost type attacks.
With STAB EQ, it will be able to consistently 2HKO Rhydon, and Steelix when running a Choice Band, whereas before it was a roll both times, unless SR were up.
+2 252+ Atk Bouffalant Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Eviolite
Rhydon: 366-432
(88.4 - 104.3%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
On SD sets it can now kill Rhydon most of the time when it switches in, which is nice since prior Rhydon would have done minimum 43% with it's own EQ.
With Pursuit, Shiftry can become a fairly decent trapper, being able to do minimum 60% to Mesprit switching out when not carrying Colbur Berry. However I still feel that I would rather use the likes of Skuntank (or even Arbok gets Pursuit now, and has Unnerve so if they carry Colbur that doesn't even matter).
252+ Atk Life Orb Arbok Pursuit vs. 252 HP / 240+ Def
Mesprit: 101-120
(27.7 - 32.9%) -- guaranteed 4HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
This is LO Adamant, because idk what Arbok would even run, but that does just as much as Shiftry Pursuit (within 2%), and it doesn't have to worry about Colbur Berry (or random Signal Beam/U-turn). Therefore I see Pursuit on Shiftry as just removing it's potential to run moves like SD or Defog.
Gooey is a pretty cool ability, however I feel that it's not a big enough buff to justify nominating as a slot over something else. It can't personally take advantage of Gooey on Curse sets, and if you can outspeed something and beat it 1 vs. 1, it probably shouldn't be staying in, so they'll probably go to their special attacker, which doesn't mind Gooey in the slightest. Also Poison Touch is really annoying to things switching in, so I feel this may even be outclassed by normal Muk.
+1 252 SpA Vivillon Focus Blast vs. 244 HP / 128 SpD
Steelix: 362-428
(102.8 - 121.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Vivillon Focus Blast vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite
Rhydon: 172-204
(41.5 - 49.2%) -- 14.8% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
I don't think we need more reasons to justify this Pokemon being #666 in the Pokedex. Not to mention this thing has Compound Eyes. I really feel like this is pretty unhealthy, but then again, I feel normal Vivillon is unhealthy considering that if it feels like clicking Hurricane instead of Sleep Powder it can neuter AV Magmortar (roll to 2HKO after SR), which is one of it's most common dedicated checks. Please don't vote this if you have a soul.
This Pokemon has always been pretty niche. I think the only time I've seen this in NU was with a Choice Band. With Diamond Storm, it now has a reliable STAB that doesn't miss 1/5 times, and it has a chance to get that defense boost. Rough Skin + Spikes can make this a cool alternative to things like Garbodor, being able to Spike stack while apply constant damage to physical attackers. Also that would make this a pretty decent Normal check (especially against Kangaskhan, rof).
252 Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Tauros Iron Tail vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Gigalith: 244-289
(65.2 - 77.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Now yes, that 2HKO's, but it also takes a bunch of damage from Rocky Helmet + Rough Skin, taking 53% damage if I did the math properly (I am really bad at math so someone please correct me if I did it wrong). This leaves it really susceptible to being revenge killed. Overall a pretty sweet slate.
Getting Dark typing is obviously super sweet, as is Dry Skin. It now gets 2 abilities, on top of it's Poison status immunity. Seviper is already pretty scary, ask
MARCU5theBAW5, I got body-bagged by it. Anyways, we all know what Poison/Dark typing does in NU, thanks to Skuntank. The difference between this and Skuntank I feel really lies in it's offensive prowess. Seviper has always been a pretty decent offensive Pokemon, being able to use it's amazing coverage to check a lot of the NU meta. I'm assuming the special set would run something like Sludge Wave, Dark Pulse, Flamethrower, and Giga Drain. Just to let you guys know that it's actually decent, I'll give you calcs for all 4 moves.
252 SpA Life Orb Seviper
Sludge Wave vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD
Mega Audino: 276-328
(67.3 - 80%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 SpA Life Orb Seviper
Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD
Mesprit: 182-216
(50 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Life Orb Seviper
Flamethrower vs. 244 HP / 128 SpD
Steelix: 255-302
(72.4 - 85.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Life Orb Seviper
Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 12 SpD
Gastrodon: 411-489
(96.4 - 114.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
252 SpA Life Orb Seviper
Giga Drain vs. 252 HP / 240 SpD Eviolite
Rhydon: 302-359
(72.9 - 86.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
And those were all just LO Timid. This thing has literally nothing that switches into it. In fact, with this coverage, theoretically the only types that you don't hit super effectively are Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fighting, Fire, Flying, Normal, and Poison. Everything else takes super effective damage. Overall this is also another pretty awesome slate.
Dewgong has always been disappointing, even with access to Thick Fat, solely for the reason that it doesn't get Scald. It would be pretty cool with Belly Drum Technician, if only for the fact that it still doesn't do damage.
+6 252+ Atk Mystic Water Technician Dewgong Aqua Jet vs. 252 HP / 240+ Def
Mesprit: 241-285
(66.2 - 78.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
Like yeah, Mesprit is bulky, but this is gonna be so easy to revenge kill. If this Mon had decent Speed maybe it could do something, but even with Adamant, and Mystic Water it can't even do 80% to a Mesprit. Sure it can one shot Mons like Tauros, but you'd have to keep this late game to do any work. And even then it has a SR weakness so you're taking possibly 75% just to switch this in and click Belly Drum. Overall I feel that this is outclassed by a lot of other Belly Drum users in the tier, none of which have any usage what so ever besides Linoone.
Time for the BSP slates. You guys already know what the first one is going to be.
I nominate Sudowoodo with Rock/Grass typing, and Head Smash. I made a post about this on the first page, so please check it out.
Secondly I nominate Honedge with Illusion (I justify this nomination with it being Ghost type). Now you may be thinking to yourself, "Honedge? What a wasteful slot to put on my team. I would never use this." And this is where you are sadly mistaken. See, after using Mono Baby Ghost for a video on my YouTube channel, I realized that Honedge is actually fairly viable in the NU meta granted all of the opponents Dark types are down. If you want to say that 1 Pokemon has to be down for this to be viable doesn't make it viable, I suggest you look at CM Barrier Mushy. Regardless, this Pokemon is a great revenge killer, and set up sweeper. I have several replays of this doing work, this one being the most prominent.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-461582081
Taking advantage of it's amazing bulk, Honedge can set up fairly easily, especially with Illusion. Once at +4, Shadow Sneak can do tons of damage to all opposing Pokemon. With being probably the only Pokemon line that can't take advantage of No Guard, Illusion would be an amazing buff. Illusion is definitely an underrated ability in Pokemon (spoken by a Balanced Hackmons player, not a UU player) so I would love to see this come true.