Gothita
Typing: Psychic
Base Stats: 45 Hp / 30 Atk / 50 Def / 55 Spd / 65 Spd / 45 Spe
Abilities: Competitive / Frisk / Shadow Tag (hidden ability)
Normally Gothita wouldn't be much of a threat, but it is one of the best trappers in LC as it gets the ability shadow tag. Unlike diglet's arena trap, shadow tag prevents even flying types and pokes with levitate like gastly from escaping. The most common item for gothita is a choice scarf to ensure that it can outspeed and take out trapped opponents as gothita's low speed might otherwise be insufficient. It is also useful to outspeed pokes like mienfoo that have access to u-turn to escape. Although gothita has good coverage it struggles to take most pokes out from full health. However, with a scarf and it's trapping ability, gothita is one of the best revenge killers in the tier. Recommended evs are 236 Spa, 236 Spe, and 36 Def with a modest nature. At 14 speed and 16 special attack gothita just barely has the stats to pull off a successful scarf set. If you want to use hidden power fire for ferroseed you'll need to use 240 evs in both Spa and Spe.
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