Ariados (NU Analysis)

Disaster Area

formerly Piexplode
[Overview]
- Actual bulk unlike similar Pokemon such as Beedrill, but actual boosts to pass, unlike venomoth.
- Insomnia and a 4x Grass resistance actually let it check Sunnybeamers somewhat effectively.
- Can run Agility+Baton Pass

[SET]
name: Baton Pass
move 1: Baton Pass
move 2: Agility
move 3: Sludge Bomb
move 4: Substitute / Endure
item: Leichi Berry / Salac Berry
ability: Insomnia
nature: Careful
evs: 252 Atk / 64 Def / 146 SpD / 56 Spe or 252 Atk / 200 SpD / 56 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
- Baton pass+Agility to support the team
- Sludge Bomb to annihilate Tangela if it HP Fire's you.
- Leichi berry to actually beat Tangela, Salac Berry to make sure you're outspeeding the whole meta after a Salac Boost and Agility.

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Outspeeds Adamant Arbok after an Agility.
- +1 Ariados Sludge Bomb vs. Tangela: 306-360 (95.6 - 112.5%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
Calcs with Former Spread:
Choice Band Hitmonchan Hidden Power Ghost vs. Ariados: 133-157 (47.3 - 55.8%) -- 79.3% chance to 2HKO
Tangela Hidden Power Fire vs. Ariados in Sun: 238-280 (84.6 - 99.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Latter Spread:
Tangela Hidden Power Fire vs. Ariados in Sun: 219-258 (77.9 - 91.8%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO after 1 layer of Spikes
Tangela Hidden Power Fire vs. Ariados in Sun: 238-280 (84.6 - 99.6%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO after 1 layer of Spikes

- Ultimately any spread varies in physical to special defensiveness, neither is going to be perfectly satisfactory, so pick your poison.

[Other Options]
- Spider Web pass, but its Speed and Bulk is inferior even in this metagame to be able to do it.

[Checks and Counters]
- Bug, Poison, Steel, Rock, Ground, and Ghost all handle its most common attacks pretty handily. Not running something it can set up on is helpful. Phazers such as Golbat and Flareon totally nullify it.
 

Oglemi

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spider web needs to be slashed next to agility, being able to trappass anything is golden in this meta, particularly if you want to get rid of something like flareon/swalot without having to resort to diglett.

also being able to tank tangela's hp fire in the sun is such an obscure calc to aim to survive... i don't quite understand the reason why that's a benchmark at all, especially considering that tangela probably shouldn't be out mid-game and if it is it's defensive. you'd think you'd rather aim for something like defensive chime's psychic or haunter's hp fire or something
 

Disaster Area

formerly Piexplode
I think I'm gonna drop it it's a bit of a confusing mon to me and i'm not sure really quite what to do with it. Please move it to locked/outdated analyses; feel free to put up your own I guess.
 

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