OU Protect Mega Diancie (QC 2/1) (GP 1/1)

[Felixx]

Diancie @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm / Stealth Rock
- Earth Power / Stealth Rock
- Protect

Once thought of as a niche and underwhelming pick, so much so that it dropped out of OU, Mega Diancie returns with a vengeance after being deemed too strong for UU, now acting as a speedy mixed wallbreaker. Protect scouts choice-locked moves of foes such as Choice Scarf Landorus-T and Kartana, preventing them from freely using U-turn or Knock Off, respectively. It also helps against Choice Specs Ash-Greninja, preventing it from using Spikes or Dark Pulse on a predicted switch, and against Ferrothorn, which has to play 50-50s between setting entry hazards or attacking and will slowly get PP stalled out of Gyro Ball or Power Whip. Furthermore, Mega Diancie's Rock / Fairy typing is great offensively, allowing it to force out the likes of Zygarde, Tornadus-T, and Zapdos. Partners such as Heatran and Fightinium Z Tornadus-T pair well with Diancie as they handle Grass- and Steel-types. Overall, deflecting entry hazards while being an offensive entry hazard setter itself makes Mega Diancie a great pick on teams in need of its unique niche.

 

[Felixx]

LL QC this please

 

[MANNAT]

Mega Diancie returns with a vengeance, running Protect like it did in ORAS, but for completely different reasons.

I would replace everything after the first comma with a blurb detailing what diancie's niche is in the metagame, seeing as you already describe why you use protect in the following sentences.

Protect allows Diancie to scout choice-locked moves of Pokemon such as Scarf Landorus-T, Greninja, and Kartana, preventing them from freely using U-turn or Knock Off respectively. It also helps versus Choice Specs Ash-Greninja, preventing it from using Spikes or Dark Pulse on a predicted switch.

Take out the mention of Greninja in the first sentence since the second sentence specifically focuses on it and Greninja isn't relevant to what you're talking about there.

This also helps a lot versus Ferrothorn, who has to play 50/50s between setting hazards or attacking.

Mention how it helps you PP stall Gyro since that's pretty huge vs ferro

These changes are kinda nitpicky, but this looks pretty good, implement these and QC 1/1

 

[Felixx]

implemented so ready for QC #2, not tagging anyone this time so it's anybody's QC

 

[lotiasite]

fb spotlights only need 1 qc so feel free to move this to gp

 

[Felixx]

oh wow, shit totally forgot LOL, okay sending to GP sent!

 

[lydian]

Please change the set to this:

Diancie @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm / Stealth Rock
- Earth Power / Stealth Rock
- Protect

Once thought to be a niche and ineffective pick, so much that it dropped to UU and was quickly banned

This is a bit of a nitpick but calling it outright ineffective is a but of a stretch imo. By the time it fell to UU it was of course struggling in viability, but it is still one of the few Stealth Rock users that gets em’ up against Moltres stall, so I don’t calling calling it outright ineffective is ideal, plus it did see some usage occasionally. I’d just leave the niche part.

Good work, 2/1

 

[Felixx]

done, ended up getting 2 QC checks after all

 

[Electrolyte]

whoosh doing GP for this

 

[Electrolyte]

kapow

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Diancie @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm / Stealth Rock
- Earth Power / Stealth Rock
- Protect

Once thought to be of as a niche pick, so much so that it dropped to UU and was quickly banned out of OU, Mega Diancie returns with a vengeance after being deemed too strong for UU, now acting as a speedy mixed wallbreaker. Protect allows Diancie to scouts choice-locked moves of Pokemon foes such as Choice Scarf Landorus-T and Kartana, preventing them from freely using U-turn or Knock Off,(AC) respectively. It also helps versus against Choice Specs Ash-Greninja, preventing it from using Spikes or Dark Pulse on a predicted switch, and against . This also helps a lot versus Ferrothorn, who which has to play 50/50s 50-50s between setting entry hazards or attacking(RC) and will slowly get PP stalled out of Gyro Ball or Power Whip. Furthermore, a Rock- Fairy-typing Mega Diancie's Rock / Fairy typing is great offensively, allowing Diancie it to force out the likes of Zygarde, Tornadus-T, and Zapdos. Partners such as Heatran and Fightinium Z Tornadus-T pair well with Diancie as they're able to handle Grass- and Steel-types. Overall, deflecting entry hazards while being an offensive entry hazard setter itself makes Mega Diancie a great pick on teams in need of its unique niche.

GP 1/1

 

[Felixx]

implemented the GP check so this is done!