Offensive Toxic Spikes

Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Tera Type: Water / Normal
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Toxic Spikes
- Dual Wingbeat / U-Turn / Facade
- Swords Dance / Knock Off

by Whaloob

Generally the biggest struggle tspikes teams have is not being able to keep tspikes up in the face of poison types. Furthermore, most tspike setters are either lacking the longevity to put up tspikes throughout the game as necessary or are so passive as to give up too much momentum, making it difficult to rack up the desired pressure. This set aims to remedy that using the naturally easy to preserve :gliscor: who is also naturally unsafe for poison types to switch into by virtue of its stab EQ off a [I]good enough [/I]attack stat. This gives it many opportunities to force the opponent to choose between taking the poison/toxic from tspikes and taking a big hit on a poison type. This set is very customizable (although consider the first listed option in each moveslot to be the submission option); the essense of the set is captured in just the presence of EQ and tspikes. The only relevant poison type with an EQ neutrality is :amoonguss:, which is what you would use dual wingbeat, SD + EQ, or especially SD + DW to handle (EQ alone does 30-35%, approximately matching regen recovery which won’t do without knock off + other hazard support, a lot for a hazard setter to ask). Other than :amoonguss: though, every grounded poison type in the game is 2HKO’d by EQ/OHKO’d by +2 EQ and most can’t hurt you enough to be problematic [SPOILER=Calcs] (:toxapex:) 252 Atk Gliscor Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Toxapex: 140-168 (46 - 55.2%) -- 61.3% chance to 2HKO 0 SpA Toxapex Surf vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 150-176 (51.5 - 60.4%) -- 37.9% chance to 2HKO after Poison Heal (:iron moth:) 252 Atk Gliscor Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 124 Def Iron Moth: 664-784 (220.5 - 260.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO (so any STAB boosting tera is still OHKO’d) 132 SpA Iron Moth Fiery Dance vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 160-190 (54.9 - 65.2%) -- 96.9% chance to 2HKO after Poison Heal +1 132 SpA Iron Moth Fiery Dance vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 240-283 (82.4 - 97.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal (Tera grass has to be read, but dual wingbeat unfavorably rolls to OHKO that, and 2HKOs/OHKOs at +2 any flying neutral or worse tera type, while all the teras that resist flying are unviable on :iron moth: especially against :gliscor: because they’re weak to ground: 132 SpA Tera Grass Iron Moth Energy Ball vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 181-214 (62.1 - 73.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal 252 Atk Gliscor Dual Wingbeat (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 124 Def Tera Grass Iron Moth: 268-316 (89 - 104.9%) -- approx. 12.5% chance to OHKO) (:slowking-galar:) 252 Atk Gliscor Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Slowking-Galar: 318-374 (80.7 - 94.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 0 SpA Slowking-Galar Surf vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 178-210 (61.1 - 72.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal 0 SpA Slowking-Galar Psychic vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 133-157 (45.7 - 53.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Poison Heal (Grassy seed :sneasler: in grassy terrain) 252+ Atk Sneasler Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gliscor: 89-105 (30.5 - 36%) -- 10% chance to 4HKO after Poison Heal 252 Atk Gliscor Dual Wingbeat (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Grassy Seed Sneasler: 160-192 (53.1 - 63.7%) -- approx. 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery :glimmora: 252 Atk Gliscor Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Glimmora: 576-676 (187.6 - 220.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO 252 SpA Glimmora Power Gem vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 166-196 (57 - 67.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal 252 SpA Glimmora Energy Ball vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Gliscor: 124-147 (42.6 - 50.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Poison Heal (You outspeed so even sash tera grass + energy ball loses to dual wingbeat) [/SPOILER] Bear in mind also that ground/flying is perfect coverage on any single type (and there may or may not be a generational mechanic that involves becoming a single type of your choice). While SD dual stabs certainly has defensive answers like :zapdos: and :corviknight:, tera can only provide a resist for 1 turn against you (which I won’t deny is often enough), not a consistent defensive answer to you. The other enemy to tspikes in HDB can be handled by including knock off in your moveset over SD. For this set I would also probably recommend a spdef spread instead of an offensive one. U-Turn is yet another option that comes in handy against teams using :zapdos: or :corviknight: to check you, since they can put off tspike removal to force you out, and of course it’s just a generally useful move (it also generally does enough to break tera grass substitutes). Finally, Facade is more generally applicable as secondary coverage on an SD set, with extremely impressive power if combined with tera normal, while DW is more tailored to the role. Other options to consider, albeit less seriously than the given options, are protect, flingless acrobatics over dual wingbeat intending to knock off absorb, taunt if not wanting to run :gholdengo: to block defog, and crabhammer for opposing :gliscor:.

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