Slowking-Galar @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 16 Def / 240 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Future Sight
- Chilly Reception
- Sludge Bomb
- Thunder Wave

Great Tusk @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 220 Def / 36 Spe
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Knock Off / Ice Spinner
- Rapid Spin

Slowking-Galar + Great Tusk Balanced Core

These two form one of the most potent and splashable Balance cores in the entire, fitting on everything from Balance too offence. Providing every basic form of utility with hazard setting, hazard removal, knock off, and future sight support they are excellent at enabaling their more offensive teamates. Each of them covering the opposite sides of the Physical/Special spectrum they help cover eachothers weaknesses. Great tusk is the by far most reliable hazard control in the tier, making it incredibly important for a lot of teams and really appreciates its synergy with Slowking-Galar. Glowking can deal with powerful special fairies and psycics that Great Tusk fear, as well as providing a check to nearly every special attacker in the tier such as Enamorus, Walking Wake and Volcarona , threatening them with a daming T-wave or pivoting out after taking a hit . Great tusk can in turn take hits and threaten many top physical threats that scare Slowking.galar such as Gouging Fire, Roaring Moon, and the ever terrifying Kingambit just to name a few. Together these can form a solid defensive backbone for any offensive team while still managing to cram in enough valuable utility tools to remain valuable in many situations. Teams that rely on these two as their sole defensive pokemon may come to struggle with special mons that hit Slowking-Falar such as Gholdengo and Dragapult as well as the inverse with physical mons that hit great tusk such as Weavile and Meowscarada. While these can be played around for a little while they will eventually break down the core with some correct predictions, so its recommended to have some way to deal with such pokemon, by using something like another soft check such as kingambit.

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