Dragon Fish Steel

Metagross @ Assault Vest
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 216 HP / 252 Atk / 40 Def
Adamant Nature
- Meteor Mash
- Bullet Punch
- Earthquake
- Ice Punch

Regidrago @ Haban Berry
Ability: Dragon's Maw
EVs: 8 HP / 220 Def / 68 SpA / 116 SpD / 96 Spe
Rash Nature
- Dragon Energy
- Draco Meteor
- Scale Shot
- Outrage / Breaking Swipe

Jellicent @ Maranga Berry
Ability: Cursed Body
EVs: 252 HP / 80 Def / 80 SpD / 96 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Taunt
- Recove
- Strength Sap
- Night Shad

by Rosa

Metagross: Metagross does just about everything you'd expect it to, being a reliable fairy smacker with great stats and solid coverage. - The Attack is maxed out to give Metagross as reliable of a chance at 2HKOing Haxorus with Ice Punch into Bullet Punch as possible. - The special bulk allows Metagross to survive hits even as strong as Modest Choice Specs Fire Blast from Naganadel. Technically, you only need 136 EVs in HP for this; the extra HP is explained below. - The physical bulk is to give Metagross a 6.3% roll to survive Adamant Choice Band Earthquake from Haxorus. Unfortunately, even if you use just the 136 HP and put the leftovers into Defense, you still only get a 6.3% roll at best, so I figured it best to put the remaining EVs into HP and balance them out with the Defense to squeeze out the most added special bulk you can get while still preserving the 6.3% roll. Regidrago: Regidrago is Regidrago, doing its usual thing in beating just about every non-Fairy/Steel out there. - The SpA alongside the Rash nature are used to 2HKO the predominant Assault Vest Urshifu spread with Draco Meteor followed by Outrage. - The Speed outpaces base 100 Pokemon (namely Entei) after using Scale Shot. - The bulk is carefully calculated to provide Regidrago the best odds of surviving 2 Wicked Blow/Close Combat from Assault Vest Urshifu as well as Modest Choice Specs Draco Meteor from Dragapult, as well as Prismatic Laser from non-boosted Necrozma. - Breaking Swipe is an alternative move over Outrage, namely being useful for cutting the Atk of opponents who might otherwise KO you like Avalugg and Shell Smash Crustle. Jellicent: Jellicent is a bit of a unique threat, having a very bulky stat spread, as well as an excellent movepool for stalling that also allows it to deal with most other stallers. - The physical bulk allows Jellicent to survive a Choice Band Earthquake from Darmanitan-Galar. - The special bulk allows Jellicent to survive a Choice Specs Prismatic Laser from Necrozma. - The Speed is leftovers that help Jellicent in outspeeding the various other base 60 Pokemon that are in the metagame. Overall, the team was designed with mainstream use in mind, ie ladder and roomtours. A lot of the awkward matchups that this team faces are generally issues that stem from not knowing the opponent's sets, but in ladder and roomtours, these naturally become less of an issue, as you often face the same opponents multiple times over the course of a single session. Furthermore, some threats to the team like Moltres-Galar, Tapu Koko, Babiri Whimsicott, and etc, can be dealt with through small tweaks to the team, whether it be through adding Power-up Punch to Metagross, giving Regidrago Assault Vest, giving Jellicent Mental Herb, or however else you need to handle an annoying threat, you can do so subtly without drastically changing the team or making it obvious that you changed anything at all. Other than that, the biggest nuisances to the team are going to be picking against Darmanitan-Galar, Urshifu-Single, Necrozma, Kartana, and Ferrothorn, as these are all prominent threats that the team only really has one good answer to for each.

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