Hi guys today I am back with something different and surely
I am quite proud to be doing something apart from team reports after a whole
year of doing it. Welcome to the first installment of my new blog series that I
am calling smeargle used spotlight, and no it has nothing to do with the title;
the title is made the way to mean highlighting pokemons that are not getting
attention or say putting out some anti-meta potential in these pokemons, as you
may know I have tried building around quite some different mons apart from the
metagame, but due to some of the teambuilds failing badly, I couldn’t showcase
them properly. Therefore in this season I will try to cover the pokemons that
not much people or no one uses and will bring out their niche aspect for
competitive use, without further ado lets get starter:
Comfey:
Our todays topic seems to be a comfey, comfey is a new
pokemon that is introduced in the alola region dex in pokemon 20’s project
pokemon sun and pokemon moon games, this pokemons has a pure fairy typing and
being the funny look-alike hybrid that it is of klefki and floette, I have
found quite some aspects in this pokemon that are worthy of noting, only
recently I have tested out this pokemon in VGC and I felt like it had some factor
to suite in, that is why it is my first pick for the series and if you may ask,
what are these few noticeable points regarding comfey? Following they are
listed and explained:
Offensive priority:
Not something great to start with but then again not something
that bad, offensive priority is quite rare in this format so is speed control
in any forms other than trick room, draining kiss for comfey is a priority
offensive move, this move won’t do much, but often on this little bit of damage
can be essential and key to the strategy of a disruptive team.
Base stats:
Being a pokemon that does not evolve you will most likely
expect unimpressive stats, but for comfey the case is a bit better as compared
to others, not only if having a good total stat the stat distribution could
matter a lot, from the first glance we get the following stats:
51 Hp / 52 Atk / 90 Def / 90 Spa / 110 Spd / 100 Spe
We can notice a very low amount of hp, and a very low attack
stat, attack stat here is not required at all for we can see a good special
attack stat in the base 90, even better is this pokemons’ special defense stat,
it is the highest stat this pokemon has, following up the amazing (in this
format) speed stat that makes this pokemon faster than most common and normal
pokemons in this format. These stats are not to be only considered as a joke at
all and can be very much useful.
Triage:
Oh and now comes the main material meta aspect that comfey
has, its very signature ability known as triage, this ability gives priority to
healing moves. These moves include in the movepool of comfey as synthesis,
leech seed, floral healing and draining kiss. These moves hold great importance
in what will later, in my opinion form great usage for this pokemon. Priority
is surely a dangerous thing in a format with terribly and then slow pokemons
ran inside trick room; especially priority healing can be very much useful for
a bulky pokemon. If not for the pokemon then the move floral healing which is
basically like a heal pulse but fairy type also getsw priority which can be of
great help for partners.
Trick room:
Comfey is one of the new pokemons the new few pokemons
introduced in the alola region that can use the move trick room, this can add a
great layer to the competitive usage of comfey ad a whole new side to its
supportive aspect as well, trick room currently being the most common form of
speed control in this format and have importance held for comfey in it.
Diversity in
movepool:
Although something extremely strange to talk about, comfey
can be very much diverse this property of this pokemon will be reflected in the
section where I showcase the sets I build for comfey’s usage.
Sets:
Comfey @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Triage
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 4 SpA / 204 SpD / 4 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draining Kiss
- Synthesis
- Protect
- Toxic
This is one of my personal spreads that I build, well I
personally did build all these sets here, but the thing with this one is that I
am currently trying to give this set a proper and fun bulky team structure
around it, this set can be called as sort of a self-staller for comfey. The
idea that gave me the inspiration to build this set up are two, one being
celesteela being super annoying and the other being the new style of timer
where there is no actual timer so that the battles can fall on the remaining
amount of pokemons left of either side of the field which gives ignition to the
aspect and chapter of stall in vgc. Although this set is inferior to celesteela
and yes I knew that all along, for a team you build it can fit in the places
where you can’t afford to keep a celesteela. What this spread does is take the
advantage of big numbers of contact physical attackers in this format, like
alolan marowak, physical tapu koko, fake out users and tapu bulu as well with
its rocky helmet item, whereas it an recover its own hp of with the help of
synthesis; moreover it can have the ability to poison its opponents badly which
can allow it to stall out opponents better with the addition of the draining
kiss.
Comfey @ Sitrus
Berry
Ability: Triage
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Trick Room
- Floral Healing
- Draining Kiss
- Synthesis
This is my trick room moveset for comfey, this spread is
build to be perfect partners with torcoal, the strategy and thought behind this
comfey spread as a trick room setter is that comfey can use trick room to make
slower mons go fast, then the main focus becomes the setters side which is usually
a sweeper, however with floral healing you can always cover up the taken damage
making your trick room stance stronger, also if your opponents figure out your
strategy that comfey can use to heal its partner, then comfey becomes the
target comfey, therefore I gave it the move called synthesis which now recovers
up comfey itself, which keeps up you trick room stance for even more longer.
This situation is great with a torcoal as a partner, in sun the healing power
of synthesis is boosted as well as the eruption abuser torcoal needs maximum hp
to do max damage, floral healing helps it out giving out more powerful
eruptions.
Comfey @ Leftovers
Ability: Triage
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draining Kiss
- Calm Mind
- Synthesis
- Protect
This is the last moveset I have for comfey however even I
don’t think to the fullest of it actually being viable, however some calcs are
looking good. Simple principle of set-up follows her with the aid of using
draining kiss, leftovers and synthesis comfey can become a special wall over
time in battle, however keeping a weaker physically defensive stance is going
to be tough for it. Good partners for this comfey set can be salazzle, salazzle
can use fake out to help comfey set-up further it can use will-o-wisp to cut
the opponents’ attack stat which greatly helps comfey, salazzle having the
ability to use strong fire moves, to take out steel type threats to this
pokemon like celesteela and kartana further taking down tapu koko and tapu bulu
through poison coverage which will help comfey set-up loads.
Damage calculations:
Following are some damage calculations that I have for
Comfey:
Offensive
+1 4+ SpA
Comfey Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 92-110 (50.2 - 60.1%) --
guaranteed 2HKO
4+ SpA Comfey
Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 62-74 (33.8 - 40.4%) -- guaranteed
3HKO
4+ SpA Comfey
Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Salamence: 66-78 (38.8 - 45.8%) -- guaranteed
3HKO
+1 4+ SpA
Comfey Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Salamence: 98-116 (57.6 - 68.2%) --
guaranteed 2HKO
Defensive
144+ Atk
Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 244 HP / 228+ Def Comfey: 134-162 (85.3 -
103.1%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
-1 252+ Atk
Celesteela Heavy Slam (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 44+ Def Comfey: 120-144 (75.9 -
91.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
-1 252 Atk
Kartana Smart Strike vs. 252 HP / 44+ Def Comfey: 98-116 (62 - 73.4%) --
guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Life
Orb Tapu Koko Wild Charge vs. 252 HP / 44+ Def Comfey in Electric Terrain:
133-157 (84.1 - 99.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 4+ SpA
Comfey Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 92-110 (50.2 - 60.1%) --
guaranteed 2HKO
4+ SpA Comfey
Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 62-74 (33.8 - 40.4%) -- guaranteed
3HKO
4+ SpA Comfey
Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Salamence: 66-78 (38.8 - 45.8%) -- guaranteed
3HKO
+1 4+ SpA
Comfey Draining Kiss vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Salamence: 98-116 (57.6 - 68.2%) --
guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Life
Orb Tapu Lele Psychic vs. 244 HP / 156 SpD Comfey in Psychic Terrain: 133-157
(84.7 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
252+ SpA Life
Orb Tapu Lele Psychic vs. +1 4 HP / 0 SpD Comfey in Psychic Terrain: 103-122
(81.1 - 96%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Conclusion:
So guys this was it for my first installment of smeargle
used spotlight, apologies if I missed something in this post, in the future
expect more posts like this I will probably be covering some new pokemons
introduced as the generation 7. Hopefully you guys liked the post and enjoyed
going through it, Bye for now!
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