Magnezone is currently the best Skarmory killer in the game. End of sentence, since that appears to be all that anybody uses it for, this guy is just a little bit different. I think everybody assumes gyroball is my favorite move now...
Item: Leftovers/ Macho Brace
Nature: Brave / Relaxed / Sassy
Evs: 100 Hp / 252 SpDef / 156 Def
Moveset:
Curse
Gyroball
Thunder bolt
Light Screen / Magnet Rise
About this:
Curse to lower your speed and raise your defense and attack. This basically makes the power of gyroball skyrocket every time you curse. STAB on gyroball helps a ton and allows you to dish out even more damage. Thunderbolt is on here to (Ironically enough) prevent you from being walled by steel types. Also with Magnezone's high SpA you will still OHKO a Max HP/ Min SpDef (which is standard) Skarmory. Light screen vs. Magnet rise is your personal choice. Light screen allows survivability of the special side, where magnet rise eliminates your biggest weakness, ground.
Counters:
Earthquake, being such a common move, will OHKO if you don't have any curses under your belt. In general ground moves are a danger if you go with light screen. But then special fire moves are dangerous if you go without light screen. You won't worry about Physical ground moves if you have cursed a few times though. Registeel counter this set as thunderbolt will not do very much damage at all to it. Anything that can roar or whirwind out plus resist the electric steel combination counters this set as well. A Swampert counters this set extremely well.
Overall:
Very different from what magnezone normally does, an almost sure surprise for your opponent.
~RVOK~
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Just one teeny problem: According to Shoddy Battle, Magnezone cannot learn Curse. Sorry.
Shoddy is weird on a few things... They don't let you use wishing hypno's as well. Infact alot of wish passing doesn't work on shoddy. I'm certain Magnezone can get curse as an egg move, because I spent the time to get it to my magnemite.
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