Simple Mega Salamence Question

[DanielJames]

What's the optimal EV spread for a Naive natured Mega Salamence? I was thinking 252 Special Attack, 252 Speed, and 4 Attack but I wasn't sure if I should put more into Attack so Double Edge hit harder. Thoughts?

[Marcusube]

Maybe EV Mence to 2HKO a 252 HP Variant of Xerneas with Double Edge then dump the rest into Special Attack

[jouzea]

I'm not sure how the current meta is, I dropped from VGC 2016 at the early stages. Mainly because of Big 6, I don't blame people who use it but yeah too much Big 6 for a noob like me.
If I'm still correct salamence's role is still to hit fast and hard as it can, so personally I'll give it a spread like this: 4/4/0/244/4/252 it's almost like the 252/4/252 build but I put 4 EVs each in Hp and SpD because you never know. I like playing with these chances.

[DanielJames]

(May 15, 2016, 04:22 PM)Marcusube Wrote: Maybe EV Mence to 2HKO a 252 HP Variant of Xerneas with Double Edge then dump the rest into Special Attack

Good idea! I'll run some calcs.

(May 15, 2016, 04:27 PM)jouzea Wrote: I'm not sure how the current meta is, I dropped from VGC 2016 at the early stages. Mainly because of Big 6, I don't blame people who use it but yeah too much Big 6 for a noob like me.
If I'm still correct salamence's role is still to hit fast and hard as it can, so personally I'll give it a spread like this: 4/4/0/244/4/252 it's almost like the 252/4/252 build but I put 4 EVs each in Hp and SpD because you never know. I like playing with these chances.

The meta hasn't changed all that much from earlier this year. Groudon, Xerneas, M-Salamence, M-Kang, Talonflame, and Smeargle are the new Big 6 for what it's worth. Other Pokémon like Kyogre, M-Rayquaza, Yveltal, Landorus-T, Thundurus, and Crobat are common as well. I'm not a huge fan of VGC this year, but there's not much else for me to do Pokémon-wise while I wait for Sun and Moon to come out!

[Excalibur0126]

Code:

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| Salamence-Mega                         |
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| Raw count: 263720                      |
| Avg. weight: 0.0128058009397           |
| Viability Ceiling: 84                  |
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| Abilities                              |
| Aerilate 100.000%                      |
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| Items                                  |
| Salamencite 100.000%                   |
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| Spreads                                |
| Naive:0/4/0/252/0/252 16.152%          |
| Naive:0/20/0/236/0/252  9.899%         |
| Hasty:0/4/0/252/0/252  9.433%          |
| Naive:4/0/0/252/0/252  7.098%          |
| Naive:0/100/0/156/0/252  3.530%        |
| Hasty:4/0/0/252/0/252  3.296%          |
| Other 50.591%                          |
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| Moves                                  |
| Protect 96.604%                        |
| Double-Edge 95.942%                    |
| Hyper Voice 93.878%                    |
| Tailwind 45.464%                       |
| Draco Meteor 34.323%                   |
| Substitute 11.052%                     |
| Snore  6.914%                          |
| Other 15.823%                          |
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| Teammates                              |
| Xerneas +13.611%                       |
| Groudon-Primal +8.492%                 |
| Smeargle +5.463%                       |
| Bronzong +3.496%                       |
| Clefairy +0.604%                       |
| Dialga +0.600%                         |
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| Checks and Counters                    |
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