Gen 7 VGC / Battle Spot / Doubles OU Cores Thread

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Tapu Bulu + Alolan Muk

 

- Pokémon featured: Tapu Bulu + Alolan Muk
- Metagame: S/M VGC 17 
- Core type: Bulky Offense
- Sets:

Tapu Bulu @ Miracle Seed  
Ability: Grassy Surge  
Level: 50  
EVs: 252 HP / 76 Atk / 116 Def / 4 SpD / 60 Spe  
Adamant Nature  
- Wood Hammer  
- Swords Dance  
- Rock Slide  
- Protect

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Muk-Alola @ Figy Berry  
Ability: Poison Touch  
Level: 50  
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD  
Adamant Nature  
- Poison Jab  
- Knock Off  
- Shadow Sneak  
- Protect

With the introduction of Tapu Bulu, this Pokemon has is one of the four who summon a new type of field condition called Grassy Terrain. For those who don't know, some of the effects of Grassy Terrains involves halving the damage of Earthquake (one of the strongest spread damage), and giving all "grounded" Pokemon an 1/16th recovery. So what does Alolan Muk has to do in all of this? Notice how Alolan Muk's Poison/Dark-typing essentially gives it one weakness in Ground-type attacks, and one of the most common Ground-type moves to use is Earthquake. Essentially where this is going is pair Alolan Muk with Tapu Bulu and it will have a pseudo neutral hits against some Ground-type hits like Earthquake which only deal about 50% less total damage than expected. Now for any other Ground-type who can learn single, Tapu Bulu pretty much can OHKO them with a Grassy-Terrain boosted attack and can help Alolan Muk stick around for the long fight.