A good competitive cocancer set

[shademonkey]

Once again, great work Windos 

Here's what I had prepared for a Curser set. In a nutshell : it's very much the same thing you did, same spread, same offensive moves, only Rest + Chesto Berry for recovery.

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Curser

Cocancer

@Harvest

@Chesto Berry/Lum Berry OR Sitrus Berry

Careful Nature (+Special Defense, -Special Attack) / Sassy Nature (+Special Defense, -Speed)

252 HP, 252 Special Defense, 4 Attack

-Curse

-Rest / Synthesis

-Earthquake / Wood Hammer / Leaf Blade / Gyro Ball

-Sunny Day / Substitute / a second Stab attack / Knock Off / an elemental punch / Rock Slide-Stone Edge

 

Special Defense investment lets it tank special attacks with ease while Curse boosts its Defense. Little Attack investment since you seem to want a staller before anything else.

1st choice you have to make: what kind of recovery you want. Instant full recovery with Rest? In this case run Sunny Day to have 100% chance of restoring that Lum or Chesto Berry. IMO it’s not worth the trouble running Synthesis in conjunction with Sunny Day when you can instantly restore a whole life bar AND cure a burn or poisoning with Rest.

If you don't want to allocate a move slot for Sunny Day or powering up enemy Fire-type moves, you can choose Substitute to protect yourself from statuses and having an easier time setting up Curses. Harvest will then only have a 50% chance of activating, but that’s still a fair chance. Provided you haven’t taken any prior damage, Sitrus Berry will activate at your second Substitute. Without Sunny Day, I’d go with Synthesis for a healing move, as, knowing my luck, if it was already consumed I wouldn’t want to risk not recovering Lum/Chesto Berry during the two turns of sleep of Rest.

The third move slot is your primary attacking move. Earthquake is arguably the most spammable move in the game. Wood Hammer is Cocancer’s most powerful Stab, and hits those Water-types with Ice coverage that would switch in on Cocancer expecting only an Earthquake; but Grass is not exactly the best offensive type. Leaf Blade is also an option, hitting decently hard with no recoil. You can also choose to use Gyro Ball and forego a Stab, if so, choose a Sassy Nature to further lower your Speed and increase the power of Gyro Ball. With a mere 60 Speed BS, Cocancer isn’t likely to normally outspeed anything in Uranium’s meta so it’s not a problem.

Finally, if you haven’t already chosen Sunny Day or Substitute in the fourth move slot you can add more offensive coverage to our sandy crab. Knock Off is never a let-down due to its general utility, Stone Edge hits Flying-types that resist both Ground and Grass stabs + pesky Ice-types.

 

Checks and counters:

Weather inducers: Electruxo-M and Yatagaryu mess with your Sunny Day’d Harvest shenanigans and reduce the recovery of Synthesis. So do HA Escartress and Snow Warning Glavinug and Anderind.

Faster Taunt users and Phazers: Gyarados can do both. Many others.

Knock Off users: Baariette first came to my mind, many others ruin this pokemon’s efficiency as well, since Harvest does not restore a Knocked Off Berry.

Strong Ice moves: Electruxo-M or Frosthra’s Ice Beam, Snow Warning Glavinug’s Blizzard…

Defensive walls: Metalynx(-M), Gliscor can set up on Cocancer while taking little damage.

Allow me to extend the idea of blocking the ennemy pokemon. I didn't think of it as a mean to secure some Curse boosts, mainly because there was no room in the moveset for Block (a recovery move is compulsory on a staller IMO).

Trapper

Cocancer

@Harvest

@Jaboca Berry/Rowap Berry

Impish Nature (+Defense, -Special Attack) if Jaboca Berry, with 252 HP, 252 Defense, 4 SpDefense or Speed

Careful Nature (+Special Defense, -Special Attack) if Rowap Berry, with 252 HP, 252 Special Defense, 4 Defense or Speed

-Synthesis

-Block / Infestation

-Toxic

-Explosion / Earthquake / Leaf Blade

Max investment in either of the defences, Jaboca and Rowap Berries inflict 1/8 damage to the opponent when they land a physical or special attack, respectively. EVs can be put into Attack to secure a kill with Explosion.

Come in after a kill, on a choice locked pokemon, or on something that can’t really hurt Cocancer, trap the pokemon (Block guarantees five turns while Infestation inflicts chip damage), then proceed on poisoning or exploding.

Recovery won’t be as reliable, the berry won’t be restored at the end of every turn, and Cocancer must be able to withstand a few hits before its efforts pay off, but I reckon this’d be super satisfying to pull off. Too bad Cocancer doesn’t learn Leech Seed.

Checks and counters:

Previously listed.

Ghost-types: can’t be trapped and are not affected by explosion. Some of them even Levitate to block Earthquake.



EDIT : You could also try and use this in a Trick Room team:

Cocancer
Harvest
Brave Nature (+Attack, -Speed). 252 Attack, 252 Defense.
0 IV Speed
-Earthquake
-Wood Hammer
-Stone Edge
-Curse / Synthesis / Gyro Ball.

I'm not too sure about the EV spread. We want to activate the Berry so boosting the defensive stats may not be the smartest thing to do. Then again, it would require actual testing to grasp how efficiently Cocancer can reliably get a boost from the Berry AND stay alive long enough.