[SET]
Booster Energy: Speed (Iron Moth) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Timid Nature
- Fiery Dance
- Sludge Wave
- Substitute
- Energy Ball / Psychic
[SET COMMENTS]
Iron Moth is a good sweeper primarily seen on hyper offense and offense teams thanks to Booster Energy bolstering its Speed and giving it the immediate ability to outspeed Choice Scarf users like Hydreigon and Sandy Shocks. It also has high Special Attack and access to a threatening movepool. Fiery Dance serves as a spammable Fire-type STAB move that has the power to 2HKO bulky foes like Celesteela, defensive Iron Treads, and Amoonguss, and its ability to boost Iron Moth's Special Attack can let it sweep late-game. Sludge Wave helps break through Fire-resistant and Fairy-type Pokemon like Hydreigon, Volcanion, Tapu Fini, and Clefable, and it can help get KOs on neutral targets that Fiery Dance cannot. Substitute lets Iron Moth make use of switches it forces against foes like Celesteela and Buzzwole and take advantage of some defensive Pokemon like Tangrowth lacking Earthquake and Amoonguss. Energy Ball hits Ground-types like Gastrodon, Ting-Lu, and Hippowdon, as well as providing a way to chip Mega Tyranitar. Psychic is an alternative that helps deal with Iron Hands, Mega Venusaur, and opposing Iron Moth. This given EV spread maximizes Special Attack while ensuring that Booster Energy will boost Speed, while the rest is put into Defense to augment its physical bulk and to help against priority moves. Entry hazard setters, notably suicide leads like Excadrill also pair nicely with Iron Moth, being able to chip down targets like Mega Tyranitar and Ting-Lu. Due to Iron Moth's Stealth Rock weakness that can give it a harder time sweeping, hazard removers like Tapu Fini, Excadrill, and Iron Treads make good teammates. Iron Moth primarily struggles to break through its checks like Chansey, Blissey, and Skeledirge, making fellow physically offensive Pokemon like Ceruledge and Meowscarda good teammates.
[CREDITS]
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