Overview
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Being blessed with a Mega Evolution this generation, Mawile finally has a chance to claw its way out of obscurity. The biggest boon Mawile received is its new ability, Huge Power, which doubles its Attack stat to monstrous levels. With good coverage and access to Intimidate before Mega Evolving, Mawile can be a very threatening setup sweeper.
However, Mawile's good bulk and great typing also
make it a formidable defensive pivot, able to take hits from much of the metagame. The main pitfall to Mawile is its
very low Speed stat, but its access to priority such as Sucker Punch helps to offset that.
Although Nonetheless, its
overreliance on Sucker Punch leaves it rather vulnerable to status and
Encore users. With the advent of XY, Mawile has turned into a formidable physical attacker that has the potential to threaten the entire metagame.
SetUp Sweeper
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name: SetUp Sweeper
—any particular reason why this is capitalised weirdly?? if not, "Setup Sweeper" is the convention, haha
move 1: Play Rough
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Fire Fang / Swords Dance
move 4: Swords Dance / Substitute
ability: Intimidate
/ Huge Power
item: Mawilite
nature: Adamant
evs: 132 HP / 252 Atk / 124 Spe
Moves
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With an equivalent of base 259 Attack, Mawile is an incredibly threatening sweeper. Play Rough serves as Mawile's premier STAB attack,
getting and has good neutral coverage
in the metagame. Sucker Punch offsets Mawile's low Speed stat, while getting good neutral coverage in tandem with Play Rough. Fire Fang augments Mawile's coverage, beating otherwise reliable checks such as Skarmory. Swords Dance
boosts Mawile's
Attack to even more ridiculous levels,
easing its difficulty against allowing it to break through common walls. Substitute can be used to ease the element of prediction
needed with Sucker Punch, while also preventing status users
,(remove) such as Rotom-W
,(remove) from checking Mawile. Both Substitute and Swords Dance can be used on the same set, however it is important to note that Mawile loses valuable coverage in the form of Fire Fang.
Set Details
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An Adamant nature
is used on this set to maximizes Mawile's damage output, while the Speed EVs let Mawile outpace Scizor, Azumarill, and Aegislash. Mawile also has access to many niche moves
, that can help
it handle specific threats. Taunt, for instance, allows Mawile to reliably stop
physically defensive phazers, such as Skarmory or Hippowdon, while also preventing it from being
setup upon set up on. Taunt also has use in preventing an opposing wall from healing itself, easing Mawile's job as a wallbreaker. Alternatively, Knock Off can be used to
neuter prevent troublesome
walls from healing, while giving Mawile another
form of way of doing reliable damage
output. Brick Break can be used for the sole purpose of defeating Heatran, who otherwise walls most Mawile sets. If Brick Break or Knock Off
are is used,
it's recommended to use an alternate EV spread of 36 HP / 252 Atk / 220 Spe to outpace
an uninvested Heatran. Finally, Pain Split can be used in tandem with Substitute
, increasing to increase Mawile's longevity.
Usage Tips
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Make use of Mawile's original ability, Intimidate,
to better for easier setup
or "to set up more easily". Mawile's Dragon-type immunity can also aid
Mawile's setup, especially if the opponent is
Choice-locked or locked into Outrage. Be wary in general of chip damage and overuse of Substitute
;(semicolon) as Mawile lacks reliable recovery,
making every percentage point
matters. Sucker Punch,
while despite being one of Mawile's greatest tools, can
also backfire and greatly cripple
it Mawile if
the Mawile user mispredicts you mispredict, so always be careful when using
it Sucker Punch and take into account the downsides if the Mawile user mispredicts.
Team Options
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Mawile works amazingly well with partners who can slow down the opponent or make use of Mawile's innately low
Speed.
This of course means Sticky Web and Trick Room support
is greatly appreciated as result, but Pokemon such as Thunder Wave Thundurus also work well. Mawile also pairs well offensively with Pokemon that can reliably switch into Fire-types, making Dragon-types such as Dragonite interesting partners. Mawile resists
their Ice-type weakness Ice and is immune to
their Dragon-type weakness Dragon (both types that Dragon-types are weak to), while Dragon-types
resist cover Mawile's weakness to Fire-types. Partners who can beat common physical walls, such as Hippowdon
or and Skarmory,
make for interesting are also good partners.
As result For example, Dragonite and Talonflame work very well with Mawile, weakening
the said walls so that
it Mawile can clean
up. Mawile also greatly appreciates cleric support
in case it mispredicts and is burned,
as result so other Fairy-types such as Sylveon make for good partners.
just a note that "as result" isn't really a thing - you might be conflating (or instead looking for) "as a result" and "as such"?
RestTalk
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name: RestTalk
move 1: Rest
move 2: Sleep Talk
move 3: Play Rough
move 4: Foul Play
ability: Intimidate
/ Huge Power
item: Mawilite
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Moves
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This set forgoes Mawile's offensive capabilities for more of a support role. The crux to this set is Rest, offering the longevity that the Swords Dance set lacks. Sleep Talk ensures that Mawile isn't complete setup bait, by
allowing granting Mawile
to have a good chance
to attack of attacking the opponent on the turns
it's asleep. Play Rough
serves as Mawile's main means of damaging the opponent is Mawile's main damaging move, getting a STAB boost and good neutral coverage in tandem with Foul Play. Play Rough also has the ability to lower the
opponent's Attack, indirectly buffing Mawile's
Defense. Foul Play is
the main deterrent for deters setup sweepers
from using Mawile as setup bait, as it also gets the boost from Huge Power.
Set Details
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The EVs are focused on maximizing bulk,
so as to let Mawile survive as many hits as possible from common threats such as Terrakion, Breloom, and Dragonite.
It's for this reason
that an Impish nature is used as well.
Usage Tips
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While a Huge Power
-(hyphen)boosted Foul Play is great, Mega Evolving right away may not always be best, as
sometimes you
may might sometimes want to make use of Intimidate. Be careful about letting Mawile Rest too soon, and be wary of Mawile's low Speed stat as Mawile lacks any way to damage faster opponents, as this set lacks Sucker Punch.
Team Options
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Mawile pairs very well with bulky special walls,
appreciating which both appreciate Mawile's physical bulk as well as cover
ing its frail
defensive side. Mawile also greatly appreciates
cleric support, making Pokemon such as Sylveon and Chansey excellent partners. Due to its lack of passive healing, entry hazards greatly annoy Mawile
;(semicolon) as
a result
,(comma) Rapid Spinners
or and Defog users such as Excadrill
or and Mandibuzz make for good partners. Switch
-(hyphen)ins to common Fire-types such as Talonflame and Heatran are necessary when using Mawile, making Fire-type resists such as Tyranitar and Tyrantrum good partners.
Other Options
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A Stealth
Rock set can be used,
however but Mawile's low Speed stat makes it a fairly unreliable hazards setter. A Substitute
+ Focus Punch set can also be used,
however but its main allure is beating Heatran
,(comma) which Brick Break already does.
Checks & Counters
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**Status Users**:
To any Mawile set lacking Substitute, Status users are very reliable checks. Due to Mawile's reliance on Sucker Punch to handle faster threats, status users are reliable checks to any Mawile set lacking Substitute. This is due to Mawile's reliance on Sucker Punch to handle faster threats, making Pokemon such as Will-O-Wisp Rotom-W
isa good check, as it is able to neuter Mawile while avoiding Sucker Punch.
**Bulky Attackers**: Many bulky pivots that can withstand Sucker Punch
serve as are good checks to Mawile. Garchomp is the most notable,
who with little defensive investment can avoid the OHKO as a little defensive investment lets it avoid being OHKOed, and
it can threaten back with Earthquake. Fighting-types such as Keldeo and Terrakion also do well, threatening
Mawile with their STAB attacks.
**Physical Walls**: Walls such as Skarmory are fairly reliably counters to Mawile sets that lack Fire Fang,
being able to and can use Mawile as entry hazards
setup bait or phaze it out if it accumulates too many boosts.
**Fire-types**: Given its coverage, Mawile can have trouble against popular Fire-types
, which resist all its attacks?. The most notable
being of these is defensive Heatran, who can wall any Mawile set that lacks Brick Break.