Terrakion Discussion

[Ciele]

Terrakion
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With it's huge Attack stat, as well as high Speed, reasonable bulk, and access to Swords Dance, Rock Polish and even Work Up, Terrakion is certainly no slouch. This thread has been made so that you can discuss in full, the effect that this brutal Pokemon has made on the metagame.

Type(s): Rock / Fighting

Ability: Justified - Attack is raised by one stage when the Pokemon with this ability is hit by a Dark type attack. This ability does not grant immunity to Dark type attacks however.

HP..........: 91 (--- / 323 / 386 / ---)
Attack...: 129 (264 / 294 / 357 / 392)
Defense..: 90 (194 / 216 / 279 / 306)
Sp. Atk....: 72 (162 / 180 / 242 / 267)
Sp. Def....: 90 (194 / 216 / 279 / 306)
Speed....: 108 (226 / 252 / 315 / 346)

Level-up moves:
Start: Quick Attack
Start: Leer
Lv 7: Double Kick
Lv 13: Smack Down
Lv 19: Take Down
Lv 25: Helping Hand
Lv 31: Retaliate
Lv 37: Rock Slide
Lv 42: Sacred Sword
Lv 49: Swords Dance
Lv 55: Quick Guard
Lv 61: Work Up
Lv 67: Stone Edge
Lv 73: Close Combat
TM / HM moves:
TM04: Calm Mind
TM05: Roar
TM06: Toxic
TM10: Hidden Power
TM12: Taunt
TM15: Hyper Beam
TM17: Protect
TM20: Safeguard
TM21: Frustration
TM23: Smack Down
TM26: Earthquake
TM27: Return
TM32: Double Team
TM33: Reflect
TM37: Sandstorm
TM39: Rock Tomb
TM40: Aerial Ace
TM42: Facade
TM44: Rest
TM48: Round
TM52: Focus Blast
TM54: False Swipe
TM67: Retaliate
TM68: Giga Impact
TM69: Rock Polish
TM71: Stone Edge
TM75: Swords Dance
TM77: Psych Up
TM78: Bulldoze
TM80: Rock Slide
TM81: X-Scissor
TM83: Work Up
TM84: Poison Jab
TM87: Swagger
TM90: Substitute
TM94: Rock Smash
HM01: Cut
HM04: Strength

[MikeDecIsHere]

This thing is amazing. The dual stat boosting set wrecks things up, with rock polish decimating total offense while swords dance wrecks stall.

[Tony32]

Would be nice if you can explain what can counter Terrakion. This thing is tough to take down, it's OU, correct?

[Eternal]

Well Gliscor is a great counter to Terakion, just don't use Knock Off to take off its Balloon. I made a mistake like that one and it's ability (Justice Heart) activated.

Reuniclus is good, just Focus Blast isn't that reliable. And SD + EQ does do a lot of damage.

Very few Pokemon are truly able to counter this thing. But good predictions and strategy can overcome it. With great bulky revenge killers like Latios, Borutorusu, etc.

[steel dragons]

Ironically enough, Golurk (Ghost/Ground) is a great counter to Terrakion, but no one seems to use Golurk...

As Eternal said, revenge killers can take out Terrakion. Its also really too bad for Terrakion that Scizor, Conkeldurr, and Breloom can easily revenge (or heavily damage) Terrakion with their priority moves.

[Ciele]

Well Gliscor is a great counter to Terakion, just don't use Knock Off to take off its Balloon. I made a mistake like that one and it's ability (Justice Heart) activated.
Terrakion 2HKOs standard SD Gliscor with +2 Stone Edge, so if it's holding an Air Balloon, Gliscor could be in trouble if it has to switch in. And don't forget about the Work Up set it can run that uses HP Ice (which at +1 with Life Orb is a OHKO).


Reuniclus is good, just Focus Blast isn't that reliable. And SD + EQ does do a lot of damage
Psychic is super-effective too, so why would you use Focus Blast against it? I guess you could be predicting a switch to Tyranitar or something...

[Iris]

why would you Earthquake when you have stone edge as well