Sets Meloetta @ Fightinium Z

Ability: Serene Grace

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Calm Mind

- Focus Blast

- Psychic

- Shadow Ball



Meloetta @ Normalium Z

Ability: Serene Grace

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Celebrate

- Psyshock

- Focus Blast

- Thunderbolt

Sp. Def Milotic

Bronzong/

Cresselia

Statataka

Registeel

Mandibuzz

Flygon

Golisospod

Honchkrow

Frosslass Hyper Offense Froslass (F) @ Focus Sash

Ability: Cursed Body

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Ice Beam

- Will-O-Wisp

- Spikes

- Taunt



Meloetta @ Normalium Z

Ability: Serene Grace

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Celebrate

- Psyshock

- Focus Blast

- Thunderbolt



Zygarde-10% @ Choice Band

Ability: Aura Break

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Jolly Nature

- Thousand Arrows

- Outrage

- Extreme Speed

- Toxic



Bewear @ Choice Band

Ability: Fluffy

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Adamant Nature

- Double-Edge

- Drain Punch

- Shadow Claw

- Facade



Honchkrow @ Life Orb

Ability: Moxie

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

Hasty Nature

- Brave Bird

- Pursuit

- Sucker Punch

- Heat Wave



Necrozma @ Weakness Policy

Ability: Prism Armor

EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD

Modest Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Autotomize

- Stealth Rock

- Photon Geyser

- Heat Wave

Votingon meloettaThere are 2 sets that meloetta runs in the metagame, the z-celebrate set and the z-focus blast set as shown below:As you can see meloetta has 2 very good sets, both with different checks and counter. The z-celebrate set can sweep easily late game, setting up easily on special attackers like roserade due to it’s great 100/128 special bulk. This bulk also allows meloetta to survive repeated special attacks during late game as it is sweeping. Furthermore, the z-celebrate set is highly customizable, allowing you to pick and choose your checks and counter for your own meloetta, making it very hard to find solid checks that work against it. Also, meloetta has another set, which is the z-focus blast set, which has very different checks and counters for it. For example, while snorlax may check certain variants of the z-celebrate set, they are smashed by the fightingium-z set. Furthermore, both of these sets are viable, making it very difficult to find strong checks that can check both the z-celebrate and the fightingium-z set well.Counters to meloetta:: It May be the closest thing to a counter to meloetta, taking a +1 thunderbolt with 40%, and hazing away the z-celebrate set’s boosts. Also, taking very little from the fightingium-z set.Checks:: Bronzong can tank a focus ‘blast and toxic it in return, but fails to do much afterwards. Also, shadow ball sets decimate it. Same thing with Cresselia, as shadow ball variants to heavy damage. Furthermore, fightingium-z variants win against both of them, setting up calm minds: Both mons can check non focus blast variants of meloetta, but most meloetta’s run focus blast, making it a very risky option for a meloetta check. Also, fightingium-z sets flat out beat both of these mons.: Very risky check to meloetta, as most run thunderbolt, which kos this mon, and is advised not to use this as a meloetta check.: Probably the only scarier that can adequately check meloetta, but the only thing it can do it to u-turn, and sack mons until meloetta is kod.: First impression kos a +1 meloetta, and is a solid revenge killer for it, but no meloetta player would ever use z-celebrate before golisospod is kod, which is not hard to do due to a massive stealth rock weakness.: Sucker punch can deal heavy damage to meloetta, but it will have to play mind games with the meloetta play. This mon must come in on a sack, as meloetta threatens to ko with thunderbolt or focus blast.Escavalier: This mon can take many moves from meloetta, although it has to be aware of hp-fire variants.I want to point out that meloetta teams are not just a one mon team, having team-mates to support it, and weaken some checks to the point where they are not checking it anymore. During the suspect test, I used frosslass hyper offense, and had multiple mons to support meloetta.As you can see in my team, there can be multiple mons that will help a meloetta sweep, and each one has it’s own purpose.Good Teammates and How my team supports meloettaZygarde is a very good teammate to meloetta, pressuring steel types like bronzong, registeel, and statataka with powerful choice band boosted thousand arrows. Furthermore, this set pressures mons like Cresselia and Mandibuzz, which are forced to check this mon instead to meloetta, and this mons wears them down.Bewear: Bewear also heavily pressures steel type mons like registeel. However, this mon also performs a different function, which is nuking mons like Cresselia and Milotic, dealing heavy damage to them, making it very difficult for them to check meloetta. Also, this mon dos very well against golisospod, thanks to fluffy, and can also check Flygon decently.Frosslass: Frosslass provides spikes support, which can wear down meloetta checks and counters to a point where it can just pick them off. Furthermore, will-o-wisp over destiny bond allows frosslass to lure in meloetta checks like Metagross and other physical attacker and cripple them, making them unable to do their job.Honchkrow: Honchkrow pressures bulky psychic types like Cresselia and bronzong while dealing with mons like metagross. This allows meloetta to have a much better matchup against the other team. Furthermore, life orb boosted brave birds do so much damage to the other team, opening holes, which the rest of the team can exploit.Necrozma: Provides stealth rock, and also a mega-Blastoise check, tanking a dark pulse and koing back with photon geyser. Also, it can lure in meloetta checks like escavalier and honchkrow and do some serious damage to them with heat wave.Pangoro: This mon breaks down bulky psychic types and can cripple other meloetta checks like milotic with a knock off, Furthermore, this mon can also break steel types like bronzong and registeel for meloetta while luring in some meloetta checks like Flores with gunk shot.Overall, with the combination of good bulk and 2 very strong sets meloetta deserves to be banned. The z-celebrate set is extremely difficult to revenge kill, and also has the ability to chose its checks and counters, which the rest of the team can be built around to support and beat those specific counter. Also, the fightingium-z set destroys many of z-celebrates checks like snorlax and mons like bronzong, which make checking meloetta much more difficult, and finally, meloetta can take advantage of team support to wear down checks and counter on the other team.Toxic Kills It: Meloetta would usually never set up against mons that can carry toxic like bronzong and registeel, and would prefer to set up against mons like shadow ball-choice locked raikou or choice locked roserade. Furthermore, meloetta is a later game sweeper, meaning that many toxic setter are often weakened by meloetta, and even when meloetta is hit by toxic, it will not really do much since it take time to work.Scarfers kill it: Meloetta’s good bulk means that only physical scarfers can adequately deal with it. The only 2 scarfers that come to by mind are drapion and Flygon. Drapion’s knock off power is weakened by the z crystal, and while drapion has 3 other moveslots, it is hard pressed to sacrifice poison jab, earthquake, aqua tail, or pursuit for crunch to deal with meloetta. Like I mentioned before, Flygon can not do much to meloetta, only slowly wearing it down as it’s Teammates get sacked one by one.But Barbaracle?: Barbaracle and meloetta occupy 2 different niches, and the only thing they have in common are that they are both late game sweepers. Barbalaracle has a worse defensive typing, allowing to revenge killed by Toxicroak. Furthermore, Barbaracle has much worse bulk and has difficulty finding times to set-up. Meloetta does not have any of these weaknesses. It has a decent defensive typing, good bulk, and has the ability to set up against multiple mons.I didn’t save many replays, but here are a few that I had saved: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-849443261 - vs Umbra SoulMeloetta uses its good bulk, taking 30% from a blizzard from vanilluxe. Furthermore, the diversity of meloetta sets allowed me to surprise goodra with psy shock and ko it. Meloetta’s breaking prowess paved the way for a necrozma sweep late game. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-849436256 - vs Rusm freakydoodThis demonstrates the difficulty of dealing with z-celebrate meloetta late game. Meloetta utilizes it’s good bulk, setting up against slowbro, and proceeds to sweep the team afterwards thanks to the good bulk and +1 defenses due to z-celebrate. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ru-849042820 - vs Takes AzelfieThis also demonstrates the brokenness of meloetta. It sets up against scarf-roserade, and breaks many holes in the team while taking not a lot of damage from the rest of the team, forcing my opponent to sack many mons until they are down to their last mon, allowing Zydog to clean up.