a bunny for a bat - a short report of the best european xernala


hello , I’m Giacomo Sinato, also known as khazen! i started play pokemon competitive tis november, maybe you don't know me..
i'm not famous but if u are interested, here it is my report of euic 2019, where i made a nice day 2!

Teambuilding:
i used xernala both in sun series and moon series, so i decided to entrust myself to it in ultra series too. so let's start !

Xerneas @ Power Herb
Ability: Fairy Aura
Level: 50
EVs: 140 HP / 4 Def / 108 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Dazzling Gleam
- Geomancy
- Protect

Xerneas is till the king of the metagame, and i like to be the fastest Xerneas of the match ( or at least in tie). This is the standard spread i used all the year, so i kept it and it gave me decent feedbacks. I will not provide calculations in this report cause i don't want lose so much time.

Lunala @ Lunalium Z
Ability: Shadow Shield
Level: 50
EVs: 44 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moongeist Beam
- Icy Wind
- Tailwind
- Protect

The second uber is Lunala. I played lunala modest for 3 reasons:
1. don't needed the speed cause i was thinking (correctly) that i would have not picked so much mirror in the torunament
2. doing the modest z move of lunala firstly thanks to my after you lopunny is good
3.i little bit of bulk is not bad
With this spread i overspeeded not timid primals. Icy wind is a good pick against crobat, playing the 50-50 mind game of tailwind/taunt.

Lopunny-Mega @ Lopunnite
Ability: Scrappy
Level: 50
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fake Out
- Return
- High Jump Kick
- After You

Lopunny checks all the counters of my ubers, with his stab fight move. It is the fastest fake out.and is good against gengar (FO+ return is ohko if +0). As i said before, after you helps me to do what i want before my opponent.

Tapu Fini @ Wiki Berry
Ability: Misty Surge
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 4 SpA / 92 SpD / 156 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Icy Wind
- Heal Pulse
- Nature's Madness
- Haze

Fini is the best supporter of the meta. At the beginning i used light screen on haze, but haze is more "effective". And refulling xerneas or lunala is good.

Amoonguss @ Coba Berry
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 76 Def / 180 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Spore
- Clear Smog
- Rage Powder
- Protect

Classic amongus with coba. If i could, for day 2 i would have changed with payapa, cause lele scarf on yvelogre is a pain the ass.

Incineroar @ Assault Vest
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 84 Def / 4 SpA / 164 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Fake Out
- Flare Blitz
- Snarl
- U-turn

None can play without incineroar. I thank Giacomo Bovolenta (giachyVGC) for the spread, and Riccardo Appamea (firegohan) for the idea of incineroar assault vest.

DAY 1

-Round 1 WW vs Marius Fahl (DE)
LURANTIS, NECROZMA DUSKMANE, MAWILE, TAPU BULU, SABLEYE, KYOGRE
Hard trick room team, not irresistible opponent. Two easy wins.

-Round 2 LWW vs Rodrigo Urena (PA)
LELE, NECROZMA DUSKMANE, INCINEROAR, KANGASHKAN, FERROTHORN, KYOGRE
Second HTR team in a row, lost first match due to surprise and then 2 easy wins.

-Round 3 WW vs Rafik Sadli (UK)
YVELTAL, GROUDON, STAKATAKA, INCINEROAR (Z FIRE LOL), GENGAR, TAPU FINI
This is the reason why lopunny is in my team, even if i did an HJK on the protect inci (imagine my face).

-Round 4 LL vs Graham Amedee (AU) (@Ammodee)
LELE, ACCELGOR, KYOGRE, DRAMPA, KANGASHKAN, LUNALA
Impossible match up, and a surprise per game.

-Round 5 WLW Matteo Marinelli (IT)
KYOGRE , GROUDON, GENGAR, TAPU LELE, BRONZONG, WEAVILE
Don't remember how i won, but i won. Bad matchup btw.

-Round 6 WW vs Rob Akershoek (NE) (@Applepie)
RAYQUAZA, KYOGRE, TAPU KOKO, CROBAT, GENGAR, AMOONGUSS
Best match up possible.

-Round 7 WLW vs Andrea Sasso (IT)
RAYQUAZA, KYOGRE, GENGAR, INCINEROAR, TAPU KOKO, BRONZONG
Nice match up, but very good opponent, hardest BO3 of the day.

-Round 8 WW vs Javier Senorena
INCINEROAR, AEGISLASH, AMONGUSS, TAPU LELE, XERNEAS, RAYQUAZA
Won with fini Haze + Heal pulse.

- Round 9 WW vs Serkan Tas (DE)
RAYQUAZA, KYOGRE, CROBAT, TAPU KOKO, KARTANA, STAKATAKA
Best match up.

Finished 8-1 my journey throught day1, 7° among all masters of VGC!

Lost all my matches of day 2 due to unexperience, anxiety and few bad rolls.

see u next time!



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