Victini
Victory Pokémon
This Pokémon brings victory. It is said that Trainers with Victini always win, regardless of the type of encounter.
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Strategy Overview
Psychic
Victini plays a big role on Psychic teams as a check to Bug- and Steel-types thanks to its Fire typing. It's especially useful in checking Volcarona, which is a huge threat to Psychic teams, as it can Speed tie with it, take a +1 Bug Buzz, and always OHKO it with V-create. Its base 100 stats across the board give it decent bulk, offensive capabilities, and speed. Victini has access to an insanely powerful STAB move in V-create, which allows it to function as a great wallbreaker, especially with Choice Band. Victini is also a great Choice Scarf user thanks to its good Speed and pivoting capabilities with U-turn. It has a great movepool that includes coverage options like Bolt Strike and a great tool in Blue Flare, which helps it sweep Bug teams. Unfortunately, its Fire typing gives it a weakness to Stealth Rock, which heavily limits its pivoting capabilities, as well as to common offensive types in Water, Ground, and Rock. Although it sits at a solid Speed tier, Victini can be outsped and revenge killed by faster Pokemon like Terrakion, Keldeo, and Mega Diancie, especially after a Speed drop from V-create.
Fire
Thanks to Fire's ability to provide sun support, Choice Band Victini is capable of at least 2HKOing almost every Pokemon that is not immune to Fire-type attacks with its powerful V-create, making it the strongest wallbreaker in Monotype. Notably, Victini's V-create is capable of breaking every defensive core that typically gives Fire trouble, including Normal's, Poison's, and Water's, meaning it hardly needs to predict in spite of using a Choice item. Victini can also use extra supportive options in Bolt Strike to KO almost all Water-types and Fire-immune Pokemon and U-turn to avoid Pursuit trappers and pivot into teammates. It has decent defensive stats for an offensive Pokemon, allowing it to take some weaker hits relatively easily, particularly Scald from Water-type walls in sun. Unfortunately, V-create's Defense and Special Defense drops make Victini very easy to revenge kill, a problem only compounded by the accompanying loss in Speed allowing even slower Pursuit trappers like Scizor to trap and KO Victini. To make the Speed loss even more of an issue, its natural Speed is already rather average, making it only really able to beat defensive Pokemon and a handful of the slowest offensive Pokemon like Mamoswine. Victini does still have trouble fitting onto some Fire teams, as it doesn't help with the more important offensive threats to the type in Nihilego and Mega Diancie, and other Fire-type Pokemon like Mega Charizard X and Infernape can wallbreak while compressing other roles such as setup sweeper and priority revenge killer.
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