Wormadam [Acciaio]

Wormadam [Acciaio]

Wormadam-S’ Special Attack is rather poor, but with a Modest nature, max EVs and Metal Sound, you’ll have a good chance at doing some damage. Metal Sound will lower the opponents Special Defense two stages, allowing you to strike hard with whichever attack you think is best for the situation. Flash Cannon is your STAB attack, with a 10% chance to lower the opponents Special Defense even more so. Psychic has a 10% chance to lower the opponents Special Defense one stage, and Shadow Ball has a 20% chance to do the same. Psychic does have the edge in terms of power, but Shadow Ball has the greater coverage with Hidden Power Fighting, which is your best bet at handling Steel-types.

It’s advised you use this set in tandem with Stealth Rock, Spikes or Toxic Spikes, as lowering your opponent’s stats is bound to force switches.

Other Options

Mirror Shot is an alternative special attack to use; although it has lower accuracy and less power than Flash Cannon it can lower the opponent’s accuracy if you’d prefer that secondary effect. Various Hidden Powers can work, such as Ground, Fire, Grass, Electric, or Ice, if there’s a different threat that worries you. Wormadam-S’ other support moves are Safeguard to protect your team from status, or Rain Dance and Sunny Day if you’re running a weather team. Rain Dance is more advisable as you can weaken Fire-type attacks. Secret Power is another move that can be used for its secondary effects, while still dealing damage at the same time.

While it seems gimmicky, Skill Swap is a viable move on the Support set. In UU play it allows Wormadam-S to rid Swellow of its Attack boost from Guts and force a switch. It can disarm Technician Pokémon such as Persian of their ability and severely weaken their offensive capabilities. Skill Swap can also help fend off threats like Flareon if you manage to steal Flash Fire on the switch-in, ridding yourself of any weaknesses.

EVs

Always max HP first, no matter what set you’re using. It’s usually best to split your defenses pretty evenly, but you can just dump all 252 EVs into one defensive stat if you only need to cover that side of the defensive spectrum. If you’re using Gyro Ball you’ll want a nature that reduces Speed, but otherwise you’ll just want to lower the attacking stat you’re not using on a defensive set. It can also be a good idea to invest some EVs into Attack, if you feel you can do damage to some common switch-ins. The Metal Sound set will warrant a Modest nature and max EVs to do damage.

Opinion

Wormadam-S is a bad Pokémon, her move-pool isn’t great and the majority of the time she can’t really use the moves she has to their full effect. Your best bet is to use her to set up Stealth Rock and hope to infect a few of your opponent's Pokémon with Toxic. Anticipation can help scout for moves such as Explosion to make them easier to avoid, but it’s not like Wormadam-S is the only Pokémon to have that ability. Having just one weakness is always a good thing, but only use Wormadam-S in the lower tiers.

Counters

Wormadam-S only has one weakness, but that weakness is an x4 weakness to Fire, so prey on that if possible. The only problem is that Wormadam-S is unlikely to stay in as she could well be alerted to super effective attacks. Flareon resists Steel-type attacks and has the Special Defense to deal with Wormadam-S’ special attacking set. It will then be able to KO with STAB Fire-type attacks, although Flareon won’t like Toxic too much, especially if it has to switch into Stealth Rock first. Most other Fire-types such as Magcargo and Torkoal should find dealing with Wormadam-S quite easy. Aggron, Bastiodon and Probopass are all slow (which will make Gyro Ball weaker), have high Defense, and are immune to Toxic. However, they’ll have to be careful when facing the Metal Sound set as Hidden Power Fighting will hurt, especially with their Special Defense lowered. Exploud is quite bulky and often carries Fire Blast, so can deal with Wormadam-S; Exploud also has Soundproof so is immune to Metal Sound’s effects. The majority of the time, Wormadam-S is unlikely to be able to recover her HP (other than through Leftovers) as Rest is her only option. So striking with strong neutral attacks will usually whittle away her low HP rather quickly. As long as your counter is not incredibly frail, doesn’t mind being poisoned and has a strong neutral or super effective attack, you won’t find disposing of Wormadam-S very hard.

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