New X Strats

Grant Tyrunt:
- Level 19 Hawlucha with (x/26+/7-30) attack: Karate Chop turn 1. If crits, kill with Karate Chop (guaranteed). If doesn't crit, Swords Dance + Karate Chop.
> Only max roll Karate Chop crit puts Tyrunt in heal range.
> Gives 11.72% chance to 2 turn Tyrunt with nearly no downside (0.78% to max roll crit)
- Level 20 Hawlucha with (x/16+/25-) attack: Rock Smash turn 1. If crits AND defense drops, kill with Rock Smash. If not, Swords Dance + Rock Smash.
> (x/16+/15-) attack: Rock Smash + SD + Rock Smash is 96.09% range (guaranteed with defense drop, 92.19% if no defense drop)
> (x/x/16-25) attack: Rock Smash + SD + Rock Smash guaranteed
> Only 3% to get crit and defense drop and there is some small downside of possibly missing range, but still probably good to go for to try for the huge upside of 2 turning Tyrunt.


8 Protein Strat:
- Don't use Protein on Hawlucha, always use PP Up instead.
- Courmarine Shopping: 11 Max Repels, 1 Escape Rope, 5 Full Heals (6 fewer), 2 revives (1 fewer), 16 Hyper Potions (3 fewer)
> $19XX standard money after buying 6 Protein + $8100 extra from new shopping = $100XX, Protein costs $9800)
> Can go down to 1 revive for more healing
> Most runs shouldn't need more than this
> Safety Strat: do old shopping and sell Big Nugget in Laverre
> In case you were curious, $19XX is variable since lvl 20 Hawlucha loses $24 extra on Masquerain deathwarp. Doesn't affect the money route.
- Use 1 Protein after Clemont, during the menu before rival (no benefit to using it earlier and actually makes Magneton sturdy more likely)
- Buy 7 Proteins in Laverre
- Always pick up Frost Cavern PP Up
- Still less Attack than Spatk on Olympia so you still get Light Screen (I've checked)
- Use 7 Proteins in standard spot before Lysandre 1
- Benefits: https://pastebin.com/rahQFiqH
> Sylveon: 15/16 -> 16/16
> SD + Shadow Claw Exeggutor: 15/16 -> 16/16
> Golbat before Lysandre 2: 4/16 -> 5/16
> Sycamore Venasaur: 9/16 -> 11/16
> Siebold Gyarados: 15/16 -> 16/16
> Drasna Druddigon +4 SC: 14/16 -> 15/16
> Drasna Altaria +4 SC: 15/16 -> 16/16
> 1 Protein strat much better than old 0 Protein strat as well (see https://pastebin.com/rahQFiqH)
> Can flex back to 6 Protein if need the friendship on Hawlucha
- Drawbacks:
> Slightly less attack on Hawlucha (about 2-3 IVs equivalent)
> 7 Close Combats is dead unless you play super risky on Hawlucha friendship (only matters for Honchcrow, Jynx, and Aurorus. Altaria dies to +4 Shadow Claw with this strat so don't need 7 there)
> fewer full heals and hyper potions



Valerie Mawile Turn 3 Iron Defense:
- If Iron Defense Turn 3: Rock Tomb + Aura Sphere
- Rock Tomb crit 9/16 to kill (possibly 10/16 with extra protein, didn't check)
- Old strat: spam Aura Sphere until get 6/16 range or Valerie runs out of healing


Dire Hit Wikstrom:
- 5-6 seconds to pick up Route 15 Dire Hit, saves ~12 seconds on turn 1 Torment on Wikstrom
- If turn 1 Dazzling Gleam, fight plays out as normal
- If turn 1 Torment, Dire Hit + Shadow Claw crit Klefki
- Shadow Claw guaranteed crit with Dire Hit
- 1 SD + crit Shadow Claw does same damage as 2 SD Shadow Claw non-crit
- saves 2 turns on Klefki if turn 1 Torment
- Overall
> Turn 1 Torment: save 6-7 seconds
> Turn 1 Dazzling Gleam: lose 5-6 seconds (from picking up Dire Hit and never using it)
> On average save 1-2 seconds
> Reduce variance by a lot (all fights become nearly the same speed regardless of Klefki’s move choices)
- Don't think this one is worth it since it makes the top end worse, but it does save time on average
- Bad on Protein skip (getting chip damage with Rock Tomb is good since Klefki is a range)


Lysandre 2 Backup:
- If Lapras dies without Outrage, swap in Squirtle and heal Lucario to full. Lucario tanks EQ from full after getting rid of the Close Combat defense drop
- Not worth doing as the default strat since it requires healing both before and after fight.