I agree that special/mixed blaziken is underrated, but shouldn't you use flamethrower and invest some more ev's in sp.A? Your calcs show that it is kinda overkill on cc, and flamethrower allows for consistency, which is better on blaziken for a sweep.*AHEM*
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@ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Knock Off
- Close Combat
- Protect
- Overheat
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Dragapult: 330-390 (104.1 - 123%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Archaludon: 385-455 (100.5 - 118.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring: 278-329 (92.3 - 109.3%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Iron Boulder: 289-341 (90 - 106.2%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Kyurem: 530-624 (135.5 - 159.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Ting-Lu: 398-471 (77.4 - 91.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
(ting lu is fucked up wtf gamefreak)
4 SpA Life Orb Blaziken Overheat vs. 0 HP / 0- SpD Iron Valiant: 333-394 (115.2 - 136.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
4 SpA Life Orb Blaziken Overheat vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Gholdengo: 429-507 (113.4 - 134.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
4 SpA Life Orb Tera Fire Blaziken Overheat vs. 244 HP / 12 SpD Gliscor: 330-390 (93.7 - 110.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
4 SpA Life Orb Tera Fire Blaziken Overheat vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Clefable: 289-341 (73.3 - 86.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
4 SpA Life Orb Tera Fire Blaziken Overheat vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 439-517 (101.1 - 119.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Jokes aside blaziken is really underrated at the moment. life orb sets can threaten an OHKO on most top meta threats, some just require 1 spike to guarantee the KO like iron boulder and ogerpon. For that reason it pairs really well with glimmora. Overheat nukes most pokemon that could stomach a flare blitz and without the nasty recoil and contact effects, allowing you to 2hko pokemon like glowking on the switch, and threaten OHKO on standard gliscor. Iron defense skarmory and corviknight think theyre safe but theyre not. Blaziken can 1v1 six of the top ten most used pokemon in OU. I'm excluding iron boulder from that because you need to have +3 speed to outspeed it and mighty cleave hits through protect, however it cannot switch in on you. Roaring moon, kingambit, great tusk and gholdengo are all fodder unless they tera (which protect helps scout). Archaludon needs max defense or a stamina boost to survive close combat (by then it will have taken chip damage already).
When Viability Rankings come out I'll be advocating for A/A- based on this set alone. Its definitely underexplored with sets like specs vacuum wave, solar beam/fire blast on sun, bulk up/ acrobatics on terrain etc. blaziken haters thought he fell off but stocks havent been this high since it was ubers. You COULD use upper hand to play mind games and 1v1 raging bolt but that requires maximum IQ. It also has a use against rain teams with aqua jet but im handling them fine as is with other team members.
12 SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Iron Valiant: 208-246 (71.9 - 85.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
244 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Archaludon: 382-452 (99.7 - 118%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
244 Atk Life Orb Blaziken Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring: 277-328 (92 - 108.9%) -- 50% chance to OHKO
12 SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 244 HP / 12 SpD Gliscor: 173-204 (49.1 - 57.9%) -- 6.6% chance to 2HKO after Poison Heal
12 SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Great Tusk: 227-269 (52.3 - 61.9%) -- 98.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
This is if you invest limited ev's, I would probably more do a Rash nature.
12+ SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Great Tusk: 251-296 (57.8 - 68.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
12+ SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Ogerpon-Wellspring: 156-185 (51.8 - 61.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
12+ SpA Life Orb Blaziken Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Clefable: 165-195 (41.8 - 49.4%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
I still think this is a great set, but you kinda are limiting blaziken's opportunities with overheat. Flamethrower is more consistent, or you could do fire blast for great power but poor accuracy.