Type: Steel
Stats: 80/ 75 / 150 / 75 / 150 / 50
Ability: Clear Body
Key Moves: Body Slam, Brick Break, Counter, Curse, Earthquake, Explosion, Focus Punch, Hidden Power, Ice Punch, Protect, Psych Up, Rest, Rock Slide, Seismic Toss, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Superpower, Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Toxic
This is fast becoming my favourite Steel-type actually (alongside Scizor!) It's notable since it's the only one with incredible Special bulk alongside insane physical bulk. Explosion is a great tool that needs little explanation, especially when augmented by Curse. Earthquake and Hidden Power Steel altogether is only walled by Ludicolo and the Fire/Flying-Types Moltres and Charizard, although Scizor in some ways does it better (with Steel Wing and Hidden Power Ground). Body Slam is a good tool to annoy Alakazam, answer Espyjump, and pressure switch-ins. It is set-up bait for Cloyster (as are most available Steel- and Rock-types...) making your own hazard support recommended, as Registeel is Spikes-vulernable with only Protect and Rest for recovery. It has a lot of other miscellanious tools, letting it run everything from double status to SubPunch to Counter, should you see fit, making it somewhat customisable.
Expect most Registeel to run any of: Curse, Explosion, Body Slam, Hidden Power Steel/Rock + Earthquake, Rest, as being the most typical options, but I can see many other options working too. A set with Thunderbolt and Ice Punch might be okay too.
Important EV benchmarks: 148 Atk: Guarantee'd 2HKO versus 4/0 Alakazam with HP Steel; 28 Atk: Break 120/0 Espeon's Substitutes with Body Slam; 172 Atk: 100% chance to 3HKO 120/0 Espeon with HP Steel after Leftovers. 252 HP / 128 SpDef means +1 Alakazam Fire Punch fails to 2HKO. I feel like the last benchmark is the most important, although a little can be siphoned off into attack to have better odds versus Espeon and Alakazam, and into Speed to creep other base 50s (Chansey, Donphan).
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