Non-hacked Sturdy Shedinja?

picture this senario, its a triple battle any you have these Pokemon

shedinjalvl: ???item: ???ability: wonder guard????????????

smearglelvl: ???item: ???ability: ???entrainmentfollow me??????

steelixlvl: ???item: ???ability: sturdymimic?????????

smeargle uses entrain on shedinjasteelix mimics entrainsteelix uses entrain on shedinja

thats it. nobody said you can’tentrainaway wonder guard.this seems abit to easy, but if its possible, could you provide a good setup for the “???” please?

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There’s actually a few more ways to get Sturdy on Shedinja besides your method. I’ll talk about those later, however.

This strategy is flawed, as it requires Shedinja to be stuck with Own Tempo / Moody for a turn, making it vunerable to pretty much any attack. So, you would need to use Entrainment on the opponent, have the other Pokemon Mimic the move, then use them on Shedinja the following turn. For this, you’d probably want fast users of both Entrainment and Mimic to get them onto Shedinja asap. However, the problem is, the fastest user of Mimic with Sturdy is Magneton. And because you’re facing multiple Pokemon, Sturdy / Focus Sash doesn’t necesarily help, as multi targetting is a thing. You’re pretty much forced to run Sashes regardless to have any hope of getting the strategy off.

Hawlucha is the fastest user of Entrainment before Mega Lopunny, but Lopunny is slower before mega evolving, and has worse defensive typing. However, the user of Entrainment does not need to be fast, as long as it is faster than the Mimicing Pokemon. However, Hawlucha has the better defensive typing in the long run out of the Entrainment users.

Hawlucha @ Focus SashAbility: LimberEVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SpeJolly Nature- Entrainment- High Jump Kick- Thunder Punch- Iron Head

Shedinja @ Focus SashAbility: Wonder GuardEVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 SpeAdamant Nature

This depends on the type of Shedinja you want. You can run some kind of annoyer set or boosting set.

Magneton @ EvioliteAbility: SturdyEVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 SpeIVs: 2 Atk / 30 Def / 30 SpD / 30 SpeTimid Nature- Thunderbolt- Flash Cannon- Hidden Power Fire- Mimic

The goal here is to replace Wonder Guard so it can be Skill Swapped with. The benefit of this is that this can be done in 1 turn, as opposed to 2 turns for the previous ones. The problem with this is that only one Pokemon has Skill Swap + Sturdy - Carbink. It’s reasonably bulky, however, which can aide in getting Sturdy over.

Basically, any Pokemon that is faster than uninvested min Speed Carbink and has one of those 3 moves works.

Worry Seed: Abomasnow, Amoonguss, Bayleef, Bellossom, Bellsprout, Breloom, Budew, Bulbasaur, Cacnea, Cacturne, Carnivine, Celebi, Cherrim, Cherubi, Chesnaught, Chespin, Chikorita, Cottonee, Cradily, Deerling, Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Ferroseed, Ferrothorn, Flabebe, Floette, Florges, Foongus, Gloom, Gogoat, Golduck, Gourgeist, Grotle, Grovyle, Hoppip, Ivysaur, Jumpluff, Leafeon, Leavanny, Lileep, Lilligant, Maractus, Meganium, Mew, Munna, Musharna, Nuzleaf, Oddish, Pansage, Paras, Parasect, Petilil, Phantump, Psyduck, Pumpkaboo, Quilladin, Roselia, Roserade, Sawsbuck, Sceptile, Seedot, Serperior, Servine, Sewaddle, Shaymin, Shiftry, Shroomish, Simisage, Skiddo, Skiploom, Smeargle, Snivy, Snover, Sunflora, Sunkern, Swadloon, Tangela, Tangrowth, Torterra, Treecko, Trevenant, Tropius, Turtwig, Venusaur, Victreebel, Vileplume, Virizion, Weepinbell, Whimsicott, Wormadam

Simple Beam: Audino, Beheeyem, Delcatty, Elgyem, Farfetch’d, Genesect, Golduck, Grumpig, Inkay, Linoone, Malamar, Natu, Psyduck, Skitty, Smeargle, Spoink, Xatu, Zigzagoon

Gastro Acid: Accelgor, Amoonguss, Arbok, Bellossom, Bellsprout, Carnivine, Cradily, Diggersby, Eelektrik, Eelektross, Ekans, Foongus, Galvantula, Gloom, Gulpin, Heatmor, Joltik, Lileep, Mew, Oddish, Palpitoad, Panpour, Pansage, Pansear, Seismitoad, Serperior, Servine, Seviper, Shelmet, Shuckle, Simipour, Simisage, Simisear, Slurpuff, Smeargle, Snivy, Swalot, Swirlix, Victreebel, Vileplume, Weepinbell

Carbink @ Sitrus BerryAbility: SturdyEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDIVs: 0 SpeRelaxed Nature- Skill Swap

Rest of the moves are filler. You can use Light Screen, Reflect, Moonblast, Stone Edge, Toxic, Magic Coat, etc.