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[OVERVIEW]

Exeggutor is one of the most versatile status spreaders in the tier. With a great movepool, it can sleep, paralyze, and has the option of booming when it's job is done or finds itself in dire straits all the while being fairly tanky. With all these assets, it has carved itself a place on most offensive teams in the tier, especially boom offense.

A unique typing and great movepool make Exeggutor one of the most versatile status spreaders in the GSC OverUsed tier. Its Special Attack is ultra high by GSC standards, tying Zapdos, and it has solid coverage in its STAB attacks, Psychic and Giga Drain. It can also inflict sleep and paralysis, and threatens to take out a key Pokémon at any time with its powerful Explosion. With all these assets, it has stomped its way into the upper echelons of the tier's offensive staples.

Defensively, Exeggutor can serve as a secondary check to threatening sweepers like Vaporeon (if you're packing Giga Drain), Marowak and Machamp, just beware of any unexpected Ice Beam from Vapo and Hidden Power Bug or Fire Blast on the switch-in from the latter two.

Exeggutor also offers valuable defensive capabilities. It can serve as a check to threatening sweepers like Vaporeon, Marowak, and Machamp -- just beware of Hidden Power Bug or Fire Blast from the latter two. Unfortunately for Exeggutor, the majority of Pokémon in OU are capable of (and often are) running coverage moves that will hit Exeggutor hard, so it helps to time its entry onto the battlefield carefully to ensure he doesn't have to blow up too quickly.

[SET]

Set 1: Standard Explosion

Item: Leftovers

Move 1: Sleep Powder / Stun Spore

Move 2: Psychic

Move 3: Giga Drain / Hidden Power Fire

Move 4: Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

Pick your status of choice (usually sleep, but you can opt for paralysis if your team already has a sleep user or benefits more from paralysed pokemons) so you can start annoying your opponent or at least cripple the things you can't hit well. Psychic is your main attacking move, since it threatens near-3HKOs on the electrics and the random SpDef drops will most likely force a switch from your opponent. Giga Drain provides safety against Tyranitar, healing off Crunch/Fire Blast damage, effectively avoiding the 2HKO, and gives you better matchups against water types even though it has low pp. On the other hand, Hidden Power Fire destroys Forretress and dents Skarmory (who otherwise outright wall the Giga Drain set) at the cost of less bulk due to DV requirements for the move. Keep in mind that unless you have done prior damage or hit Skarmory on the switch, it still wins the 1v1 due to being faster and having Drill Peck to hit you Super Effectively. Rounding up the set is Explosion, that, coming off from a base 95 Atk, can secure OHKOs on most non-resists in the tier after some chip damage (the best non-resist being suicune, which needs at least 85% health to survive more than half of the time), making switching into Exeggutor quite risky at any time in the game.

First, pick your status move of choice -- opponents won't want to risk a non-Sleep Talk user taking Sleep Powder, so using Stun Spore can be an excellent way to paralyze the opponent's sleep absorber, such as Zapdos, potentially setting up another sweeper or sleep move user on your team for success. However, Sleep Powder is of course very powerful, and is an easy choice if your team lacks another sleep move user. Psychic is your main attacking move, dealing solid damage to most Pokémon that don't resist it, and threatening even Snorlax with its chance to drop Special Defense. Giga Drain threatens Water-types and gives it a chance against Tyranitar, healing off Crunch/Fire Blast damage and preventing it from trapping Exeggutor with Pursuit. On the other hand, Hidden Power Fire disintegrates Forretress and dents Skarmory (which otherwise walls the Giga Drain set) at the cost of 25 HP, 2 Attack points and 6 Defense points due to its DV requirements. Rounding off the set is Explosion, which, coming off Exeggutor's base 95 Attack stat, can secure OHKOs on most Pokémon that don't resist it (Suicune, one of the most physically tanky Pokémon in the tier, takes up to 92% of its HP from Exeggutor's Explosion), making switching into it quite risky at any point in the game.

The utility of paralyzing, sleeping or booming common switch-ins such as electrics, snorlax and skarmory can mean opening up a path for another teamate to sweep, so always be on the lookout for opportunities that exeggutor can create. Some examples are booming on Raikou and Zapdos so your Vaporeon can set up growth more safely or sleeping/paralyzing skarmory so belly drum snorlax has a much better chance at taking it out after setting up.

This Exeggutor set is easily one of the best enablers in the tier, handily setting up Machamp, Marowak, Charizard, or Tentacruel for success with its Stun Spores on Raikou and Zapdos, or exploding on them for Vaporeon. A well-played Exeggutor can literally blow through an opponent's defenses, leaving them open to a wide variety of possible threats.

[SET]

Set 2: Leech Seed

Item: Leftovers

Move 1: Stun Spore

Move 2: Leech Seed

Move 3: Psychic

Move 4: Substitute / Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

This set can be a one man army against many teams coupled with Spikes support. Leech Seed activates in GSC when the seeded pokemon attacks, meaning it forces switches almost every time it lands. Stun Spore, coupled with Psychic's raw power and SpDef drop chance, makes it even more difficult to stay in and take the Eggs head on, forcing switches and racking up residual damage. Substitute increases Egg’s longevity and prevents it from being hampered by status users, but Explosion might catch many opponents off guard while cycling through switches trying to run you out of leech seed pp.

This set can be a one-man-army against many teams when coupled with Spikes support. The classic combination of Substitute and Leech Seed, also known as SubSeed, enables Exeggutor to stay in against even Pokémon that hit it super effectively, thanks to Stun Spore slowing them down. Leech Seed in GSC is not quite as good as it is in RSE and subsequent generations, dealing damage immediately after the seeded Pokémon attacks rather than at end of turn, but it still forces switches like nobody's business. Very little can take repeated beatings from Exeggutor's Psychic while also losing an eighth of their HP per turn from Leech Seed, so Exeggutor can freely spread its Stun Spore across the enemy team as the opponent helplessly tries to run Exeggutor out of PP, all the while taking significant residual damage.

Exeggutor can also drop Substitute for Explosion, potentially catching a crucial Pokémon by surprise and also raising Exeggutor's utility significantly in the event something goes wrong.

Anything with Toxic makes a good partner for this set, since it has the potential to rack up even more residual damage. The fact that this set might force some key defensive threats to use Rest (and paralyze others) could also help a teammate sweep.

Anything with Toxic makes a good partner for this set, since it has the potential of racking up a ton of residual damage. The fact that this might force some key defensive threats to use Rest might help a teamate's sweeping chances, especially considering you can still keep the option of nuking any threat with Explosion.

There are good reasons this is not Exeggutor's main set, however. Should a Substitute Jynx find an opportunity to come in on Exeggutor's Substitute or Psychic, Exeggutor will have no choice but to switch out and have a teammate deal with it. Spikers and spinners like Forretress and Starmie may also be eager to take advantage of Exeggutor's lack of coverage to gain an advantage in the Spikes game, particularly if they are supported by Heal Bell users that can undo all of Exeggutor's hard work, such as Blissey or Miltank. Lastly, Roar Tyranitar only has to worry about taking a Stun Spore, and can easily put a stop to Exeggutor's antics without taking much damage.

[Other Options]

A 4-attacks set is viable, where the status move is foregone in favor of maximum coverage, but this should only be done when your team already has a sleeper and you don’t benefit much from spreading para with stun spore. Exeggutor is also a decent Thief user, as it commonly baits in many threats like electrics, skarmory and tyranitar, removing their leftovers, which can then be capitalized upon by racking up spikes and/or chip damage so a teamate sweeper has an easier time. Just make sure Exeggutor has no items when picking this set, of course.

A four attacks set is viable, where the status move is forgone in favor of maximum coverage, but dropping a status move is likely to lower its utility overall. Exeggutor is also a decent Thief user, often being able to take Zapdos's Leftovers, which makes it possible to 3HKO it with Psychic. Just make sure Exeggutor has no item when using it, of course.

If you'd rather spread as much status as possible, you can forego your coverage move on the standard set and go double status so you can nab a surprise sleep or paralysis on your opponent after revealing one of the two and they assume you're running the Standard set, but keeping the coverage is usually the better option as there are many pokemons who can switch in to double status Exeggutor that don't mind being statused as much, most notably Rest+STalkers such as Snorlax, Suicune and the electrics.

If you'd rather spread as much status as possible, you can forgo your coverage move on the standard set and go double status, taking advantage of your opponent's likely assumption that you will be using a coverage move to land status on something that isn't expecting it. However, having Psychic and Explosion as your only attacking move means that you are highly likely to run into a Pokemon that resists all of your attacks, such as Steelix, Tyranitar, or Skarmory.

[Checks and Counters]

Most prominent Special walls in the tier can switch safely enough into Sleep Powder and abuse Rest + Sleep Talk loops to whittle down Exeggutor with their moves like the Electrics, ST Snorlax and most bulky water types if Exeggutor's not packing Giga Drain who have a way of dealing damage to Exeggutor like Ice Beam Suicune. Do keep in mind that almost all of them fear Explosion, so beware of possible mind games such as booms on the switch. Baiting the Explosion is also possible, of course, and most normal resists such as Skarmory or Tyranitar can take one rather well. Other notable Explosion mitigators include pokemons with Reflect (Raikou, Zapdos and, to a lesser extent, Dragonite) and Charm Umbreon. Umbreon actually takes low damage from Egg’s other attacks, can outspeed it and has pursuit, even if it's a rather weak one. The other better pursuiters in the tier are Tyranitar and Houndoom, who can also improve the mindgames if they have Crunch. Both fear statuses (Rest Tyranitar not so much though, but it usually doesn't have Pursuit and Rest in the same set) while Houndoom fears booms and Tyranitar fears Giga Drain. If you're facing a set without Hidden Power Fire, most Steel types can switch in and threaten Exeggutor even though they must beware of status.

While it is deathly afraid of status moves, Jynx is a terror for Exeggutor to face, resisting Psychic and completely blocking status moves and Giga Drain with its Substitutes, while threatening an easy 2HKO with Ice Beam. In terms of switching into Exeggutor, Pokémon that have RestTalk tend to be the best options due to their ability to sponge status inflicting moves. Examples of common ones include Zapdos, Snorlax, Heracross, and Suicune. Do keep in mind that all of them fear Explosion, so beware of possible mind games such as booms on the switch. Baiting the Explosion is also possible, of course, and most normal resists such as Skarmory or Tyranitar can take one rather well. Skarmory is also capable of pulling off a Sleep Talk set which can completely shut down non-Hidden Power Fire Exeggutor. Other notable Explosion mitigators include Reflect Raikou and Charm Umbreon. Umbreon also takes little damage from Exeggutor’s other attacks, outspeeds it, and has Pursuit, albeit a rather weak one. Toxic from Umbreon (and others like Suicune or Snorlax) can also significantly reduce Exeggutor's longetivity and force it to use Explosion predictably or risk not getting it off at all. Besides Umbreon, other stronger Pursuit users in the tier are Tyranitar and Houndoom, although Houndoom tends to fear status a lot and Tyranitar must play mindgames against Giga Drain Exeggutor. If you're facing a set without Hidden Power Fire, most Steel types can switch in and threaten Exeggutor, although they must beware of status.

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[OVERVIEW]

Exeggutor is one of the most versatile status spreaders in the tier. With a great movepool, it can sleep, paralyze, and has the option of booming when it's job is done or finds itself in dire straits all the while being fairly tanky. With all these assets, it has carved itself a place on most offensive teams in the tier, especially boom offense.

Defensively, Exeggutor can serve as a secondary check to threatening sweepers like Vaporeon (if you're packing Giga Drain), Marowak and Machamp, just beware of any unexpected Ice Beam from Vapo and Hidden Power Bug or Fire Blast on the switch-in from the latter two.

[SET]

Set 1: Standard Explosion
Item: Leftovers
Move 1: Sleep Powder / Stun Spore
Move 2: Psychic
Move 3: Giga Drain / Hidden Power Fire
Move 4: Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

Pick your status of choice (usually sleep, but you can opt for paralysis if your team already has a sleep user or benefits more from paralysed pokemons) so you can start annoying your opponent or at least cripple the things you can't hit well. Psychic is your main attacking move, since it threatens near-3HKOs on the electrics and the random SpDef drops will most likely force a switch from your opponent. Giga Drain provides safety against Tyranitar, healing off Crunch/Fire Blast damage, effectively avoiding the 2HKO, and gives you better matchups against water types even though it has low pp. On the other hand, Hidden Power Fire destroys Forretress and dents Skarmory (who otherwise outright wall the Giga Drain set) at the cost of less bulk due to DV requirements for the move. Keep in mind that unless you have done prior damage or hit Skarmory on the switch, it still wins the 1v1 due to being faster and having Drill Peck to hit you Super Effectively. Rounding up the set is Explosion, that, coming off from a base 95 Atk, can secure OHKOs on most non-resists in the tier after some chip damage (the best non-resist being suicune, which needs at least 85% health to survive more than half of the time), making switching into Exeggutor quite risky at any time in the game.

The utility of paralyzing, sleeping or booming common switch-ins such as electrics, snorlax and skarmory can mean opening up a path for another teamate to sweep, so always be on the lookout for opportunities that exeggutor can create. Some examples are booming on Raikou and Zapdos so your Vaporeon can set up growth more safely or sleeping/paralyzing skarmory so belly drum snorlax has a much better chance at taking it out after setting up.


[SET]

Set 2: Leech Seed
Item: Leftovers
Move 1: Stun Spore
Move 2: Leech Seed
Move 3: Psychic
Move 4: Substitute / Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

This set can be a one man army against many teams coupled with Spikes support. Leech Seed activates in GSC when the seeded pokemon attacks, meaning it forces switches almost every time it lands. Stun Spore, coupled with Psychic's raw power and SpDef drop chance, makes it even more difficult to stay in and take the Eggs head on, forcing switches and racking up residual damage. Substitute increases Egg’s longevity and prevents it from being hampered by status users, but Explosion might catch many opponents off guard while cycling through switches trying to run you out of leech seed pp.

Anything with Toxic makes a good partner for this set, since it has the potential of racking up a ton of residual damage. The fact that this might force some key defensive threats to use Rest might help a teamate's sweeping chances, especially considering you can still keep the option of nuking any threat with Explosion.

[Other Options]

A 4-attacks set is viable, where the status move is foregone in favor of maximum coverage, but this should only be done when your team already has a sleeper and you don’t benefit much from spreading para with stun spore. Exeggutor is also a decent Thief user, as it commonly baits in many threats like electrics, skarmory and tyranitar, removing their leftovers, which can then be capitalized upon by racking up spikes and/or chip damage so a teamate sweeper has an easier time. Just make sure Exeggutor has no items when picking this set, of course.

If you'd rather spread as much status as possible, you can forego your coverage move on the standard set and go double status so you can nab a surprise sleep or paralysis on your opponent after revealing one of the two and they assume you're running the Standard set, but keeping the coverage is usually the better option as there are many pokemons who can switch in to double status Exeggutor that don't mind being statused as much, most notably Rest+STalkers such as Snorlax, Suicune and the electrics.

[Checks and Counters]

Most prominent Special walls in the tier can switch safely enough into Sleep Powder and abuse Rest + Sleep Talk loops to whittle down Exeggutor with their moves like the Electrics, ST Snorlax and most bulky water types if Exeggutor's not packing Giga Drain who have a way of dealing damage to Exeggutor like Ice Beam Suicune. Do keep in mind that almost all of them fear Explosion, so beware of possible mind games such as booms on the switch. Baiting the Explosion is also possible, of course, and most normal resists such as Skarmory or Tyranitar can take one rather well. Other notable Explosion mitigators include pokemons with Reflect (Raikou, Zapdos and, to a lesser extent, Dragonite) and Charm Umbreon. Umbreon actually takes low damage from Egg’s other attacks, can outspeed it and has pursuit, even if it's a rather weak one. The other better pursuiters in the tier are Tyranitar and Houndoom, who can also improve the mindgames if they have Crunch. Both fear statuses (Rest Tyranitar not so much though, but it usually doesn't have Pursuit and Rest in the same set) while Houndoom fears booms and Tyranitar fears Giga Drain. If you're facing a set without Hidden Power Fire, most Steel types can switch in and threaten Exeggutor even though they must beware of status.

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[OVERVIEW]

A unique typing and great movepool make Exeggutor one of the most versatile status spreaders in the GSC OverUsed tier. Its Special Attack is ultra high by GSC standards, tying Zapdos, and it has solid coverage in its STAB attacks, Psychic and Giga Drain. It can also inflict sleep and paralysis, and threatens to take out a key Pokémon at any time with its powerful Explosion. With all these assets, it has stomped its way into the upper echelons of the tier's offensive staples.

Exeggutor also offers valuable defensive capabilities. It can serve as a check to threatening sweepers like Vaporeon, Marowak, and Machamp -- just beware of Hidden Power Bug or Fire Blast from the latter two. Unfortunately for Exeggutor, the majority of Pokémon in OU are capable of (and often are) running coverage moves that will hit Exeggutor hard, so it helps to time its entry onto the battlefield carefully to ensure he doesn't have to blow up too quickly.

[SET]

Set 1: Standard Explosion
Item: Leftovers
Move 1: Sleep Powder / Stun Spore
Move 2: Psychic
Move 3: Giga Drain / Hidden Power Fire
Move 4: Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

First, pick your status move of choice -- opponents won't want to risk a non-Sleep Talk user taking Sleep Powder, so using Stun Spore can be an excellent way to paralyze the opponent's sleep absorber, such as Zapdos, potentially setting up another sweeper or sleep move user on your team for success. However, Sleep Powder is of course very powerful, and is an easy choice if your team lacks another sleep move user. Psychic is your main attacking move, dealing solid damage to most Pokémon that don't resist it, and threatening even Snorlax with its chance to drop Special Defense. Giga Drain threatens Water-types and gives it a chance against Tyranitar, healing off Crunch/Fire Blast damage and preventing it from trapping Exeggutor with Pursuit. On the other hand, Hidden Power Fire disintegrates Forretress and dents Skarmory (which otherwise walls the Giga Drain set) at the cost of 25 HP, 2 Attack points and 6 Defense points due to its DV requirements. Rounding off the set is Explosion, which, coming off Exeggutor's base 95 Attack stat, can secure OHKOs on most Pokémon that don't resist it (Suicune, one of the most physically tanky Pokémon in the tier, takes up to 92% of its HP from Exeggutor's Explosion), making switching into it quite risky at any point in the game.

This Exeggutor set is easily one of the best enablers in the tier, handily setting up Machamp, Marowak, Charizard, or Tentacruel for success with its Stun Spores on Raikou and Zapdos, or exploding on them for Vaporeon. A well-played Exeggutor can literally blow through an opponent's defenses, leaving them open to a wide variety of possible threats.


[SET]

Set 2: Leech Seed
Item: Leftovers
Move 1: Stun Spore
Move 2: Leech Seed
Move 3: Psychic
Move 4: Substitute / Explosion

[SET COMMENTS]

This set can be a one-man-army against many teams when coupled with Spikes support. The classic combination of Substitute and Leech Seed, also known as SubSeed, enables Exeggutor to stay in against even Pokémon that hit it super effectively, thanks to Stun Spore slowing them down. Leech Seed in GSC is not quite as good as it is in RSE and subsequent generations, dealing damage immediately after the seeded Pokémon attacks rather than at end of turn, but it still forces switches like nobody's business. Very little can take repeated beatings from Exeggutor's Psychic while also losing an eighth of their HP per turn from Leech Seed, so Exeggutor can freely spread its Stun Spore across the enemy team as the opponent helplessly tries to run Exeggutor out of PP, all the while taking significant residual damage.

Exeggutor can also drop Substitute for Explosion, potentially catching a crucial Pokémon by surprise and also raising Exeggutor's utility significantly in the event something goes wrong.

Anything with Toxic makes a good partner for this set, since it has the potential to rack up even more residual damage. The fact that this set might force some key defensive threats to use Rest (and paralyze others) could also help a teammate sweep.

There are good reasons this is not Exeggutor's main set, however. Should a Substitute Jynx find an opportunity to come in on Exeggutor's Substitute or Psychic, Exeggutor will have no choice but to switch out and have a teammate deal with it. Spikers and spinners like Forretress and Starmie may also be eager to take advantage of Exeggutor's lack of coverage to gain an advantage in the Spikes game, particularly if they are supported by Heal Bell users that can undo all of Exeggutor's hard work, such as Blissey or Miltank. Lastly, Roar Tyranitar only has to worry about taking a Stun Spore, and can easily put a stop to Exeggutor's antics without taking much damage.

[Other Options]

A four attacks set is viable, where the status move is forgone in favor of maximum coverage, but dropping a status move is likely to lower its utility overall. Exeggutor is also a decent Thief user, often being able to take Zapdos's Leftovers, which makes it possible to 3HKO it with Psychic. Just make sure Exeggutor has no item when using it, of course.

If you'd rather spread as much status as possible, you can forgo your coverage move on the standard set and go double status, taking advantage of your opponent's likely assumption that you will be using a coverage move to land status on something that isn't expecting it. However, having Psychic and Explosion as your only attacking move means that you are highly likely to run into a Pokemon that resists all of your attacks, such as Steelix, Tyranitar, or Skarmory.

[Checks and Counters]

While it is deathly afraid of status moves, Jynx is a terror for Exeggutor to face, resisting Psychic and completely blocking status moves and Giga Drain with its Substitutes, while threatening an easy 2HKO with Ice Beam. In terms of switching into Exeggutor, Pokémon that have RestTalk tend to be the best options due to their ability to sponge status inflicting moves. Examples of common ones include Zapdos, Snorlax, Heracross, and Suicune. Do keep in mind that all of them fear Explosion, so beware of possible mind games such as booms on the switch. Baiting the Explosion is also possible, of course, and most normal resists such as Skarmory or Tyranitar can take one rather well. Skarmory is also capable of pulling off a Sleep Talk set which can completely shut down non-Hidden Power Fire Exeggutor. Other notable Explosion mitigators include Reflect Raikou and Charm Umbreon. Umbreon also takes little damage from Exeggutor’s other attacks, outspeeds it, and has Pursuit, albeit a rather weak one. Toxic from Umbreon (and others like Suicune or Snorlax) can also significantly reduce Exeggutor's longetivity and force it to use Explosion predictably or risk not getting it off at all. Besides Umbreon, other stronger Pursuit users in the tier are Tyranitar and Houndoom, although Houndoom tends to fear status a lot and Tyranitar must play mindgames against Giga Drain Exeggutor.  If you're facing a set without Hidden Power Fire, most Steel types can switch in and threaten Exeggutor, although they must beware of status.