Mawile: Forgotten Steel or Defensive Tank?

With the same typing as Registeel, Intimidate, a decent base 85 DEF stat, access to Iron Defense and Stockpile, and Super Fang, Mawile can become a potent tank.

Mawile@Leftovers / Chesto Berry
252 HP / 252 DEF / 4 SpD
Impish
Intimidate

-Iron Defense / Stockpile
-Super Fang
-Iron Head
-Toxic / Rest / ?

Mawile is a BEAST. Come in on a physical attacker, get off your Intimidate, set up a DEF-boosting move, then proceed to fire off Super Fangs and Iron heads. The last move is pretty open: Toxic works in conjuction with Super Fang to wear down anything and everything, while Rest along with a Chesto Berry provides recovery.


Constructive criticism is appreciated. Thanks!

3 words ruin this mawile.

Flamethrower

Fire Blast

Gastrotress wrote:

3 words ruin this mawile.

Flamethrower

Fire Blast

And that's why I bring Slowking. ^^

Thanks for announcing that, so if I ever happen to battle you, I'll trick you into sending Slowking in on a Dark Pulse or Signal Beam while you predict Flamethrower, or throw in a pokemon and use HP Fire or Flamethrower when your predicting a physical attack.

Let alone most sweepers could cripple it, take for example Metagross. You can't Itimi. it, and its got the ability to easily set up on you and sweep your team while you attempt to wall it.

add an rockslide ? for a little protection against fire it has also a decent 85 atk
this could work for a tickroom team

I honestly dont see this working at all on OU or UU, now that P-Z is UU, and that the amount of Fire pokemons is so big. Slowking wont enjoy eating, for example, a +2 Energy Ball from Ninetails, or say you end up against a MixedBlaziken, what can you do? If you REALLY wanna use this, I suggest sticking to NU