Armored Cannon

 

 Tanker type pokemons role is between offensive and defensive capability. Their stats are impressive in defense/sp.defense/Hp, have a good offensive stats, but lacking speed. They may be slow and get hit first from sweeper, but counter without losing too many Hp. How to build a Panzer? Check this out!

- Choosing the Mons

For a pokemon to fill the role of tanker, it is nice to have a good defensive typing that come with many resistances. So, most of tanker are steel type combination due to many resistance of steel type and immune to poison (toxic LOL). The difference between tanker and wall is tanker mons can attack back but not as hard as sweeper or wallbreaker without losing it's defensive role in the team. Sometimes a pokemons maybe play the role as tanker or support depending their move options. Tanker comes with 2 categories, physical ( attack and defense) and special ( sp.atk and sp.def). The mixed one is very rare and only have narrow options so i decided to categorized mixed as "special" in this section. So, here is the common example.

a. Physical

- Metagross (Steel/Psychic)

Hp : 80 | Atk : 135 | Def : 130 | Sp.Atk : 95 | Sp.Def : 90 | Speed : 70

- Aggron (Steel/Rock)

Hp : 70 | Atk : 110 | Def : 180 | Sp.Atk : 60 | Sp.Def : 60 | Speed : 50 

- Slowbro (Water/Psychic)

Hp : 95 | Atk : 75 | Def : 110 | Sp.Atk : 100 | Sp.Def : 80 | Speed : 30 

- Chesnaught (Grass/Fighting)

Hp : 88 | Atk : 107 | Def : 122 | Sp.Atk : 74 | Sp.Def : 75 | Speed : 64 

b. Special

- Gothitelle (Psychic)

Hp : 70 | Atk : 55 | Def : 95 | Sp.Atk : 95 | Sp.Def : 110 | Speed : 65 

- Sylveon (Fairy)

Hp : 95 | Atk : 65 | Def : 60 | Sp.Atk : 110 | Sp.Def : 130 | Speed : 60 

- Suicune (Water)

Hp : 100 | Atk : 75 | Def : 115 | Sp.Atk : 90 | Sp.Def : 115 | Speed : 85

- Magnezone (Steel/Electric)

Hp : 70 | Atk : 70 | Def : 115 | Sp.Atk : 130 | Sp.Def : 90 | Speed : 60 

Mixed (only 2 that are very popular AFAIK)

- Rotom Wash (Electric/Water)

Hp : 50 | Atk : 65 | Def : 107 | Sp.Atk : 105 | Sp.Def : 107 | Speed : 86

- Clefable (Fairy)

Hp : 95 | Atk : 70 | Def : 73 | Sp.Atk : 95 | Sp.Def : 90 | Speed : 60 

- Moveset

Moveset for tanker are both offensive and defensive capability. Sometimes they can act as secondary support and carrying support moves. For dual types tanker, it's nice to have 2 attacking skill that get STAB. 1 slot moves for recovery ( Recover, Slack Off, Softboiled, Wish), and last move are depends. You can choose Protect, to help analyzing your opponents move, Taunt for stopping the wall and negate the sweeper to set up boosting moves, or use support skills like hazard and status ( stealth rock, spikes, toxic, thunder wave, will o  wisp). The role of tanker is to stop sweeper for destroying your entire team, so tanker must have tough defense and attacking moves to counter, because generally, many sweeper did'nt have good defense to take a blow.

- Items for Good Armor

Items for tanker has important role to keep your armor from breaking. Did'nt have many choices as sweeper because the top using items usually the only choices. So check this out!

- Leftovers

Recover your health for about 1/12 max Hp every turns. Great choice if your tanks have recovery moves

- Assault Vest

Raises Sp.def by 1.5 but only choose attacking moves. Good choice if you're playing offensive tanks

- Sitrus Berry

Recover 1/4 of your Hp if below 25% of total max Hp. Good for critical moment against strong sweeper

- Rocky Helmet

If you get attacked by physical hit, your enemy Hp reduces by 1/8. Items for trolling physical hitter

There are'nt many choices of items unlike sweeper, but it's enough to building the strong Panzer!