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Both of Garchomp’s currently maintained Generation 9 OU spreads hit that ceiling exactly [ 7 ] . The Swords Dance set — 252 Attack, 4 Special Defense, 252 Speed — totals 508 invested points and buys 63+1+63 = 127 stat points, banking the mathematically unavoidable two-point remainder entirely inside the single four-point Special Defense allocation rather than scattering it. The defensive TankChomp set — 252 HP, 216 Defense, 40 Speed — also totals 508 and also buys 63+54+10 = 127 points, the identical ceiling reached through a completely different three-way split. Two independently written, independently reviewed sets, built around opposite goals, both land on the one number a closed-form…
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Both of Garchomp’s currently maintained Generation 9 OU spreads hit that ceiling exactly [ 7 ] . The Swords Dance set — 252 Attack, 4 Special Defense, 252 Speed — totals 508 invested points and buys 63+1+63 = 127 stat points, banking the mathematically unavoidable two-point remainder entirely inside the single four-point Special Defense allocation rather than scattering it. The defensive TankChomp set — 252 HP, 216 Defense, 40 Speed — also totals 508 and also buys 63+54+10 = 127 points, the identical ceiling reached through a completely different three-way split. Two independently written, independently reviewed sets, built around opposite goals, both land on the one number a closed-form count says is the best that 510 points can ever do. That is not two data points confirming a vague intuition. It is two independent, currently-maintained pieces of community output matching an exact integer this article derived from the formula alone, before either spread was checked against it.
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