AuthorReborn

How hard does Physical Phero Jab hit Xerneas for? Like one of the biggest reasons Pheromosa is powerful like Genosect is you MUST discover it's set before you can switch into it period.

I didn't say that you should switch your Xern in on the thing, I'm simply stating that it can set-up on Phero and handle it, a task which would be ill advised for say, Genesect.

For reference, 252+ Atk Choice Band Pheromosa Poison Jab vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Xerneas: 312-368 (79.3 - 93.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Completely uninvested Xern (something that is highly unlikely to see) lives Banded Adamant 252 Phero's Poison Jab unless Xern is poisoned and even then Xern will survive if it was a low roll. Obviously don't switch Xerneas in on Pheromosa, as there are incredibly few Pokemon in existence who can safely do that, but Xerneas is a Pokemon that should always be brought in safely anyways so it can survive the turn it needs to set up a Geomancy. 

I will admit, however, that Poison Jab Pheromasa slipped my mind when I wrote my previous post. Your point on scouting out the set before safely switching is still a valid one, but I do feel that it will still be outclassed in Ubers as the vast majority of teams run some form of priority to handle dangerous Pokemon that have already set up or would be normally impossible to outspeed, like Deoxys-S, for instance. 

Oh ye, I was mostly asking that out of curiousity XD. Pheromosa has really really silly coverage moves. ((and does crazy weird things like run Fightnuim-Z etc etc cause it doesn't need scarf...))

I can understand the skeptism though, the issue with Phero is it's so weighted on the offensive side that it's a super high risk reward pokemon so it's really hard to judge it on paper since so much of it's power is the mind games you can play with it. ((similar to Genosect really.))