Pokemon #25-Durant

Durant is a Pokemon that was intoduced in Generation 5(Black,White).It is number 138 in the Unova Pokedex and number 632 in the National Pokedex.It is said that they attack in groups,covering themselves in steel armor to protect themselves from Heatmor.
Durant is a very cool Pokemon.It has decent stats,a big movepool,a good ability and a very useful typing.Durant is a Bug and Steel-type,a very common type but a very good one,both offensively and defensively.It has 58/112/48 on the defensive side(HP/Def/Sp.Def) and 109/48/109 on the offensive side(Att/Sp.Att/Spe).As you can tell,the Attack and the Speed stat are the main attractions of this Pokemon.It can get three abilities.Swarm,which increases the power of the Bug-type moves by 50% when its HP are below 1/3rd,Hustle,which boosts the power of the physical attacks by 50%,but making the average accuracy  80% and through the Dream World,Truant,which makes the user unable to attack consecutively turn after turn.The good ability that I mentioned earlier is Hustle and you will see in a bit why it's a good ability on Durant.Anyway,let's see some possible sets.

Choice
-Stone Edge
-X-Scissor
-Iron Head
-Crunch
Item:Choice Scarf/Choice Band
Ability:Swarm
EVs,Nature:
252 Attack,252 Speed,4 HP
Adamant(+Att,-Sp.Att)/Jolly(+Spe,-Sp.Att)

A pretty standard and easy-to-use set.If you go with Choice Band run max Speed,Jolly nature and if you go with Choice Scarf run max Attack,Adamant nature.Stone Edge hits Flying and Fire-types and with Durant's great Attack stat it can really hit hard.X-Scissor is STAB and a very useful move on the current metagame,with all these Psychic-types that are everywhere.Iron Head is your other STAB,not as useful as  X-Scissor but can work at certain times.Crunch is there for more type coverage and for hitting some common Ghosts like Jellicent and Gengar.

Set Up Ant
-Hone Claws
-X-Scissor
-Stone Edge
-Iron Head/Crunch
Item:Leftovers/Life Orb
Ability:Hustle
EVs,Nature:
252 Attack,252 Speed,4 HP
Jolly(+Spe,-Sp.Att)

This is why Hustle is the best of Durant's abilities.With Hone Claws raisest your Attack and your Accuracy.So having Hustle droping your accuracy and Hone Claws raising it,you have a great combo.So on the switch set up a Hone Claws and then if you feel sure go for a second or hit hard with Hustle and +1 in Attack.X-Scissor,like before,is your main STAB move and it's really strong with Hustle.Stone Edge is amazing in this set,not getting an accuracy drop from Hustle because already its accuracy is 80%,and getting a nice boost in accuracy from Hone Claws,plus all the Attack boosts from Hustle and Hone Claws.Iron Head like before can work occasionaly,while Crunch hits some certain Ghosts like Chandelure,Gengar or Jellicent that like to switch in.
Note:Durant can get Baton Pass,and with Hone Claws that can be a decent combo,but it never worked for me so I just mention it,in case you are wondering why I don't have a Baton Pass set.


Counters
Fire-type Pokemon are great,as Durant is 4 times weak to their Fire-type moves.So Pokemon like,Heatran,Infernape,Victini,Darmanitan,Emboar are awesome.Bulky Waters,like Swampert and Vaporeon are also great,being able to take hits all day and either 2HKO or force Durant out.In general,Durant's Special Defense is paper thin,so if you hit it on the Special side you won't have any troubles at all.

Cool Info:Durant and Heatmor appear to be rivals.