complete support for scarf gyarados being a set in this analysis, i tested it for a while and it's really powerful under rain, plus a ton of people don't see it coming and attempt to stay in on it and try to get an attack off, that's when you pop em with the attack of your choice. just adding onto what super mario bro already stated, adamant nature is definitely better than jolly due to gyarados's speed being subpar anyways, the extra power is very desirable and frankly jolly doesn't do anything for you other than allow you to outspeed jolteon and aerodactyl, which are both really non-issues in this metagame. good support for scarf gyarados is a defensive forretress and specially defensive celebi core, forry keeps rocks up and tanks big physical attacks from stuff like terrakion while celebi eats up electric attacks and keeps gyarados intact vs stuff like keldeo that can actually provide a decent check to scarf gyara and hit hard back. it's not a scarfer in the traditional view of a bw2 scarfer, but more a late game sweeper that racks up attack boosts and plows through the opposing team. it helps that the most common scarfed revenge killer, keldeo, can't even 2hko under rain without hp electric.
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