[Monotype/Dragon] Kyurem-Black

Seo.

Nice guys always finish last...
[OVERVIEW]
**Dragon**

  • When looking at Kyurem-Black's outrageous Attack stat and its amazing stats in general, you can immediately tell that it is an offensive powerhouse, and great addition to dragon-teams.
  • Due to its typing, possesses the most dominant Outrage in the metagame, and great move pool, it barely has any switch-ins and can cripple many walls
  • Good Late game cleaner
  • Kyurem-Black can act as a wallbreaker due to its great mixed damage and decent special attack base stat, as it's capable of 2HKOing many bulky pokemon
  • Kyurem-Black is frequently forced to run a mixed set due to its lack of usable physical Ice-Type STAB moves
[SET]
name: Choice Scarf (Dragon)
move 1: Outrage
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Fusion Bolt
move 4: Iron Head
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Teravolt
nature: Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 32 SpA / 224 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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  • Ice Beam is a reliable STAB attack that has amazing coverage, hitting many Ground-, Flying-, and Dragon-types hard such as Landorus, Dragonite and Hippowdon.
  • Outrage is Kyurem-Black's main STAB move. It hits extremely hard thanks to Kyurem-Black's amazing Attack stat, and OHKO's or 2HKO's a very large portion of the offensive metagame such as Hoopa-Unbound and Victini.
  • Fusion Bolt gives Kyurem-Black perfect neutral coverage alongside Ice Beam and hits Water-types such as Azumarill and Slowbro, as well as cripples many Flying-types that are neutral to Ice like Mega Charizard Y and Gyarados for massive damage.
  • Iron head is used to check Fairy-types such as Mega Diancie, Gardevoir and Clefable.
Set Details
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  • 224 Speed EVs with a Naive nature allows it to just outspeed Choice Scarf Landorus-T and Mega Diancie. Naive is preferred over Hasty to preserve its Defense stat, allowing it to more easily take on most priority moves, and certainly preferred over Jolly, which weakens Ice Beam.
  • Maximum Attack investment increases the damage output of Kyurem-Black's physical attacks.
  • The remaining EVs go into Special Attack to boost the power of Ice Beam as much as possible, going as far as doubling its chances to 2HKO 0 Special Defense investment Skarmory.
  • Choice Scarf allows it to outspeed many unboosted Pokemon in the meta in which allows it to be a potential late game sweeper and a revenge killer.
  • Teravolt allows Kyurem-Black to ignore Mega Venusaur's Thick Fat to 2HKO with Ice Beam and ignore Dragonite's Multiscale to OHKO with Ice Beam or Outrage.
  • Naughty nature is a possibility simply because it gives Kyurem-B enough power to 2HKO Clefable with Iron Head and 2HKO Slowbro with Fusion Bolt. The EV spread should be changed to 252 Atk / 8 SpA / 248 Spe with Naughty to let it outspeed +1 Mega Gyarados, but Naive nature is always preferred as it needs all the Speed it can get.

Usage Tips
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  • Choice Scarf Kyurem-Black can be used as a late game sweeper as well as a revenge killer once a teammate faints.
  • It doesn't appreciate hazards like Stealth Rock, so removing it off your field before sending it in would be helpful.
  • Once Kyurem-Black is in shortage of health, be cautious against priority attackers as they revenge kill Kyurem-Black rather easily.
  • Having hazards on the opposing field is also appreciated by a sweeper like Kyurem-Black, making it easier to clean up certain checks such as Victini, Togekiss and opposing Kyurem-Blacks.
  • Against Flying, Kyurem-Black should quite honestly always use Ice Beam and ignore Fusion Bolt completely. Every good Flying team has an Electric immunity and Zapdos, both of which can take Fusion Bolts for free.
  • Kyurem-Black can act as a wallbreaker as well due to its great mixed damage, as it's capable of 2HKOing Chansey, Zapdos, Mega Venusaur, Hippowdon, and Mew.
  • Kyurem-Black needs to be careful of using Outrage while Steel-types, such as Cobalion or Heatran, and Fairy-types, such as Gardevoir and Azumarill, are alive, as they can take advantage of Kyurem-Black very easily.
  • Basically, Kyurem-Black's main role on dragon is to be used as both a revenge killer and a cleaner in the late-game.
Team Options
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  • Hazard removal such as Latios and Latias is needed for Kyurem-Black to switch in safely with a decent amount of health, and they are both switch-ins to Fighting-type attacks. Latias is especially good as a teammate because not only does it provide Defog but it also provides Healing Wish, potentially giving Kyurem-B a late-game chance to sweep.
  • A hazard setter such as Garchomp to set up stealth rock is appreciated by Kyurem-Black as a sweeper, making it easier to OHKO Mega Charizard-Y, Volcarona and Togekiss.
  • Hydreigon and Dragonite both have the ability to learn Fighting-, Ground- and Fire- coverage to counter things that resist Outrage, such as Heatran, Bisharp, Scizor and Skarmory.
  • Garchomp can deal with Steel-Types like Heatran, Bisharp, Forretress, Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor etc. if it has Fire Blast.
  • Kyurem-Black doesn't have that much Speed, so having another revenge killer is advisable and Choice Scarf Latios does this perfectly. Choice Scarf Latios outspeeds Choice Scarf Terrakion, Choice Scarf Victini, +2 Cloyster and Mega Swampert in rain, and more.
  • Kyurem-Black struggles against very bulky dedicated walls such as Mega Sableye and Porygon2, so having a wallbreaker to handle them, such as Choice Band Dragonite, is necessary.
  • Lastly, Assault Vest Goodra is the only Choice Scarf Latios switch-in, as it Lives 2 consecutive Draco Meteors, which otherwise revenge kills Kyurem-Black for free
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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**Dragon**
  • Earth Power can be used over Iron Head for coverage against Steel- and Fire-type Pokemon such as Heatran, Doublade, Bisharp, and Torkoal, but is generally not recommended as the loss in coverage is almost never worth it.
  • Dragon Claw can be used to hit certain Pokemon without having to risk the Outrage confusion or Switch-ins
  • Hidden Power Fire to cripple Pokemon such as Scizor and Ferrothorn
  • Draco Meteor if you want to lean more towards the special attacking side, new EV Spread would be 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe with a Mild nature or 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe with a Modest Nature
Checks and Counters
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**Dragon**


**Fairy-Types:** If not running Iron Head, Mega Diancie, Sylveon and Clefable all cripple Kyurem-Black
**Scizor:** Resists all of Kyurem-Blacks attacks and can get off a Superpower or Swords Dance/Bullet Punch
**Terrakion:** Scarf Terrakion revenge kills Kyurem-Black with Close Combat
**Victini:** When Stealth Rocks are up, V-Create has a chance to kill
**Latios:** Scarf Latios outspeeds Kyurem-Black and revenge kills it
 
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This needs a lot of work.

Hands down the best set on Dragon teams is mixed Life Orb, which you don't have a set for and you don't even put it in OO. Choice Scarf is only borderline viable on Dragon teams, its main use is on Ice teams. Dragon has atleast 5 better Choice Scarf users, and more than any type it loves Mixed Kyurem-B's wallbreaking abilities. I would even go so far as to say Choice Scarf shouldn't have its own set and should be left as an option in OO because of this, but it has like 60% usage on the ladder for some bizarre reason and I suppose it's still a viable set.

In addition, there's the Choice Band set that's still better than Choice Scarf, and of course SpD / Sub Roost that needs mentioning in OO. You don't mention anywhere in this entire analysis that it has a unique sub-typing that makes it the only Dragon-type in the game that takes Ice moves neutrally. You don't mention its bulk anywhere, you listed an outdated OU set for the Choice Scarf set that misses out on speed tying with other Kyurem-B and jolly Sharpedo for no reason, as the SpA investment literally never comes in handy; you're only using it vs Ground and Flying teams, and Gastrodon on the former will wall Ice Beam regardless of investment, and Ice Beam 2HKOs everything on Flying teams regardless of the investment.

Finally, you copied many lines that don't make sense over from the OU analysis : "Ice Beam is a reliable STAB attack that has amazing coverage in the OU metagame, hitting the various Ground-, Flying-, and Dragon-types hard." is said on the OU Choice Scarf set, and you say this nearly verbatim in your Choice Scarf set when it isn't even true, Ice Beam is only used in the Flying matchup and rarely in the Ground matchup when you're predicting Hippowdon (which nearly never switches into KyuB anyways)

Because of all this and how this will take the QC forever to actually check, QC Rejected 1/3

edit: you're free to start over on this with the three sets and words that are actually your own if you like, if not this needs reassigning
 
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Seo.

Nice guys always finish last...
Thanks for he feedback

Edit: am I able to switch this to Monotype Ice and fix the things that need fixing, then do the dragon one on a different thread once I finish
 
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