Quality Control Nasty Plot Darkrai [QC 1/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
tera type: Poison / Fighting
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner, gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat. Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, and Great Tusk that can take its Dark Pulse. Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey, the bulkiest special wall in the tier, however Focus Blast is held back by its accuracy making it inconsistent. Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity, granting Darkrai OHKOs on Offensive Volcarona and Gouging Fire with +2 Dark Pulse and an OHKO on max HP Great Tusk with unboosted Ice Beam, while Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained. Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy- and Fighting-type resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey at +2.

Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Zamazenta, as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu and Galarian Slowking, while Mixed Dragapult and Raging Bolt, especially with Taunt, can help break through Clodsire. Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant, Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Darkrai appreciates support from hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as their hazards and especially Spikes make Darkrai much more threatening, wearing down switchins like Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and Heatran, while Darkrai heavily pressures hazard removers like Great Tusk, Corviknight, and Cinderace. Hisuian Samurott and Landorus-T in particular have deeper synergy with Darkrai, Hisuian Samurott wears down Zamazenta particularly well and can switch into Darkrai checks like Blissey and Clodsire and set up Spikes with the switches it forces, while it can also Flip Turn to safely bring in Darkrai on physically defensive Pokemon like Corviknight, Dondozo, and Alomomola to gain free turns. Landorus-T is an excellent physical blanket check and can swap into threatening Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Booster Energy Great Tusk that can threaten Darkrai, and can use U-turn to bring in Darkrai safely on Pokemon like Gliscor and opposing Landorus-T.

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[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Ice Beam
item: Focus Sash / Life Orb (Could be worth changing this, Focus Sash seems like a relic of Hypnosis and this is no longer the disruption lead it used to be. Mentioned it in sets-and-spotlights for more thoughts on this but ya imo Life Orb > Sash and maybe even EBelt / Boots > Sash)
tera type: Poison / Fighting / Fairy
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent Nasty Plot (Just cleaning up since this is repeated in the next part of the sentence) Wallbreaker, gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat. Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, Great Tusk, and Ting Lu that can take its Dark Pulse. (This section should prob be rearranged to reflect slashing, so Focus Blast moved here. Also could be worth reordering slashing so the standard set isn't walled by Kingambit, so it'd be Focus Blast / Ice Beam? In which case Fblast description goes first, then Ice Beam, then Sludge Bomb) Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. (Could maybe cut this down to just Garg if you wanted to trim examples at all but idm) Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey, the bulkiest special wall in the tier, however Focus Blast is held back by its accuracy making it inconsistent. Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained, (Open to more discussion on this but ya I don't think Focus Sash is really that good rn) while Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity. (Are there any calcs in particular that Life Orb changes?) Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy and Fighting resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey.

Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Close Combat Zamazenta, (Tbh this can just be Zamazenta in general, Plot Darkrai teams would also pair well with IDef) as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu, Galarian Slowking, and Clodsire. (Clodsire is kinda the one thing that walls out Darkrai entirely, with even Life Orb Ice Beam failing to 2HKO. Could rephrase this somewhat to talking about how Pokemon like Raging Bolt instead help break Clodsire for Darkrai) Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant without Liquidation, (Liq Val hasn't been used in a while) Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated.

(Some mention of entry hazard partners like Samurott-H could be good here since it's an offense mon. Also, you could maybe talk about a couple bulky offense partners like Lando-T that can support it by bringing it in safely)

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Awesome work! Will take another look at this once implemented, since I suggested a couple potential set alterations that would be cool to discuss further before making any changes - lmk your thoughts on these!

 

[veti]

kd458 ready for recheck

 

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QC check, Nasty Plot Darkrai

[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Ice Beam / Focus Blast
(This might be a nitpick with how we do slashing, but would this be better ordering here? Since this already represents any combination of the 3 moves being usable, but Ice Beam is a main slash so it could be better to backslash FBlast to show the same information)
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
tera type: Poison / Fighting / Fairy (Can remove Fairy if you'd like - I notice it's not mentioned in the set description but I honestly think it's prob a good call to not mention it, unless you wanna keep it & have anything to add into the description about it)
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent wallbreaker, (Could change this to say it's a cleaner + wallbreaker or something like that? It's a good wallbreaker for sure, but the immediate power isn't that huge so it's not just breaking) gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat. Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, Great Tusk, and Ting Lu (Ting-Lu could prob be cut out here just to cut down on examples as 5 is a little much, since it's covered in the Focus Blast description and that hits it a good chunk harder) that can take its Dark Pulse. Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey, the bulkiest special wall in the tier, however Focus Blast is held back by its accuracy making it inconsistent. Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity, granting Darkrai OHKOs on Offensive Volcarona and Gouging Fire with +2 Dark Pulse, (Another solid example is the OHKO on max HP Tusk with unboosted Ice Beam but these examples are all fine too, just might be a cool mention since you talk about Darkrai being able to pressure Great Tusk later on) while Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained. Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy- and Fighting-type resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey. (Not super clear that this is at +2, could mention that it's after a Nasty Plot)

Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Zamazenta, as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu and Galarian Slowking, while Mixed Dragapult and Raging Bolt, especially with Taunt, can help break through Clodsire. Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant, Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Darkrai appreciates support from hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as their hazards and especially Spikes make Darkrai much more threatening, wearing down switchins like Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and Heatran, while Darkrai heavily pressures hazard removers like Great Tusk, Corviknight, and Cinderace. Hisuian Samurott and Landorus-T in particular have deeper synergy with Darkrai, Hisuian Samurott wears down Zamazenta particularly well and can switch into Darkrai checks like Blissey and Clodsire and set up Spikes with the switches it forces, while it can also Flip Turn into to safely bring in Darkrai when on physically defensive Pokemon like Corviknight, Dondozo, and Alomomola come in to force switches and safely use Nasty Plot. (Can cut this down a little, last part is good but also good to just get attacks off sometimes) Landorus-T is an excellent physical blanket check and can swap into threatening Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Booster Energy Great Tusk that can threaten Darkrai, and can use U-turn to bring in Darkrai safely on Pokemon like Corviknight, Gliscor, and opposing Landorus-T. (Suggested removing Corviknight here not since it's wrong but because it feels a little like repeated information, since the previous sentence mentions Samu-H bringing it on on Corvi too)

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Great work as always, QC 1/2 when implemented!

 

[veti]

implemented, ready for qc 2

 

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[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Ice Beam / Focus Blast
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Focus Blast
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
tera type: Poison / Fighting
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Darkrai is an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner, gaining many opportunities to use Nasty Plot due to its amazing base Speed and a diverse coverage movepool backed up with a good Special Attack stat. (Add a mention of its decent bulk, since that lets it setup nasty plot vs a number of passive Pokemon) Ice Beam hits Dragon- and Ground-Type Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Roaring Moon, Gliscor, and Great Tusk that can take its Dark Pulse. Sludge Bomb hits Fairy-types like Clefable, Iron Valiant, Primarina, and Enamorus, in addition to Pokemon that commonly use Tera Fairy like Gouging Fire, Gholdengo, and Garganacl. Focus Blast tears through bulky Dark-types like Ting Lu and Kingambit as well as Blissey,(RC) the bulkiest special wall in the tier, however Focus Blast is held back by its accuracy making it inconsistent. (This info in unneeded. Also would add an additional sentence mentioning Psyshock as another option. I have seen a few Darkrai run it to snipe both Blissey and Clodsire in one slot. ) Life Orb gives Darkrai a ton of power at the cost of longevity, granting Darkrai OHKOs on Offensive Volcarona and Gouging Fire with +2 Dark Pulse and an OHKO on max HP Great Tusk with unboosted Ice Beam, while Focus Sash turns Darkrai into an emergency check to Booster Energy Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Roaring Moon if its Focus Sash is maintained. (Separate into 2 sentences talking about each item individually.) Tera Poison boosts Darkrai's Sludge Bomb and allows it to avoid revenge killing attempts from Iron Valiant and Zamazenta thanks to the Fairy- and Fighting-type resistances it gains. Tera Fighting can be used to power up Focus Blast to extreme levels of power, becoming Darkrai's strongest viable move, notably being able to OHKO Ting Lu at +2 after Stealth Rock, and combined with a Life Orb, gives Darkrai a chance to outright OHKO Blissey at +2.

Darkrai's wallbreaking capabilities are useful on offensively oriented teams, having strong synergies with other Dark-types like Roaring Moon and Kingambit and other special attackers like Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona. Roaring Moon and Kingambit pair with Darkrai to overwhelm or lure shared checks like Zamazenta and Iron Valiant while gaining opportunities to wallbreak by switching into each others counters. Darkrai's Bad Dreams is an excellent ability for punishing Dondozo's Rest, further enhancing its synergy with Kingambit and Roaring Moon as well as other physical Pokemon like Gouging Fire and Zamazenta, as a swap to Darkrai as Dondozo comes in to wall will result in Bad Dreams chip without burning a sleep turn. Raging Bolt, Dragapult, and Volcarona appreciate Darkrai's excellence of breaking through balance teams, tearing through walls like Ting-Lu and Galarian Slowking, while Mixed Dragapult and Raging Bolt, especially with Taunt, can help break through Clodsire. Bulky Volcarona is a particularly excellent partner that can handle Iron Valiant, Zamazenta without Stone Edge, and Deoxys Speed, while Dragapult provides a stop to Zamazenta and can lure Kingambit with Will-O-Wisp if Darkrai isn't running Focus Blast. Darkrai can be used as setup fodder by Volcarona if it hasn't already gotten a Nasty Plot, so checks like Roaring Moon with Tera, Dragonite, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Darkrai appreciates support from hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as their hazards and especially Spikes make Darkrai much more threatening, wearing down switch-(AH)ins like Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and Heatran, while Darkrai heavily pressures hazard removers like Great Tusk, Corviknight, and Cinderace. Hisuian Samurott and Landorus-T in particular have deeper synergy with Darkrai, Hisuian Samurott wears down Zamazenta particularly well and can switch into Darkrai checks like Blissey and Clodsire and set up Spikes with the switches it forces, while it can also Flip Turn to safely bring in Darkrai on physically defensive Pokemon like Corviknight, Dondozo, and Alomomola to gain free turns. (This sentence has pretty good info, but I don't find Samurott-H to have a particularly favorable MU vs Zamazenta, nor does it help Darkrai much in handling it. If anything, Samurott-H's presence makes it easier for ID + BP Zamazenta to sweep. I would mention an alternative Pokemon like Primarina in its place as a mon that Samurott-H helps Darkrai wear down.) Landorus-T is an excellent physical blanket check and can swap into threatening Fighting-types like Zamazenta and Booster Energy Great Tusk that can threaten Darkrai, and can use U-turn to bring in Darkrai safely on Pokemon like Gliscor and opposing Landorus-T. (Add Tinkaton and Iron Treads as additional partners. Both can help with some attackers Darkrai can struggle with, such as Raging Bolt and Deo-S, provide rocks support and a Fairy resist, and other utilities, such as Encore and Spin, respectively. Gholdengo is a good partner for similar reasons and should also be mentioned, sacrificing some utility in favor of being a fantastic check to Zamazenta, which Darkrai can struggle with. A few Pokemon to threaten Primarina, such as Rillaboom, could also be mentioned. I think AV Primarina itself is a good partner for other Primarina, Iron Valiant, Deo-S + bringing Darkrai in safely with Flip Turn, so its also worth mentioning as a partner. )

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Didn't have much to add here. QC 2/2 when implemented. Good Job.