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Sawk
"don't fuck with me nigga, I'm a 10th degree Black Belt!"
[Overview]
- Looks tougher than a regular Martial Arts fighter
- Single type in Fighting, both advantages and disadvantages
- Base 85 Speed, which is on the upper end of NU
- Base 125 Attack, among the highest in NU
- STAB Close Combat will hurt
- Great Wallbreaker in NU
[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Reversal
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Jolly / Adamant
evs: 252 ATK / 4 DEF / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Absurdly powerful
- Close Combat nukes pretty much anything that doesn't resist or is immune to it
- Stone Edge to hit Ghost-Types like Missy and Poisons like Weezing
- Earthquake to nail Garbador and grounded Poisons and Electrics
- Reversal for when sturdy gets activated, essentially breaking through whatever mon that activates Sturdy (sans resistances and ghosts)
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Max attack to hit hard
- max speed and nature to outspeed Magmortar, other Sawk, CB Braviary, Skuntank and Absol
- Adamant nature allows Sawk the chance to 2hko Tangela after rocks
- does not like hazards, Cryogonal, Armaldo make good spin supporters.
- Needs support in the formes of sponging hits (Licky, Camerupt, Misdreavus, Alomomola, Golem, Lairon to name some) and burns (Magmortar, Camerupt, Emboar, Flareon) so it can keep doing its job
- Toxic as a sort of last stand, however Reversal does a fuck-ton to pretty much anything that doesn't resist it
[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Sturdy
nature: Jolly / Adamant
evs: 252 ATK / 4 DEF / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Close Combat for STAB and hitting a ton of mons
- Stone Edge for flyers, bugs and ghosts like misdreavus
- Earthquake for grounded Fires and Poisons
- Toxic to nail physical walls as a last resort (before death)
- Jolly Scarf outspeeds Scarf Braviary and Scarf Maggy, two mons that could otherwise outright kill neu nature Sawk
- Adamant Scarf outspeeds Jolly Swellow and +natured base 74 and lower (no base 73's in NU which is the actual benchmark), has use if Magmortar and Braviary are not major threats
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Misses out on many KOs that the band set otherwise achieves easily
- Great late game cleaner and general revenge killer
- still packs a punch even without anything boosting its attack
- doesn't mind hazards as much as the band set, but still needs to be aware of getting burned by Misdreavus or other Will-O-wispers, So mons like Magmortar and Camerupt do that well. Is also fearful of Para's because they ruin the use of the set, Grounds and Lightningrod mons help with Twave / Tbolt / Discharge while Missy doesn't need to worry about Bslamers (sans kanga and miltank).
- Reversal as a late game power move, works beautifully if Sturdy is activated due to outspeeding a large chunk of NU.
[Other Options]
- Its movepool is among the slimmest in NU
- Poison Jab to fuck Eggy and Tangela
- Bulk Up to try and boost attack, but overall defenses will be a major hindrance (and Gurdurr does it 300x better)
- Fist Plate to bluff a Choice Band, but the lack of power with other moves might miss a few key KOs.
- Fist Plate + Fling, although it throws the power of boosted CCs away to hit a select few mons in the tier, it can clear a path for Sawk to clean up later.
- Sawk is too fast to use counter, and generally would prefer to attack instead of trying to wall hits
[Checks & Counters]
- Musharna is the biggest check, able to shrug off any of Sawks attacks and simply OHKO back with Psychic after rocks damage
- Weezing walls Close Combats all day and can WoW, too. Difference is that Weezing doesn't give a shit about Stone Edge (26.3% max) and can kill back with Fire Blast.
- Physically Defensive Misdreavus avoids the 3hko against stone edge and can WoW Sawk, effectively crippling it. Missy also doesn't care about toxic as she can just Heal Bell it away.
- Choice Scarfers like Rotom-S and Haunter can come in and revenge (especially with CC drops) easily, while totally outspeeding Sawk. Band can be outsped by many more mons, due to the lower speed.
- Physically Defensive Eggy full on counters CB Sawk, while any other Eggy can easily kill CS sawk with Psychic
- Wynaut can kill off Sawk, but practically dies in the process
- Sturdy makes it difficult to outright kill Sawk, this can be remedied by Hazards, but most of the aforementioned checks and counters can take care of Sawk by themselves due to access to recovery (to an extent with some) and / or overall power.
- Sawk is difficult to identify, but when Sawk is discovered to be Scarfed many more checks open up. Quagsire, Shelgon, and Physically Defensive Torterra counter it, while offensive mons like Samurott, Marowak, Fraxure can tank one hit and easily OHKO back (marowak not giving a hoot about sturdy due to Bonemerang).
[Unreleased]
- Mold Breaker makes Sawk a lot more unpredictable.
- Comes down to preference between living a OHKO hit or punching through sturdymons and levitators
- Haunter isn't a check anymore and neither are any levitators (Weezing) sans Misdreavus. Sawk can also punch through the Sturdy Stealth Rock setters of NU (Golem, Probo, Regi, Bastio)
Sawk 'em Boppers! Sawk 'em Boppers! Sawk 'em Boppers!
Sawk
"don't fuck with me nigga, I'm a 10th degree Black Belt!"
[Overview]
- Looks tougher than a regular Martial Arts fighter
- Single type in Fighting, both advantages and disadvantages
- Base 85 Speed, which is on the upper end of NU
- Base 125 Attack, among the highest in NU
- STAB Close Combat will hurt
- Great Wallbreaker in NU
[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Reversal
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Jolly / Adamant
evs: 252 ATK / 4 DEF / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Absurdly powerful
- Close Combat nukes pretty much anything that doesn't resist or is immune to it
- Stone Edge to hit Ghost-Types like Missy and Poisons like Weezing
- Earthquake to nail Garbador and grounded Poisons and Electrics
- Reversal for when sturdy gets activated, essentially breaking through whatever mon that activates Sturdy (sans resistances and ghosts)
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Max attack to hit hard
- max speed and nature to outspeed Magmortar, other Sawk, CB Braviary, Skuntank and Absol
- Adamant nature allows Sawk the chance to 2hko Tangela after rocks
- does not like hazards, Cryogonal, Armaldo make good spin supporters.
- Needs support in the formes of sponging hits (Licky, Camerupt, Misdreavus, Alomomola, Golem, Lairon to name some) and burns (Magmortar, Camerupt, Emboar, Flareon) so it can keep doing its job
- Toxic as a sort of last stand, however Reversal does a fuck-ton to pretty much anything that doesn't resist it
[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Sturdy
nature: Jolly / Adamant
evs: 252 ATK / 4 DEF / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Close Combat for STAB and hitting a ton of mons
- Stone Edge for flyers, bugs and ghosts like misdreavus
- Earthquake for grounded Fires and Poisons
- Toxic to nail physical walls as a last resort (before death)
- Jolly Scarf outspeeds Scarf Braviary and Scarf Maggy, two mons that could otherwise outright kill neu nature Sawk
- Adamant Scarf outspeeds Jolly Swellow and +natured base 74 and lower (no base 73's in NU which is the actual benchmark), has use if Magmortar and Braviary are not major threats
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Misses out on many KOs that the band set otherwise achieves easily
- Great late game cleaner and general revenge killer
- still packs a punch even without anything boosting its attack
- doesn't mind hazards as much as the band set, but still needs to be aware of getting burned by Misdreavus or other Will-O-wispers, So mons like Magmortar and Camerupt do that well. Is also fearful of Para's because they ruin the use of the set, Grounds and Lightningrod mons help with Twave / Tbolt / Discharge while Missy doesn't need to worry about Bslamers (sans kanga and miltank).
- Reversal as a late game power move, works beautifully if Sturdy is activated due to outspeeding a large chunk of NU.
[Other Options]
- Its movepool is among the slimmest in NU
- Poison Jab to fuck Eggy and Tangela
- Bulk Up to try and boost attack, but overall defenses will be a major hindrance (and Gurdurr does it 300x better)
- Fist Plate to bluff a Choice Band, but the lack of power with other moves might miss a few key KOs.
- Fist Plate + Fling, although it throws the power of boosted CCs away to hit a select few mons in the tier, it can clear a path for Sawk to clean up later.
- Sawk is too fast to use counter, and generally would prefer to attack instead of trying to wall hits
[Checks & Counters]
- Musharna is the biggest check, able to shrug off any of Sawks attacks and simply OHKO back with Psychic after rocks damage
- Weezing walls Close Combats all day and can WoW, too. Difference is that Weezing doesn't give a shit about Stone Edge (26.3% max) and can kill back with Fire Blast.
- Physically Defensive Misdreavus avoids the 3hko against stone edge and can WoW Sawk, effectively crippling it. Missy also doesn't care about toxic as she can just Heal Bell it away.
- Choice Scarfers like Rotom-S and Haunter can come in and revenge (especially with CC drops) easily, while totally outspeeding Sawk. Band can be outsped by many more mons, due to the lower speed.
- Physically Defensive Eggy full on counters CB Sawk, while any other Eggy can easily kill CS sawk with Psychic
- Wynaut can kill off Sawk, but practically dies in the process
- Sturdy makes it difficult to outright kill Sawk, this can be remedied by Hazards, but most of the aforementioned checks and counters can take care of Sawk by themselves due to access to recovery (to an extent with some) and / or overall power.
- Sawk is difficult to identify, but when Sawk is discovered to be Scarfed many more checks open up. Quagsire, Shelgon, and Physically Defensive Torterra counter it, while offensive mons like Samurott, Marowak, Fraxure can tank one hit and easily OHKO back (marowak not giving a hoot about sturdy due to Bonemerang).
[Unreleased]
- Mold Breaker makes Sawk a lot more unpredictable.
- Comes down to preference between living a OHKO hit or punching through sturdymons and levitators
- Haunter isn't a check anymore and neither are any levitators (Weezing) sans Misdreavus. Sawk can also punch through the Sturdy Stealth Rock setters of NU (Golem, Probo, Regi, Bastio)