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Even pendulums swing both ways
[OVERVIEW]
[SET]
name: Revenge Killer
move 1: Fake Out
move 2: Extreme Speed
move 3: Boomburst
move 4: Work Up / Baton Pass
item: Silk Scarf
ability: Adaptability
nature: Rash
evs: 156 Atk / 252 SpA / 100 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Extreme Speed
move 3: Shadow Ball / Dark Pulse
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Adaptability
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Checks and Counters
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**Ghost-types**: Most Ghost types in general, such as Gengar, Doublade, and Hoopa-C are very difficult for Porygon-Z to get around, and are generally strong switch-ins to Porygon-Z. Most of Porygon-Z's sets are easily walled by Sableye and its mega, due to Porygon-Z's inability to hit Sableye for super-effective damage or with its Adaptability boosted STABs.
**Fake Out + Extreme Speed**: Fake Out + Extreme Speed abusers, such as Stoutland, Ursaring, and Braviary, can come in and revenge kill Porygon-Z in almost all circumstances.
**Faster Pokemon and Choice Scarf users**: Landorus-T, Garchomp, and Keldeo can outspeed and KO Porygon-Z, while scarfed versions of such give Scarf Porygon-Z problems. Jirachi, Terrakion, and Tyranitar can switch in on one of Porygon-Z's weaker attacks, such as Fake Out, and force it out, or in the case of Tyranitar, Pursuit Trap Porygon-Z.
- Porygon-Z boasts the most powerful Boomburst in the tier, backed by Adaptability and base 135 Special Attack.
- Despite having a relatively low base Attack of 90, it can run mixed sets very well due to the power boost provided by Adaptability.
- Fake Out + Extreme Speed provides very high utility for an otherwise mediocre matchup against faster foes.
- Porygon-Z's Speed of 90 allows it to outspeed many common bulky foes, allowing it to KO many of these with its powerful attacks.
- Despite a good base Special Attack stat, its coverage moves tend to be on the weaker side, allowing specially bulky Normal-type resists and Ghost-types to wall most sets.
- Porygon-Z has rather poor bulk, making it difficult to take hits against more offensive teams; most strong, neutral attacks will KO.
- While it's speed is enough to outspeed bulky foes, many common offensive mons outspeed it, making it slightly less effective against offensive teams.
- Aside from a few unfortunate flaws, Porygon-Z is an extremely threatening mon in the STABmons metagame due to its extreme power.
[SET]
name: Revenge Killer
move 1: Fake Out
move 2: Extreme Speed
move 3: Boomburst
move 4: Work Up / Baton Pass
item: Silk Scarf
ability: Adaptability
nature: Rash
evs: 156 Atk / 252 SpA / 100 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Fake Out provides first-turn priority that is unstoppable barring Protect and its variants, providing heavy chip damage with little opportunity cost.
- Extreme Speed is a powerful priority move, and paired with Fake out, allows Porygon-Z to revenge many top-tier threats.
- Boomburst is the most spammable move on the set, possessing massive power with base 135 Special Attack and Adaptability.
- Work Up provides a means of boosting both Attack and Special Attack, allowing Porygon-Z to sweep many balanced teams at a moment's notice. Baton pass provides the ability to pivot out of checks, while Swords Dance, Nasty Plot, Shadow Ball, and Dark Pulse are all decent options.
Set Details
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- The EV spread is invested in max Special Attack, allowing it to 2HKO threats such as Specially Defensive Ferrothorn at +1, with enough speed to outspeed fully invested base 60s, such as Sylveon.
- 188 speed EVs can be used to outspeed positive base-70s, such as Volcanion, and max Attack can make this set a much more efficient revenge killer.
- A Rash nature allows it to maximize its Special Attack without sacrificing more of its already low physical bulk, allowing it to tank a Fake Out or two in a pinch.
- Adaptability makes Porygon-Z a very powerful wallbreaker, boosting it's normal-type STAB from 1.5x to 2x.
- Silk Scarf is chosen for a recoil-less 1.2x boost to all its attacks, due to using only Normal-type moves.
Usage Tips
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- This Porygon-Z serves as both a Wallbreaker and a Revenge-Killer, picking off weakened foes while abusing the raw power of Boomburst to get past many resists.
- Work Up is an option against passive mons, and allows Porygon-Z to hit even harder, 2HKOing Chansey and Specially Defensive Ferrothorn while allowing it to OHKO offensive threats such as Thundurus with Extreme Speed.
- Porygon-Z's lack of bulk means it shouldn't be switching in very often, and it often struggles to set up as a result.
- The Normal-type only moveset leaves Porygon-Z completely walled by ghosts, so as long as ghost types are in play, Porygon-Z is not very useful.
Team Options
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- Porygon-Z is very powerful once it gets set up, requiring very little team support, but its lack of bulk means that free turns are required to set up. Partners that give free turns, such as Celebi, slow U-turn, parting shot, volt switch, and Spore users pair well with Porygon-Z.
- Despite its ability to sweep teams with ease, Ghost-types completely wall this set. As a result, Pursuit trappers such as Tyranitar and Weavile make good partners.
- Sableye is a major problem for this set and pursuit trappers, so Fairy-types like Sylveon that can switch into Sableye are also great team support, and they help sponge Fighting-type attacks.
- A sponge for opposing Fake Out + Extreme Speed is also appreciated, making Mega Slowbro, Skarmory, and Landorus-T good partners.
[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Extreme Speed
move 3: Shadow Ball / Dark Pulse
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Adaptability
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Boomburst is the go-to option that will be clicked almost every time, due to its extreme wallbreaking power and the inability for offense to switch-in with a Choice Scarf equipped.
- Trick is used to allow Porygon-Z to play well against more bulky teams, preventing it from getting locked into a move while doing so to an opponent, potentially giving Porygon-Z a nice item such as Leftovers in the process.
- Shadow Ball hits most of the tier's Ghost-types for decent damage.
- Dark Pulse is an option over Shadow Ball, still hitting most of the tier's Ghost-types without being walled by Normal-types while locked into Shadow Ball.
- The last move is entirely up to preference; Adaptability Extreme Speed, although unboosted, does decent damage in a pinch.
Set Details
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- The EV spread is standard, maximized in both Special Attack and Speed to do tons of damage as quickly as possible.
- A Timid nature is used to outspeed Scarf Excadrill and Adamant Scarf Kyurem-Black, allowing Porygon-Z to hit both of them hard before they can retaliate.
- Choice Scarf boosts Porygon-Z's mediocre speed by 1.5x, and helps it compete with the many fastmons in the tier. Porygon-Z's tendency to spam Boomburst mitigates the opportunity cost of being locked into one move.
Usage Tips
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- This Porygon-Z set favors a predominantly hit-and-run playstyle, with the capability to clean late-game.
- Scarf Porygon-Z appreciates the ability to switch in and out for free, so attempt to get it free switches to mitigate its longevity.
- Despite its high speed, this Porygon-Z set generally is better used as a wallbreaker than a revenge killer due to the immense power of Boomburst and its inability to outpace other revenge killers.
- This set struggles with many common special walls in this metagame, such as Chansey, but with proper prediction, can cripple them by tricking them a Choice Scarf.
- Despite having Shadow Ball, this set still struggles while Ghost-types such as Sableye are in play.
- Always switch out of Fake Out + Extreme Speed, as Porygon-Z is easily killed by powerful priority.
Team Options
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- Scarf Porygon-Z appreciates the ability to switch in and out for free, so partners that can give slow pivots such as Celebi are appreciated, as are teammates that switch into common revenge killers, such as Mega Slowbro.
- Teammates that switch into common special tanks like Chansey and Mega Scizor, such as Landorus-T, are useful for assisting Porygon-Z in performing its role.
- Porygon-Z does not particularly appreciate hazards, as they damage its longevity and ability to take Fake Out + Extreme Speed from some opponents, so some form of hazard control is appreciated.
- Reliable switch-ins to Sableye are also appreciated; Choice Specs Keldeo takes advantage of Sableye while forming an extremely threatening wallbreaking core with Porygon-Z.
- Rapid Spin is an option for clearing hazards in a pinch, and can also be used as filler on the Choice Scarf set. Explosion is an option on both sets; it's raw power doing absurd amounts of damage to non-Ghost-types.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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- Porygon-Z's raw power makes it a force to be reckoned with, due to Adaptability and the very wide Normal-type movepool, and consequently, many sets are viable.
- Double Dance, using Agility and Nasty Plot, is very threatening to teams without priority to revenge kill Porygon-Z, despite the fact that setting up can be difficult.
- Choice Specs has obscene raw power as soon as it enters the battle, and with free switches provided will guarantee kills, being able to 2HKO even Specially Defensive Ferrothorn.
- Using a Pixie Plate and Judgment allows Porygon-Z to threaten Sableye and its Mega, one of the most threatening checks to Porygon-Z.
- Full Physical is generally not a recommended set, but Porygon-Z does have enough raw power to pull off a basic Fake Out + Extreme Speed set with physical attack investment rather than mixed.
Checks and Counters
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**Ghost-types**: Most Ghost types in general, such as Gengar, Doublade, and Hoopa-C are very difficult for Porygon-Z to get around, and are generally strong switch-ins to Porygon-Z. Most of Porygon-Z's sets are easily walled by Sableye and its mega, due to Porygon-Z's inability to hit Sableye for super-effective damage or with its Adaptability boosted STABs.
**Fake Out + Extreme Speed**: Fake Out + Extreme Speed abusers, such as Stoutland, Ursaring, and Braviary, can come in and revenge kill Porygon-Z in almost all circumstances.
**Faster Pokemon and Choice Scarf users**: Landorus-T, Garchomp, and Keldeo can outspeed and KO Porygon-Z, while scarfed versions of such give Scarf Porygon-Z problems. Jirachi, Terrakion, and Tyranitar can switch in on one of Porygon-Z's weaker attacks, such as Fake Out, and force it out, or in the case of Tyranitar, Pursuit Trap Porygon-Z.
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