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[SET]
Bulky Assault Vest (Rillaboom) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire / Water
EVs: 244 HP / 36 Atk / 4 Def / 220 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn / High Horsepower
[SET COMMENTS]

Set Details
========
- Rillaboom is a strong physical attacker and a flexible positional piece. Grassy Surge is able to power up its Grass-type attacks while giving its team passive recovery and Terrain control against Miraidon and Indeedee-F compositions. Its access to Fake Out and U-turn help partners set up and position safely. Its Grass-type STAB moves are valuable to hit the format's Water-types, such as Urshifu-R and Tera Water Calyrex-I.
- Rillaboom runs both Wood Hammer and Grassy Glide to give it access to both strong burst damage and a priority attack to pick off foes at low HP, such as Choice Scarf Urshifu and Calyrex-S. High Horsepower can also be run to hit Pokemon like Incineroar, Miraidon, and Raging Bolt, though it prefers to run U-turn to help the team position correctly and reset Fake Out pressure.
- Assault Vest patches up Rillaboom's mediocre Special Defense, allowing it to better take on special attackers such as Miraidon, Calyrex-S, and Kyogre. Its inability to use Protect is less relevant, as Rillaboom would often prefer to switch out when threatened in order to reset Fake Out pressure.
- The allocated bulk allows Rillaboom to survive Helping Hand Draco Meteor from Timid Choice Specs Miraidon in the Grassy Terrain or a +2 Astral Barrage from Life Orb or Tera Ghost Calyex-S. The Attack investment allows Rillaboom to OHKO bulky Flutter Mane with Wood Hammer.
- Tera Fire gives Rillaboom a resistance to the Ice and Fire-type attacks it was previously weak to, such as Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash, Calyrex-I's Glacial Lance, and Chi-Yu's Fire-type STAB moves. Tera Water gives similar defensive properties but doesn't leave Rillaboom weak to Calyrex-I's High Horsepower or Kyogre's Water-type STAB moves. In exchange, Tera Water Rillaboom gives up the immunity to getting burned and makes itself vulnerable against opposing Rillaboom.

Teambuilding
=========
- Calyrex-I, Koraidon, Ogerpon-H, Chi-Yu, and Chien-Pao all threaten to OHKO Rillaboom with their respective Fire and Ice-type attacks.
- Rillaboom does not threaten Zamazenta-C or Zacian-C, while both threaten significant damage back.
- Incineroar and Urshifu-R commonly pair with Rillaboom to form a Fire / Water / Grass core on balance teams. Incineroar and Urshifu-R are strong into the likes of Calyrex-I, Ogerpon-H, Chi-Yu, and Chien-Pao.
- Calyrex-S and Terapagos appreciate Rillaboom's Fake Out support to allow them to set up, while Terapagos especially appreciates Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain recovery resetting Tera Shell. Calyrex-S can also remove opposing Koraidon.
- Zamazenta-C appreciates Rillaboom's ability to remove physically bulky Water-types such as Urshifu-R and Tera-Water Calyrex-I, and it can protect Rillaboom from Glacial Lance thanks to Wide Guard. Zamazenta-C can also remove Chien-Pao to free up Rillaboom.

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Jesuuuus said:
[SET]
Bulky Assault Vest (Rillaboom) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire tera water has seen up to 18% usage; i feel like it's worth mentioning
EVs: 244 HP / 36 Atk / 4 Def / 220 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn / High Horsepower i don't really feel like this is worth mentioning - it's seen at most ~9% usage
[SET COMMENTS]

Set Details
========
- Rillaboom is a strong physical attacker and a flexible positional piece. Grassy Surge is able to power up its Grass-type attacks, while giving its team passive recovery and terrain control against Miraidon and Indeedee-F compositions. Its access to Fake Out and U-turn help partners set-up and position in safely. Its Grass STABs are valuable to hit the format's water types, such as Urshifu-R and Tera-water Calyrex-I. i would maybe add something like strong neutral hits for good chip here
- Rillaboom runs both Wood Hammer and Grassy Glide to give it access to both strong burst damage and a priority attack to pick off opponents at low HP, such as Choice Scarf Urshifu and Calyrex-S. High Horsepower can also be run to hit Pokemon like Incineroar, Miraidon and Raging Bolt.
- Assault Vest patches up Rillaboom's mediocre Special Defence, allowing it to better take on Special Attackers such as Miraidon, Calyrex-S and Kyogre. Its inability to Protect is less relevant as Rillaboom would often prefer to switch out when threatened in order to reset Fake Out.
- The allocated bulk allows Rillaboom to survive Helping Hand Draco Meteor from Timid Choice Specs Miraidon in the Grassy Terrain or a +2 Astral Barrage from Life Orb or Tera Ghost Calyex-S. The attack investment allows for Rillaboom to OHKO a bulky Flutter Mane.
- Tera Fire gives Rillaboom a resistance to the Ice and Fire-type attacks it was previously weak to, such as Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash, Calyrex-I's Glacial Lance and Chi-Yu's Fire-type STABs.

Teambuilding
=========
- Incineroar can freely switch into Rillaboom with Intimidate and Fake Out pressure.
- Calyrex-I can threaten Rillaboom with Glacial Lance and High Horsepower regardless if it Teras.
- Ogerpon-H, Chien-Pao, Chi-Yu and Koraidon all outspeed Rillaboom and threaten it with Fire and Ice-type attacks.
- Rillaboom cannot sufficiently threaten Steel-types such as Zamazenta-C and Zacian-C.
- Incineroar and Urshifu-R commonly pair with Rillaboom to form a Fire-Water-Grass core on balance teams.
- Calyrex-S and Terapagos appreciate Rillaboom's Fake Out support to allow them to set-up, while Terapagos especially appreciates Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain recovery resetting Tera Shell.
- Zamazenta-C appreciates Rillaboom's ability to remove physically bulky Water-types such as Urshifu-R and Tera-Water Calyrex-I, while it can also protect Rillaboom from Glacial Lance thanks to Wide Guard
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i feel like this can be more detailed or reworked into less bullet points (something like "rillaboom often struggles against steel- and fire-type pokemon, e.g. blablabla"
Jesuuuus said:
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no i do not know why smogon decided to split it into two different copyedits
 
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[SET]
Bulky Assault Vest (Rillaboom) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 244 HP / 36 Atk / 4 Def / 220 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn / High Horsepower

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Details
========
- Rillaboom is a strong physical attacker and a flexible positional piece. Grassy Surge is able to power up its Grass-type attacks, while giving its team passive recovery and terrain control against Miraidon and Indeedee-F compositions. Its access to Fake Out and U-turn help partners set-up and position in safely. Its Grass STABs are valuable to hit the format's water types, such as Urshifu-R and Tera-water Calyrex-I.
- Rillaboom runs both Wood Hammer and Grassy Glide to give it access to both strong burst damage and a priority attack to pick off opponents at low HP, such as Choice Scarf Urshifu and Calyrex-S. High Horsepower can also be run to hit Pokemon like Incineroar, Miraidon and Raging Bolt.(mention u-turn, why would I want to use it over High Horsepower?)
- Assault Vest patches up Rillaboom's mediocre Special Defence, allowing it to better take on Special Attackers such as Miraidon, Calyrex-S and Kyogre. Its inability to Protect is less relevant as Rillaboom would often prefer to switch out when threatened in order to reset Fake Out.
- The allocated bulk allows Rillaboom to survive Helping Hand Draco Meteor from Timid Choice Specs Miraidon in the Grassy Terrain or a +2 Astral Barrage from Life Orb or Tera Ghost Calyex-S. The attack investment allows for Rillaboom to OHKO a bulky Flutter Mane.
- Tera Fire gives Rillaboom a resistance to the Ice- and Fire-type attacks it was previously weak to, such as Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash, Calyrex-I's Glacial Lance, and Chi-Yu's Fire-type STABs.

Teambuilding
=========
- Incineroar can freely switch into Rillaboom with Intimidate and Fake Out pressure.
- Calyrex-I can threaten Rillaboom with Glacial Lance and High Horsepower regardless if it Teras.
- Ogerpon-H, Chien-Pao, Chi-Yu and Koraidon all outspeed Rillaboom and threaten it with Fire and Ice-type attacks.
- Rillaboom cannot sufficiently threaten Steel-types such as Zamazenta-C and Zacian-C. (You can combine these, checks don't all need to be 1 bullet I think)
- Incineroar and Urshifu-R commonly pair with Rillaboom to form a Fire-Water-Grass core on balance teams.
- Calyrex-S and Terapagos appreciate Rillaboom's Fake Out support to allow them to set-up, while Terapagos especially appreciates Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain recovery resetting Tera Shell.
- Zamazenta-C appreciates Rillaboom's ability to remove physically bulky Water-types such as Urshifu-R and Tera-Water Calyrex-I, while it can also protect Rillaboom from Glacial Lance thanks to Wide Guard.

[SET CREDITS]
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Implemented, not entirely sure what to do about High Horsepower and the alternate tera shouts. High Horsepower is not used much at all on current usage but it usually ends up as the 5th most common move on rillaboom. Tera Water and Tera Grass are seeing usage (single digit % wise), but again don't know if I should write about them. lemme know
 
2/2 nice work
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[SET]
Bulky Assault Vest (Rillaboom) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire / Water (has seen sufficient enough usage)
EVs: 244 HP / 36 Atk / 4 Def / 220 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn / High Horsepower (I would keep HHP here even if it hasn't been seeing amazing usage lately, I think you explain the use cases for and against it beautifully too ^•^)
[SET COMMENTS]

Set Details
========
- Rillaboom is a strong physical attacker and a flexible positional piece. Grassy Surge is able to power up its Grass-type attacks, while giving its team passive recovery and terrain control against Miraidon and Indeedee-F compositions. Its access to Fake Out and U-turn help partners set-up and position in safely. Its Grass STABs are valuable to hit the format's water types, such as Urshifu-R and Tera-water Calyrex-I.
- Rillaboom runs both Wood Hammer and Grassy Glide to give it access to both strong burst damage and a priority attack to pick off opponents at low HP, such as Choice Scarf Urshifu and Calyrex-S. High Horsepower can also be run to hit Pokemon like Incineroar, Miraidon and Raging Bolt, though it prefers to run U-turn to help the team position correctly and to reset Fake Out pressure.
- Assault Vest patches up Rillaboom's mediocre Special Defence, allowing it to better take on Special Attackers such as Miraidon, Calyrex-S and Kyogre. Its inability to Protect is less relevant as Rillaboom would often prefer to switch out when threatened in order to reset Fake Out.
- The allocated bulk allows Rillaboom to survive Helping Hand Draco Meteor from Timid Choice Specs Miraidon in the Grassy Terrain or a +2 Astral Barrage from Life Orb or Tera Ghost Calyex-S. The attack investment allows for Rillaboom to OHKO a bulky Flutter Mane.
- Tera Fire gives Rillaboom a resistance to the Ice and Fire-type attacks it was previously weak to, such as Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash, Calyrex-I's Glacial Lance and Chi-Yu's Fire-type STABs. (mention Tera water and how it does into the aforementioned attacks and beats Kyogre/Urshifu-R but struggles more into Miraidon and opposing Grasses)

Teambuilding
=========
- Calyrex-I, Koraidon, Ogerpon-H, Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao all threaten to OHKO Rillaboom with their respective Fire and Ice-types attacks.
- Rillaboom does not threaten Zamazenta-C or Zacian-C (and? Please elaborate on what said Pokemon do back aka big damage).
- Incineroar and Urshifu-R commonly pair with Rillaboom to form a Fire-Water-Grass core on balance teams. (mention how Incineroar and urshifu-r help into ogerpon, cir, chi-yu, chien-pao)
- Calyrex-S and Terapagos appreciate Rillaboom's Fake Out support to allow them to set-up, while Terapagos especially appreciates Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain recovery resetting Tera Shell. (Mention that CSR beats Koraidon)
- Zamazenta-C appreciates Rillaboom's ability to remove physically bulky Water-types such as Urshifu-R and Tera-Water Calyrex-I, while it can also protect Rillaboom from Glacial Lance thanks to Wide Guard. (mention that zama beats pao)

[SET CREDITS]
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[SET]
Bulky Assault Vest (Rillaboom) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fire / Water
EVs: 244 HP / 36 Atk / 4 Def / 220 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Fake Out
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn / High Horsepower
[SET COMMENTS]

Set Details
========
- Rillaboom is a strong physical attacker and a flexible positional piece. Grassy Surge is able to power up its Grass-type attacks, (RC) while giving its team passive recovery and Terrain control against Miraidon and Indeedee-F compositions. Its access to Fake Out and U-turn help partners set-up set up and position in safely. Its Grass STABs Grass-type STAB movess are valuable to hit the format's water types Water-types, such as Urshifu-R and Tera-water Tera Water Calyrex-I.
- Rillaboom runs both Wood Hammer and Grassy Glide to give it access to both strong burst damage and a priority attack to pick off opponents foes at low HP, such as Choice Scarf Urshifu and Calyrex-S. High Horsepower can also be run to hit Pokemon like Incineroar, Miraidon, (AC) and Raging Bolt, though it prefers to run U-turn to help the team position correctly and to reset Fake Out pressure.
- Assault Vest patches up Rillaboom's mediocre Special Defence Defense, allowing it to better take on special attackers such as Miraidon, Calyrex-S, (AC) and Kyogre. Its inability to use Protect is less relevant, (AC) as Rillaboom would often prefer to switch out when threatened in order to reset Fake Out pressure.
- The allocated bulk allows Rillaboom to survive Helping Hand Draco Meteor from Timid Choice Specs Miraidon in the Grassy Terrain or a +2 Astral Barrage from Life Orb or Tera Ghost Calyex-S. The Attack investment allows for Rillaboom to OHKO bulky Flutter Mane with Wood Hammer (Consulted with author on Discord).
- Tera Fire gives Rillaboom a resistance to the Ice- and Fire-type attacks it was previously weak to, such as Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash, Calyrex-I's Glacial Lance, (AC) and Chi-Yu's Fire-type STABs STAB moves. Tera Water gives similar defensive properties, (RC) but doesn't leave Rillaboom weak to Calyrex-I's High Horsepower or Kyogre's Water-type STABs STAB moves. In exchange, you give Tera Water Rillaboom gives up Tera Fire's the immunity to getting burned and make yourself makes itself vulnerable against to opposing Rillaboom.

Teambuilding
=========
- Calyrex-I, Koraidon, Ogerpon-H, Chi-Yu, (AC) and Chien-Pao all threaten to OHKO Rillaboom with their respective Fire- and Ice-types Ice-type attacks.
- Rillaboom does not threaten Zamazenta-C or Zacian-C, while both threaten significant damage back.
- Incineroar and Urshifu-R commonly pair with Rillaboom to form a Fire-Water-Grass Fire / Water / Grass core on balance teams. Incineroar and Urshifu-R are strong into the likes of Calyrex-I, Ogerpon-H, Chi-Yu, (AC) and Chien-Pao.
- Calyrex-S and Terapagos appreciate Rillaboom's Fake Out support to allow them to set-up set up, while Terapagos especially appreciates Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain recovery resetting Tera Shell. Calyrex-S can also remove opposing Koraidon.
- Zamazenta-C appreciates Rillaboom's ability to remove physically bulky Water-types such as Urshifu-R and Tera-Water Calyrex-I, while and it can also protect Rillaboom from Glacial Lance thanks to Wide Guard. Zamazenta-C can also remove Chien-Pao to free up Rillaboom.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/jesuuuus.627748/
Quality checked by:
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