[SET]
name: Bulky Band
move 1: High Jump Kick
move 2: Payback
move 3: Outrage / Poison Jab
move 4: Head Smash / Poison Jab
item: Choice Band
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
EVs: 240 HP / 248 Atk / 20 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
High Jump Kick and Payback are Scrafty's STAB moves and main sources of damage output. Payback paired with Scrafty's low Speed allows it to use the boosted 100 Base Power in the majority of its matchups. Head Smash heavily damages the Flying- and Bug-types like Gyarados and Centiskorch against which Scrafty normally struggles, and Outrage hits Dragon-types such as Haxorus and Choice Scarf Dracovish as hard as possible. Poison Jab is another option for coverage and can be used with an alternative spread of 232 HP / 196 Atk / 60 SpD / 20 Spe to survive a Moonblast from uninvested Whimsicott and OHKO it in return. Intimidate helps matchups against physical Pokemon like Jirachi. Scrafty's biggest weakness are Fairy-types and users of Fairy-type attacks like Zeraora and Arcanine. Because of Scrafty’s low Speed and 4x weakness to Fairy, it is often OHKOed by them before it can attack. 20 Speed EVs let Scrafty outspeed uninvested Grimmsnarl and OHKO it with High Jump Kick. 240 HP EVs let Scrafty tank Choice Band Haxorus's Close Combat and Choice Specs Dragapult's Draco Meteor. The rest of the EVs are put into Attack for maximum damage output.
Scrafty loses to almost all Fairy-type Pokemon, so Scrafty's best partners are Steel- and Poison-type Pokemon that fare well against Fairy-types. Steel-type Pokemon such as Aegislash and Jirachi are good partners for Scrafty because they also check Fighting-types such as Sawk and Terrakion. Poison-type Pokemon like Toxtricity synergize well with Scrafty because they cover Fairy-types and Scrafty checks most Psychic- and Ground- types. Scrafty is a good teammate for Pokemon that struggle with Dark- and Ghost- type Pokemon such as Hydreigon, Dragapult, and Chandelure. It also works well with Pokemon such as Tyranitar and Whimsicott that are weak against prominent physical attackers like Galarian Darmanitan and Haxorus, due to Scrafty having Intimidate and very good Defense.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Inkreativ, 475087]]
- Quality checked by: [[AllFourtyOne, 457210], [Nalei, 302951]]
- Grammar checked by: [[A Cake Wearing A Hat, 388157]]
name: Bulky Band
move 1: High Jump Kick
move 2: Payback
move 3: Outrage / Poison Jab
move 4: Head Smash / Poison Jab
item: Choice Band
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
EVs: 240 HP / 248 Atk / 20 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
High Jump Kick and Payback are Scrafty's STAB moves and main sources of damage output. Payback paired with Scrafty's low Speed allows it to use the boosted 100 Base Power in the majority of its matchups. Head Smash heavily damages the Flying- and Bug-types like Gyarados and Centiskorch against which Scrafty normally struggles, and Outrage hits Dragon-types such as Haxorus and Choice Scarf Dracovish as hard as possible. Poison Jab is another option for coverage and can be used with an alternative spread of 232 HP / 196 Atk / 60 SpD / 20 Spe to survive a Moonblast from uninvested Whimsicott and OHKO it in return. Intimidate helps matchups against physical Pokemon like Jirachi. Scrafty's biggest weakness are Fairy-types and users of Fairy-type attacks like Zeraora and Arcanine. Because of Scrafty’s low Speed and 4x weakness to Fairy, it is often OHKOed by them before it can attack. 20 Speed EVs let Scrafty outspeed uninvested Grimmsnarl and OHKO it with High Jump Kick. 240 HP EVs let Scrafty tank Choice Band Haxorus's Close Combat and Choice Specs Dragapult's Draco Meteor. The rest of the EVs are put into Attack for maximum damage output.
Scrafty loses to almost all Fairy-type Pokemon, so Scrafty's best partners are Steel- and Poison-type Pokemon that fare well against Fairy-types. Steel-type Pokemon such as Aegislash and Jirachi are good partners for Scrafty because they also check Fighting-types such as Sawk and Terrakion. Poison-type Pokemon like Toxtricity synergize well with Scrafty because they cover Fairy-types and Scrafty checks most Psychic- and Ground- types. Scrafty is a good teammate for Pokemon that struggle with Dark- and Ghost- type Pokemon such as Hydreigon, Dragapult, and Chandelure. It also works well with Pokemon such as Tyranitar and Whimsicott that are weak against prominent physical attackers like Galarian Darmanitan and Haxorus, due to Scrafty having Intimidate and very good Defense.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Inkreativ, 475087]]
- Quality checked by: [[AllFourtyOne, 457210], [Nalei, 302951]]
- Grammar checked by: [[A Cake Wearing A Hat, 388157]]
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