National Dex UU Mega Venusaur

[Yoko]

[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and useful ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and bulky offense teams, being able to wall targets like Meowscarada, Mega Altaria, and Serperior. It also has a solid offensive presence due to its very high Special Attack, which lets it 3HKO Pokemon like Keldeo and Iron Hands. Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, most notably Serperior, Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types, 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can cripple switch-ins like Latios and Chansey, and Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, threatening the likes of Slowbro, Hippowdon, and specially defensive Gastrodon. Leech Seed lets Mega Venusaur passively heal from Pokemon like Blissey. Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of entry hazards and heal in front of targets like Serperior that can't damage it heavily. This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Mega Venusaur, even with its ability, can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace that can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, so it appreciate defensive Pokemon like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with special attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates like Celesteela and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-Lu, Mew, and Iron Treads can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace. Mega Venusaur is very susceptible to being chipped by entry hazards so it appreciate entry hazard removal options like Excadrill, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. It is also chipped by sand and burns, so Pokemon that can take advantage of Tyranitar and Hippowdon, such as Excadrill, Keldeo, and Hisuian Lilligant, as well as Pokemon immune to burn like Cinderace and Iron Moth make good partners.

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and good useful ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and Bulky no need for caps offense teams thats also not passive lacks passivity imo due to its very high Special Attack. Specify what mons it is bulky enough to check/respond to, its lack of passivity also comes into play for ensuring you can 2HKO/OHKO some of them so do bounce off that. Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, 2HKOing most notably no need to specify the damage calc unless there's a very specific imperative to the MU, which there isn't unless specified Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb, 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can criple switch-ins like Latios, Chansey, and Slowbro, Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, 2HKOing threatening the likes of see above, would ideally summarize the precedent of the mu in general Slowbro and specially defensive Gastrodon., and Leech Seed lets it passively heal up from Pokemon like Sandy Shocks. Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from targets like Choice Band Meowscarada. Mega Venusaur perfers to run Overgrow pre-mega if running Giga Drain, which can let it 2HKO Tapu Fini. Definitely redundant given how hard you dominate this anw. This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Iron Hands and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur, even with its ability, can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, mentioning boosted hits would be cool here since it implies some depth on how they turn the MU against you, namely with Ledge and Ace clicking Sd, or tini using Celebrate + SP. making it appreciate defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates like Mega Latias and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu, Mew, and Iron Treads, can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace.

You need to emphasize its susceptibility to being chipped as a whole w/o passive recvery, whether or not that's through burns, u-turn chip, hazards, or sand limiting recovery, and what teammates matchup well against/cover the types of mons you see employing these tactics.

Gonna hold off 1/1 for the time-being as there's some important info I'd like to see mentioned and/or tweaked before uploading to GP. Lmk on the progress of this and I'll be down to check again.

 

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and good useful ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and Bulky no need for caps offense teams thats also not passive lacks passivity imo due to its very high Special Attack. Specify what mons it is bulky enough to check/respond to, its lack of passivity also comes into play for ensuring you can 2HKO/OHKO some of them so do bounce off that. Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, 2HKOing most notably no need to specify the damage calc unless there's a very specific imperative to the MU, which there isn't unless specified Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb, 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can criple switch-ins like Latios, Chansey, and Slowbro, Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, 2HKOing threatening the likes of see above, would ideally summarize the precedent of the mu in general Slowbro and specially defensive Gastrodon., and Leech Seed lets it passively heal up from Pokemon like Sandy Shocks. Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from targets like Choice Band Meowscarada. Mega Venusaur perfers to run Overgrow pre-mega if running Giga Drain, which can let it 2HKO Tapu Fini. Definitely redundant given how hard you dominate this anw. This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Iron Hands and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur, even with its ability, can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, mentioning boosted hits would be cool here since it implies some depth on how they turn the MU against you, namely with Ledge and Ace clicking Sd, or tini using Celebrate + SP. making it appreciate defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates like Mega Latias and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu, Mew, and Iron Treads, can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace.

You need to emphasize its susceptibility to being chipped as a whole w/o passive recvery, whether or not that's through burns, u-turn chip, hazards, or sand limiting recovery, and what teammates matchup well against/cover the types of mons you see employing these tactics.

Gonna hold off 1/1 for the time-being as there's some important info I'd like to see mentioned and/or tweaked before uploading to GP. Lmk on the progress of this and I'll be down to check again.

implemented these changes should be ready for a recheck

 

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and useful good ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and bulky offense teams, being able to wall targets like Meowscarada, Mega Altaria, and Serperior, it also lacks passivitiy due to its very high Special Attack, which can let it 2HKO Pokemon like Clefable. Again, you need to provide a more diverse example, rather than someone you dom anws, neutral example could work here instead. Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, most notably Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb, 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can cripple switch-ins like Latios, Chansey, and Slowbro. PDef Bro is already the most shaking pivot into it as is, would use a different item reliant example (pref one without recovery moves) as is Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, threatening the likes of Slowbro, Hippowdon, and specially defensive Gastrodon. Leech Seed lets it passively heal up from Pokemon like Sandy Shocks. Not the type of example I’d use personally, smth easily chippable like blobs works instead Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from targets like Choice Band Meowscarada. This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Mega Venusaur, even with its ablilty, ability, can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, making it appreciate defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates like Mega Latias Celesteela and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu, Mew, and Iron Treads, can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace. Mega Venusaur is very susceptible to being chipped through entry hazards and burns without any passive recovery, which can make it appreciate entry hazard removal like Excadrill, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. Not quite there on the big point about sand either, there’s other aspects such as mons that can take advantage of sand teams / setter, or even other teammates that can provide other ways of minimizing the chip Mvenu takes, which both need to be stated here.

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Looks better, implement carefully and depending on how it’s finished, this can pass as 1/1.

 

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and useful good ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and bulky offense teams, being able to wall targets like Meowscarada, Mega Altaria, and Serperior, it also lacks passivitiy due to its very high Special Attack, which can let it 2HKO Pokemon like Clefable. Again, you need to provide a more diverse example, rather than someone you dom anws, neutral example could work here instead. Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, most notably Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb, 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can cripple switch-ins like Latios, Chansey, and Slowbro. PDef Bro is already the most shaking pivot into it as is, would use a different item reliant example (pref one without recovery moves) as is Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, threatening the likes of Slowbro, Hippowdon, and specially defensive Gastrodon. Leech Seed lets it passively heal up from Pokemon like Sandy Shocks. Not the type of example I’d use personally, smth easily chippable like blobs works instead Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from targets like Choice Band Meowscarada. This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Mega Venusaur, even with its ablilty, ability, can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, making it appreciate defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates like Mega Latias Celesteela and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu, Mew, and Iron Treads, can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace. Mega Venusaur is very susceptible to being chipped through entry hazards and burns without any passive recovery, which can make it appreciate entry hazard removal like Excadrill, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. Not quite there on the big point about sand either, there’s other aspects such as mons that can take advantage of sand teams / setter, or even other teammates that can provide other ways of minimizing the chip Mvenu takes, which both need to be stated here.

[CREDITS] (ill add these later, also btw sorry if this analysis is too short im bad at writing about defensive mons)
Written by:
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Looks better, implement carefully and depending on how it’s finished, this can pass as 1/1.

implemented these changes, let me know if i should change up anything else:!
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[autumn]

Analyses don't need funny titles - that's not a requirement at all and not something you need to include if you don't have. If you have a title you want to use, then go for it (as long as the Pokemon name is in the threat title too for search reasons). If you don't have one, I wouldn't try to force it with overlong "I can't think of a title" titles because it can make the GP queue and archive forum confusing to follow if 2 threats are both listed as "insert title" for example. Ones like the Gangsta Spongebob one too (he is the goat I agree) can also be a bit too long/unnecessary and make finding the actual Pokemon name harder.

1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and useful ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and bulky offense teams, being able to wall targets like Meowscarada, Mega Altaria, and Serperior, it Serperior. It also lacks passivitiy has a solid offensive presence (it's better to say what it has rather than what it lacks) due to its very high Special Attack, (AC) which can let lets it 3HKO Pokemon like Keldeo and Iron Hands. ('can let' implies that it doesn't always 3hko, which idt is the point you're making) Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, most notably Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb (they all are so this is redunant/you don't need to explain the type chart), 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can cripple switch-ins like Latios and Chansey, and Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, threatening the likes of Slowbro, Hippowdon, and specially defensive Gastrodon. Leech Seed lets it Mega Venusaur passively heal up from Pokemon like Blissey. Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from entry hazards and heal in front of targets like Choice Band Meowscarada (that cannot damage it heavily?). This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Mega Venusaur, (AC) even with its ablility ability, (AC) can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which Cinderace that can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, making it appreciate so it appreciates defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers special attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates Pokemon like Celesteela and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu Ting-Lu, Mew, and Iron Treads (RC) can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace. Mega Venusaur is very susceptible to being chipped through by entry hazards, sandstorm. and burns, which can make it appreciate so it appreciates entry hazard removal options like Excadrill, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. It is also chipped by sand and burns, so Pokemon that can take advantage of Tyranitar and Hippowdon, such as Excadrill, Keldeo, and Hisuian Lilligant, as well as Pokemon immune to burn like Cinderace and Iron Moth make good partners. , Pokemon that can take advantage of Sand setters in Tyranitar and Hippowdon, like Excadrill, Keldeo, and Hisuian Lilligant, and Pokemon immune to burns like Cinderace and Iron Moth. (split this into multiple sentences because there's way too many separate ideas and lists for a reader to follow)

[CREDITS] (ill add these later)
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[Yoko]

Analyses don't need funny titles - that's not a requirement at all and not something you need to include if you don't have. If you have a title you want to use, then go for it (as long as the Pokemon name is in the threat title too for search reasons). If you don't have one, I wouldn't try to force it with overlong "I can't think of a title" titles because it can make the GP queue and archive forum confusing to follow if 2 threats are both listed as "insert title" for example. Ones like the Gangsta Spongebob one too (he is the goat I agree) can also be a bit too long/unnecessary and make finding the actual Pokemon name harder.

1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
Physically Defensive (Venusaur-Mega) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 152 Def / 104 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sludge Bomb
- Earth Power
- Knock Off / Giga Drain / Leech Seed
- Synthesis

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its amazing defenses, good coverage, and useful ablilty in Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur functions as a good physically defensive wall on balance and bulky offense teams, being able to wall targets like Meowscarada, Mega Altaria, and Serperior, it Serperior. It also lacks passivitiy has a solid offensive presence (it's better to say what it has rather than what it lacks) due to its very high Special Attack, (AC) which can let lets it 3HKO Pokemon like Keldeo and Iron Hands. ('can let' implies that it doesn't always 3hko, which idt is the point you're making) Sludge Bomb hits the plethora of Grass- and Fairy-types, most notably Tapu Fini, Clefable, and Mega Altaria. Earth Power provides coverage against Steel-types that are immune to Sludge Bomb (they all are so this is redunant/you don't need to explain the type chart), 2HKOing Iron Treads and Excadrill, and it can also be useful to hit targets like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Mega Tyranitar. Knock Off can cripple switch-ins like Latios and Chansey, and Giga Drain hits Water- and Ground-types, threatening the likes of Slowbro, Hippowdon, and specially defensive Gastrodon. Leech Seed lets it Mega Venusaur passively heal up from Pokemon like Blissey. Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of hazards, it can also let it heal up from entry hazards and heal in front of targets like Choice Band Meowscarada (that cannot damage it heavily?). This given EV spread allows Mega Venusaur to outspeed Choice Band Tyranitar. Mega Venusaur, (AC) even with its ablility ability, (AC) can have a hard time dealing with most Fire-types like Victini, Ceruledge, and Cinderace, which Cinderace that can potentially overwhelm it with their boosted attacks, making it appreciate so it appreciates defensive teammates like Gastrodon, Tapu Fini, and Skeledirge. Mega Venusaur also has a hard time dealing with Special Attackers special attackers like Alakazam and Choice Specs Hydreigon, making specially defensive teammates Pokemon like Celesteela and Chansey good teammates. Entry hazard setters like Ting-lu Ting-Lu, Mew, and Iron Treads (RC) can appreciate having Mega Venusaur as a teammate, as it can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Cinderace. Mega Venusaur is very susceptible to being chipped through by entry hazards, sandstorm. and burns, which can make it appreciate so it appreciates entry hazard removal options like Excadrill, Salamence, and Tapu Fini. It is also chipped by sand and burns, so Pokemon that can take advantage of Tyranitar and Hippowdon, such as Excadrill, Keldeo, and Hisuian Lilligant, as well as Pokemon immune to burn like Cinderace and Iron Moth make good partners. , Pokemon that can take advantage of Sand setters in Tyranitar and Hippowdon, like Excadrill, Keldeo, and Hisuian Lilligant, and Pokemon immune to burns like Cinderace and Iron Moth. (split this into multiple sentences because there's way too many separate ideas and lists for a reader to follow)

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tysm implemented ready for upload!:DD

 

[Pubo]

Synthesis can keep Mega Venusaur healthy in the face of entry hazards and heal in front of targets like Choice Band Meowscarada that cant damage it heavily.

Meowscarada -> Serperior (the cat just learned Triple Axel)

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