[SET]
name: Bulky Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fiery Dance / Flamethrower
move 3: Morning Sun
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Dragon / Fairy / Water
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 HP / 104 Def / 152 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Volcarona makes great use of Quiver Dance and its solid defensive profile, checking Pokemon like Weavile, Meowscarada, and Iron Valiant, and it combines them with its decent longevity bolstered by Morning Sun to force switches and gain free opportunities to set up and sweep. The occasional Special Attack raises provided by Fiery Dance can add to Volcarona’s boosts and increase its sweeping potential, while Flamethrower is a more consistent and powerful alternative with more PP to assist in the long run. Tera Blast can be used as a surprise coverage move after Terastillizing but can also be used as a neutral move before Terastillizing for Fire-resistant Pokemon such as Gouging Fire. Tera Dragon gives Volcarona several powerful resistances, such as to Water, which helps against Barraskewda and rain, and Fire, which helps against Cinderace and opposing Volcarona; it also gives it a Tera Blast that hits most Pokemon neutrally and threatens Dragon-types like Kyurem, Dragonite, and Gouging Fire. Tera Fairy, in addition to being a solid defensive typing that also threatens Dragon-types, gives Volcarona a Dragon immunity to avoid attacks from Dragapult and Raging Bolt and resist Sucker Punch from Kingambit, as well as a way to solidly damage Ting-Lu. Tera Water is a powerful defensive option that gives Volcarona a threatening attack against the likes of Heatran and opposing Volcarona and a strong matchup against rain teams. Alternative Tera options are Ground, to improve Volcarona's matchup against Fire-types like Heatran and Poison-types like Clodsire, Toxapex, and Galarian Slowking and give it an immunity to Thunder Wave, and Grass, which is strong against bulky Water-types like Primarina and Hisuian Samurott. This set should run Giga Drain instead of Tera Blast for added longevity. Heavy-Duty Boots is a must-have for Volcarona to cover for its 4x weakness to Stealth Rock. 152 Speed EVs allow Volcarona to outspeed Great Tusk and Gholdengo as well as Zamazenta and Dragapult after a boost from Quiver Dance, while the remaining EVs are invested into HP and Defense to make Volcarona bulky enough to survive attacks from Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Enamorus, and Meowscarada that it otherwise couldn’t.
Volcarona’s ability to set up and sweep is always useful for helping teams make progress, but bulky Volcarona specifically is able to help its team by checking physical attackers throughout the game. Flame Body can cripple attackers like Kingambit and Dragonite on the switch in and can force them out from fear of being burned. This opens up teammates like Kyurem and Walking Wake to play more aggressively. Entry hazard setters like Glimmora and Great Tusk also appreciate Volcarona's ability to threaten Pokemon that try to use Rapid Spin with a burn. Dual screen setters like Deoxys-S and Alolan Ninetales are able to boost Volcarona's defenses significantly, giving it more opportunities to set up and sweep. Volcarona is also useful on sun teams, supporting Pokemon like Roaring Moon and Walking Wake with boosted Fire-type attacks as well as helping defensively against rain teams with Tera Water and picking off Deoxys-S and Iron Valiant with a sun-boosted Flamethrower. Volcarona is unable to make progress against special walls like Clodsire and Blissey; a Pokemon like Gholdengo are able to assist with Psyshock and immunity to moves like Toxic and Thunder Wave. Powerful physical cleaners like Weavile and Choice Band Meowscara are also useful for this purpose and synergize well with Volcarona. Other Unaware walls like Dondozo are also unaffected by Volcarona’s sweeping potential; wearing these threats down with hazards from Pokemon like Gliscor and Hisuian Samurott is extremely important in helping Volcarona sweep late-game. Weavile, Hisuian Samurott, and Meowscarda also help against Dondozo with Knock Off, discarding its Heavy-Duty Boots so that it can be worn down by entry hazards. Galarian Slowking is particularly difficult for Volcarona to deal with, especially if it's running Tera Fairy; powerful Pokemon that match up well against it like Kingambit, Roaring Moon, and Dragonite are important to chip it down and force it out.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nichalho.359575/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/dreadfury.408271/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/zastra.558636/
Grammar checked by:
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name: Bulky Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fiery Dance / Flamethrower
move 3: Morning Sun
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Dragon / Fairy / Water
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 HP / 104 Def / 152 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Volcarona makes great use of Quiver Dance and its solid defensive profile, checking Pokemon like Weavile, Meowscarada, and Iron Valiant, and it combines them with its decent longevity bolstered by Morning Sun to force switches and gain free opportunities to set up and sweep. The occasional Special Attack raises provided by Fiery Dance can add to Volcarona’s boosts and increase its sweeping potential, while Flamethrower is a more consistent and powerful alternative with more PP to assist in the long run. Tera Blast can be used as a surprise coverage move after Terastillizing but can also be used as a neutral move before Terastillizing for Fire-resistant Pokemon such as Gouging Fire. Tera Dragon gives Volcarona several powerful resistances, such as to Water, which helps against Barraskewda and rain, and Fire, which helps against Cinderace and opposing Volcarona; it also gives it a Tera Blast that hits most Pokemon neutrally and threatens Dragon-types like Kyurem, Dragonite, and Gouging Fire. Tera Fairy, in addition to being a solid defensive typing that also threatens Dragon-types, gives Volcarona a Dragon immunity to avoid attacks from Dragapult and Raging Bolt and resist Sucker Punch from Kingambit, as well as a way to solidly damage Ting-Lu. Tera Water is a powerful defensive option that gives Volcarona a threatening attack against the likes of Heatran and opposing Volcarona and a strong matchup against rain teams. Alternative Tera options are Ground, to improve Volcarona's matchup against Fire-types like Heatran and Poison-types like Clodsire, Toxapex, and Galarian Slowking and give it an immunity to Thunder Wave, and Grass, which is strong against bulky Water-types like Primarina and Hisuian Samurott. This set should run Giga Drain instead of Tera Blast for added longevity. Heavy-Duty Boots is a must-have for Volcarona to cover for its 4x weakness to Stealth Rock. 152 Speed EVs allow Volcarona to outspeed Great Tusk and Gholdengo as well as Zamazenta and Dragapult after a boost from Quiver Dance, while the remaining EVs are invested into HP and Defense to make Volcarona bulky enough to survive attacks from Pokemon like Raging Bolt, Enamorus, and Meowscarada that it otherwise couldn’t.
Volcarona’s ability to set up and sweep is always useful for helping teams make progress, but bulky Volcarona specifically is able to help its team by checking physical attackers throughout the game. Flame Body can cripple attackers like Kingambit and Dragonite on the switch in and can force them out from fear of being burned. This opens up teammates like Kyurem and Walking Wake to play more aggressively. Entry hazard setters like Glimmora and Great Tusk also appreciate Volcarona's ability to threaten Pokemon that try to use Rapid Spin with a burn. Dual screen setters like Deoxys-S and Alolan Ninetales are able to boost Volcarona's defenses significantly, giving it more opportunities to set up and sweep. Volcarona is also useful on sun teams, supporting Pokemon like Roaring Moon and Walking Wake with boosted Fire-type attacks as well as helping defensively against rain teams with Tera Water and picking off Deoxys-S and Iron Valiant with a sun-boosted Flamethrower. Volcarona is unable to make progress against special walls like Clodsire and Blissey; a Pokemon like Gholdengo are able to assist with Psyshock and immunity to moves like Toxic and Thunder Wave. Powerful physical cleaners like Weavile and Choice Band Meowscara are also useful for this purpose and synergize well with Volcarona. Other Unaware walls like Dondozo are also unaffected by Volcarona’s sweeping potential; wearing these threats down with hazards from Pokemon like Gliscor and Hisuian Samurott is extremely important in helping Volcarona sweep late-game. Weavile, Hisuian Samurott, and Meowscarda also help against Dondozo with Knock Off, discarding its Heavy-Duty Boots so that it can be worn down by entry hazards. Galarian Slowking is particularly difficult for Volcarona to deal with, especially if it's running Tera Fairy; powerful Pokemon that match up well against it like Kingambit, Roaring Moon, and Dragonite are important to chip it down and force it out.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nichalho.359575/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/dreadfury.408271/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/zastra.558636/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/solarbeam.470115/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/autumn.384270/
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