NFE Dragon Dance Scraggy [GP 0/1]

[5Dots]

[SET]
Dragon Dance (Scraggy) @ Eviolite
Ability: Shed Skin / Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature / Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- High Jump Kick / Drain Punch
- Knock Off
- Taunt

[SET COMMENTS]
Scraggy is one NFE's scariest setup sweepers, with its typing, stats, and Dragon Dance allowing it to steamroll teams after a boost. At +1 Speed, it can outrun opposing attackers like Monferno, Thwackey, and Gabite. +1 High Jump Kick is able to accomplish feats like OHKOing Monferno, non-Eviolite Thwackey, and having reasonable odds of OHKOing Pignite after Stealth Rock. Drain Punch sacrifices these damage thresholds for additional recovery and a better safety net. Knock Off rattles Fighting-resistant and -immune walls like Ivysaur, Hattrem, and Drakloak. Taunt disrupts walls like Tinkatuff, Koffing, and Ivysaur looking to lock Scraggy into unfavorable moves or trying to recover their health. Shed Skin provides a luck-reliant safety net against status-reliant Pokemon like Dunsparce, Drakloak, and Koffing, though Moxie can be used to make Scraggy even more frightening at late-game cleaning. A Jolly nature can be used over an Adamant nature to let Scraggy outspeed Raboot and Girafarig at +1 at the cost of sacrificing damage breakthroughs.

This Scraggy set is best used on offensive and hyper offensive builds as a mid- or late-game cleaner. Wallbreakers like Fraxure, Pignite, and Monferno are able to pressure Scraggy into switching out, preventing it from sweeping early, so walls to these threats like Tinkatuff, Seadra, and Quaxwell can be good as fallback options. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur can trade with Scraggy with relative ease via Neutralizing Gas and Knock Off, respectively, so Piloswine and Psychic-types like Girafarig and Hattrem can be good at forcing them out. Said Poison-types are also good for dealing with Clefairy; while rare, it is able to stave off both of Scraggy's STAB moves and rapidly wear it down with Night Shade. Scraggy also appreciates having Thunder Wave and dual screens support from utility Pokemon like Morgrem and Drakloak to make its sweeping capabilities easier. Other setup sweepers and wallbreakers like Fraxure, Gabite, and Thwackey can collaborate to overwhelm shared checks to either make Scraggy's sweeping job easier or to take advantage of Scraggy's wallbreaking themselves. Fletchinder can be troublesome thanks to Flame Body and Brave Bird; checks to it like Quaxwell and Hisuian Sliggoo are appreciated.

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[Mirbro]

QC 1/2; Good job buddy!!!!

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[SET]
Scraggy @ Eviolite
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- High Jump Kick / Drain Punch
- Knock Off
- Taunt

[SET COMMENTS]
Scraggy is one NFE's scariest setup sweepers, with its typing, stats, and Dragon Dance able to steamroll teams after a boost. At +1 Speed, it can outrun opposing attackers like Monferno, Thwackey, and Gabite. +1 High Jump Kick is able to accomplish feats like OHKOing Monferno, non-Eviolite Thwackey, and having reasonable odds of OHKOing Pignite after Stealth Rock. Knock Off rattles Fighting-resistant and -immune walls like Dusclops, Drakloak, and Hattrem. (Not sure if it is worth it, but maybe you could add some Poison types as well, as you mentioned Fighting-resistant) Taunt disrupts walls like Tinkatuff, Koffing and Ivysaur looking to lock it into unfavorable moves or trying to recover its health. Shed Skin provides a luck-reliant safety net against status-reliant Pokemon like Dunsparce and Drakloak (maybe other wow useres like Koffing? I mean, you could switch against that and not care about wow. Also Scraggy loves switching against Hattrem as does not care about Nuzzle long-term and Psychic). (You should also add somewhere else about Drain Punch, saying that for longevity and not risking HJK misses, Drain Punch is a second option even though the decrease on raw power means that it cannot get some KOs ranges and should go to a 2nd DD).

Scraggy is best suited for mid- to late-game cleaning. Wallbreakers like Fraxure, Pignite, and Monferno are able to pressure Scraggy into switching, preventing it from sweeping early, so walls to these threats like Tinkatuff, Seadra, and Quaxwell can be good as fallback options. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur can trade with Scraggy with relative ease, so Psychic-types like Girafarig and Hattrem can be good at forcing them out. (Piloswine is also a good option, being able to set up rocks, while threatening Fraxure with Ice Shard, and both Koffing and Ivysaur) While rare, Clefairy is able to stave off both of Scraggy's STAB moves and rapidly wear it down with Night Shade. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur are great for disrupting its walling capabilities through not only their STAB moves, but also Neutralizing Gas and Knock Off, respectively. Scraggy also appreciates having Thunder Wave and Screens support from utility Pokemon like Morgrem and Drakloak to make its sweeping capabilities easier. Other setup sweepers and wallbreakers like Fraxure, Gabite, and Thwackey can collaborate to overwhelm shared checks to either make Scraggy's sweeping job easier or to take advantage of Scraggy's breaking themselves. Scraggy also hates playing against Fletchinder bc of Brave Bird and short-term burns. I would add that and something that can switch against it and use it as setup fodder or w/e like water-types.

[SET CREDITS]
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[PandaDoux]

QC 2/2

[SET COMMENTS]
Scraggy is one NFE's scariest setup sweepers, with its typing, stats, and Dragon Dance able to steamroll teams after a boost. At +1 Speed, it can outrun opposing attackers like Monferno, Thwackey, and Gabite. +1 High Jump Kick is able to accomplish feats like OHKOing Monferno, non-Eviolite Thwackey, and having reasonable odds of OHKOing Pignite after Stealth Rock. Drain Punch sacrifices these damage thresholds for additional recovery and a better safety net. Knock Off rattles Fighting-resistant and -immune walls like Drakloak, Ivysaur, and Hattrem. Taunt disrupts walls like Tinkatuff, Koffing and Ivysaur looking to lock it into unfavorable moves or trying to recover its health. Shed Skin provides a luck-reliant safety net against status-reliant Pokemon like Dunsparce, Drakloak, and Dusclops. Adamant nature gives Scraggy more power, but Jolly outspeeds the likes of Raboot and Girafarig at +1.

Scraggy is best suited for mid- to late-game cleaning. This set is best used in HO type of teams Wallbreakers like Fraxure, Pignite, and Monferno are able to pressure Scraggy into switching, preventing it from sweeping early, so walls to these threats like Tinkatuff, Seadra, and Quaxwell can be good as fallback options. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur can trade with Scraggy with relative ease, so Piloswine and Psychic-types like Girafarig and Hattrem can be good at forcing them out. While rare, Clefairy is able to stave off both of Scraggy's STAB moves and rapidly wear it down with Night Shade. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur are great for disrupting its walling capabilities through not only their STAB moves, but also Neutralizing Gas and Knock Off, respectively. Put Poison-types mentions in one sentence Scraggy also appreciates having Thunder Wave and Screens support from utility Pokemon like Morgrem and Drakloak to make its sweeping capabilities easier. Other setup sweepers and wallbreakers like Fraxure, Gabite, and Thwackey can collaborate to overwhelm shared checks to either make Scraggy's sweeping job easier or to take advantage of Scraggy's breaking themselves. Fletchinder can be trouble some thanks to Flame Body and Brave Bird; checks to it like Quaxwell and Hisuian Sliggoo are appreciated.

This lacks a mention of Moxie, while not in the smogon dex set, i feel like it's fine for this set to quickly snowball the game, tho that makes it harder for Scraggy to find opportunities to setup. Maybe worth adding in Other Options?

Great job

 

[5Dots]

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[igiveuponaname]

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[SET]
set name here (Scraggy) (added parentheses) @ Eviolite
Ability: Shed Skin / Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature / Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- High Jump Kick / Drain Punch
- Knock Off
- Taunt

[SET COMMENTS]
Scraggy is one NFE's scariest setup sweepers, with its typing, stats, and Dragon Dance able to allowing it to steamroll teams after a boost. At +1 Speed, it can outrun opposing attackers like Monferno, Thwackey, and Gabite. +1 High Jump Kick is able to accomplish feats like OHKOing Monferno, non-Eviolite Thwackey, and having reasonable odds of OHKOing Pignite after Stealth Rock. Drain Punch sacrifices these damage thresholds for additional recovery and a better safety net. Knock Off rattles Fighting-resistant and -immune walls like Drakloak, (RC) Ivysaur, and Hattrem, (AC) and Drakloak. Taunt disrupts walls like Tinkatuff, Koffing, (AC) and Ivysaur looking to lock it Scraggy into unfavorable moves or trying to recover its their health. Shed Skin provides a luck-reliant safety net against status-reliant Pokemon like Dunsparce, Drakloak, and Dusclops, though Moxie can be used to make it Scraggy even more frightening at late-game cleaning. A Jolly nature can be used over an Adamant nature to let Scraggy outspeed Raboot and Girafarig at +1 at the cost of sacrificing damage breakthroughs.

This Scraggy set is best used on offensive and hyper offensive builds as a mid- to or late-game cleaner. Wallbreakers like Fraxure, Pignite, and Monferno are able to pressure Scraggy into switching out, preventing it from sweeping early, so walls to these threats like Tinkatuff, Seadra, and Quaxwell can be good as fallback options. Poison-types like Koffing and Ivysaur can trade with Scraggy with relative ease via Neutralizing Gas and Knock Off, respectively, so Piloswine and Psychic-types like Girafarig and Hattrem can be good at forcing them out. While rare, Clefairy is able to stave off both of Scraggy's STAB moves and rapidly wear it down with Night Shade. Scraggy also appreciates having Thunder Wave and Screens dual screens support from utility Pokemon like Morgrem and Drakloak to make its sweeping capabilities easier. Other setup sweepers and wallbreakers like Fraxure, Gabite, and Thwackey can collaborate to overwhelm shared checks to either make Scraggy's sweeping job easier or to take advantage of Scraggy's breaking walllbreaking themselves. Fletchinder can be troublesome (<- removed space) thanks to Flame Body and Brave Bird; checks to it like Quaxwell and Hisuian Sliggoo are appreciated.

[SET CREDITS]
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