Quality Control Fast Swords Dance Kingambit [QC:1/2]

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[SET]
Fast Swords Dance (Kingambit) @ Black Glasses / Chople Berry / Lum Berry
Ability: Supreme Overlord
Level: 50
SPs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature / Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Sucker Punch
- Kowtow Cleave
- Low Kick / Iron Head


[SET COMMENTS]

Kingambit shines as one of the most threatening sweepers, differentiating itself from its other bulky set as being able to out speed walls such as Corviknight, Clefable, and Primarina at the cost of reduced bulk. Low Kick allows it to deal massive damage to Hisuian Samurott and Hydreigon, and if Kingambit opts for a Jolly Nature, it is able to outspeed and OHKO opposing Kingambit. However Iron Head hits Fairy-type Pokemon such as Clefable, Primarina, and OHKOs Hatterene. Adamant boosts Kingambit's damage output further, however Jolly should exclusively be used with Low Kick, enabling it to out speed and eliminate opposing Kingambit. Black Glasses boosts Kingambit's power, allowing it to OHKO Multiscale Dragonite with Kowtow Cleave at +2 and five fainted allies as well as OHKO Meowscarada with Sucker Punch at +2 and five fainted allies. Chople Berry allows Kingambit to survive a Fighting-type attack from Pokemon such as Annihilape, Aegislash, and Hisuian Samurott. Lum Berry enables it to negate status from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Dragapult, and Rotom-Wash.

Kingambit is featured on offense teams due to its immense late game sweeping potential, alongside its defensive utility. Physical wallbreakers such as Mega Metagross, Hisuian Samurott, and Ceruledge are appreciated to weaken shared checks such as Corviknight and defensive Garchomp. In return, Kingambit is able to check revenge killers like Choice Scarf Hydreigon and Meowscarada. Entry hazard setters such as Glimmora and Garchomp can set Stealth Rock to weaken its checks like Corviknight and Skarmory as well as putting threats such as Mega Absol Z into Sucker Punch range. Dark-type Pokemon such as Hisuian Samurott and Mega Absol Z form as great offensive partners, being able to overwhelm Dark resists such as Quaquaval and opposing Hisuian Samurott.

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[SET]
Fast Swords Dance (Kingambit) @ Black Glasses / Chople Berry / Lum Berry
Ability: Supreme Overlord
Level: 50
SPs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature / Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Sucker Punch
- Kowtow Cleave
- Low Kick / Iron Head


[SET COMMENTS]

Kingambit shines as one of the most threatening sweepers, thanks to its unique defensive profile being able to check threats like Dragapult and Aegislash, alongside its immense power. Instead of repeating what the bulky set already says (and is more apt at doing), I would highlight what the fast variant does over the bulky one; else there would be no reason to play it, especially when you're bound to repeat what the bulky variant analysis says in the teammates section. Feel free to have a long explanation on that as well: this will be almost the only place where your analysis can differentiate itself from the bulky set's one! Sucker Punch serves as Kingambit's priority, mitigating it's unimpressive speed while threatening Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Dragapult, and Mega Absol Z. Readers are expected to know to some degree, even if only a little bit, what the analyses up above on the smogdex said as well: in this case the bulky set, which runs Sucker Punch for the same reason. While it is up to the writer's and the qc team's discretion when to take that into account, I believe this is one of such cases as both sets are very similar. Low Kick alongside a Jolly Nature allows it to OHKO opposing Kingambit This way of explaining Low Kick is only valid if Jolly is the main nature over Adamant, as Low Kick is the main option over Iron Head; Jolly nature is also not the reason why Low Kick OHKOes Kingambit. , as well as deal significant damage to Hydreigon and Hisuian Samurott. However Iron Head hits Fairy-type Pokemon such as Clefable, Primarina, and Mega Floette Given that Mega Floette does 80% min with Moonblast, it is rarely relevant... . Adamant boosts Kingambit's damage output further, however Jolly should exclusively be used with Low Kick, enabling it to out speed and eliminate opposing Kingambit. Black Glasses boosts Kingambit's power, allowing it to OHKO Multiscale Dragonite with Kowtow Cleave at +2 and five fainted allies as well as OHKO Meowscarada with Sucker Punch at +2 and five fainted allies. Chople Berry allows Kingambit to survive a Fighting-type attack from Pokemon such as Annihilape, Aegislash, and Hisuian Samurott. Lum Berry enables it to negate status from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Dragapult, and Rotom-Wash.

Kingambit is featured on offense teams due to its immense late game sweeping potential, alongside its defensive utility. Physical wallbreakers such as Mega Metagross, Hisuian Samurott, and Ceruledge are appreciated to weaken shared checks such as Corviknight and defensive Garchomp. In return, Kingambit is able to check revenge killers like Choice Scarf Hydreigon and Meowscarada. Entry hazard setters such as Glimmora and Garchomp can set Stealth Rock to weaken its checks like Corviknight and Skarmory as well as putting threats such as Mega Absol Z into Sucker Punch range, while also defensively checking Pokemon like Cinderace and Blaziken. Dark-type Pokemon such as Hisuian Samurott and Mega Absol Z form as great offensive partners, being able to overwhelm Dark resists such as Quaquaval and opposing Hisuian Samurott. In exchange, Kingambit is able to eliminate Fairy-type Pokemon like Clefable. Iron Head is only a secondary option. Clefable walls Kingambit if it runs Low Kick, especially if it has Unaware. Kingambit can struggle dealing with Fire-type Pokemon such as Blaziken and Cinderace, with the latter also being able to neutralize Kingambit with burn. Therefore, Water-types such as Rotom-Wash and Primarina serve as valuable teammates, with both also being helpful against Ground-type Pokemon like Garchomp and Hippowdon. In return, Kingambit is able to handle special walls such as Galarian Slowking.

While the teammates section is great, I would like you to make it shorter, even if that means skipping a few points and important teammates for similar reasons as what I explained in the first paragraph, that being the teammates section being 99% similar to the bulky set.

Great work. Sorry if I ask for a lot, but this is a little bit of a special case. Feel free to DM me on here or Discord if you have any questions or need guidance.

 

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