OU Venusaur

[Rabia]

[SET]
name: Chlorophyll Sweeper
move 1: Growth
move 2: Sludge Bomb
move 3: Weather Ball
move 4: Giga Drain
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Venusaur under sun is one of the most potent offensive threats available thanks to the boost in Speed provided by its ability, Growth, and its solid coverage. Furthermore, Venusaur's great matchup against common defensive Pokemon like Seismitoad, Sylveon, and Gastrodon gives it plenty of opportunities to set up with Growth. With sun support, Venusaur's Weather Ball gives it coverage for Steel-types such as Corviknight, Aegislash, and Ferrothorn. Although sun provides Venusaur with a single-turn Solar Beam, Giga Drain is preferred to stave off Life Orb recoil and let it take resisted hits from Pokemon like Seismitoad more frequently, although Earth Power is a possible alternative to hit Toxapex and Bulletproof Kommo-o harder and give Venusaur a way to hit Steel-types outside of sun. Once set-up, Venusaur is hard to stop; however, proper prediction is key to avoid the opponent stalling sun turns.

Torkoal is mandatory alongside Venusaur; it sets sun and also provides Stealth Rock, which helps to wear down the opposing team. Other Pokemon that can take advantage of the sun, such as Darmanitan, also make good teammates, helping break through checks such as Kommo-o, Rotom-H, and Mandibuzz early-game for Venusaur to clean. Dugtrio and Mandibuzz are also great teammates; Dugtrio deals with Toxapex so it can't remove Venusaur's boosts with Haze and potentially stall sun turns, while Mandibuzz gives sun teams Defog support and a check to threatening attackers like Dragapult and Hydreigon.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Rabia, 336073]]
- Quality checked by: [[curiosity, 443485], [Jordy, 395754]]
- Grammar checked by: [[lotiasite, 302985]]

 

[Rabia]

yes

 

[curiosity]

Torkoal is mandatory alongside Venusaur; it sets sun and also provides Stealth Rock. Other Pokemon that can take advantage of the sun, such as Darmanitan and Cinderace, also make good teammates, helping wallbreak early-game for Venusaur to clean.

It's definitely worth mentioning that both of these help wear down shared checks in Kommo-o, Rotom-H, and Mandibuzz to an extent for Venu to go aboslutely insane. Kommo-o in particular since that thing is absolutely obnoxious to wear down and is obviously fantastic for it to actually clean.

Other than that, everything looks solid. QC 1/2

 

[Rabia]

It's definitely worth mentioning that both of these help wear down shared checks in Kommo-o, Rotom-H, and Mandibuzz to an extent for Venu to go aboslutely insane. Kommo-o in particular since that thing is absolutely obnoxious to wear down and is obviously fantastic for it to actually clean.

Other than that, everything looks solid. QC 1/2

yes

 

[Jordy]

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[SET]
name: Chlorophyll Sweeper
move 1: Growth
move 2: Giga Drain
move 3: Sludge Bomb
move 4: Weather Ball
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Venusaur under sun is one of the most potent offensive threats available thanks to the boost in Speed provided by its ability, Growth, and its solid coverage. Furthermore, Venusaur's great matchup against common defensive Pokemon like Seismitoad, Sylveon, and Gastrodon gives it plenty of opportunities to set up with Growth. With sun support, Venusaur's Weather Ball gives it coverage for Steel-types such as Corviknight, Aegislash, and Ferrothorn. Although sun provides Venusaur with a single-turn Solar Beam, Giga Drain is preferred to stave off Life Orb recoil and let it take resisted hits from Pokemon like Seismitoad more frequently. Once set-up, Venusaur is hard to stop; however, proper prediction is key to avoid the opponent stalling sun turns. Earth Power is viable enough to mention that you can run it over Giga Drain.

Torkoal is mandatory alongside Venusaur; it sets sun and also provides Stealth Rock, which helps to wear down the opposing team. Other Pokemon that can take advantage of the sun, such as Darmanitan and Cinderace, also make good teammates, helping break through checks such as Kommo-o, Rotom-H, and Mandibuzz early-game for Venusaur to clean. Cinderace is bad on sun teams; it does not provide any wortwhile utility and really all it does is stack weaknesses. Although Venusaur's Speed is mostly unrivaled under sun, rain teams are problematic; Zeraora and Choice Scarf Dragapult are good teammates as a result. Choice Scarf Dragapult is also helpful for opposing Venusaur. Neither are particularly notable teammates and you haven't even talked about Dugtrio yet. You should talk about Dugtrio. You can also mention Mandibuzz which is quite vital for sun teams.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Rabia, 336073]]
- Quality checked by: [[curiosity, 443485], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Good job, 2/2.

 

[Rabia]

comments in purple things to remove in red

Good job, 2/2.

wow jordy you're so epic and awesome OwO

 

[lotiasite]

GP 1/1, no changes but maybe move giga drain to the fourth slot because it's the only move that's replaceable & is mentioned last

 

[Rabia]

GP 1/1, no changes but maybe move giga drain to the fourth slot because it's the only move that's replaceable & is mentioned last

yay, i'll move it for now because that's a reasonable rationale but if qc objects then ofc fix it on upload