National Dex Alomomola

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[SET]
Alomomola @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Poison
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed / Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Flip Turn
- Wish
- Toxic / Knock Off / Scald
- Protect


[SET COMMENTS]
With Flip Turn, Alomomola differentiates itself from the abundance of bulky Water-types as an excellent defensive pivot with Regenerator and a premiere Wish passer, supporting a myriad of different team archetypes by providing longevity to bulky pokemon that lack reliable recovery, such as Mega Tyranitar, Ting-Lu, and Heatran. Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item for Alomomola; however if a team lacks a way to punish contact moves and has sufficient hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered. Tera Dragon allows Alomomola to check Mega Charizard Y and Tapu Koko missing Dazzling Gleam, while Tera Fairy improves its matchup against Choice Band Zamazenta, Baxcalibur, and Mega Lopunny, and Tera Poison provides a Toxic immunity and checks Iron Valiant. Common Pokemon unhindered by Toxic use Alomomola as setup fodder, such as Gliscor, Substitute variants of Zamazenta, and Mega Scizor. Rocky Helmet users such as Ferrothorn and Skarmory can punish the use of Flip Turn, along with Water Absorb Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and some Clodsire variants can prevent the move from having any effect. Spikes, in conjunction with Knock Off from users like Mega Scizor, Hisuian Samurott, and Ferrothorn can also be extremely lethal to Alomomola. Knock Off can be used to cripple Pokemon that heavily rely on Heavy-Duty Boots or Leftovers, such as Zapdos, opposing Alomomola, Heatran, and Landorus-T, or Scald to threaten Kartana and Mega Scizor; but it should be noted that not using Toxic gives free setup turns to dangerous foes like Volcarona and Baxcalibur. Running a Sassy nature allows Alomomola to check Mega Diancie, while a Relaxed nature helps Alomomola pivot around Great Tusk. Teammates such as Ting-Lu and Heatran both take great advantage of Alomomola's support and can help shore up some of Alomomola's weaknesses, checking Tapu Koko, Zapdos, and Volcarona, while more offensive partners like Zapdos and Ursaluna-B can cover some of these weaknesses while also offsetting Alomomola's passivity, the former answering Kartana, and Zamazenta while the latter helps with Tapu Koko and Zapdos.
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[SET]
Alomomola @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Rocky Helmet
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Flip Turn
- Wish
- Toxic / Knock Off / Scald
- Protect / Knock Off / Scald


Alomomola @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy (fairy deserves a mention, good vs bax & fight resist is more splashable mlop check)
EVs: 40 HP / 216 Def / 252 SpD (HP to optimize lefites; spdef bias allows you to better scout lele, val, ghold and pivot on them, generally more effective rn imo, but this is subjective. you dont have to change it if you think pdef bias still better)
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Flip Turn
- Toxic / Knock Off
- Wish
- Protect

(imo i think wishtect is supremely valuable to ur kit, so tox or koff should be the choice. scald is bad so i axed it)


[SET COMMENTS]
With newly gained access to Flip Turn courtesy of the Teal Mask DLC, Alomomola is able to utilize its excellent bulk and low speed to be a premiere Wish passer and defensive pivot in the National Dex OU tier. Aiding in this endeavor are Alomomola’s Regenerator ability, meaning that it is not solely reliant on Wish to keep itself healthy throughout a game, and its outstanding base 165 HP stat, allowing it to pass massive Wishes. With access to Flip Turn, Alomomola differentiates itself as an excellent defensive pivot and premiere Wish passer, supporting a myriad of different archetypes. Regenerator allows Alomomola to stay healthy throughout the course of a game without relying solely on Wish, while its massive HP turns it into an incredibly effective Wish user in conjunction with a slow Flip Turn. (rehauled this entire part because it read like a spotlight instead of an analysis, you had the right idea just had to be formatted a little different) These unique qualities allow Alomomola to provide invaluable support for bulky pokemon lacking reliable recovery, such as Great Tusk, Ting Lu, Heatran, and Mega Tyranitar, while also being a powerful defensive piece, being able to check many threats such as Dragonite, Urshifu-R, Mega Swampert and Mega Lopunny, threatening them with Toxic, Scald, or Flip Turn Toxic or pivoting out with Flip Turn to bring in a revenge killer teammate freely. Terastalizing into the Dragon type allows it to check Mega Charizard Y and non Dazzling Gleam Tapu Koko. ***included some reasons in the set details above about tera fairy being a solid option, include that in a separate sentence here*** All of this being said, Alomomola still has some major flaws, mainly owing to its extreme passivity, which allows common Toxic immune pokemon to utilize Alomomola as setup fodder, such as Gliscor, Gholdengo, Manaphy, Substitute variants of Zamazenta and Mega Scizor. Additionally, Rocky Helmet pokemon, such as Ferrothorn, Skarmory and occasionally Toxapex can punish the use of Flip Turn, or Ogerpon-Wellspring before Terastalizing and Water Absorb variants of Clodsire can outright prevent the move from having an effect. Spikes can also be extremely lethal to Alomomola, especially when Gholdengo's presence makes it so challenging to remove them reliably and with pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor and Samurott-Hisui can so easily force easily able to force Alomomola to take a Knock Off. Teammates such as Ting Lu and Heatran both take great advantage of Alomomola's support and can help shore up some of these weaknesses (to what? add ex), or more offensive partners like Zapdos and Ursaluna-Bloodmoon can cover some of these weaknesses (see above, be particular) while also helping offset Alomomola's passivity. Alomomola also greatly appreciates Mega Lopunny's ability to so effortlessly revenge kill most setup sweepers, and Mega Lopunny appreciates Wish support to offset the chip damage from Rocky Helmet it is so often forced to take (good point, but add who mlop takes this chip from specifically). Alternatively, Scald and Knock Off can help against some of these pokemon and apply more immediate pressure, although Alternatively, Knock Off can be used to cripple targets reliant on Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots such as Heatran and Tornadus-T, but it should be noted not using Toxic gives free setup turns to the dangerous Volcarona and Baxcalibur. (AP) , and not using Protect can make Alomomola extremely reliant on Regenerator to stay healthy, exacerbating its vulnerability to Spikes. Max Def and SpD is used over the more conventional max HP + Def/Spd spread as Alomomola's naturally high HP stat means that further investment into it will yield significantly less return than investing into its defenses. (talking about EVs is good, just update it with details from new spread as I mentioned in the notes for set details. Or just keep this as is if you opted to keep physdef bias) Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item, however if a team is lacking a way to punish contact moves and has sufficiently reliable hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered.


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great quality, but since i changed a lot of wording parts i wanna make sure it's implemented properly. lmk when you implement the above and ill really quickly glance over it to make sure it's all good, then will give QC 1/1. Great work as usual Omargoatciav

jsyk qcs are 0/1 not 0/2 atm
 
while max Special Defense with a Sassy nature allows Alomomola to check Mega Diancie and more easily pivot around Gholdengo, Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele.
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QC 1/1

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With access to Flip Turn, Alomomola differentiates itself from others? specify what mola differentiates itself from as an excellent defensive pivot and premiere Wish passer, supporting a myriad of different team archetypes. Regenerator allows Alomomola to stay healthy throughout the course of a game without relying solely on Wish, while its massive HP in conjunction with a slow Flip Turn turns it into an incredibly effective Wish user in conjunction with a slow Flip Turn. These unique qualities allow Alomomola to provide invaluable support for bulky Pokemon lacking that lack reliable recovery, such as Great Tusk, Ting-(AH)Lu, Heatran, and Mega Tyranitar, while also being a powerful defensive piece, being able to check many threats such as Dragonite, Urshifu-Rapid, Mega Swampert, (AC) and Mega Lopunny, threatening them with Toxic or pivoting out with Flip Turn to bring in a teammate freely. Terastallizing into the Dragon type typing allows it to check Mega Charizard Y and non Dazzling Gleam Tapu Koko lacking Dazzling Gleam. Tera Fairy is another option, allowing Alomomola to check Choice Band Zamazenta and Baxcalibur, while also more effectively checking Mega Lopunny. Finally, Tera Poison can be used to turn Alomomola into an extremely effective Iron Valiant check in addition to becoming immune to Toxic and absorbing Toxic Spikes from the likes of Toxapex and Clodsire. Alomomola still has some major flaws, mainly owing to its extreme passivity, which allows common Toxic-(AC)immune Pokemon to utilize Alomomola as setup fodder, such as Gliscor, Gholdengo, Manaphy, Substitute variants of Zamazenta, (AC) and Mega Scizor. Additionally, Rocky Helmet Pokemon, (RC) such as Ferrothorn, Skarmory, (AC) and occasionally Toxapex can punish the use of Flip Turn, or while can specify water absorb here rather than later for clarity, something like "Water Absorb Pokemon like..." Ogerpon-Wellspring before Terastallizing and Water Absorb variants of Clodsire can outright prevent the move from having an taking effect. Spikes can also be extremely lethal to Alomomola, with Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, (AC) and Samurott-Hisui Hisuian Samurott easily able to force Alomomola to take a Knock Off. Teammates such as Ting-(AH)Lu and Heatran both take great advantage of Alomomola's support and can help shore up some of these weaknesses, checking Tapu Koko, Zapdos, and Gholdengo and while helping to check Volcarona. Alternatively, more offensive partners like Zapdos and Ursaluna-Bloodmoon can cover some of these weaknesses while also helping offset Alomomola's passivity, the former answering Kartana, Mega Scizor, (AC) and Zamazenta, (RC) while the latter helps with Tapu Koko, Zapdos, and Gholdengo, (AC) along with Zamazenta if Ursluna-B Terastallizes into the Poison typing and commonly Terastalizes into the Poison type, allowing it to check Zamazenta. Alomomola also greatly appreciates Mega Lopunny's ability to so effortlessly revenge kill most setup sweepers, and while Mega Lopunny appreciates its Wish support to offset the chip damage from Rocky Helmet it is so often forced to take Rocky Helmet chip damage from the likes of Landorus-Therian and Skarmory. Alternatively, Knock Off can be used to cripple Pokemon heavily reliant that heavily rely on Heavy-Duty Boots or Leftovers, such as Zapdos, Tornadus-Therian, opposing Alomomola, Heatran, (AC) and Landorus-Therian, but it should be noted that not using Toxic gives free setup set-up turns to the dangerous foes like Volcarona and Baxcalibur. Heavy Defense and Special Defense investment is used over the more conventional max HP + Def/Spd 252 HP / 252 Def or 252 HP / 252 SpD spreads, (AC) as Alomomola's naturally high HP stat means that further investment into it will yield significantly less return than investing into its defenses. With maximum Special Defense and a Sassy nature, Alomomola is able to check Mega Diancie and more easily pivot around Gholdengo, Iron Valiant, (AC) and Tapu Lele. A Running a Relaxed nature should also be a consideration, although it should be noted that opting out of a Sassy nature sacrifices Alomomola's ability to check Mega Diancie and leaves it unable to check Mega Charizard Y even after Terastallizing into the Dragon type typing. If paired with Tapu Bulu or Rillaboom, 40 HP EVs should be used to maximize Grassy Terrain recovery. Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item, however, (AC) if a team is lacking lacks a way to punish contact moves and has sufficiently reliable hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered.
 
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[SET]
Alomomola @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Poison
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD or 40 HP / 216 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed / Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Flip Turn
- Wish
- Toxic / Knock Off / Scald qc-ish thing but scald is good to not be exploited by kartana and scizor
- Protect

this is also wayyy too long btw, max sentences for mini analyses are 8, this has 18!!!!

[SET COMMENTS]
With access to Flip Turn, Alomomola differentiates itself from the abundance of bulky Water-types as an excellent defensive pivot with Regenerator and a premiere Wish passer, supporting a myriad of different team archetypes. (rp) Regenerator allows Alomomola to stay healthy throughout the course of a game without relying solely on Wish, while its massive HP in conjunction with Flip Turn turn it into an incredibly effective Wish user. These unique qualities allow Alomomola to provide invaluable support for bulky Pokemon that lack reliable recovery, such as Great Tusk, Ting-Lu, Heatran, and Mega Tyranitar, while also being a powerful defensive piece, being able to check many threats such as Dragonite, Urshifu-R, Mega Swampert, and Mega Lopunny, threatening them with Toxic or pivoting out with Flip Turn to bring in a teammate freely by supporting Pokemon without reliable recovery such as Ting-Lu, Mega Tyranitar, and Heatran . Terastallizing into the Dragon typing Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item for Alomomola, however, (rc) if a team lacks a way to punish contact moves and has sufficiently reliable hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered. Tera Dragon allows it Alomomola to check Mega Charizard Y and Tapu Koko lacking missing bit subjective but i think this rolls off the tounge better Dazzling Gleam. Tera Fairy is another option, (rc, cw) allowing that lets Alomomola to check Choice Band Zamazenta and Baxcalibur, (rc) while also more effectively checking Mega Lopunny checking Mega Lopunny more effectively. Finally, i get its the end of the section but i dont think its needs a conclusion word Tera Poison can be used to turn Alomomola into an extremely effective Iron Valiant check in addition to becoming immune to Toxic boasting a Toxic immunity and absorbing Toxic Spikes from the likes of Toxapex and Clodsire qc-ish thing two but i think this is p much dex data, and alo is mostly boots anyw and while it does benefit teammates they arent mentioned there. Alomomola still has some major flaws, mainly owing to its extreme passivity. (rc, ap) which allows Common Toxic-immune Pokemon to utilize use Alomomola as setup fodder, such as Gliscor, Gholdengo, Manaphy, Substitute variants of Zamazenta, and Mega Scizor. Additionally Rocky Helmet Pokemon users, (rc) such as Ferrothorn, Skarmory and occasionally Toxapex can punish the use of Flip Turn, while along with Water Absorb Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W before Terastallizing not needed and some Clodsire variants can outright prevent the move from taking effect that prevent the move from having any effect. Spikes can also be extremely lethal to Alomomola, (rc) with Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and Hisuian Samurott easily able to that mostly force Alomomola to take a Knock Off. Teammates such as Ting-Lu and Heatran both take great advantage of Alomomola's support and can help shore up some of these weaknesses, checking Tapu Koko, Zapdos, and Gholdengo #outdatedinformation while helping to check Volcarona and Volcarona. Alternatively, more offensive partners like Zapdos and Ursaluna-B can cover some of these weaknesses while also helping offsetting Alomomola's passivity, the former answering Kartana, Mega Scizor, and Zamazenta while the latter helps with Tapu Koko, Zapdos, Gholdengo, along and with Zamazenta if Ursaluna-B Terastallizes into the Poison typing is using Tera Poison. Alomomola also greatly appreciates Mega Lopunny's ability to effortlessly revenge kill most setup sweepers, while Mega Lopunny appreciates its it provides Wish support in return to offset Rocky Helmet chip damage from the likes of Landorus-T and Skarmory. Alternatively, Knock Off can be used to cripple Pokemon that heavilily heavily rely on Heavy-Duty Boots or Leftovers, such as Zapdos, Tornadus-T, opposing Alomomola, Heatran, and Landorus-T; (add sc) but it should be noted that not using Toxic gives free set-up turns to dangerous foes like Volcarona and Baxcalibur. Heavy Defense and Special Defense investment is used over the more conventional 252 HP / 252 Def or 252 HP / 252 SpD spreads, as Alomomola's naturally high HP stat means that further investment into it will yield significantly less return than investing into its defenses. explained in next sentence With maximum Special Defense and a Sassy nature, Alomomola is able to check Mega Diancie and more easily pivot around Gholdengo, Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele. Running a Relaxed nature should also be a consideration lets Alomomola pivot around Great Tusk better qc-ish thing number three but sassy is not better, although it should be noted that opting out of a Sassy nature sacrifices Alomomola's ability to check Mega Diancie and leaves it unable to check Mega Charizard Y even after Terastallizing into the Dragon typing. If paired with Tapu Bulu or Rillaboom, 40 HP EVs should be used to maximize Grassy Terrain recovery. qc thing number 4 but this isnt notable Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item, however, if a team lacks a way to punish contact moves and has sufficiently reliable hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered.
 
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[SET]
Alomomola @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Dragon / Fairy / Poison
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed / Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Flip Turn
- Wish
- Toxic / Knock Off / Scald
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
With access to Flip Turn, Alomomola differentiates itself from the abundance of bulky Water-types add hyphen as an excellent defensive pivot with Regenerator and a premiere Wish passer, supporting a myriad of different team archetypes by supporting can we use a different word than supporting? since it was used earlier in the same sentence bulky pokemon that lack reliable recovery, such as Mega Tyranitar, Ting-Lu, and Heatran. Heavy-Duty Boots is the standard item for Alomomola, however Alomola; however, if a team lacks a way to punish contact moves and has sufficient entry hazard removal, then Rocky Helmet should be considered. Tera Dragon allows Alomomola to check Mega Charizard Y and Tapu Koko missing Dazzling Gleam. Tera Fairy is another option that allows Alomomola to check Choice Band Zamazenta and Baxcalibur while also checking Mega Lopunny more effectively. Alternatively, Tera Poison can be used to turn Alomomola into an extremely effective Iron Valiant check in addition to boasting a Toxic immunity. For Tera, Tera Dragon checks Mega Charizard Y and non-Dazzling Gleam Tapu Koko, Tera Fairy improves its matchup againt Choice Band Zamazenta, Baxcalibur, and Mega Lopunny, and Tera Poison provides a Toxic immunty and checks Iron Valiant. edited for length Alomomola still has some major flaws, mainly owing to its extreme passivity. Common Toxic-immune Pokemon Pokemon unhindered by Toxic use Alomomola as setup fodder, such as Gliscor, Manaphy, Substitute variants of Zamazenta, and Mega Scizor. Additionally Rocky Helmet users, remove comma such as Ferrothorn, Skarmory, add comma and occasionally Toxapex can punish the use of Flip Turn, along with while Water Absorb Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and some Clodsire variants can prevent the move from having any effect. Spikes can also be extremely lethal to Alomomola, with Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and Hisuian Samurott that mostly force Alomomola to take a Knock Off. Spikes, in combination with Knock Off from users like Ferrothron, Mega Scizor, and Hisuian Samurott, can be extremely lethal to Alomomola. [Teammates such as Ting-Lu and Heatran both take great advantage of Alomomola's support and can help shore up some of these weaknesses, checking Tapu Koko, Zapdos, comma and Volcarona. Alternatively, more offensive partners like Zapdos and Ursaluna-B can cover some of these weaknesses while also offsetting Alomomola's passivity, the former answering Kartana, Mega Scizor, and Zamazenta while the latter helps with Tapu Koko, Zapdos, along with Zamazenta if Ursaluna-B is using Tera Poison. Alomomola greatly appreciates Mega Lopunny's ability to effortlessly revenge kill most setup sweepers, while it provides Wish support in return to offset Rocky Helmet chip damage from the likes of Landorus-T and Skarmory.] this whole section should be moved to the end, teammates should be talked about last Alternatively, Knock Off can be used to cripple Pokemon that heavily rely on Heavy-Duty Boots or Leftovers, such as Zapdos, Tornadus-T, opposing Alomomola, Heatran, and Landorus-T; but it should be noted that not using Toxic gives free set-up setup turns to dangerous foes like Volcarona and Baxcalibur. With maximum Special Defense and a Sassy nature, Alomomola is able to check Mega Diancie and more easily pivot around Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele. max / max EVs don't need to be explained Running a Relaxed nature allows Alomomola to more easily pivot around Great Tusk, although it should be noted that opting out of a Sassy nature sacrifices Alomomola's ability to check Mega Diancie.

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Okay before giving this GP 1/1, it's still pretty long. I would probably look to cut another sentence out of the teammates section, or maybe heavily shorten the Zapdos / Ursaluna sentence, but that's worth discussing with you / the QC team as to what is least important.

not an error, but when adding a hypen, make sure to add a comment or something so it's more visible
the first mention of "entry hazards" in a paragraph should always be "entry hazards"; subsequent references can just be "hazards"
for "Toxic-immune" make sure they're actually immune to Toxic (Gliscor and Manaphy aren't, they just either don't care or can heal themselves)
The while -> along with change was incorrect
 
Approving the GP side, might ask sealoo if anything too important was lost QC side
 
quality looks good here

Tera Fairy improves its matchup against Choice Band Zamazenta, Baxcalibur and Mega Lopunny, and Tera posion provides a Toxic immunity and checks Iron Valiant.
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Little GP thing I noticed while going through here, there should be a comma after Baxcalibur while Poison is spelled wrong & should be capitalized asw. Rest looks fine
 
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