BH Arceus-Water [Done]

[Chessking345]

[SET]
Defensive (Arceus-Water) @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Fur Coat / Ice Scales
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Bold Nature
- Take Heart
- Scald
- Spirit Shackle / Thunder Cage
- Shore Up / Strength Sap

[SET COMMENTS]
Arceus-Water differentiates itself from other bulky Water-types such as Mega Slowbro and Dondozo through its good Speed tier and balanced bulk, which makes it more resilient to slower wallbreakers like Mega Garchomp. Its Special Defense also means it doesn't instantly fold to Electro Drift coverage, while the aforementioned Water-types are both OHKOed by any Tough Claws user with it. Fur Coat allows Arceus-Water to wall threats like Mega Garchomp and Ash-Greninja, albeit needing a Bold nature to dodge a potential 2HKO from Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick, while Ice Scales takes advantage of Water's lack of weaknesses to common special moves to serve as a decent answer to the likes of Mega Alakazam and Eternatus. Scald threatens burns on Pokemon like Mega Lucario and defensive switch-ins like RegenVest users. Due to Arceus-Water's weakness to Thunder Cage, Spirit Shackle is the safest option for Fur Coat variants to Imposter-proof themselves. Spirit Shackle variants can utilize Shore Up to not have recovery denied by Magic Guard Blissey. Covert Cloak is necessary to prevent Salt Cure's passive damage. Fur Coat variants still takes a lot of damage from coverage options like Electro Drift and Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick, so backup checks to these like Dragon-types and Fur Coat Fairy-types help. Ice Scales variants similarly can be pressured by strong moves such as Mega Alakazam's Psycho Boost, so having RegenVest teammates to scout for moves can be useful. Arceus-Water can generally Imposter-proof itself but can always be Imposter-proofed by Imposter Chansey as a backup.

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[SET]
Defensive (Arceus-Water) @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Fur Coat / Ice Scales
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Bold Nature
- Take Heart
- Scald
- Spirit Shackle / Thunder Cage
- Shore Up / Strength Sap

[SET COMMENTS]
Arceus-Water differentiates itself from other bulky Water-types such as Mega Slowbro and Dondozo through its good Speed tier and balanced bulk, making it more resilient to slower wallbreakers like Mega Garchomp and special coverage moves like Electro Drift. Its Special Defense also means it doesn't instantly fold to Electro Drift coverage, while the aforementioned Water-types are both OHKOed by any Tough Claws user. Fur Coat allows Arceus-Water to check wall threats like Mega Garchomp and Ash-Greninja (albeit needing a Bold nature to dodge a potential 2HKO from Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick), while Ice Scales takes advantage of Water's lack of weaknesses to common special moves to serve as a decent answer to the likes of Mega Alakazam and Eternatus. Scald threatens burns on Pokemon like Mega Lucario and Eternatus defensive switch-ins like RegenVest users removed the etern mention here because sometimes it's great and sometimes it's actively bad (burning mg etern blocks para), but "threatens to burn lucario and non-mg etern" doesn't work bc mg etern can still be burned. Due to Arceus-Water's weakness to Thunder Cage, Spirit Shackle is the safest option for Fur Coat variants to Imposter-proof itself, and it also threatens to trap Pokemon like? similar to tidy arc-ground i don't really see what this is ever trapping and actually setting up on other than imp to use as setup bait. Spirit Shackle variants can utilize Shore Up to not have recovery denied by Magic Guard Blissey. Covert Cloak is necessary to prevent Salt Cure's passive damage. Fur Coat variants still takes a lot of damage from coverage options like Electro Drift and Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick, so having backup checks like Dragon-types and Fur Coat Fairy-types help. Ice Scales variants similarly can be pressured by strong moves such as Mega Alakazam's Psycho Boost, so having RegenVest teammates to scout for moves can be useful. Arceus-Water is generally self Imposter-proof, but can always be backup Imposter-proofed by Imposter Chansey.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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qc 1/1

 

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GP Check

[SET]
Defensive (Arceus-Water) @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Fur Coat / Ice Scales
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Bold Nature
- Take Heart
- Scald
- Spirit Shackle / Thunder Cage
- Shore Up / Strength Sap

[SET COMMENTS]
Arceus-Water differentiates itself from other bulky Water-types such as Mega Slowbro and Dondozo through its good Speed tier and balanced bulk, making which makes it more resilient to slower wallbreakers like Mega Garchomp. Its Special Defense also means it doesn't instantly fold to Electro Drift coverage, while the aforementioned Water-types are both OHKOed by any Tough Claws user with it. Fur Coat allows Arceus-Water to wall threats like Mega Garchomp and Ash-Greninja (albeit Ash-Greninja, albeit needing a Bold nature to dodge a potential 2HKO from Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick), Trick, while Ice Scales takes advantage of Water's lack of weaknesses to common special moves to let it serve as a decent answer to the likes of Mega Alakazam and Eternatus. Scald threatens burns on Pokemon like Mega Lucario and defensive switch-ins like RegenVest users. Due to Arceus-Water's weakness to Thunder Cage, Spirit Shackle is the safest option for Fur Coat variants to Imposter-proof itself themselves. Spirit Shackle variants can utilize Shore Up to not have recovery denied by Magic Guard Blissey. Covert Cloak is necessary to prevent Salt Cure's passive damage. Fur Coat variants still takes a lot of damage from coverage options like Electro Drift and Ash-Greninja's Flower Trick, so having backup checks to these like Dragon-types and Fur Coat Fairy-types help. Ice Scales variants similarly can be pressured by strong moves such as Mega Alakazam's Psycho Boost, so having RegenVest teammates to scout for moves can be useful. Arceus-Water is can generally self Imposter-proof itself, (comma) but can always be backup Imposter-proofed by Imposter Chansey as a backup.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/chessking345.355040/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/tea-guzzler.577920/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rose.511181/

1/1 GP Team done