[SET]
name: Wallbreaker (Ice)
move 1: Bolt Beak
move 2: Blizzard
move 3: Freeze-Dry / Stomping Tantrum
move 4: Substitute
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Slush Rush
nature: Naughty / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Arctozolt is the best Slush Rush user on Ice due to its nearly unresisted STAB combination that threatens types such as Poison, Water, Dark, and Psychic and its ability to outspeed unboosted threats such as Urshifu-R, Hydreigon, and Choice Scarf Heatran. Blizzard deals with Dragon-, Grass- and Ground-types such as Hydreigon, Amoonguss, and Landorus-T which resist or are immune to Bolt Beak. Freeze-Dry completes Arctozolt's coverage, allowing it to break down Water by 2HKOing Swampert and Gastrodon, which take minimal damage from the aforementioned attacks. Alternatively, Stomping Tantrum lets Arctozolt threaten Choice Scarf Excadrill and Zeraora, which shrug off Arctozolt's STAB moves. Substitute lets Arctozolt take advantage of its ability to force switches, allowing it to exert much more pressure on the opposing team and evade status and Leech Seed from Toxapex and Celesteela. A Naughty nature allows Artozolt to always OHKO walls such as Toxapex and Corviknight after Stealth Rock damage, while a Naive nature lets it outspeed threats such as Choice Scarf Excadrill and Zeraora under hail, which is especially useful if running Stomping Tantrum.
Hail is required for Arctozolt to function, making Alolan Ninetales a mandatory teammate. It also provides Aurora Veil, which makes Arctozolt harder to revenge kill. Choice Scarf Weavile deals with Choice Scarf users such as Zarude, Blacephalon, and Galarian Zapdos, which outspeed Arctozolt even under hail. In return, Weavile benefits from Arctozolt dealing with bulky walls such as Celesteela and Toxapex, allowing Weavile to clean types such as Flying, Psychic, and Poison late-game. Kyurem forms a wallbreaking core with Arctozolt that can pressure the defensive cores of Water, Poison, Flying, and Psychic by wearing down shared checks such as Celesteela. Galarian Darmanitan can pivot in Arctozolt against physical walls such as Slowbro and Toxapex with U-turn, threaten Excadrill and Ferrothorn, and clean types such as Poison, Steel, and Fairy late-game. Entry hazard setters such as Cloyster, Piloswine, and Mamoswine provide entry hazards that allow Arctozolt to OHKO Toxapex, Celesteela, and Dragapult. Cloyster can also utilize Teleport to let it come onto the field safely, while Piloswine is a special wall that checks Choice Scarf Blacephalon and Volcarona.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Ice
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Low Kick over Substitute lets Arctozolt heavily damage switch-ins such as Tyranitar, Kyurem, and Mamoswine, but it comes at the cost of being unable to take advantage of switches, making Arctozolt much more reliant on prediction. Life Orb may be considered, as it allows Arctozolt to OHKO physically defensive Gastrodon with Freeze-Dry and Toxapex and Slowbro with Bolt Beak, but the chip damage accumulated from Life Orb and Stealth Rock will prevent Arctozolt from threatening bulkier teams such as Poison.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[neko, 542526]]
- Ice analysis by: [[neko, 542526]]
- Quality checked by: [[Aqua Jet, 531302], [atrax-madara, 513753], [Mateeus, 321991]]
- Grammar checked by: [[dex, 277988]]
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