Assault Vest Utility
Raging Bolt @ Assault Vest
Level: 100
Modest Nature
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch
[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest maximizes Raging Bolt's titanic stat line to enable it to check a variety of threats in the tier while leveraging disruptive utility moves to dictate the pace of battle for its teammates. Its monstrous special attack stat allows it to put out strong damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its hit-taking capacity, stat-checking a large variety of special attackers in the format.
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Raging Bolt @ Assault Vest
Level: 100
Modest Nature
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch
[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest maximizes Raging Bolt's titanic stat line to enable it to check a variety of threats in the tier while leveraging disruptive utility moves to dictate the pace of battle for its teammates. Its monstrous special attack stat allows it to put out strong damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its hit-taking capacity, stat-checking a large variety of special attackers in the format.
[SET COMMENTS]
- Thunderclap provides Raging Bolt with a strong priority move to clean up weakened foes and circumvent its middling speed stat and opposing speed control.
- Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tiers many prominent dragons such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming ground types such a Lando-I.
- Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO max HP Tornadus with the given evs and 2HKO teraed Ogerpon-Wellspring.
- Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows raging bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, exploiting Raging bolt's stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common supportive pieces in Ogerpon and Tornadus as well as common special attacking threats in Chi-yu, Gholdengo and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress into these threats and their most common supporters with good damage output and a titanic Hp bar on raging bolt preventing these special-attacking targets from muscling through too easily.
- Snarl also makes it difficult for common special breakers Landorus, Ursaluna-Bloodmoon and Regidrago to find comfortable entry points on Raging Bolt
- Electrowebs is a good disruptive option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hitting both slots for solid STAB damage and making it difficult for non-ground opponents to find safe entry.
- Volt Switch is an option to allow raging bolt to act as a pivot, using its great bulk and low speed to provide safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Lando-I and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
- Tera Fairy is Raging Bolt's choice tera type, making it immune to the numerous opposing dragon threats in the tier and leveraging its ability to threaten them back while providing useful neutrality into Ground and Ice attacks. Tera water is an option for teams that wish to preserve raging bolt's ability to check Gholdengo after tera while still providing a neutral typing at the cost of its matchup into ogerpon forms.
- The given spread allows raging bolt to live two Blizzards from 252+ Assault Vest Kyurem and has a 93.7% chance of living Adamant Chien-pao Icicle Crash.
- Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its dragon typing incredibly well against ogerpon forms, capable resisting both STABs and trading incredibly well back into them with Thunderbolt/Draco Meteor or taking time to debuff their partners with snarl or electroweb. Raging Bolt's Electric Typing makes it an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown's Steel moves, capable of doing solid damage with snarl and greatly hindering their damage output while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-Female respectively. Access to priority incredible bulk and snarl also makes AV raging Bolt a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost.
- Raging Bolt greatly benefits from partners like Ogerpon-Wellspring and Chien-Pao that can deal with the powerful ground types of the format, as even with snarl access and assault vest bulk Lando-I and Ursaluna can quickly break it down. Teammates like Diancie, Alolan-Ninetales and Rillaboom that appreciate help shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus and Chi-Yu also make for great partners with AV Raging Bolt. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate AV Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team with.
- While not greatly threatened by them, AV Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tiers bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit and Iron Hands. All of these pokemon are largely unphazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
- AV Raging Bolt can struggle into Chien-Pao, who can sucker punch to circumvent Thunderclap's priority and can threaten more damage than bolt would usually like to trade off.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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