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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.

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is Raging Bolt's Signature move provided it with a useful strong priority attack 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 terastallized 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 special attacking threats in Chi-yu, Gholdengo and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress into Gholdengo and Iron Crown 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 entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely hindered if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb 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.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special breakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wall-breaking pokemon like landorus and ogerpon-hearthflame that focus on maintaining a speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic hit-taking potential to slow pivot and bring in devastating threats like scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is Raging Bolt's choice tera type, making it immune to plentiful Dragon damage in the format from the likes of Regidrago, opposing raging Raging Bolt, and Dragonite while leveraging its ability to threaten them back and providing useful neutrality into Ground and Ice attacks from Landorus, Kyurem and Chien-Pao. 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 and being able to Thunderclap it for strong damage to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire attacks. Snarl also hinders common psyspam users in trick room like Hatterene and Hoopa-Unbound.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from partners like Ogerpon-W 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-BM 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 Snarl 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 with STAB ice moves.

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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.

Could be wrong here but I think that the overview section is not needed since you are only discussing one set. I think this intro can be bumped down into the set comments with overview section removed.

[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. Might be worth a mention here that thunderclap is bolt's sig move.
  • 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 (AC) and 2HKO teraed terastallized 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 how does snarl facilitate switching into ogerpon? Might want to clarify that you mean hindering Oger's teammates and Tornadus as well as common special attacking threats in Chi-yu, Gholdengo and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress into these the aforementioned threats and their most common supporters (AC) with good damage output and a titanic Hp HP bar on raging bolt 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 (AP) Can this be combined into the previous bullet? Seems odd that snarl is broken up into two points when the point was made a bit earlier about switching into and forcing disruption against special threats.
  • Electrowebs (remove s) 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.
  • I think you can add a bullet here explaining why one would choose snarl, ewebs, or volt switch over another, as 3 options for this last slot can be a bit muddy, you explain why each move is good into the metagame, but I think that you could describe why/what kind of structures may warrant one over another. Not a necessary addition but I think it could add some value.
  • Tera Fairy is Raging Bolt's choice tera type, making it immune to the numerous opposing dragon threats in the tier (like what?) 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 Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo after tera while still providing a neutral typing at the cost of its matchup into ogerpon Ogerpon formes. (add e)
  • The given spread allows raging bolt to live two Blizzards from 252+ Assault Vest AV probably doesn't need mentioned here? unless you are trying to differentiate from specs (bad set) 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 Snarl and greatly hindering their damage output while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-Female (pretty sure it is just F, you may need to double check here) respectively. Access to priority incredible bulk and snarl 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 (just W) and Chien-Pao that can deal with the powerful ground types of the format, as even with snarl Snarl access and assault vest Assault Vest bulk Lando-I and Ursaluna can quickly break it down. I think you could make each of these blurbs a separate bullet point as this is a bit wordy and can help with readability. Teammates like Diancie, Alolan-Ninetales (AC) and Rillaboom that appreciate help shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus (AC) 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. Incineroar is worth a mention in this partners section, as it aides in Bolt's physical bulk.
  • While not greatly threatened by them, AV pretty sure you have to type out Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tiers bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit (AC) and Iron Hands. All of these pokemon are largely unphazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • AV see above Raging Bolt can struggle into Chien-Pao, who can sucker punch Sucker Punch to circumvent Thunderclap's priority and can threaten more damage than bolt Raging Bolt would usually like to trade off.

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Great work, can mark 1/2 once implemented. I would check some of the abbreviations you use and capitalizations for analyses as I'm unsure on some of them and will make your life a bit easier later.
 
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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.

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is Raging Bolt's Signature move provided it with a useful strong priority attack 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 terastallized 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 special attacking threats in Chi-yu, Gholdengo and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress into Gholdengo and Iron Crown 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 entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely hindered if they switch in directly. (probably worth mentioning indd + hatt psyspam asw)
  • Electroweb 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.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special breakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wall-breaking pokemon like landorus and ogerpon-hearthflame that focus on maintaining a speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic hit-taking potential to slow pivot and bring in devastating threats like scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is Raging Bolt's choice tera type, making it immune to plentiful Dragon damage in the format from the likes of Regidrago, opposing raging Raging Bolt, and Roaring Moon (not sure moon is the best example for dragon-type damage output, since the only dragon move it really runs is breaking swipe) while leveraging its ability to threaten them back and providing useful neutrality into Ground and Ice attacks from Landorus and Chien-Pao (worth mentioning kyurem here aswell). 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 and being able to Thunderclap it for strong damage to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire attacks.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from partners like Ogerpon-W 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-BM 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 Snarl 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 with STAB ice moves.

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[OVERVIEW]
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 its titanic stat line statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its hit-taking capacity bulk, stat-checking stat checking a large variety of special attackers in the format. (An overview needs to list some drawbacks to using the analysis Pokemon. Please write out some cons to using Raging Bolt.)

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is Raging Bolt's Signature move (fluff) provided it with a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent its Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tiers tier's many prominent dragons Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, (AC) and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming ground types Ground-types such a Lando-I as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO max maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-Wellspring Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, exploiting Raging bolt's letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, (AC) and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress into against Gholdengo and Iron Crown and their most common supporters, (AC) as Raging Bolt's with good damage output and a titanic HP bar on Raging Bolt preventing these special-attacking prevent these specially offensive targets from muscling through it too easily. (You go into further detail on Bolt's good matchups against Ghold and Crown later in the analysis. Is it really necessary to talk about those here?) Snarl also makes it difficult for common special breakers wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-Bloodmoon Ursaluna-B, (AC) and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely hindered reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hitting hit both slots foes for solid STAB damage, (AC) and making make it difficult for non-ground opponents non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to act as a pivot, using use its great bulk and low Speed to provide act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Lando-I Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special breakers wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wall-breaking pokemon wallbreakers like Landorus and ogerpon-hearthflame Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic hit-taking potential bulk to slow slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like scarf Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt's choice tera type, making it immune to Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful Dragon damage amount of Dragon-types in the format, (AC) including from the likes of Regidrago, opposing raging Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, (AC) and leverage Raging Bolt's while leveraging its ability to threaten them back; (ASC) Tera Fairy also provides and providing useful neutrality into neutralities against Ground- (hyphen) and Ice Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, (AC) and Chien-Pao. 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 (Elaborate on what you're saying here.) at the cost of its matchup into against the Ogerpon forms formes.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to live survive two Blizzards from 252+ Assault Vest Kyurem (Can you elaborate on the nature that Kyurem has here?) and has a 93.7% chance of living almost always withstand Adamant Chien-pao Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against the Ogerpon forms, capable formes by resisting both STABs and trading STAB moves, (AC) (How relevant is Ogerpon-C? Raging Bolt doesn't resist Rock.) which allows it to trade incredibly well incredibly well back into them with them using Thunderbolt/Draco Meteor or taking take time to debuff their partners with snarl or electroweb. (I feel like listing out the moves makes the sentence very clunky to read. I highly suggest replacing the first highlighted part with "its STAB moves" and removing the second part entirely.) Raging Bolt's Electric Typing makes it Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown's Steel Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves (RC) capable of doing and uses Snarl to do solid damage with snarl and greatly hindering reduce their damage output, (AC) all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-Female Indeedee-F, (AC) respectively. Access to priority Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also makes AV Raging Bolt make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to Thunderclap strongly damage it for strong damage with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire Fire-type attacks. Snarl also hinders common psyspam users (elaborate on what you mean here) in Trick Room like Hatterene and Hoopa-Unbound Hoopa-U.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from partners like Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao Pokemon that can deal with the powerful ground types Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, (AC) Landorus bulk Lando-I and Ursaluna-BM Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao. (AP)
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan-Ninetales Alolan Ninetales, (AC) and Rillaboom that appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, (AC) and Chi-Yu also make for great partners with Snarl AV Raging Bolt. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate AV Raging 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 Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tiers tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, (AC) and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unphazed unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • AV Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle into against Chien-Pao, who which can use Sucker Punch to circumvent Thunderclap's priority and can threaten more damage than Bolt would usually like to trade off (Elaborate on what you're saying here.) with STAB ice Ice-type moves.

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[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest Raging Bolt maximizes its titanic statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its bulk, stat checking a large variety of special attackers in the format. (An overview needs to list some drawbacks to using the analysis Pokemon. Please write out some cons to using Raging Bolt.)

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tier's many prominent Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming Ground-types such as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Iron Crown. Snarl makes great progress against Gholdengo and Iron Crown and their most common supporters, as Raging Bolt's good damage output and titanic HP prevent these specially offensive targets from muscling through it too easily. (You go into further detail on Bolt's good matchups against Ghold and Crown later in the analysis. Is it really necessary to talk about those here?) Snarl also makes it difficult for common special wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-B, and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hit both foes for solid damage, and make it difficult for non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to use its great bulk and low Speed to act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wallbreakers like Landorus and Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic bulk to slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful amount of Dragon-types in the format, including Regidrago, opposing Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, and leverage Raging Bolt's ability to threaten them back; Tera Fairy also provides useful neutralities against Ground- and Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, and Chien-Pao. Tera Water is an option for teams that wish to preserve Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo while still providing a neutral typing (Elaborate on what you're saying here.) at the cost of its matchup against the Ogerpon formes.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to survive two Blizzards from 252+ Assault Vest Kyurem (Can you elaborate on the nature that Kyurem has here?) and almost always withstand Adamant Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against the Ogerpon formes by resisting both STAB moves, (AC) (How relevant is Ogerpon-C? Raging Bolt doesn't resist Rock.) which allows it to trade incredibly well with them using Thunderbolt/Draco Meteor or take time to debuff their partners with snarl or electroweb. (I feel like listing out the moves makes the sentence very clunky to read. I highly suggest replacing the first highlighted part with "its STAB moves" and removing the second part entirely.) Raging Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves and uses Snarl to do solid damage and greatly reduce their damage output, all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-F, respectively. Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to strongly damage it with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire-type attacks. Snarl also hinders common psyspam users (elaborate on what you mean here) in Trick Room like Hatterene and Hoopa-U.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from Pokemon that can deal with the powerful Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, Landorus and Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao.
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan Ninetales, and Rillaboom appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, and Chi-Yu with Snarl. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate Raging Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team .
  • While not greatly threatened by them, Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle against Chien-Pao, which can use Sucker Punch to circumvent Thunderclap's priority and can threaten more damage than Bolt would usually like to trade off (Elaborate on what you're saying here.) with STAB Ice-type moves.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/schister.619632
Quality checked by:
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https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gephicka.553122
Grammar checked by:

red/blue implementation for schister
 
[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest Raging Bolt makes the most of its titanic statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its bulk, stat checking a large variety of special attackers present in the format. However, Raging Bolt sports an abysmal matchup against Landorus-Incarnate and a poor matchup into Ursaluna-Bloodmoon, two of the most common special breakers in the format, being unable to threaten enough damage to incapacitate them and unable to use its powerful Electric STAB moves safely around them. Additionally, Raging Bolt's weakness to Ice and Dragon moves and low speed leaves it vulnerable to Ice types and other dragons in the format, having to rely on its titanic bulk or burn tera to survive these matchups. Overall while Raging Bolt's impressive stats and excellent movepool give it a fantastic toolkit that can impact almost any board, its typing hinders it into a large portion of the Doubles metagame's strongest attackers and prevents it from being truly elite.

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tier's many prominent Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming Ground-types such as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Iron Crown. Snarl also makes it difficult for common special wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-B, and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hit both foes for solid damage, and make it difficult for non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to use its great bulk and low Speed to act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wallbreakers like Landorus and Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic bulk to slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful amount of Dragon-types in the format, including Regidrago, opposing Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, and leverage Raging Bolt's ability to threaten them back; Tera Fairy also provides useful neutralities against Ground- and Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, and Chien-Pao. Tera Water is an option for teams that wish to preserve Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo while still providing a neutral typing against ground attacks at the cost of its matchup against the Ogerpon formes and Rillaboom.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to survive two Blizzards from 252 modest assault vest Kyurem and almost always withstand Adamant Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against the Ogerpon-Heartflame and Wellspring by resisting both STAB moves, which allows it to trade incredibly well with them using strong neutral STAB attacks.
  • Raging Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves and uses Snarl to do solid damage and greatly reduce their damage output, all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-F, respectively. Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to strongly damage it with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire-type attacks. Snarl also irritates fullroom psyspam users like Hatterene, Necrozma and Hoopa-U by lowering their damage output and wasting trick room turns, greatly disrupting their gameplan.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from Pokemon that can deal with the powerful Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, Landorus and Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao.
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan Ninetales, and Rillaboom appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, and Chi-Yu with Snarl. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate Raging Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team .
  • While not greatly threatened by them, Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle against Chien-Pao, which can use its fast Sucker Punch to circumvent Thunderclap's priority and can massively damage Bolt with powerful physical STAB Ice-type moves.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/schister.619632
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gephicka.553122
Grammar checked by:https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/a-blue-banana.649096/

Implemented
a blue banana
 
[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest Raging Bolt makes the most of its titanic statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its bulk, stat checking a large variety of special attackers present in the format. However, Raging Bolt sports an abysmal matchup against Landorus-Incarnate Landorus and a poor matchup into Ursaluna-Bloodmoon against Ursaluna-B, two of the most common special breakers wallbreakers in the format, being unable to as it can't (changing this into a separate indepedent clause due to length of sentence) threaten enough damage to incapacitate them and unable to use its powerful Electric Electric-type STAB moves safely around them. Additionally, Raging Bolt's weakness to Ice type weaknesses and Dragon moves (You state that Bolt is weak to Ice- and Dragon-types anyway, so this seems redundant.) and low Speed leaves leave it vulnerable to Ice types Ice-types and other dragons Dragon-types in the format, having to rely on its titanic bulk or burn tera Terastallize to survive these matchups. Overall, (AC) while Raging Bolt's impressive stats and excellent movepool give it a fantastic toolkit that can impact almost any board, its typing hinders it into against a large portion of the Doubles metagame's strongest attackers and prevents it from being truly elite.

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tier's many prominent Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming Ground-types such as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Iron Crown. Snarl also makes it difficult for common special wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-B, and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hit both foes for solid damage, and make it difficult for non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to use its great bulk and low Speed to act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wallbreakers like Landorus and Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic bulk to slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful amount of Dragon-types in the format, including Regidrago, opposing Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, and leverage Raging Bolt's ability to threaten them back; Tera Fairy also provides useful neutralities against Ground- and Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, and Chien-Pao. Tera Water is an option for teams that wish to preserve Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo while still providing a typing neutral typing against ground Ground-type attacks at the cost of its matchup against the Ogerpon formes and Rillaboom.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to survive two Blizzards from 252 modest assault vest Kyurem (Wouldn't it be better to just say "Modest Kyurem" here? The dex AV set doesn't run maximum SpA EVs, and I think the nature would indicate that Kyurem is fully invested.) and almost always withstand Adamant Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against the Ogerpon-Heartflame Ogerpon-H and Wellspring Ogerpon-W by resisting both their STAB moves, which allows it to trade incredibly well with them using strong neutral STAB attacks.
  • Raging Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves and uses Snarl to do solid damage and greatly reduce their damage output, all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-F, respectively. Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to strongly damage it with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire-type attacks. Snarl also irritates fullroom psyspam users Pokemon found on full Trick Room Psychic-type spam teams (Please let me know if I'm interpreting this incorrectly.) like Hatterene, Necrozma, (AC) and Hoopa-U by lowering their damage output and wasting Trick Room turns, greatly disrupting their gameplan.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from Pokemon that can deal with the powerful Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, Landorus and Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao.
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan Ninetales, and Rillaboom appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, and Chi-Yu with Snarl. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate Raging Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team. (remove space)
  • While not greatly threatened by them, Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle against Chien-Pao, which can use its fast Sucker Punch Speed to circumvent Thunderclap's priority with Sucker Punch and can massively damage Bolt with powerful physical STAB Ice-type moves.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/schister.619632
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gephicka.553122
Grammar checked by: (fixed formatting)
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/a-blue-banana.649096/

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[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest Raging Bolt makes the most of its titanic statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its bulk, stat checking a large variety of special attackers present in the format. However, Raging Bolt sports an abysmal matchup against Landorus and a poor matchup against Ursaluna-B, two of the most common special wallbreakers in the format, as it can't threaten enough damage to incapacitate them or use its powerful Electric-Type STAB moves safely around them. Additionally, Raging Bolt's low Speed leaves it vulnerable to Ice-types and other Dragon-types in the format, having to rely on its titanic bulk or Terastallizr to survive these matchups. Overall, while Raging Bolt's impressive stats and excellent movepool give it a fantastic toolkit that can impact almost any board, its typing hinders it against a large portion of the Doubles metagame's strongest attackers and prevents it from being truly elite.

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tier's many prominent Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming Ground-types such as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Iron Crown. Snarl also makes it difficult for common special wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-B, and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hit both foes for solid damage, and make it difficult for non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to use its great bulk and low Speed to act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wallbreakers like Landorus and Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic bulk to slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful amount of Dragon-types in the format, including Regidrago, opposing Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, and leverage Raging Bolt's ability to threaten them back; Tera Fairy also provides useful neutralities against Ground- and Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, and Chien-Pao. Tera Water is an option for teams that wish to preserve Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo while still providing a typing neutral against Ground-type attacks at the cost of its matchup against the Ogerpon formes and Rillaboom.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to survive two Blizzards from Modest Kyurem and almost always withstand Adamant Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against Ogerpon-H and Ogerpon-W by resisting their STAB moves, which allows it to trade incredibly well with them using strong neutral STAB attacks.
  • Raging Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves and uses Snarl to do solid damage and greatly reduce their damage output, all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-F, respectively. Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to strongly damage it with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire-type attacks. Snarl also irritates Expanding Force users on fullroom teams like Hatterene, Necrozma, and Hoopa-U by lowering their damage output and wasting Trick Room turns, greatly disrupting their gameplan.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from Pokemon that can deal with the powerful Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, Landorus and Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao.
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan Ninetales, and Rillaboom appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, and Chi-Yu with Snarl. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate Raging Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team.
  • While not greatly threatened by them, Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle against Chien-Pao, which can use its Speed to circumvent Thunderclap's priority with Sucker Punch and can massively damage Bolt with powerful physical STAB Ice-type moves.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/schister.619632
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gephicka.553122
Grammar checked by:
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a blue banana
 
Snarl also irritates Expanding Force users on fullroom teams like Hatterene, Necrozma, and Hoopa-U by lowering their damage output and wasting Trick Room turns, greatly disrupting their gameplan.
If "fullroom" means "full Trick Room", write that instead.
 
[OVERVIEW]
Assault Vest Raging Bolt makes the most of its titanic statline 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 high damage with minimal investment and focus on maximizing its bulk, stat checking a large variety of special attackers present in the format. However, Raging Bolt sports an abysmal matchup against Landorus and a poor matchup against Ursaluna-B, two of the most common special wallbreakers in the format, as it can't threaten enough damage to incapacitate them or use its powerful Electric-Type STAB moves safely around them. Additionally, Raging Bolt's low Speed leaves it vulnerable to Ice-types and other Dragon-types in the format, having to rely on its titanic bulk or Terastallizr to survive these matchups. Overall, while Raging Bolt's impressive stats and excellent movepool give it a fantastic toolkit that can impact almost any board, its typing hinders it against a large portion of the Doubles metagame's strongest attackers and prevents it from being truly elite.

[SET]
Assault Vest Utility (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy / Water
EVs: 248 HP / 60 Def / 92 SpA / 108 SpD
Modest Nature
- Thunderclap
- Draco Meteor
- Thunderbolt
- Snarl / Electroweb / Volt Switch

[SET COMMENTS]
  • Thunderclap is a useful strong priority attack to clean up weakened foes and circumvent Raging Bolt's middling Speed stat and opposing teams' speed control.
  • Draco Meteor is Raging Bolt's strongest attack, allowing it to OHKO some of the tier's many prominent Dragon-types such as Gouging Fire, Dragonite, and Roaring Moon and providing a solid way to chunk incoming Ground-types such as Landorus.
  • Thunderbolt is Raging Bolt's most consistent STAB move, allowing it to OHKO maximum HP Tornadus with the given EVs and 2HKO Terastallized Ogerpon-W.
  • Snarl is a fantastic disruptive tool that allows Raging Bolt to prevent opposing special attackers from making significant progress, letting it exploit its stellar bulk and typing to enter battle against common special attacking threats in Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Iron Crown. Snarl also makes it difficult for common special wallbreakers like Landorus, Ursaluna-B, and Regidrago to find entry points on Raging Bolt to remove it, having their damage severely reduced if they switch in directly.
  • Electroweb is a good disruptive STAB option to hinder speed control from Tornadus, hit both foes for solid damage, and make it difficult for non-Ground-types to find safe entry.
  • Volt Switch is an option to allow Raging Bolt to use its great bulk and low Speed to act as a pivot, providing safe entry points for aggressive partners such as Landorus and Chien-Pao against targets such as Gholdengo.
  • Snarl is a great option for bulky structures centered around Pokemon like Diancie and Okidogi that don't like facing the tier's common special wallbreakers. Electroweb is typically best on teams centered around strong wallbreakers like Landorus and Ogerpon-H that focus on maintaining a Speed advantage to burst through enemy teams. Volt Switch is best on offensive teams that appreciate Raging Bolt's fantastic bulk to slowly pivot and bring in devastating threats like Choice Scarf Chi-Yu and Chien-Pao.
  • Tera Fairy is recommended to make Raging Bolt immune to STAB attacks from the plentiful amount of Dragon-types in the format, including Regidrago, opposing Raging Bolt, and Dragonite, and leverage Raging Bolt's ability to threaten them back; Tera Fairy also provides useful neutralities against Ground- and Ice-type attacks from Landorus, Kyurem, and Chien-Pao. Tera Water is an option for teams that wish to preserve Raging Bolt's ability to check Gholdengo while still providing a typing neutral against Ground-type attacks at the cost of its matchup against the Ogerpon formes and Rillaboom.
  • The given EV spread allows Raging Bolt to survive two Blizzards from Modest Kyurem and almost always withstand Adamant Chien-Pao's Icicle Crash.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt leverages its Dragon typing incredibly well against Ogerpon-H and Ogerpon-W by resisting their STAB moves, which allows it to trade incredibly well with them using strong neutral STAB attacks.
  • Raging Bolt is an incredibly potent switch-in to Gholdengo and Iron Crown, as it resists their Steel-type moves and uses Snarl to do solid damage and greatly reduce their damage output, all while largely ignoring their most common partners in Ogerpon and Indeedee-F, respectively. Raging Bolt's incredible bulk and access to priority and Snarl also make it a premier check to Trick Room special attackers, notably using Torkoal's own sun against it for a damage boost and being able to strongly damage it with Thunderclap to mitigate Eruption damage while resisting Fire-type attacks. Snarl also irritates Expanding Force users on full Trick Room teams like Hatterene, Necrozma, and Hoopa-U by lowering their damage output and wasting Trick Room turns, greatly disrupting their gameplan.
  • Raging Bolt greatly benefits from Pokemon that can deal with the powerful Ground-types of the format, as even with Snarl access and Assault Vest, Landorus and Ursaluna-B can quickly break it down. Some ideal partners include Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao.
  • Teammates like Diancie, Alolan Ninetales, and Rillaboom appreciate Assault Vest Raging Bolt's help in shutting down special attackers like Gholdengo, Tornadus, and Chi-Yu with Snarl. Teammates that can provide healing such as Sinistcha and Amoonguss also appreciate Raging Bolt's ability to slow down the pace of games with Snarl and provide space to heal the team.
  • While not greatly threatened by them, Assault Vest Raging Bolt struggles to make meaningful progress against some of the tier's bulkiest physical attackers such as Ting-Lu, Kingambit, and Iron Hands. All of these Pokemon are largely unfazed by any disruptive or damaging tools Raging Bolt can offer and will require other pieces of the team to deal with them.
  • Assault Vest Raging Bolt can struggle against Chien-Pao, which can use its Speed to circumvent Thunderclap's priority with Sucker Punch and can massively damage Bolt with powerful physical STAB Ice-type moves.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/schister.619632
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/logice.617069/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gephicka.553122
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/a-blue-banana.649096/
 
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