National Dex Barraskewda [GP 1/1]

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[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to its high Attack and Speed in conjunction with its rain- and Tera-boosted Water-type attacks. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Liquidation's chance to drop Defense potentially lets Barraskewda beat Pokemon it normally can't on the switch in like Latias and Rotom-W. Aqua Jet allows it to finish off dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Flip Turn allows Barraskewda to pivot out on Pokemon like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates like Mega Swampert. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn and Archaludon after Stealth Rock and can chip Ogerpon-W on the switch. Psychic Fangs is a niche move that allows it to beat Pokemon that it would otherwise struggle against like Toxapex, but it doesn't do much else. Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially breaking Toxapex after Defense drops. Pelipper is necessary teammate to set up rain, remove entry hazards, or pivot out with U-turn and let Barraskewda in safely due to its extreme frailty. Mega Swampert is an important teammate thanks to its immunity to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Rotom-W; it also threatens Toxapex and can wear down foes like Rotom-W and Ferrothorn so Barraskewda has an easier time muscling past them. Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn are necessary; they can also set up hazards that will wear down Barraskewda's checks like Ferrothorn and Rotom-W. Iron Treads in particular is a good partner because it pivots in Barraskewda with Volt Switch and removes hazards so Barraskewda can break through teams more often. In return, Barraskewda forces out Fighting- and Fire-types that check Iron Treads and Ferrothorn such as Mega Lopunny, Iron Valiant, and Volcarona. While it has a great Attack stat, Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist Water-type attacks like Dondozo, Alomomola, Dragonite, and Tera Dragon Zapdos, so Archaludon is a good partner to threaten these foes. In return, Barraskewda threatens Ground- and Fire-types that check Archaludon such as Gliscor, Ting-Lu, and Volcarona.

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i'll be checking this; please tag me when you've fixed the formatting like hidin asked (one paragraph, not two, add the set name besides the pokemon name and put the pokemon name in parenthesis) and make sure to reread this for basic content/grammar errors
 
[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker Sweeper (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation / Waterfall
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best sweepers and wallbreakers on rain teams due to Its high attack and speed. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. it reaches a remarkably high speed stat that allows it to outspeed every unboosted Pokemon in the meta and even some boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder and Unburden Hawlucha. Liquidation/Waterfall are very spammable moves that deal incredible damage under rain, Generally Liquidation is preferred thanks to the higher base power and a chance of lowering the opponent's defense stat and allowing it to one-shot popular mons like Slowking-G and defensive Great Tusk. these are stab moves, please explain what liquidation actually allows barraskewda to do without adding filler text (e.g. defense drop makes switchins like latias suddenly lose to it if chipped) Aqua Jet lets it finish low health mons while avoiding priority like Thunderclap from Raging Bolt and Sucker Punch from Samurott-H while also letting it act as a revenge killer if there's no rain active against things like Sand Rush Excadrill. there's no reason to risk a 50/50 against raging bolt (not that there is much of one anw, if it's healthy it clicks another move 99% of the time, so u just switch into ferro / mpert depending on what u think will happen); you need to specifically highlight aqua jet's ability to finish off foes outside of rain, but don't mention stuff like exca bc exca is incredibly mediocre Flip turn allows it to pivot out on mons like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates. Close Combat KOes is its strongest coverage move And helps it kill mention significantly denting stuff like raging bolt on the switch Ferrothorn, Ogerpon-Wellspring and Archaludon after rocks. You will likely use Tera Water every time possible to spike up its offensive potential and letting it 2HKO even resists. "you" should not be used to refer to the mon (you are not using tera water, barra is); mention what tera water specifically helps against too (e.g. latias/washtom/letting you potentially break pex after defense drops) and how it eases prediction For its teammates, add comma Pelipper is needed to set up rain and pivot out with U-turn or to remove hazards, and Mega Swampert is another helpful teammate so it can take advantage of the electric immunity and with its ground typing it can Earthquake Toxapex and water absorb Clodsire that shuts Barraskewda down completely. It also has access to Stealth Rocks which is much appreciated to let Barraskewda OHKO every non-boosted neutral mon in this tier, you are running rocks on ferro/arch 99% of the time because mpert wants its last slot to beat stuff like opposing ferro more often However due to lackluster defensive stats this would be happening regardless of its defensive stats because it's weak to these moves Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates are nice to have like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn. While Having a great offense Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist water like Dondozo, Alomomola and Dragonite so most rain teams run Archaludon that threatens water types with electro shot and forces dragon types to switch with Dragon Pulse.

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this isn't 1/2 yet, tag me for another look after you've done the above. i'd suggest looking through the Spelling and Grammar Standards to fix stuff so gpers don't have to struggle as much in the future.
 
[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to Its high attack and speed. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Having Liquidation enables Barraskewda To kill some popular mons like Slowking-G and Great tusk while also having the chance of lowering foes defense and makes it beat switching mons like rotom-W and Urshifu-R and force them to switch. stating that it kos mons that don't resist it isn't needed, just say the defense drop lets you beat mons you normally can't on the switch in. urshifu is a bad example though, replace that With Aqua jet it allows it to finish dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcaron, Mega Diancie you're faster and Iron Boulder. Flip turn allows it to pivot out on mons like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn, Ogerpon-Wellspring and Archaludon and raging bolt on the switch after rocks. it takes more than rocks to beat bolt, specify after chip damage instead to apply to both ogerpon and bolt asw It will likely use Tera Water every time possible to spike up its offensive potential and letting it 2HKO even resists like Latias and potentially break Toxapex after a defense drop Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially break Toxapex after Defense drops. For its teammates, Pelipper is needed to set up rain and pivot out with U-turn or to remove hazards. add period and Mega Swampert is another helpful teammate so it can take advantage of the electric immunity and with its ground typing it can Earthquake Toxapex and water absorb Clodsire that shuts Barraskewda down completely. keep the pex point but go in depth on other things; water absorb clod is awful and shouldn't be mentioned here. elaborate on mpert wearing down stuff like washtom and beating mtias and dnite with ice punch for barra asw Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates are nice to have like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn which they also can sets up rocks. which are important for what? While Having a great offense Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist water like Dondozo, Alomomola and Dragonite so most rain teams run Archaludon that threatens water types with electro shot and forces dragon types to switch with Dragon Pulse.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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still a lot missing, tag me again and i'll hopefully give it the final recheck.
 
[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to Its high attack and speed. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Having Liquidation having the chance of the defense drop lets you beat mons you normally can't on the switch in like Latias and Rotom-W. With Aqua jet it allows it to finish dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Flip turn allows it to pivot out on mons like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn, Archaludon after rocks and can chip Ogerpon-W and raging bolt on the switch. potentially break Toxapex after a defense drop Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially break Toxapex after Defense drops. For its teammates, Pelipper is needed to set up rain and pivot out with U-turn or to remove hazards. Mega Swampert is an important teammate thanks to its ground typing it can earthquacke Toxapex and can wear down foes like Rotom-W and can beat Mega Latias and Dragonite with Ice punch. Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates are nice to have like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn which they also can sets up rocks that it will allows it to take important KOes like Zamazanta with a defense boost. the important stuff is actually dealing more damage to stuff like opposing ferro / washtom (also reword to just say hazards and not rocks bc ferro can still spike) While Having a great offense Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist water like Dondozo, Alomomola and Dragonite so most rain teams run Archaludon that threatens water types with electro shot and forces dragon types to switch with Dragon Pulse. you definitely need to mention zap; barra forces a lot of mons to tera water and zap appreciates being able to exploit them. also mention draco instead of dragon pulse for arch.

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SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet / Psychic Fangs Don’t know why this wasn’t mentioned as it just straight up 2hkos pex, make sure to include this in move mentions
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to Its high attack and speed in conjunction with its Rain and Tera boosted Water-type attacks spamming Tera water liquid is barra’s whole thing. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Having Liquidation having the chance of the defense drop lets you Barraskewda beat mons Pokémon you it normally can't on the switch in like Latias and Rotom-W basically this is reworded to not include “you” as it’s not exactly the most desirable word to put in an analysis. With Aqua jet it allows it to finish dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Flip turn allows it to pivot out on mons Pokémon like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates such as?. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn, Archaludon after rocks Stealth Rock and can chip Ogerpon-W and raging bolt you can just click liquidation into this on the switch. Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially break Toxapex after Defense drops. For its teammates, Pelipper is needed to set up rain and pivot out with U-turn and let Barraskewda in safely due to its extreme frailty or to remove hazards. Mega Swampert is an important teammate thanks to its ground typing giving it an immunity to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Rotom-W it can earthquacke that also threatens Toxapex and can wear down foes like Rotom-W and can beat Mega Latias and Dragonite with Ice punch and Ferrothorn so Barraskewda has an easier time being able to muscle past them basically clarification on what mswamp does for Barra. For the 2nd part 1. Mswamp doesn’t even run ice punch always as its main 4th move (and doesn’t even always beat mtias with it) 2. Barra + Mswamp is so threatening because they overload their checks. Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates are nice to have like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn which they also can sets up hazards that will allows it to deal more damage to wear down Barraskewda’s checks like hazards don’t exactly allow Barraskewda to deal more damage Ferrothorn and Rotom-W. Iron Treads in particular is a good partner because it pivots in Barraskewda via Volt Switch and removes hazards so Barraskewda can break through teams more often. In return, Barraskewda forces out Fighting- and Fire-types that check Iron Treads and Ferrothorn such as Volcarona, Mega Lopunny, and Iron Valiant. I feel this was necessary to mention because Iron Treads is quite the good partner for Barra, while also giving more insight on the synergy between the steels + Barra While Hhaving a great offense Attack stat the wording here just sounded super confusing Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist wWater-type attacks like Dondozo, Alomomola, Dragonite and tera water Tera Dragon Zapdos doesn’t run tera water really anymore Zapdos so most rain teams run Archaludon is a good partner that threatens water types with electro shot and forces dragon types to switch with Draco meteor the aforementioned Dragon- and Water-types, while in return Barraskewda threatens Ground- and Fire-types that check Archaludon such as Volcarona, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. this gives more reasoning on why arch pairs well with Barra.
This is not 2/2 yet. Once done implement this and tag me and I’ll look through it again. If you have questions by all means ask on discord
 
bodi said:
Aqua jet allows it to finish dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Psychic Fangs is another option that allows Barraskewda to more easily break through Toxapex, although it doesn’t hit any other notable Pokemon.
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Ok I changed my mind on pfangs, remove it from the move list but still mention it after ajet like here because I feel it’s worth mentioning. After that probably 2/2
 
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[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to Its its high attack and speed Attack and Speed in conjunction with its Rain rain and Tera boosted Water-type attacks. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Liquidation having the chance of the defense drop Liquidation's chance to drop Defense potentially lets Barraskewda beat Pokémon Pokemon it normally can't on the switch in like Latias and Rotom-W. Aqua jet Jet allows it to finish dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Psychic fangs Fangs is a niche move that allows it to beat pokémon that it struggle to beat Pokemon that it would otherwise struggle against like Toxapex, (AC) but it doesn't do much else. (I don't see Psychic Fangs in the above moveset. Which move should it be slashed with?) Flip turn Turn allows it Barraskewda to pivot out on Pokémon Pokemon like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates like mega Mega Swampert. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn (RC) and Archaludon after Stealth Rock and can chip Ogerpon-W on the switch. Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially break Toxapex after Defense drops. For its teammates, Pelipper is needed to set up rain, (AC) remove entry hazards, or pivot out with U-turn and let Barraskewda in safely due to its extreme frailty. or to remove hazards (re ordering this helps w/ flow as you only have a longer explanation for U-turn) Mega Swampert is an important teammate thanks to its ground typing giving it an immunity to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Rotom-W; (ASC) it that also threatens Toxapex and can wear down foes like Rotom-W and Ferrothorn, (AC) so Barraskewda has an easier time being able to muscle muscling past them. Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt so defensive teammates are necessary like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn; (ASC) they can also set which they also can sets up hazards that will allows it to wear down Barraskewda’s checks like Ferrothorn and Rotom-W. Iron Treads in particular is a good partner because it pivots in Barraskewda via with Volt Switch and removes hazards, (AC) so Barraskewda can break through teams more often. In return, Barraskewda forces out Fighting- and Fire-types that check Iron Treads and Ferrothorn such as Volcarona, Mega Lopunny, and Iron Valiant. While having it has a great Attack stat, (AC) Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist Water-type attacks like Dondozo, Alomomola, Dragonite, (AC) and Tera Dragon Zapdos, (AC) so Archaludon is a good partner that threatens aforementioned Dragon- and Water-types, while in to threaten these foes. In return, Barraskewda threatens Ground- and Fire-types that check Archaludon such as Volcarona, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu.
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sunny004 said:
(I don't see Psychic Fangs in the above moveset. Which move should it be slashed with?)
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It was a mention but not slashed because it does have a use in breaking pex easier, but besides that it doesn’t really hit anything else notable, so that’s why it is only put as a mention; stuff like this has happened before where moves have been mentioned only in the analysis but not slashed because of some major drawback or opportunity cost that they have when used despite the small use they may bring to the table.
 
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[SET]
Rain Wallbreaker (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Band Barraskewda serves as one of the best wallbreakers on rain teams due to its high Attack and Speed in conjunction with its rain-(AH) and Tera-(AH)boosted Water-type attacks. With Swift Swim, Barraskewda outspeeds nearly the entire metagame, including boosted foes like Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Hawlucha. Liquidation's chance to drop Defense potentially lets Barraskewda beat Pokemon it normally can't on the switch in like Latias and Rotom-W. Aqua Jet allows it to finish off dangerous foes outside of rain like Volcarona and Iron Boulder. Psychic Fangs is a niche move that allows it to beat Pokemon that it would otherwise struggle against like Toxapex, but it doesn't do much else. (I would move this Psychic Fangs sentence to below the CC sentence since the move is no longer slashed, can just talk about it there as a niche alternative) Flip Turn allows Barraskewda to pivot out on Pokemon like Toxapex and Dondozo while also chipping them and giving a free switch to its teammates like Mega Swampert. Close Combat KOes Ferrothorn and Archaludon after Stealth Rock and can chip Ogerpon-W on the switch. Tera Water allows Barraskewda to significantly dent checks like Mega Latias and Rotom-W, as well as potentially break breaking Toxapex after Defense drops. For its teammates, Pelipper is needed a necessary teammate to set up rain, remove entry hazards, or pivot out with U-turn and let Barraskewda in safely due to its extreme frailty. Mega Swampert is an important teammate thanks to its immunity to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Rotom-W; it also threatens Toxapex and can wear down foes like Rotom-W and Ferrothorn, (RC) so Barraskewda has an easier time muscling past them. Barraskewda is easily revenge killed by Rillaboom and Raging Bolt, (AC) so defensive teammates are necessary like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn are necessary; they can also set up hazards that will wear down Barraskewda’s Barraskewda's (Use ASCII apostrophes) checks like Ferrothorn and Rotom-W. Iron Treads in particular is a good partner because it pivots in Barraskewda with Volt Switch and removes hazards, (RC) so Barraskewda can break through teams more often. In return, Barraskewda forces out Fighting- and Fire-types that check Iron Treads and Ferrothorn such as Volcarona, Mega Lopunny, and Iron Valiant, and Volcarona (Order of examples should match order of listed types). While it has a great Attack stat, Barraskewda struggles to beat defensive foes that resist Water-type attacks like Dondozo, Alomomola, Dragonite, and Tera Dragon Zapdos, so Archaludon is a good partner to threaten these foes. In return, Barraskewda threatens Ground- and Fire-types that check Archaludon such as Volcarona, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu, and Volcarona.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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