PU Basculin QC 2/2 GP 1/1

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[OVERVIEW]
Utilizing Adaptability and its good Speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker and outspeeds common offensive threats such as the Silvally formes. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak, and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB moves frequently; outside of using its STAB moves, Basculin lacks in damage output. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.

[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage option in order to deal with certain Water-resistant and Water-immune Pokemon like Arctovish, Heliolisk, and Guzzlord; it can also do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Aqua Jet is used to revenge kill faster threats such as Archeops and Talonflame. Ice Beam is an alternative to hit opposing Grass-types like Tangela and Alolan Exeggutor. Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is a great example, and it appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes entry hazard support from Mesprit, which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to help Basculin switch in safely. Mesprit also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity. Both Heliolisk and Mesprit can also form a VoltTurn core with Basculin.

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Ice Beam is Basculin's best coverage option, allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena, as well as certain Water-immune Pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switch-ins like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple non-Heal Bell Vaporeon and Lanturn. However, locking into Toxic has its drawbacks of forcing Basculin out versus Steel- and Poison-types like Togedemaru and Weezing. Toxicroak is a nice partner for Basculin as it is one of the best Vaporeon checks; Toxicroak is able to set up freely on it due to being immune to Toxic and Scald. In return, Basculin handles Pokemon like Palossand and is also able to bait in Weezing, which Toxicroak struggles against. Other Pokemon that can take advantage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula, and it punishes incoming switch-ins with Knock Off chip damage, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toy Time King, 307004]]
- Quality checked by: [[UberSkitty, 355061], [Juno, 444224]]
- Grammar checked by: [[martha, 384270]]

 

[UberSkitty]

[OVERVIEW]
Utilising Adaptability and its good speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB frequently and outside of using its STAB, Basculin is lacking in damage. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.
(talk about its solid speed tier)
[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage in order to deal with (certain)Water resists and immunities like Arctovish, Heliolisk and Guzzlord while being able to do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Ice Beam is optional over Aqua Jet to hit Tangela but Aqua Jet can be used to revenge kill faster threats like Archeops and Talonflame. Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is an example of this, being immune to Vaporeon's damaging move Scald. Heliolisk appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes hazard support from Mesprit which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to get Basculin in safely and also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity.(both heliolisk and mesprit also form a voltturn core with basculin)

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Hydro Pump is Basculin's strongest Water STAB and deals massive damage to anything that isn't a resist or immunity. (common knowledge, remove)Ice Beam is Basculin's only coverage option, allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena; as well as (certain)Water immune pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switchins like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple the common Water immune Vaporeon, which walls Basculin completely and pressure it to use Heal Bell which can enable teammates like Heliolisk to come in freely. (doesnt heliolisk already come in pretty freely on vaporeon)Heliolisk is a nice partner and one of the best Vaporeon checks in the tier and is efficient at taking care of Vaporeon because it takes no damage from Scald. (you already mention heliolisk in the last set, find another example)Other partners that abuse the high usage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Whimsicott is able to use Substitute to bypass Toxic attempts while using Encore to shut it down. (this is kinda random, remove)Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula and punishes incoming switchins with Knock Off chip, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toy Time King, 307004]]
- Quality checked by: [[UberSkitty, 355061], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

QC 1/2

 

[Hera]

am check, comments in bold

[OVERVIEW]
Utilising Adaptability and its good speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker (wording makes it sound like it's doing both at once) while outspeeding common offensive threats such as Silvally formes. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB frequently and outside of using its STAB, Basculin is lacking in damage. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.

[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage in order to deal with certain Water resists and immunities like Arctovish, Heliolisk and Guzzlord while being able to do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Ice Beam is optional over Aqua Jet to hit Tangela but Aqua Jet can be used to revenge kill faster threats like Archeops and Talonflame (Aqua Jet is first slash so these should be switched). Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is an example of this, being immune to Vaporeon's damaging move Scald. Heliolisk appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes hazard support from Mesprit which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to get Basculin in safely and also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity. Both these pokemon form a voltturn core with Basculin.

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Ice Beam is Basculin's only coverage option (it has stuff like Mud Shot, so specify that it's the best coverage option), allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena; as well as certain Water immune pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switchins like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple the common Water immune Vaporeon, which walls Basculin completely and pressure it to use Heal Bell which can enable teammates like Togedemaru to come in freely. Toxicroak is a nice partner for Basculin to have, as it is one of the best Vaporeon checks, being able to set up freely on it due to being immune to Toxic and Scald. In return, Basculin handles pokemon like Palossand and is also able to bait in Weezing, which Toxicroak struggles against. Other partners that abuse the high usage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Whimsicott is able to use Substitute to bypass Toxic attempts. Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula and punishes incoming switchins with Knock Off chip, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toy Time King, 307004]]
- Quality checked by: [[UberSkitty, 355061], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Jade]

add remove comments
anything i did not comment on from the above check is fine to add. also for future reference Heracross2.0 its a lot easier if you use hide tags instead of directly quoting the post when amchecking

Basculin

[OVERVIEW]
Utilising Adaptability and its good speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker (wording makes it sound like it's doing both at once) the wording here makes enough sense while outspeeding common offensive threats such as Silvally formes. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB frequently and outside of using its STAB, Basculin is lacking in damage. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.

[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage in order to deal with certain Water resists and immunities like Arctovish, Heliolisk and Guzzlord while being able to do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Ice Beam is optional over Aqua Jet to hit Tangela but Aqua Jet can be used to revenge kill faster threats like Archeops and Talonflame (Aqua Jet is first slash so these should be switched). Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is an example of this, being immune to Vaporeon's damaging move Scald. this is worded weirdly so either rephrase it or remove the latter part. Heliolisk appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes hazard support from Mesprit which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to get Basculin in safely and also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity. Both these pokemon form a voltturn core with Basculin.

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Ice Beam is Basculin's only coverage option (it has stuff like Mud Shot, so specify that it's the best coverage option), allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena; as well as certain Water immune pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switchins like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple the common Water immune Vaporeon, which walls Basculin completely and pressure it to use Heal Bell which can enable teammates like Togedemaru to come in freely. the latter part feels like filler, just say that it cripples non-heal bell vap and lanturn. also mention that toxic is a horrible move to lock into. Toxicroak is a nice partner for Basculin to have, as it is one of the best Vaporeon checks, being able to set up freely on it due to being immune to Toxic and Scald. In return, Basculin handles pokemon like Palossand and is also able to bait in Weezing, which Toxicroak struggles against. Other partners that abuse the high usage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Whimsicott is able to use Substitute to bypass Toxic attempts. this feels unrelated to basculin. Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula and punishes incoming switchins with Knock Off chip, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.

2/2 when this is done. also capitalize pokemon --> Pokemon just to make GP's job easier + cut down on the fluff

 

[hmsa2012]

This is just an amcheck. Refer to the actual GP when it is posted in this thread.

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Basculin

[OVERVIEW]
Utilising Adaptability and its good speed Speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker while and outspeeding outspeeds common offensive threats such as the Silvally formes. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB moves frequently; (ASC) and outside of using its STAB moves, Basculin is lacking lacks in damage output. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.

[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage option in order to deal with certain Water resists and immunities Water-resistant and Water-immune Pokemon like Arctovish, Heliolisk and Guzzlord; (ASC) while being able to it can also do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Aqua Jet is used to revenge kill faster threats such as Archeops and Talonflame. Ice Beam is an alternative to hit opposing Grass-types like Tangela and Alolan Exeggutor. Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is an great example of this and appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes entry hazard support from Mesprit, (AC) which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to get help Basculin switch in safely and also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity. Both of these Pokemon form a voltturn VoltTurn core with Basculin. (sentence subject is a bit ambiguous, as you are referring two Pokemon AND Basuclin can form a VoltTurn. You might want to re-state your subject Pokemon more clear, i.e. Both Heliolisk and Mespirit can also form a VoltTurn core...)

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Ice Beam is Basculin's best coverage option, allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena; (RSC), (AC) as well as certain Water-immune (AH) pokemon Pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switch-ins (AH) like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple weaken non-Heal Bell Vaporeon and Lanturn. However, locking into Toxic has its drawbacks of forcing Basculin out versus Steel- and Poison-types like Togedemaru and Weezing. Toxicroak is a nice partner for Basculin to have, (RC) as it is one of the best Vaporeon checks, (RC); (ASC) being Toxicroak is able to set up freely on it due to being immune to Toxic and Scald. In return, Basculin handles Pokemon like Palossand and is also able to bait in Weezing, which Toxicroak struggles against. Other partners Pokemon that abuse the high usage can take advantage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula, (AC) and punishes incoming switch-ins (AH) with Knock Off chip damage, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.

 

[autumn]

stamping the above with some changes for 1/1 my colours are add remove comments

Basculin

[OVERVIEW]
Utilising Utilizing Adaptability and its good speed Speed tier, Basculin is a good offensive threat in the metagame, being able to function as both a strong physical and special wallbreaker while and outspeeding outspeeds (keep original) common offensive threats such as the Silvally formes. Unfortunately, the tier is full of common Water immunities such as Vaporeon, Toxicroak, (AC smogon uses serial/oxford comma) and Heliolisk, which prevent Basculin from spamming its STAB moves frequently; (ASC) and outside of using its STAB moves, Basculin is lacking lacks in damage output. While it takes a bit of support to use, once the Water immunities are dealt with, Basculin can use its high damage output to wallbreak efficiently.

[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Flip Turn
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Aqua Jet / Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
ability: Adaptability
nature: Jolly / Naive
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Superpower is Basculin's preferred coverage option in order to deal with certain Water resists and immunities Water-resistant and Water-immune Pokemon like Arctovish, Heliolisk, (AC) and Guzzlord; (ASC) while being able to it can also do decent damage to physically defensive Vaporeon. Aqua Jet is used to revenge kill faster threats such as Archeops and Talonflame. Ice Beam is an alternative to hit opposing Grass-types like Tangela and Alolan Exeggutor. Basculin appreciates partners that are able to deal with Vaporeon, which shuts down Basculin. Heliolisk is an great (optional change because this changes content so @ writer do whats most accurate) example, (AC) of this and it appreciates Basculin's ability to deal with special walls like Gigalith and Assault Vest Guzzlord. Basculin welcomes entry hazard support from Mesprit, (AC) which enables it to increase its wallbreaking capability. In addition, Mesprit offers slow U-turn support in order to get help Basculin switch in safely. (period) Mesprit and also provides Healing Wish support, increasing Basculin's longevity. Both of these Pokemon form a voltturn VoltTurn core with Basculin. (sentence subject is a bit ambiguous, as you are referring two Pokemon AND Basuclin can form a VoltTurn. You might want to re-state your subject Pokemon more clear, i.e. Both Heliolisk and Mespirit can also form a VoltTurn core...)

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Ice Beam
move 3: Flip Turn
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Adaptability
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Ice Beam is Basculin's best coverage option, allowing it to hit opposing Dragon- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Silvally-Dragon and Tsareena; (RSC), (AC) as well as certain Water-immune (AH) pokemon Pokemon like Toxicroak and Heliolisk for good damage. Flip Turn lets Basculin get free damage on its incoming switch-ins (AH) like Lanturn while maintaining offensive momentum, which helps its teammates. Toxic is essential to cripple weaken (original is fine so up to you in general @ amchecker try to avoid changing words when the original is fine because gp wants to preserve the voice of the writer) non-Heal Bell Vaporeon and Lanturn. However, locking into Toxic has its drawbacks of forcing Basculin out versus Steel- and Poison-types like Togedemaru and Weezing. Toxicroak is a nice partner for Basculin to have, (RC) as it is one of the best Vaporeon checks, (RC); (ASC) being Toxicroak is able to set up freely on it due to being immune to Toxic and Scald. In return, Basculin handles Pokemon like Palossand and is also able to bait in Weezing, which Toxicroak struggles against. Other partners Pokemon that abuse the high usage can take advantage of Vaporeon like Whimsicott are good teammates for Basculin. Defensive partners like Assault Vest Guzzlord are nice to handle the strong Electric-types in the tier like Heliolisk and Galvantula, (AC) and it punishes incoming switch-ins (AH) with Knock Off chip damage, which is vital for Basculin to secure KOs.