Blacephalon [ QC 0/2 ]

[pix]

[Overview]
Blacephalon has outstanding Special Attack stat and can snowball with Beast Boost and it has a super good dual STAB with a secondary fire STAB to hit some Ghost types switch-ins. Choice Specs Blacephalon is a super strong Wallbreaker with very few switch-ins. Choice Scarf Blacephalon outspeed most of the unboosted metagame. Beast Boost allows Blacephalon to boost its Special Attack by one stage after each KO boosting its late-game cleaning capabilities. Blacephalon is also super frail meaning that it cannot switch-in into anything and needs to kill its target if it doesn’t want to get OHKO back. Blacephalon is very vulnerable to entry hazard and especially Stealth Rocks. It also has a huge weakness to Dark-Types like Weavile and Tyranitar.


[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flamethrower
move 2: Fire Blast / Overheat
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD /252 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Blacephalon acts as a great revenge killer and wallbreaker. Flamethrower is Blacephalon's main reliable STAB move. Fire Blast and Overheat help Blacephalon break through Specially defensive walls such as Hipppdown and Specially Defensive Landorus-T. This is not why you use Fire Blast or Overheat, at least on the Specs set. SpD Hippowdon is an almost guaranteed 2HKO with Specs Flamethrower and SpD Lando-T is a guaranteed 2HKO with the same move. Moreover, Overheat is not an OHKO meaning that you won’t come against these Pokemon but they can’t switch-in into you even if you click Flamethrower. Fire Blast is mainly a stronger but less accurate Flamethrower and is imo mainly useful on the Scarf set, while Overheat is an option to instantly nuke something on a forced switch. Shadow Ball allows Blacephalon to hit Bulky Water-Types and Heatran. Trick allows Blacephalon to cripple switch-ins like Blissey and Tyranitar making it harder for them to switch into Blacephalon's other moves later on. Trick is indeed super useful to cripple Blissey, but I’m unsure about mentioning Tyranitar here as Specially defensive Tyranitar is not the only set used and a decent number of Ttar are Choice Band, meaning you don’t want to trick them. You could probably specify Specially defensive Tyranitar. I would also add Toxapex in the switch-ins you can cripple with Trick (even though it’s mainly true for the Scarf set). Blacephalon appreciates Defog and Stealth rock support from the likes of Landorus-T. Lando-T is not the only Defogger, mention at least Corviknight too. It’s also worth noting that they bring a slow U-turn support which is super useful to help Blacephalon coming in. Blacephalon also likes the support from Dragapult to threaten the likes of Heatran. I get your idea there, but I would rather say that Dragapult is a good offensive partner as they can overwhelm their shared checks (Heatran being one of them), because Dragapult doesn’t really threaten Heatran on its own (unless Hydro Pump Pult).

I think you should divide this in two paragraphs. First one to describe the set and second one to explain in what kind of teams it fits and give examples of good partners. To help you doing so, here are some things you can talk about:

• Emphasis on Choice Specs Blacephalon stupidly strong fire power, being able to 2HKO most Pokemon in the tier (bar things like Blissey and Tyranitar) and thus being able to force progress against most teams.
• Talk about Scarf Blace’s ability to snowball through teams super easily because of Beast Boost + outspeeding most of the tier.
• In the second paragraph, you can explain why it fits into balance and offensive teams (forcing progress with a Choice Specs set while benefiting from slow pivots to come in for instance for balance teams).
• For partners try to think about good slow pivots, Pokemon who switch into Blacephalon’s revenge killers and Pokemon who helps it overwhelming its check or who can benefit from it tricking something.

Last comment I would have is that you could make two separate sets, one for the Specs one and one for the Scarf one (I’m not sure if you are allowed too though), as it may make the analysis clearer.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[pix, 554354]]
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[ironwater]

Hey there, I made an AM QC check for Blacephalon:

AM Check

Comments are in blue

[Overview]
Blacephalon has outstanding Special Attack stat and can snowball with Beast Boost. Allowing it to beat common Ghost-Type switch-ins. I think the first two sentences should be one (I don’t understand why the second sentence is there to be fair) and I wouldn’t mention Beast Boost as a way to beat common Ghost type switch-ins as your opponent will go directly into them without letting you get a boost from Beast Boost. Blacephalon sets itself apart from other wallbreakers thanks to its good Speed stat which lets it act as a late-game cleaner and revenge killer when equipped with a Choice Scarf or Choice Specs. I think you should make one sentence explaining that Choice Specs Blacephalon is a super strong Wallbreaker with very few switch-ins, and another sentence explaining why Choice Scarf Blace is a very good Speed control tool and revenge killer/late game cleaner with Beast Boost (mainly because it outspeed most unboosted Pokemon). Beast Boost allows Blacephalon to boost its Special Attack or Speed by one stage after each KO boosting its late-game cleaning capabilities. I don’t think you need to mention Speed boosting Blacephalon because I believe it’s super uncommon and it’s not even in the set detailed in the analysis. Blacephalon is very vulnerable to entry hazard and stealth rocks. It also has a huge weakness to Dark-Types like Bisharp and Tyranitar. Entry hazard are indeed annoying, but I would just mention Stealth Rocks or would say something like “entry hazard and especially Stealth Rocks” or would emphasis on its Stealth Rocks weakness. Dark types are also annoying and Tyranitar is a super good Blacephalon check, but I wouldn’t mention Bisharp as it’s not even a good revenge killer and it’s not super common. Weavile however would be worth mentioning as it’s faster and can OHKO with Knock Off (while being extremely common).

I think you need to rework a bit the overview, using the comment I made, but also adding a sentence to say that it has a super good dual STAB with a secondary fire STAB to hit some Ghost types switch-ins (and they are already rare in OU). I would also add a sentence at the end (when you talk about its weakness) saying that it’s super frail which means that it cannot switch-in into anything and needs to kill its target if it doesn’t want to get OHKO back. Being very frail with no defensive utility is imo the biggest weakness of Blacepahlon while its Stealth Rocks weakness is the other big weakness but is less important mainly because you are so frail that being at full life or at 50% won’t change much anyway.

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flamethrower
move 2: Fire Blast / Overheat
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Trick
item: Choice Scarf / Choice Specs
ability: Beast Boost
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD /252 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Blacephalon acts as a great revenge killer and wallbreaker. Flamethrower is Blacephalon's main reliable STAB move. Fire Blast and Overheat help Blacephalon break through Specially defensive walls such as Hipppdown and Specially Defensive Landorus-T. This is not why you use Fire Blast or Overheat, at least on the Specs set. SpD Hippowdon is an almost guaranteed 2HKO with Specs Flamethrower and SpD Lando-T is a guaranteed 2HKO with the same move. Moreover, Overheat is not an OHKO meaning that you won’t come against these Pokemon but they can’t switch-in into you even if you click Flamethrower. Fire Blast is mainly a stronger but less accurate Flamethrower and is imo mainly useful on the Scarf set, while Overheat is an option to instantly nuke something on a forced switch. Shadow Ball allows Blacephalon to hit Bulky Water-Types and Heatran. Trick allows Blacephalon to cripple switch-ins like Blissey and Tyranitar making it harder for them to switch into Blacephalon's other moves later on. Trick is indeed super useful to cripple Blissey, but I’m unsure about mentioning Tyranitar here as Specially defensive Tyranitar is not the only set used and a decent number of Ttar are Choice Band, meaning you don’t want to trick them. You could probably specify Specially defensive Tyranitar. I would also add Toxapex in the switch-ins you can cripple with Trick (even though it’s mainly true for the Scarf set). Blacephalon appreciates Defog and Stealth rock support from the likes of Landorus-T. Lando-T is not the only Defogger, mention at least Corviknight too. It’s also worth noting that they bring a slow U-turn support which is super useful to help Blacephalon coming in. Blacephalon also likes the support from Dragapult to threaten the likes of Heatran. I get your idea there, but I would rather say that Dragapult is a good offensive partner as they can overwhelm their shared checks (Heatran being one of them), because Dragapult doesn’t really threaten Heatran on its own (unless Hydro Pump Pult).

I think you should divide this in two paragraphs. First one to describe the set and second one to explain in what kind of teams it fits and give examples of good partners. To help you doing so, here are some things you can talk about:

• Emphasis on Choice Specs Blacephalon stupidly strong fire power, being able to 2HKO most Pokemon in the tier (bar things like Blissey and Tyranitar) and thus being able to force progress against most teams.
• Talk about Scarf Blace’s ability to snowball through teams super easily because of Beast Boost + outspeeding most of the tier.
• In the second paragraph, you can explain why it fits into balance and offensive teams (forcing progress with a Choice Specs set while benefiting from slow pivots to come in for instance for balance teams).
• For partners try to think about good slow pivots, Pokemon who switch into Blacephalon’s revenge killers and Pokemon who helps it overwhelming its check or who can benefit from it tricking something.

Last comment I would have is that you could make two separate sets, one for the Specs one and one for the Scarf one (I’m not sure if you are allowed too though), as it may make the analysis clearer.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[pix, 554354]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2], [username3, userid3]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]

 

[Clone]

The QC team has decided to reject this

I appreciate the enthusiasm to contribute. However, this analyses has neither both the sets that were outlined, nor the format we are looking for.

I encourage you to gain experience with the pokemon you want to reserve. It helps to explain the mon to someone who is looking to an analysis on how to use it and why it's used over something else. I would also recommend looking at other analyses that are on the dex or in progress to know what information is key to include. I don't want to discourage you from contributing in the future, but for now I'd recommend the above.

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