Quality Control Boots Attacker Lokix (QC 1/2)

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[SET]
name: Boots Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Knock Off
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Bug
ability: Tinted Lens
nature: Adamant / Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

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Lokix acts as an incredible revenge killer in the tier, able to utilise its ability in Tinted Lens to revenge kill any weakened offensive threat. First Impression allows Lokix to outspeed everything in the tier, including Pokemon such as Darkrai and Dragapult, and hit them for considerable damage. U-turn allows Lokix to pivot out of bad matchups such as Corviknight, Gliscor, and Alomomola, while regaining momentum for the rest of its team. Knock Off allows Lokix to remove items from potential switchins such as Landorus-T and Moltres, while hitting Pokemon such as Pecharunt and Gholdengo for super effective damage. Sucker Punch can act as a secondary priority move for Lokix, allowing it to revenge kill targets such as Iron Moth and Enamorus from much higher health ranges, while also able to be used multiple times in a row. Adamant allows Lokix to get the maximum amount of damage from First Impression and Sucker Punch, for example giving Sucker Punch good odds to 2HKO Enamorus, while Jolly allows Lokix to outspeed Great Tusk, Pecharunt and Landorus-T. Tera Bug allows Lokix to further increase the damage output of both First Impression and U-turn, allowing First Impression to 2HKO Kingambit and Zamazenta that has expended its Dauntless Shield.

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Boots attacker Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance, as they heavily appreciate its revenge killing abilities. Pivot Pokemon such as Landorus-T, Pecharunt, Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown pair well with Lokix, as they can get it in safely, and in return Lokix can revenge kill the offensive threats that commonly switch into these Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and Darkrai. Iron Crown in particular is a very good Lokix partner, as they can form an effective VoltTurn core, which can heavily pressure defensive teams. Lokix particularly struggles with faster Pokemon that 4x resist Bug, such as Iron Valiat and Iron Moth. Therefore, teammates that can handle these Pokemon such as Gholdengo and Moltres for the former, and Garganacl and Galarian Slowking for the latter, are heavily appreciated. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Ting-Lu, Landorus-T, and Gliscor are heavily appreciated, as they can help Lokix against bulkier squads it might otherwise struggle against as Lokix can utilise Knock Off to remove Heavy-Duty Boots and eventually wear down its checks such as Moltres and Heatran through hazards. Slower wallbreakers such as Primarina and Choice Specs Iron Crown are great partners to Lokix, as Lokix can not only get them in easily to start wallbreaking and help deal with the faster playstyles that they usually struggle with, but said wallbreakers can help against the bulkier teams that Lokix can sometimes struggle with. Primarina in particular is an amazing Lokix partner, as it can help deal with Gliscor, Corviknight, and Garganacl that Lokix struggles with, while Lokix can punish Ogerpon-W and Galarian Slowking that trouble Primarina. Zamazenta pairs well with Lokix as an offensive partner, as it is able to take on Pokemon such as Galarian Weezing that Lokix might struggle with, while Lokix can threaten out the faster Pokemon such as Deoxy-S that outspeed Zamazenta.

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[SET]
name: Boots Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Knock Off
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Bug
ability: Tinted Lens
nature: Adamant / Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Paragraph 1
Lokix acts as an incredible revenge killer in the tier, able to utilise its ability in Tinted Lens to revenge kill any weakened offensive threat. First Impression allows Lokix to outspeed everything in the tier, including Pokemon such as Zamazenta and Dragapult (define sizeable, lokix first impression only does a quarter to boots attacker zama and even less to iron press), and hit them for sizeable damage. U-turn allows Lokix to pivot out of bad matchups such as Corviknight and Alomomola Gliscor can be mentioned here, while regaining momentum for the rest of its team. Knock Off allows Lokix to remove items from potential switchins such as Landorus-T and Moltres, while hitting Pokemon such as Pecharunt and Gholdengo for super effective damage. Sucker Punch can act as a secondary priority move for Lokix, allowing it to revenge kill targets such as Iron Moth and Enamorus from much higher health ranges, while also able to be used multiple times in a row. Adamant allows Lokix to get the maximum amount of damage from First Impression and Sucker Punch (any rolls in particular adamant meets? One I found rn is ada sucker punch is 98% likely to 2hko enamorus meanwhile jolly is only 25%, but an example of what specific benefits adamant would be nice), while Jolly allows Lokix to outspeed Great Tusk, Pecharunt and Landorus-T. Tera Bug allows Lokix to further increase the damage output of both First Impression and U-turn, allowing First Impression to 2HKO Kingambit and Zamazenta that has expended its Dauntless Shield.

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Boots attacker Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance, as they heavily appreciate its revenge killing abilities. Volt Switch users such as Raging Bolt (Lokix and raging bolt are actually rarely seen together, I would cut the mention of bolt and mention Iron crown with the other pivot mons below then elaborate further on how they compliment one another) and Iron Crown pair well with Lokix, as they can form an effective pivoting core that can heavily pressure defensive teams. Other pivot Pokemon such as Landorus-T and Galarian Slowking I would mention pecharunt as well, as bulky offence teams with lokix would rather it over galarian slowking) also pair well with Lokix, as they can get it in safely, and in return Lokix can revenge kill the offensive threats that commonly switch into these Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and Darkrai. Lokix particularly struggles with faster Pokemon that 4x resist Bug, such as Iron Valiant and Iron Moth. Therefore, teammates that can handle these Pokemon such as Gholdengo and Moltres for the former, and Garganacl and Galarian Slowking for the latter, are heavily appreciated. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Tinkaton (Ting lu is probably a better example as a more consistent setter, so I think it should be mentioned) and Gliscor are heavily appreciated (I want to elaborate on this, entry hazards help out significantly in dealing with lokix's defensive answers such as moltres and heatran the former of which lokix can knock off its boots, the point itself is fine but I wanted to add this since lokix doesn't pressure moltres much with knock if strong hazard setters aren't on the users side and heatran forces lokix out and it gets worn down by hazards as well. you could also mention Lando T here again since it was mentioned above), as they can help Lokix against bulkier squads it might otherwise struggle against as it can Knock Off their Heavy Duty Boots (The wording here is a bit confusing, are you saying lokix helps tinkaton and gliscor with knock or vice versa? Either way they're all good knock off users in their own right, and not sure this point is super relevant, do they do anything in particular aside from forming a knock off spam core? Since lokix is fine at removing boots from walls itself perhaps you could mention the utility tools that gliscor and tink offer which lokix lacks? like toxic and encore for said bulkier teams otherwise I think this should be removed) . Slower wallbreakers such as Primarina and Hydrapple (bit of a weird example, hydrapple is pretty niche and doesn't appear all that often as a wallbreaker alongside lokix) are great partners to Lokix, as Lokix can not only get them in easily to start wallbreaking and help deal with the faster playstyles that they usually struggle with, but said wallbreakers can help against the bulkier teams that Lokix can sometimes struggle with. (Maybe we could add to this? primarina helps deal with gliscor, corviknight garganacl and other stopgaps against lokix meanwhile lokix deals with ogerpon and galarian slowking for prim,

One thing that could be worth mentioning is zamazenta as an offensive partner for lokix, not necessarily a wallbreaker but the two do appear together often.

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