Copyediting Boots Pivot TornT (QC 2/2) (GP 0/1)

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[SET]
Tornadus-Therian @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel / Fairy
Timid Nature
- Bleakwind Storm
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Heat Wave / Taunt

Combining its high speed, Knock Off, and Regenerator, Tornadus-T becomes an excellent pivot with Heavy-Duty Boots, being able to outlast many of its checks while supporting its teammates. U-turn enables its pivoting prowess, while also smacking Hisuian Samurott and Darkrai with meaningful chip. Knock Off wears down many answers to Tornadus-T such as Zapdos, Kyurem, and Galarian Slowking's Heavy-Duty Boots, as well as Garganacl, Heatran, and Ting lu's Leftovers, which with hazards can make Tornadus-T very hard to switch in for longer games. Heat Wave is an option to hit Steel-types like Gholdengo, Corviknight, and Kingambit, while also dissuading Weavile from switching in. Taunt, however, allows Tornadus-T to prevent Defog on Corviknight and Galarian Weezing, recovery attempts from Alomomola and Moltres, while also preventing status such as Gliscor's Toxic or Clefable's Thunder Wave. It also enables Tornadus-T as a potent stall breaker with Regenerator against bulky walls such as Blissey and Toxapex. It additionally prevents Galarian Slowking's Chilly Reception, forcing more predictable plays for teammates. Tera Steel allows Tornadus-T to resist Ice-type attacks from Kyurem and Weavile, while also notably resisting Enamorus's Moonblast, Dragapult's Dragon Darts or Draco Meteor, and Gholdengo's Make It Rain. Tera Fairy meanwhile lets you be more comfortable into Dark-types like Kingambit's Sucker Punch and Darkrai's Dark Pulse while also granting an immunity to Dragapult's Dragon Darts or Draco Meteor and Dragonite's Outrage. Tera Fairy also notably maintains a Fighting-type resistance against Zamazenta and Iron Valiant.

Tornadus-T's excellent support capabilities slot in onto balance and bulky offense, where its teammates can make up for its lack of power. Ting lu is an amazing teammate through its ability to stack hazards, allowing Tornadus-T to use Knock Off more effectively. In addition, they form a solid defensive core, where Ting lu handles Electric-types like Raging Bolt and Zapdos, while Tornadus-T can threaten or force terastilization for opponents like Zamazenta, Iron Valiant, Great Tusk, and Ogerpon-W. Similarly to Ting Lu, Great Tusk and Iron Treads are great teammates for their ability to check Raging bolt and Zapdos in Iron Treads' case particularly, while also providing Rapid Spin, allowing Tornadus-T to not fear hazards even after a Knock Off. Steel-types like Gholdengo, Iron Crown, and Heatran provide a valuable Ice resist, letting them handle threats like Kyurem and Weavile in the case of Heatran, while the Steel-types appreciate having a solid pivot into Ground-types like Iron Treads. Tornadus-T enjoys having a way to pivot in safely, as it can form a pivoting core to wear down opponents over longer games. Thus, it appreciates pivots such as Galarian Slowking and Alomomola, both of which offer unique utility through Future Sight for the former, and Wish from the latter. Alomomola is an especially good teammate, as Tornadus-T provides a check to Ogerpon-W and Rillaboom, while Tornadus-T likes a solid switch in for Weavile. Galarian Slowking provides a safe switch switch against Kyurem and Raging Bolt, with Tornadus-T in exchange threatening out Great Tusk. Teammates like Kyurem and Iron Valiant appreciate Tornadus-T letting them pivot in safely, with Kyurem threatening Gliscor and Alomomola, while Iron Valiant can get past Hisuian Samurott and opposing Kyurem. Other strong offensive pivots like Ogerpon-W, Raging Bolt, and CInderace are able to overwhelm defensive opponents like Corviknight and Zapdos. Ogerpon-W can immensely threaten Garganacl, Ting Lu, and Galarian Slowking, and potentially lay spikes for Tornadus-T to use Knock Off for, while Ogerpon-W enjoys a soft check against Zamazenta. Raging Bolt similarly can wear down the aforementioned while Tornadus-T is appreciated for its Ground-type immunity against Iron Treads and Great Tusk. Cinderace on the other hand can both offer hazard control with Court Change, and also use Will-O-Wisp to let Tornadus-T have an easier time handling Zamazenta and Ogerpon-W, while immediately threatening Weavile.
 
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QC 1/2 after implemented ty! Looks like a lot but most of it is up to your consideration. There are a couple more important points towards the end, but the rest should be easy to apply. Please lmk whatever.

[SET]
Tornadus-Therian @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel / Fairy
Timid Nature
- Bleakwind Storm
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Heat Wave / Taunt

Combining its high speed, Knock Off, and Regenerator, Tornadus-T becomes an excellent pivot with Heavy-Duty Boots, being able to outlast many of its checks while supporting its teammates. A small comment on U-turn seems warranted Knock Off wears down many answers to Tornadus-T such as Galarian Slowking, Garganacl, and Ting-Lu. (Mention how you do this, like removing Leftovers or HDB to wear them down alongside entry hazard. Consider adding Zapdos, maybeee Heatran(?)) Heat Wave is an option to hit Steel-types like Gholdengo, Corviknight, and Kingambit, while also dissuading Weavile from switching in. Taunt, however, allows Tornadus-T to prevent Defog on Corviknight and Galarian Weezing, recovery attempts from Alomomola and Moltres, while also preventing status such as Gliscor's Toxic or Clefable's Thunder Wave. It also notably prevents Galarian Slowking's Chilly Reception, forcing more predictable plays for teammates. Tera Steel allows Tornadus-T to resist Fairy-types like Enamorus or Clefable, block Malignant Chain from Pecharunt, and switches in comfortable against Deoxys-S Psycho Boost, Kyurem's Ice Beam, and Gholdengo's Make It Rain. (I would rearrange this to put more emphasis on the Ice-type moves, since those are the ones you are weak to initially. Probably trade Pecharunt's Malignant Chain for Dragapult's Draco / Darts, Pecha doesnt want to trade blows with you) Tera Fairy meanwhile lets you be more comfortable into Dragon-types like Raging Bolt and Dragapult, and Dark-types like Darkrai and Hisuian Samurott. (Borderline type chart info. Please be more specific on what moves you are looking to resist / be immune to; would change Raging Bolt for something else since it will be clicking the Electric move)

Tornadus-T's excellent support capabilities slot in onto balance and bulky offense, where its teammates can make up for its lack of power. Ting lu is an amazing teammate through its ability to stack hazards, allowing Tornadus-T to use Knock Off more effectively. In addition, they form a solid defensive core, where Ting lu handles Electric-types like Raging Bolt and Zapdos, while Tornadus-T can switch in and threaten Zamazenta, Great Tusk, Ogerpon-W, (borderline add cause of Tera Pon but imo worth having a mention to Torn-T's ability to soft check it somewhere in the text) and Iron Valiant. Similarly to Ting Lu, Great Tusk and Iron Treads are great teammates for their ability to check Zapdos and (Is there a way to make it clear you mean Zapdos only in the case of Treads?) Raging bolt, while also providing Rapid Spin, allowing Tornadus-T to not fear hazards even after a Knock Off. Steel-types like Gholdengo, Iron Crown, and Heatran provide a valuable Ice resist, letting them handle threats like Kyurem and Weavile for the former, in the case of Heatran, (not sure, it just read a bit confusing to me but feel free to leave as it is) as well as a Fairy resist against Clefable, Enamorus, and Iron Valiant. (Is this relevant for Tornadus-T? Since you are not weak to Fairy. If it is please explain how since it is not straightforward, or consider removing this part) Tornadus-T enjoys having a way to pivot in safely, as it can form a pivoting core to wear down opponents over longer games. Thus, it appreciates pivots such as Galarian Slowking and Alomomola, both of which offer unique utility through Future Sight for the former, and Wish from the latter. (If you could mention other things these Pokemon do that would be great, like for Alomomola, Tornadus-T checks Ogerpon-W, Rillaboom, while in turn Alomomola can help with Weavile) Other strong offensive pivots like Cinderace (Cinderace is not a very common partner, I would remove it but I get the reasoning so up to you) and Raging Bolt are able to overwhelm defensive opponents like Corviknight and Garganacl. Cinderace also provides hazard control with Court Change and Will-O-Wisp, letting Tornadus-T be able to check physical attackers like Great Tusk and Zamazenta more comfortably, while Raging Bolt scares out Corviknight and appreciates Tornadus-T scaring out Ground-types like Great Tusk and Ting lu. (Think you were cooking a bit too much here. You dont fear Corviknight that much, particularly with Heat Wave, and the Ting-Lu mention might require a bit of knowing how the interaction works; rewording it to "wear down" could be an option)

- A lot of your teammates, namely the Ground- and Steel-types, can deal with Galarian Slowking which is rather annoying for this Tornadus-T set. Working it in as a mention in those places would be great. On the same light, Glimmora can also be annoying and is handled by those same mons.
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QC 2/2 once implemented, thank you!
[SET]
Tornadus-Therian @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel / Fairy
Timid Nature
- Bleakwind Storm
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Heat Wave / Taunt

Combining its high speed, Knock Off, and Regenerator, Tornadus-T becomes an excellent pivot with Heavy-Duty Boots, being able to outlast many of its checks while supporting its teammates. U-turn enables its pivoting prowess, while also smacking Hisuian Samurott and Darkrai with meaningful chip. Knock Off wears down many answers to Tornadus-T such as Zapdos, Kyurem and Galarian Slowking's Heavy-Duty Boots, as well as Garganacl, Heatran, and Ting lu's Leftovers, which with hazards can make Tornadus-T very hard to switch in for longer games. Heat Wave is an option to hit Steel-types like Gholdengo, Corviknight, and Kingambit, while also dissuading Weavile from switching in. Taunt, however, allows Tornadus-T to prevent Defog on Corviknight and Galarian Weezing, recovery attempts from Alomomola and Moltres, while also preventing status such as Gliscor's Toxic or Clefable's Thunder Wave. The combination of Knock Off and Taunt also enables Tornadus-Therian to be a potent weapon against stall matchups. It also notably prevents Galarian Slowking's Chilly Reception, forcing more predictable plays for teammates. Tera Steel allows Tornadus-T to resist Ice-type attacks from Kyurem and Weavile, while also notably resisting Enamorus's Moonblast, Dragapult's Dragon Darts or Draco Meteor, and Gholdengo's Make It Rain. Tera Fairy meanwhile lets you be more comfortable into Dark-types like Kingambit's Sucker Punch and Darkrai's Dark Pulse while also granting an immunity to Dragapult's Dragon Darts or Draco Meteor and Dragonite's Outrage. Tera Fairy also notably maintains a Fighting-type resistance against Zamazenta and Iron Valiant.

Tornadus-T's excellent support capabilities slot in onto balance and bulky offense, where its teammates can make up for its lack of power. Ting lu is an amazing teammate through its ability to stack hazards, allowing Tornadus-T to use Knock Off more effectively. In addition, they form a solid defensive core, where Ting lu handles Electric-types like Raging Bolt and Zapdos, while Tornadus-T can switch in and threaten Zamazenta, Great Tusk, Iron Valiant, as well as check Ogerpon-W before it uses Tera Water (Switch in and threaten implies torn is bulky enough to avoid 2HKOs from those faster than it like Zama and Booster Valiant, or bulky enough to not be OHKOd by pokemon slower than it like Ogerpon-W. Since neither is entirely accurate, this can be rephrased to something along the lines of "while Torn-T can threaten or force terastallization against pokemon like...). Similarly to Ting Lu, Great Tusk and Iron Treads are great teammates for their ability to check Raging bolt and Zapdos in Iron Treads' case particularly, while also providing Rapid Spin, allowing Tornadus-T to not fear hazards even after a Knock Off. Steel-types like Gholdengo, Iron Crown, and Heatran provide a valuable Ice resist, letting them handle threats like Kyurem and Weavile in the case of Heatran, while the Steel-types appreciate having a solid pivot into Ground-types like Iron Treads. Both Steel-types and Ground-types can also handle Poison-types like Galarian Slowking and Glimmora, both of whom Tornadus-T is heavily annoyed by (With the ability to Knock, Pivot out of switch ins or taunt against twave/chilly reception, I think torn handles G-King just fine. I also think since glimmora predominantly runs red card bulky sets, it isn't a cause for concern for torn). Tornadus-T enjoys having a way to pivot in safely, as it can form a pivoting core to wear down opponents over longer games. Thus, it appreciates pivots such as Galarian Slowking and Alomomola, both of which offer unique utility through Future Sight for the former, and Wish from the latter. (Cinderace can be mentioned here as a dual role partner of hazard control+pivot core). Alomomola is an especially good teammate, as Tornadus-T provides a check to Ogerpon-W and Rillaboom, while Tornadus-T likes a solid switch in for Weavile. Galarian Slowking provides a safe switch switch against Kyurem and Raging Bolt, with Tornadus-T in exchange can threaten out Great Tusk. (You can also add a section here for teammates that appreciate torn-t ability to bring them in safely, either to set up or to break. Some pokemon that come to mind here are DD/Specs Kyurem, SD Gliscor which also appreciates a few toxic orb turn and the below mentioned Ogerpon-W which you can tie back to this). Other strong offensive pivots like Ogerpon-W and Raging Bolt are able to overwhelm defensive opponents like Corviknight and Zapdos. Ogerpon-W can immensely threaten Garganacl, Ting Lu, and Galarian Slowking, and potentially lay spikes for Tornadus-T to use Knock Off for, while Ogerpon-W enjoys a strong Zamazenta check (Banded/LO sets with stone edge are gaining momentum, so I wouldn't call torn a strong zama answer particularly. This can be rephrased to something more modest like "A soft check to Zamazenta"). Raging Bolt similarly can wear down the aforementioned while Tornadus-T is appreciated for its Ground-type immunity against Iron Treads and Great Tusk.
 
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