Monotype Bronzong (Psychic)

Perish Song

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[SET]
name: Physically Defensive (Psychic)
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Protect
move 3: Body Press
move 4: Gyro Ball
item: Colbur Berry / Leftovers
ability: Levitate
nature: Relaxed
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
ivs: 0 spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Bronzong serves as a Stealth Rock setter for Psychic-type teams. Protect allows Bronzong to scout for moves and with its respectable bulk, and it allows Bronzong to stall out Dynamax turns. Body Press paired with Colbur Berry allows Bronzong to deal with problematic Dark-types such as Hydreigon, Weavile, and Bisharp safely without getting worn out much. Gyro Ball, combined with a Relaxed nature and 0 Speed IVs, lets Bronzong deal a significant amount of damage to fast Pokemon, most notably Togekiss and Hawlucha. Leftovers grants passive recovery, allowing Bronzong to sustain itself. Levitate provides a Ground-type move immunity to Bronzong, allowing it to serve as a primary Ground-type immunity against Pokemon like Excadrill for Psychic-type teams, as it is the one of few Pokemon available with this trait. Maximum investment in HP and Defense allow Bronzong to be as tanky as possible while boosting the power of Body Press.

Offensive Pokemon such as Hatterene, Gallade, and Gardevoir benefit from Stealth Rock, as they can break teams more consistently with it. Bronzong also provides a handful of resistances for these Pokemon, as it can pivot into Fairy- and Flying-type attacks for Gallade and Poison- and Steel-type attacks for Hatterene and Gardevoir. Xatu is a good teammate thanks to its Magic Bounce ability, which lets it act as a form of entry hazard control by bouncing them back. Indeedee makes a good teammate, as it provides Ghost-type immunity for Bronzong.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Perish Song, 419696]]
- Psychic analysis by: [[Perish Song, 419696]]
- Quality checked by: [[Moosical, 215618], [maroon, 305839]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Kris, 241023]]
 
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Moosical

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- Add (Psychic) to set name
- Give some context as to why a Ground-immunity is good for Psychic (ie, lacking any other ground immunity)
- I don't think a Bug-type neutrality is of any note as Bug coverage is far and few between. Just mentioning that Indeedee is immunte to Ghost is enough.
- You can add Hatterene to the offensive mons list too

Looks good otherwise, not too much to say about Bronzong. QC 1/2
 

maroon

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- I would talk about body press+colbur berry together since it tanks a dark attack then bops back
- slash colbur berry before leftovers
- add xatu as a teammate for magic bounce since claydol (spinner) is bad with zong

QC 2/2
 

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[SET]
name: Physically Defensive (Psychic)
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Protect
move 3: Body Press
move 4: Gyro Ball
item: Colbur Berry / Leftovers
ability: Levitate
nature: Impish Relaxed
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
ivs: 0 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Bronzong serves as a Stealth Rock setter for Psychic-type teams. Protect allow allows Bronzong to scout for moves and with its respectable bulk, and it can allows Bronzong be used to stall out Dynamax turns as well. Body Press paired with Colbur Berry allows Bronzong to deal with problematic Dark-types such as Hydreigon, Weavile, and Bisharp safely without getting worn out much. Gyro Ball, (AC) combined with a Relaxed nature and 0 Speed IVs, (AC) lets Bronzong deal a significant amount of damage to fast Pokemon, most notably Togekiss and Hawlucha. Leftovers grants passive recovery, allowing Bronzong to sustain itself. Levitate provides a Ground-type move immunity to Bronzong, allowing it to serve as a primary Ground-type immunity against Pokemon like Excadrill for to Psychic-type teams, (AC) as it is the only Pokemon available with this trait (Xatu, Claydol?). This trait allows Bronzong to deal with Pokemon like Excadrill on Ground-type teams. (RC) The Maximum investment in HP and Defense allow Bronzong to be as tanky as possible while boosting the power of Body Press.

Offensive Pokemon such as Hatterene, Gallade, and Gardevoir benefit from Stealth Rock, (AC) as they can break teams more consistently with it. Bronzong also provides a handful amount of resistances for these Pokemon, as it can pivot into Fairy- and Flying-type attacks for Gallade, (RC) and Poison- and Steel-type attacks for Hatterene and Gardevoir. Xatu is a good teammate thanks to its Magic Bounce ability, acting which lets it act as a form of entry hazard control by bouncing them back. Indeedee makes a good teammate, (AC) as it provides Ghost-type immunity for Bronzong.
GP 1/1

i Swear on GOD i talked to Kev about the nature and IV changes
 

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