1v1 Carracosta

[lost heros]

[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense movepool, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z, it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokemon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z, while priority in Aqua Jet allows it to beat opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone, Crustle, and Trace users like Mega Gardevoir. Because Carracosta can run a mixed set, it can easily threaten defensive Pokemon and isn’t threatened by Will-O-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can't effectively run mixed STAB attacks, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokemon that resist them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It's also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority users like Donphan or can be prevented from setting up by Taunt users like Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash allows Carracosta to boost both its offensive stats and Speed and OHKO opposing Pokemon like Mega Charizard X and Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special Water-type STAB move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. Aqua Jet can finish off opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle and can help deal additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This also can be used for a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokemon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Alternatively, Rock Slide can be used against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's Water-type STAB moves such as Kyurem and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed EVs and a Naive nature allow Carracosta to outspeed base 110 Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. Special Attack is maximized to boost the power of special Hydro Vortex, since Carracosta already has superb Attack, and the remaining EVs go into Attack in order to aid against Mega Charizard Y with physical Hydro Vortex followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy allows Carracosta one free turn to set up Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokemon as long as they don't resist its STAB attacks like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapu Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokemon faster or potentially faster than base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon-Z and Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace users like Magnezone and Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case, physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokemon is weakened, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash as long as Sturdy remains intact and follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran for them while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful, as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types like Dragonite as well, but isn't as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta's STAB attacks if it commits to a being a full special attacker. These moves can threaten Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-, Grass-, and Dragon-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokemon that can take Carracosta's moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and tank Carracosta's boosted attacks.

**Taunt users**: Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to stop Carracosta from raising its stats with Shell Smash; however, this can be somewhat worked around if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997], [Macemaster, 302951]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216], [Mafeking, 122460]]

 

[Ginger Princess]

Bolded is additions, strikethrough is stuff that should be removed, underline needs to be edited in some way, red is comments. All information I bring are based on 1630 Usage stats (considering anything at or above 6% as of June 2019 usage relevant) and Calcs.

qc check 1

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threatenb biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from what? like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• mention that shell smash further aids in boosting both attack and special attack for mixed coverage
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon such as? or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt. from what?

[SET]
Mixed Waterium Z Carracosta
Carracosta @ Waterium Z
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe
Naive Nature
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Aqua Jet
- Aqua Tail / Stone Edge

fix the set format (see below)


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon which ones? at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon. such as?
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle. move this to last, since the fact that this mon can hit both physically and specially defensively is the crux of this set
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against bulky Mega Charizard X +2 252 SpA Carracosta Hydro Vortex (185 BP) vs. 248 HP / 144 SpD Charizard-Mega-X: 435-513 (121.1 - 142.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO and other Pokémon weak to it. consider removing this unless stone edge can power through Pokemon that resist water, or if there are more significant other pokemon weak to stone edge

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• what are offensive evs for? 16 atk for char y, rest in spa to maximize damage output, be sure to mention this

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB such as? or have a good priority move such as?.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash.
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind such as?. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• mention how to play against magearna, specifically saying to shell smash twice if they choose to use calm mind round 1, because z-aqua won't always knock it out at +2
• mention it will have to play mind games with some taunt users, like taunt wisp mega gardevoir and

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as?, as they easily cover each other’s type weaknesses well. way too vague. Go into detail on what the fire does for water/grass, water does for fire/grass, etc
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. what does carracosta do in return?
• Electric-types such as? can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as? that Carracosta struggles with. what does carracosta do in return?

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types such as? as well but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to burn Will-O-Wisp.
• Earthquake and Ice Beam both provide good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB what for? but aren’t typically strong enough to run in the set.
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon and Type: Null can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[, ]]
- Quality checked by: [[, ], [, ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]
add this

add a credits section and fix the formatting for the sets section (like this:

name: SET NAME
move 1:
move 2:
move 3:
move 4:
item:
ability:
nature:
evs:

also, just click 'reply' to this post so you can copy paste the exact text and get edits properly formatted, so they still stick out when you go to implement the check

tag me when implemented so i can check again

 

[lost heros]

Bolded is additions, strikethrough is stuff that should be removed, underline needs to be edited in some way, red is comments. All information I bring are based on 1630 Usage stats (considering anything at or above 6% as of June 2019 usage relevant) and Calcs.

qc check 1

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threatenb biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from what? like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• mention that shell smash further aids in boosting both attack and special attack for mixed coverage
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon such as? or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt. from what?

[SET]
Mixed Waterium Z Carracosta
Carracosta @ Waterium Z
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe
Naive Nature
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Aqua Jet
- Aqua Tail / Stone Edge

fix the set format (see below)


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon which ones? at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon. such as?
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle. move this to last, since the fact that this mon can hit both physically and specially defensively is the crux of this set
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against bulky Mega Charizard X +2 252 SpA Carracosta Hydro Vortex (185 BP) vs. 248 HP / 144 SpD Charizard-Mega-X: 435-513 (121.1 - 142.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO and other Pokémon weak to it. consider removing this unless stone edge can power through Pokemon that resist water, or if there are more significant other pokemon weak to stone edge

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• what are offensive evs for? 16 atk for char y, rest in spa to maximize damage output, be sure to mention this

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB such as? or have a good priority move such as?.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash.
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind such as?. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• mention how to play against magearna, specifically saying to shell smash twice if they choose to use calm mind round 1, because z-aqua won't always knock it out at +2
• mention it will have to play mind games with some taunt users, like taunt wisp mega gardevoir and

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as?, as they easily cover each other’s type weaknesses well. way too vague. Go into detail on what the fire does for water/grass, water does for fire/grass, etc
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. what does carracosta do in return?
• Electric-types such as? can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as? that Carracosta struggles with. what does carracosta do in return?

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types such as? as well but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to burn Will-O-Wisp.
• Earthquake and Ice Beam both provide good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB what for? but aren’t typically strong enough to run in the set.
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon and Type: Null can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[, ]]
- Quality checked by: [[, ], [, ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]
add this

add a credits section and fix the formatting for the sets section (like this:

name: SET NAME
move 1:
move 2:
move 3:
move 4:
item:
ability:
nature:
evs:

also, just click 'reply' to this post so you can copy paste the exact text and get edits properly formatted, so they still stick out when you go to implement the check

tag me when implemented so i can check again

implemented except for re-ordering Aqua Jet and Aqua Tail as i believe that the priority is more important

 

[Ginger Princess]

qc check 1 part 2"

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• Shell Smash is an extremely powerful set up move that boosts it's mixed attacking stats and Speed.
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like either Mega Charizard the play with char y is to z-aqua tail into jet or stone edge immediately, in case they use flame charge into solar beam. I would change to just char x or Mega Diancie at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y.
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie and Mega Metagross.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet.
• The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex.

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash.
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• Against pokemon that boost both defenses like Magearna always make sure to use the appropriate Z move after Shell Smash. For example, if Magearna uses Iron Defense turn 1, a special Hydro Vortex will KO, but if it uses Calm Mind a physical Hydro Vortex followed by an Aqua Jet will KO even after an Iron Defense. no the safest play is to just shell smash again against magearna on turn 2, bc then you OHKO no matter what, and it avoids shenanigans with them pain splitting on your z-aqua and then you missing tail or pump and them twinkle tackling - you get the point. +2 16 Atk Carracosta Hydro Vortex (175 BP) vs. 248 HP / 0+ Def Magearna: 330-388 (90.9 - 106.8%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO not guaranteed to ohko, and if they pain split you're in trouble. However, turn 2, no matter if they use calm mind or iron defense, carra can kill. +4 252 SpA Carracosta Hydro Vortex (185 BP) vs. +1 248 HP / 24 SpD Magearna: 387-456 (106.6 - 125.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO (if they use iron defense turn 2) +4 16 Atk Carracosta Hydro Vortex (175 BP) vs. 248 HP / 0+ Def Magearna: 493-582 (135.8 - 160.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO if they use calm mind turn 2 and obv you win if they choose to attack or pain split turn 2
• Also against certain Taunt users, like Taunt Reflect Tapu Lele, attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game.

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini.
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. While, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as? with the help of Shell Smash.
• Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with. While Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Mega Charizard Y and Zapdos doesnt the main set beat both? The only flying types i think this gives the advantage with is Flyinium Dragonite and Celesteela but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp.
• Earthquake and Ice Beam both provide good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing Electric- and Dragon-types like Magnezone again, you already beat that and Dragonite rockium beat that and more. I think Groundium Garchomp is a relevant example if you want to keep Ice Beam, but you may want to remove EQ if it doesn't do anything
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon and Type: Null actually i think carra wins this, bc shell smash can boost faster than confide can drop, and at +5 (bc confide would go second) hydro vortex kos even max spdef with eviolite. can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [, ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

mostly good. Implement this then qc 1/3

 

[lost heros]

qc check 1 part 2"

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• Shell Smash is an extremely powerful set up move that boosts it's mixed attacking stats and Speed.
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Diancie at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y.
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie and Mega Metagross.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet.
• The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex.

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash.
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• Against pokemon that boost both defenses like Magearna always make sure to use the appropriate Z move after Shell Smash. For example, if Magearna uses Iron Defense turn 1, a special Hydro Vortex will KO, but if it uses Calm Mind a second Shell Smash before a physical Hydro Vortex followed by an Aqua Jet will KO even after an Iron Defense.
• Also against certain Taunt users, like Taunt Reflect Tapu Lele, attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game.

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini.
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. While, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X with the help of Shell Smash.
• Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with. While Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp.
• Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp.
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [, ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

mostly good. Implement this then qc 1/3

Implemented ready for 2

 

[edudittA]

AMQC from ya "I quit 1v1" boi

[OVERVIEW]

• [OVERVIEW]
  • Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
  • With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
  • With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
  • Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
  • Shell Smash is an extremely powerful set up move that boosts it's mixed attacking stats and Speed.
  • Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
  • It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega VenusaurFerrothorn can easily beat it. (+2 252+ Atk Carracosta Continental Crush (180 BP) vs. 248 HP / 244+ Def Venusaur-Mega: 355-418 (97.7 - 115.1%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO )
  • It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.
• [SET]
  name: Mixed Waterium Z
  move 1: Shell Smash
  move 2: Hydro Pump
  move 3: Aqua Jet
  move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge
  item: Waterium Z
  ability: Sturdy
  nature: Naive
  evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe
  
  
  [SET COMMENTS]
  Moves
  ========
  • Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Diancie at the start of turn 2.
  • Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna
  • Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y.
  • Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
  • Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade, Kyurem, and Araquanid.
• Set Details
  ========
  • Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
  • 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie and Mega Metagross.
  • Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
  • 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet.
  • The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex.
• Usage Tips
  ========
  • Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan.
  • Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash.
  • However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
  • Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
  • When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
  • Against pokemon that boost both defenses like Magearna always make sure to use the appropriate Z move after Shell Smash. For example, if Magearna uses Iron Defense turn 1, a special Hydro Vortex will KO, but if it uses Calm Mind a second Shell Smash before a physical Hydro Vortex followed by an Aqua Jet will KO even after an Iron Defense.
  • Also against certain Taunt users, like Taunt Reflect Tapu Lele, attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game.
• Team Options
  ========
  • Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini.
  • Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. While, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X with the help of Shell Smash.
  • Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with. While Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and Zygarde. (Zygarde might not be a good example, since it uses Extreme Speed mostly; maybe try suggesting Krookodile)
  • Maybe mention a Dragon-type counter like Magearna or Tapu Fini, since mono Water attacker set is not doing shit to any Dragon-type bar Mega Charizard X
• [STRATEGY COMMENTS]
  Other Options
  =============
  • A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. (Maybe just mention that EQ+AJet also hits and KOs Magnezone and Magneton)
  • Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp.
  • Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash
• Checks and Counters
  ===================
  
  **Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.
  
  **Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.
  
  **Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.
  
  **Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack. (Dragonite need not be essentially Dragonium Z; since you've mentioned Naive nature and no alternatives, special FlyZ can also KO Carracosta..... )
  
  **Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.
  
  [CREDITS]
  - Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
  - Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [, ], [, ]]
  - Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

 

[The Official Glyx]

Red = change
Red strikethrough = remove
Purple = move elsewhere
Blue text = my commentary
Green = elaborate

wow 2 qcs in 2 days is that a record

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• Shell Smash is an extremely powerful set up move that boosts it's mixed attacking stats and Speed. Already covered in Moves section
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Diancie Rock Tomb into Moonblast would eat you. You just Z turn 1 in this matchup. Better examples would be Metagross and Magearna. at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y.
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie same as above and Mega Metagross.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet.
• The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex.

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. rather than leaving this as a somewhat vague blanket statement, clarify that you'd ideally want to use Shell Smash against bulky Pokemon that you wouldn't be able to KO at +0, like metagross, lele, meloetta, sableye, porygon2, and type:null
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• Against pokemon that boost both defenses like Magearna always make sure to use the appropriate Z move after Shell Smash. For example, if Magearna uses Iron Defense turn 1, a special Hydro Vortex will KO, but if it uses Calm Mind a second Shell Smash before a physical Hydro Vortex followed by an Aqua Jet will KO even after an Iron Defense. this can be worded a bit better, I feel. Something along the lines of "Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so long as Sturdy remains intact, then follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least."
• Also against certain Taunt users, like Taunt redundant considering you just said Taunt users Reflect you'd be in a bad spot with or without them using reflect Tapu Lele "and Sableye", attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game. This bullet is better suited in Checks and Counters imo, while also including Pokemon that use Taunt to beat you pretty reliably, like Kew and Deo-S

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini.
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z ", Landorus-Therian, and Victini" are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. While, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X You already use zardx as an example way too much. Better examples would be Meloetta, Heatran, Sableye, Tyranitar, etc. with the help of Shell Smash.
• Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with. While Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and "Non-Extreme Speed" Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp.
• Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp.
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

The above two can be combined into a single bullet about type resists in general, which would also include Kommo-o, Altaria, Naganadel, etc

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon ", Clefable, and Quagsire" can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

lost heros lmk when you think you dun did good
(Shift + Tab can also be used to make the section titles you have bulleted fsr be not bulleted)

 

[lost heros]

Red = change
Red strikethrough = remove
Purple = move elsewhere
Blue text = my commentary
Green = elaborate

wow 2 qcs in 2 days is that a record

[OVERVIEW]

• Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and Priority Moves
• With shell smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z
• With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir.
• Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are.
• Shell Smash is an extremely powerful set up move that boosts it's mixed attacking stats and Speed. Already covered in Moves section
• Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful.
• It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it.
• It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========

• Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Diancie Rock Tomb into Moonblast would eat you. You just Z turn 1 in this matchup. Better examples would be Metagross and Magearna. at the start of turn 2.
• Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna
• Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y.
• Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey
• Stone Edge can be used as a Rock-type STAB against pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========

• Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump or Aqua Tail to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible.
• 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie same as above and Mega Metagross.
• Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash.
• 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet.
• The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex.

Usage Tips
========

• Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan.
• Against most Pokémon, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. rather than leaving this as a somewhat vague blanket statement, clarify that you'd ideally want to use Shell Smash against bulky Pokemon that you wouldn't be able to KO at +0, like metagross, lele, meloetta, sableye, porygon2, and type:null
• However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack.
• Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used.
• When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy.
• Against pokemon that boost both defenses like Magearna always make sure to use the appropriate Z move after Shell Smash. For example, if Magearna uses Iron Defense turn 1, a special Hydro Vortex will KO, but if it uses Calm Mind a second Shell Smash before a physical Hydro Vortex followed by an Aqua Jet will KO even after an Iron Defense. this can be worded a bit better, I feel. Something along the lines of "Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so long as Sturdy remains intact, then follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least."
• Also against certain Taunt users, like Taunt redundant considering you just said Taunt users Reflect you'd be in a bad spot with or without them using reflect Tapu Lele "and Sableye", attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game. This bullet is better suited in Checks and Counters imo, while also including Pokemon that use Taunt to beat you pretty reliably, like Kew and Deo-S

Team Options
========

• Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini.
• Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z ", Landorus-Therian, and Victini" are helpful in dealing with fake out users Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed Zeraora. While, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X You already use zardx as an example way too much. Better examples would be Meloetta, Heatran, Sableye, Tyranitar, etc. with the help of Shell Smash.
• Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with. While Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and "Non-Extreme Speed" Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

• A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp.
• Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp.
• Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash

Checks and Counters
===================

**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Mega Venusaur and Whimsicott have no problem taking Carracosta’s Hydro Vortex and responding with their own moves.

**Water-types**: Bulky Water-types such as Mega Gyarados or Primarina can similarly take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

The above two can be combined into a single bullet about type resists in general, which would also include Kommo-o, Altaria, Naganadel, etc

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon ", Clefable, and Quagsire" can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

lost heros lmk when you think you dun did good
(Shift + Tab can also be used to make the section titles you have bulleted fsr be not bulleted)

implemented

 

[The Official Glyx]

240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Diancie and Mega Metagross.

missed one

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon ", Clefable, and Quagsire"

don't forget to add the stuff in blue quotes (I should probably make that a different color than commentary to make it clearer.)

- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997], [, ]]

and credits thingy

2/3 upon implementation

don't forget to switch to paragraphs, afterwards!

 

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z. With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir. Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. (Mention that it can be used as a physical Hydro Vortex against mons like Magearna if you don't have Aqua Tail) Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey (Mention some of the matchups that this actually gives like Meloetta instead of mons Aqua Jet already beats, as discussed on discord) Stone Edge Rock Slide can be used as a Rock-type STAB against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade Mega Charizard Y, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump, or Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash. 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet. The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex. (These last 2 sentences are backwards. 16 Attack isn't calced for anything while 252 SpA is just to deal as much damage as possible. Reword)

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokémon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so long as Sturdy remains intact, then follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur (do Fire-types threaten Mega Venusaur by merit of being Fire-type? Reword to remove the implication that Fire-types are good against Mega Venusaur or just replace Mega Venu with a different example) and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed (Lando-T and Victini easily outspeed Zera and Porygon-Z has the option to run Timid) Zeraora. While, In return, (or something of that effect - how it is now is not a complete sentence) Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with., wWhile Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-types and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

**Taunt users** Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye, attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game. (This isn't usage tips. Explain how Taunt users beat Carracosta, not how Carracosta should play against them.)

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997 ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

Let me know when implemented. Good work!

 

[Ginger Princess]

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z. With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir. Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased defensive Pokémon, and isn’t threatened by Will-o-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STABs, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who resist it like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Stone Edge Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help dealing additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. (Mention that it can be used as a physical Hydro Vortex against mons like Magearna if you don't have Aqua Tail) Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Magearna or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey (Mention some of the matchups that this actually gives like Meloetta instead of mons Aqua Jet already beats, as discussed on discord) Stone Edge Rock Slide can be used as a Rock-type STAB against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's water STAB such as Modest Naganade Mega Charizard Y, Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump, or Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up Shell Smash. 16 Attack lets Carracosta KO Mega Charizard Y in the Sun with physical Hydro Vortex followed up by Aqua Jet. The remaining 252 EVs are in Special Attack to maximize the damage output of special Hydro Vortex. (These last 2 sentences are backwards. 16 Attack isn't calced for anything while 252 SpA is just to deal as much damage as possible. Reword)

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t resist its STAB like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokémon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokémon faster or might become faster than Base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokémon is low, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so long as Sturdy remains intact, then follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten opposing Mega Venusaur (do Fire-types threaten Mega Venusaur by merit of being Fire-type? Reword to remove the implication that Fire-types are good against Mega Venusaur or just replace Mega Venu with a different example) and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and non-Max Speed (Lando-T and Victini easily outspeed Zera and Porygon-Z has the option to run Timid) Zeraora. While, In return, (or something of that effect - how it is now is not a complete sentence) Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with., wWhile Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-types and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

**Taunt users** Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye, attacking immediately should be considered as they may try to use Taunt turn 1, although this is still a mind game. (This isn't usage tips. Explain how Taunt users beat Carracosta, not how Carracosta should play against them.)

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997 ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

Let me know when implemented. Good work!

this has been implemented, good for 3/3?

 

[Nalei]

QC 3/3

 

[scorpdestroyer]

amcheck! take this wth a pinch of salt

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense offensive coverage, Sturdy, and priority moves Aqua Jet (technically “moves” isn’t correct because it only gets one priority move). With Shell Smash and Waterium Z it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon Pokemon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z. With priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone, Crustle, or Pokémon Pokemon that trace Sturdy like Mega Gardevoir. Because it can go mixed, it can easily threaten biased (I don’t think this is the correct term and it was a bit confusing to read; maybe change it to “Pokemon without mixed defensive investment?”) defensive Pokémon Pokemon, and isn’t threatened by Will-oO-Wisp (capital letter) from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t effectively run mixed STAB moves, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set, (AC) and individual non-mixed sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It is also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who Pokemon that resist it them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it (technically Mega Venusaur doesn’t resist its Rock STAB, so you might wanna specify that it’s about the Water STAB). It’s also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon Pokemon like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of Taunt from Pokemon like Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, and speed its Attack, Special Attack, and Speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Charizard X or Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. (add full stop) Aqua Jet is a STAB-boosted priority move that can beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle, and can help to dealing additional necessary chip (implies that you’re chipping away at it, but I assume you want to defeat the foe straightaway with aqua jet) damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This can also can be used as a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second another (very nitpicky but this is the third option you’ve mentioned, not the second) option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Rock Slide can be used as a Rock-type STAB move against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's water Water STAB such as Mega Charizard Y (it doesn’t resist Water though, so I’d replace this with something else, or change “resist” to something like “that can survive”), Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed and a Naive Nature allows allow it to outspeed Base 110 Pokémon base 110 Speed Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. The remaining EVs are first put into first Special Attack, to boost the power of Z-Hydro Pump, and since it already has superb Attack, and then into Attack, in order to aid against KO Mega Charizard Y with Z-Aqua Tail into followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy is a key ability, allowing Carracosta one free turn to set-up up (remove hyphen) Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon Pokemon as long as they don’t resist its STAB moves like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokémon Pokemon that are faster or might become faster than Base 110 base 110 Speed such as Choice Scarf Porygon Z-Z (add hyphen) or Speed Boost Mega Blaziken, (AC) and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon Pokemon like Magnezone or Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set-up up (remove hyphen) a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case these cases physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokémon Pokemon is low on HP, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so long as Sturdy remains intact, then to follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that which threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn, and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham, (AC) and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get break through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that which Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with and Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite as well, but isn’t as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s STAB moves if it commits to a single attacking side. These moves can threaten opposing and Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect can also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water- (add space) and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take a boosted Hydro Vortex before attacking. (think it’s important to mention that the Pokemon needs to take a boosted attack in order to counter it; if it can only take an unboosted one it doesn’t count)

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon Users (the Pokemon isn’t the one with priority; the move is)**: Pokémon Pokemon that can take Carracosta’s moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed Walls walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher more and live Carracosta’s boosted attacks.

**Taunt users Users (add capitalisation)** Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to predict when Carracosta will raise its stats with Shell Smash and shut that down; however, this can be somewhat worked around, if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997 ], [Macemaster, 302951]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

 

[Lumari]

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage movepool, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z, (AC) it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z, (comma) With while priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can allows it to (sentence variety) beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone (RC) and Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy and Trace users like Mega Gardevoir. Because it Carracosta can go mixed, run a mixed set, it can easily threaten biased (what does this mean) defensive Pokémon Pokemon (RC) and isn’t threatened by Will-O-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t can't effectively run mixed STAB attacks, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who Pokemon that resist it them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It’s It's also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon users like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of by Taunt from users like Tapu Lele. (or just "by Taunt from Tapu Lele" if it's just that one)

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, offensive stats and Speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Charizard X or and Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water-type STAB move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. (AP) Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat finish off opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle (RC) and can help dealing deal additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This also can be used as for a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon Pokemon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Alternatively, Rock Slide can be used as a Rock-type STAB against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's Water-type STAB moves such as Mega Charizard Y, (doesn't resist it + you've mentioned more "neutral" targets before) Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed EVs and a Naive nature allows it allow Carracosta to outspeed base 110 Pokémon Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. The remaining EVs are put into first Special Attack (RC) is maximized to boost the power of Z-Hydro Pump special Hydro Vortex, and since it Carracosta already has superb Attack, and then the remaining EVs go into Attack (RC) in order to aid against Mega Charizard Y with Z-Aqua Tail into physical Hydro Vortex followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy is a key ability, allowing allows Carracosta one free turn to set up (RH) Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t don't resist its STAB attacks like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokémon Pokemon faster or might become potentially faster than base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon-Z (AH) or and Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon users like Magnezone or and Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set up (RH) a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case, (AC) physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokémon Pokemon is low weakened, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so as long as Sturdy remains intact, then and follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, for them while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn (RC) and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful, (AC) as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t isn't as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s Carracosta's STAB attacks if it commits to a single attacking side. (to special attacks? if so change pls) These moves can threaten opposing (word is missing here) and Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon Pokemon that can take Carracosta’s Carracosta's moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s tank Carracosta's boosted attacks.

**Taunt users**: (add colon) Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to predict when stop Carracosta will raise from raising its stats with Shell Smash and shut that down; however, this can be somewhat worked around, if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lost Heros, 316445]]
- Quality checked by: [[Alakazam, 276708], [Osra, 239997 ], [Macemaster, 302951]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ], [, ]]

 

[Ginger Princess]

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokémon Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense coverage movepool, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z, (AC) it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokémon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z, (comma) With while priority in Aqua Jet, Carracosta can allows it to (sentence variety) beat opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone (RC) and Crustle, or Pokémon that trace Sturdy and Trace users like Mega Gardevoir. Because it Carracosta can go mixed, run a mixed set, it can easily threaten biased (what does this mean) defensive Pokémon Pokemon (RC) and isn’t threatened by Will-O-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can’t can't effectively run mixed STAB attacks, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokémon who Pokemon that resist it them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It’s It's also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority Pokémon users like Donphan or it can be prevented from setting up because of by Taunt from users like Tapu Lele. (or just "by Taunt from Tapu Lele" if it's just that one)

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash is the most important move on this set as it allows for Carracosta to boost both its attack, special attack, offensive stats and Speed to +2 and OHKO the opposing Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Charizard X or and Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special STAB Water-type STAB move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokémon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. (AP) Aqua Jet is STAB priority that can beat finish off opposing Sturdy Pokémon Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle (RC) and can help dealing deal additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This also can be used as for a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokémon Pokemon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Alternatively, Rock Slide can be used as a Rock-type STAB against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's Water-type STAB moves such as Mega Charizard Y, (doesn't resist it + you've mentioned more "neutral" targets before) Kyurem, and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up either Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed EVs and a Naive nature allows it allow Carracosta to outspeed base 110 Pokémon Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. The remaining EVs are put into first Special Attack (RC) is maximized to boost the power of Z-Hydro Pump special Hydro Vortex, and since it Carracosta already has superb Attack, and then the remaining EVs go into Attack (RC) in order to aid against Mega Charizard Y with Z-Aqua Tail into physical Hydro Vortex followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy is a key ability, allowing allows Carracosta one free turn to set up (RH) Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokémon as long as they don’t don't resist its STAB attacks like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokémon Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokémon Pokemon faster or might become potentially faster than base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon-Z (AH) or and Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace Pokémon users like Magnezone or and Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokémon Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set up (RH) a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case, (AC) physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokémon Pokemon is low weakened, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash, so as long as Sturdy remains intact, then and follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran, that threaten both the Fire-types and Grass-types, for them while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn (RC) and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful, (AC) as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite but isn’t isn't as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta’s Carracosta's STAB attacks if it commits to a single attacking side. (to special attacks? if so change pls) These moves can threaten opposing (word is missing here) and Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking.

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokémon Pokemon that can take Carracosta’s Carracosta's moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and live Carracosta’s tank Carracosta's boosted attacks.

**Taunt users**: (add colon) Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to predict when stop Carracosta will raise from raising its stats with Shell Smash and shut that down; however, this can be somewhat worked around, if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense movepool, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z, it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokemon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z, while priority in Aqua Jet allows it to beat opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone and(add comma) Crustle(add comma) and Trace users like Mega Gardevoir. (subjective: reads kinda weird with two "ands" imo and Trace becomes Sturdy anyway so it's not like the meaning changes) Because Carracosta can run a mixed set, it can easily threaten defensive Pokemon and isn’t threatened by Will-O-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can't effectively run mixed STAB attacks, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokemon that resist them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It's also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority users like Donphan or can be prevented from setting up by Taunt users like Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash allows Carracosta to boost both its offensive stats and Speed and OHKO opposing Pokemon like Mega Charizard X and Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special Water-type STAB move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. Aqua Jet can finish off opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle and can help deal additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This also can be used for a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokemon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Alternatively, Rock Slide can be used against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's Water-type STAB moves such as Kyurem and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed EVs and a Naive nature allow Carracosta to outspeed base 110 Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. Special Attack is maximized to boost the power of special Hydro Vortex, since Carracosta already has superb Attack, and the remaining EVs go into Attack in order to aid against Mega Charizard Y with physical Hydro Vortex followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy allows Carracosta one free turn to set up Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokemon as long as they don't resist its STAB attacks like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Tapu Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokemon faster or potentially faster than base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon-Z and Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace users like Magnezone and Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case, physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokemon is weakened, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash as long as Sturdy remains intact and follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran for them while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful, as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite as well, but isn't as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta's STAB attacks if it commits to a being a full special attacker. These moves can threaten Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-(space)and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking. (highlighted bc Kommo-o and Mega Alt aren't water or grass types, might want to add "Dragon-" to the list as well if you think it's important?)

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokemon that can take Carracosta's moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and tank Carracosta's boosted attacks.

**Taunt users**: Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to stop Carracosta from raising its stats with Shell Smash; however, this can be somewhat worked around, (remove comma) if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

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[OVERVIEW]
Carracosta is a powerful Pokemon thanks to its combination of Shell Smash, mixed offense movepool, Sturdy, and priority moves. With Shell Smash and Waterium Z, it can outpace and OHKO a lot of Pokemon such as Heatran, Landorus-T, and Porygon-Z, while priority in Aqua Jet allows it to beat opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone and(add comma) Crustle(add comma) and Trace users like Mega Gardevoir. (subjective: reads kinda weird with two "ands" imo and Trace becomes Sturdy anyway so it's not like the meaning changes) Because Carracosta can run a mixed set, it can easily threaten defensive Pokemon and isn’t threatened by Will-O-Wisp from Mega Charizard X or Mega Gardevoir like many other Sturdy Pokemon are. Unfortunately, Carracosta can't effectively run mixed STAB attacks, priority, Shell Smash, and coverage in one set and individual sets lose out on key power that could be helpful. It also is reliant on its STAB moves, meaning Pokemon that resist them like Mega Venusaur can easily beat it. It's also extremely slow and can be beaten by faster priority users like Donphan or can be prevented from setting up by Taunt users like Tapu Lele.

[SET]
name: Mixed Waterium Z
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Hydro Pump
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Aqua Tail / Rock Slide
item: Waterium Z
ability: Sturdy
nature: Naive
evs: 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe


[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Shell Smash allows Carracosta to boost both its offensive stats and Speed and OHKO opposing Pokemon like Mega Charizard X and Mega Metagross at the start of turn 2. Hydro Pump is the special Water-type STAB move used as the base for Hydro Vortex to KO most opposing Pokemon such as Mega Charizard X and Magearna. Aqua Jet can finish off opposing Sturdy Pokemon such as Magnezone and Crustle and can help deal additional necessary chip damage to Pokemon like Mega Charizard Y. This also can be used for a physical Hydro Vortex, which can aid against Pokemon like Magearna. Aqua Tail is a second option for Hydro Vortex that can take out Calm Mind Pokemon such as Meloetta or naturally specially defensive Pokemon like Chansey. Alternatively, Rock Slide can be used against Pokemon that resist Carracosta's Water-type STAB moves such as Kyurem and Araquanid.

Set Details
========
Waterium Z powers up Hydro Pump, Aqua Tail, or Aqua Jet to Hydro Vortex to deal as much damage as possible. 240 Speed EVs and a Naive nature allow Carracosta to outspeed base 110 Pokemon after a Shell Smash, notably Mega Metagross. Special Attack is maximized to boost the power of special Hydro Vortex, since Carracosta already has superb Attack, and the remaining EVs go into Attack in order to aid against Mega Charizard Y with physical Hydro Vortex followed by Aqua Jet. Sturdy allows Carracosta one free turn to set up Shell Smash.

Usage Tips
========
Carracosta can be used against a wide variety of Pokemon as long as they don't resist its STAB attacks like Kommo-o or have a good priority move like Dragonite and Donphan. Against most bulky Pokemon like Mega Metagross, Tapue Tapu Lele, and Meloetta, turn 1 can be used to set up Shell Smash. However, against Pokemon faster or potentially faster than base 110 such as Choice Scarf Porygon-Z and Speed Boost Mega Blaziken and against opposing Sturdy or Trace users like Magnezone and Gardevoir, turn 1 should be used to attack. Usually, special Hydro Vortex should be used unless the Pokemon is significantly more specially defensive or has set up a Calm Mind like Magearna or Tapu Lele. In this case, physical Hydro Vortex should be used. When the opposing Pokemon is weakened, Aqua Jet should be used because it has priority and the best accuracy. Against Pokemon that can boost either or both defensive stats, such as Magearna, Tapu Lele, Z-Celebrate Meloetta, and Z-Conversion Porygon-Z, it is ideal to repeatedly use Shell Smash as long as Sturdy remains intact and follow up with a high-powered Hydro Vortex to hit whichever stat the opponent has boosted up the least.

Team Options
========
Carracosta is particularly strong when paired with Fire- and Grass-type Pokemon such as Mega Charizard Y, Heatran, Mega Venusaur, and Kartana. Carracosta can cover the opposing Fire-types like Mega Charizard X and opposing Heatran for them while the Fire-types can threaten Serperior and Ferrothorn and the Grass-types can threaten opposing Water-types like Primarina and Tapu Fini. Choice Scarf users like Porygon-Z, Landorus-T, and Victini are helpful in dealing with Fake Out users like Mega Lopunny, Mega Medicham and Zeraora. In return, Carracosta can get through bulkier Pokemon such as Meloetta and Heatran with the help of Shell Smash. Electric-types like Zeroara and Magnezone can also be helpful, as they can deal with bulky Water-types such as Primarina and Tapu Fini that Carracosta struggles with, while Carracosta can deal with annoying Ground-types like Landorus-T and non-Extreme Speed Zygarde.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
A physical set with Rockium Z that runs Stone Edge with Earthquake for coverage can be used to target Flying-types as well like Dragonite as well, but isn't as strong against Steel-types and is more susceptible to Will-O-Wisp. Ice Beam provides good coverage that complements Carracosta's STAB attacks if it commits to a being a full special attacker. These moves can threaten Dragon-types like Groundium Z Garchomp. Protect also can be run to alleviate the threat of Fake Out from certain Pokemon, such as Mega Medicham. This will not allow Carracosta to beat Mega Lopunny, however, without sacrificing either Aqua Tail or Shell Smash.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Type Resistances**: Bulky Water-(space)and Grass-types such as Mega Gyarados, Primarina, Mega Venusaur, Whimsicott, Kommo-o, and Mega Altaria can all take Hydro Vortex before attacking. (highlighted bc Kommo-o and Mega Alt aren't water or grass types, might want to add "Dragon-" to the list as well if you think it's important?)

**Fake Out Users**: Mega Lopunny, Zeraora, and Mega Medicham all use Fake Out to break Carracosta’s Sturdy before KOing it with a powerful STAB attack.

**Bulky Fast Priority Pokemon**: Pokemon that can take Carracosta's moves and respond with their own priority moves such as Donphan and Dragonium Z Dragonite can shut down Carracosta without giving it too many opportunities to attack.

**Mixed Walls**: Mixed walls such as Umbreon, Clefable, and Quagsire can boost their already high defenses even higher and tank Carracosta's boosted attacks.

**Taunt users**: Certain Taunt users like Tapu Lele and Mega Sableye can attempt to stop Carracosta from raising its stats with Shell Smash; however, this can be somewhat worked around, (remove comma) if Carracosta attacks when they use Taunt.

caught a couple more instances of Pokemon with the accented e; highlighted the whole word so they're easy to find. not much to say outside of the comment on the Type Resistances section. GP 2/2.

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