Gen 5 Choice Scarf Latias [DONE]

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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Surf / Psyshock
move 3: Trick
move 4: Healing Wish / Psyshock
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Latias's great bulk and Speed tier, good Special Attack, and access to Healing Wish allow it to be an excellent Choice Scarf user in the metagame, tying with Latios as the fastest Choice Scarf user seen in the tier and allowing it to outrun and KO Speed-boosting Pokemon such as Dragonite, Salamence, and Volcarona. Draco Meteor is strong enough to revenge kill most Pokemon that don't resist it such as Thundurus-T, Starmie, and Keldeo while always OHKOing Dragon-types such as Garchomp, Latios, and Kyurem-B. Surf gives Latias excellent coverage against Pokemon like Heatran, Excadrill, and Volcarona, as well as pressuring Ground-types such as Gliscor and Landorus-T. Trick cripples bulkier Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Blissey, Clefable, and Jirachi that could take on Latias's attacks while also preventing Calm Mind Reuniclus from getting out of hand. Healing Wish differentiates Latias from Latios, granting a weakened teammate like Volcarona, Dragonite, or Breloom another chance to assault foes. Psyshock is an option over Surf that OHKOes Calm Mind-boosted Keldeo. However, dropping Surf allows Steel-types to much more consistently answer Latias, while dropping Healing Wish leaves only Latias's bulk to differentiate itself from the excellent Latios.

Set Details
========
Maximum Speed investment allows Latias to outspeed everything up until +2 Dragonite, +1 Volcarona, and Choice Scarf Keldeo and Garchomp.

Team Options
========
Choice Scarf Latias fits best on offensive teams, such as rain and weatherless teams, as it combines important offensive and defensive traits to builds while carrying important utility. Its typing and bulk allow it to reliably switch into Keldeo, Thundurus-T, or Choice Band-boosted Close Combat from Terrakion and threaten to KO them back with Draco Meteor or Surf after they've been slightly weakened. Latias's Speed tier is also crucial, allowing it to outrun Speed-boosted Pokemon and Choice Scarf users, such as Volcarona, Garchomp, and Dragonite; rain teams in particular enjoy Latias providing great speed control and bulk to help guard them against these Pokemon. Politoed brings the rain and powers up Latias's Surf, which can allow it to more easily damage Pokemon that are weak to Surf such as Heatran, Gliscor, and Excadrill. Keldeo makes for a great teammate with Latias, as it appreciates Latias's ability to revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam, Starmie, and boosted Dragonite. In return, Keldeo can help Latias in dealing with special walls such as Tyranitar and Blissey and Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Heatran. Ferrothorn can provide entry hazards for Latias, which allows it to more comfortably revenge kill Pokemon, and in return, Latias can answer Fire- and Fighting-type Pokemon such as Heatran, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Rain wallbreakers such as Thundurus-T and Starmie make for excellent teammates, since they can break through Latias's checks such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, and Heatran. Starmie can spin away hazards to increase Latias's survivability, as well as being able to force more damage onto Tyranitar and Ferrothorn for Latias. In return, Latias can revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam and boosted Dragonite, which can allow Starmie and Thundurus-T to wallbreak or sweep more effectively. Latias can be used on weatherless teams as well thanks to it providing crucial speed control, Healing Wish, and a Pokemon that crucially resists Water, allowing hyper offense teams to match up much better against rain teams. Lead Jirachi and offensive Garchomp can set up Stealth Rock for Latias. Garchomp can also break through Latias's checks such as Heatran, Jirachi, and Ferrothorn, while Jirachi can pivot into dangerous threats such as Alakazam, opposing Choice Scarf Latias, and Latios. Other offensive Pokemon found on weatherless teams such as Volcarona, Breloom, Dragonite, and Scizor all appreciate Latias's revenge-killing capabilities in addition to Healing Wish support for a second assault.

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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Surf
move 3: Trick
move 4: Healing Wish
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Latias's great bulk and speed tier, good special attack, and access to Healing Wish allows it to be an excellent Choice Scarf user in the metagame, being able to revenge kill most of the tier including Choice Scarf Garchomp, Choice Scarf Keldeo, boosted Dragonite, and boosted Volcarona. Draco Meteor is still strong enough to revenge kill most pokemon that are netural to it such as Thundurus-T, Starmie, and Keldeo while being strong enough to always OHKO opposing Dragon-types such as Garchomp, Latios, and Kyurem-B. Surf gives Latias excellent coverage against Pokemon like Heatran, Excadrill, and Volcarona as well as still pressuring Ground-types such as Gliscor and Landorus-T. Trick allows Latias to cripple bulkier Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Blissey, Clefable, and Jirachi that could take on Latias's attacks while also preventing Calm Mind Reuniclus from getting out of hand. Healing Wish lets Latias difference itself from Latios, allowing Latias to restore the health and status from a weakened teammates such as Volcarona, Dragonite, and Breloom, allowing them to do another assault.

Set Details
========
Max Speed with a Timid nature allows Latias to outspeed everything up until +2 Dragonite, Choice Scarf Keldeo, and Choice Scarf Garchomp while also speed tying Choice Scarf Latios and opposing Choice Scarf Latias. Just mentioning +2 Dragonite and the scarfers is fine, would also give a mention to +1 Volcarona.


Team Options
========
Choice Scarf Latias fits best on offensive teams, such as rain and weatherless, thanks to it patching up holes by providing crucial speed control against opposing Choice Scarf users like Garchomp, Kyurem-B and Landorus-T, as well as boosted threats like Dragonite and Volcarona. Thanks to its bulk, it also provides general security against dangerous threats such as Keldeo, Thundurus-T and Breloom.Although it's true Breloom is a bit random here, would mention Terrakion instead as it's more common and relevant.Rain teams in particular enjoy Latias providing great speed control and bulk to help guard them against these Pokemon. Politoed brings the rain and powers up Latias's Surf which can allow it to more easily damage Pokemon that are weak to Surf such as Heatran, Gliscor, and Excadrill. Keldeo makes for a great teammate with Latias as it appreciate Latias's ability to revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam, Starmie, and boosted Dragonite. While in-return, Keldeo can help Latias in dealing with special walls such as Tyranitar and Blissey as well as Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Heatran. Ferrothorn can provide entry hazards for Latias which allows it to more comfortable revenge kill opposing Pokemon, While In-return Latias can answer Fire- and Fighting-type pokemon such as Heatran, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Thundurus-T is an excellent teammate for Latias as Thundurus-T can break Latias's checks such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, and Heatran. While in-return Latias can revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Keldeo, Garchomp, and Latios for Thundurus-T, allowing it to wallbreak and sweep more easily while also appreciating Healing Wish support from Latias to have a second assault if it get low on HP. Offensive Starmie can spin away entry hazards to increase Latias's survivability,Would give a mention to how Latias and Starmie together also force more damage on Ferrothorn and Tyranitar. and in return Latias can revenge killer faster Pokemon for Starmie such as Alakazam, Choice Scarf Garchomp, and boosted Dragonite. Outside of rain teams, Latias can be used on weatherless teams as well thanks to it providing crucial speed control and Healing Wish for them, as well as providing a crucial answer to Rain teams which is something that weatherless teams would otherwise struggle against. Lead Jirachi and Offensive Garchomp can setup Stealth Rock for Latias. Garchomp can also break through Latias's checks such as Heatran, Jirachi, and Ferrothorn, while JIrachi can pivot into dangerous threats such as Alakazam as well as opposing Choice Scarf Latias and Latios. Other offensive Pokemon found on weatherless teams such as Volcarona, Breloom, Dragonite, and Scizor all appreciate Latias's revenge killing capabilities in addition Healing Wish support for a second assault if they get statused or low on health. Would mention how Latias can provide a water resistance (Scald switch in) for many hyper offence teams.
 
Good improvement from last time qc2 when implemented

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Surf / Psyshock
move 3: Trick
move 4: Healing Wish / Psyshock
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Latias's great bulk and speed tier, good special attack, and access to Healing Wish allows it to be an excellent Choice Scarf user in the metagame, tying Latios as the fastest Choice Scarf user seen in the tier and allowing it to outrun and KObeing able to revenge kill most of the tier including every other Choice Scarf user such as Garchomp and Keldeo as well as Pokemon that boost their speed such as Dragonite, Salamence, and Volcarona. Draco Meteor is still strong enough to revenge kill most pokemon that are netural to it such as Thundurus-T, Starmie, and Keldeo while always OHKOing opposing Dragon-types such as Garchomp, Latios, and Kyurem-B. Surf gives Latias excellent coverage against Pokemon like Heatran, Excadrill, and Volcarona as well as still pressuring Ground-types such as Gliscor and Landorus-T. Trick allows Latias to cripple bulkier Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Blissey, Clefable, and Jirachi that could take on Latias's attacks while also preventing Calm Mind Reuniclus from getting out of hand. Healing Wish lets Latias difference itself from Latios, allowing Latias to restore the health and status from a weakened teammates such as Volcarona, Dragonite, and Breloom, granting them another chance to assault the foe. Psyshock is an option over Surf that grants Latias two STAB options and the ability to OHKO Calm Mind boosted Keldeo. However, dropping Surf allows Steel-types to much more consistently answer Latias, while dropping Healing Wish leaves only Latias's bulk to differentiate itself from the excellent Latios. allowing them to do another assault.

Set Details
========
Max Speed with a Timid nature allows Latias to outspeed everything up until +2 Dragonite, +1 Volcarona, Choice Scarf Keldeo, and Choice Scarf Garchomp. (Add period)


Team Options
========
Choice Scarf Latias fits best on offensive teams, such as rain and weatherless, as it combines important offensive and defensive traits to builds while carrying important utility. Latias's typing and bulk allows it to reliably switch into Keldeo, Thundurus-T, or a Choice Band boosted Close Combat from Terrakion, and threaten to KO them back with Draco Meteor or Surf after they've been slightly weakened. Latias's Speed tier is also crucial, allowing it to outrun Speed boosted Pokemon or opposing Choice Scarf users, such as Volcarona, Garchomp, or Dragonite. thanks to it patching up holes by providing crucial speed control against opposing Choice Scarf users like Garchomp, Kyurem-B and Landorus-T, as well as boosted threats like Dragonite and Volcarona. Thanks to its bulk, it also provides general security against dangerous threats such as Keldeo, Thundurus-T and Terrakion. Reworded for clarity and picked better examples, as scarf Kyub is still somewhat rare and landot could either speed boost or scarf Rain teams in particular enjoy Latias providing great speed control and bulk to help guard them against these Pokemon. Politoed brings the rain and powers up Latias's Surf which can allow it to more easily damage Pokemon that are weak to Surf such as Heatran, Gliscor, and Excadrill. Keldeo makes for a great teammate with Latias as it appreciate Latias's ability to revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam, Starmie, and boosted Dragonite. While in-return, Keldeo can help Latias in dealing with special walls such as Tyranitar and Blissey as well as Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Heatran. Ferrothorn can provide entry hazards for Latias which allows it to more comfortable revenge kill opposing Pokemon, While In-return Latias can answer Fire- and Fighting-type pokemon such as Heatran, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Thundurus-T is an excellent teammate for Latias as Thundurus-T can break Latias's checks such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, and Heatran. While in-return Latias can revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Keldeo, Garchomp, and Latios for Thundurus-T, allowing it to wallbreak and sweep more easily while also appreciating Healing Wish support from Latias to have a second assault if it get low on HP. Starmie can spin away entry hazards to increase Latias's survivability, Starmie and Latias can also force more damage on Tyranitar and Ferrothorn together, allowing teammates like Thundurus-T to break through them more easily. In return, Latias can revenge killer faster Pokemon for Starmie such as Alakazam, Choice Scarf Garchomp, and boosted Dragonite. Outside of rain teams, Latias can be used on weatherless teams as well thanks to it providing crucial speed control and Healing Wish for them as well as providing a crucial water resist, allowing hyper offense teams to match up much better into rain teams. Lead Jirachi and Offensive Garchomp can setup Stealth Rock for Latias. Garchomp can also break through Latias's checks such as Heatran, Jirachi, and Ferrothorn, while JIrachi can pivot into dangerous threats such as Alakazam as well as opposing Choice Scarf Latias and Latios. Other offensive Pokemon found on weatherless teams such as Volcarona, Breloom, Dragonite, and Scizor all appreciate Latias's revenge killing capabilities in addition Healing Wish support for a second assault if they get statused or low on health.


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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Surf / Psyshock
move 3: Trick
move 4: Healing Wish / Psyshock
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Latias's great bulk and speed Speed tier, good Special Attack special attack, and access to Healing Wish allow allows it to be an excellent Choice Scarf user in the metagame, tying with Latios as the fastest Choice Scarf user seen in the tier and allowing it to outrun and KO Speed-boosting Pokemon that boost their speed such as Dragonite, Salamence, and Volcarona. Draco Meteor is still strong enough to revenge kill most neutral Pokemon pokemon that are netural to it such as Thundurus-T, Starmie, and Keldeo while always OHKOing opposing Dragon-types such as Garchomp, Latios, and Kyurem-B. Surf gives Latias excellent coverage against Pokemon like Heatran, Excadrill, and Volcarona, (comma) as well as still pressuring Ground-types such as Gliscor and Landorus-T. Trick allows Latias to cripple cripples bulkier Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Blissey, Clefable, and Jirachi that could take on Latias's attacks while also preventing Calm Mind Reuniclus from getting out of hand. Healing Wish lets Latias difference itself differentiates Latias from Latios, allowing Latias to restore the health and status from a weakened teammates such as dex info granting a weakened teammate like Volcarona, Dragonite, or and Breloom another chance to assault foes. , granting them another chance to assault the foe. Psyshock is an option over Surf that grants Latias two STAB options and the ability to OHKO OHKOes Calm Mind-boosted (hyphen) Keldeo. However, dropping Surf allows Steel-types to much more consistently answer Latias, while dropping Healing Wish leaves only Latias's bulk to differentiate itself from the excellent Latios.

Set Details
========
Maximum Speed investment with a Timid nature allows Latias to outspeed everything up until +2 Dragonite, +1 Volcarona, and Choice Scarf Keldeo (remove comma) and Choice Scarf Garchomp.


Team Options
========
Choice Scarf Latias fits best on offensive teams, such as rain and weatherless teams, as it combines important offensive and defensive traits to builds while carrying important utility. Latias's Its typing and bulk allow allows it to reliably switch into Keldeo, Thundurus-T, or a Choice Band-boosted Band boosted Close Combat from Terrakion (remove comma) and threaten to KO them back with Draco Meteor or Surf after they've been slightly weakened. Latias's Speed tier is also crucial, allowing it to outrun Speed Speed-boosted Pokemon and or opposing Choice Scarf users, such as Volcarona, Garchomp, and or Dragonite; (semicolon > period) Rain rain teams in particular enjoy Latias providing great speed control and bulk to help guard them against these Pokemon. Politoed brings the rain and powers up Latias's Surf, (comma) which can allow it to more easily damage Pokemon that are weak to Surf such as Heatran, Gliscor, and Excadrill. Keldeo makes for a great teammate with Latias, (comma) as it appreciate appreciates Latias's ability to revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam, Starmie, and boosted Dragonite. While in-return In return, Keldeo can help Latias in dealing with special walls such as Tyranitar and Blissey and as well as Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Heatran. Ferrothorn can provide entry hazards for Latias, (comma) which allows it to more comfortable revenge kill opposing Pokemon, While In-return and in return, (comma) Latias can answer Fire- and Fighting-type Pokemon pokemon such as Heatran, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Rain wallbreakers such as Thundurus-T and Starmie make for excellent teammates, (comma) since they can break through Latias's checks such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, and Heatran. Starmie can spin away entry hazards to increase Latias's survivability, (comma) as well as being able to force more damage onto Tyranitar and Ferrothorn for Latias. In return, Latias can revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam and boosted Dragonite, (comma) which can allow Starmie and Thundurus-T to wallbreak or sweep more effectively. Outside of rain teams, Latias can be used on weatherless teams as well thanks to it providing crucial speed control, (comma) and Healing Wish, (comma) for them as well as providing a and a crucial Water-resistance water resist, allowing hyper offense teams to match up much better against into rain teams. Lead Jirachi and Offensive Garchomp can setup set up Stealth Rock for Latias. Garchomp can also break through Latias's checks such as Heatran, Jirachi, and Ferrothorn, while Jirachi JIrachi can pivot into dangerous threats such as Alakazam and as well as opposing Choice Scarf Latias and Latios. Other offensive Pokemon found on weatherless teams such as Volcarona, Breloom, Dragonite, and Scizor all appreciate Latias's revenge-killing (hyphen) capabilities in addition Healing Wish support for a second assault. (period) if they get statused or low on health.


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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Surf / Psyshock
move 3: Trick
move 4: Healing Wish / Psyshock
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
========
Latias's great bulk and Speed tier, good Special Attack, and access to Healing Wish allow it to be an excellent Choice Scarf user in the metagame, tying with Latios as the fastest Choice Scarf user seen in the tier and allowing it to outrun and KO Speed-boosting Pokemon such as Dragonite, Salamence, and Volcarona. Draco Meteor is strong enough to revenge kill most neutral Pokemon that don't resist it such as Thundurus-T, Starmie, and Keldeo while always OHKOing Dragon-types such as Garchomp, Latios, and Kyurem-B. Surf gives Latias excellent coverage against Pokemon like Heatran, Excadrill, and Volcarona, as well as pressuring Ground-types such as Gliscor and Landorus-T. Trick cripples bulkier Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Blissey, Clefable, and Jirachi that could take on Latias's attacks while also preventing Calm Mind Reuniclus from getting out of hand. Healing Wish differentiates Latias from Latios, granting a weakened teammate like Volcarona, Dragonite, or Breloom another chance to assault foes. Psyshock is an option over Surf that OHKOes Calm Mind-boosted Keldeo. However, dropping Surf allows Steel-types to much more consistently answer Latias, while dropping Healing Wish leaves only Latias's bulk to differentiate itself from the excellent Latios.

Set Details
========
Maximum Speed investment allows Latias to outspeed everything up until +2 Dragonite, +1 Volcarona, and Choice Scarf Keldeo and Garchomp.

Team Options
========
Choice Scarf Latias fits best on offensive teams, such as rain and weatherless teams, as it combines important offensive and defensive traits to builds while carrying important utility. Its typing and bulk allow it to reliably switch into Keldeo, Thundurus-T, or Choice Band-boosted Close Combat from Terrakion and threaten to KO them back with Draco Meteor or Surf after they've been slightly weakened. Latias's Speed tier is also crucial, allowing it to outrun Speed-boosted Pokemon and Choice Scarf users, such as Volcarona, Garchomp, and Dragonite; rain teams in particular enjoy Latias providing great speed control and bulk to help guard them against these Pokemon. Politoed brings the rain and powers up Latias's Surf, which can allow it to more easily damage Pokemon that are weak to Surf such as Heatran, Gliscor, and Excadrill. Keldeo makes for a great teammate with Latias, as it appreciates Latias's ability to revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam, Starmie, and boosted Dragonite. In return, Keldeo can help Latias in dealing with special walls such as Tyranitar and Blissey and Steel-types such as Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Heatran. Ferrothorn can provide entry hazards for Latias, which allows it to more comfortable comfortably revenge kill Pokemon, and in return, Latias can answer Fire- and Fighting-type Pokemon such as Heatran, Terrakion, and Keldeo. Rain wallbreakers such as Thundurus-T and Starmie make for excellent teammates, since they can break through Latias's checks such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, and Heatran. Starmie can spin away hazards to increase Latias's survivability, as well as being able to force more damage onto Tyranitar and Ferrothorn for Latias. In return, Latias can revenge kill faster Pokemon such as Alakazam and boosted Dragonite, which can allow Starmie and Thundurus-T to wallbreak or sweep more effectively. Latias can be used on weatherless teams as well thanks to it providing crucial speed control, Healing Wish, and a crucial Water-resistance Pokemon that crucially resists Water, allowing hyper offense teams to match up much better against rain teams. Lead Jirachi and offensive Garchomp can set up Stealth Rock for Latias. Garchomp can also break through Latias's checks such as Heatran, Jirachi, and Ferrothorn, while Jirachi can pivot into dangerous threats such as Alakazam, (AC) and as opposing Choice Scarf Latias, (AC) and Latios. Other offensive Pokemon found on weatherless teams such as Volcarona, Breloom, Dragonite, and Scizor all appreciate Latias's revenge-killing capabilities in addition to Healing Wish support for a second assault.

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