1v1 Choice Specs Duraludon (DONE)

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:Duraludon:
[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Flash Cannon
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Steel Beam
item: Choice Specs
ability: Light Metal
nature: Bold
evs: 184 HP / 224 Def / 100 SpA

[SET COMMENTS]

This Duraludon set functions as an offensive set utilizing its unique Steel / Dragon typing to beat many of the metagame's most prominent threats such as Jirachi, Dracovish, and Zeraora. Draco Meteor is Duraludon's most reliable STAB move, hitting the likes of Zeraora, Dracovish, Choice Scarf Rotom-H, and non-stall Rotom-W. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like non-Curse Mimikyu and non-Babiri Berry Whimsicott super effectively. Thunderbolt is a great Electric-type coverage move, handling Steel-types like Jirachi and Corviknight. Steel Beam is required to guarantee the KO on other Fairy-types such as Sylveon and Togekiss, but the drawback of Steel Beam potentially KOing the user makes Flash Cannon the more reliable option in most cases. The EVs on this set are tailored to survive strong physical attacks like Jolly Choice Scarf Galarian Darmanitan and +2 Crustle's Earthquake. However, Duraludon hates matchups against Pokemon are faster than itself or can take a multitude of its attacks like Choice Band Galarian Darmanitan, Sawk, Aegislash, and Primarina, as they can use their respective strategies to counteract Duraludon.

Primarina is an amazing teammate for Duraludon, as it can handle Fire-, Dragon-, and Ground-types that Duraludon struggles against like Rotom-H, Choice Specs Dragapult, Hydreigon, and Excadrill. In return, Duraludon can handle Pokemon like Jirachi and Zeraora that Primarina has a hard time against. Due to Duraludon's pitiful Special Defense, having special tanks or Pokemon that can lower the opponent's Special Attack to patch up its weakness like Sylveon and Mandibuzz is very helpful. Duraludon also struggles against stall users like Type: Null and Ferrothorn that either can bolster their Special Defense or are bulky enough to beat it one-on-one; as a result, wallbreakers like Sawk and Nasty Plot Hydreigon can prove to be strong allies. In return, Duraludon can mitigate their weaknesses to Pokemon that can take an attack from or OHKO them like Quick Attack Sylveon and Golisopod.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[poison-adhesive, 430787]]
- Quality checked by: [[pqs, 425798], [boat-phiwings99, 475993]]
- Grammar checked by: [[bigtalk, 466663]]
 
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[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Flash Cannon
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Steel Beam
item: Choice Specs
ability: Light Metal
nature: Bold
evs: 180 HP / 228 why not 224 def? it saves evs + you still tank crustle Def / 100 SpA

[SET COMMENTS]

This Duraludon set primarily functions as a simple offensive set utilising its unique Steel / Dragon typing to beat many of the metagame's most prominent threats such as Jirachi, Dracovish, and Zeraora. Additionally, Duraludon's access to high-Base Power moves like Draco Meteor, Thunderbolt, Flash Cannon (high-bp? 80? really?) and Steel Beam allows it to cover a variety of different threats like Choice Band Dragapult, (aren't you just using draco meteor here) Corviknight, (aren't you just using thunderbolt here) Mimikyu (curse?) and Sylveon. The EVs on this set are tailored to survive strong physical attacks like Galarian Darmanitan Superpower (252+ Atk Gorilla Tactics Darmanitan-Galar Superpower vs. 180 HP / 228+ Def Duraludon: 304-358 (93.2 - 109.8%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO??), Choice Band Incineroar, (nonexistent) Choice Band Dracovish, (will take anyhow) and +2 Crustle's Earthquake. However, Duraludon hates matchups from Pokemon are faster than itself or can take a multitude of its attacks like Choice Band (galarian?) Darmanitan, Sawk, Aegislash, and Primarina, (doesn't duraludon just outspeed and 2hko?) as they can use their respective strategies to counteract Duraludon.

Primarina is an amazing teammate for Duraludon as it can handle Fire-, Dragon-, and Ground-types that Duraludon struggle against like Rotom-H, Choice Specs Dragapult, Hydreigon, and Excadrill. In return, Duraludon can handle Pokemon like Jirachi and non-Choice Band Zeraora that Primarina has a hard time against. Due to Duraludon's pitiful Special Defense, having special tanks or Pokemon that can lower the opponent's Special Attack that patch up its weakness like Sylveon and Mandibuzz is very helpful. Duraludon also struggles against stall users like Type: Null and Ferrothorn that can either bolster their Special Defense or being bulky enough to beat it one-on-one, as a result having wallbreakers like Sawk and Hydreigon (hydreigon doesn't beat type: null or specify nasty plot) can prove to be strong allies. In return, Duraludon can mitigate their weaknesses to Pokemon that can take an attack from them like Corviknight and Sylveon.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[poison-adhesive, 430787]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
Implement this and let me have a second look before I give you 1/2.
 
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stuff that im disagreeing with
-"In return, Duraludon can handle Pokemon like Jirachi and "non-Choice Band" Zeraora that Primarina has a hard time against." Duraludon beats CB Zeraora.
- Duraludon loses to specs Primarina.
implemented the rest
 
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[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Flash Cannon
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Steel Beam
item: Choice Specs
ability: Light Metal
nature: Bold
evs: 180 HP / 224 Def / 104 SpA

[SET COMMENTS]

This Duraludon set primarily functions as a simple offensive set utilising (spell utilizing right) its unique Steel / Dragon typing to beat many of the metagame's most prominent threats such as Jirachi, Dracovish, and Zeraora. Draco Meteor is Duraludon's strongest STAB move (technically untrue. change it to "most reliable STAB move" or something like, that since steel beam technically hits harder) hitting the likes of Choice Band Dragapult (CB Pult isn't especially common, can you find a more relevant example where Draco is good?) and Dracovish, super effectively. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like non-Curse Mimikyu more effectively than Steel Beam (I would try to talk about Flash Cannon on its own merits rather than comparing it to steel beam, and do the comparison during the steel beam section. What else does Flash Cannon hit?) as Steel Beam KOes the user, making it a more reliable option. Thunderbolt is a great Electric-type coverage move handling Steel-types like Jirachi and Corviknight. Steel Beam is required to guarantee the KO on other Fairy-types such as Sylveon and Togekiss. The EVs on this set are tailored to survive strong physical attacks like Jolly Choice Scarf Galarian Darmanitan and +2 Crustle's Earthquake. (go to 184 HP with 100 SpA, 252 Atk Gorilla Tactics Darmanitan-Galar Superpower vs. 180 HP / 224+ Def Duraludon: 276-326 (84.6 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO. However, Duraludon hates matchups from Pokemon are faster than itself or can take a multitude of its attacks like Choice Band Galarian Darmanitan, Sawk, Aegislash, and Primarina, as they can use their respective strategies to counteract Duraludon.

Primarina is an amazing teammate for Duraludon as it can handle Fire-, Dragon-, and Ground-types that Duraludon struggle against like Rotom-H, Choice Specs Dragapult, Hydreigon, and Excadrill. In return, Duraludon can handle Pokemon like Jirachi and Zeraora that Primarina has a hard time against. Due to Duraludon's pitiful Special Defense, having special tanks or Pokemon that can lower the opponent's Special Attack patching up its weakness like Sylveon and Mandibuzz is very helpful. Duraludon also struggles against stall users like Type: Null and Ferrothorn that can either bolster their Special Defense or being bulky enough to beat it one-on-one, as a result having wallbreakers like Sawk and Nasty Plot Hydreigon can prove to be strong allies. In return, Duraludon can mitigate their weaknesses to Pokemon that can take an attack from them like Corviknight (Corvi is a bad example, Sawk and NP Hydreigon can both beat it.) and Sylveon (Poison Jab Sawk is kinda sus vs Yawn Sylveon, maybe say Quick Attack Sylveon).
 
Looks good. Change the last sentence to say "...can take an attack or OHKO them..." since goliso is using first impression on hydreigon. Then 2/2
 
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:Duraludon:
[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Flash Cannon
move 3: Thunderbolt
move 4: Steel Beam
item: Choice Specs
ability: Light Metal
nature: Bold
evs: 184 HP / 224 Def / 100 SpA

[SET COMMENTS]

This Duraludon set functions as an offensive set utilizing its unique Steel / Dragon typing to beat many of the metagame's most prominent threats such as Jirachi, Dracovish, and Zeraora. Draco Meteor is Duraludon's most reliable STAB move, (AC) hitting the likes of Zeraora, Dracovish, Choice Scarf Rotom-H, and non-stall Rotom-W. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like non-Curse Mimikyu and non-Babiri Berry Whimsicott (RC) super effectively. Thunderbolt is a great Electric-type coverage move, (AC) handling Steel-types like Jirachi and Corviknight. Steel Beam is required to guarantee the KO on other Fairy-types such as Sylveon and Togekiss, however but the drawback of Steel Beam potentially KOing the user (RC) makes Flash Cannon the more reliable option in most cases. The EVs on this set are tailored to survive strong physical attacks like Jolly Choice Scarf Galarian Darmanitan and +2 Crustle's Earthquake. However, Duraludon hates matchups from against Pokemon are faster than itself or can take a multitude of its attacks like Choice Band Galarian Darmanitan, Sawk, Aegislash, and Primarina, as they can use their respective strategies to counteract Duraludon.

Primarina is an amazing teammate for Duraludon, (AC) as it can handle Fire-, Dragon-, and Ground-types that Duraludon struggles against like Rotom-H, Choice Specs Dragapult, Hydreigon, and Excadrill. In return, Duraludon can handle Pokemon like Jirachi and Zeraora that Primarina has a hard time against. Due to Duraludon's pitiful Special Defense, having special tanks or Pokemon that can lower the opponent's Special Attack to patching up its weakness like Sylveon and Mandibuzz is very helpful. Duraludon also struggles against stall users like Type: Null and Ferrothorn that either can either bolster their Special Defense or being are bulky enough to beat it one-on-one; (SC) as a result, (AC) having wallbreakers like Sawk and Nasty Plot Hydreigon can prove to be strong allies. In return, Duraludon can mitigate their weaknesses to Pokemon that can take an attack from them or OHKO them like Quick Attack Sylveon and Golisopod.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[poison-adhesive, 430787]]
- Quality checked by: [[pqs, 425798], [boat-phiwings99. 475993]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
GP 1/1
 
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