National Dex UU Choice Specs Hydreigon [Done]

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[SET]
Choice Specs (Hydreigon) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Flash Cannon
- Fire Blast / Roost / U-turn

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Hydreigon is a potent wallbreaker, being able to threaten common special walls such as Mega Tyranitar and Celesteela with its powerful STAB moves and coverage options. It also has more longevity and defensive utility, including a resistance to Pursuit, at the cost of Speed and more consistent STAB moves compared to other special wallbreakers like Latios. Draco Meteor OHKOes threats like Iron Moth and Mega Heracross while doing significant damage to foes such as Galarian Moltres, Iron Hands, and Mega Sableye. Dark Pulse threatens Slowking and gives Hydreigon a spammable STAB move. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like Enamorus, Mega Altaria, and Clefable. Fire Blast threatens Celesteela, Tangrowth, and Bisharp, Roost takes advantage of forced switches and lets Hydreigon stay healthy to switch in several times throughout the match, while U-turn lets it pivot out of foes it can struggle against such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable. A Timid nature lets Hydreigon outspeed Excadrill and Ceruledge, while Modest gives Draco Meteor a high chance of OHKOing Choice Band Iron Hands.

Hydreigon struggles to break through Fairy-types such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable, as well as Celesteela if not running Fire Blast, so teammates that can pressure them like both Thundurus formes and Mega Venusaur are helpful. Hydreigon also appreciates pivots such as Cinderace and Slowking that can safely get it onto the field; Cinderace can use U-turn to pivot out of switch-ins that Hydreigon threatens like Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Slowking can safely pivot it in with Teleport. Knock Off support from the likes of Mega Vensaur, Iron Treads, and Thundurus-T is appreciated to help Hydreigon break through Pokemon like Celesteela, Tapu Fini, and Assault Vest Tangrowth. Setup sweepers like Tapu Fini and Galarian Moltres benefit from Hydreigon's longevity and ability to pressure their checks such as Mega Venusaur and Mega Tyranitar, respectively, allowing them to become wincons late-game; fast teammates such as Choice Scarf Enamorus and Keldeo also appreciate Hydreigon for this reason, with it being able to pressure their switch-ins such as Slowking and Assault Vest Tangrowth, which can open the way for them to clean late-game. Hydreigon can also easily be revenge killed by faster Pokemon such as Hawlucha, Latios, and Enamorus; Skarmory can deal with Hawlucha while providing Spikes support, and Slowking can deal with Latios and Enamorus.

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[SET]
Choice Specs (Hydreigon) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Fire Blast / Roost / U-turn
- Flash Cannon

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Hydreigon is a powerful wallbreaker, being able to threaten common special walls such as Mega Tyranitar, Galarian Slowking, and Celesteela with its powerful STAB moves and coverage options. I would also add that it competes with other specs breakers, which trade defensive utility for greater speed, better stabs etc Draco Meteor is the STAB move of choice, being able to OHKO threats like Iron Moth and Mega Heracross while doing significant damage to threats such as Galarian Moltres and Iron Hands. What are some examples of defensively-oriented mons that Draco lets you nuke? Dark Pulse threatens both Slowking formes as well as Aegislash and gives Hydreigon a spammable STAB move. Fire Blast threatens Celesteela, Tangrowth, and Bisharp, Roost takes advantage of forced switches, and worth mentioning imo, since its where you typically use it on a specs set like this lets Hydreigon stay healthy to switch in several times throughout the match, while U-turn lets it pivot out of foes it can struggle against such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like Enarmous, Mega Altaria, and Clefable. A Timid nature lets Hydreigon outspeed Excadrill and Galarian Moltres, GMolt doesn't need +Spe personally so i'd stick to a more noteworthy example, like Ceruledge. while Modest gives Draco Meteor a high chance of OHKOing Choice Band Iron Hands and Swords Dance Ursaluna. Teammates such as Choice Scarf Enamorus and Keldeo appreciate Hydreigon's ability to pressure their switch-ins, such as both Slowking formes and Assault Vest Tangrowth, which can open the way for them to clean late-game. Hydreigon struggles to break through Fairy-types such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable, as well as Celesteela if not running Fire Blast, so teammates who can pressure them like both Thundurus formes, Mega Venusaur, and Galarian Slowking are appreciated. Hydreigon can also easily be revenge killed by faster Pokemon such as Mega Gallade, Latios, and Enamorus; Skarmory can deal with Mega Gallade Might not be the example on both fronts (Skarm folding to +2 Sd and MGallade not being too common due to how restricited it is against defense) use a more consistent fighting example per se. while providing Spikes support, and Slowking can deal with Latios and Enamorus.

Make a separate section for pivoting partners, as well as wincons and faster teammates that benefit from Dreigon's longevity as a breaker. Knock spammers could be cool too for things like AV Tang Steela and such.

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Good job, implement comments carefully and it's 1/1.
 
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[SET]
Choice Specs (Hydreigon) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Fire Blast / Roost / U-turn
- Flash Cannon

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Hydreigon is a powerful wallbreaker, being able to capable of threatening common special walls such as Mega Tyranitar and Celesteela with its powerful STAB moves and coverage options. It also has more longevity and defensive utility, including a resistance to Pursuit, at the cost of Speed and more consistent STAB moves compared to other special wallbreakers like Latios (This is pretty awkwardly worded, this line should be something like "Despite being slightly slow, it distinguishes itself from other special wallbreakers like Latios by having a better defensive typing, most notably giving it resistance to Pursuit". Draco Meteor is the Dragon-type STAB move of choice, being allows it able ("STAB move of choice" is quite obvious and doesn't really provide any valuable info to the reader) to OHKO threats like Iron Moth and Mega Heracross, (ac) while doing significant damage to threats such as (don't need to say "threats" twice) Galarian Moltres, Iron Hands, and Mega Sableye. Dark Pulse threatens Slowking and gives Hydreigon a spammable STAB move. Fire Blast threatens Celesteela, Tangrowth, and Bisharp, while Roost takes advantage of forced switches switch-outs, (rc) and lets Hydreigon stay healthy to switch in several times throughout the match, while . (ap) U-turn lets it pivot out of foes it can struggle against, (ac) such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like Enamorus, Mega Altaria, and Clefable. A Timid nature lets Hydreigon outspeed Excadrill and Ceruledge, (ac) while Modest gives Draco Meteor a high chance of OHKOing Choice Band Iron Hands.

Hydreigon struggles to break through Fairy-types such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable, as well as Celesteela if not running Fire Blast, so teammates who which can pressure them, (ac) like both Thundurus formes and Mega Venusaur are appreciated. Hydreigon also appreciates pivots such as Cinderace and Slowking that can safely get it onto the field; Cinderace can U-turn out of switch-ins that Hydreigon threatens like Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Slowking can safely pivot it in with Teleport. Knock Off support from the likes of Mega Vensaur, Iron Treads, and Thundurus-T is appreciated to help Hydreigon break through Pokemon like Celesteela, Tapu Fini, and Assault Vest Tangrowth. Setup sweepers like Tapu Fini and Galarian Moltres appreciate Hydreigon's longevity and ability to pressure their checks such as Mega Venusaur and Mega Tyranitar respectively, allowing them to become wincons clean late-game;. (ap) Fast teammates such as Choice Scarf Enamorus and Keldeo also appreciate Hydreigon for this reason, with it being able to pressure their switch-ins such as Slowking and Assault Vest Tangrowth, which can open the way for them to clean late-game. Hydreigon can also easily be revenge killed by faster Pokemon such as Hawlucha, Latios, and Enamorus; Skarmory can deal with Hawlucha while providing Spikes support, and Slowking can deal with Latios and Enamorus. Furthermore, bulky teammates like Skarmory and the aforementioned Slowking can check revenge killers to Hydreigon like Hawlucha, Latios, and Enamorus, with Skarmory also being able to provide Spikes support. (just a comment: i think you're overusing the word "appreciate". perhaps you should reword a couple of sentences in para 2?)

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1/1 GP Team done
[SET]
Choice Specs (Hydreigon) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Fire Blast / Roost / U-turn
- Flash Cannon
why is the move with 3 slashes not move 4?

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Hydreigon is a powerful wallbreaker, being able to threaten common special walls such as Mega Tyranitar and Celesteela with its powerful (choose a different word here becaus you've already said powerful once) STAB moves and coverage options. It also has more longevity and defensive utility, including a resistance to Pursuit, at the cost of Speed and more consistent STAB moves compared to other special wallbreakers like Latios. Draco Meteor is the Dragon-type STAB move of choice, being able to OHKO OHKOes threats like Iron Moth and Mega Heracross while doing significant damage to threats foes (repetition) such as Galarian Moltres, Iron Hands, and Mega Sableye. Dark Pulse threatens Slowking and gives Hydreigon a spammable STAB move. Fire Blast threatens Celesteela, Tangrowth, and Bisharp, Roost takes advantage of forced switches (RC) and lets Hydreigon stay healthy to switch in several times throughout the match, while U-turn lets it pivot out of foes it can struggle against such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable. Flash Cannon hits Fairy-types like Enamorus, Mega Altaria, and Clefable. (if you make the set order change, move this up before the fire blast line) A Timid nature lets Hydreigon outspeed Excadrill and Ceruledge, (AC) while Modest gives Draco Meteor a high chance of OHKOing Choice Band Iron Hands.

Hydreigon struggles to break through Fairy-types such as Tapu Fini, Azumarill, and Clefable, as well as Celesteela if not running Fire Blast, so teammates who that (we don't use 'who' to refer to pokemon because they're not people) can pressure them like both Thundurus formes and Mega Venusaur are appreciated. Hydreigon also appreciates pivots such as Cinderace and Slowking that can safely get it onto the field; Cinderace can use U-turn to pivot (avoid using moves as verbs) out of switch-ins that Hydreigon threatens like Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Slowking can safely pivot it in with Teleport. Knock Off support from the likes of Mega Vensaur, Iron Treads, and Thundurus-T is appreciated to help Hydreigon break through Pokemon like Celesteela, Tapu Fini, and Assault Vest Tangrowth. Setup sweepers like Tapu Fini and Galarian Moltres appreciate Hydreigon's longevity and ability to pressure their checks such as Mega Venusaur and Mega Tyranitar, (AC) respectively, allowing them to become wincons late-game; fast teammates such as Choice Scarf Enamorus and Keldeo also appreciate Hydreigon for this reason, with it being able to pressure their switchins swich-ins (add hyphen) such as Slowking and Assault Vest Tangrowth, which can open the way for them to clean late-game. Hydreigon can also easily be revenge killed by faster Pokemon such as Hawlucha, Latios, and Enamorus; Skarmory can deal with Hawlucha while providing Spikes support, and Slowking can deal with Latios and Enamorus.
feel free to address the amcheck comment about overusing 'appreciate' if you want

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zastra great to see interest in GP! I'd recommend joining the GP discord here https://discord.gg/MagBUUJ because we have a private channel for amcheckers that you can reach out and ask for feedback in.
- The first thing I'd say is that we use blue for additions instead of green. This might seem counterintuitive but teh difference between red/blue is a lot more han red/green, so it's easier to implement. It's also what writers are used to, so they might see your colours and get confused, implementing your comments instead. If you swap yur additions and comments colours, you're good to go.
- As GP, we want to preserve the voice and style of writers as much as possible so their work can be up on site in their own words. There are always going to be some sall edits that change this, but keeping voice in mind is key. You want to make sure you're checking what's in the analysis and not what you'd personally write if this was your own analysis; what sounds better to you may not sound better to the writer. The comments you've made around awkward working fall under this; it's good to point out / change poor wording, but your suggestions completely change the voice of the writing to align more to what you'd personally write. The being slow / no Pursuit weakness line doesn't need a full restructuring to work. The final line rewrite also removes a lot of the original voice - the sentence was pretty much fine as-is. If there's no error, then that's fine, and you don't need to reword things just for the sake of rewording them, even if your personal preference differs.
- Commas before 'while' are only needed when it means 'whereas' / is showing contrast. If 'while' is used to mean 'at the same time as' (effectively 'while also'( then a comma isn't needed.
- Switch-outs isn't a phrase - switch-ins is one, but it doesn't work the other way around so forced switches is fine.
 
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