1v1 Clear Amulet Cresselia [QC 2/2] [GP 1/1]

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Clear Amulet (Cresselia) (F) @ Clear Amulet
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 72 SpD / 140 Spe
Bold Nature
- Stored Power
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Reflect / Future Sight

[SET COMMENTS]
* Cresselia can opt to run a Clear Amulet to prevent moves such as Hisuian Goodra's Acid Spray, Primarina's Icy Wind, and Sylveon's Fake Tears from disrupting its ability to set up and defeat the foe with Stored Power.
* Stored Power becomes Cresselia's strongest move after it has used Calm Mind multiple times.
* Calm Mind allows Cresselia to KO the foe with Stored Power.
* Moonlight lets Cresselia regain HP when necessary to continue setting up with Calm Mind.
* Reflect is usually used in the last moveslot to help Cresselia take strong physical attacks from Pokemon like Choice Band Ursaluna.
* Future Sight can be used instead to defeat Encore + Disable Iron Valiant, which would otherwise be able to beat Cresselia.
* Cresselia's Special Defense EVs are meant to take Draco Meteor from Choice Specs Kyurem twice with a Calm Mind boost, and its Speed EVs allow it to outspeed base 60 Speed Pokemon like Primarina and Hisuian Goodra. The rest of the EVs are placed in Defense.
* Cresselia will never win a matchup against Dark-types like Urshifu-S and Meowscarada, while other Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Alolan Ninetales can lock Cresselia into an unfavorable move with Encore. Fairy-type Pokemon like Diancie and Sylveon can help Cresselia defeat the former foes, while faster Pokemon that do not mind Encore like Iron Moth can help Cresselia with the latter.

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[SET]
Clear Amulet (Cresselia) (F) @ Clear Amulet
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 244 HP / 48 Def / 76 SpD / 140 Spe (we are discussing 252 HP / 44 Def / 72 SpD being slightly more optimal in QC chat)
Bold Nature
- Stored Power
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Reflect / Future Sight
[SET COMMENTS]
- Cresselia can opt to run a Clear Amulet to prevent moves such as Stall Kyurem's Noble Roar (This set isn't really run, Goodra-H's Acid Spray would be a better mention instead), Primarina's Icy Wind, and Sylveon's Fake Tears, and Pecharunt's Parting Shot (This is unreliable since if SpD sets get an early poison they can still win with confusion procs) from disrupting its ability to set up boosts and defeat the opponent with Stored Power.
- Stored Power is Cresselia's Psychic type STAB of choice, dealing the most damage compared to its other moves after Cresselia has used Calm Mind multiple times.
- Calm Mind allows Cresselia to boost its Special Attack and Special Defense in order to sweep the opponent with Stored Power.
- Moonlight is Cresselia's best recovery option, letting it regain HP when necessary to continue setting up boosts.
- Reflect is usually used in the last moveslot to help Cresselia weather strong physical attacks from Pokemon like Choice Band Dragapult and (Infiltrator just wins and also you lose vs every other Dragapult set by clicking Reflect turn 1 so either find a better mention or just leave it at Ursaluna) Ursaluna while it slowly obtains boosts via Calm Mind.
- Future Sight can instead be used to defeat Encore Disable Iron Valiant, who would otherwise be able to lock down Cresselia and win against it.

- Cresselia's Special Defense EVs are meant to live 2 Choice Specs Kyurem Drago Meteors with a Calm Mind and its Speed EVs allow it to outspeed base 60 Speed Pokemon. The rest are placed in Defense.
- Cresselia will never win a matchup against Dark-types like Urshifu-S and Meowscarada, while other Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Alolan-Ninetales can prevent Cresselia from doing anything else with Encore. Fairy-type Pokemon like Diancie and Sylveon can help Cresselia defeat the former opponents, while faster Pokemon who do not mind Encore like Scarf Volcanion (find another example if you can) can help Cresselia with the latter.

[CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bo_bobson27.546922/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/

Quality checked by:
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* Future Sight can instead be used to defeat Encore Disable Iron Valiant, who would otherwise be able to lock down Cresselia
lock down? you mean choice-lock?

its Speed EVs allow it to outspeed base 60 Speed Pokemon.
..like Primarina and Hisuian Goodra. :blobthumbsup:

faster Pokemon who do not mind Encore like Scarf Volcanion
i thought kry told you to find a different example? scarf canion is kinda weird to use nowadays ngl you lose out on the firepower of specs or lo and the mus that you want to run into like alolatales and ogerw sometimes just aren't there. anyway for different examples i'd recommend probably Iron Moth, since it's not specifically threatened by any specific Encore user except for maybe Diancie, which like if you're the one in a thousand moth that runs Flash Cannon like congratulations i suppose, i'm getting really off-course point is Iron Moth is a better example.

pretty good analysis overall, qc 2/2
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[SET]
Clear Amulet (Cresselia) (F) @ Clear Amulet
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 72 SpD / 140 Spe
Bold Nature
- Stored Power
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Reflect / Future Sight

[SET COMMENTS]
* Cresselia can opt to run a Clear Amulet to prevent moves such as Goodra-H's Hisuian Goodra's Acid Spray, Primarina's Icy Wind, and Sylveon's Fake Tears from disrupting its ability to set up boosts and defeat the opponent foe with Stored Power.
* Stored Power is Cresselia's Psychic type STAB of choice, dealing deals fluff the most damage compared to its Cresselia's other moves after Cresselia it has used Calm Mind multiple times.
* Calm Mind allows Cresselia to boost its Special Attack and Special Defense in order to dex info sweep the opponent with Stored Power.
* Moonlight is Cresselia's best recovery option, letting it lets Cresselia regain HP when necessary to continue setting up boosts. with Calm Mind.
* Reflect is usually used in the last moveslot to help Cresselia weather take strong physical attacks from Pokemon like Choice Band Ursaluna while it slowly obtains boosts via Calm Mind.
* Future Sight can instead be used instead to defeat Encore + Disable Iron Valiant, who which would otherwise be able to choice-lock beat Cresselia and win against it.
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* Cresselia's Special Defense EVs are meant to live 2 Choice Specs Kyurem Drago Meteors take Draco Meteor from Choice Specs Kyurem twice with a Calm Mind boost, (AC) and its Speed EVs allow it to outspeed base 60 Speed Pokemon like Primarina and Hisuian Goodra. The rest of the EVs are placed in Defense.
* Cresselia will never win a matchup against Dark-types like Urshifu-S and Meowscarada, while other Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Alolan-Ninetales remove hyphen can prevent Cresselia from doing anything else with Encore. Fairy-type Pokemon like Diancie and Sylveon can help Cresselia defeat the former opponents foes, while faster Pokemon who that do not mind Encore like Iron Moth can help Cresselia with the latter.

[CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bo_bobson27.546922/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/kry.451287/ add that bern checked this too

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1/1 GP Team done
Make sure you deformat the text (using the eraser button in the right hand corner next to bold) instead of changing text colour - on dark mode it looks like this
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Also don't add amchecker credits unless the official GPer says to - this one is good to keep.

[SET]
Clear Amulet (Cresselia) (F) @ Clear Amulet
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 44 Def / 72 SpD / 140 Spe
Bold Nature
- Stored Power
- Calm Mind
- Moonlight
- Reflect / Future Sight

[SET COMMENTS]
* Cresselia can opt to run a Clear Amulet to prevent moves such as Hisuian Goodra's Acid Spray, Primarina's Icy Wind, and Sylveon's Fake Tears from disrupting its ability to set up and defeat the foe with Stored Power.
* Stored Power deals the most damage compared to Cresselia's other moves becomes Cresselia's strongest move after it has used Calm Mind multiple times. (makes the link between cm + sp boosts more direct/clear)
* Calm Mind allows Cresselia to sweep the opponent KO the foe with Stored Power. ('sweep' in 1v1 context doesnt really make sense because sweeping is koing multiple mons one after another. this point might be worth cutting entirely tbh because you reference cm in the point above so you're pretty much restating the same thing)
* Moonlight lets Cresselia regain HP when necessary to continue setting up with Calm Mind.
* Reflect is usually used in the last moveslot to help Cresselia take strong physical attacks from Pokemon like Choice Band Ursaluna while it slowly obtains boosts via Calm Mind. (not sure how the cm part is relevant here - i assume you mean that this patches up physdef while cm lets you patch up spdef but that's not really spelled out here + the defensive benefits of cm aren't talked about anywhere. if this is the case the make teh link clearer, and if not you can just end the sentence with 'Ursaluna')
* Future Sight can be used instead to defeat Encore + Disable Iron Valiant, which would otherwise be able to beat Cresselia.
* Cresselia's Special Defense EVs are meant to take Draco Meteor from Choice Specs Kyurem twice with a Calm Mind boost, and its Speed EVs allow it to outspeed base 60 Speed Pokemon like Primarina and Hisuian Goodra. The rest of the EVs are placed in Defense.
* Cresselia will never win a matchup against Dark-types like Urshifu-S and Meowscarada, while other Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Alolan (remove hyphen, make sure to implement carefully) Ninetales remove hyphen (this comment was left in) can prevent Cresselia from doing anything else with Encore. ('prevent it from doing anything else' isn't really clear here because the 'else' hasn't been established. lock it into an unfavorable move?) Fairy-type Pokemon like Diancie and Sylveon can help Cresselia defeat the former foes, while faster Pokemon that do not mind Encore like Iron Moth can help Cresselia with the latter.

[CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bo_bobson27.546922/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nuxl.149971/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/kry.451287/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bern.563650/

Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/gambit_gamin.652656/
 
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