[SET]
Emboar @ Assault Vest
Name: Dap up Champ
Ability: Reckless
EVs: 248 HP / 220 SpD / 40 Spe
Sassy / Careful Nature
- Fire Blast / Flare Blitz
- Sucker Punch
- Heavy Slam
- Head Smash / Wild Charge / Close Combat
[Overview]
Fighting
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Emboar is unique on Fighting teams in its ability to be a good special attack sponge that is immune to getting burned. Compared to fellow Assault Vest users like Okidogi and Gallade however, it lacks a useful secondary typing that allows it to break through common resistances to Fighting. Due to this it is usually better to use the aforementioned Pokemon over Emboar to prevent one's Fighting team from struggling to common threats like Primarina, Azumarill, and Toxapex.
[SET COMMENTS]
Emboar performs a unique niche on Fighting teams as an Assault Vest user that is immune to getting burned. With its part Fire typing, good defensive stats, and Reckless-boosted moves, Emboar is able to check a multitude of threats to Fighting teams from Bug, Ghost, Fairy, and Flying. Fire Blast is used to power through a would-be check in Skarmory and also hits Forretress without suffering from recoil damage or Rocky Helmet chip. Flare Blitz can be run instead for its perfect accuracy and higher PP, which can be useful for dealing with Corviknight. Sucker Punch allows Emboar to pick off weakened Ghost- and Psychic-types that are faster than it like Choice-locked Spectrier and Latios. Fairy-types like Hatterene, Flutter Mane, and Alolan Ninetales are threatened by Emboar's Heavy Slam and ability to take their attacks easily. Emboar's final slot is very customizable due to the important threats each option covers, such as Head Smash easily eliminating Volcarona, Wild Charge threatening most of Flying and being especially threatening to defensive Gyarados, and Close Combat threatening Darkrai and Hydreigon and preventing Heatran and Hisuian Goodra from being checks. Assault Vest paired with a lot of investment in Special Defense and HP allows Emboar to be as tanky as possible on the special side. 40 EVs are put into Speed with a Sassy nature in order to let it still outspeed Pokemon like Blissey without sacrificing any bulk or power with any other nature. Alternatively, a Careful nature can be used instead when using Flare Blitz over Fire Blast, as Emboar will no longer be utilizing its Special Attack stat.
Emboar benefits from Great Tusk's hazard management and ability to switch into physical attackers like Excadrill and Landorus-T. In return, Emboar switches into powerful Fairy-type moves that threaten Great Tusk. When paired with Gallade or Scrafty, Emboar can form a decent bulky core with them that makes it easy to maneuver around powerful Fairy- and Psychic-type attacks. Emboar in particular switches into Pokemon like Galarian Weezing and Sableye safely, whose burns often pose a threat to most Pokemon on Fighting teams. Iron Valiant can take advantage of the openings this core creates, especially when they successfully neutralize the aforementioned threats. Setup sweepers like Hisuian Lilligant and Urshifu-R also appreciate the weakening of Pokemon like Corviknight, who otherwise prevent them from sweeping. Revenge killers like Sneasler also appreciate having a bulky core to fall back on when they finish their job and are forced to switch out.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by: https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/namranan.353292/
Quality checked by:
[1]
[2]
Grammar checked by:
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Emboar @ Assault Vest
Name: Dap up Champ
Ability: Reckless
EVs: 248 HP / 220 SpD / 40 Spe
Sassy / Careful Nature
- Fire Blast / Flare Blitz
- Sucker Punch
- Heavy Slam
- Head Smash / Wild Charge / Close Combat
[Overview]
Fighting
========
Emboar is unique on Fighting teams in its ability to be a good special attack sponge that is immune to getting burned. Compared to fellow Assault Vest users like Okidogi and Gallade however, it lacks a useful secondary typing that allows it to break through common resistances to Fighting. Due to this it is usually better to use the aforementioned Pokemon over Emboar to prevent one's Fighting team from struggling to common threats like Primarina, Azumarill, and Toxapex.
[SET COMMENTS]
Emboar performs a unique niche on Fighting teams as an Assault Vest user that is immune to getting burned. With its part Fire typing, good defensive stats, and Reckless-boosted moves, Emboar is able to check a multitude of threats to Fighting teams from Bug, Ghost, Fairy, and Flying. Fire Blast is used to power through a would-be check in Skarmory and also hits Forretress without suffering from recoil damage or Rocky Helmet chip. Flare Blitz can be run instead for its perfect accuracy and higher PP, which can be useful for dealing with Corviknight. Sucker Punch allows Emboar to pick off weakened Ghost- and Psychic-types that are faster than it like Choice-locked Spectrier and Latios. Fairy-types like Hatterene, Flutter Mane, and Alolan Ninetales are threatened by Emboar's Heavy Slam and ability to take their attacks easily. Emboar's final slot is very customizable due to the important threats each option covers, such as Head Smash easily eliminating Volcarona, Wild Charge threatening most of Flying and being especially threatening to defensive Gyarados, and Close Combat threatening Darkrai and Hydreigon and preventing Heatran and Hisuian Goodra from being checks. Assault Vest paired with a lot of investment in Special Defense and HP allows Emboar to be as tanky as possible on the special side. 40 EVs are put into Speed with a Sassy nature in order to let it still outspeed Pokemon like Blissey without sacrificing any bulk or power with any other nature. Alternatively, a Careful nature can be used instead when using Flare Blitz over Fire Blast, as Emboar will no longer be utilizing its Special Attack stat.
Emboar benefits from Great Tusk's hazard management and ability to switch into physical attackers like Excadrill and Landorus-T. In return, Emboar switches into powerful Fairy-type moves that threaten Great Tusk. When paired with Gallade or Scrafty, Emboar can form a decent bulky core with them that makes it easy to maneuver around powerful Fairy- and Psychic-type attacks. Emboar in particular switches into Pokemon like Galarian Weezing and Sableye safely, whose burns often pose a threat to most Pokemon on Fighting teams. Iron Valiant can take advantage of the openings this core creates, especially when they successfully neutralize the aforementioned threats. Setup sweepers like Hisuian Lilligant and Urshifu-R also appreciate the weakening of Pokemon like Corviknight, who otherwise prevent them from sweeping. Revenge killers like Sneasler also appreciate having a bulky core to fall back on when they finish their job and are forced to switch out.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by: https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/namranan.353292/
Quality checked by:
[1]
[2]
Grammar checked by:
[1]
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