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Copyediting Defensive Hippowdon (Ground) [GP: 0/1]

KamenAlliterator

KamenAlliterator

formerly RodentTamer
[SET]
Hippowdon @ Eject Button / Leftovers
Name: Sand Setter
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD or 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Impish / Careful Nature
- Earthquake / Body Press
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind

[SET COMMENTS]
Hippowdon is staple on every single sand-based Ground team, thanks to its superb bulk, utility, and ability to set up sand safely. Eject Button helps Hippowdon escape unfavorable matchups and powerful attacks, allowing it to safely bring in teammates like Choice Band Excadrill to pressure the opposition. Alternatively, Hippowdon can run Leftovers instead to better preserve its HP in tandem with Slack Off, ensuring it can stay on the field longer. On the other hand, Body Press safely checks threatens Blissey more efficiently and OHKOes Weavile. Stealth Rock provides valuable chip damage against Kyurem, Mega Charizard Y, and Alolan Ninetales, which allows Excadrill, Landorus, and Mega Garchomp to get easy revenge kills. Whirlwind is an excellent utility move that lets Hippowdon rack up chip damage on numerous foes, while also stopping setup attempts from Dragon Dance Dragonite, Skarmory, and Volcarona. Alternatively, a spread of 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD EVs with a Careful Nature can permit Hippowdon to better stomach hits from special attackers like Mega Venusaur and Mega Diancie. Excadrill thrives in sand set by Hippowdon, and thanks to its ability Sand Rush, its boosted Speed helps it effectively remove threats like Tapu Lele and Greninja which the specially frail Hippowdon would rather avoid. Clodsire is another great partner for Hippowdon thanks to its Grass-neutrality to annoy Meowscarada, ability in Water Absorb, and solid special bulk and ability to spread poison with Toxic, to wear down foes like Meowscarda, Greninja, and Mega Charizard Y. Mamoswine serves as an excellent wallbreaker that can OHKO Assault Vest Tornadus-T and Gliscor with Icicle Crash, while also picking off weakened fast foes like Choice Scarf Latias and Meowscarada with Ice Shard. Landorus is another powerful attacker that can ground otherwise airborne foes with Gravity, such as Celesteela, Air Balloon Gholdengo, and Rotom-W, and destroy them with Earth Power. Finally after a Swords Dance, Mega Garchomp appreciates the sand and entry hazard support that Hippowdon gives to OHKO Mega Venusaur after chip damage. Furthermore, Mega Garchomp can run a mix attacking set to get rid of Ferrothorn and Skarmory with Flamethrower, as well as Kommo-o and Mega Scizor with Draco Meteor and Fire Blast, respectively. Hippowdon is a staple on every sand-based Ground team thanks to its superb bulk, utility, and ability to safely set sand. Eject Button lets Hippowdon escape unfavorable matchups and powerful attacks, allowing it to bring in teammates like Choice Band Excadrill to pressure the opposition. Alternatively, Leftovers can be used instead to better preserve its HP in tandem with Slack Off, ensuring it stays on the field longer. Body Press allows Hippowdon to safely check and threaten Blissey more efficiently and OHKO Weavile. Stealth Rock provides valuable chip damage against Kyurem, Mega Charizard Y, and Alolan Ninetales, enabling Excadrill, Landorus, and Mega Garchomp to more easily revenge kill them. Whirlwind is an excellent utility move that lets Hippowdon rack up chip damage on numerous foes while stopping setup attempts from Dragon Dance Dragonite, Skarmory, and Volcarona. Alternatively, a spread of 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD with a Careful nature allows Hippowdon to better stomach hits from special attackers like Mega Venusaur and Mega Diancie. Excadrill thrives in sand set by Hippowdon, and thanks to its ability Sand Rush, its boosted Speed helps it effectively remove threats like Tapu Lele and Greninja, which the specially frail Hippowdon would rather avoid. Clodsire is another great partner for Hippowdon thanks to its Grass neutrality, Water Absorb, and solid special bulk, as well as its ability to spread poison with Toxic to wear down foes like Meowscarada, Greninja, and Mega Charizard Y. Mamoswine serves as an excellent wallbreaker that can OHKO Assault Vest Tornadus-T and Gliscor with Icicle Crash, while also picking off weakened fast foes like Choice Scarf Latias and Meowscarada with Ice Shard. Landorus is another powerful attacker that can ground otherwise airborne foes with Gravity, such as Celesteela, Air Balloon Gholdengo, and Rotom-W, and destroy them with Earth Power. Finally, after a Swords Dance, Mega Garchomp appreciates the sand and entry hazard support that Hippowdon provides, allowing it to OHKO Mega Venusaur after chip damage. Furthermore, Mega Garchomp can run a mixed attacking set to remove Ferrothorn and Skarmory with Flamethrower, as well as Kommo-o and Mega Scizor with Draco Meteor and Fire Blast, respectively.

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KamenAlliterator said:
[SET]
Hippowdon @ Eject Button / Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Earthquake / Body Press
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind

[SET COMMENTS]
Being one of the two preeminent sand setters in the metagame, Hippowdon finds itself being a near staple on numerous Ground-type teams, being able to fit itself just about anywhere due to its superb physically defensive bulk. Eject Button helps Hippowdon escape from bad matchups and foes dealing powerful hits, to safely get teammates like Choice Band Excadrill in so it can pressure the opposition. Optionally, Hippowdon can run Leftovers instead to better preserve its HP in tandem with Slack Off to ensure that it can stay on the field longer against non-lethal physical attackers like Meowscarada, Weavile, and Ogerpon-W. Earthquake is Hippowdown’s main form of stab, decimating annoying Fire-type threats like Non-Air Balloon Heatran, Mega Charizard X, and Cinderace, while also hitting Steel-, Rock-, and Poison-type foes such as Non-Air Balloon Gholdengo, Iron Boulder, and Alolan Muk. Body Press on the other hand can safely check Ogerpon-C, Blissey, and Meowscarada better. Stealth Rock gives chip damage to Ice-types like SubRoost Kyurem, Articuno, and Alolan Ninetales, hiding both their abilities to repeatedly set up once they come out, granting Excadrill, Landorus, and Mega Garchomp a more threatening presence. Whirlwind is an excellent utility move that lets Hippowdon rack up chip damage on numerous foes on the opposing team, making it a plausible obstacle for setup sweepers like Ceruledge, Gliscor, and Volcarona before they can overwhelm Hippowdon in retaliation. A spread distribution of 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SpD or 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD can help Hippowdon handle special attackers like Tornadus-T, Choice Specs Greninja, and Mega Venusaur better, while getting the best out of Eject Button and stomaching would be lethal moves like Giga Drain and Ice Beam.

Choice Band Excadrill thrives in sandstorms set by Hippowdon, and thanks to its ability Sand Rush, its newfound Speed can help it check Mega Diancie, Tapu Lele, and Ferrothorn effectively, foes that Special Defense weak Hippowdon would rather not face or come in on. Mamoswine is a great Ice-type move absorber that can threaten to OHKO Assault Vest Tornadus-T and Gliscor with Icicle Crash can stomach hits from both Kyurem and Weavile with the help of Thick Fat, and threaten the two of them with Superpower in return. Great Tusk can handle the Ice-types as mentioned earlier, but can also act as a wallbreaker to get rid of Archaludon quickly. Clodsire is another great teammate for Hippowdon to have thanks to its decent Special Defense and ability to spread poison with Toxic to wear foes down to give both itself and its teammates leverage, however, it’s quite frail, so it too needs to rely on teammates to patch up its crippling Psychic-type for it as a downside. Gastrodon can absorb Water-type attacks from Greninja, Keldeo, and Mega Swampert with Storm Drain to grant it a boost towards its Special Attack, so that it hits Grass-types like Meowscarada better with Ice Beam. Gliscor provides a Grass-type neutrality and brings utility to the table like Spikes, and the ability to become threatening with the aid of Swords Dance to hit Ferrothorn, and the Ability to stay in long with Poison Heal from its Toxic Orb. Landorus is also a very powerful attacker that can ground any floating foe with Gravity like Celesteela, Air Balloon Gholdengo, and Corviknight, and destroy them with its STAB moves, despite not having that much usefulness in comparison to Gliscor, despite often being paired with each other. Finally, Garchomp and its Mega Evolution are great in sand also, since its mixed attacking capabilities it decimates physical and special walls alike like Hisuian Goodra, Imposter Ditto, and Mega Venusaur.

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[SET]
Hippowdon @ Eject Button / Leftovers
Name: Sand Setter
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD or 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Impish / Careful Nature
- Earthquake / Body Press
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind

[SET COMMENTS]
Hippowdon finds itself a near-staple on ["is a staple?"] sand-based Ground teams, thanks to its superb physical bulk, utility, and ability to set up sand safely. Eject Button helps Hippowdon escape unfavorable matchups and powerful attacks, allowing it to safely bring in teammates like Choice Band Excadrill to pressure the opposition. Alternatively, Hippowdon can run Leftovers instead to better preserve its HP in tandem with Slack Off, ensuring it can stay on the field longer. On the other hand, Body Press safely checks threatens Blissey more efficiently and OHKOes Weavile. Stealth Rock provides valuable chip damage against Kyurem, Mega Charizard Y, and Alolan Ninetales, which allows Excadrill, Landorus, and Mega Garchomp to get easy revenge kills. Whirlwind is an excellent utility move that lets Hippowdon rack up chip damage on numerous foes, while also stopping setup attempts from Dragon Dance Dragonite, Skarmory, and Volcarona. Alternatively, a spread of 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD EVs with a Careful Nature can permit Hippowdon to better stomach hits from special attackers like Mega Venusaur and Mega Diancie. Choice Band Excadrill thrives in sand set by Hippowdon, and thanks to its ability Sand Rush, its boosted Speed helps it effectively remove threats like Tapu Lele and Greninja which the specially frail Hippowdon would rather avoid. Clodsire is another great partner for Hippowdon thanks to its Grass-neutrality to bully Meowscarada, ability in Water Absorb, and solid special bulk and ability to spread poison with Toxic, to wear down foes like Meowscarda, Greninja, and Mega Charizard Y. [bully should be replaced with another realistic word] Mamoswine serves as an excellent wallbreaker that can OHKO Assault Vest Tornadus-T and Gliscor with Icicle Crash, while also picking off weakened fast foes like Choice Scarf Latias and Meowscarada with Ice Shard. Landorus is another powerful attacker that can ground otherwise airborne foes with Gravity, such as Celesteela, Air Balloon Gholdengo, and Rotom-W, and destroy them with Earth Power. Finally after a Swords Dance, Mega Garchomp appreciates the sand and entry hazard support that Hippowdon gives to OHKO Mega Venusaur after chip damage. Furthermore, Mega Garchomp can run a mix attacking set to get rid of Ferrothorn and Skarmory with Flamethrower, which Hippowdon appreciates. [only hippowdon?, probably not. flamethrower isnt the only move m-chomp gets so u should say moreso abt its fire coverage. I think sd is still notable just for set variation but just generalizing the coverage here it better.]

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lmk when u implement looking great KamenAlliterator
 
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