[SET]
name: Defensive Nasty Plot Hydrapple
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Draco Meteor / Fickle Beam
move 3: Giga Drain
move 4: Earth Power
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
tera type: Steel / Fairy
[SET COMMENTS]
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Hydrapple with its solid offenses and its long lasting presence in battle allows it to fit as a setup sweeper that can apply a lot of pressure to balance playstyles. With regenerator it can take small hits from Rotom-W, Slowking, and Boots Keldeo while also trading damage against Excadrill, and Tornadus-T and recover it off throughout the course of the battle. Draco Meteor on Hydrapple is usually preferred as its consistent high damage output allows it to pose a threat to Pokemon that Fickle Beam could not consistently threaten like Tornadus-T, Ogerpon-C, and Lokix. Fickle Beam on the other hand allows Hydrapple to retain its Nasty Plot boosts with the lack of a drawback and makes it so the opponent cannot switch out to something like Excadrill, Heatran, and Tera Steel to weaken it considerably by absorbing the Draco Meteor or using a weakened Pokemon to bring in an ally to take advantage of it, Fickle Beam 30% chance to double in power makes it able to do large amounts of burst damage to the opponent and can even pick up kills where Draco Meteor could not such as Assault Vest Tornadus-T, and Skarmory. Earth Power provides coverage against Pokemon like Fezandipiti and Steel Type Pokemon like Heatran and Tinkaton super effectively. The item of choice is Heavy-Duty Boots as it provides longevity in the face of hazards and allows it to be consistently good health to be checking Excadrill, Keldeo, and to continue to take advantage of weak Pokemon like Slowking and Rotom-W. Tera Steel turns the tables on Ogerpon-C, Latios, while also giving it an immunity to Poison which can be helpful against matchups such as Revavroom, Fezandipiti, and Toxapex. Tera Fairy on the other hand lets it eat up moves from Lokix, opposing Hydrapple, and Iron Jugulis without making it more vulnerable to Ground and Fighting moves from Conkeldurr, Focus Blast Tornadus-T, and Donphan
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name: Defensive Nasty Plot Hydrapple
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Draco Meteor / Fickle Beam
move 3: Giga Drain
move 4: Earth Power
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
tera type: Steel / Fairy
[SET COMMENTS]
Paragraph 1 (3-4 lines approximately)
Hydrapple with its solid offenses and its long lasting presence in battle allows it to fit as a setup sweeper that can apply a lot of pressure to balance playstyles. With regenerator it can take small hits from Rotom-W, Slowking, and Boots Keldeo while also trading damage against Excadrill, and Tornadus-T and recover it off throughout the course of the battle. Draco Meteor on Hydrapple is usually preferred as its consistent high damage output allows it to pose a threat to Pokemon that Fickle Beam could not consistently threaten like Tornadus-T, Ogerpon-C, and Lokix. Fickle Beam on the other hand allows Hydrapple to retain its Nasty Plot boosts with the lack of a drawback and makes it so the opponent cannot switch out to something like Excadrill, Heatran, and Tera Steel to weaken it considerably by absorbing the Draco Meteor or using a weakened Pokemon to bring in an ally to take advantage of it, Fickle Beam 30% chance to double in power makes it able to do large amounts of burst damage to the opponent and can even pick up kills where Draco Meteor could not such as Assault Vest Tornadus-T, and Skarmory. Earth Power provides coverage against Pokemon like Fezandipiti and Steel Type Pokemon like Heatran and Tinkaton super effectively. The item of choice is Heavy-Duty Boots as it provides longevity in the face of hazards and allows it to be consistently good health to be checking Excadrill, Keldeo, and to continue to take advantage of weak Pokemon like Slowking and Rotom-W. Tera Steel turns the tables on Ogerpon-C, Latios, while also giving it an immunity to Poison which can be helpful against matchups such as Revavroom, Fezandipiti, and Toxapex. Tera Fairy on the other hand lets it eat up moves from Lokix, opposing Hydrapple, and Iron Jugulis without making it more vulnerable to Ground and Fighting moves from Conkeldurr, Focus Blast Tornadus-T, and Donphan
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What teams does this Pokemon fit on? Comment on important teammates for the Pokemon. Some things that may be relevant to bring up here are Pivot supports, Hazard setters, Defoggers or Rapid spinners, Pokemon with strong defensive synergy, Pokemon that can help overwhelm shared checks. Note that not all of these things will be relevant to every example.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
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https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user2.101/
Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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