Gen 3 Defensive Wartortle [Done]

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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Surf
move 2: Seismic Toss / Toxic
move 3: Refresh / Toxic
move 4: Protect
item: Leftovers
ability: Torrent
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Wartortle's mono Water typing and respectable bulk allow it to excel in defensive roles. Surf allows Wartortle to threaten Koffing as well as Rock- and Ground-types such as Cubone, Onix, and Rhyhorn. Seismic Toss is Wartortle's most consistent attacking move, as it allows Wartortle to chip switch-ins such as Flaaffy, Noctowl, and Porygon, forcing the latter two to use Rest or Recover. Alternatively, Toxic compensates for Surf's inability to chip other Water-types like Seaking and Wartortle, threatens Porygon, and forces Noctowl to use Rest. Refresh allows Wartortle to shrug off burn and poison, which otherwise severely limit its effectiveness in defensive roles. Protect allows Wartortle to gain passive recovery from Leftovers more easily and provides an excellent opportunity to scout Choice Band users such as Seaking, Aipom, and Doduo.

Wartortle fits best on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a reliable defensive answer to Ponyta. Grounded Double-Edge users such as Aipom and Ponyta appreciate Wartortle's defensive value against Rock- and Ground-types such as Onix, Rhyhorn, and Anorith. In return, these Pokemon check specially defensive foes such as Noctowl and Porygon. Pokemon that can check Flaaffy, such as Onix, Porygon, and specially defensive Gloom, pair well with Wartortle. If Wartortle lacks Refresh, Heal Bell users such as Mightyena, Delcatty, and Flaaffy make good partners. Flaaffy is especially worth noting, as it can threaten Water-types such as Tentacool, Wartortle, and Seaking. Toxic absorbers such as Gloom, Koffing, and Ariados also pair well with Wartortle. Ariados, Gloom, and Koffing are notable teammates, as they heavily appreciate Wartortle's ability to check Fire-types. Pokemon that can check Grass-type such as Doduo, Ponyta, Quilava, and Tropius, help Wartortle deal with threats like Gloom.

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Nice work, QC 1/2
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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Surf
move 2: Seismic Toss / Toxic
move 3: Rapid Spin / (move this to OO) Refresh / Toxic
move 4: Protect
item: Leftovers
ability: Torrent
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP/ 252 Def / 4 Spe SpD (iirc you're not supposed to have 4 dangling Speed EVs in analyses)

[SET COMMENTS]
Wartortle's mono Water-typing Water typing and respectable bulk allow it to excel in defensive roles. Surf allows Wartortle to threaten Koffing and Rock- and Ground-types such as Cubone, Onix, and Rhyhorn. Seismic Toss is Wartortle's most consistent attacking move, (AC) as it allows Wartortle to chip opposing switchins such as Flaaffy, Noctowl, and Porygon, (AC) forcing the latter two to use Rest or Recover. Alternatively, Toxic compliments complements Surf's inability to chip other Water-types like Seaking and Wartortle, (AC) and it threatens while still threatening Porygon and forces Noctowl (RP) Rapid Spin provides invaluable team support as Spikes tends to wear down Pokemon Wartortle often finds itself paired with use Rest. (You're writing the OO section for Wartortle so mention Rapid Spin there. If no Spikes setters are going to be ranked, Rapid Spin shouldn't be a sample. Also change the language to be more specific to Spikes's relevance in the metagame, as I wouldn't call Spin invaluable) Refresh allows Wartortle to shrug off burn and poison, severely limiting its effectiveness in defensive roles (rephrase the second part of this sentence so it doesn't sound like Refresh is severely limiting Wartortle's effectiveness in defensive roles). Protect allows Wartortle to gain passive recovery from Leftovers more easily while providing and provides an excellent option to scout Choice Band users such as Seaking, Aipom, and Doduo. Wartortle can opt to run a specially defensive set to check Quilava more reliably, but this leaves it more susceptible to Ponyta.

Wartortle fits best on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a reliable defensive answer to Fire-types such as Ponyta and Quilava. Grounded Double-Edge users such as Aipom and Ponyta appreciate the Rapid Spin support Wartortle provides (RP) These Pokemon are good partners you should emphasize Wartortle's defensive value in supporting them against the Rock types like you mentioned in the first sentence) In return, these Pokemon also check specially defensive foes Pokemon (reduces repetition) such as Noctowl, Porygon, and Tentacool. Pokemon that can check Flaaffy, such as Onix, Porygon, and specially defensive Gloom, pair well with Wartortle. These Pokemon also appreciate the Rapid Spin support Wartortle provides (mention how Wartortle can check the fast Fire-types or something else here). If Wartortle lacks Refresh, Heal Bell users such as Mightyena, Delcatty, and Flaaffy make good partners. Flaaffy is worth noting, (AC) as it can threaten Water-types such as Tentacool, Wartortle, and Seaking. For this reason (RC) (start with a different hook, your last sentence was about Flaaffy being worth noting) status absorbers (you can keep this if you want, but if the thing that threatens Wartortle is Toxic, just specify Toxic) such as Gloom, Koffing, Ariados, and Staryu (overlaps weaknesses with Wartortle, I'd mention Noctowl or Magnemite or something else instead) also pair well with Wartortle. Ariados, Gloom, and Koffing are notable teammates, (AC) as they heavily appreciate Wartortle's ability to check Fire-types. Pokemon that can check Grass-types, such as Doduo, Ponyta, Quilava, and Tropius, make for excellent teammates.

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Pure Water!
[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Surf
move 2: Seismic Toss / Toxic
move 3: Refresh / Toxic
move 4: Protect
item: Leftovers
ability: Torrent
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP/ 252 Def / 4 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Wartortle's mono Water typing and respectable bulk allow it to excel in defensive roles. Surf allows Wartortle to threaten Koffing and Rock- and Ground-types such as Cubone, Onix, and Rhyhorn. Seismic Toss is Wartortle's most consistent attacking move, as it allows Wartortle to chip switchins such as Flaaffy, Noctowl, and Porygon, forcing the latter two to use Rest or Recover. Alternatively, Toxic complements Surf's inability to chip other Water-types like Seaking and Wartortle, and it threatens Porygon and forces Noctowl to use Rest. Refresh allows Wartortle to shrug off burn and poison, which otherwise severely limits its effectiveness in defensive roles. Protect allows Wartortle to gain passive recovery from Leftovers more easily and provides an excellent option to scout Choice Band users such as Seaking, Aipom, and Doduo. Wartortle can opt to run a specially defensive set to check Quilava more reliably, but this leaves it more susceptible to Ponyta (this is better mentioned in OO).

Wartortle fits best on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a reliable defensive answer to Fire-types such as Ponyta and Quilava (this set doesnt check quilava all that well, moreso trades with it so not really "reliable"). Grounded Double-Edge users such as Aipom and Ponyta appreciate Wartortle's defensive value against Rock- and Ground-types such as Onix, Rhyhorn, and Anorith. In return, these Pokemon check specially defensive foes such as Noctowl, Porygon, and Tentacool (none of these want to switch into tenta surf, rhyhorn is also slower). Pokemon that can check Flaaffy, such as Onix, Porygon, and specially defensive Gloom, pair well with Wartortle. These Pokemon also appreciate Wartortle being able to check Fire-types such as Quilava and Ponyta (you already say something to this effect in the first sentence). If Wartortle lacks Refresh, Heal Bell users such as Mightyena, Delcatty, and Flaaffy make good partners. Flaaffy is worth noting, as it can threaten Water-types such as Tentacool, Wartortle, and Seaking. Toxic absorbers such as Gloom, Koffing, and Ariados also pair well with Wartortle. Ariados, Gloom, and Koffing are notable teammates, as they heavily appreciate Wartortle's ability to check Fire-types. Pokemon that can check Grass-types, such as Doduo, Ponyta, Quilava, and Tropius, make for excellent teammates. mention switch ins for gloom since it walls this set hard

[CREDITS]
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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Surf
move 2: Seismic Toss / Toxic
move 3: Refresh / Toxic
move 4: Protect
item: Leftovers
ability: Torrent
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP (add space)/ 252 Def / 4 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
Wartortle's mono Water typing and respectable bulk allow it to excel in defensive roles. Surf allows Wartortle to threaten Koffing and as well as Rock- and Ground-types such as Cubone, Onix, and Rhyhorn. Seismic Toss is Wartortle's most consistent attacking move, as it allows Wartortle to chip switchins switch-ins such as Flaaffy, Noctowl, and Porygon, forcing the latter two to use Rest or Recover. Alternatively, Toxic complements compensates for Surf's inability to chip other Water-types like Seaking and Wartortle, and it threatens Porygon, (AC) and forces Noctowl to use Rest. Refresh allows Wartortle to shrug off burn and poison, which otherwise severely limits limit its effectiveness in defensive roles. Protect allows Wartortle to gain passive recovery from Leftovers more easily and provides an excellent option opportunity to scout Choice Band users such as Seaking, Aipom, and Doduo.

Wartortle fits best on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a reliable defensive answer to Ponyta. Grounded Double-Edge users such as Aipom and Ponyta appreciate Wartortle's defensive value against Rock- and Ground-types such as Onix, Rhyhorn, and Anorith. In return, these Pokemon check specially defensive foes such as Noctowl and Porygon. Pokemon that can check Flaaffy, such as Onix, Porygon, and specially defensive Gloom, pair well with Wartortle. If Wartortle lacks Refresh, Heal Bell users such as Mightyena, Delcatty, and Flaaffy make good partners. Flaaffy is especially worth noting, as it can threaten Water-types such as Tentacool, Wartortle, and Seaking. Toxic absorbers such as Gloom, Koffing, and Ariados also pair well with Wartortle. Ariados, Gloom, and Koffing are notable teammates, as they heavily appreciate Wartortle's ability to check Fire-types. Pokemon that can check Grass-types, most notably Gloom (RC) such as Doduo, Ponyta, Quilava, and Tropius, make for excellent teammates help Wartortle deal with threats like Gloom. (just cleaning up structure b/c it read a little funky before)

[SET CREDITS]
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pretty sure [CREDITS] should actually be [SET CREDITS], though I've noticed some inconsistency w/ this across some single set analyses and confess that I'm not 100% certain on that

gp 1/1 :blobwizard:

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