Quality Control Devastating Demon Derived From Dreams' Depths (Choice Specs Darkrai) [QC 0/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
Choice Specs
move 1: Dark Pulse
move 2: Sludge Bomb
move 3: Focus Blast/Trick
move 4: Ice Beam/Trick
item: Choice Specs
tera type: Dark / Poison
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
With Choice Specs, Darkrai can boost its already excellent special attack and its fantastic speed tier to become a devastating wallbreaker. Sludge Bomb helps to shred Faries like Clefable and Primarina that would switch into tank Darkrai’s devastating Dark Pulses, as well as common Tera Fairy users like Gholdengo and Garganacl. Focus Blast can tear through Darks that try to switch into a Dark Pulse like Kingambit, Ting-Lu, and Samurott-Hisui, while Ice Beam tears through Grounds and Dragons like Dragonite, Great Tusk, and Raging Bolt. Either of these can be eschewed for Trick, usually Ice Beam, trading a coverage option for the ability to cripple a would-be wall or setup sweeper. Tera Dark can be used to power up your Dark Pulses, allowing you to secure the 2HKO on walls like Garganacl, as well as picking off weakened foes easier, albiet at the cost of a purely offensive tera. Tera Poison doubles both as a defensive tera to let you tank Fighting and Fairy moves like Iron Valiant’s Close Combat or Enamorus’s Moonblast as well as powering up your Sludge Bomb, allowing you to OHKO Clefable and non-Assault Vest Primarinas.

Choice Specs Darkrai fits best on Bulky Offense and Balance teams looking for a strong breaker that can still outspeed most offensive threats. Darkrai appreciates slow pivots like Alomomola, Slowking-Galar, and Pecharunt that can bring Darkrai in easily and give it more entry points to break. As with all Choice Item users, Choice Specs Darkrai can be prone to allowing in pokemon who live whatever attack it is locked into to easily setup or revenge kill, so pokemon that help form a strong defensive backbone like the three aforementioned bulky pivots as well as Corviknight or Moltres are strongly appreciated. Darkrai’s lack of Heavy-Duty-Boots allows it to be chipped down easily with hazards, so hazard removal options like Great Tusk, Weezing-Galar, Cinderace, or Iron Treads are paramount. Even with Darkrai’s coverage options and power, Ting-Lu still poses a large threat to it, forcing it to rely more on predictions and not simply spam its Dark Pulse, so pokemon like Ogerpon-Wellspring or Rillaboom that can switch in on and threaten Ting-Lu help in that regard. Ogerpon-Wellspring stands out in particular, as it can also set Spikes to chip down Ting-Lu even further.

 

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[SET]
Choice Specs
move 1: Dark Pulse
move 2: Sludge Bomb
move 3: Focus Blast/Trick
move 4: Ice Beam/Trick
item: Choice Specs
tera type: Dark / Poison
ability: Bad Dreams
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Def / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
With Choice Specs, Darkrai can boost its already excellent special attack and its fantastic speed tier to become a devastating wallbreaker. Sludge Bomb helps to shred Faries like Clefable and Primarina that would switch into tank Darkrai’s devastating Dark Pulses, as well as common Tera Fairy users like Gholdengo and Garganacl. Focus Blast can tear through Darks that try to switch into a Dark Pulse like Kingambit, Ting-Lu, and Samurott-Hisui I would mention a calc for Ting-Lu since it also does not appreciate Ice Beam. Main thing would be having a good chance to 2HKO it, while Ice Beam tears through Grounds and Dragons like Dragonite, Great Tusk, and Raging Bolt. Either of these can be eschewed for Trick, usually Ice Beam, trading a coverage option for the ability to cripple a would-be wall or setup sweeper maybe give an example here for each? also mention that it allows Darkrai to freely switch between moves. Tera Dark can be used to power up your Dark Pulses, allowing you to secure the 2HKO on walls like Garganacl, as well as picking off weakened foes easier, albiet at the cost of a purely offensive tera not changing its type defensively you can change the specific wording, but mentioning that it doesn't change it defensively I think is much more clear to the reader on the negatives. Tera Poison doubles both as a defensive tera to let you tank Fighting and Fairy moves like Iron Valiant’s Close Combat or Enamorus’s Moonblast as well as powering up your Sludge Bomb, allowing you to OHKO Clefable and non-Assault Vest Primarinas. Would also add the immunity to Toxic and Toxic Spikes, not the biggest thing in the world but in some MU's it can win games. Probably add it before the offensive benefits of the move, though anywhere is fine if you can't fit it there.

Choice Specs Darkrai fits best on Bulky Offense and Balance teams looking for a strong breaker that can still outspeed most offensive threats Like?. Darkrai appreciates slow pivots like Alomomola, Slowking-Galar, and Pecharunt that can bring Darkrai in easily and give it more entry points to break. As with all Choice Item users, Choice Specs Darkrai can be prone to allowing in pokemon Pokemon who live whatever attack it is locked into to easily setup or revenge kill, so pokemon Pokemon that help form a strong defensive backbone like the three aforementioned bulky pivots as well as Corviknight or Moltres are strongly appreciated. Darkrai’s lack of Heavy-Duty-Boots allows it to be chipped down easily with hazards, so hazard removal options like Great Tusk, Weezing-Galar, Cinderace, or Iron Treads are paramount. Even with Darkrai’s coverage options and power, Ting-Lu still poses a large threat to it, forcing it to rely more on predictions and not simply spam its Dark Pulse, so pokemon Pokemon like Ogerpon-Wellspring or Rillaboom that can switch in on and threaten Ting-Lu help in that regard. Ogerpon-Wellspring stands out in particular, as it can also set Spikes to chip down Ting-Lu even further.

Good work, QC 1/2