[SET]
Loaded Dice (Garchomp) @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel / Fire
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang
[SET COMMENTS]
Garchomp is a decent setup sweeper that can use the combination of Loaded Dice and Scale Shot to boost and deal damage at the same time. Fire Fang hits Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and Corviknight, OHKOing the first two at +2. Tera Steel grants it the ability to ignore Toxic and set up on passive foes like Alomomola and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Fire gives Fire Fang a STAB boost and allows Garchomp to become immune to burn from foes like Rotom-W and Moltres. Both Tera types flip the match up against Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele, both of which can heavily threaten hyper offense teams which Loaded Dice Garchomp mostly finds itself on. Teammates like Volcarona, Raging Bolt, and Urshifu-R appreciate Garchomp threatening foes like Dragonite, Clodsire and Toxapex. Garchomp requires support to set up and sweep due to its typing and Defense drops from Scale Shot, so it is very helpful to have dual screens support from Tapu Koko and Grimmsnarl. It also struggles against common threats like Tapu Lele, Iron Valiant, and Weavile, which makes Mega Scizor and Iron Valiant good partners with it. Landorus-T can pivot around Garchomp pretty easily, which makes Mega Scizor a good teammate since it can frequently force Landorus-T in and wear it down. Unaware users like Dondozo can completely shut down Garchomp, so it benefits a lot from immediate breaking power from teammates like Raging Bolt and Tapu Lele, the latter of which can also protect it from priority moves.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Loaded Dice (Garchomp) @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel / Fire
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang
[SET COMMENTS]
Garchomp is a decent setup sweeper that can use the combination of Loaded Dice and Scale Shot to boost and deal damage at the same time. Fire Fang hits Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, and Corviknight, OHKOing the first two at +2. Tera Steel grants it the ability to ignore Toxic and set up on passive foes like Alomomola and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Fire gives Fire Fang a STAB boost and allows Garchomp to become immune to burn from foes like Rotom-W and Moltres. Both Tera types flip the match up against Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele, both of which can heavily threaten hyper offense teams which Loaded Dice Garchomp mostly finds itself on. Teammates like Volcarona, Raging Bolt, and Urshifu-R appreciate Garchomp threatening foes like Dragonite, Clodsire and Toxapex. Garchomp requires support to set up and sweep due to its typing and Defense drops from Scale Shot, so it is very helpful to have dual screens support from Tapu Koko and Grimmsnarl. It also struggles against common threats like Tapu Lele, Iron Valiant, and Weavile, which makes Mega Scizor and Iron Valiant good partners with it. Landorus-T can pivot around Garchomp pretty easily, which makes Mega Scizor a good teammate since it can frequently force Landorus-T in and wear it down. Unaware users like Dondozo can completely shut down Garchomp, so it benefits a lot from immediate breaking power from teammates like Raging Bolt and Tapu Lele, the latter of which can also protect it from priority moves.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
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