PU Disasterclass (Galarian Articuno)

[Bella]

[SET]
name: Offensive Pivot
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Recover
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Competitive
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Though it has competition from other Psychic-types such as Galarian Slowbro and Delphox and a bad defensive typing, Galarian Articuno is an extremely threatening, albeit niche, offensive pivot and special attacker thanks to a high Special Attack stat, strong STAB moves, great ability in Competitive, and reliable recovery. Future Sight is used over other Psychic-type attacks like Freezing Glare and Psyshock, as it synergizes well with U-turn and can make playing against Galarian Articuno difficult even when it's off the battlefield. Tera Steel provides Galarian Articuno with a valuable defensive typing, allowing it to better take on Pokemon like Skuntank and Decidueye, resist Rock- and Ice-type coverage from Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-F and Ambipom, resist Stealth Rock, be immune to Toxic, and remove all of its original weaknesses. However, this comes at a cost of being unable to check Fighting- and Ground-types such as Paldean Tauros-W and Mudsdale.

Galarian Articuno finds itself fitting mostly on balance and offense teams looking for a powerful special attacker and pivot. It struggles heavily against special walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges, so checks to these threats like Skuntank and Arcanine make excellent partners. In turn, Galarian Articuno can use Future Sight to deter their checks like Mudsdale and Milotic from switching in. Other wallbreakers like Paldean Tauros-F, Golurk, and Goodra appreciate Galarian Articuno's ability to deter their checks like Milotic and Galarian Slowbro from switching in thanks to Future Sight and the fact that it can pivot them in. As Dark- and Steel-types like Zoroark and Copperajah will commonly switch into Galarian Articuno's Future Sight, Pokemon that take these threats on and deter them from switching in like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Florges all make excellent partners. Galarian Articuno's weakness to Knock Off can be extremely crippling, so Knock Off switch-ins like Wo-Chien and Scrafty can make excellent partners, and these two can use Knock Off of their own to remove valuable items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Galarian Articuno's switch-ins like Bronzong, Grimmsnarl, and Meloetta. Galarian Articuno's ability to deter Defog attempts thanks to Competitive makes it an excellent partner for hazard setters such as Mudsdale and Gligar; this quality also makes it work on Sticky Web teams.

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[UberSkitty]

[SET]
name: Offensive Pivot
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Recover
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Competitive
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
With an extremely ('extremely' might be pushing it a little)high Special Attack stat, strong STAB moves, great ability in Competitive, and reliable recovery, Galarian Articuno is one of PU's nicher, albiet still extremely threatening, offensive pivots and special attackers. Future Sight is used over other Psychic-type attacks like Freezing Glare and Psyshock as it synergizes well with U-turn and can make counterplaying Galarian Articuno even when its off the battlefield difficult. (id rather this be rephrased to acknowledge them as other options, rather than why they're bad)U-turn allows Galarian Articuno to pivot away from problematic matchups such as Bronzong and Alolan Sandslash and potentially bring in a teammate safely, gaining momentum for its team. (obvious, remove or expand on how it pairs with future sight)Tera Steel provides Galarian Articuno a valuable defensive typing, allowing it to better take on Pokemon like Skuntank and Decidueye, (also add examples of rock/ice mons, since u go from being weak to resisting those)while also removing all of its normal weaknesses(i didnt know guno was weak to normal-types).(also now u resist sr but are affected by spikes)

Galarian Articuno finds itself fitting mostly on balance teams looking for a powerful Special Attack and Pivot.(idt 'pivot' is supposed to be capitzlized) Galarian Articuno finds itself struggling heavily against Special Walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges, so checks to these threats like Skuntank and Arcanine make excellent partners. In turn, Galarian Articuno can use Future Sight to deter these two's checks from switching in like Mudsdale and Milotic. Other wallbreakers like Paldean Tauros-F, Golurk, and Goodra appreciates Galarian Articuno's ability to deter their checks from switching in thanks to Future Sight as well as pivoting into them. (what kinda checks?)(talk about mons that can punish dark/steel mons trying to switch into future sight (pauros can be moved here))Galarian Articuno's weakness to Knock Off can be extremely crippling, so Knock Off switchins like Wo-Chien and Scrafty can make excellent partners, while these two can spread Knock Off of their own to remove valuable items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Galarian Articuno's switchins like Bronzong, Grimmsnarl, and Meloetta.
(something about competitive punishing defog for hazard setter teammates)
(talk about what differentiates it from the abundance of other psychic mons)
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[gulch]

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[SET]
name: Offensive Pivot
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Recover
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Competitive
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
With a high Special Attack stat, strong STAB moves, great ability in Competitive, and reliable recovery, Galarian Articuno is one of PU's nicher (making this thing sound like the second coming of jesus and then calling it niche is a bit jarring, i'd probably mention some of the reasons why it's bad too), albiet still extremely threatening, offensive pivots and special attackers. Future Sight is used over other Psychic-type attacks like Freezing Glare and Psyshock as it synergizes well with U-turn and can make counterplaying Galarian Articuno even when its off the battlefield difficult. Tera Steel provides Galarian Articuno a valuable defensive typing, allowing it to better take on Pokemon like Skuntank and Decidueye, resist Rock- and Ice-type coverage from Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-F and Ambipom, resist Stealth Rock, and remove all of its original weaknesses. (would also mention some of the problems that come from tera steel - you're now weak to fighting and ground for example. also steel providing toxic immunity is pretty handy too since recover is one of guno's strong points.)

Galarian Articuno finds itself fitting mostly on balance and offense teams looking for a powerful Special Attacker and pivot. Galarian Articuno finds itself struggling heavily against special walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges, so checks to these threats like Skuntank and Arcanine make excellent partners. In turn, Galarian Articuno can use Future Sight to deter these two's checks from switching in like Mudsdale and Milotic. Other wallbreakers like Paldean Tauros-F, Golurk, and Goodra appreciates Galarian Articuno's ability to deter their checks like Milotic, Bellibolt, and Galarian Slowbro from switching in thanks to Future Sight as well as pivoting into them. (please do not pivot the bird into bellibolt) As Dark- and Steel-types like Zoroark and Copperajah will commonly Galarian Articuno's Future Sight, Pokemon to take these threats on and deter them from switching in like Paldean Tauros-W, Delphox, and Florges all make excellent partners. (dunno if i love the phox mention considering double psychic and all, would maybe say scrafty or emboar) Galarian Articuno's weakness to Knock Off can be extremely crippling, so Knock Off switchins like Wo-Chien and Scrafty can make excellent partners, while these two can spread Knock Off of their own to remove valuable items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Galarian Articuno's switchins like Bronzong, Grimmsnarl, and Meloetta. Galarian Articuno's ability to deter Defog attempts thanks to Competitive makes it an excellent partner for hazard setters such as Mudsdale and Gligar. (would also mention how this is especially good for webs teams since guno appreciates things becoming slower and it also functions to keep webs up while becoming even more dangerous)

[SET CREDITS]
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[Bella]

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[Tbolt]

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[SET]
name: Offensive Pivot
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: U-turn
move 4: Recover
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Competitive
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Although suffering Though it has competition from other Psychic-types such as Galarian Slowbro and Delphox and a bad defensive typing, Galarian Articuno is an extremely threatening, albeit niche, offensive pivots and special attackers thanks to a high Special Attack stat, strong STAB moves, great ability in Competitive, and reliable recovery, (RC) Galarian Articuno is one of PU's nicher, albiet still extremely threatening, offensive pivots and special attackers. (Consulted in Discord DMs) Future Sight is used over other Psychic-type attacks like Freezing Glare and Psyshock, (AC) as it synergizes well with U-turn and can make counterplaying playing against Galarian Articuno difficult even when its it's off the battlefield difficult. Tera Steel provides Galarian Articuno with a valuable defensive typing, allowing it to better take on Pokemon like Skuntank and Decidueye, resist Rock- and Ice-type coverage from Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-F and Ambipom, resist Stealth Rock, (AC) and be immune to Toxic, and remove all of its original weaknesses. However, this comes at a cost of being unable to check Fighting- and Ground-types such as Paldean Tauros-W and Mudsdale.

Galarian Articuno finds itself fitting mostly on balance and offense teams looking for a powerful special attacker and pivot. Galarian Articuno finds itself struggling It struggles heavily against special walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges, so checks to these threats like Skuntank and Arcanine make excellent partners. In turn, Galarian Articuno can use Future Sight to deter these two's their checks from switching in like Mudsdale and Milotic from switching in. Other wallbreakers like Paldean Tauros-F, Golurk, and Goodra appreciate Galarian Articuno's ability to deter their checks like Milotic and Galarian Slowbro from switching in thanks to Future Sight as well as pivoting into and the fact that it can pivot them in. As Dark- and Steel-types like Zoroark and Copperajah will commonly switch into Galarian Articuno's Future Sight, Pokemon to that take these threats on and deter them from switching in like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Florges all make excellent partners. Galarian Articuno's weakness to Knock Off can be extremely crippling, so Knock Off switchins switch-ins like Wo-Chien and Scrafty can make excellent partners, while and these two can spread use Knock Off of their own to remove valuable items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Galarian Articuno's switchins switch-ins like Bronzong, Grimmsnarl, and Meloetta. Galarian Articuno's ability to deter Defog attempts thanks to Competitive makes it an excellent partner for hazard setters such as Mudsdale and Gligar; (ASC) this quality also makes it work on as well as Sticky Web teams.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bella.567483/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/uberskitty.355061/
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