[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 8
**Price Range**: 2-3 Points
**Overview**: Drednaw is a rather flexible offensive threat that is a nice addition for teams needing another wincon. Drednaw can be a setup sweeper, a wallbreaker, and even a cleaner on rain teams. Strong Jaw and Swift Swim provides Drednaw plenty of flexibility for a team. However, Drednaw is held back by its mediocre Speed and terrible defensive typing.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Setup Sweeper**: Drednaw is usually used as a Shell Smash sweeper. With its decent coverage, Drednaw can easily clean weakened teams after a Shell Smash. However, Shell Smash is extremely hard to set up due to Drednaw's bad defensive typing.
**Wallbreaker**: Drednaw can use a Choice Band to serve as a decently strong wallbreaker that can be difficult to switch into. Alternatively, Drednaw can use a Choice Scarf to boost its middling Speed and gain surprise KOs. Mystic Water, Expert Belt, and Life Orb can also be useful.
**Rain Sweeper**: Thanks to Swift Swim and rain-boosted attacks, Drednaw can serve as an additional rain sweeper. With the Speed boost, Drednaw can opt to use Swords Dance over Shell Smash to set up more easily.
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: Liquidation, Razor Shell, Waterfall, Stone Edge, Rock Blast, Head Smash
**Setup Moves**: Shell Smash, Swords Dance, Rock Polish, Iron Defense
**Utility Moves:** Stealth Rock, Dragon Tail, Substitute
**Coverage**: Crunch, Jaw Lock, Body Press, Earthquake, Ice Spinner, Ice Fang, Poison Jab, Smart Strike, Skitter Smack, Tera Blast
Common Items
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**White Herb**: White Herb removes the drawbacks of Shell Smash, making it more difficult for opposing Pokemon to revenge-kill Drednaw.
**Choice Band**: Choice Band allows Drednaw to provide its team some helpful wallbreaking power. This is especially good on rain teams.
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf provides Speed for Drednaw, allowing it suprise some threats.
Niche Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Focus Sash can be used on lead sets to set Stealth Rocks. It also is useful on Shell Smash sets, providing a free turn to set up.
**Damage-boosting Items**: Items such as Mystic Water, Expert Belt, and Life Orb can boost Drednaw's wallbreaking powers. These items work best on rain team since Speed is not as large of an issue.
**Mental Herb**: Mental Herb can prevent faster Pokemon from using Taunt on Drednaw to deny the use of status moves including Shell Smash.
Tera
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Drednaw can be a nice secondary user of Tera, although this can be costly due to its hit or miss sweeping potential. Tera Flying allows Drednaw to dodge Ground-type attacks while providing Tera Blast Flying coverage for Grass-type threats. Tera Water can be used to boost Drednaw's Water-type attacks. This is especially potent on rain team sets. Drednaw can also use Tera Dark, Ice, and Ground to boost coverage such as Crunch, Ice Fang, and Earthquake.
Draft Strategy
========
Drednaw can be an excellent addition for teams needing an additional offensive threat with Stealth Rock utility. Rain teams also appreciate a cheap additional Swift Swim threat with excellent coverage.
**Entry-hazard Setters**: Drednaw appreciates entry-hazards in order to break past bulkier threats, so leads such as Glimmora, Landorus-T, and Iron Treads are useful.
**Pivots:** Drednaw needs as much HP as possible in order to successfully use Shell Smash. As a result, slow pivots that provide it a free switch-in such as Galarian Slowking, Corviknight, and Alomomola are appreciated.
**Special Sweepers:** Although Drednaw can slice through frailer teams, physically bulky walls are near impossible for it to break past. Thus, special sweepers that can beat these threats such as Raging Bolt and Gholdengo are valued.
Checks and Counters
========
**Physically Bulky Walls**: Due to its just above average Attack, physically bulky walls such as Dondozo, Alomomola, and Corviknight easily wall Drednaw. Even after a Shell Smash, Drednaw cannot break through Dondozo, while Alomomola and Corviknight can tank a hit and pivot to an appropriate answer.
**Priority**: Drednaw is prone to being revenge killed by priority due to its lack of recovery and Shell Smash Defense drops, especially from Rillaboom's Grassy Glide and Iron Valiant and Keldeo's Vacuum Wave.
**Taunt / Encore:** Drednaw is an underwhelming Pokemon without a Shell Smash boost, so any Pokemon that can prevent Shell Smash with Taunt or Encore greatly limit Drednaw.
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**Draft Order**: Round 8
**Price Range**: 2-3 Points
**Overview**: Drednaw is a rather flexible offensive threat that is a nice addition for teams needing another wincon. Drednaw can be a setup sweeper, a wallbreaker, and even a cleaner on rain teams. Strong Jaw and Swift Swim provides Drednaw plenty of flexibility for a team. However, Drednaw is held back by its mediocre Speed and terrible defensive typing.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
=========
**Setup Sweeper**: Drednaw is usually used as a Shell Smash sweeper. With its decent coverage, Drednaw can easily clean weakened teams after a Shell Smash. However, Shell Smash is extremely hard to set up due to Drednaw's bad defensive typing.
**Wallbreaker**: Drednaw can use a Choice Band to serve as a decently strong wallbreaker that can be difficult to switch into. Alternatively, Drednaw can use a Choice Scarf to boost its middling Speed and gain surprise KOs. Mystic Water, Expert Belt, and Life Orb can also be useful.
**Rain Sweeper**: Thanks to Swift Swim and rain-boosted attacks, Drednaw can serve as an additional rain sweeper. With the Speed boost, Drednaw can opt to use Swords Dance over Shell Smash to set up more easily.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Liquidation, Razor Shell, Waterfall, Stone Edge, Rock Blast, Head Smash
**Setup Moves**: Shell Smash, Swords Dance, Rock Polish, Iron Defense
**Utility Moves:** Stealth Rock, Dragon Tail, Substitute
**Coverage**: Crunch, Jaw Lock, Body Press, Earthquake, Ice Spinner, Ice Fang, Poison Jab, Smart Strike, Skitter Smack, Tera Blast
Common Items
========
**White Herb**: White Herb removes the drawbacks of Shell Smash, making it more difficult for opposing Pokemon to revenge-kill Drednaw.
**Choice Band**: Choice Band allows Drednaw to provide its team some helpful wallbreaking power. This is especially good on rain teams.
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf provides Speed for Drednaw, allowing it suprise some threats.
Niche Items
========
**Focus Sash**: Focus Sash can be used on lead sets to set Stealth Rocks. It also is useful on Shell Smash sets, providing a free turn to set up.
**Damage-boosting Items**: Items such as Mystic Water, Expert Belt, and Life Orb can boost Drednaw's wallbreaking powers. These items work best on rain team since Speed is not as large of an issue.
**Mental Herb**: Mental Herb can prevent faster Pokemon from using Taunt on Drednaw to deny the use of status moves including Shell Smash.
Tera
========
Drednaw can be a nice secondary user of Tera, although this can be costly due to its hit or miss sweeping potential. Tera Flying allows Drednaw to dodge Ground-type attacks while providing Tera Blast Flying coverage for Grass-type threats. Tera Water can be used to boost Drednaw's Water-type attacks. This is especially potent on rain team sets. Drednaw can also use Tera Dark, Ice, and Ground to boost coverage such as Crunch, Ice Fang, and Earthquake.
Draft Strategy
========
Drednaw can be an excellent addition for teams needing an additional offensive threat with Stealth Rock utility. Rain teams also appreciate a cheap additional Swift Swim threat with excellent coverage.
**Entry-hazard Setters**: Drednaw appreciates entry-hazards in order to break past bulkier threats, so leads such as Glimmora, Landorus-T, and Iron Treads are useful.
**Pivots:** Drednaw needs as much HP as possible in order to successfully use Shell Smash. As a result, slow pivots that provide it a free switch-in such as Galarian Slowking, Corviknight, and Alomomola are appreciated.
**Special Sweepers:** Although Drednaw can slice through frailer teams, physically bulky walls are near impossible for it to break past. Thus, special sweepers that can beat these threats such as Raging Bolt and Gholdengo are valued.
Checks and Counters
========
**Physically Bulky Walls**: Due to its just above average Attack, physically bulky walls such as Dondozo, Alomomola, and Corviknight easily wall Drednaw. Even after a Shell Smash, Drednaw cannot break through Dondozo, while Alomomola and Corviknight can tank a hit and pivot to an appropriate answer.
**Priority**: Drednaw is prone to being revenge killed by priority due to its lack of recovery and Shell Smash Defense drops, especially from Rillaboom's Grassy Glide and Iron Valiant and Keldeo's Vacuum Wave.
**Taunt / Encore:** Drednaw is an underwhelming Pokemon without a Shell Smash boost, so any Pokemon that can prevent Shell Smash with Taunt or Encore greatly limit Drednaw.
[credits]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/anchor9.652323/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/e-man.617175/
Grammar checked by:
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