Durant (QC 2/2) (GP 2/2)

[phantom]

[OVERVIEW]

Hustle, great Speed, a fantastic movepool, and First Impression make Durant a wallbreaker with no true counters and one of the best revenge killers in RU. It can easily snipe sweepers such as Dragon Dance Flygon, Autotomize Necrozma, Swift Swim Barraskewda, Chlorophyll Shiftry, and Slush Rush Arctozolt, which are often faster than Choice Scarf users. Durant‘s defensive shortcomings create several issues for it, though. Firstly, Durant has difficulty finding switch-in opportunities due to its low bulk, vulnerability to residual damage, and Life Orb recoil. Additionally, its lack of defensive utility as a Steel-type renders it a burden to its team, as it’s incapable of checking threats such as Togekiss and Noivern. Finally, Hustle makes Durant quite inconsistent; a miss can result in it getting KOed right back.

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Iron Head
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Stomping Tantrum
item: Life Orb
ability: Hustle
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is primarily a revenge killing tool but is also Durant’s strongest STAB attack. It, when followed by Superpower, allows Durant to KO every relevant bulky Water-type and Reuniclus. Iron Head is necessary coverage for Fairy-types and keeps Pokemon such as Heracross and Golurk from easily withstanding Durant's attacks. Superpower is essential for Steel-types and does hefty damage to bulky Water-types such as Gastrodon and Milotic once First Impression has been used. Stomping Tantrum provides important coverage for threats such as Chandelure, Toxtricity, Doublade, and Volcanion. It becomes stronger than Durant's STAB attacks if the previous attack missed, creating one of the only situations where a Hustle miss can be advantageous.

Providing Durant with switch-in opportunities to wallbreak is essential. Xurkitree, Noivern, and Flygon make for exceptional partners due to their pivoting abilities and offensive synergy. Flygon and Noivern in particular can withstand Fire-type attacks aimed at Durant. Durant has a tendency to be worn down quickly, so clearing or deterring entry hazards makes it more effective. Dhelmise is a solid Rapid Spin user with good offensive synergy, as it deals with Water-types such as Gastrodon that may make problems for Durant in a one-versus-one situation. Xatu keeps entry hazards away and provides necessary pivoting support with U-turn or Teleport.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Choice Scarf can be used to focus on Durant’s role as a revenge killer, but it is largely redundant given its access to First Impression. Choice Band can be used for greater power and better resilience to residual damage, but it makes First Impression exploitable and Stomping Tantrum unable to synergize with Hustle misses. Rock Slide can be used to have a chance to KO Noivern, Crobat, and Talonflame, but Stomping Tantrum's coverage is usually more important.

Checks and Counters
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**Fast Flying-types**: Noivern and Crobat can switch into every attack except for Iron Head and scare Durant out, and Talonflame has a strong matchup due to Flame Body and its resistance to every attack on the standard set, only fearing the rare Rock Slide.

**Fire-types**: Volcanion can defeat Durant one-on-one, and sun teams fare well against Durant due to the primary setter, Torkoal, having a similarly favorable matchup. Salazzle can withstand any one attack except Stomping Tantrum and is both faster and quadruply resistant to First Impression. Incineroar can switch into Durant’s attacks at least once and soften its blows thanks to Intimidate.

**Faster Attackers**: Raikou, Starmie, Choice Scarf Xurkitree, and +1 Speed Sharpedo are faster than Durant and can revenge kill it. Sharpedo in particular has a favorable one-versus-one matchup due to Protect shielding it from First Impression.

**Residual Damage**: Durant lacks any true counters, but restricting the amount of times it can switch in can help contain it. Stealth Rock, Spikes, and even hail damage stack very quickly alongside Life Orb recoil, limiting the amount of damage Durant can do.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[phantom, 180300]]
- Quality checked by: [[Expulso, 202058], [MrAldo, 227521]]
- Grammar checked by: [[CryoGyro, 331519], [Finland, 517429]]

 

[Expulso]

mention in overview that it requires lots of support in builder to cover specially offensive threats like noivern, togekiss, gardevoir, etc.

in checks and counters, fire-types are prob worth a special mention due to resisting both STABs and threatening it out. lazzle and scarf darm/chandy outspeed (tho they’re frail and lazzle is quad ground weak), so i think they would be good to discuss in either the faster attackers section or a separate fire-types section. entei / arcanine handle durant better but those are not as relevant as the other checks and counters so prob not worth a mention

This looks great to me, qc 1/2

 

[MrAldo]

Very solid

QC 2/2

 

[CryoGyro]

GP 1/2

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[OVERVIEW]

Durant‘s success in RU dates back to the tier’s very inception - it has since remained a top tier wallbreaker. (it's only even legal in bw, this is only gonna confuse people) Its Hustle ability, great speed, and fantastic movepool means it has no true counters, while it’s newfound access to First Impression makes it Durant's Hustle ability, great Speed, fantastic movepool, and First Impression make it a wallbreaker with no counters and one of the best revenge killers in RU. Durant It can easily snipe weather sweepers such as Barraskewda, Shiftry, and Arctozolt that are normally out of each for Choice Scarf users, while dealing with Speed-boosting sweepers such as Dragon Dance Flygon and Automize Necrozma Dragon Dance Flygon, Autotomize Necrozma, Swift Swim Barraskewda, Chlorophyll Shiftry, and Slush Rush Arctozolt, which are often faster than Choice Scarf users. Durant‘s defensive shortcomings defensively create several issues for it, though. The first, is that Firstly, Durant has difficulty finding switch-in opportunities. Its low defensive stats, vulnerability to residual damage and Life Orb recoil means bulk and vulnerability to entry hazards and Life Orb recoil mean it can seldom make use of its defensive typing to switch in on its own. Additionally, its faults as a Steel-type render it a defensive burden to its team defensively, as it’s incapable of checking threats such as Togekiss and Noivern that other Steel-types can. When this is taken into account with Hustle’s inconsistency, a miss doesn’t just make Durant unreliable, but can lead to an untimely KO for the Durant user Hustle takes Durant's inconsistency to another level; a miss can result in it getting KOed right back.

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Iron Head
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Stomping Tantrum
item: Life Orb
ability: Hustle
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is primarily a revenge killing tool but is also Durant’s strongest STAB attack. This, in conjunction with It, alongside Superpower, allows Durant to KO every relevant bulky Water-type, (comma) while dealing with defensive stalwarts such as and Reuniclus. Iron Head is used over a second Bug-type STAB due to the way it compliments the other coverage moves on the set. Fairy-types such as Togekiss, Diancie, and Weezing-Galar would be harder to take down otherwise, while Pokemon such as Heracross and Golurk would be able to withstand Durant‘s attacks more easily. necessary coverage for Fairy-types and keeps Heracross and Golurk from switching in confidently. Superpower is essential coverage for opposing Steel-types, (comma) while acting as supplemental coverage in a situation where Durant has already used First Impression; in this case, Superpower can do well over 50% against defensive targets such as Gastrodon and Milotic that would normally be able to stomach the other attacks and does hefty damage to bulky Water-types such as Gastrodon and Milotic once First Impression has been used. Stomping Tantrum provides important coverage for threats that the first three attacks don’t handle well, such as Chandelure, Toxtricity, Doublade, and Volcanion. Due to the effects of Stomping Tantrum, it creates one of the only situations where a Hustle miss can be advantageous, in which it doubles in power, making it stronger than any one of Durant‘s STAB attacks It becomes stronger than Durant's STAB attacks if the previous attack missed.

Providing Durant with switch-in opportunities to capitalize off its wallbreaking capabilities wallbreak is essential. Xurkitree, Noivern, and Flygon make for exceptional partners due to their pivoting abilities in addition to their and offensive synergy. Flygon and Noivern in particular can withstand Fire-type attacks aimed at Durant. Durant has a tendency to be worn down quickly, so providing it with a way to clear or deter entry hazards from being set would help make it more effective. Dhelmise is a solid Rapid Spin user with good offensive synergy, as it deals with Water-types such as Gastrodon that may provide problems for Durant in a one-versus-one. Xatu, (comma) on the other hand, keeps entry hazards off away and provides necessary pivoting support with either U-turn or Teleport.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Choice Scarf can be used to keep the focus on Durant’s role as a revenge killer, but it is largely redundant given its access to First Impression. Choice Band can be used to give Durant an increase in strength and give it for greater power and better resilience to residual damage, but it makes First Impression exploitable and makes Stomping Tantrum less effective when Durant can’t readily take advantage of Hustle misses unable to synergize with Hustle misses. Rock Slide can be used to have a chance to KO all of Noivern, Crobat, and Talonflame, but the Stomping Tantrum's coverage Stomping Tantrum provides is usually more important

Checks and Counters
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**Fast Flying-types Pivots**: Noivern and Crobat can switch into every attack except for Iron Head and scare Durant out, whereas and Talonflame has a strong matchup due to Flame Body and its Steel resistance to every attack on the standard set, only fearing the rare Rock Slide

**Fire-types**: Volcanion can defeat Durant one-on-one, whereas and sun teams fair fare well against Durant due to the primary setter, Torkoal, having a similarly favorable matchup. Salazzle can withstand all attacks any one attack except Stomping Tantrum once and is both faster and resistant to First Impression outspeeds. Incineroar can pivot switch into Durant’s attacks at least once and soften its blows thanks to Intimidate.

**Faster Attackers**: Raikou, Starmie, Choice Scarf Xurkitree, and +1 Speed Boost Sharpedo after a Speed Boost are all faster than Durant and are capable of either revenge killing it or forcing it out. Sharpedo in particular has a favorable one-versus-one matchup due to protect shielding it from can block First Impression with Protect.

**Residual Damage**: Given the fact that Durant lacks any true counters, but restricting the amount of times it can switch in can help contain it. Stealth Rock, Spikes, and even hail damage stack very quickly alongside Life Orb recoil and can all work as effective countermeasure to limit the amount of damage Durant can do.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[phantom, 180300]]
- Quality checked by: [[Expulso, 202058], [MrAldo, 227521]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]

 

[phantom]

Implemented most of it. Majority of the changes were subjective, so I didn’t make changes where I felt emphasis that was necessary was being removed or in cases where the meaning of a sentence was being changed entirely

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[dex]

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[OVERVIEW]

Durant's Hustle ability, great Speed, a fantastic movepool, and access to First Impression make it Durant (I think it probably reads better worded this way) a wallbreaker with no true counters (saying it has no counters is a really strong statement, it might be better to say "that is incredibly difficult to counter" or "no true counters") and one of the best revenge killers in RU. It can easily snipe sweepers such as Dragon Dance Flygon, Autotomize Necrozma, Swift Swim Barraskewda, Chlorophyll Shiftry, and Slush Rush Arctozolt, which are often faster than Choice Scarf users. Durant‘s defensive shortcomings create several issues for it, though. Firstly, Durant has difficulty finding switch-in opportunities. Its due to its (remove period) bulk, vulnerability to residual damage, (add comma) and Life Orb recoil mean it can seldom switch in on its own. Additionally, its faults lack of defensive utility as a Steel-type render it a defensive burden to its team, as it’s incapable of checking threats such as Togekiss and Noivern. Finally, Hustle takes Durant's inconsistency to another level makes Durant quite inconsistent, as (semicolon->comma) a miss can result in it getting KOed right back.

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Iron Head
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Stomping Tantrum
item: Life Orb
ability: Hustle
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is primarily a revenge killing tool but is also Durant’s strongest STAB attack. It, alongside Superpower, allows Durant to KO every relevant bulky Water-type and Reuniclus. Iron Head is necessary coverage for Fairy-types and keeps Pokemon such as Heracross and Golurk from being able to withstand Durant‘s attacks more easily. Superpower is essential for Steel-types and does hefty damage to bulky Water-types such as Gastrodon and Milotic once First Impression has been used. Stomping Tantrum provides important coverage for threats checks such as Chandelure, Toxtricity, Doublade, and Volcanion. It becomes stronger than Durant's STAB attacks if the previous attack missed, creating one of the only situations where a Hustle miss can be advantageous.

Providing Durant with switch-in opportunities to wallbreak is essential. Xurkitree, Noivern, and Flygon make for exceptional partners due to their pivoting abilities and offensive synergy. Flygon and Noivern in particular can withstand Fire-type attacks aimed at Durant. Durant has a tendency to be worn down quickly, so providing a way to clear or deter entry hazards from being set makes it more effective. Dhelmise is a solid Rapid Spin user with good offensive synergy, as it deals with Water-types such as Gastrodon that may provide make problems for Durant in a one-versus-one. Xatu keeps entry hazards away and provides necessary pivoting support with U-turn or Teleport.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Choice Scarf can be used to focus on Durant’s role as a revenge killer, but it is largely redundant given its access to First Impression. Choice Band can be used for greater power and better resilience to residual damage, but it makes First Impression exploitable and Stomping Tantrum unable to synergize with Hustle misses. Rock Slide can be used to have a chance to KO Noivern, Crobat, and Talonflame, but Stomping Tantrum's coverage is usually more important. (Add Period)

Checks and Counters
===================

**Fast Flying-types**: Noivern and Crobat can switch into every attack except for Iron Head and scare Durant out, and Talonflame has a strong matchup due to Flame Body and its resistance to every attack on the standard set, only fearing the rare Rock Slide. (Add Period)

**Fire-types**: Volcanion can defeat Durant one-on-one, and sun teams fare well against Durant due to the primary setter, Torkoal, (remove commas) having a similarly favorable matchup. Salazzle can withstand any one attack except Stomping Tantrum and is both faster and resistant to First Impression. Incineroar can switch into Durant’s attacks at least once and soften its blows thanks to Intimidate.

**Faster Attackers**: Raikou, Starmie, Choice Scarf Xurkitree, and +1 Speed Boost Sharpedo are faster than Durant and can revenge kill it. Sharpedo in particular has a favorable one-versus-one matchup due to protect Protect shielding it from First Impression.

**Residual Damage**: Durant lacks any true counters, but restricting the amount of times it can switch in can help contain it. Stealth Rock, Spikes, and even hail damage stack very quickly alongside Life Orb recoil, and limit limiting (add comma) the amount of damage Durant can do.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[phantom, 180300]]
- Quality checked by: [[Expulso, 202058], [MrAldo, 227521]]
- Grammar checked by: [[CryoGyro, 331519], [username2, userid2]]

 

[Adeleine]

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[OVERVIEW]

Durant's Hustle ability, great Speed, a fantastic movepool, and First Impression make it Durant a wallbreaker with no true (going to say this is optional bc im looking at c/c and only somewhat close thing to a counter seems to be talon, which is indeed wrecked by rock slide and takes almost half from iron head anyway with 252/0. up to you) counters and one of the best revenge killers in RU. It can easily snipe sweepers such as Dragon Dance Flygon, Autotomize Necrozma, Swift Swim Barraskewda, Chlorophyll Shiftry, and Slush Rush Arctozolt, which are often faster than Choice Scarf users. Durant‘s defensive shortcomings create several issues for it, though. Firstly, Durant has difficulty finding switch-in opportunities. Its due to its low (remove period) bulk, vulnerability to residual damage, (add comma) and Life Orb recoil mean it can seldom switch in on its own. Additionally, its faults lack of defensive utility as a Steel-type renders it a defensive burden to its team, as it’s incapable of checking threats such as Togekiss and Noivern. Finally, Hustle takes Durant's inconsistency to another level; makes Durant quite inconsistent; a miss can result in it getting KOed right back.

[SET]
name: All-Out Attacker
move 1: First Impression
move 2: Iron Head
move 3: Superpower
move 4: Stomping Tantrum
item: Life Orb
ability: Hustle
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is primarily a revenge killing tool but is also Durant’s strongest STAB attack. It, alongside when followed by (I assume something like this? Otherwise it can read like they provide the needed coverage to ohko every bulky Water individually) Superpower, allows Durant to KO every relevant bulky Water-type and Reuniclus. Iron Head is necessary coverage for Fairy-types and keeps Pokemon such as Heracross and Golurk from being able to withstand Durant‘s attacks more easily. easily withstanding Durant's attacks. (I imagine this makes sense?) Superpower is essential for Steel-types and does hefty damage to bulky Water-types such as Gastrodon and Milotic once First Impression has been used. Stomping Tantrum provides important coverage for threats such as Chandelure, Toxtricity, Doublade, and Volcanion. It becomes stronger than Durant's STAB attacks if the previous attack missed, creating one of the only situations where a Hustle miss can be advantageous.

Providing Durant with switch-in opportunities to wallbreak is essential. Xurkitree, Noivern, and Flygon make for exceptional partners due to their pivoting abilities and offensive synergy. Flygon and Noivern in particular can withstand Fire-type attacks aimed at Durant. Durant has a tendency to be worn down quickly, so providing a way to clear or deter entry hazards from being set clearing or deterring entry hazards makes it more effective. Dhelmise is a solid Rapid Spin user with good offensive synergy, as it deals with Water-types such as Gastrodon that may provide make problems for Durant in a one-versus-one situation. Xatu keeps entry hazards away and provides necessary pivoting support with U-turn or Teleport.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Choice Scarf can be used to focus on Durant’s role as a revenge killer, but it is largely redundant given its access to First Impression. Choice Band can be used for greater power and better resilience to residual damage, but it makes First Impression exploitable and Stomping Tantrum unable to synergize with Hustle misses. Rock Slide can be used to have a chance to KO Noivern, Crobat, and Talonflame, but Stomping Tantrum's coverage is usually more important. (Add Period)

Checks and Counters
===================

**Fast Flying-types**: Noivern and Crobat can switch into every attack except for Iron Head and scare Durant out, and Talonflame has a strong matchup due to Flame Body and its resistance to every attack on the standard set, only fearing the rare Rock Slide. (Add Period)

**Fire-types**: Volcanion can defeat Durant one-on-one, and sun teams fare well against Durant due to the primary setter, Torkoal, having a similarly favorable matchup. Salazzle can withstand any one attack except Stomping Tantrum and is both faster and quadruply resistant to First Impression. Incineroar can switch into Durant’s attacks at least once and soften its blows thanks to Intimidate.

**Faster Attackers**: Raikou, Starmie, Choice Scarf Xurkitree, and +1 Speed Boost Sharpedo are faster than Durant and can revenge kill it. Sharpedo in particular has a favorable one-versus-one matchup due to protect Protect shielding it from First Impression.

**Residual Damage**: Durant lacks any true counters, but restricting the amount of times it can switch in can help contain it. Stealth Rock, Spikes, and even hail damage stack very quickly alongside Life Orb recoil, and limit limiting (add comma) the amount of damage Durant can do.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[phantom, 180300]]
- Quality checked by: [[Expulso, 202058], [MrAldo, 227521]]
- Grammar checked by: [[CryoGyro, 331519], [Finland, 517429]]

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