Draft Feraligatr

[overview]

**Draft Order**: (Round 6 onwards)

**Price Range**: (5-6 points)

**Overview**: Compared to other offensive Water-type Pokemon in Draft, Feraligatr’s greatest selling points are its great setup options and its ability, Sheer Force. With both Swords Dance and Dragon Dance at its disposal, Feraligatr can become very powerful and rip through opposing Draft teams that don’t account for it. However, Feraligatr is often passed over due to its disappointing Speed tier, which can cause it to be outsped by a great deal of Pokemon, and because it is less versatile compared to other Water-types. Feraligatr usually only fits on more offensive Draft teams that can pair it with other stronger wallbreakers while appreciating its handful of positive attributes.

Common Roles

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**Dragon Dance Sweeper**: Feraligatr can use Dragon Dance to become both stronger and faster in order to defeat a wider range of targets. Furthermore, thanks to Sheer Force, it is free to use Life Orb without the recoil damage in order to break down opposing teams with its incredible power.

**Physical Wallbreaker**: Feraligatr can also focus on wallbreaking itself with Swords Dance to become significantly stronger in order to break more defensive Pokemon. This pairs especially well with Aqua Jet to ensure that Feraligatr can still defeat targets that will outspeed it.

**Defensive Pivot**: Feraligatr can create a great surprise factor as a defensive pivot by using its serviceable typing and bulk to support its team. Rather than going offensive, Feraligatr can attempt to go more defensive with moves such as Dragon Tail and Roar to phase out a dangerous sweeper while maintaining momentum with Flip Turn and decent power with Sheer Force.

Common Moves

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**Primary STAB Moves**: Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Liquidation

**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, Agility

**Utility Moves**: Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Roar, Substitute

**Coverage**: Crunch, Earthquake, Ice Punch, Low Kick, Psychic Fangs, Rock Slide, Scale Shot, Shadow Claw, Stomping Tantrum, Superpower, Tera Blast, Trailblaze

Niche Moves

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**Special Attacks**: Feraligatr can use Muddy Water alongside other special attacks such as Ice Beam to defeat physically bulky Pokemon by hitting their weaker Special Defense. However, this is highly situational as Feraligatr cannot boost its lackluster Special Attack stat.

**Curse**: Although Feraligatr wants to use one of its other moves for setting up, Curse can give it greater physical bulk, which can make revenge killing a harder prospect in rare scenarios.

**Counter**: On more defensive sets, Feraligatr can use Counter to take advantage of its serviceable bulk and KO an opponent.

**Facade**: This allows Feraligatr to have a useful move in the event of a burn.

**Rest**: Setup sweeper sets can use Rest as a way to regain health and create extra setup opportunities or capitalize on its boosts when it may have otherwise been revenge killed. This can also cure a status ailment that a foe has given.

Common Items

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**Life Orb**: Life Orb is Feraligatr's best item in conjunction with Sheer Force and it rarely wants to run any other item, since it already provides a strong boost to its offenses without any major drawbacks.

**Lum Berry**: In games where status is going to be used to deny Feraligatr’s wallbreaking, Lum Berry can provide a crucial turn of setup, and it also allows Rest to be a one-time recovery move.

Niche Items

========
**Other Damage-Boosting Items**: Choice Band and Mystic Water can be useful for Feraligatr in scenarios where it will be using moves that are not boosted by Sheer Force, such as Earthquake and Low Kick.

**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Feraligatr to outspeed naturally faster foes and deal immediate damage. This pairs especially well with Flip Turn to ensure that Feraligatr can maintain momentum even against a poor matchup.

**Resistance Berries**: Rindo or Wacan Berry can help Feraligatr set up in the face of a super effective attack or to deny a revenge kill from a faster foe.

**Sitrus Berry**: Sitrus Berry can offer slightly more longevity for Feraligatr to avoid a 2HKO from an opponent and can help Feraligatr phase out a sweeper by surviving a hit.

**Mental Herb**: This can protect Feraligatr from moves such as Encore and Taunt, which would otherwise annoy it.

**Assault Vest**: This boosts the defensive profile for Feraligatr and gives it better Special Defense while still maintaining offensive pressure.

Tera

========
Like most Pokemon with access to Dragon Dance, Feraligatr can benefit from being a cheaper secondary Tera Captain that can boost the power of its coverage moves. Tera Water boosts the power of its STAB moves to become a stronger wallbreaker. Tera Grass can flip the script against opposing Water-types and remove its weaknesses. It can use Tera Fire and Electric to both gain a coverage move to beat specific targets and to protect itself from status conditions such as burn and paralysis, respectively. It can also make use of some defensive Tera types to set up easier, including Tera Fairy, Tera Ground, and Tera Dragon, the latter being invaluable, since it boosts Scale Shot damage.

Draft Strategy

========

Feraligatr is a powerful wallbreaker but not strong enough to win by itself. It fits best on hyper offense teams that aim to stack as many dangerous Pokemon as possible in order to overwhelm an opposing team with constant offensive pressure.

**Stronger Wallbreakers / Sweepers**: More powerful offensive Pokemon will take a lot of the weight off Feraligatr’s shoulders. Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, and Dragonite are examples of powerful wallbreakers and sweepers that will either break down a team for Feraligatr to win more easily or benefit from Feraligatr’s own efforts. Pokemon such as Greninja and Keldeo can form a double Water-type core to wear down one another’s checks to enable a sweep.

**Dual Screens Setters**: Dual screens support from the likes of Klefki, Latias, and Jirachi are very effective, as they provide as many safe turns as possible so that Feraligatr and its teammates can set up safely to break down opposing defensive cores with repeated hits. Furthermore, this can allow Feraligatr to either set up multiple Dragon Dances or give it more freedom to run Swords Dance.

**Speed Control**: Feraligatr’s disappointing Speed tier requires faster Pokemon that can act as speed control. Pokemon such as Darkrai, Iron Boulder, and Meowscarada are good at meeting this requirement in a hyper offense draft.

**Pivots**: Pivots such as Zapdos, Landorus-T, and Galarian Slowking can help Feraligatr come on the field safely and avoid taking direct damage. In return, Feraligatr can help these Pokemon by pivoting itself out with Flip Turn.

Checks and Counters

========
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Feraligatr’s relatively less Speed means that it can be outsped by stronger and faster Pokemon that can defeat it safely, including Iron Valiant, Meowscarada, and Ogerpon-W. Some of these Pokemon can outspeed Feraligatr with a Speed-boosting item even if it’s at +2.

**Status Conditions**: Feraligatr hates status conditions that will negate its offensive capabilities and cause it to be worn down or become even slower, thus preventing a sweep.

**Chip Damage**: All types of entry hazards are going to annoy Feraligatr as they chip its health due to a lack of reliable recovery.

**Bulky Physical Walls**: Feraligatr can find itself checked by specific physical walls that don’t fear its coverage moves such as Alomomola, Rotom-W, and Sinistcha.

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[overview]

**Draft Order**: (Late Round 6 onwards)

**Price Range**: (6-7 5-6 points)

**Overview**: Compared to other offensive Water-type Pokemon in draft, Feraligatr’s greatest selling point is its ability: Sheer Force. With both Swords Dance and Dragon Dance at its disposal, Feraligatr can become very powerful and rip through opposing draft teams that don’t have the means to withstand its power. However, Feraligatr is often passed over due to its disappointing speed tier which can cause it to be outsped by a great deal of Pokemon and because it can be hard to fit on teams due to its lack of defensive utility. Feraligatr usually only fits on more offensive draft teams that have the means to capitalize on its strengths in certain match-ups by pairing it with stronger Pokemon.

Common Roles

========

**Dragon Dance Sweeper**: Feraligatr can use Dragon Dance to become both stronger and faster in order to defeat a wider range of targets. Furthermore, thanks to Sheer Force it is free to use Life Orb without the recoil damage in order to break down an opposing team with its incredible power.

**Physical Wallbreaker**: Feraligatr can also focus on wallbreaking itself with Swords Dance to become significantly stronger in order to break more defensive Pokemon. This pairs especially well with Aqua Jet to ensure that Feraligatr can still defeat targets that will outspeed it.

Common Moves

========

**Primary STAB Moves**: Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Liquidation, Muddy Water, Surf

**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, Agility,

**Utility Moves**: Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Roar, Substitute

**Coverage**: Ancient Power, Breaking Swipe, Crunch, Earthquake, Focus Blast, Ice Beam, Ice Punch, Low Kick, Metal Claw, Outrage, Psychic Fangs, Rock Slide, Scale Shot, Shadow Claw, Stomping Tantrum, Superpower, Tera Blast, Trailblaze,

Niche Moves

========

**Block**: Feraligatr can surprise a target by using Block to trap them and then set up with either Swords Dance or Dragon Dance so it can annihilate the opposing team with overwhelming power.

**Fling**: Feraligatr can use Fling to gain a one-time attack to hit a specific target that might otherwise withstand it without having to be a Tera Captain. too niche

**Curse**: Though Feraligatr wants to use one of its other moves for set up, Curse can give it greater physical bulk which can make revenge killing it a harder prospect in rare scenarios.

**Counter**: Feraligatr can attempt to use its decent bulk to tank a hit and retaliate with Counter in order to surprise an opponent.

add facade to punish foes that may use status to check feraligatr

Common Items

========

**Life Orb**: Offers great power since Sheer Force allows you to utilize the boost to its attacking stats without having to take recoil damage when using attacks with secondary effects. This sounds too similar to a dex entry. Reword this sentence to say that Life Orb is Feraligatr's best item in conjunction with Sheer Force and it rarely wants to run any other item.

Niche Items

========

**Choice Items Scarf**: Feraligatr can make situational use out of choice items in order to have slightly more power at the start. Choice Scarf can give Feraligatr a faster initial speed while Choice Specs can make it a lot stronger as a special attacker. allows Feraligatr to outspeed naturally faster foes and deal immediate damage. Just a comment here to say that Feraligatr shouldn't really ever run special moves off its base 78 special attack.

**Resistance Berries**: This Rindo or Wacan Berry can help Feraligatr set up in the face of a super effective attack or to deny a revenge kill from a faster foe.

Tera
========
Like most Pokemon with access to Dragon Dance, Feraligatr can benefit from being a cheaper secondary Tera Captain. Though Sheer Force does not boost Tera Blast as a coverage item move, it does allow Feraligatr to boost the power of its STAB moves to greater heights. I'm not sure if I understand this sentence, it feels repetitive. Furthermore, Tera Dark and Ground it can make one of its coverage items moves such as Crunch or Earthquake into a stronger secondary STAB. It can also use Tera Fire and Electric to both gain a coverage move to beat specific targets or and to protect Feraligatr from status conditions such as burn and paralysis respectively. It can also make use of some defensive Tera types in order to set up easier, including Tera Fairy, Tera Ground, and Tera Dragon, the latter being invaluable since it boosts Scale Shot and can protect Feraligatr from super effective grass and electric attacks.

Draft Strategy

========

Feraligatr is a powerful wallbreaker but not strong enough to win by itself. It fits best on hyper offense teams that aim to stack as many dangerous Pokemon as possible in order to overwhelm an opposing team with constant offensive pressure.

**Stronger Wallbreakers / Sweepers**: More powerful offensive Pokemon will take a lot of the weight off Feraligatr’s shoulders. Roaring Moon, Landorus and Dragonite are examples of powerful wallbreakers and sweepers that will either break down a team for Feraligatr to win more easily or benefit from Feraligatr’s own efforts. Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and Keldeo can form a double water core to wear down one another’s checks to enable a sweep.

**Dual Screens Setters**: Dual screens support from the likes of Klefki and Jirachi are very effective partners that provide as many safe turns as possible so that Feraligatr and its teammates can set up safely to break down an opposing defensive core with repeated hits. Furthermore, this can allow Feraligatr to either set up multiple Dragon Dances or give it more freedom to run Swords Dance.

**Speed Control**: Feraligatr’s disappointing speed tier requires faster Pokemon that can act as speed control. Pokemon such as Chien-Pao Latios (Chien-Pao is usually banned in standard play), Iron Boulder, and Blaziken Zarude are good at meeting this requirement in a hyper offense draft.

**Bulky Pivots**: Slow bulky pivots such as Alomomola and Scizor can help Feraligatr hit the field safely and avoid taking direct damage. Pelipper is noteworthy as a slow pivot that brings rain support and makes Feraligatr even more powerful.

Checks and Counters

========
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Feraligatr’s disappointing speed tier means that it can be outsped by stronger and faster Pokemon that can defeat it pretty safely, including Iron Valiant, Dragapult Meowscarada (Dragapult is usually banned in standard play) and many choice scarfers Ogerpon-W.

**Chip Damage**: All types of entry hazards are going to annoy Feraligatr as they chip its health due to a lack of reliable recovery.

**Bulky Physical Walls** Feraligatr can find itself checked by specific physical walls that don’t fear its coverage moves such as Alomomola and Clefable, the former possessing Regenerator while the latter possesses Unaware to deny Feraligatr’s boosts from having any effect.

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[overview]

**Draft Order**: (Round 6 onwards)

**Price Range**: (5-6 points)

**Overview**: Compared to other offensive Water-type Pokemon in draft, Feraligatr’s greatest selling point is its ability: Sheer Force I don't fully agree. think it wuld be sheer force + setup. With both Swords Dance and Dragon Dance at its disposal, Feraligatr can become very powerful and rip through opposing draft teams that don’t account for it. However, Feraligatr is often passed over due to its disappointing speed tier which can cause it to be outsped by a great deal of Pokemon, and because it is less dimensional versatile compared to other water types. Feraligatr usually only fits on more offensive draft teams that can pair it with other stronger wallbreakers while appreciating its few positive attributes.

Common Roles

========

**Dragon Dance Sweeper**: Feraligatr can use Dragon Dance to become both stronger and faster in order to defeat a wider range of targets. Furthermore, thanks to Sheer Force it is free to use Life Orb without the recoil damage in order to break down an opposing team with its incredible power.

**Physical Wallbreaker**: Feraligatr can also focus on wallbreaking itself with Swords Dance to become significantly stronger in order to break more defensive Pokemon. This pairs especially well with Aqua Jet to ensure that Feraligatr can still defeat targets that will outspeed it.

**Defensive Pivot**: This goes complete unmentioned throughout the analysis but gatr has very serviceable bulk and can flip turn, roar, dtail, and still strongly attack w sheer force. Would just mention its typing and bulk let it be a decent pivot with some utility.

Common Moves

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**Primary STAB Moves**: Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Liquidation

**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, Agility

**Utility Moves**: Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Roar, Substitute

**Coverage**: Crunch, Earthquake, Ice Punch, Low Kick, Psychic Fangs, Rock Slide, Scale Shot, Shadow Claw, Stomping Tantrum, Superpower, Tera Blast, Trailblaze

Niche Moves

========

**Muddy Water Special Attacks**: Feraligatr can use Muddy Water alongside other special attacks such as Ice Beam to defeat physically bulky Pokemon by hitting their weaker special defense, such as Arcanine and Sandaconda. However, this is highly situational as Feraligatr cannot boost its lackluster special attack stat.

**Block**: Feraligatr can surprise a target by using Block to trap them and then set up with either Swords Dance or Dragon Dance so it can annihilate the opposing team with overwhelming power. too niche

**Curse**: Though Feraligatr wants to use one of its other moves for set up, Curse can give it greater physical bulk which can make revenge killing it a harder prospect in rare scenarios.

**Counter**: Feraligatr can attempt to use its decent bulk to tank a hit and retaliate with Counter in order to surprise an opponent.

**Facade**: This allows Feraligatr to have a useful move in the event of a burn status conditions, including from abilities such as Flame Body or Toxic Chain. only burn would impact this much where your attack is otherwise bad

**Rest**: Setup sets can use Rest as a way to regain health and create extra setup opportunity or capitalize on its boosts when it may have otherwise been revenged. This can also remove a status ailment a foe has given.

Common Items

========

**Life Orb**: Life Orb is Feraligatr's best item in conjunction with Sheer Force and it rarely wants to run any other item, since it already provides a strong boost to its offenses without any major drawbacks.

Niche Items

========
**Lum Berry**: write about how this is used when status is anticipated counterplay or if facing a status ability. also works with rest sets

**Other Damage-Boosting Items**: write about how when Feraligatr is not exclusively relying on sheer force moves (which it often isnt with aqua jet and some coverage like eq low kick) it can use items like mystic water and band.

**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Feraligatr to outspeed naturally faster foes and deal immediate damage. This pairs especially well with Flip Turn to ensure that Feraligatr can keep momentum even against a poor match up.

**Resistance Berries**: Rindo or Wacan Berry can help Feraligatr set up in the face of a super effective attack or to deny a revenge kill from a faster foe.

**Sitrus Berry** discuss how this allows extra setup opportunities to avoid 2hkos and also works well on bulkier sets

**Mental Herb**: say how this can be used to stop faster taunts and encores and prevent setup

**Assault Vest**: Good on bulkier sets and also work well on sets meant to attack and trade, can be a good sponge on the special side



Tera
========
Like most Pokemon with access to Dragon Dance, Feraligatr can benefit from being a cheaper secondary Tera Captain. Tera Dark and Ground can make one of its coverage moves such as Crunch or Earthquake into a stronger secondary STAB. It can also use Tera Fire and Electric to both gain a coverage move to beat specific targets and to protect Feraligatr from status conditions such as burn and paralysis respectively. It can also make use of some defensive Tera types to set up easier, including Tera Fairy, Tera Ground, and Tera Dragon, the latter being invaluable since it boosts Scale Shot and can protect Feraligatr from super effective grass and electric attacks.

you have to work in mentions of tera water to become a very strong wallbreaker and grass to remove its weaknesses and hit opposing water types.

Draft Strategy

========

Feraligatr is a powerful wallbreaker but not strong enough to win by itself. It fits best on hyper offense teams that aim to stack as many dangerous Pokemon as possible in order to overwhelm an opposing team with constant offensive pressure.

**Stronger Wallbreakers / Sweepers**: More powerful offensive Pokemon will take a lot of the weight off Feraligatr’s shoulders. Roaring Moon, Landorus Iron Valiant and Dragonite are examples of powerful wallbreakers and sweepers that will either break down a team for Feraligatr to win more easily or benefit from Feraligatr’s own efforts. Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W Greninja and Keldeo can form a double water core to wear down one another’s checks to enable a sweep.

**Dual Screens Setters**: Dual screens support from the likes of Klefki, Latias, and Jirachi are very effective partners that provide as many safe turns as possible so that Feraligatr and its teammates can set up safely to break down an opposing defensive core with repeated hits. Furthermore, this can allow Feraligatr to either set up multiple Dragon Dances or give it more freedom to run Swords Dance.

**Speed Control**: Feraligatr’s disappointing speed tier requires faster Pokemon that can act as speed control. Pokemon such as Latios Darkrai, Iron Boulder, and Zarude Meowscarada are good at meeting this requirement in a hyper offense draft. examples you listed had good speed not the elite tier that would really be speed control

**Bulky Pivots**: Slow bulky pivots such as Alomomola Zapdos, Landorus-T and Scizor can help Feraligatr hit the field safely and avoid taking direct damage. Pelipper is noteworthy as a slow pivot that brings rain support and makes Feraligatr even more powerful. do not inhernelty need to be slow pivots its alright if they force out the right targets such as zapdos. if you want a slow one maybe do gking instead of lando.

Checks and Counters

========
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Feraligatr’s disappointing speed tier means that it can be outsped by stronger and faster Pokemon that can defeat it pretty safely, including Iron Valiant, Meowscarada and Ogerpon-W. These types of threats can all also outspeed Feraligatr with a speed boosting item, sometimes even if it is +2.

**Status Conditions**: Feraligatr hates status conditions that will negate its offensive capabilities and cause it to be worn down and become even slower, all preventing a sweep.

**Chip Damage**: All types of entry hazards are going to annoy Feraligatr as they chip its health due to a lack of reliable recovery.

**Bulky Physical Walls** Feraligatr can find itself checked by specific physical walls that don’t fear its coverage moves such as Alomomola, Rotom-W, and Sinistcha. Clefable, the former possessing Regenerator while the latter possesses Unaware to deny Feraligatr’s boosts from having any effect.

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[overview]

**Draft Order**: (Round 6 onwards)

**Price Range**: (5-6 points)

**Overview**: Compared to other offensive Water-type Pokemon in Draft, Feraligatr’s greatest selling points are its great set up setup options and its ability, (AC) Sheer Force. With both Swords Dance and Dragon Dance at its disposal, Feraligatr can become very powerful and rip through opposing Draft teams that don’t account for it. However, Feraligatr is often passed over due to its disappointing Speed tier, (AC) which can cause it to be outsped by a great deal of Pokemon, and because it is less versatile compared to other water types Water-types. Feraligatr usually only fits on more offensive Draft teams that can pair it with other stronger wallbreakers while appreciating its few handful of (replaced few with handful because few connotates a negative feedback) positive attributes.

Common Roles

========

**Dragon Dance Sweeper**: Feraligatr can use Dragon Dance to become both stronger and faster in order to defeat a wider range of targets. Furthermore, thanks to Sheer Force, (AC) it is free to use Life Orb without the recoil damage in order to break down an opposing team teams with its incredible power.

**Physical Wallbreaker**: Feraligatr can also focus on wallbreaking itself with Swords Dance to become significantly stronger in order to break more defensive Pokemon. This pairs especially well with Aqua Jet to ensure that Feraligatr can still defeat targets that will outspeed it.

**Defensive Pivot**: Feraligatr can gain create a great surprise factor as a defensive pivot by using its serviceable typing and bulk to support its team. Rather than going offensive, Feraligatr can attempt to go more defensive with moves such as Dragon Tail and Roar to faze phase out a dangerous sweeper while maintaining momentum with Flip Turn and decent enough power with Sheer Force.

Common Moves

========

**Primary STAB Moves**: Aqua Jet, Flip Turn, Liquidation

**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Dragon Dance, Agility

**Utility Moves**: Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Roar, Substitute

**Coverage**: Crunch, Earthquake, Ice Punch, Low Kick, Psychic Fangs, Rock Slide, Scale Shot, Shadow Claw, Stomping Tantrum, Superpower, Tera Blast, Trailblaze

Niche Moves

========

**Special Attacks**: Feraligatr can use Muddy Water alongside other special attacks such as Ice Beam to defeat physically bulky Pokemon by hitting their weaker Special Defense. However, this is highly situational as Feraligatr cannot boost its lackluster Special Attack stat.

**Curse**: Though Although Feraligatr wants to use one of its other moves for set setting up, Curse can give it greater physical bulk, (AC) which can make revenge killing it a harder prospect in rare scenarios.

**Counter**: On more defensive sets, Feraligatr can use Counter in order to take advantage of its serviceable bulk and remove KO an opponent.

**Facade**: This allows Feraligatr to have a useful move in the event of a burn.

**Rest**: Setup sweeper sets can use Rest as a way to regain health and create extra setup opportunity opportunities or capitalize on its boosts when it may have otherwise been revenged revenge killed. This can also remove cure a status ailment that a foe has given.

Common Items

========

**Life Orb**: Life Orb is Feraligatr's best item in conjunction with Sheer Force and it rarely wants to run any other item, since it already provides a strong boost to its offenses without any major drawbacks.

**Lum Berry**: In games where status is going to be used to deny Feraligatr’s wallbreaking, Lum Berry can provide a crucial turn of set up setup, (AC) and it also allows Rest to be a one time one-time recovery move.

Niche Items

========
**Other Damage-Boosting Items**: Choice Band and Mystic Water can be useful for Feraligatr in scenarios where it will be using moves that are not boosted by Sheer Force, such as Earthquake and Low Kick.

**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Feraligatr to outspeed naturally faster foes and deal immediate damage. This pairs especially well with Flip Turn to ensure that Feraligatr can keep maintain momentum even against a poor match up matchup.

**Resistance Berries**: Rindo or Wacan Berry can help Feraligatr set up in the face of a super effective attack or to deny a revenge kill from a faster foe.

**Sitrus Berry**: Sitrus Berry can offer slightly more longevity for Feraligatr to avoid a 2HKO from an opponent and can help Feraligatr faze phase out a sweeper by tanking surviving a hit.

**Mental Herb**: This can protect Feraligatr from moves such as Encore and Taunt, (AC) which that would otherwise annoy it.

**Assault Vest**: This boosts the defensive profile for Feraligatr and gives it better Special Defense while still maintaining offensive pressure.


Tera
========
Like most Pokemon with access to Dragon Dance, Feraligatr can benefit from being a cheaper secondary Tera Captain that can boost the power of its coverage moves. Tera Water boosts the power of its STAB moves to become a stronger wallbreaker. Tera Grass can flip the script against opposing water types Water-types and remove its weaknesses. It can use Tera Fire and Electric to both gain a coverage move to beat specific targets and to protect Feraligatr itself from status conditions such as burn and paralysis, (AC) respectively. It can also make use of some defensive Tera types to set up easier, including Tera Fairy, Tera Ground, and Tera Dragon, the latter being invaluable, (AC) since it boosts Scale Shot damage.


Draft Strategy

========

Feraligatr is a powerful wallbreaker but not strong enough to win by itself. It fits best on hyper offense teams that aim to stack as many dangerous Pokemon as possible in order to overwhelm an opposing team with constant offensive pressure.

**Stronger Wallbreakers / Sweepers**: More powerful offensive Pokemon will take a lot of the weight off Feraligatr’s shoulders. Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, (AC) and Dragonite are examples of powerful wallbreakers and sweepers that will either break down a team for Feraligatr to win more easily or benefit from Feraligatr’s own efforts. Pokemon such as Greninja and Keldeo can form a double water Water-type core to wear down one another’s checks to enable a sweep.

**Dual Screens Setters**: Dual screens support from the likes of Klefki, Latias, and Jirachi are very effective, (AC) as they partners that provide as many safe turns as possible so that Feraligatr and its teammates can set up safely to break down an opposing defensive core cores with repeated hits. Furthermore, this can allow Feraligatr to either set up multiple Dragon Dances or give it more freedom to run Swords Dance.

**Speed Control**: Feraligatr’s disappointing Speed tier requires faster Pokemon that can act as speed control. Pokemon such as Darkrai, Iron Boulder, and Meowscarada are good at meeting this requirement in a hyper offense draft.

**Pivots**: Pivots such as Zapdos, Landorus-T, (AC) and Galarian Slowking can help Feraligatr hit come on the field safely and avoid taking direct damage. In return, Feraligatr can help these Pokemon by pivoting itself out with Flip Turn.

Checks and Counters

========
**Faster Offensive Pokemon**: Feraligatr’s disappointing speed tier relatively less Speed means that it can be outsped by stronger and faster Pokemon that can defeat it pretty safely, including Iron Valiant, Meowscarada, (AC) and Ogerpon-W. Some of these Pokemon can outspeed Feraligatr with a speed boosting Speed-boosting item even if it’s at +2.

**Status Conditions**: Feraligatr hates status conditions that will negate its offensive capabilities and cause it to be worn down and or become even slower, all thus preventing a sweep.

**Chip Damage**: All types of entry hazards are going to annoy Feraligatr as they chip its health due to a lack of reliable recovery.

**Bulky Physical Walls**: Feraligatr can find itself checked by specific physical walls that don’t fear its coverage moves such as Alomomola, Rotom-W, and Sinistcha.

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https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/theuncultured.629845/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/jscurf.608304/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lustre.567354/

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