Quality Control Focus Sash Chien-Pao [QC 0/2]

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[SET]
Focus Sash Attacker (Chien-Pao) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ghost / Stellar
Jolly Nature
- Ice Spinner / Icicle Crash
- Sucker Punch / Throat Chop
- Sacred Sword / Throat Chop
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
- Ice Spinner is an option for a solid STAB move that can threaten to OHKO Tornadus and Landorus, while also removing Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain and Indeedee-F's Psychic Terrain allowing it to use Sucker Punch, while Icicle Crash has a decent chance to flinch and avoids Rocky Helmet chip, which is helpful against Amoonguss.
- Sucker Punch is a solid priority STAB move that can pick off targets that are on low HP and faster threats such as opposing Chien-Paos and Pokemon under Tailwind. Throat Chop can be used over Sucker Punch for a reliable Dark-type STAB, since it doesn't mind Follow Me and can hit Pokemon setting up like Gholdengo, while also preventing Ursaluna-B from using Hyper Voice, and Incineroar from using Parting Shot.
- Sacred Sword is great coverage against Pokemon that resist or tank Chien-Pao's STAB combination or such as Incineroar, Kyurem under snow and opposing Chien-Pao. Throat Chop can be used over Sacred Sword, in exchange for a better matchup against Nasty Plot Gholdengo and redirection, while having a worse matchup against Kingambit, Incineroar, and opposing Chien-Pao.
- Tera Ghost makes Chien-Pao immune to Fake Out, dodging the flinch and preventing Fake Out from breaking the Focus Sash while also becoming immune to Fighting-type attacks from Iron Hands and opposing Chien-Pao. Tera Stellar provides a helpful power boost and can almost or guarantee an OHKO on Amoonguss, Ursaluna-B, and most Raging Bolt with Ice Spinner or Icicle Crash.
- Teams that have Chien-Pao have a lot of offensive pieces that benefit from Sword of Ruin lowering the Defense of opposing Pokemon, increasing the chances of OHKOs from offensive threats such as Ogerpon-W, Ogerpon-H, Iron Hands, and priority abusers such as Choice Band Dragonite packing Extreme Speed.
- Chien-Pao appreciates Pokemon that can offensively threaten and remove Fire- and Steel-types, such as Landorus, Ogerpon-W, and Gouging Fire, the latter providing Howl to negate Intimidate and making Chien-Pao even more of a threat.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/forkuser.625105/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/waffle2o2o.509849/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user3.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.104/
 
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:chien-pao: :focus sash:
[SET]
Focus Sash Attacker (Chien-Pao) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ghost / Stellar
Jolly Nature
- Ice Spinner / Icicle Crash
- Sucker Punch / Throat Chop
- Sacred Sword / Throat Chop
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
- Ice Spinner is an option for a solid STAB move that can threaten to OHKO Tornadus and Landorus, while also removing Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain and Indeedee-F's Psychic Terrain allowing it to use Sucker Punch, while Icicle Crash has a decent chance to flinch and avoids Rocky Helmet chip, which is helpful against Amoonguss.
- Sucker Punch is a solid priority STAB move that can pick off targets that are on low HP and faster threats such as (?) (I would speak about opposing Chien-Paos and Pokémon under tailwind here). Throat Chop can be used over Sucker Punch for a reliable Dark-type STAB (reliable why? Doesn't care about follow me or Pokémon like gholdengo setupping), while also preventing Ursaluna-B from using Hyper Voice, and Incineroar from using Parting Shot.
- Sacred Sword is great coverage against Pokemon that resist or tank Chien-Pao's STAB combination or such as Incineroar, Kyurem under snow and opposing Chien-Pao. Throat Chop can be preferred for a reliable Dark-type STAB while keeping Sucker Punch with the decline of Steel-types such as Kingambit. (I would rewrite it as something like this: Throat Chop can be played instead of Sacred Sword, worsening the matchup against Kingambit and Chien-Pao in exchange for....)
- Tera Ghost makes Chien-Pao immune to Fake Out, dodging the flinch and preventing Fake Out from breaking the Focus Sash while also becoming immune to Fighting-type attacks from Iron Hands and opposing Chien-Pao. Tera Stellar provides a helpful power boost and can almost or guarantee an OHKO on Amoonguss, Ursaluna-B, and most Raging Bolt with Ice Spinner or Icicle Crash.
- Teams that have Chien-Pao have a lot of offensive pieces that benefit from and abuse Sword of Ruin lowering the Defense of opposing Pokemon, increasing the chances of OHKOs from enabling offensive threats such as Ogerpon-W, Ogerpon-H, Iron Hands, and priority abusers such as Dragonite. Rillaboom and Kingambit (I wouldn't call Rillaboom a priority abuser and Kingambit isn't a good partner for Chien-Pao due to stacked Weaknesses) (I would put more emphasis though on Dragonite since it's the main partner)
- Chien-Pao appreciates Pokemon that can offensively threaten and remove Fire- and Steel-types, such as Landorus, Ogerpon-W, and Gouging Fire, the latter providing Howl to negate Intimidate and making Chien-Pao even more of a threat.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/forkuser.625105/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user2.102/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user3.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.104/
I would like to check it again after implementation, but good job just missed a couple things here and there :)
 
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