Gen6OU Choice Specs Hydreigon (QC: 0/1) WIP

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Hydreigon @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Draco Meteor
- Flash Cannon
- Fire Blast

Hydreigon is an amazing wallbreaker that has a vast amount of coverage moves varying from Fire, Dragon, Dark, Steel, Fighting, Water, and Ground. Pairing Hydreigon with Choice Specs allows it to break through bulkier Pokemon with Draco Meteor. Dark Pulse and Draco Meteor are its STAB moves, which does a lot boosted with Choice Specs. Flash Cannon is very useful for Clefable, while Fire Blast hits Grass-, Bug-, and Steel-type Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Scizor. Mega-Metagross makes a great partner with Hydreigon considering it resists some of Hydreigon's weaknesses such as: Fairy, Ice, and Dragon; while Hydreigon does the same for Metagross with Fire, Ghost, Dark, and being immune to Ground-type attacks thanks to Levitate. Rotom-W and Tornadus are also good options to form a VoltTurn core to allow Hydreigon to safely come in. The EVs on Hydreigon allows it to outspeed Kyurem-Black and Mega-Garchomp along with maximizing its wallbreaking potential.
 
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Remove "Flamethrower for Breloom or Hydreigon" Breloom isn't used enough to deserve mentioning and I assume you didn't mean to say hydra there, instead I'd say you can hit Magnezone and Ferro super effectively, along with checking a boosted Bisharp. Also state how Modest let's you always 2hko mixdef calm Clef

Yea and get rid of acro lul ._. I'll qc it
 
Running a Pokemon like Hydreigon as a lure with a partner that appreciates one of these pokemons being low like for example how Surf Hydreigon can weaken Heatran for Serperior is definitely possible and with the additional damage increase from Expert Belt it could be an effective strategy.
Unfortunately tho in this case its not viable owin to the insanly high usage of Tornadus-T sponging and eating any hit Hydreigon can try to go for and lose you momentum as you dont want to take that strong u-turn to overpredict an incoming Clefable for example that often Torn-T cores use.
This is why LO, Specs or even Scarf - Twave sets atm make way better use of Hydreigon as Draco Meteor does insane amount of damage even to AV Tornadus that is normally able to yum any other hit and Scarf or Twave options have alot of Utility and good speedtier.
The EVs are interesting, the set too but not in the current meta unfortunately.

Not approving
 
Gen6OU QC has raised issues about the quality of this, feeling it both doesn't read like a spotlight and cross references too much with the very outdated on-site analysis. This is discernible given the first sentence reads much like the first sentence of the analysis and how the examples you use are consistent with the on-site analysis's. Additionally, Kyurem-B's irrelevance in the current metagame but your mentioning of it, which follows the mention of said Pokemon in the on-site analysis, leads us to believe you used the piece as too much of a reference for your content here. As a result, this is being reassigned.
 
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