VGC Gouging Fire

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:gouging fire:
[OVERVIEW]

* Gouging Fire is a solid offensive support Pokemon with a good defensive typing. Breaking Swipe and Burning Bulwark give it a great matchup against physical attackers such as Rillaboom and Chien-Pao.

* Kingambit is one of the most prominent partners for Gouging Fire, because it prevents Incineroar from crippling Gouging Fire with Intimidate. Ogerpon-W fits well with Gouging Fire as well, as with Follow Me it can protect Gouging Fire from Ground- and Water-type moves, both of which Ogerpon-W resists.

* The Urshifu formes counter Gouging Fire, since they ignore Burning Bulwark and Breaking Swipe. Incineroar is also a good counter to Gouging Fire, cycling Intimidate and Parting Shot repeatedly until Gouging Fire is a sitting duck. Gouging Fire also struggles against special attackers like Flutter Mane and Landorus, which can hit it for big damage, the latter threatening it for an OHKO.


[SET]
Gouging Fire @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass / Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 20 Def / 68 SpD / 164 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heat Crash
- Burning Bulwark
- Breaking Swipe
- Howl

[SET COMMENTS]

* Heat Crash is a reliable way of dealing damage, and because Gouging Fire is so heavy, it will almost always do good damage against most of the metagame.
Howl can be used to take advantage of passive playstyles and partially negate Intimidate, and with a Speed Booster Energy, it can support the Kingambit and Ogerpon-W in return.

*252 HP and 20 Defense EVs allow you to always live two Wicked Blows from Adamant Urshifu-S, and 164 Speed EVs with a Jolly Nature allow you to and outspeed Adamant Choice Scarf Landorus-T and Chien-Pao once the Booster Energy has been consumed.

* Tera Grass is a good defensive Tera type for Gouging Fire, as it lets Gouging Fire resist Ground-type moves like Landorus's Earth Power and makes it immune to Spore, which is crucial since Burning Bulwark doesn't Protect Gouging Fire from status moves. Tera Fairy is also a good option as well, as it lets Gouging Fire resist both of Urshifu-S's STAB moves and take neutral damage from the majority of the metagame.

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:gouging fire:
OVERVIEW

* Gouging Fire is a solid offensive support Pokemon (The way this is phrased is fine, though I would personally go with something like "Gouging fire is a solid offensive threat with a great supportive movepool") with a great defensive typing (Why is its defensive typing so good? I would mention either good neutral typing, resistances to key threats, etc. It bears Breaking Swipe and Burning Bulwark, making it have a good give it a great matchup against physical attackers like such as Rillaboom and Chien-Pao. (AC) (Because? Elaborate on why breaking swipe combined with speed booster give it a good MU into these mons. Write another paragraph for good MU's) It can also support its teammates with moves like Howl. Howl can be used to take advantage of the Speed-Booster energy to support Gouging Fire's teammates, punishing passive play and partially negating the affect of intimidate.

* A good partner for Gouging Fire is Urshifu-R. Urshifu-R can sweep teams with Attack boosts from Gouging Fire, and Gouging Fire can remove Pokemon that give Urshifu-R a hard time, like Amoonguss (Im not going to axe the whole thing, but this flows super awkwardly, I think you can shorten this to one shorter sentence. I would phrase this like "Urshifu-RS and Chien-pao both benefit from Gouging fire, as Gouging can set up a Howl before either move and hit problematic Grass and Steel types respectively". Also added Chien-pao as Its commonly paired with Gouging and is in a similar vein to Urshifu-RS. If you can find space, I'd also consider mentioning Kingambit, which is very commonly paired with Gouging Fire). Another partner for Gouging Fire is Ogerpon-W. It supports Gouging Fire with Follow Me, and Gouging Fire can support it back with Howl or Breaking Swipe. (First, again with the full stops, just make it one sentence. I think Rillaboom could be a better mention here, as it has better synergy with Gouging's initial type and benefits more from the howl boost, but Ogerpon is also fine, just talk a bit more about follow me and good type combination.)

* Urshifu-R and Ogerpon-W are good counters to Gouging Fire since Urshifu-R doesn't mind Burning Bulwark because of its Unseen Fist ability, and it also doesn't mind Breaking Swipe because it always lands a critical hit via Surging Strikes. Ogerpon-W also doesn't mind Burning Bulwark since Ivy Cudgel isn't a contact move so Burning Bulwark isn't as effective, but it can be vulnerable to Breaking Swipe. (Urshifu is fine but I woulden't mention Ogerpon-W. You already said its vulnerable to breaking swipe, and it doesen't hit it with any super effective or even particularly big damage.)

* Gouging Fire struggles against most special attackers, like Flutter Mane, Landorus, and Raging Bolt. which ignores Breaking Swipe and hits back for big damage. (I think just mentioning Flutter is fine) It also has a bad matchup against most supportive Pokemon, mainly Incineroar. Incineroar, which can repeatedly Intimidate or and click Parting Shot into it, and with Gouging Fire can't not being able to do much back.
(I think you can merge the top 2 paragraphs into 1, a way to phrase it would be like "Gouging Fire struggles against Pokemon that can ignore its damage reduction effects, such as Urshifu-RS, Special attckers like Flutter Mane or supportive pokemon such as Incineroar." Then add a line for each one.)

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[SET]
Gouging Fire @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass/Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 20 Def / 68 SpD / 164 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heat Crash
- Burning Bulwark
- Breaking Swipe
- Howl

[SET COMMENTS]

* Heat Crash, Burning Bulwark and Breaking Swipe are all mandatory on Gouging Fire. Howl, as explained above, lets you support your teammates with Attack boosts. I think you should explain why Heat Crash, Howl and Breaking Swipe are mandatory, instead of say Flare Blitz or Dragon Claw.

* 164 Spe EVs with a Jolly Nature allows you to activate Booster Energy and outspeed Choice Scarf Landorus-T, and it also allows you to outspeed Chien-Pao with 252 Spe EVs and a Jolly Nature. The invested EVs in speed allow Gouging Fire to out speed most Pokemon in the format with the Booster-Energy, such as Chien-pao and Choice Scarfed Urshifu-RS, This allows allowing you to launch a fast Breaking Swipes and Howls into Chien-Pao and Landorus-T, giving both Pokemon Attack Drop and it breaks Chien-Pao's Focus Sash.
252 HP and 20 Def EVs allow you to always live two Wicked Blows from Focus Sash Urshifu-S with an Adamant nature, and 252 HP and 68 EVs allow you to always have the best chances against Flutter Mane. The Invested EVs in bulk makes Urshifu-S's Wicked Blow a 3HKO, and allows you to live a Moonblast from a Choice Specs Flutter Mane that has terrastilized into Fairy. (I trimmed this down, a lot of it isen't needed. Also not sure what you mean by best chances against Flutter? You live literally every way from my calcs. Also please mention another calc or two, this feels a bit bare bones)

* Tera Grass is a good defensive Tera-type for Gouging Fire, it lets you resist super effective Ground-type moves and makes you immune to powder moves. Tera Fairy is also a good option as well, it lets you become immune to super effective Dragon-type moves.
Both Tera Grass and Fairy are strong options, Tera Grass gives you a Ground resistance and a Spore immunity, while Tera Fairy has a better neutral match up into most of the meta game and gives an immunity to Dragon type attacks, as well as resisting both Urshifu-S's STAB combination
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Overall I think its a good skeleton of an analysis, just needs a bit more meat. Also please fix the sentence flow, the full stops are killing me.
 
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:gouging fire:
OVERVIEW

* Gouging Fire is a solid offensive support Pokemon with a defensive typing that can resist and be neutral to most threatning attacks from Pokemon like Urhsifu-R and Flutter Mane. Breaking Swipe and Burning Bulwark give it a great matchup against physical attackers such as Rillaboom and Chien-Pao, with a Speed-Booster Energy, Gouging Fire can repeatedly launch Breaking Swipes, weakening them further. Howl can be used to take advantage of Speed-Booster Energy to support Gouging Fire's teammates, punishing passive play and partially negating Intimidate. (Mainly trimming here, just drop howl into the Set Comments section.)

* Urshifu-R and Chien-Pao are good partners for Gouging Fire, since Gouging Fire can use Howl to support them, while Gouging Fire can remove problematic Grass-type Pokemon like Amoonguss or Rillaboom (Neither are that common tbh because of Wellspring, better to talk about Kingambit one of its most prominant partners, preventing ppl from slowing it down with Intimidate.). Ogerpon-W fits well with Gouging Fire as well, Follow Me can make it less vulnerable to attacks, and with its good Grass / Water typing and its ability Water Absorb, Ogerpon-W can patch up Gouging Fire's main weaknesses.

* Urshifu-R is a counter to Gouging Fire since Urshifu-R doesn't mind Burning Bulwark because of its Unseen Fist ability, and it also doesn't mind Breaking Swipe because it always lands a critical hit via Surging Strikes. Incineroar is also a good counter to Gouging Fire, cycling Intimidate and Parting Shot repeatedly until Gouging Fire is a sitting duck, while Gouging Fire can't do much back, since Incineroar can't remove all of the Attack drops from Breaking Swipe, and Heat Crash isn't doing that much when you factor in Intimidate. Gouging Fire also struggles against special attackers, like Flutter Mane, which ignores Breaking Swipe and can hit back for big damage. (Dex info, unnecessary. If you really want to talk about another counter It'd be Landorus.)

* With Speed-Booster Energy and Burning Bulwark, Gouging Fire can slowly weaken opposing physical attackers like Rillaboom, Chien-Pao (as mentioned above),

[SET]
Gouging Fire @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass/Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 20 Def / 68 SpD / 164 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heat Crash
- Burning Bulwark
- Breaking Swipe
- Howl

[SET COMMENTS]

* Heat Crash, Burning Bulwark and Breaking Swipe are all mandatory on Gouging Fire. Howl, as explained above, lets you support your teammates with Attack boosts. (You don't need to bring up stuff that don't need explaining, move howl part here.)

* 164 Spe EVs with a Jolly Nature allows you to activate Booster Energy and outspeed Adamant Choice Scarf Landorus-T, and it also allows you to outspeed Chien-Pao with 252 Spe EVs and a Jolly Nature. This allows you to launch a Breaking Swipe into Chien-Pao and Landorus-T, giving both Pokemon Attack Drop and it breaks Chien-Pao's Focus Sash.
252 HP and 20 Def EVs allow you to always live two Wicked Blows from Focus Sash Urshifu-S with an Adamant nature, and 252 HP and 68 EVs allow you to always have the best chances against Flutter Mane. (SpD is mainly the leftovers, recommend moving def up so activating booster energy makes sense.)

* Tera Grass is a good defensive Tera-type for Gouging Fire, it lets you Gouging Fire resist super effective Ground-type moves and makes you immune to powder moves (What relevant Ground and power moves?). Tera Fairy is also a good option as well, it lets you become immune to super effective Dragon-type moves as it resists Urshifu-S's STABs and is neutral against the majority of the metagame. (Pretty much nothing uses Dragon-Type moves.)

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:gouging fire:
OVERVIEW

* Gouging Fire is a solid offensive support Pokemon with a defensive typing. Breaking Swipe and Burning Bulwark give it a great matchup against physical attackers such as Rillaboom and Chien-Pao.

* Kingambit is one of the most prominent partners for Gouging Fire, because it prevents it Incineroar from slowing it Gouging Fire down with Intimidate, and Gouging Fire can make Kingambit more threatening with Howl. (Move this to the end of the paragraph, 'Gouging Fire can support the two with Howl in return' is an example.) Ogerpon-W fits well with Gouging Fire as well, Follow Me can make it less vulnerable to attacks, and with its good Grass / Water typing and its ability Water Absorb, Ogerpon-W can patch up Gouging Fire's main weaknesses protect Gouging Fire from Ground- and Water-type moves, both which Ogerpon-W resists. (A little awkward as a read.)

* Urshifu-R is a counter to Gouging Fire since Urshifu-R doesn't mind Burning Bulwark, and it also doesn't mind Breaking Swipe. (This can just be 'ignores Burning Bulwark and Breaking Swipe'.) Incineroar is also a good counter to Gouging Fire, cycling Intimidate and Parting Shot repeatedly until Gouging Fire is a sitting duck, while Gouging Fire can't do much back. (Obvious with your earlier claim.) Gouging Fire also struggles against special attackers, like Flutter Mane and Landorus, which can hit it for big damage, the latter threatening it for an OHKO.


[SET]
Gouging Fire @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass / Fairy (Space.)
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 20 Def / 68 SpD / 164 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heat Crash
- Burning Bulwark
- Breaking Swipe
- Howl

[SET COMMENTS]

* Heat Crash is a reliable way of dealing damage, because Gouging Fire is so heavy, it will almost always do good damage against most of the metagame, and Howl can be used to take advantage of Speed-Booster Energy to support Gouging Fire's teammates, punishing passive play and partially negating Intimidate.

*252 HP and 20 Def EVs allow you to always live two Wicked Blows from Focus Sash Adamant Urshifu-S with an Adamant nature, and 164 Spe EVs with a Jolly Nature allow you to activate Booster Energy and outspeed Adamant Choice Scarfed Landorus-T, and Chien-Pao.

* Tera Grass is a good defensive Tera-type for Gouging Fire, it lets Gouging Fire resist Ground-type moves like Landorus' Earth Power and makes you immune to powder moves like Spore, crucial as Burning Bulwark doesn't protect Gouging Fire from status moves. Tera Fairy is also a good option as well, as it resists both of Urshifu-S's STABs and is neutral to the majority of the metagame.

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[OVERVIEW]

* Gouging Fire is a solid offensive support Pokemon with a good defensive typing. Breaking Swipe and Burning Bulwark give it a great matchup against physical attackers such as Rillaboom and Chien-Pao.

* Kingambit is one of the most prominent partners for Gouging Fire, because it prevents Incineroar from slowing crippling Gouging Fire down with Intimidate. Ogerpon-W fits well with Gouging Fire as well, as with Follow Me it can protect Gouging Fire from Ground- and Water-type moves, both of which Ogerpon-W resists.

* The Urshifu formes are a counter to Gouging Fire,(AC) since they ignore Burning Bulwark and Breaking Swipe. Incineroar is also a good counter to Gouging Fire, cycling Intimidate and Parting Shot repeatedly until Gouging Fire is a sitting duck. Gouging Fire also struggles against special attackers,(RC) like Flutter Mane and Landorus, which can hit it for big damage, the latter threatening it for an OHKO.

[SET]
Gouging Fire @ Booster Energy
Ability: Protosynthesis
Level: 50
Tera Type: Grass / Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 20 Def / 68 SpD / 164 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Heat Crash
- Burning Bulwark
- Breaking Swipe
- Howl

[SET COMMENTS]

* Heat Crash is a reliable way of dealing damage, and because Gouging Fire is so heavy, it will almost always do good damage against most of the metagame,(RC) and .(AP) Howl can be used to take advantage of passive playstyles and partially negate Intimidate, and with a Speed-(RH)Booster Energy, it can support the two (unclear what "two" is referring to, be more specific) in return.

*252 HP and 20 Def Defense EVs allow you to always live two Wicked Blows from Adamant Urshifu-S, and 164 Spe Speed EVs with a Jolly Nature allow you to activate Booster Energy and outspeed Adamant Choice Scarf Landorus-T,(RC) and Chien-Pao once Booster Energy has been consumed.

* Tera Grass is a good defensive Tera-(RH)type for Gouging Fire, as it lets Gouging Fire resist Ground-type moves like Landorus's Earth Power and makes you it immune to Spore, which is crucial since Burning Bulwark doesn't Protect Gouging Fire from status moves. Tera Fairy is also a good option as well, as it resists lets Gouging Fire resist both of Urshifu-S's STABs STAB moves and is take neutral to damage from the majority of the metagame.(AP)

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