ZU [GP 0/1] Coil Sandaconda

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[SET]
Coil (Sandaconda) @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dragon
Jolly Nature
- Coil
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot / Stone Edge
- Rest

[SET COMMENTS]
Sandaconda serves as a deadly late-game threat with the powerful combination of Coil, Rest, and Shed Skin. Earthquake hits most of the tier for at least neutral damage, while Sandaconda's other attacking move hits Pokemon that are immune to Earthquake like Bombirdier, Oricorio formes, and Braviary. Scale Shot allows Sandaconda to boost its Speed, outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame except for Hisuian Electrode at +1 and outpacing common Choice Scarf users like Kingdra at +2. Alternatively, Stone Edge doesn't drop Sandaconda's Defense and has more immediate potential to threaten Flying-types like Oricorio formes, Bombirdier, and Charizard. Rest acts as excellent recovery to keep Sandaconda healthy and combines well with Shed Skin to make it more reliable and help it serve as a wall in early- and mid-game scenarios, especially when combined with Tera Dragon to flip matchups on common Water- and Grass-types like Swords Dance Qwilfish and Hisuian Decidueye. Coil Sandaconda can opt to run less Speed in exchange for more bulk, with 224 Speed EVs and a neutral nature being enough to outpace base 110 Speed Pokemon at +1 and still outpace Choice Scarf Bruxish at +2; however, running these Speed EVs means it no longer outspeeds common Chlorophyll sweepers like Victreebel and faster Choice Scarf users like Mismagius and Floatzel at +2. Sandaconda can also opt to run Attack investment instead of HP, but this makes it more difficult to wall the foes it's tasked with setting up on late-game.

Levitate users such as Mesprit and Mismagius serve as potentially problematic Pokemon, since they are immune to Earthquake and can become fully immune to Sandaconda's moves, if it's running Scale Shot, with Tera Fairy, so specially bulky teammates like Hisuian Qwilfish and Snorlax as well as faster teammates like Hisuian Electrode can be extremely helpful to counteract them. Orthworm poses similar issues due to Earth Eater and Iron Defense, so wallbreakers that threaten it like Charizard and Typhlosion are invaluable as teammates. These two as well as Bombirdier and Glastrier also threaten Grass-types, which cause problems for Sandaconda pre-Terastallization. Water-types pose similar issues while also often carrying super effective coverage for Terastallized Sandaconda, so teammates like Snorlax, Poliwrath, and Virizion benefit it greatly. In return for all of these potential partners' help, Sandaconda turns many physical attackers into setup fodder. Some common examples of Pokemon completely walled by it late-game include Passimian, Hisuian Qwilfish, and Rhydon; after Terastallization, this list expands to include other offensive threats like Bruxish, Qwilfish, and Hisuian Decidueye.

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[Coil]
Sandaconda @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dragon
Jolly Nature
- Coil
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot / Dragon Rush
- Rest

[SET COMMENTS]
Sandaconda serves as a deadly late-game threat with the powerful combination of Coil, Rest, and Shed Skin. Earthquake acts as Sandaconda's STAB move of choice, hitting most of the tier for at least neutral damage, while its other attack is dedicated to hitting Pokemon that are immune to Earthquake. Scale Shot allows Sandaconda to boost its Speed, outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame except for Hisuian Electrode at +1 and outpacing common Choice Scarf users like Kingdra and Magmortar at +2 Speed magmortar is not a real pokemon. Alternatively, Dragon Rush acts as more reliable damage on Ground immune foes the main attrait of dragon rush is mostly that it doesnt drop defense. Rest acts as excellent recovery to keep Sandaconda healthy and combines well with Shed Skin to be more reliable this lets sanda act as a wall in early / mid game. mention tera dragon not only boosting the dragon move, but also letting sanda flip matchup against grass and water pokemon

Levitate users such as Uxie, Mesprit, and Mismagius serve as potentially problematic Pokemon since they are immune to Earthquake and can become fully immune to Sandaconda with Tera Fairy, so specially bulky teammates like Hisuian Qwilfish and Snorlax as well as faster teammates like Bruxish bru is slower than most of them and Hisuian Electrode can be extremely helpful to counteract them. Orthworm poses similar issues due to Earth Eater and Iron Defense, so wallbreakers that threaten it like Magmortar still not a real pokemon and Typhlosion are invaluable as teammates. These two as well as Bombirdier and Glastrier are also helpful to threaten Grass-type Pokemon, which cause problems for Sandaconda pre-Terastalization. Water-type Pokemon pose similar issues while also often carrying super-effective coverage for Sandaconda post-Terastalization, so teammates like Snorlax, Uxie, Kingdra, and Virizion help it greatly. In turn for all of these potential partners, Sandaconda turns many physical attackers into setup fodder. Some common examples of Pokemon completely walled by it late-game include Passimian, Hisuian Qwilfish, and Rhydon; after Terastalization, this list expands to include other offensive threats like Bruxish, Qwilfish, and Hisuian Decidueye.

Coil Sandaconda can opt to run less Speed in exchange for more bulk, with 224 Speed EVs and a neutral nature being enough to outpace base 110 Speed Pokemon at +1 and still outpace Scarf Bruxish at +2 Speed; however, this does mean it no longer outspeeds common Chlorophyll sweepers like Victreebel and faster Choice Scarf users like Mismagius and Floatzel at +2. Sandaconda can also opt to run Attack investment instead of HP, but this makes it more difficult to wall the opponents it's tasked with setting up on lategame. it can also opt for a rock move over scale shot / dragon rush, but it struggles into virizion and decidueye

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QC 1/2
 
great work baitwizard
[Coil]
Sandaconda @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dragon
Jolly Nature
- Coil
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot / Dragon Rush (after talking with the QC team, let's swap Dragon Rush for Stone Edge. More immediate power into stuff like Bombirdier and the corio's, while being able to hit tera fairy uxie. you can wall the mons you mention at the bottom with coil + tera)
- Rest

[SET COMMENTS]
Sandaconda serves as a deadly late-game threat with the powerful combination of Coil, Rest, and Shed Skin. Earthquake acts as Sandaconda's STAB move of choice, hitting most of the tier for at least neutral damage, while its other attack is dedicated to hitting Pokemon that are immune to Earthquake (such as?). Scale Shot allows Sandaconda to boost its Speed, outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame except for Hisuian Electrode at +1 and outpacing common Choice Scarf users like Kingdra at +2 Speed. Alternatively, Dragon Rush acts as coverage on Ground immune foes that doesn’t drop Defense. Rest acts as excellent recovery to keep Sandaconda healthy and combines well with Shed Skin to be more reliable and serve as a wall in early and midgame scenarios, especially when combined with Tera Dragon to flip matchups on common Water- and Grass-type Pokémon name just one of each of these types, waters are a bit tough because some carry dragon coverage like claw and kingdra. ig you'd say like sd qwil or like choice locked physical kingdra.

Levitate users such as Uxie, Mesprit, and Mismagius serve as potentially problematic Pokemon since they are immune to Earthquake and can become fully immune to Sandaconda with Tera Fairy, so specially bulky teammates like Hisuian Qwilfish and Snorlax as well as faster teammates like Alolan Persian (i wouldn't mention a-per if we're talking about the tera fairy levitaters, at least trode can taunt and not die if it gets attacked) and Hisuian Electrode can be extremely helpful to counteract them. Orthworm poses similar issues due to Earth Eater and Iron Defense, so wallbreakers that threaten it like Charizard and Typhlosion are invaluable as teammates. These two as well as Bombirdier and Glastrier are also helpful to threaten Grass-type Pokemon, which cause problems for Sandaconda pre-Terastalization. Water-type Pokemon pose similar issues while also often carrying super-effective coverage for Sandaconda post-Terastalization, so teammates like Snorlax, Uxie, Kingdra, and Virizion (kingdra seems like a weird mention here since it doesnt really help much into opposing kingdra and claw. i would just remove this one. maybe spd cram or poli is a better call) help it greatly. In turn for all of these potential partners, Sandaconda turns many physical attackers into setup fodder. Some common examples of Pokemon completely walled by it late-game include Passimian, Hisuian Qwilfish, and Rhydon; after Terastalization, this list expands to include other offensive threats like Bruxish, Qwilfish, and Hisuian Decidueye.

Coil Sandaconda can opt to run less Speed in exchange for more bulk, with 224 Speed EVs and a neutral nature being enough to outpace base 110 Speed Pokemon at +1 and still outpace Scarf Bruxish at +2 Speed; however, this does mean it no longer outspeeds common Chlorophyll sweepers like Victreebel and faster Choice Scarf users like Mismagius and Floatzel at +2. Sandaconda can also opt to run Attack investment instead of HP, but this makes it more difficult to wall the opponents it's tasked with setting up on lategame. Lastly, Sandaconda can opt for a Rock move over Scale Shot / Dragon Rush, but this makes it struggle more into Virizion and Decidueye (hisui).

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Sandaconda @ Leftovers (give this a set name)
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dragon
Jolly Nature
- Coil
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot / Stone Edge
- Rest

[SET COMMENTS]
Sandaconda serves as a deadly late-game threat with the powerful combination of Coil, Rest, and Shed Skin. Earthquake acts as Sandaconda's STAB move of choice, hitting hits most of the tier for at least neutral damage, while its other attack is dedicated to hitting Sandaconda's other attacking move targets Pokemon that are immune to Earthquake like Bombirdier, Oricorio formes, and Braviary. Scale Shot allows Sandaconda to boost its Speed, outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame except for Hisuian Electrode at +1 Speed and outpacing common Choice Scarf users like Kingdra at +2 Speed. Alternatively, Stone Edge acts as coverage on Ground immune foes that (mentioned this already. also, replaced this apostrophe in "doesn't" because it was curly (from ’ to ')-->) doesn't drop Defense and has more immediate potential to threaten Flying-type Pokemon like Oricorio forms formes, Bombirdier, and Charizard. Rest acts as excellent recovery to keep Sandaconda healthy and combines well with Shed Skin to help Sandaconda be more reliable and serve as a wall in early-(hyphen) and mid-game(hyphen) scenarios, especially when combined with Tera Dragon to flip matchups on common Water- and Grass-type Pokémon Pokemon like Swords Dance Qwilfish and Hisuian Decidueye.

Levitate users such as Uxie, Mesprit, and Mismagius serve as potentially problematic Pokemon,(comma) since they are immune to Earthquake and can become fully immune to Sandaconda with Tera Fairy, so specially bulky teammates like Hisuian Qwilfish and Snorlax as well as faster teammates like Hisuian Electrode can be extremely helpful to counteract them. Orthworm poses similar issues due to Earth Eater and Iron Defense, so wallbreakers that threaten it like Charizard and Typhlosion are invaluable as teammates. These two as well as Bombirdier and Glastrier are also helpful to threaten Grass-type Pokemon, which cause problems for Sandaconda pre-Terastallization Terastalization. Water-type Pokemon pose similar issues while also often carrying super-effective super effective coverage for Terastallized Sandaconda post-Terastalization, so teammates like Snorlax, Uxie, Poliwrath, and Virizion help it greatly. In return for all of these potential partners' help (apostrophe) , Sandaconda turns many physical attackers into setup fodder. Some common examples of Pokemon completely walled by it late-game include Passimian, Hisuian Qwilfish, and Rhydon; after Terastallization Terastalization, this list expands to include other offensive threats like Bruxish, Qwilfish, and Hisuian Decidueye.
(remove this space break and make it one paragraph)
Coil Sandaconda can opt to run less Speed in exchange for more bulk, with 224 Speed EVs and a neutral nature being enough to outpace base 110 Speed Pokemon at +1 Speed and still outpace Scarf Bruxish at +2 Speed; however, this does mean running these Speed EVs means it(clarifying a bit) no longer outspeeds common Chlorophyll sweepers like Victreebel and faster Choice Scarf users like Mismagius and Floatzel at +2. Sandaconda can also opt to run Attack investment instead of HP, but this makes it more difficult to wall the opponents foes it's tasked with setting up on late-game lategame.

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Adjusted accordingly ^^

P.S. I'm not super familiar with how AM checks are included in the grammar check credits, so some clarification on that would be wonderful. Thank you!
 
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1/1 GP Team done, credit me and adorluigi
note that Flying-types / Grass-types etc to mean Flying-type Pokemon and Grass-type Pokemon is accepted; the longer versionn isn't incorrect but changing a few can help with redability
[SET]
Coil (Sandaconda) @ Leftovers
Ability: Shed Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dragon
Jolly Nature
- Coil
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot / Stone Edge
- Rest

[SET COMMENTS]
Sandaconda serves as a deadly late-game threat with the powerful combination of Coil, Rest, and Shed Skin. Earthquake hits most of the tier for at least neutral damage, while Sandaconda's other attacking move hits Pokemon that are immune to Earthquake like Bombirdier, Oricorio formes, and Braviary. Scale Shot allows Sandaconda to boost its Speed, outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame except for Hisuian Electrode at +1 Speed and outpacing common Choice Scarf users like Kingdra at +2 Speed. Alternatively, Stone Edge doesn't drop Sandaconda's Defense and has more immediate potential to threaten Flying-type Pokemon like Oricorio formes, Bombirdier, and Charizard. Rest acts as excellent recovery to keep Sandaconda healthy and combines well with Shed Skin to help Sandaconda be make it more reliable and help it serve as a wall in early- and mid-game scenarios, especially when combined with Tera Dragon to flip matchups on common Water- and Grass-type Pokemon like Swords Dance Qwilfish and Hisuian Decidueye.

Levitate users such as Uxie, Mesprit, and Mismagius serve as potentially problematic Pokemon, since they are immune to Earthquake and can become fully immune to Sandaconda's moves, if it's running Scale Shot, (levitate mons aren't immune to stone edge) with Tera Fairy, so specially bulky teammates like Hisuian Qwilfish and Snorlax as well as faster teammates like Hisuian Electrode can be extremely helpful to counteract them. Orthworm poses similar issues due to Earth Eater and Iron Defense, so wallbreakers that threaten it like Charizard and Typhlosion are invaluable as teammates. These two as well as Bombirdier and Glastrier are also helpful to threaten Grass-type Pokemon, which cause problems for Sandaconda pre-Terastallization. Water-type Pokemon pose similar issues while also often carrying super effective coverage for Terastallized Sandaconda, so teammates like Snorlax, Uxie, Poliwrath, and Virizion help benefit it greatly. In return for all of these potential partners' help, Sandaconda turns many physical attackers into setup fodder. Some common examples of Pokemon completely walled by it late-game include Passimian, Hisuian Qwilfish, and Rhydon; after Terastallization, this list expands to include other offensive threats like Bruxish, Qwilfish, and Hisuian Decidueye. Coil Sandaconda can opt to run less Speed in exchange for more bulk, with 224 Speed EVs and a neutral nature being enough to outpace base 110 Speed Pokemon at +1 Speed and still outpace Choice Scarf Bruxish at +2 Speed; however, running these Speed EVs means it no longer outspeeds common Chlorophyll sweepers like Victreebel and faster Choice Scarf users like Mismagius and Floatzel at +2. Sandaconda can also opt to run Attack investment instead of HP, but this makes it more difficult to wall the foes it's tasked with setting up on late-game. (underlined part should be at the end of paragraph 1 - that's where to talk about alternative set options. paragraph 2 is for teammates)

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[filler until gp is done]
 
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Mostly ready for upload, I would like to hold off on actually uploading until Kingdra's suspect test is finalized though, as I do mention it once and would like to adjust that if it is banned. I'll go ahead and add another post here once that suspect test is finalized. Thank you!
 
BaitWiz said:
Mostly ready for upload, I would like to hold off on actually uploading until Kingdra's suspect test is finalized though, as I do mention it once and would like to adjust that if it is banned. I'll go ahead and add another post here once that suspect test is finalized. Thank you!
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implement gp, suspect ends in a lot of time, we can edit out Kingdra's mentions if it gets banned.
 
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