ZU [GP 1/1] Swords Dance Glastrier

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Glastrier's defining role is that of a bulky physical wallbreaker. It has outstanding bulk for ZU; furthermore, its stellar base 145 Attack, Icicle Crash, and all the coverage it needs including Close Combat and High Horsepower make it extremely difficult to switch into. Lastly, Glastrier can boost its Attack even further with Swords Dance, allowing it to potentially OHKO or 2HKO almost the entire metagame. Defensive staples like Palossand, Snorlax, and Appletun are often forced to Terastallize or switch out versus it. This means that Glastrier's most reliable defensive counterplay is somewhat specific, being limited to almost exclusively both forms of Qwilfish, Regirock, and Orthworm, none of which have reliable recovery, and the latter two of which often require Terastallization to fully check Glastrier.

[SET]
Swords Dance (Glastrier) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Chilling Neigh
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ground / Water / Fairy
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Icicle Crash
- Close Combat
- High Horsepower

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Glastrier acts as a fearsome wallbreaker, leveraging its outstanding bulk and the threat of its attacks to create setup opportunities for itself. Close Combat takes on bulky Pokemon that resist Icicle Crash like Orthworm and Thick Fat Snorlax. High Horsepower is near mandatory to hit Qwilfish and serves as effective coverage for Fire-types. Tera Ground gives Glastrier a resistance to Rock while boosting the power of High Horsepower, while Tera Water and Fairy flip Glastrier's weaknesses to common offensive types like Fire and Fighting. 252 Speed EVs allows it to outspeed slower walls like Dudunsparce and Porygon2, while the bulk investment lets it take on powerful attacks from various threats in the tier.

Glastrier greatly appreciates teammates that can help bring it in safely like Jolteon, Qwilfish, and Mesprit, since it often has to take a hit after switching in due to its poor Speed. Glastrier also works well alongside other wallbreakers like Choice Specs Jolteon, Hisuian Decidueye, and Charizard, as they are able to break down checks like Snorlax, Regirock, and Qwilfish for each other. Due to its many weaknesses as an Ice-type, Glastrier loves teammates it can fall back on to support it; some of these teammates include Snorlax, Palossand, Regirock, and Qwilfish. As a wallbreaker, Glastrier does exceedingly well alongside Pokemon like Grafaiai, Oricorio formes, and Typhlosion that can often take advantage of the holes that Glastrier makes in defensive cores through removal of foes like Snorlax, Dudunsparce, and Porygon2.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Glastrier can opt to run Heavy Slam alongside Tera Steel over High Horsepower to hit light foes like Mesprit and Steel-weak foes like Tera Fairy Dipplin and Dudunsparce. However, trading out High Horsepower for Heavy Slam tends to be overkill, as Glastrier's standard three-move coverage sufficiently hits all relevant foes; furthermore, giving up High Horsepower makes it struggle more against foes like Hisuian Qwilfish. Glastrier can also consider running Substitute to ease prediction, but all of its coverage moves are near mandatory, and without Swords Dance, Glastrier can struggle to threaten the walls it needs to.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Faster Attackers**: Glastrier's awful Speed means it can often be a target for offensive threats like Typhlosion, Charizard, Passimian, and Hisuian Decidueye, though it often has to be chipped in order to not take them down with it.

**Qwilfish**: Both forms of Qwilfish can be quite problematic for Glastrier; regular Qwilfish resists every move except High Horsepower, which it takes relatively little damage from after Intimidate, while Hisuian Qwilfish sports better overall bulk due to its Eviolite. Furthermore, both can use Glastrier's massive HP stat against it with Pain Split, allowing them to trade positively with it and poison it with Barb Barrage or Toxic.

**Bulky Threats**: Iron Press users like Orthworm and Regirock can match Glastrier's setup and threaten it out, though they may at times require Terastallization to do so. Poliwrath and Snorlax can do the same with Bulk Up and Curse, respectively, though Snorlax must Terastallize first. Weezing is able to neuter Glastrier with Will-O-Wisp and can switch in fairly safely, only fearing boosted Icicle Crash.

**Status**: Glastrier gets worn down rapidly by poison from Pokemon like Qwilfish and Muk as well as burn from Pokemon like Weezing and Mismagius; burn also neuters its damage.

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Glastrier’s defining role is that of a bulky physical wallbreaker. Glastrier has outstanding bulk for ZU, even without investment just nix this part since it does run investment in HP; furthermore, its stellar base 145 Attack alongside Ice-type STAB and all the coverage it needs including Close Combat, High Horsepower, and Heavy Slam drop since we removed CB make it extremely difficult to switch into. Lastly, Glastrier can boost its Attack even further with either a Choice Band or delete Swords Dance, allowing it to potentially OHKO or 2HKO almost the entire metagame. mention some popular mons it has an easy time taking down. would also be good to mention how little pokemon can check it defensively and list the ones that do. this can emphasize how threatening of an offensive presence it is

[Swords Dance]
[Swords Dance] Glastrier @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Chilling Neigh
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ground / Water / Fairy
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Icicle Crash
- Close Combat
- High Horsepower

Swords Dance Glastrier acts as a fearsome wallbreaker, leveraging its outstanding bulk and the threat of its attacks to create setup opportunities for itself. Icicle Crash serves as a mandatory STAB option this statement is kinda not needed since it's kinda obvious, maybe just list a neat calc that icicle crash has at +2, while Close Combat takes on bulky Pokemon who resist its STAB Icicle Crash like Orthworm, Thick Fat Snorlax, and Poliwrath. High Horsepower serves as its final attack, being near mandatory to hit Qwilfish and serving as an effective middle ground attack into many different types of teams mention HHP can help Glast stay healthier since it avoids the bulk drop. mention what teras are for and what the ev spread is for

Glastrier greatly appreciates? teammates that can help bring it in safely like Hisuian Electrode, Qwilfish, and Mesprit, since it often has to take a hit after switching in due to its poor Speed. Glastrier also works well alongside other wallbreakers like Specs Jolteon, Hisuian Decidueye, and Charizard, as they are able to break down checks such as? Lax? Mesprit? for each other. Due to its many weaknesses as an Ice-type Pokémon, Glastrier loves teammates it can fall back on to support it; some of these teammates include Snorlax, Palossand, Regirock, and Qwilfish. Lastly, as a wallbreaker, Glastrier does exceedingly well alongside Pokémon like Bruxish BANNED, Oricorio formes, and Typhlosion, who can often take advantage of the holes that Glastrier makes in opposing defensive cores mention what glast can take down for them. might be good to mention checks for its hard walls like Weezing and Poliwrath

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Glastrier can opt to run a couple of other moves; namely Crunch to hit opposing Ghost-type Pokemon and Zen Headbutt to hit both Poison- and Fighting-type Pokemon super-effectively. However, both of these options tend to be overkill as Glastrier's standard three-move coverage sufficiently hits all relevant foes; furthermore, giving up High Horsepower makes Glastrier struggle more into opponents like Hisuian Qwilfish. Glastrier can also consider running Substitute on its non-Choiced sets delete to ease prediction, but all of its coverage moves are near mandatory and without Swords Dance Glastrier can struggle to threaten the walls it needs to. Glastrier can also use a couple other potential Tera types in Tera Fire and Tera Poison to be unaffected by the respective statuses, but this does mean it loses out on potentially having STAB coverage and the better defensive typings offered by its typical Tera types. i've never seen these used

Checks and Counters
===================

Faster Attackers - Glastrier's awful Speed means it can often be a target for offensive threats like Typhlosion, Charizard, Passimian, and Hisuian Decidueye, though it often has to be chipped in order to not take them down with it.

Qwilfish - Both forms of Qwilfish can be quite problematic for Glastrier; regular Qwilfish resists every move except High Horsepower, which it takes relatively little damage from after Intimidate, while Hisuian Qwilfish sports better overall bulk due to its Eviolite. Furthermore, both can use Glastrier's massive HP stat against it with Pain Split, allowing them to trade positively with it and poison it with Barb Barrage.

Orthworm - Orthworm is only threatened by Close Combat and can potentially setup on Glastrier with Coil if it's locked into the wrong move, though it must be wary of SD variants. Furthermore, it can use Terastallization to work around Close Combat, further increasing counterplay. remove the choice locked part and maybe just add Iron Press mons in general like Regirock since it does the same thing really. can maybe change it to bulky foes where you mention weezing and poli, and tera mons like orth, regi and snorlax

Status - Glastrier gets worn down rapidly by poison and burn; the latter also neuters its damage. poison and burn from what?

formatting here should be **Faster Attackers**:, etc

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Glastrier’s defining role is that of a bulky physical wallbreaker. Glastrier has outstanding bulk for ZU; furthermore, its stellar base 145 Attack alongside Ice-type STAB and all the coverage it needs including Close Combat and High Horsepower make it extremely difficult to switch into. Lastly, Glastrier can boost its Attack even further with Swords Dance, allowing it to potentially OHKO or 2HKO almost the entire metagame. Defensive staples like Palossand, Snorlax, and Appletun are often forced to Terastalize or switch out versus it. This means that Glastrier’s most reliable defensive counterplay is somewhat specific, being limited to almost exclusively both forms of Qwilfish, Regirock, and Orthworm, none of which have reliable recovery and the latter two of which often require Terastalization to fully check Glastrier.

[Swords Dance]
[Swords Dance] Glastrier @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Chilling Neigh
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ground / Water / Fairy
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Icicle Crash
- Close Combat
- High Horsepower

Swords Dance Glastrier acts as a fearsome wallbreaker, leveraging its outstanding bulk and the threat of its attacks to create setup opportunities for itself. Close Combat takes on bulky Pokemon who resist its STAB Icicle Crash like Orthworm, Thick Fat Snorlax, and Poliwrath poliwrath? it is also for ice types like cryogonal, avalugg-hisui and opposing glastrier, as well as regirock. High Horsepower serves as its final attack, being near mandatory to hit Qwilfish and serving as an effective middle ground attack into many different types of teams its mostly for fire-types; furthermore, High Horsepower serves as coverage that doesn’t reduce Glastrier’s defenses like Close Combat does, helping it remain healthy fluff. Tera Ground gives Glastrier a resistance to Rock while boosting the power of High Horsepower, while Tera Water and Fairy flip Glastrier’s weaknesses to common offensive types like Fire and Fighting. would like a mention on the spread, speed to let it outspeed slower walls, bulk to withstand some powerful attacks, and the atk evs to hit a jumppoint with adamant

Glastrier greatly appreciates teammates that can help bring it in safely like Hisuian Electrode its banned now, Qwilfish, and Mesprit, since it often has to take a hit after switching in due to its poor Speed. Glastrier also works well alongside other wallbreakers like Choice Specs Jolteon, Hisuian Decidueye, and Charizard, as they are able to break down checks like Snorlax, Regirock, and Qwilfish for each other. Due to its many weaknesses as an Ice-type Pokémon, Glastrier loves teammates it can fall back on to support it; some of these teammates include Snorlax, Palossand, Regirock, and Qwilfish. Lastly, as a wallbreaker, Glastrier does exceedingly well alongside Pokémon like Grafaiai, Oricorio formes, and Typhlosion, who can often take advantage of the holes that Glastrier makes in opposing defensive cores through removal of foes like Snorlax, Dudunsparce, and Porygon2.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Glastrier can opt to run a couple of other moves; namely Crunch to hit opposing Ghost-type Pokemon and Zen Headbutt to hit both Poison- and Fighting-type Pokemon super-effectively these two moves are too niche, remove them. If you want a niche coverage move, you got tera steel heavy slam. However, both of these options tend to be overkill as Glastrier's standard three-move coverage sufficiently hits all relevant foes; furthermore, giving up High Horsepower makes Glastrier struggle more into opponents like Hisuian Qwilfish. Glastrier can also consider running Substitute to ease prediction, but all of its coverage moves are near mandatory and without Swords Dance Glastrier can struggle to threaten the walls it needs to.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Faster Attackers** - Glastrier's awful Speed means it can often be a target for offensive threats like Typhlosion, Charizard, Passimian, and Hisuian Decidueye, though it often has to be chipped in order to not take them down with it.

**Qwilfish** - Both forms of Qwilfish can be quite problematic for Glastrier; regular Qwilfish resists every move except High Horsepower, which it takes relatively little damage from after Intimidate, while Hisuian Qwilfish sports better overall bulk due to its Eviolite. Furthermore, both can use Glastrier's massive HP stat against it with Pain Split, allowing them to trade positively with it and poison it with Barb Barrage or Toxic.

**Bulky Threats** - Iron Press users like Orthworm and Regirock can match Glastrier’s setup and threaten it out, though they may at times require Terastalization to do so. Poliwrath and Snorlax can do similarly with Bulk Up and Curse, respectively, though Snorlax must Terastalize to do so. Lastly, Weezing is able to neuter Glastrier with Will-O-Wisp and can switch in fairy safely, only fearing boosted Icicle Crash.

**Status** - Glastrier gets worn down rapidly by poison from Pokemon like Qwilfish and Toedscool as well as burn from Pokémon like Weezing and Mismagius; burn also neuters its damage. toedscool is a lc pokemon and its not statuing glastrier before dropping to icicle crash, youve got better examples

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[OVERVIEW]
Glastrier's (ASCII) defining role is that of a bulky physical wallbreaker. Glastrier It has outstanding bulk for ZU; furthermore, its stellar base 145 Attack, (comma) alongside Ice-type STAB Icicle Crash, (comma) and all the coverage it needs including Close Combat and High Horsepower make it extremely difficult to switch into. Lastly, Glastrier can boost its Attack even further with Swords Dance, allowing it to potentially OHKO or 2HKO almost the entire metagame. Defensive staples like Palossand, Snorlax, and Appletun are often forced to Terastalize Terastallize or switch out versus it. This means that Glastrier's (ASCII) most reliable defensive counterplay is somewhat specific, being limited to almost exclusively both forms of Qwilfish, Regirock, and Orthworm, none of which have reliable recovery, (comma) and the latter two of which often require Terastallization Terastalization to fully check Glastrier.

[Swords Dance]
[Swords Dance] Glastrier @ Heavy-Duty Boots
[SET]
Swords Dance (Glastrier) Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Chilling Neigh
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Ground / Water / Fairy
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Icicle Crash
- Close Combat
- High Horsepower

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Glastrier acts as a fearsome wallbreaker, leveraging its outstanding bulk and the threat of its attacks to create setup opportunities for itself. Close Combat takes on bulky Pokemon who resist its STAB that resist Icicle Crash like Orthworm and Thick Fat Snorlax. High Horsepower serves as its final attack, being is near mandatory to hit Qwilfish and serving serves as effective coverage for opposing Fire-types. Tera Ground gives Glastrier a resistance to Rock while boosting the power of High Horsepower, while Tera Water and Fairy flip Glastrier's (ASCII) weaknesses to common offensive types like Fire and Fighting. Maxing out its Speed allows (max would be jolly) 252 Speed EVs allow it to outpace outspeed slower walls like Dudunsparce and Porygon2, while the bulk investment lets it take on powerful attacks from various threats in the tier. The 16 EVs in Attack allow it to hit an extra jump point alongside its Adamant nature. (c&c standards consider this unnecessary)

Glastrier greatly appreciates teammates that can help bring it in safely like Jolteon, Qwilfish, and Mesprit, since it often has to take a hit after switching in due to its poor Speed. Glastrier also works well alongside other wallbreakers like Choice Specs Jolteon, Hisuian Decidueye, and Charizard, as they are able to break down checks like Snorlax, Regirock, and Qwilfish for each other. Due to its many weaknesses as an Ice-type Pokémon, Glastrier loves teammates it can fall back on to support it; some of these teammates include Snorlax, Palossand, Regirock, and Qwilfish. Lastly, as As a wallbreaker, Glastrier does exceedingly well alongside Pokemon Pokémon like Grafaiai, Oricorio formes, and Typhlosion (remove comma)who that can often take advantage of the holes that Glastrier makes in opposing defensive cores through removal of foes like Snorlax, Dudunsparce, and Porygon2.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Glastrier can opt to run Heavy Slam alongside Tera Steel over High Horsepower to hit light foes like Mesprit and Steel-weak foes like Tera Fairy Dipplin and Dudunsparce. However, trading out High Horsepower for Heavy Slam tends to be overkill, (comma) as Glastrier's standard three-move coverage sufficiently hits all relevant foes; furthermore, giving up High Horsepower makes it Glastrier struggle more against into foes like Hisuian Qwilfish. Glastrier can also consider running Substitute to ease prediction, but all of its coverage moves are near mandatory, (comma) and without Swords Dance, (comma) Glastrier can struggle to threaten the walls it needs to.

Checks and Counters
===================

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**Name**:
**Faster Attackers**: - Glastrier's awful Speed means it can often be a target for offensive threats like Typhlosion, Charizard, Passimian, and Hisuian Decidueye, though it often has to be chipped in order to not take them down with it.

**Qwilfish**: - Both forms of Qwilfish can be quite problematic for Glastrier; regular Qwilfish resists every move except High Horsepower, which it takes relatively little damage from after Intimidate, while Hisuian Qwilfish sports better overall bulk due to its Eviolite. Furthermore, both can use Glastrier's massive HP stat against it with Pain Split, allowing them to trade positively with it and poison it with Barb Barrage or Toxic.

**Bulky Threats**: - Iron Press users like Orthworm and Regirock can match Glastrier's (ASCII) setup and threaten it out, though they may at times require Terastallization Terastalization to do so. Poliwrath and Snorlax can the same do similarly with Bulk Up and Curse, respectively, though Snorlax must Terastallize first Terastalize to do so. Lastly, Weezing is able to neuter Glastrier with Will-O-Wisp and can switch in fairly safely fairy safely, only fearing boosted Icicle Crash.

**Status**: - Glastrier gets worn down rapidly by poison from Pokemon like Qwilfish and Muk as well as burn from Pokemon Pokémon like Weezing and Mismagius; burn also neuters its damage.

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well that's new lol
please add the @ before the item lol
 
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