GG I'm not a Furry (Meowscarada) [QC 2/2] [GP 1/1]

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Offensive Pivot (Atk) (Meowscarada) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability: Protean
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flower Trick
- Knock Off
- Triple Axel
- U-turn

[SET COMMENTS]
Meowscarada is a powerful offensive pivot, utilizing a combination of Protean and high-powered attacks to thrive in the metagame. With an Attack donation, Meowscarada gains a much-needed power boost alongside its naturally high Speed, allowing it to hit hard and fast. Move-wise, Flower Trick and Knock Off are Meowscarada's most spammable moves, while Triple Axel nails would-be switch-ins such as Landorus-T and Mandibuzz. U-turn allows Meowscarada to create momentum to exploit the offensive pressure it is able to apply. Heavy-Duty Boots allows Meowscarada to pivot in multiple times throughout the game, while Choice Band boosts Meowscarada's power to higher levels, and Choice Scarf improves Meowscarada's speed control potential. Tera Grass is chosen to amplify Flower Trick to even higher levels, although Tera Dark is still a viable option to boost Knock Off.

High Attack gods like Calyrex-I and Groudon are excellent for Meowscarada to inherit from. Furthermore, Calyrex-I and Groudon both appreciate Meowscarada's ability to break bulky Water-types such as Rotom-W, while Groudon also breaks Steel-types such as Heatran in turn. However, other Gods such as Zacian-C and Ho-Oh are acceptable alternatives, as they grant small but still noticeable Attack increases. Though Meowscarada functions as a powerful offensive pivot, it is quite frail, thus making defensive pivots such as Rotom-W, Landorus-T, and Pecharunt highly appreciated to allow Meowscarada to enter the field. Meowscarada also appreciates special attackers such as Iron Moth, Hisuian Electrode, and Landorus to break opposing physical walls such as Skarmory, Moltres, and Clefable as well as Pokemon walling all of its coverage like Zacian-C, with the former two also forming a VoltTurn core with Meowscarada. Lastly, Stealth Rock and Spikes users such as Skarmory and Ting-Lu are advantageous, as Meowscarada is able to remove foes' Heavy-Duty Boots with Knock Off and accumulate chip damage through entry hazards and U-turn.

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[SET]
Offensive Pivot (Atk) (Meowscarada) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Choice Band
Ability: Protean
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flower Trick
- Triple Axel
- Knock Off
- U-turn

[SET COMMENTS]
Meowscarada is a powerful offensive pivot utilizing a combination of Protean and high-powered attacks to thrive in the metagame. Heavy-Duty Boots allows Meowscarada to pivot in multiple times throughout the game, while Choice Band boosts Meowscarada's power to higher levels. With an Attack donation, Meowscarada gains a much needed power boost alongside its naturally high speed, allowing it to hit hard and fast. Move-wise, Flower Trick and Knock Off are Meowscarada's most spammable moves, while Triple Axel nails would-be switch-ins such as Landorus-T and Mandibuzz. U-turn allows Meowscarada to create momentum to exploit the offensive pressure it is able to apply. Tera Grass is chosen to amplify Flower Trick to even higher levels, although Tera Dark and Tera Ice are both viable options. Would probably remove Tera Ice here since the damage boost it applies to Triple Axel is the same damage boost as Protean would give it, while not using up your Tera. Also, it makes cb sets weak to rocks, which significantly hinders Meowscarada's ability to come in and throw off attacks frequently

Calyrex-Ice and Groudon are both excellent gods for Meowscarada to inherit from, as they both grant it large Attack increases. Furthermore, Calyrex-Ice and Groudon both appreciate Meowscarada's ability to break bulky Water-types such as Rotom-Wash and Alomomola, while Groudon also breaks Steel-types such as Heatran in turn. However, other Gods such as Zacian-Crowned and Arceus I'd probably mention Ho-Oh here instead of Arceus (which I'm assuming is ekiller, please clarify if it's not), as ekiller teams don't really need Meowscarada's speed with ekiller already being a powerful revenge killer, and ekiller teams usually go for a more hyper-aggressive team-style, which doesn't fit with what Meowscarada tries to do. On the other hand, Meowscarada fits very well with Ho-Oh fat teams, as it appreciates the fairly significant attack bonus while being a powerful wincon with knock + u turn spam with hazards up are acceptable alternatives, as they grant small but still noticeable Attack increases. Though Meowscarada functions as a powerful offensive pivot, it is quite frail, thus making defensive pivots such as Rotom-Wash, Alomomola, and Pecharunt highly appreciated to allow Meowscarada to enter the field. Meowscarada also appreciates special attackers such as Landorus and Iron Moth to break opposing physical walls, as well as Pokemon walling all of its coverage like Zacian-Crowned. Wording here is confusing, and I'd probably remove Landorus as it doesn't help much with the common physical walls that check Meowscarada, like Skarmory / Zapdos / Moltres, and it doesn't help switching in to Zacian-Crowned. Also, other pivots such as Zapdos and Electrode-Hisui are welcome to form a Volt-Turn core with Meowscarada. Isn't this a little redundant as you have already mentioned pivots earlier? If you really want to specifically distinguish between defensive and offensive ones, then I'd remove Zapdos. Additionally, you should definetly mention hazard setters like Landorus-T, Skarmory and Ting-Lu here, as a large part of Meowscarada's viability comes from it being able to knock off boots and accumulate chip with hazards + u turn over time.

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Let me know if you have any questions, and please ping me when it's implemented and I'll give another look at it before stamping the 1st QC.
 
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[SET]
Offensive Pivot (Atk) (Meowscarada) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Choice Band / Choice Scarf a large draw is meow's item flexibility, not sure why this wasnt on original set
Ability: Protean
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flower Trick
- Triple Axel
- Knock Off
- U-turn

[SET COMMENTS]
Meowscarada is a powerful offensive pivot utilizing a combination of Protean and high-powered attacks to thrive in the metagame. Heavy-Duty Boots allows Meowscarada to pivot in multiple times throughout the game, while Choice Band boosts Meowscarada's power to higher levels and Choice Scarf improves Meowscarada's speed control potential. With an Attack donation, Meowscarada gains a much needed power boost alongside its naturally high speed, allowing it to hit hard and fast. Move-wise, Flower Trick and Knock Off are Meowscarada's most spammable moves, while Triple Axel nails would-be switch-ins such as Landorus-T and Mandibuzz. U-turn allows Meowscarada to create momentum to exploit the offensive pressure it is able to apply. Tera Grass is chosen to amplify Flower Trick to even higher levels, although Tera Dark is still a viable option to boost Knock Off.

High Attack gods like Calyrex-Ice and Groudon are both excellent gods for Meowscarada to inherit from, as they both grant it large Attack increases currently slightly misleading as ray/ndm/zek are also good partners for it; the next sentence goes into detail why those two in particular are helpful. Furthermore, Calyrex-Ice and Groudon both appreciate Meowscarada's ability to break bulky Water-types such as Rotom-Wash and Alomomola, while Groudon also breaks Steel-types such as Heatran in turn mention ndm too somewhere here imo, not necessary tho. However, other Gods such as Zacian-Crowned and Ho-Oh are acceptable alternatives, as they grant small but still noticeable Attack increases. Though Meowscarada functions as a powerful offensive pivot, it is quite frail, thus making defensive pivots such as Rotom-Wash, Alomomola Landorus-T banned now, and Pecharunt highly appreciated to allow Meowscarada to enter the field. Meowscarada also appreciates special attackers such as Iron Moth, Hisuian Electrode, and Landorus to break opposing physical walls such as Skarmory, Moltres, and Clefable as well as Pokemon walling all of its coverage like Zacian-Crowned, with the former two also forming a Volt-Turn core with Meowscarada. Also, more offensive pivots like Electrode-Hisui are welcome to form a Volt-Turn core with Meowscarada. combined Lastly, Stealtth Rock and Spikes users such as Skarmory and Ting-Lu are advantageous, as Meowscarada is able to remove opponents' Heavy-Duty Boots with Knock Off and accumulate chip damage through hazards and U-turn.

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[SET]
Offensive Pivot (Atk) (Meowscarada) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Choice Band / Choice Scarf
Ability: Protean
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Flower Trick
- Knock Off
- Triple Axel
- U-turn

[SET COMMENTS]
Meowscarada is a powerful offensive pivot, (AC) utilizing a combination of Protean and high-powered attacks to thrive in the metagame. With an Attack donation, Meowscarada gains a much-needed (AH) power boost alongside its naturally high speed Speed, allowing it to hit hard and fast. Move-wise, Flower Trick and Knock Off are Meowscarada's most spammable moves, while Triple Axel nails would-be switch-ins such as Landorus-T and Mandibuzz. U-turn allows Meowscarada to create momentum to exploit the offensive pressure it is able to apply. (Item choices should be explained after going over the moves, so I moved the sentence accordingly.) Heavy-Duty Boots allows Meowscarada to pivot in multiple times throughout the game, while Choice Band boosts Meowscarada's power to higher levels, (AC) and Choice Scarf improves Meowscarada's speed control potential. Tera Grass is chosen to amplify Flower Trick to even higher levels, although Tera Dark is still a viable option to boost Knock Off.

High Attack gods like Calyrex-Ice and Groudon are excellent for Meowscarada to inherit from. Furthermore, Calyrex-Ice and Groudon both appreciate Meowscarada's ability to break bulky Water-types such as Rotom-Wash, while Groudon also breaks Steel-types such as Heatran in turn. However, other Gods such as Zacian-C and Ho-Oh are acceptable alternatives, as they grant small but still noticeable Attack increases. Though Meowscarada functions as a powerful offensive pivot, it is quite frail, thus making defensive pivots such as Rotom-W, Landorus-T, and Pecharunt highly appreciated to allow Meowscarada to enter the field. Meowscarada also appreciates special attackers such as Iron Moth, Hisuian Electrode, and Landorus to break opposing physical walls such as Skarmory, Moltres, and Clefable as well as Pokemon walling all of its coverage like Zacian-Crowned, with the former two also forming a Volt-Turn VoltTurn core with Meowscarada. Lastly, Stealth Rock and Spikes users such as Skarmory and Ting-Lu are advantageous, as Meowscarada is able to remove opponents' foes' Heavy-Duty Boots with Knock Off and accumulate chip damage through entry hazards and U-turn.

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