Quality Control Indeedee-F [QC 0/2]

[Pengu]

Indeedee-F @ Sitrus Berry / Safety Goggles / Psychic Seed
Ability: Psychic Surge
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 236 Def / 20 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Trick Room / Protect
- Helping Hand / Protect
- Psychic / Dazzling Gleam
- Follow Me

[SET COMMENTS]

• Indeedee-F carves itself a spot in the meta, being one of the only currently legal Pokemon having possession of Psychic Surge. Indeedee-F is also a great supportive option with access to redirection and speed control in Follow Me and Trick Room, respectively.
• To assist in its supportive capabilities, Indeedee-F can use items like Sitrus Berry to heal up, Safety Goggles to redirect Spore from Amoonguss, or Psychic Seed to boost its survivability, allowing it to survive powerful attacks such as Tera Normal Life Orb Blood Moon from Ursaluna-B.
• Trick Room gives Indeedee-F access to a crucial form of speed control, allowing allies like Hoopa-U and Ursaluna to move before their foes. Helping Hand helps boost the power of the aforementioned allies; Protect can be ran over either to help with positioning and defensive play.
• Psychic is Indeedee-F's standard choice of offense, OHKOing Assault Vest Okidogi and 2HKOing non-Assault Vest Iron Hands thanks to the Psychic Terrain boost. Dazzling Gleam, on the other hand, can be used to deal chip damage across the board, breaking Focus Sash on Pokemon like Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu.
• The given EV spread, with Psychic Seed, survives Earth Power from Landorus and has a 75% chance to survive Heat Crash from +1 Gouging Fire.
• Indeedee-F uses Tera Fairy to avoid getting KOd by powerful Dark-type attacks like Kowtow Kleave from Kingambit and Knock Off from Roaring Moon. Tera Fairy additionally gives Indeedee-F a useful resistance to Fighting-type attacks like Drain Punch from Iron Hands and Bug-type attacks like U-turn from Rillaboom, all the while providing an immunity to Dragon-type attacks like Dragon Energy from Regidrago.
• Indeedee-F is typically used on fast-paced teams consisting of Expanding Force users such as Hoopa-U and Hatterene, both of which appreciate Indeedee-F's ability to set Trick Room or use Follow Me to let them set Trick Room and punch holes in the opposing team. Alternatively, Indeedee-F can be paired with Iron Crown, using Follow Me to protect it as Iron Crown launches Expanding Force.
• Because of Indeedee-F's grueling Dark-type weakness, allies like Diancie and Iron Hands are greatly appreciated, as they can remove opposing Dark-types with Body Press and Drain Punch, respectively.
• Partners like Torkoal and Iron Crown are great allies for Indeedee-F, as they can threaten Rillaboom, who overrides Indeedee-F's terrain with its own, and Chien-Pao, who threatens to remove Psychic Terrain with Ice Spinner, respectively.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[qrChar]

Very good stuff, just a few small comments really

Indeedee-F carves itself a spot in the meta, being one of the only currently legal Pokemon having possession of Psychic Surge. Indeedee-F is also a great supportive option with access to redirection and speed control in Follow Me and Trick Room, respectively.

I think it's fair to say we very rarely see indeedee without an eforce partner. So it might be good to sell the reader early, on psychic surge enabling eforce since that's the key factors driving its usage. Could honestly be as simple as "[...] having possession of Psychic Surge, enabling a partner's Expanding Force to become a devestatingly powerful spread move." I trust you can think of a good way to include that mention.

The given EV spread, with Psychic Seed, survives Earth Power from Landorus and has a 75% chance to survive Heat Crash from +1 Gouging Fire.

I assume you meant that it survives the 2hko from Lando EP
252 SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Landorus Earth Power vs. +1 252 HP / 20 SpD Indeedee-F: 142-169 (41.2 - 49.1%)

and for the physical example, I think when you did the calc, it added atk boost protosynthesis because of the +1, instead of being speed booster. There doesn't need to be a relevant benchmark here though, we can just say we're maximizing its physical defensive capabilities.
+1 168 Atk Gouging Fire Heat Crash (120 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Indeedee-F: 237-280 (68.8 - 81.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Because of Indeedee-F's grueling Dark-type weakness, allies like Diancie and Iron Hands are greatly appreciated, as they can remove opposing Dark-types with Body Press and Drain Punch, respectively.

Here you could also include that their bulk and typing allow them to comfortably switch in on the dark type attacks, allowing indeedee to be preserved to reset terrain later. I think that flows nicely into the following point about beating rilla/pao as another factor in keeping terrain active.