ZU Kabutops [Done]

[Toto]

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flip Turn
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Liquidation / Rapid Spin
move 4: Knock Off
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Battle Armor
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kabutops is an effective Choice Scarf user in the ZU metagame, compressing revenge killing with utility. Flip Turn retains momentum against checks like Tangela and Appletun whilst chipping down Throh and Gurdurr. Rapid Spin can be used to make Kabutops an emergency entry hazard remover, often as a second form of hazard removal. However, it means not running Liquidation, so the weaker Flip Turn becomes Kabutops's sole Water-type attack. Knock Off cripples checks like the aforementioned Tangela, which relies on Eviolite, as well as other Pokemon such as Gurdurr, Poliwrath, and Qwillfish. Battle Armor is marginally useful, but it's preferred to Weak Armor because Kabutops is already very fast, and faster physical attackers like Choice Scarf Sawk can just OHKO it. Swift Swim lacks use with rain's non-existent presence.

Kabutops is best used as an offensive pivot, with its typing providing useful resistances in Fire, Ice, and Flying. Thus, it can switch into Pokemon such as Rapidash, Articuno, and Altaria, pivoting out on the forced switch. This pivoting benefits offensive VoltTurn users such as Thwackey, and Rotom in addition to defensive pivots such as Uxie, Rotom-S, and Articuno. Furthermore, special wallbreakers such as Jynx, Skuntank, and Thievul appreciate Kabutops luring in Pokemon such as Tangela and Qwilfish. However, Kabutops is vulnerable to priority moves and other Choice Scarf users such as Thwackey, Rotom, and Sawk. Grass-types work as defensive teammates, dealing with Grass-, Fighting-, Electric-, and Water-types that handle Kabutops.

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

A Swords Dance set can be used, trading Speed and utility for more wallbreaking potential. However, this set is heavily outclassed by other Swords Dance wallbreakers such as Qwilfish, Thwackey, and Silvally formes. Choice Band is also useable, although this set faces tough competition from Lycanroc-N. More immediately, these sets disregard the main reason to use Kabutops in the first place: compressing revenge killing with utility. Suicide lead sets do offer an additional niche option, as Kabutops has access to both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin. They use Weak Armor and Focus Sash, allowing Kabutops to survive any attack whilst potentially getting a Speed boost.

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

**Grass-types**: Tangela and Appletun can both switch into Kabutops and OHKO it with their STAB attacks. However, they can struggle against boosted Stone Edge from the rare Swords Dance set. Thwackey can also revenge kill Kabutops thanks to its priority Grassy Glide.

**Fighting-types**: Sawk, Gurdurr, and Silvally-Fighting resist Stone Edge and can threaten Kabutops with their STAB attacks. Choice Scarf Sawk is faster than Kabutops, allowing it to revenge kill Kabutops reliably.

**Electric-types**: Choice Scarf Rotom and Manectric outspeed Kabutops and can OHKO with their STAB attacks.

**Water-types**: Poliwrath and Qwilfish are either immune or resistant to Kabutops's Water-type moves and Stone Edge doesn't 2HKO them. They can both have some form of recovery and can fish for Scald burns. Qwilfish can also cripple Kabutops with Thunder Wave. Poliwrath is especially notable, threatening Kabutops with its Fighting-type STAB attacks, denying its Flip Turn pivots with Water Absorb, and resisting Stone Edge.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toto, 485135]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [Jett, 226429]]
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[Tuthur]

Spoiler

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flip Turn
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Liquidation / Rapid Spin
move 4: Knock Off
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Battle Armor
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kabutops is an effective Choice Scarf user in the ZU metagame, compressing roles of revenge killing with utility. Stone Edge and Liquidation are chosen as Kabutops main STAB moves, thanks to their higher base power. fluff Flip Turn is used to pivot out, retaining momentum and chipping down against grass-types checks like Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun mention non grass-types like wishiwashi, throh, and gurdurr. Knock Off off cripples checks like the aforementioned Pokemon Tangela from is bulk boosting item in Eviolite, as well as other key items from Pokemon such as Gurdurr, Poliwrath, and Qwillfish. Rapid Spin is sometime used on Kabutops as an emergency hazard remover, often as a second form of entry hazard control. You gotta state somewhere in this sentence the opportunity cost of not running Liquidation and relying on flip turn as sole move. Also reorder moves order. Mention why Battle Armor is the best ability.

Kabutops is best used as a offensive pivot, thanks to its typing providing useful resistances in Fire, Ice, and Flying-Types. Enabling Kabutops to switch into pokemon Pokemon such as Rapidash, Articuno, and Altaria, pivoting out on the forced switch. Teammates that benefit from this are other offensive VoltTurn users such as Thwackey, Perrserker, and Cincinno, in addition to defensive pivots such as Uxie, Wishiwashi, and Rotom-S. Wishiwashi+Kabutops sounds redundant Furthermore, special wallbreackers such as Jynx, Skunktank, and Thievul appreciate Kabutops ability to lure in Pokemon such as Tangela, Eldegoss, and Qwilfish. On the other hand, Kabutops is vulnerable to opposing pivots and Choice Scarf users such as Thwackey, Rotom, and Sawk. Thanks to its mixed bulk and ability in Regenerator, Eldegoss is a solid teammate to scout what moves these Pokemon are going for. Sturdier checks include Tangela, Altaria, and Gourgiest-Super Gourgeist-XL for Thwackey and Sawk with Rhydon, Stunfisk, and Malamar covering Rotom. I think you could be more specific on the defensive teammates part, just say grass-types help dealing with grass, fighting, elec, and water-types that handle kabutops.

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

A Swords Dance set can be used, trading speed and utility for more breaking potential. However, this set is heavily outclassed by other Swords Dance breakers such as Qwilfish, Thwackey, and Silvally formes. In addition, to disregarding the reason to use Kabutops in the first place which is?. Mention CB and how it faces competition from Lycanroc. Mention suicide lead sets.

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

**Grass-types**: Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun can all switch into and OHKO Kabutops with their STAB attacks. Mention that they don't well boosted Stone Edge. Thwackey deserves a special mention for revenge killing with Grassy Glide.

**Fighting-types**: Sawk, Gurdurr, and Silvally-Fighting resist Kabutops rockRock-type moves and can threaten with their STAB attacks.

**Electric-types**: Choice Scarf Rotom and Manectric outspeed Kabutops and can OHKO with their STAB attacks.

**Water-types**: Poliwrath, Qwilfish, and Wishiwashi are either immune or resist Kabutops Water-type moves, whilst not being 2HKO from Stone Edge. They all have some form of recovery and can fish for Scald burns. Qwilfish can also cripple Kabutops with Thunder-Wave, whereas Poliwrath can threaten with its Fighting STAB attacks. Poliwrath needs to be highlighted here, Water Absorb is huge as it means Kabutops can't pivot at all and it also resists stone edge.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toto, 485135]]
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[Jett]

qc 2/2 - i hate tuthur for forcing me to do these

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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flip Turn
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Liquidation / Rapid Spin
move 4: Knock Off
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Battle Armor
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kabutops is an effective Choice Scarf user in the ZU metagame, compressing roles of revenge killing with utility. Flip Turn is used to pivot out, retaining momentum and chipping down against checks like Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun as well as Wishiwashi, Throh, and Gurdurr. (You don't really chip Tang or Elde since they can switch out against whatever comes in a heal up the chip due to Regen so would rephrase this so that it's retaining momentum against them, and chipping should refer to throh, gurd) Rapid Spin can be used on Kabutops as an emergency hazard remover, often as a second form of entry hazard control. However, this has the opportunity cost of not running Liquidation, relying on the weaker fFlip tTurn for sole Water-type STAB. Knock Off cripples checks like the aforementioned Tangela from is bulk boosting item in Eviolite, as well as other key items from Pokemon such as Gurdurr, Poliwrath, and Qwillfish. Battle Armor is Kabutops best ability as being immune to critical hits is superior than the lowered defense for speed trade Weak Armor offers, with Swift Swim not useful due to Damp Rock being banned in ZU.

Kabutops is best used as a offensive pivot, thanks to its typing providing useful resistances in Fire, Ice, and Flying-Types. Enabling Kabutops to switch into Pokemon such as Rapidash, Articuno, and Altaria, pivoting out on the forced switch. Teammates that benefit from this are other offensive VoltTurn users such as Thwackey, Perrserker, and Cincinno, in addition to defensive pivots such as Uxie, Rotom-S, and Type: Null Articuno (avoid using low ranked vr mons unless their specific niche is to deal with a certain Pokemon). Furthermore, special wallbreakers such as Jynx, Skunktank, and Thievul appreciate Kabutops ability to lure in Pokemon such as Tangela, Eldegoss, and Qwilfish. On the other hand, Kabutops is vulnerable to opposing pivots priority move (realistically not all pivots are that bad for Kabutops U-turn isn't the thing that threatens it) and Choice Scarf users such as Thwackey, Rotom, and Sawk. Grass-types work as defensive teammates, dealing with Grass, Fighting, Electric, and Water-types that handle Kabutops.

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

A Swords Dance set can be used, trading speed and utility for more breaking potential. However, this set is heavily outclassed by other Swords Dance breakers such as Qwilfish, Thwackey, and Silvally formes. Choice Band is also useable, although faces tough competition from Lycanroc-Midnight. These sets however, disregard the main reason to use Kabutops in the first place, which is compressing revenge killing with utility. Suicide lead sets do offer an additional niche set, as Kabutops has access to both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin. Weak Armor paired with a Focus Sash is used, allowing Kabutops to live any attack whilst potentially getting a speed boost.

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

**Grass-types**: Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun can all switch into and OHKO Kabutops with their STAB attacks. Although can struggle against boosted Stone Edge. Thwackey can also revenge kill Kabutops thanks to its priority Grassy Glide.

**Fighting-types**: Sawk, Gurdurr, and Silvally-Fighting resist Kabutops Rock-type moves and can threaten with their STAB attacks. (Mention Choice Scarf Sawk is also faster than it so it can revenge kill reliably)

**Electric-types**: Choice Scarf Rotom and Manectric outspeed Kabutops and can OHKO with their STAB attacks.

**Water-types**: Poliwrath, Qwilfish, and Wishiwashi are either immune or resist Kabutops Water-type moves, whilst not being 2HKO from Stone Edge. They all have some form of recovery and can fish for Scald burns. Qwilfish can also cripple Kabutops with Thunder-Wave, whereas Poliwrath can threaten with its Fighting STAB attacks. Poliwrath is an especially notable, as Kabutops cant pivot on it, in addition to resisting Stone Edge.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toto, 485135]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [Jett, 226429]]
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[Adeleine]

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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Flip Turn
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Liquidation / Rapid Spin
move 4: Knock Off
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Battle Armor
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kabutops is an effective Choice Scarf user in the ZU metagame, compressing roles of revenge killing with utility. Flip Turn is used to pivot out, retaining retains momentum against checks like Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun (RC) whilst chipping down Wishiwashi, Throh, and Gurdurr. Rapid Spin can be used on Kabutops as to make Kabutops an emergency entry hazard remover, often as a second form of entry hazard control. hazard removal. However, this has the opportunity cost of not running Liquidation, relying on the weaker Flip Turn for sole Water-type STAB. it means not running Liquidation, so the weaker Flip Turn becomes Kabutops's sole Water-type attack. Knock Off cripples checks like the aforementioned Tangela from is bulk boosting item in Tangela, which relies on Eviolite, as well as other key items from item-reliant (adding "item-reliant" is optional; just removing is also fine) Pokemon such as Gurdurr, Poliwrath, and Qwillfish. Battle Armor is Kabutops best ability as being immune to critical hits is superior than the lowered defense for speed trade Weak Armor offers, with Swift Swim not useful due to Damp Rock being banned in ZU. marginally useful, but it's preferred to Weak Armor because Kabutops is already very fast, and faster physical attackers like Choice Scarf Sawk can just OHKO it. Swift Swim lacks use with rain's non-existent presence. (as long as this makes sense? correct anything that doesn't)

Kabutops is best used as an offensive pivot, thanks to with its typing providing useful resistances in Fire, Ice, and Flying-Types. Enabling Kabutops to Flying. Thus, it can switch into Pokemon such as Rapidash, Articuno, and Altaria, pivoting out on the forced switch. Teammates that benefit from this are other This pivoting benefits offensive VoltTurn users such as Thwackey, Perrserker, and Cincinno, in addition to defensive pivots such as Uxie, Rotom-S, and Articuno. Furthermore, special wallbreakers such as Jynx, Skuntank, (removed bold on comma) and Thievul appreciate Kabutops ability to lure luring in Pokemon such as Tangela, Eldegoss, and Qwilfish. On the other hand, However, Kabutops is vulnerable to priority moves and other Choice Scarf users such as Thwackey, Rotom, and Sawk. Grass-types work as defensive teammates, dealing with Grass-, Fighting-, Electric-, (added three prior hyphens) and Water-types that handle Kabutops.

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

A Swords Dance set can be used, trading Speed and utility for more wallbreaking potential. However, this set is heavily outclassed by other Swords Dance wallbreakers such as Qwilfish, Thwackey, and Silvally formes. Choice Band is also useable, although this set faces tough competition from Lycanroc-Midnight. These sets however, Lycanroc-N. More immediately, these sets disregard the main reason to use Kabutops in the first place, which is place: compressing revenge killing with utility. Suicide lead sets do offer an additional niche set, option, as Kabutops has access to both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin. Weak Armor paired with a Focus Sash is used, They use Weak Armor and Focus Sash, allowing Kabutops to live survive any attack whilst potentially getting a Speed boost.

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

**Grass-types**: Tangela, Eldegoss, and Appletun can all switch into Kabutops and OHKO Kabutops it with their STAB attacks. Although can struggle against boosted Stone Edge. (you can either keep it removed or do "However, they can struggle against boosted Stone Edge from the rare Swords Dance set.") Thwackey can also revenge kill Kabutops thanks to its priority Grassy Glide.

**Fighting-types**: Sawk, Gurdurr, and Silvally-Fighting resist Kabutops Rock-type moves Stone Edge and can threaten Kabutops with their STAB attacks. Choice Scarf Sawk is faster than Kabutops, allowing it to revenge kill Kabutops reliably.

**Electric-types**: Choice Scarf Rotom and Manectric outspeed Kabutops and can OHKO with their STAB attacks.

**Water-types**: Poliwrath, Qwilfish, and Wishiwashi are either immune or resistant to Kabutops's Water-type moves, whilst not being 2HKO from Stone Edge. and Stone Edge doesn't 2HKO them. They all can have some form of recovery and can fish for Scald burns. Qwilfish can also cripple Kabutops with Thunder-Wave, whereas Poliwrath can threaten with its Fighting STAB attacks. Poliwrath is an especially notable, as Kabutops cant pivot on it, in addition to Thunder Wave. Poliwrath is especially notable, threatening Kabutops with its Fighting-type STAB attacks, denying its Flip Turn pivots with Water Absorb, and resisting Stone Edge.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Toto, 485135]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [Jett, 226429]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Finland, 517429]]

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[Tuthur]

https://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/pokemon/kabutops/zu/