Kingler [QC: 0/2]

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Kingler is a destructive wallbreaker in ZU. A monstrous attack stat boosted by Sheer Force, a good Defence stat, and access to Agility or Swords Dance to further increase its Speed or Attack enables it to level entire teams given the opportunity. As a result, Kingler's presence makes it a tall task for Pokemon like Appletun and Tangela to switch in. Water immunities being uncommon also helps, easing prediction in which attacks to choose from. Kingler also has access to good coverage moves such as Knock Off, Body Slam, and High Horsepower, further troubling switch-ins. Although it possesses impactful power, its shoddy special bulk combined with its awkward Speed tier renders it difficult to enter the battle safely itself. Similarly, while Kingler possesses a variety of coverage moves, it cannot fit all of them in its moveset, adding difficulty when teambuilding. Kingler also competes with fellow wallbreaker Basculin, who is faster and has access to priority and pivoting moves in Aqua Jet and Flip Turn respectively.
[SET]
name: Agility Wallbreaker
move 1: Agility
move 2: Liquidation
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Rock Slide / High Horsepower / Body Slam
item: Life Orb
ability: Sheer Force
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Liquidation is its primary move for wallbreaking, inflicting immense damage with a small chance to decrease the opponent's defense. Knock Off cripples foes reliant on their items, such as Clefairy and Gurdurr, and is Kingler's strongest option against Water-immune foes like Poliwrath and Jellicent. Agility boosts its mediocre Speed into outpacing the entire unboosted metagame. Kingler's fourth move depends on what its team needs to cover against: Rock Slide catches Flying types like Altaria and Frosmoth, High Horsepower covers Steel and Poison-types such as Garbodor and Magneton, whereas Body Slam provides a safe and wide, yet weaker, option against foes like Poliwrath, in addition to having a decent chance to paralyze opponents.

As a late-game Agility sweeper, its checks need to be sufficently weakened, as its fragile special bulk can be exploited otherwise. A teammate such as Rotom-Fan or Uxie should use a slow U-turn or Volt Switch to bring it in the field safely, or when a teammate has fainted. Pivots like Uxie can set up Light Screen to artificially improve its special bulk, set up Stealth Rock, and/or use Memento to help Kingler set up, while A-Persian can pivot around via Parting Shot to help soften blows and help Kingler to break down walls like Carbink and Clefairy. Special attackers and stallbreakers like Skunktank and Appletun should be paired to deal with physical walls like Jellicent, Poliwrath, and Pyukumuku. In return, Kingler can utilize Agility to overwhelm foes such as Accelgor, Haunter, and Cinccino.

Swords Dance Wallbreaker
Kingler @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive / Jolly Nature
- Liquidation
- Knock Off
- Ice Beam / Body Slam
- Swords Dance
Ice Beam deters Grass-types like Appletun and Tangela from freely switching in. Swords Dance increases Kingler's already high stat into gargantuanly powerful levels, enabling it to weaken checks even further. The boost enables Kingler to OHKO walls such as Garbodor, Miltank, and Silvally-Ghost with Liquidation without the need for entry hazards.

Throughout the game, Kingler should set up Swords Dance on slower or chipped Pokemon. Kingler struggles to fend off Electric-type counters such as the Rotom formes and physically bulky Pokemon such as Cofagrigus, so teammates like Rhydon and Rotom are appreciated. Rhydon can set up Stealth Rock to whittle down Kingler’s checks, and Rotom can discourage bulky water types such as Jellicent and Poliwrath. In exchange, Kingler can overcome would-be checks such as Qwilfish and Poliwrath with Swords Dance, and take on specially bulky foes like Clefairy.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Kingler could opt for Superpower to crush Ferroseed and heavily dent Poliwrath, though Knock Off also being able to cripple Ferroseed and its wider utility usually makes the latter the better choice in more scenarios. A Choice Scarf set can be applicable to surprise leads, though Kingler is vulnerable to waste momentum and give opponents initiative to set up. Combining Agility and Swords Dance in the same set makes it an even more devastating sweeper, though it is more difficult to execute due to it possessing even fewer opportunities to set up both moves, and more limited coverage.

Checks and Counters
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**Grass-types**: Grass-types such as Appletun, Flapple, and Tangela are able to easily OHKO it with their STAB moves and halt its onslaught. However, these Pokemon must be aware Kingler could possess Ice Beam, which can OHKO the former two, and if the latter switches in, it could be defeated by Kingler using Knock Off followed by an Ice Beam.

**Rotom formes**: Though none of them are unable to switch in safely in fear of its power, all of the Rotom formes outspeed it and can proceed to OHKO it with their Electric-type STAB moves.

**Status**: Burns, sleep, and paralysis all cripple Kingler's wallbreaking and sweeping attempts effectively, making it significantly easier to set up on or revenge kill. Poison can also hinder it thanks to Life Orb recoil and reducing the amount of time it can spend on the field.

**Physically Bulky Pokemon**: Pokemon like Ferroseed, Pyukumuku, Poliwrath, and Qwilfish can soak up Kingler's attacks and retaliate by statusing it or walling it, taking away its wallbreaking capabilities.

**Special Attackers**: Kingler’s miserable special bulk motivates special attackers to threaten it out or KO it, allowing Pokemon such as Vanilluxe and the aforementioned Rotom formes to set up.
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I regret to inform you that this analysis plagiarizes an existing Kingler analysis for SS PU. You can find the PU analysis here, and you can find Smogon's rules on plagiarism here. The following is our investigation when comparing the two:

Reasoning

You write about nearly all the same characteristics that the PU analysis also covers, and the structure of each overview paragraph is the same bar the "tier's Water immunity Pokemon" point, which you flipped to be a pro instead of a con. While some points like the Basculin comparison and Kingler's low special bulk and "awkward Speed" (same word choice) also works for ZU, your sentences still cover the exact same reasonings and sometimes word choice.
Your writing for ZU is first and the writing from the PU analysis follows. The sentences with similar points are color coded, and you can see how the general points and structure of the two paragraphs are nearly the same:

There's also your set details paragraph that borrows heavily from the PU analysis. Your writing is first, and writing from the PU's analysis is second in bold. I also underline the word choices between the two that are either the exact same or are structurally identical:

Agility boosts its mediocre Speed into outpacing the entire unboosted metagame.
After an Agility, Kingler is able to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame.

whereas Body Slam provides a safe and wide, yet weaker, option against foes like Poliwrath.
Body Slam provides solid neutral coverage that covers nearly every Water-immune and -resistant Pokemon in PU, which makes it Kingler's safest all-around option, albeit weaker and less specialized than other coverage moves.

Knock Off cripples foes reliant on their items, such as Clefairy and Gurdurr, and is Kingler's strongest option against Water-immune foes like Poliwrath and Jellicent.
Knock Off is Kingler's best way to hit Jellicent while also being able to cripple item-reliant counters such as Tangela.

Additionally, some of the content is also off. This gives us the impression that you didn't read the rules nor have experience with the Pokemon you wrote about, which is also against the rules.

• OM analyses do not have an overview paragraph.
• Includes a Haunter mention, which was banned long ago.
• Wrongly wrote that Liquidation and Body Slam retained their secondary effects on a Sheer Force Pokemon.
• Implied that Alolan Persian could Parting Shot on Carbink, which runs Clear Body to stop Parting Shot.
• For High Horsepower, there wasn't a mention of Qwilfish, which is by far the most important target that coverage is meant for.

We looked into this extensively and found your analysis correlates too heavily with the PU analysis. Plagiarism is not always cutting and pasting, and in this case we believe your analysis copies too much of the structure and word choice from the PU analysis. Not all similar analyses of the same Pokemon are plagiarized, but your writing shows too many signs of plagiarism for us to be passive in this regard. I am locking this thread and reassigning Kingler.