Klinklang [QC 0/2]

[jcbc]

[SET]
name: Shift Gear sweeper
move 1: Shift Gear
move 2: Gear Grind
move 3: Wild Charge
move 4: Substitute / Protect
item: Leftovers
ability: Clear Body
nature: Adamant
evs: 100 HP / 252 Atk/ 156 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Klinklang is a very unique and threatning sweeper because of its access to Shift Gear and a solid stab and coverage moves. Its Steel typing gives it a few useful resistances, which, when paired with its good natural bulk, allows it to set up on many threatening Pokemon such as Garbodor, Eldegoss or Abomasnow. The EV's given allows Klinklang to have as much bulk as possible aswell as outspeeding pokemon with base 105 and after a Shift Gear it makes it a very fearsome sweeper, allowing it to surpass all non scarfed and even scarfed pokemons such as Rapidash or Togedemaru. Shift Gear boosts Klinklang's Attack by one stage and its Speed by 2 stages, making it a very fearsome sweeper. Gear Grind is Klinklang's main STAB move and the move to prioritise when attacking; thanks to being a double hit move it allows Klinklang to kill easier Substitute or Focus Sash users such as Cursola or Butterfree. Wild Charge is able to do a good amount of damage to Pokemon that resist Gear Grind, such as Wishiwashi and Perrserker, when boosted. Protect is also an option to scout for moves and also get one extra turn of leftovers. Substitute is a phenomenal move when predicting an status move allowing Klinklang to boost versus Pokemon such as Ferroseed or Eldegoss. Is it a good advice to try to preserve Klinklang until mid/late-game for having its common checks chipped down. However, Klinklang has issues in breaking common threats in the metagame. For this reason Klinklang apreciates being teamed with pokemons such as Garbodor who can set up Spikes and Toxic Spikes, which force common answers to Klinklang to take a lot of damage, and can also chip common checks to klinklang such as Togedemaru or Toxicroak. Wishiwashi is incredibly bulky and able to take on most Fire- and Ground-types, which are Pokemon that Klinklang generally struggles against. Flapple, Whimsicott can pressure Pokemon that resist Steel-types like Lanturn, Rotom-Fan and Stunfisk-Galar. Persian-Alola can easily bring in Klinklang with U-turn or Parting Shot. It can also lure in Stunfisk-Galar and Toxicroak and remove their items with Knock Off.
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[jcbc]

Ready to QC!

 

[Rabia]

Klinklang @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Gear Grind
- Wild Charge
- Substitute / Protect

this should be the set, speed is for +1 base 105s, Protect is for scouting + Lefties

me or someone else will look at this later

 

[jcbc]

Klinklang @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Gear Grind
- Wild Charge
- Substitute / Protect

this should be the set, speed is for +1 base 105s, Protect is for scouting + Lefties

me or someone else will look at this later

implemented

 

[Rabia]

qc

[SET]
name: Shift Gear sweeper
move 1: Shift Gear
move 2: Gear Grind
move 3: Wild Charge
move 4: Substitute / Protect (we kept debating in QC about what to do with the last slot. we came to the conclusion that leaving just Substitute here and then giving very strong mentions down below to Protect and Magnet Rise would be the best way to satisfy all parties)
item: Leftovers
ability: Clear Body
nature: Adamant
evs: 100 HP / 252 Atk/ 156 Spe 100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Klinklang is a very unique and threatning threatening sweeper because of its access to Shift Gear and a solid stab STAB and coverage moves. Its Steel typing gives it a few useful resistances, which, when paired with its good natural bulk, allows it to set up on many threatening Pokemon such as Garbodor, Eldegoss or Flapple, and (I wouldn't really call Eldegoss "threatening"; I would call Flapple that, however.) Abomasnow. The EV's given allows Klinklang to have as much bulk as possible aswell as outspeeding pokemon with base 105 and after a Shift Gear it makes it a very fearsome sweeper, allowing it to surpass all non scarfed and even scarfed pokemons such as Rapidash or Togedemaru. Shift Gear boosts Klinklang's Attack by one stage and its Speed by 2 stages, making it a very fearsome sweeper. (Shift Gear stuff is fluff, and you cover anything important about the move with the EVs sentence anyhow) Gear Grind is Klinklang's main STAB move and the move to prioritise when attacking; thanks to being a double hit move it allows Klinklang to kill easier Substitute or Focus Sash users such as Cursola or Butterfree. (also not really important to talk about) Wild Charge is able to do a good amount of damage to Pokemon that resist Gear Grind, such as Wishiwashi and Perrserker, when boosted. (eh, I'd replace the Perrserker mention with Rotom-S and Silvally-Water) Protect is also an option to scout for moves and also get one extra turn of leftovers. Substitute is a phenomenal move when predicting an status move allowing Klinklang to boost versus Pokemon such as Ferroseed (Klinklang always loses to Ferroseed, find a better example) or Eldegoss. Alternatively, Protect lets Klinklang scout for moves <from what?> and get an extra turn of Leftovers recovery. <insert here a sentence about Magnet Rise> The EVs allow Klinklang to have as much bulk as possible while also outspeeding base 105 Speed Pokemon such as Rapidash and common Choice Scarf users like Togedemaru after a Shift Gear boost. (moving the mention of EVs here because that's generally standard practice)

Is it a good advice to try Try to preserve Klinklang until mid/late-game for having its common checks have been chipped down. However, Klinklang has issues in breaking common threats in the metagame. For this reason Klinklang apreciates Because its typical answers are weak to Spikes, Klinklang enjoys being teamed with pokemons Pokemon such as Garbodor who can set up Spikes and Toxic Spikes, which force common answers to Klinklang to take a lot of damage, and can also chip common checks to klinklang Klinklang such as Togedemaru or Toxicroak. Wishiwashi is incredibly bulky and able to take on most Fire- and Ground-types, which are Pokemon that Klinklang generally struggles against. (generalize to Water-types and list some other examples) Flapple, Whimsicott (Whimsicott is not in this tier, and specify Dragon Dance Flapple)can pressure Pokemon that resist Steel-types like Lanturn, Rotom-Fan and Stunfisk-Galar Steel like Lanturn, Rotom-S, and Galarian Stunfisk. Persian-Alola can easily bring in Klinklang with U-turn or Parting Shot. It can also lure in Stunfisk-Galar and Toxicroak and remove their items with Knock Off. (I am quite literally never using this Alolan Persian set alongside Klinklang)

(you should give a sentence about Aurora Veil support from Abomasnow in addition to one talking about how stacking setup sweepers is common with Klinklang to overwhelm mutual answers)

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[jcbc, 417348]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

carefully implement this check using this method and read over this to make sure you believe the information you are conveying is thoughtful and useful. ping me when you have done so.

 

[Rabia]

This is being reassigned