Monotype Kyurem (Ice) [QC: 2/2] [GP: 1/1]

[Rei]

[SET]
Name: Choice Specs (Ice)
move 1: Freeze-Dry
move 2: Draco Meteor
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Earth Power
item: Choice Specs
ability: Pressure
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kyurem is a good Choice Specs user thanks to its decent movepool, high Special Attack, and good Speed stat that allow it to be a fearsome special wallbreaker. Freeze-Dry allows it to OHKO or 2HKO Water-types such as Pelipper and Toxapex. Draco Meteor is a general nuke that can be used against many Pokemon like Bewear, Torkoal, and Rotom-H. Ice Beam allows it to take care of Hippowdon, Galarian Weezing, and Roserade, while Earth Power grants Kyurem a way to do major damage to Pokemon that resist its STAB attacks such as Excadrill, Bisharp, and Aegislash. Kyurem can be used to help clean up mid- to late-game when its checks are worn down and in range of being KOed like Incineroar, Ferrothorn, and Indeedee-M, but it can also be used early-game and help weaken threats and make them easier for one of its teammates to take care of. Kyurem should try to come in on passive attacks from Toxapex and Hippowdon or on a predicted switch. A Timid nature with maximum Speed EVs allows it to outpace Pokemon such as Lucario and Speed tie with Indeedee-M and Drapion.

Avalugg is a vital teammate to have, as it can use Rapid Spin to keep Stealth Rock off the field, which would otherwise majorly wear down Kyurem. It can also come in on physical attacks Kyurem cannot take well from Mimikyu and pressure Steel-types that Kyurem has trouble with such as Excadrill with Body Press. Alolan Ninetales is great for its ability to help Kyurem take less damage from attacks with Aurora Veil and to threaten Dark- and Fighting-types such as Hydreigon, Grimmsnarl, Keldeo, and Kommo-o with its Fairy typing. Galarian Darmanitan provides a great Choice Scarf user that it is also able to take care of all Steel-types, especially ones that Ice-type teams struggle with like Ferrothorn and Choice Scarf Excadrill, and bring Kyurem in safely with U-turn. Similarly, Choice Band Galarian Darmanitan is helpful to take care of Pokemon that Kyurem has trouble with such as Ferrothorn and Bronzong and pivot Kyurem in with its fast U-turn. Mamoswine or Piloswine is important to set up Stealth Rock to help Kyurem wallbreak further and sweep mid- to late-game. Both can also use their Ground typing to help with troubling Fire-and Poison-types like Chandelure, Drapion, Skuntank, and Toxtricity. Piloswine can especially be useful for being able to come in on Fire-type attacks from Hydreigon and Dragapult and take care of these. Choice Scarf Weavile is another great option to take care of Choice Scarf Jirachi and Gengar in the Psychic- and Ghost-type matchups. It can also use Knock Off to remove items like Galarian Corsola's Eviolite, Choice Scarf users from Duraludon and Leftovers from bulky Pokemon like Snorlax. Cloyster can be used to greatly help in the Fire-type matchup, sweeping with Shell Smash-boosted Rock Blast once the priority users are gone.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Ice analysis by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Quality checked by: [[Havens, 391540], [maroon, 305839]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]

 

[Havens]

- Let's generalize the Freeze-Dry statement: "Freeze-Dry allows it to either OHKO or 2HKO Water-types such as Pelipper and Toxapex."
- How can Kyurem be used to "clean up mid-to late-game?"
- "Timid", not "timid"
- When you talk about speed tying in the last sentence, Indeedee can speed tie with Kyurem while its female counterpart doesn't. I'd specify the Indeedee gender or move it next to Drapion to make the sentence true.
- Generalize how Galarian Darmanitan is great against all Steel-types in general, not just specifically Ferrothorn and Excadrill; additionally, specify Choice Scarf Galarian Darmanitan being great for speed control.
- "Piloswine", not "Poliswine"
- Explain the utility Knock Off Weavile has besides removing Galarian Corsola's Eviolite.
- Speaking of which, "Eviolite", not "Eviotite"

QC 1/2

 

[maroon]

- feel like the draco examples are kinda lack luster, use different ones or at least add a more relevant one. examples dont just need to be vs weak types, they can also be vs general meta threats. maybe add an example like rotom-h
- draco actually does more to fire-types than epower does. this is just a general nuke and can be used vs anything that resists ice attacks but not dragon like other ice types
- give an example of what kyurem can beat after its been chipped in the usage tip line
- avalugg can pressure steel types like excadrill with body press for kyurem
- add band darm as a set that supports kyurem as well
- cloyster really doesnt use its water stab in ss, its just the main shell smash set.

QC 2/2

 

[Lumari]

remove add / fix (comments); (AC=add comma; RC=remove comma; SC=semicolon)
GP 1/1

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[SET]
name: Choice Specs (Ice)
move 1: Freeze-Dry
move 2: Draco Meteor
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Earth Power
item: Choice Specs
ability: Pressure
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Kyurem is a good Choice Specs user thanks to its decent movepool, high Special Attack, and good Speed stat that allows allow it to be a fearsome special attacking wallbreaker. Freeze-Dry allows it to either OHKO or 2HKO Water-types such as Pelipper and Toxapex. Draco Meteor is a general nuke that can be used against many Pokemon like Bewear, Torkoal, (AC) and Rotom-H. Ice Beam allows it to take care of Hippowdon, Galarian Weezing, and Roserade, (comma) while Earth Power allows grants Kyurem to have a way to do major damage to Pokemon that resist its STAB attacks such as Excadrill, Bisharp, and Aegislash. Kyurem can be used to help clean up mid- to late-game due to when its checks being are worn down and have Pokemon in range of being KOed like Incineroar, Ferrothorn, and Indeedee-M, (comma) (make sure this didn't mess with content) but it can also be used early-game (AH) to help weaken threats to and make it them easier for one of its teammates to take care of it. Kyurem should try to come in on passive attacks from Toxapex and Hippowdon or on a predicted switch. Having A Timid nature with 252 maximum Speed EVs allows it to outpace Pokemon such as Lucario (RC) and Speed tie with Indeedee-M and Drapion.

Avalugg is a vital teammate to have, as it can use Rapid Spin to keep Stealth Rock off the field, that which would otherwise majorly chip wear down Kyurem. It can also come in on physical attacks Kyurem cannot take well from Mimikyu and pressure Steel-typs Steel-types that Kyurem has trouble with such as Excadrill with Body Press. Alolan Ninetales is great for being able to set up Aurora Veil that helps its ability to help Kyurem take less damage from attacks with Aurora Veil and use its Fairy-typing to threaten Dark- and Fighting-types such as Hydreigon, Grimmsnarl, Keldeo, and Kommo-o with its Fairy typing. Galarian Darmanitan is great for being provides a great Choice Scarf user and being used as speed control; it that (or "Choice Scarf Galarian Darmanitan <...> revenge killer") is also able to take care of all Steel-types, (AC) especially ones that Ice-type teams struggle with like Ferrothorn and Choice Scarf Excadrill, (AC) and bring Kyurem in safely with U-turn. Similarly, Choice Band Galarian Darmanitan is helpful to take care of Pokemon that Kyurem has trouble with such as Ferrothorn and Bronzgon Bronzong and pivot Kyurem in with its fast U-turn. Mamoswine or Piloswine is important to set up Stealth Rock to help Kyurem wallbreak further and sweep mid- to late-game. Mamowsine and Piloswine Both can also use their Ground typing (RH) to help with troubling Fire-and Poison-types like Chandelure, Drapion, Skuntunk Skuntank, (AC) and Toxtricity. Piloswine can especially be useful for being able to come in on Fire-type attacks from Hydreigon and Dragapult and take care of these. Choice Scarf Weavile is another great option to greatly help in the Psychic- and Ghost-type matchup to take care of Choice Scarf Jirachi and Gengar in the Psychic- and Ghost-type matchups. It is also very helpful to can also use Knock Off to remove items like Galarian Corsola's Eviolite, (AC) and knocking off items from Choice Scarf from users like Duraludon, (AC) and Leftovers (?) from bulky Pokemon like Snorlax. Cloyster can be used to greatly help in the Fire-type matchup, (AC) sweeping with using Shell Smash-boosted Rock Blast after using a Shell Smash to sweep once the priority users are gone.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Ice analysis by: [[Yami, 393488]]
- Quality checked by: [[Havens, 391540], [maroon, 305839]]
- Grammar checked by: [[<username1>, <userid1>]]

 

[Havens]

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