Landorus-Therian [QC 1/2]

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[SET]
name: Band
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Fly
move 3: Outrage
move 4: Stone Edge / Superpower / Knock Off
item: Choice Band
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
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Earthquake is Landorus-Therian's hardest hitting STAB move, hitting Pokemon like Volcanion and Zeraora super effectively. Fly is a secondary STAB option, which allows Landorus-Therian to beat Grass- and Fighting- types like Offensive Rillaboom and slow Urshifu. Outrage is a useful coverage option, allowing Landorus-Therian to beat Dragon types like Offensive Zygarde and non-Haban Berry Regidrago. The last moveslot is variable. Stone Edge allows you to hit Flying types like Moltres-Galar and Zapdos super effectively. Superpower helps guarantee the Heatran matchup, since you can still hit Air Balloon sets with a super effective attack, along with other steel-types like Kartana. Knock Off allows you to beat Taunt Spectrier and Choice Scarf Cresselia.

EVs
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Max Attack with an Adamant nature allows Landorus-Therian to maximize it's damage output, and Max Speed maximizes the amount of other Pokemon you can outspeed, primarily helping with the Landorus-Therian mirror and fast Porygon-Z. 4 Special Defense EVs are used to give you a better chance against Choice Scarf Togekiss. An alternate EV Spread is 244 HP / 76 Atk / 136 SpD / 52 Spe with an Adamant Nature, which outspeeds 0 Speed Urshifu variants, and tanks a hit from Choice Band Urshifu and Choice Specs Naganadel. The rest of the EVs are put into attack to maximize your damage output.

Usage Tips
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This set has a relatively simple game plan: use the most damaging move. If you have a super effective move against the opponent, in most cases you want to use it. If you suspect the opponent has Protect, Substitute, or Endure, you want to avoid using Fly, since they can use those moves to survive and damage you when you are not up in the sky. Ferrothorn often runs Chople Berry, so you should click Earthquake against it.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]

[SET]
name: Sitrus
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Knock Off
move 3: Swords Dance
move 4: Outrage
item: Sitrus Berry
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 HP / 32 Atk / 80 Def / 136 SpD / 8 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
Earthquake is Landorus-Therian's hardest hitting STAB move, hitting Pokemon like Assault Vest Arcanine and Zeraora super effectively. Knock off is useful for removing choice items like Necrozma's Choice Specs and Aggron's Choice Band, though 252 Attack Adamant Aggron Avalanche is a roll. It can also remove a Custap Berry from Pokemon like Magnezone. Swords Dance allows you to break through Pokemon like Zygarde and Iron Defense Tapu Koko. Outrage is a useful coverage option, allowing Landorus-Therian to beat Dragon types like Offensive Zygarde and Haxorus.

EVs
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The bulk on this set allows Landorus-Therian to survive two Choice Band Garchomp Outrages and a Choice Specs Naganadel Draco Meteor. The speed EVs allow it to consistently outspeed base 60 speed Pokemon like Magnezone and Sylveon without a Speed boosting nature. The rest of the EVs are put into Attack to maximize damage output.

Usage Tips
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Against Pokemon you can OHKO like Naganadel, Zeraora, and Regieleki, or Pokemon you can 2HKO like Assault Vest Arcanine, you want to attack turn 1. Against bulky Pokemon that cannot threaten an OHKO against you, like Tapu Koko and Registeel, you want to Swords Dance until you can outdamage their recovery moves. You also want to Swords Dance against Garchomp to avoid taking extra Rough Skin damage. Against Zygarde, you want to use Swords Dance into Outrage to beat most variants.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]

Other Options
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Choice Scarf with a Jolly nature can be used to outspeed and KO faster frail threats like Pheromosa and Choice Scarf Dracovish and Dracozolt, though you lose a lot of power. Smack Down can be used to beat Celesteela as well. Assault Vest can also be used to help against special attackers like Volcanion and Naganadel.

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- Written by: [[Murman, 520168]]
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[SET]
name: Band
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Fly
move 3: Outrage
move 4: Stone Edge / Superpower / Knock Off
item: Choice Band
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
Earthquake is Landorus-Therian's hardest hitting STAB move, hitting Pokemon like Volcanion and Zeraora super effectively. Fly is a secondary STAB option, which allows Landorus-Therian to beat Grass- and Fighting- types like Offensive Rillaboom and slow Urshifu. Outrage is a useful coverage option, allowing Landorus-Therian to beat Dragon types like Offensive Zygarde and non-Haban Berry Regidrago. The last moveslot is variable. Stone Edge allows you to hit Flying types like Moltres-Galar and Zapdos super effectively. Superpower helps guarantee the Heatran matchup, since you can still hit Air Balloon sets with a super effective attack, along with helping with the non-Custap Glastrier match up (Surely this is only like... getting 2 icicle spears vs a glastrier w/o avalanche, that doesn't seem too notable to mention, there's always stuff like kartana if you want another example where it matters). Knock Off allows you to beat Taunt Spectrier and Choice Scarf Cresselia.

EVs
=============
Max Attack with an Adamant nature allows Landorus-Therian to maximize it's damage output, and Max Speed maximizes the amount of other Pokemon you can outspeed, primarily helping with the Landorus-Therian mirror and fast Porygon-Z. 4 Special Defense EVs are used to give you a better chance against Choice Scarf Togekiss. An alternate EV Spread is 244 HP / 76 Atk / 136 SpD / 52 Spe with an Adamant Nature, which outspeeds 0 Speed Urshifu variants, and tanks a hit from Choice Band Urshifu and Choice Specs Naganadel. The rest of the EVs are put into attack to maximize your damage output.

Usage Tips
=============
This set has a relatively simple game plan: use the most damaging move. If you have a super effective move against the opponent, in most cases you want to use it. If you suspect the opponent has Protect, Substitute, or Endure, you want to avoid using Fly, since they can use those moves to survive and damage you when you are not up in the sky. (Special mention for ferrothorn commonly running chople and being best attacked with EQ?)

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]

[SET]
name: Sitrus
move 1: Earthquake
move 2: Knock Off
move 3: Swords Dance
move 4: Outrage
item: Sitrus Berry
ability: Intimidate
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 HP / 32 Atk / 80 Def / 136 SpD / 8 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
Earthquake is Landorus-Therian's hardest hitting STAB move, hitting Pokemon like Volcanion (this set no longer beats Volcanion thanks to its lower attack, find another example) and Zeraora super effectively. Knock off hits Ghosts like Spectrier (Spectrier should still beat this set, you could mention pult but this isn't super relevant there either, just focus on the item-removing aspect) super effectively, while also removing choice items like Necrozma's Choice Specs and Aggron's Choice Band, though 252 Adamant Choice Band Aggron Avalanche is a roll. It also helps remove a Custap Berry from Pokemon like Porygon-Z and Magnezone, if you don't think they will OHKO you in one turn. (Usage tips, not relevant here) Swords Dance allows you to break through Pokemon like Zygarde and Iron Defense Tapu Koko. Outrage is a useful coverage option, allowing Landorus-Therian to beat Dragon types like Offensive Zygarde and Haxorus.

EVs
=============
The bulk on this set allows Landorus-Therian to survive two Choice Band Garchomp Outrages and a Choice Specs Naganadel Draco Meteor. The speed EVs allow it to consistently outspeed base 60 speed Pokemon like Magnezone and Sylveon without a Speed boosting nature. The rest of the EVs are put into Attack to maximize damage output.

Usage Tips
=============
Against Pokemon you can OHKO like Naganadel, Zeraora, and Regieleki, or Pokemon you can 2HKO like Assault Vest Arcanine and Garchomp, you want to attack turn 1 (Isn't it slightly better to SD t1 vs Garchomp, to avoid Rough Skin damage?). Against bulky Pokemon that cannot threaten an OHKO against you, like Tapu Koko and Registeel, you want to Swords Dance until you can outdamage their recovery moves. Against Zygarde, you want to use Swords Dance into Outrage to beat all variants. (Unfortunately SubToxic should win here, and I'm not sure about rocky helmet coil bs, just say 'most variants' or 'to have the best possible matchup')

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]

Other Options
=============
Choice Scarf with a Jolly nature can be used to outspeed and KO faster frail threats like Pheromosa and Choice Scarf Dracovish and Dracozolt, though you lose a lot of power. A lot of other moves like Rock Tomb and Protect, or items like Assault Vest and Life Orb are viable, so Landorus-Therian can fit the needs of your team. (Explain what these moves/items do matchup-wise, maybe move some to sub-paragraphs, explain why they are generally not worth using)

(Mention Smack Down as a possible option for celesteela here)


[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Murman, 520168]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2], [username3, userid3]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]

Hi! In spite of evidence to the contrary, I'm QC.

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