Copyediting Life Orb Landorus [QC 2/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
Life Orb (Landorus) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Sludge Wave
- Smack Down
- Nasty Plot / Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
- Life Orb unlocks the full potential of Landorus' Sheer Force ability, as its damaging recoil is negated by the ability, while maintaining the 30% base power boost to moves with secondary effects.
- Earth Power is Landorus' primary STAB move, handling Steel-types like Metagross and Iron Crown, Electric-types such as Raging Bolt and Iron Hands, as well as common Poison-types such as Sneasler and Pecharunt.
- Sludge Wave allows Landorus to gain its best match-up into Grass-types such as non-Assault Vest Rillaboom and non-Kebia Berry Serperior, as well as Fairy-types such as non-Ice move Encore + Disable Alolan Ninetales and non-Ice move Iron Valiant.
- Smack Down allows Landorus to negate the Ground-type immunity of Flying-types such as Corviknight and Zapdos, as well as common Air Balloon Pokemon like Heatran. It further has a chance to OHKO Volcaronas with no defensive investment.
- Nasty Plot gives Landorus consistency into Weakness Policy Iron Crown, and allows it to keep up with Air Balloon Registeel's Amnesia Boosts. Alternatively, Protect may be used to beat Custap berry users such as Skeledirge consistently.
- Landorus has a great advantage against many top tier Pokemon, including all Steel Types, Electric Types, Fire-types and Poison-Types. This lets it serve as a strong glue to use alongside partners such as Meowscarada and Primarina, which help mitigate its weaknesses to prevalent Water-types, such as Manaphy, and Dragon-types, such as Walking Wake and Roaring Moon.
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what the hell is an upgrade card...
[SET]
Life Orb (Landorus) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Sludge Wave
- Smack Down
- Nasty Plot

[SET COMMENTS]
- Life Orb unlocks the full potential of Landorus' Sheer Force ability, as its damaging recoil is negated by the ability, while maintaining the 30% base power boost.
- Earth Power is Landorus' primary STAB move, handling Steel-types like Metagross and Iron Crown, Electric-types such as Raging Bolt and Iron Hands, as well as common Poison-types such as Sneasler and non-Air Balloon Pecharunt.
- Sludge Wave allows Landorus to gain its best match-up into Grass-types such as Rillaboom and non-Kebia Berry Serperior, as well as Fairy-types such as Primarina and non-Ice move Iron Valiant. It should be noted, however, that none of these are entirely consistent.
- Smack Down allows Landorus to negate the Ground-type immunity of Flying-types such as Corviknight and Zapdos, as well as common Air Balloon Pokemon like Heatran and Pecharunt. It further has a chance to OHKO Volcaronas with no defensive investment.
- Nasty Plot gives Landorus consistency into Weakness Policy Iron Crown, and allows it to keep up with Air Balloon Registeel's Amnesia Boosts.
- Landorus has a great advantage against many top tier Pokemon, including all Steel Types, Electric Types, Fire-types and Poison-Types. This lets it serve as a strong glue to use alongside partners such as Meowscarada and Primarina, which help mitigate its weaknesses to prevalent Water- and Dragon-types (examples).

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/mentality.670315/

Quality checked by:
[insert user link]

Grammar checked by:
[insert user link]
1/2 gj
 
- Life Orb unlocks the full potential of Landorus' Sheer Force ability, as its damaging recoil is negated by the ability, while maintaining the 30% base power boost.
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Might be worth mentioning the situational nature of this. Smack Down doesn't trigger it and stuff.

Are Substitute/Protect and Psychic ever worth it as slashes for Nasty Plot? Sub or Protect gives it additional Prim reliability and Psychic gives it a better matchup into SpDef Urshifus.

- Smack Down allows Landorus to negate the Ground-type immunity of Flying-types such as Corviknight and Zapdos, as well as common Air Balloon Pokemon like Heatran and Pecharunt. It further has a chance to OHKO Volcaronas with no defensive investment.
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Isn't it better to use Sludge Wave into Pecharunt so that you don't take the the Smack Down Lorb recoil?

Will take another look at this after you make some of these changes
 
non-Air Balloon Pecharunt.
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You can remove non-Air Balloon I think because it does handle air balloon too just with an additional step beforehand.

Re: Sludge Wave
I would remove Primarina from the mentions anyway because every Primarina set except max speed lorb has a really good shot at bulking it. I would say Valiant is pretty reliable. Maybe mention non-Ice move Encore + Disable Ninetales-Alola or smth. I think you can say most Rillaboom sets too...

assuming ur not looking to slash psychic which seems fine.

gonna do a super informal check to see if the wording looks fine on the Sludge Wave point, will 2/2 after that.
 
Sludge Wave allows Landorus to gain its best match-up into Grass-types such as Rillaboom and non-Kebia Berry Serperior, as well as Fairy-types such as non-Ice move Encore + Disable Alolan Nintales and non-Ice move Iron Valiant. It should be noted, however, that none of these are entirely consistent.
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non-AV Rillaboom, also spell Ninetales correctly. Also, you can probably remove the entirely consistent thing if you're gonna talk about specifications that win the matchups.

Also need to discuss another couple things on Discord before I can send this to GP
 
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