[overview]
**Draft Order**: 7th Round Onward
**Price Range**: 5-6 Points
**Overview**: On paper, Iron Leaves looks like like a solid wallbreaker: it has a respectable 130 base Attack, can use Booster Energy to set up for a sweep, and has a number of coverage options to help it break through checks. Its typing, however, drags it down. Offensively, Grass and Psychic don't hit many types super-effectively, and are walled by Steel-types as well as a number of other common type combinations. This, coupled with Iron Leaves's low speed tier for a sweeper and weakness to omnipresent moves like Knock Off and U-turn leave it down towards the bottom of tier lists.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Setup Sweeper**: Like many Paradox Pokemon, Iron Leaves can use Booster Energy to outspeed most non-boosted Pokemon, set up with Swords Dance, and finish off a weakened opposing team. Alternatively, Booster Energy can increase Iron Leaves's Attack and Agility can be used to outspeed Choice Scarf users.
**Wallbreaker**: Iron Leaves can use a damage-boosting item to break holes in the opposing team, notably breaking through many bulky Water- and Ground-types.
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: Leaf Blade, Trailblaze, Psyblade
**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Agility
**Utility Moves**: Taunt
**Coverage**: Close Combat, Wild Charge, Throat Chop, Megahorn, Smart Strike
Niche Moves
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**Protect**: Against First Impression users, Protect can ensure Iron Leaves doesn't drop to the powerful priority move.
Common Items
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**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy enables Iron Leaves to sweep by giving it a Speed boost upon entry, shoring up one of its weaknesses.
**Choice Band**: On wallbreaking sets, Choice Band powers up Iron Leaves' great base Attack and turns it into a powerful breaker.
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf can patch up Iron Leaves' mediocre speed and let it revenge kill slower wallbreakers or sweep a weakened team.
Niche Items
========
**Damage-Boosting Items**: sentence explaining why you should use this.
**Resistance Berry**: A Colbur Berry or Tanga Berry can let Iron Leaves survive a hit and remove a check.
Tera
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Iron Leaves is a decent low-cost Tera Captain to pair with a high-cost captain. One of Iron Leaves' biggest weaknesses is its typing, and
Draft Strategy
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1-2 sentence highlight of draft strategy. Then go into specifics in bullet-points below.
**Specifics 1**: Sentence or two.
**Specifics 2**: etc.
(repeat as necessary)
Checks and Counters
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**Common check 1**: Explain why it checks the Pokemon and what you should do about it
**Common check 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
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**Draft Order**: 7th Round Onward
**Price Range**: 5-6 Points
**Overview**: On paper, Iron Leaves looks like like a solid wallbreaker: it has a respectable 130 base Attack, can use Booster Energy to set up for a sweep, and has a number of coverage options to help it break through checks. Its typing, however, drags it down. Offensively, Grass and Psychic don't hit many types super-effectively, and are walled by Steel-types as well as a number of other common type combinations. This, coupled with Iron Leaves's low speed tier for a sweeper and weakness to omnipresent moves like Knock Off and U-turn leave it down towards the bottom of tier lists.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Setup Sweeper**: Like many Paradox Pokemon, Iron Leaves can use Booster Energy to outspeed most non-boosted Pokemon, set up with Swords Dance, and finish off a weakened opposing team. Alternatively, Booster Energy can increase Iron Leaves's Attack and Agility can be used to outspeed Choice Scarf users.
**Wallbreaker**: Iron Leaves can use a damage-boosting item to break holes in the opposing team, notably breaking through many bulky Water- and Ground-types.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Leaf Blade, Trailblaze, Psyblade
**Setup Moves**: Swords Dance, Agility
**Utility Moves**: Taunt
**Coverage**: Close Combat, Wild Charge, Throat Chop, Megahorn, Smart Strike
Niche Moves
========
**Protect**: Against First Impression users, Protect can ensure Iron Leaves doesn't drop to the powerful priority move.
Common Items
========
**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy enables Iron Leaves to sweep by giving it a Speed boost upon entry, shoring up one of its weaknesses.
**Choice Band**: On wallbreaking sets, Choice Band powers up Iron Leaves' great base Attack and turns it into a powerful breaker.
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf can patch up Iron Leaves' mediocre speed and let it revenge kill slower wallbreakers or sweep a weakened team.
Niche Items
========
**Damage-Boosting Items**: sentence explaining why you should use this.
**Resistance Berry**: A Colbur Berry or Tanga Berry can let Iron Leaves survive a hit and remove a check.
Tera
========
Iron Leaves is a decent low-cost Tera Captain to pair with a high-cost captain. One of Iron Leaves' biggest weaknesses is its typing, and
Draft Strategy
========
1-2 sentence highlight of draft strategy. Then go into specifics in bullet-points below.
**Specifics 1**: Sentence or two.
**Specifics 2**: etc.
(repeat as necessary)
Checks and Counters
========
**Common check 1**: Explain why it checks the Pokemon and what you should do about it
**Common check 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
[credits]
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Quality checked by:
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