National Dex UU Mega Heracross [Done]

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[SET]
Swords Dance (Heracross) @ Heracronite
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Rock Blast
- Pin Missile / Substitute

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Heracross uses its gigantic Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to be a powerful wallbreaker, pressuring common physical walls like Skarmory and Mega Venusaur. Swords Dance boosts Mega Heracross's Attack to incredible heights and lets it OHKO a majority of the Pokemon in the tier, including walls like Skarmory and Hippowdon. Close Combat OHKOes threats like Cinderace and Mega Tyranitar while 2HKOing bulkier Pokemon like Iron Hands and Skarmory. Rock Blast threatens Flying-types such as Enamorus, Salamence, and both Thundurus formes, as well as Fire-types like Iron Moth and Ceruledge that could otherwise take Close Combat and force Mega Heracross out. Pin Missile threatens Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Substitute lets Mega Heracross avoid Will-O-Wisp from Mega Sableye, capitalize from the forced switches it generates, and ease prediction against Pokemon it forces out. Fast physical cleaners like Meowscarada appreciate Mega Heracross being able to threaten their switch-ins, such as Skarmory and Mega Venusaur, allowing them to sweep late-game. Mega Heracross is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Cinderace, Iron Moth, and Enamorus, so teammates that can deal with them such as Tapu Fini, Mega Tyranitar, and Celesteela, respectively, are appreciated. Fire-type partners like Cinderace and Iron Moth can threaten Buzzwole, which walls Mega Heracross; Poison-types like Amoonguss can threaten Fairy-types like Tapu Fini and Unaware Clefable, which also wall it.

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[SET]
Heracross @ Heracronite
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Rock Blast
- Pin Missile / Substitute

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Heracross uses its gigantic Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to be a powerful wallbreaker, pressuring common physical walls like Skarmory, Galarian Slowking Clefable pdef glowking isnt a thing rly cause u need spd to reliably check imoth/enam, and Mega Venusaur. Swords Dance boosts Mega Heracross's attack to incredible heights and lets Mega Heracross it OHKO a majority of the Pokemon in the tier slight wording thing; this makes swords dance sound like an attack of its own, including walls like Skarmory, Galarian Slowking, and Hippowdon. Close Combat OHKOes threats like Cinderace and Mega Tyranitar while 2HKOing bulkier Pokemon like Iron Hands and Skarmory. Rock Blast threatens Flying-types such as Enamorus, Salamence, and both Thundurus formes, as well as Fire-types like Iron Moth and Ceruledge who could otherwise take Close Combat and force Mega Heracross out adds more depth imo. Pin Missile threatens Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Substitute lets Mega Heracross avoid status moves Will-O-Wisp from Mega Sableye and capitalize from the forced switches it generates sub eases prediction asw, should be noted and can be tied into this part p easily. Fast physical cleaners like Meowscarada appreciate Mega Heracross being able to threaten their switchins, such as Skarmory and Mega Venusaur, allowing them to sweep late-game. Mega Heracross is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Cinderace, Iron Moth, and Enamorus, so teammates who can deal with them such as Tapu Fini, Mega Tyranitar, and Galarian Slowking respectively are appreciated. Fire-type partners like Cinderace and Iron Moth can threaten Buzzwole and Aegislash, which wall Mega Heracross; Poison-types like Galarian Slowking and Mega Venusaur balanced hackmons nduu perhaps can threaten Fairy-types like Clefable and Clef isnt too keen on taking +2 Rock Blast, you could specify Unaware Clefable if you'd like to keep this tho Tapu Fini, which also wall it.

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[SET]
Heracross @ Heracronite
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Rock Blast
- Pin Missile / Substitute

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Heracross uses its gigantic Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to be a powerful wallbreaker, capable of pressuring common physical walls like Skarmory and Mega Venusaur. Swords Dance boosts Mega Heracross's attack to incredible heights and lets it OHKO a majority of the Pokemon in the tier, including walls like Skarmory and Hippowdon. Close Combat OHKOes threats like Cinderace and Mega Tyranitar, (ac) while 2HKOing bulkier Pokemon like Iron Hands and Skarmory. Rock Blast threatens Flying-types such as Enamorus, Salamence, and both Thundurus formes, as well as Fire-types like Iron Moth and Ceruledge who could which can otherwise take Close Combat and ("take" close combat sounds quite weird, you can omit that) force Mega Heracross out. Pin Missile threatens Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Substitute lets Mega Heracross avoid Will-O-Wisp from Mega Sableye and capitalize from the forced switches it generates. (ap) while also easing Furthermore, it eases prediction against Pokemon it forces out. Fast physical cleaners like Meowscarada appreciate Mega Heracross being able to threaten their switch-ins, such as Skarmory and Mega Venusaur, allowing them to sweep late-game. Mega Heracross is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Cinderace, Iron Moth, and Enamorus, so teammates who can deal with them such as Tapu Fini, Mega Tyranitar, and Celesteela respectively are appreciated. Fire-type partners like Cinderace and Iron Moth can threaten Buzzwole, which walls Mega Heracross; Poison-types like Amoonguss can threaten Fairy-types like Tapu Fini and Unaware Clefable, which also wall it.

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1/1 GP Team done
[SET]
Heracross @ Heracronite
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Rock Blast
- Pin Missile / Substitute

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Heracross uses its gigantic Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to be a powerful wallbreaker, pressuring common physical walls like Skarmory and Mega Venusaur. Swords Dance boosts Mega Heracross's attack Attack (stats are capitalised) to incredible heights and lets it OHKO a majority of the Pokemon in the tier, including walls like Skarmory and Hippowdon. Close Combat OHKOes threats like Cinderace and Mega Tyranitar while 2HKOing bulkier Pokemon like Iron Hands and Skarmory. (you use skarm as an example twice here, do you want to change one?) Rock Blast threatens Flying-types such as Enamorus, Salamence, and both Thundurus formes, as well as Fire-types like Iron Moth and Ceruledge who that could otherwise take Close Combat and force Mega Heracross out. Pin Missile threatens Slowbro and Mega Venusaur, while Substitute lets Mega Heracross avoid Will-O-Wisp from Mega Sableye, (AC) and capitalize from the forced switches it generates, (AC) and ease while also easing prediction against Pokemon it forces out. (made this a list to avoid 2 different while clauses) Fast physical cleaners like Meowscarada appreciate Mega Heracross being able to threaten their switchins switch-ins, such as Skarmory and Mega Venusaur, allowing them to sweep late-game. Mega Heracross is prone to being revenge killed by faster threats like Cinderace, Iron Moth, and Enamorus, so teammates who that can deal with them such as Tapu Fini, Mega Tyranitar, and Celesteela, (AC) respectively, (AC - 'respectively' is always surrounded by commas essentially treated as its own separated clause) are appreciated. Fire-type partners like Cinderace and Iron Moth can threaten Buzzwole, which walls Mega Heracross; Poison-types like Amoonguss can threaten Fairy-types like Tapu Fini and Unaware Clefable, which also wall it.

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zastra This one is shorter because I left some notes for the writer on the check directly, abd the other stuff like the colours I covered in the last check too, but be careful of removing content. The GP team doesn't change content at all because we don't necessarily know the tiers of what we're checking. By removing the 'take Close Combat' part, you're removing what makes Iron Moth / Ceruledge separate from other Fire-types; other Fire-types force it out from having super effective STAB moves, but these two are notable in particular for resisting Close Combat, and removing that mention loses the nuance.
 
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