RU Noivern Full Analysis

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[OVERVIEW]

Noivern swoops into RU as a premier speedy Pokemon that can fill both offensive and defensive roles. Due to Noivern's resistance to common offensive types like Fire, Water, and Fighting, it can be a great defensive sponge by switching into both special and physical attackers such as Volcanion and Slither Wing. It can then use this opportunity to remove entry hazards with Defog, chunk a switch-in with either Super Fang or Draco Meteor, or pivot on switch-ins with U-turn. It can outspeed and force out Pokemon such as Cyclizar, Hisuian Zoroark and Gengar, threatening them with Draco Meteor. Noivern can keep itself healthy with Roost, allowing it to come in multiple times per game in order to do its job. However, Noivern struggles with common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir and Galarian Zapdos, as they can outspeed and deal massive damage to it. Noivern can also struggle a lot with Fairy-types such as Mimikyu and Fezandipiti, which can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor and hit it super effectively. Noivern also immensely struggles with bulky Pokemon such as Umbreon, Fezandipiti, and Registeel, as they can easily switch into it and either make progress against it or set up on it.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Choice Specs with Boomburst and Tera Normal is an option on Noivern, allowing it to do massive damage to the opposing team once Steel- and Ghost-types have been removed. Switcheroo can be used alongside Choice Specs to cripple defensive Pokemon that Noivern can't break through, such as Chansey or Empoleon. Air Slash is a much more reliable STAB option than Hurricane, though it is much weaker and can fail to 2HKO even Pokemon with mediocre special bulk like Galarian Weezing.

Checks and Counters
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**Fairy-types**: Fairy-types such as Galarian Weezing and Gardevoir are massive pains for Noivern, as they can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor. Fezandipiti can use Noivern as a setup opportunity as it can Roost off the damage from Super Fang, while threatening Noivern with Moonblast and Toxic Chain. Mimikyu in particular is extremely irritating for defensive Noivern, as it is immune to both Draco Meteor and Super Fang, meaning it can switch into any defensive Noivern set lacking Hurricane or Psychic Noise without taking any damage and threaten it out.

**Steel-types**: Noivern can struggle against Steel-types such as Jirachi, Magnezone, and Empoleon, since they can switch into Draco Meteor easily, only really fearing Flamethrower.

**Choice Scarf Users and Priority**: Common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir, Hisuian Zoroark, and Galarian Zapdos can outspeed Noivern and threaten it immensely. Priority users such as Bisharp and, especially, Mamoswine can do big damage to Noivern.

**Umbreon**: Umbreon is a big pain for Noivern, as Umbreon can easily take its attacks, use Wish to heal off its damage, and threaten it with Toxic. Taunt can prevent Umbreon from using Toxic against Noivern, but Foul Play still forces Noivern to use Roost repeatedly.

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[OVERVIEW]

Noivern swoops into RU as a premier speedy Pokemon that can fill either an offensive role or a defensive role both offensive and defensive roles usually it does a bit of both. It is able to leverage its good typing and decent bulk to check Pokemon such as Volcanion and Slither Wing add some more detail here - because of its resistances to common offensive types like fire, water, fighting, ground, and bug, it can be a great defensive sponge by switching into both special and physical attackers. Right after this you should talk about how it can use the opportunity after switching in to make progress via strong attacks or utility moves. . It can outspeed Pokemon such as Cyclizar and Gengar, while threatening them with Draco Meteor in order to force them out. Noivern can utilise its vast support movepool to help teammates, such as U-turn, Defog, Super Fang and Taunt. Noivern can keep itself healthy with Roost, allowing it to come in multiple times per game in order to do its job. Noivern however struggles with common Choice Scarf Users such as Gardevoir and Terrakion, as they can outspeed it and deal massive damage to it. Noivern can also struggle a lot with Fairy-types such as Mimikyu and Ribombee Fezandipiti that can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor and hit it super effectively. Talk about it often being passive vs bulky pokemon like umbreon, fez, and registeel that can easily switch in and make progress/set up for free

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
====

Choice Specs with Boomburst and Tera Normal is an option on Noivern, allowing it to do massive damage to opposing Pokemon once Steel- and Ghost- types have been removed. Switcheroo can be used alongside Choice Specs to cripple an opposing defensive Pokemon that Noivern can't break through, such as Chansey or Empoleon. Air Slash is an option on Noivern for a much more reliable STAB option then Hurricane, though it is much weaker and can fail to 2hit KO 2HKO even Pokemon with mediocre special bulk like Galarian Weezing or Quagsire, allowing them to either status Noivern or hit it hard.

Checks and Counters
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**Fairy-Types**: Fairy types such as Galarian Weezing and Gardevoir are massive pains for Noivern, as they can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor, while not fearing Flamethrower Mention Fez here too. Mimikyu in particular is extremely irritating for defensive Noivern, as it is immune to both Draco Meteor and Super Fang, meaning it can switch into any defensive Noivern set lacking Psychic Noise without taking any damage and threaten it out.

**Steel-types**: Noivern struggles to do much vs a lot of steel types like Jirachi, Hoodra, Magnezone etc especially if it's not running Flamethrower

**Choice Scarf Users and Priority**: Common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir, Hisuian Zoroark and Galarian Zapdos can outspeed Noivern and threaten it immensly, while priority users such as Bisharp and especially Mamoswine can do big damage to Noivern.

**Paralysis**: Paralysis from Pokemon such as Jirachi and Slowbro immensly cripple Noivern, as it means it can no longer outspeed Pokemon such as Volcanion or Cyclizar, allowing them to threaten Noivern a lot easier with either Steam Eruption or Draco Meteor respectively. It's true that Noivern doesn't like paralysis but it's not really a unique weakness and it's not so debilitating that it should be mentioned here

**Umbreon**: Noivern can't do much to it while it threatens a Toxic back

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Great work, implement and ready for QC 2
 
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[OVERVIEW]

Noivern swoops into RU as a premier speedy Pokemon that can fill both offensive and defensive roles. Due to Noivern's resistance to common offensive types like fire, water, fighting, ground and bug, Fire, Water, and Fighting (Ground and Bug are okay but those three are more relevant) it can be a great defensive sponge by switching into both special and physical attackers such as Volcanion and Slither Wing. It can then use this opportunity to either Defog away entry hazards, chunk a defensive switch-in with either Super Fang or Draco Meteor, or pivot on switch ins with U-turn. It can outspeed Pokemon such as Cyclizar, Hisuian Zoroark, and Gengar, while threatening them with Draco Meteor in order to force them out. Noivern can keep itself healthy with Roost, allowing it to come in multiple times per game in order to do its job. Noivern however struggles with common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir and Terrakion Galarian Zapdos, as they can outspeed it and deal massive damage to it. Noivern can also struggle a lot with Fairy-types such as Mimikyu and Fezandipiti that can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor and hit it super effectively. Noivern also immensely struggles with bulky Pokemon such as Umbreon, Fezandipiti and Registeel, as they can easily switch into it and either make progress against it or set up on Noivern. The last sentence reads a little funny but I'll leave that to GP since you also start a lot of this with, "Noivern also". Maybe try to restructure it before GP for practice.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
====

Choice Specs sets with Boomburst and Tera Normal is an option on Noivern, allowing it to do massive damage to opposing Pokemon once Steel- and Ghost- types have been removed. Switcheroo can be used alongside Choice Specs to cripple an opposing defensive Pokemon that Noivern can't break through, such as Chansey or Empoleon. Air Slash is an option on Noivern for a much more reliable STAB option then Hurricane, though it is much weaker and can fail to 2HKO even Pokemon with mediocre special bulk like Galarian Weezing.

Checks and Counters
====

**Fairy-types**: Fairy types such as Galarian Weezing and Gardevoir are massive pains for Noivern, as they can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor. Fezandipiti can use Noivern as a setup opportunity as it can Roost off the damage from Super Fang, while threatening Noivern with Moonblast and Toxic Chain. Mimikyu in particular is extremely irritating for defensive Noivern, as it is immune to both Draco Meteor and Super Fang, meaning it can switch into any defensive Noivern set lacking Hurricane or Psychic Noise without taking any damage and threaten it out.

**Steel-types**: Noivern can struggle against Steel-types such as Jirachi, Magnezone, and Empoleon and Hisuian Goodra, as they can switch into Draco Meteor easily, only really fearing Flamethrower. If Noivern doesn't have Flamethrower, then these Steel-types can switch in freely.

**Choice Scarf Users and Priority**: Common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir, Hisuian Zoroark and Galarian Zapdos can outspeed Noivern and threaten it immensly. (Add period), while Priority users such as Bisharp and especially Mamoswine can do big damage to Noivern.

**Umbreon**: Umbreon is a big pain for Noivern, as it can easily take its attacks, Wish off its damage, and threaten it with Toxic. Taunt can prevent Umbreon from Toxic'ing Noivern, but Foul Play still forces Noivern to use a lot of Roosts.

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Good work, the overview can be redone a bit to flow better but you can leave that for GP if you'd like. Implement and onto GP you go.
 
GP Team done
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[OVERVIEW]

Noivern swoops into RU as a premier speedy Pokemon that can fill both offensive and defensive roles. Due to Noivern's resistance to common offensive types like Fire, Water, and Fighting, it can be a great defensive sponge by switching into both special and physical attackers such as Volcanion and Slither Wing. It can then use this opportunity to either Defog away (either shows contrast between two topics + moves shouldn’t be used as verbs) remove entry hazards with Defog, chunk a defensive switch-in with either Super Fang or Draco Meteor, or pivot on switch-ins (Add hyphen) with U-turn. It can outspeed and force out Pokemon such as Cyclizar, Hisuian Zoroark and Gengar, threatening them with Draco Meteor in order to force them out. Noivern can keep itself healthy with Roost, allowing it to come in multiple times per game in order to do its job. However, (AC) Noivern however struggles with common Choice Scarf Users users such as Gardevoir and Galarian Zapdos, as they can outspeed it and deal massive damage to it. Noivern can also struggle a lot with Fairy-types such as Mimikyu and Fezandipiti, (AC) which that can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor and hit it super effectively. Noivern also immensely struggles with bulky Pokemon such as Umbreon, Fezandipiti, (AC) and Registeel, as they can easily switch into it and either make progress against it or set up on it Noivern.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
====

Choice Specs with Boomburst and Tera Normal is an option on Noivern, allowing it to do massive damage to the opposing team Pokemon once Steel- and Ghost-types (Remove space betwen “Ghost-” and “types”) have been removed. Switcheroo can be used alongside Choice Specs to cripple an opposing defensive Pokemon that Noivern can't break through, such as Chansey or Empoleon. Air Slash is an option on Noivern for a much more reliable STAB option then than Hurricane, though it is much weaker and can fail to 2HKO even Pokemon with mediocre special bulk like Galarian Weezing.

Checks and Counters
====

**Fairy-types**: Fairy-types (Add hyphen) such as Galarian Weezing and Gardevoir are massive pains for Noivern, as they can switch into its main STAB option in Draco Meteor. Fezandipiti can use Noivern as a setup fodder with opportunity as it can Roost to heal off the damage from Super Fang (RC) while threatening Noivern with Moonblast and Toxic Chain. Mimikyu in particular is extremely irritating for defensive Noivern, as it is immune to both Draco Meteor and Super Fang, meaning it can switch into any defensive Noivern set lacking Hurricane or Psychic Noise without taking any damage and threaten it out.

**Steel-types**: Noivern can struggle against Steel-types (Add hyphen) such as Jirachi, Magnezone, and Empoleon, since as they can switch into Draco Meteor easily, only really fearing Flamethrower. (changing “as” to “since” here adds variety) If Noivern doesn't have Flamethrower, then these Steel-types can switch in freely. (same info as first sentence)

**Choice Scarf Users and Priority**: Common Choice Scarf users such as Gardevoir, Hisuian Zoroark, (AC) and Galarian Zapdos can outspeed Noivern and threaten it immensely. Priority users such as Bisharp and, (AC) especially, (AC) Mamoswine can do big damage to Noivern.

**Umbreon**: Umbreon is a big pain for Noivern, as it Umbreon can easily take its attacks, use Wish to heal off its damage, and threaten it with Toxic. Taunt can prevent Umbreon from using Toxic against Toxic'ing Noivern, but Foul Play still forces Noivern to use Roost repeatedly a lot of Roosts.

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