OU Offensive Volcarona [QC 3/2] [GP 2/1]

[Dreadfury]

[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening late-game sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastallization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB move with more PP than Fiery Dance that can always OHKO offensive Great Tusk after a Quiver Dance, but Fiery Dance can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball should it accrue additional boosts with it. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and offers strong neutral coverage against threats like Garchomp and Dondozo. Bug Buzz also bypasses opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, Azumarill, and Quaquaval very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's choice of Tera type. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects from the likes of Toxapex and Nuzzle Hatterene, prevent revenge killing attempts, and ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is almost mandatory to run on Volcarona, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves from Meowscarada, Great Tusk, and Kingambit. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively, Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types: Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STAB moves, Tera Psychic alongside Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types and offer a significant chance to 2HKO Clodsire, Tera Steel for an immunity to Poison and a generally strong defensive profile, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams and greatly appreciates any sort of support that helps facilitate its sweep. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. Lead Meowscarada also makes for an effective teammate due to its ability to reliably set up Spikes while disrupting passive threats like Toxapex and Clodsire, drastically limiting Grimmsnarl leads, and preventing setup from offensive staples like Dragonite, Kingambit, and opposing Volcarona with its fast Taunt. In return, Volcarona can threaten Corviknight, preventing its Defog from removing entry hazards. Volcarona greatly appreciates dual screens support from Grimmsnarl and Shed Tail support from Orthworm to open up more setup opportunities. Orthworm in particular completely walls Clodsire, turning it into free opportunities to use Shed Tail. Iron Valiant, Choice Band Breloom, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run; Tera Fairy Volcarona appreciates strong Ground-type attacks from Great Tusk and Garchomp to remove Clodsire, Skeledirge, and Toxapex, while Tera Grass and Tera Ground Volcarona appreciate Choice Band Dragapult's ability to pressure Dragon-types like Dragonite and Garchomp, as well as opposing Volcarona, with Dragon Darts. Other sweepers like Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and powerful priority to beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, and Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. In cases where Volcarona itself cannot sweep, it can still use its power and coverage to enable another teammate's sweep. For example, Iron Valiant appreciates Tera Ground and Tera Psychic Volcarona's ability to wear down or eliminate Toxapex and Clodsire, allowing it to more freely spam its powerful Moonblast late-game, while Dragonite appreciates Volcarona's ability to deal with Corviknight.

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[Dreadfury]

Adding a few notes in this reply since I asked for a bit of feedback prior to this and got some:

The set on Volc's Smogon page uses the same spread as the Defensive spread, the bulk investment is pretty intuitive even on a much more offensive set (surviving opposing priority is nice), and I wrote this with the 248 / 108 / 152+ spread in mind, but TPP provided a second opinion in the OU Discord that I wanted to acknowledge here:

It's just a handful of different moveset choices (Sub being mentioned, for instance), slightly different recommended Tera types (TPP just went with Ground / Grass for this one), and a simpler max/max+ SpA/Spe spread we've seen on offensive Volc in prior generations. I'll absolutely update it with this spread if QC wants me to, of course; I just wanted to start with what's on the Smogon page by default and update it as deemed necessary. Also willing to mention PsySpam with Psychic, although that may just be listed in the Other Options section of the whole Volc page.

I also know that we typically lean towards the three most common options when talking about something (move 1 / move 2 / move 3 or Tera type 1 / type 2 / type 3), but part of what makes Volc such an oppressive presence in OU right now is how it can abuse numerous different Tera types since in matchups it wins it only needs that one setup turn to put in work, or that one correct coverage option to brick a defensive check to a Volc running a different option. At which point should some Tera types be mentioned briefly in the analysis even if not listed in the set details, and at which point are they just relegated to OO (for instance, where does Tera Rock come into play)?

With all this in mind, I'm opening this up for QC. I just figured I'd add these clarifying questions/statements in a reply since Volcarona can do a lot this generation; more than in any prior generation, in fact.

EDIT: Also worth mentioning (shoutouts to TPP again) that Tera Grass with Sub+Giga Drain can 1v1 Clodsire as is, though I'm not sure where to include this quite yet.

EDIT 2: Updated the set to max/max; shoutouts to Tysonslayer for clarifying that the Smogon page's spread is just outdated for now!

EDIT 3: Switched the Tera type order around to prioritize Grass>Fairy, and also opted to only add mention of Psychic as a "fourth" choice in its fourth moveslot in favor of including Substitute.

 

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Offensive Volcarona

[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Spd / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STABs, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its defensive counterplay. Quiver Dance entirely enables Volcarona's role as a sweeper by boosting its Special Attack and Speed while simultaneously boosting its already-respectable Special Defense, rendering it much more difficult to eliminate. Flamethrower is this set's primary STAB of choice due to its higher power and PP than Fiery Dance and its consistent accuracy and much greater PP advantage over Fire Blast, but Fiery Dance's 50% chance to boost Volcarona's Special Attack while attacking is still worth considering due to its ability to allow Volcarona to quickly snowball This sentence is a bit wordy and a bit hard to read. Just mention how Flamethrower is the main option due to it's consistency, and then mention how Fiery Dance is a good alternative due to the 50% chance of boosting SpA. I'd opt to remove the Fire Blast mention since it's not in the set, but you can choose to keep it if you wanna. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garchomp and Dondozo neutrally. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of ignoring opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Tera Blast can drastically influence Volcarona's matchups depending on its Tera type of choice: Tera Ground offers Volcarona terrific coverage by hitting Clodsire, Toxapex, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit super effectively, while Tera Fairy grants it super effective coverage against Great Tusk, Iron Valiant, Dragonite, Garchomp, and Baxcalibur Mention Pult here as well, since it resists both of Volc's STABs on top of enabling setup opportunities against predicted Dragon-type attacks You already mention the pros of each Tera Type later on, so I'd say move the sentence about Tera Blast to when you talk about its Tera typing to avoid redundancy. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects, prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. A combination of Giga Drain, Substitute, and Tera Grass can let Volcarona beat Clodsire 1v1, as its Earthquake cannot break Tera Grass Volcarona's Substitute and Giga Drain outheals Substitute's damage. Psychic is a niche option on Psychic Spam teams with Indeedee support, as it hits all of Toxapex, Great Tusk, Iron Valiant, and Iron Hands harder than a super effective Tera Blast. Not worth the mention imo, since Psychic Spam isn't really viable atm. Heavy-Duty Boots are all but mandatory to run on any Volcarona set, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body is preferred over Swarm to improve Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance, while Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and a generally-strong defensive typing. However, Volcarona can utilize many Tera types, such as Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STABs, Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types, Steel for a Poison immunity and another generally-strong defensive typing, and even Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona as well as Iron Moth.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams, but is itself heavily matchup-dependent as it relies entirely on Quiver Dance and a choice between many viable Tera types and coverage options sweep This part isn't really needed. Instead put why it best suits offensive teams. Offensive Great Tusk and Replace and with a comma Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona End sentence here, as both their Great Tusk and Garchomp can provide entry hazard support and their own powerful STABs can wear down Volcarona's checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora can trade immediate damage for the ability to stack up even more entry hazards. Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Psyshock Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, Garganacl, and specially-defensive Skeledirge and Dondozo, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright Consider rewording this sentence, since the ability of the offensive Pokemon youve mentioned checking said walls is situational depending on Tera Type (quick example: CB Dragapult can struggle against Tera Fairy Garganacl. Volcarona physically cannot cover all its matchups due to how restrictive its moveslots are, so other lategame cleaners that effectively utilize Terastalization pair well with Volcarona to win matchups Volcarona isn't running the coverage options to handle. Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to win matchups against strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or Bulk Up Ceruledge that Volcarona may not be able to set up against or may not have the correct coverage option to eliminate itself. Lastly, Volcarona can fit well on Psychic Terrain teams, as it greatly appreciates the large boost to its Psychic should it opt to run it.

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Dancing Queen

[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Spd / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STABs moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its defensive counterplay. Quiver Dance entirely enables Volcarona's role as a sweeper by boosting its Special Attack and Speed while simultaneously boosting its already-respectable Special Defense, rendering it much more difficult to eliminate. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance, but Fiery Dance's 50% chance to boost Volcarona's Special Attack can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garchomp and Dondozo neutrally. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of ignoring opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Talk about Giga Drain before you move onto Volcarona's 4th move slot Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects, prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. A combination of Giga Drain, Substitute, and Tera Grass can let Volcarona beat Clodsire 1v1, as its Earthquake cannot break Tera Grass Volcarona's Substitute and Giga Drain outheals Substitute's damage. Heavy-Duty Boots are all but is mandatory to run on any Volcarona set, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body is preferred over Swarm to improve Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch. This sentence makes it sound like Swarm is a viable option over Flame Body. Just outline the fact that Flame Body can punish contact moves like the ones you have listed. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively, Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp and as well as Fighting-types like Iron Valiant, Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain Substitute+Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types, such as Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STABs, Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types, Steel for a Poison immunity and another generally-strong defensive typing, and even Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Dragonite, and Skeledirge super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams due to Quiver Dance's ability to turn Volcarona into an immediately powerful lategame sweeper. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Psyshock This is implied that Specs Valiant has Psyshock, as it does most of the time Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire and specially-defensive Skeledirge and Garganacl Dondozo, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright.; Breloom and Dragapult may struggle against some of Garganacl's Tera types, though. Vague and incorrect. Usually, the two tera types Garg runs are Water and Ghost, both of which Breloom or Dragapult can deal with individually. Volcarona physically cannot cover all its matchups due to how restrictive its moveslots are, so other lategame cleaners that effectively utilize Terastalization pair well with Volcarona to win matchups Volcarona isn't running the coverage options to handle. Fluff, just shorten this to say something along the lines of "Volcarona is limited by its moveslots, and therefore appreciates partners who provide similar coverage such as..." Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to win matchups against beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or and Cinderace Bulk Up Ceruledge that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or may not have the correct coverage option to eliminate.

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Dancing Queen

[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Spd / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STABs moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its defensive counterplay. Quiver Dance entirely enables Volcarona's role as a sweeper by boosting its Special Attack and Speed while simultaneously boosting its already-respectable Special Defense, rendering it much more difficult to eliminate. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance, but Fiery Dance's 50% chance to boost Volcarona's Special Attack can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garchomp and Dondozo neutrally. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of ignoring opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Talk about Giga Drain before you move onto Volcarona's 4th move slot Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects, prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. A combination of Giga Drain, Substitute, and Tera Grass can let Volcarona beat Clodsire 1v1, as its Earthquake cannot break Tera Grass Volcarona's Substitute and Giga Drain outheals Substitute's damage. Heavy-Duty Boots are all but is mandatory to run on any Volcarona set, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body is preferred over Swarm to improve Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch. This sentence makes it sound like Swarm is a viable option over Flame Body. Just outline the fact that Flame Body can punish contact moves like the ones you have listed. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively, Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp and as well as Fighting-types like Iron Valiant, Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain Substitute+Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types, such as Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STABs, Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types, Steel for a Poison immunity and another generally-strong defensive typing, and even Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Dragonite, and Skeledirge super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams due to Quiver Dance's ability to turn Volcarona into an immediately powerful lategame sweeper. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Psyshock This is implied that Specs Valiant has Psyshock, as it does most of the time Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire and specially-defensive Skeledirge and Garganacl Dondozo, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright.; Breloom and Dragapult may struggle against some of Garganacl's Tera types, though. Vague and incorrect. Usually, the two tera types Garg runs are Water and Ghost, both of which Breloom or Dragapult can deal with individually. Volcarona physically cannot cover all its matchups due to how restrictive its moveslots are, so other lategame cleaners that effectively utilize Terastalization pair well with Volcarona to win matchups Volcarona isn't running the coverage options to handle. Fluff, just shorten this to say something along the lines of "Volcarona is limited by its moveslots, and therefore appreciates partners who provide similar coverage such as..." Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to win matchups against beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or and Cinderace Bulk Up Ceruledge that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or may not have the correct coverage option to eliminate.

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[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Spd / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Quiver Dance entirely enables Volcarona's role as a sweeper by boosting its Special Attack and Speed while simultaneously boosting its already-respectable Special Defense, rendering it much more difficult to eliminate. (fluff, no need to explain the boosting move when it's the crux of the set and is mentioned on the first sentence) Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance, but Fiery Dance's 50% chance to boost Volcarona's Special Attack can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball. (most of this sentence is just dex info, are there any OHKO or 2HKO benchmarks you can achieve by running flamethrower over fiery dance? like this +1 252 SpA Volcarona Flamethrower vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 376-444 (101.3 - 119.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO) Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garganacl, Garchomp, (ac) and Dondozo neutrally. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of ignoring bypassing opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, (ac) Quaquaval, and Azumarill (since they resist both of your stab) very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects (such as from?), prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, 1v1, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is mandatory to run on any Volcarona set, (try not to refer to other sets) as the item to removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch (such as from? also mention how punishing phys attackers with flame body gives u more setup opportunities, even potentially supporting its teammates as well). Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance (way too vague (we have no relevant electrics nor rockers), rather just be specific and mention you resist garg's salt cure and immune to rotom-w's twave) while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Iron Valiant, (dies to +1 fire move and it cant really do anything to u) Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types; (as) , (rc) such as Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STABs moves, Tera Psychic + Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex, (ac) Clodsire, (significant odds to 2HKO clod, which tera ground cant do) and Fighting-types, Tera Steel for an Poison immunity to poison and another it's a generally-strong defensive typing, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition wincon for offensive teams due to Quiver Dance's ability to turn Volcarona into an immediately powerful lategame sweeper. (maybe mention support options in HOs like screens and orthworm shed tail for it to setup easier in here) Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. (mention you pressure corv from defogging in return) Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially-defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run. (be specific, like what are the appropriate teammates that it need if it isnt running giga, or if it isnt tera ground, etc. dont have to be for all coverage, just relevant examples) Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. (if volc isnt sweeping itself, is there a possibility that it opens up opportunities for its teammates instead? especially if it runs the appropriate tera to lure in and bop shared checks, like tera ground/psychic means you easily overwhelm clod & pex for iron valiant etc.)

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[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 Spd / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Quiver Dance entirely enables Volcarona's role as a sweeper by boosting its Special Attack and Speed while simultaneously boosting its already-respectable Special Defense, rendering it much more difficult to eliminate. (fluff, no need to explain the boosting move when it's the crux of the set and is mentioned on the first sentence) Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance, but Fiery Dance's 50% chance to boost Volcarona's Special Attack can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball. (most of this sentence is just dex info, are there any OHKO or 2HKO benchmarks you can achieve by running flamethrower over fiery dance? like this +1 252 SpA Volcarona Flamethrower vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 376-444 (101.3 - 119.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO) Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garganacl, Garchomp, (ac) and Dondozo neutrally. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of ignoring bypassing opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, (ac) Quaquaval, and Azumarill (since they resist both of your stab) very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects (such as from?), prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, 1v1, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is mandatory to run on any Volcarona set, (try not to refer to other sets) as the item to removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch (such as from? also mention how punishing phys attackers with flame body gives u more setup opportunities, even potentially supporting its teammates as well). Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance (way too vague (we have no relevant electrics nor rockers), rather just be specific and mention you resist garg's salt cure and immune to rotom-w's twave) while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Iron Valiant, (dies to +1 fire move and it cant really do anything to u) Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types; (as) , (rc) such as Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STABs moves, Tera Psychic + Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex, (ac) Clodsire, (significant odds to 2HKO clod, which tera ground cant do) and Fighting-types, Tera Steel for an Poison immunity to poison and another it's a generally-strong defensive typing, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition wincon for offensive teams due to Quiver Dance's ability to turn Volcarona into an immediately powerful lategame sweeper. (maybe mention support options in HOs like screens and orthworm shed tail for it to setup easier in here) Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. (mention you pressure corv from defogging in return) Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially-defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run. (be specific, like what are the appropriate teammates that it need if it isnt running giga, or if it isnt tera ground, etc. dont have to be for all coverage, just relevant examples) Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. (if volc isnt sweeping itself, is there a possibility that it opens up opportunities for its teammates instead? especially if it runs the appropriate tera to lure in and bop shared checks, like tera ground/psychic means you easily overwhelm clod & pex for iron valiant etc.)

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Dreadfury, 408271]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Implemented pretty much all of this!

 

[autumn]

2/2, also feel fre to credit royal as well since they're qc now and you implemented it all

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[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance and that can always OHKO offensive Great Tusk after a Quiver Dance, but Fiery Dance can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball should it accrue additional boosts with it. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and Garchomp and Dondozo neutrally. (i think it's worth just mentioning how it's decent neutral coverage in general0 Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of bypassing opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, Azumarill, and Quaquaval very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Substitute is worth considering to block status effects from the likes of Toxapex and Nuzzle Hatterene, prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is almost mandatory to run on Volcarona, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves like U-Turn, Knock Off, and Sucker Punch. (give some examples of what runs these so it's not just dex info) Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types; Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STAB moves, Tera Psychic alongside Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types and offering a significant chance to 2HKO Clodsire compared to a super effective Tera Blast, Tera Steel for an immunity to Poison with a generally strong defensive profile, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams and greatly appreciates any sort of support that helps facilitate its sweep. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. (lead meowscarada might be worth a mention for ho too) In return, Volcarona can threaten Corviknight, preventing its Defog from removing their entry hazards. Volcarona greatly appreciates Dual Screens support from Grimmsnarl and Shed Tail support from Orthworm to open up more setup opportunities and to allow it to set up multiple Quiver Dances. Orthworm in particular completely walls Clodsire, turning it into free opportunities to use Shed Tail. Choice Band Breloom, Choice Specs Iron Valiant, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially-defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. (don't necessarily think you need to specify choice sets - on ho teams its likely theyd run setup as well) Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run; Tera Fairy Volcarona appreciates strong Ground-type attacks from Great Tusk and Garchomp to remove Clodsire, Skeledirge, and Toxapex, while Tera Grass and Tera Ground Volcarona appreciate Choice Band Dragapult's ability to pressure Dragon-types like Dragonite and Garchomp, as well as opposing Volcarona, with Dragon Darts. Other powerful Tera users (not sure why them being tera users is worth mentioning? especially if youre running tera blast volc you have a dead slot. the point is useful tbh because they're prio users more than anything) like Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to beat strong physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. In cases where Volcarona itself cannot sweep, it can still use its power and coverage to enable another teammate's sweep. For example, Iron Valiant appreciates Tera Ground and Tera Psychic Volcarona's ability to wear down or eliminate Toxapex and Clodsire, allowing it to more freely spam its powerful Moonblast lategame.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Dreadfury, 408271]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Dreadfury]

Implemented the remaining suggestions and credited both of you! Ready for my GP check!

 

[Dreadfury]

Should I add Walking Wake as a Tera Blast Fairy target, or is that jumping the gun a little?

 

[Sabelette]

Amcheck!

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(AC) (AH) Add Comma/Add Hyphen, (RC) (RH) Remove Comma/Remove Hyphen

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[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame sweeper due to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB with more PP than Fiery Dance and that can always OHKO offensive Great Tusk after a Quiver Dance, but Fiery Dance can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball should it accrue additional boosts with it. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and offers strong neutral coverage against threats like Garchomp and Dondozo. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of bypassing bypasses opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, Azumarill, and Quaquaval very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's choice of Tera type of choice (“of choice” sounds to me like what you say when suggesting one type is best, where here you’re saying there’s multiple options). Substitute is worth considering to block status effects from the likes of Toxapex and Nuzzle Hatterene, prevent revenge killing attempts, or ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is almost mandatory to run on Volcarona, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves from Meowscarada, Great Tusk, and Kingambit. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively, (AC) Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing, and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types;: (semicolon didn’t work because the remainder of the sentence isn’t an independent clause, so colon fixes it) Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STAB moves, Tera Psychic alongside Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types and offering a significant chance to 2HKO Clodsire compared to a super effective Tera Blast (this feels a little wordy, is anything lost by dropping “compared to” onward?), Tera Steel for an immunity to Poison with and a generally strong defensive profile, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams and greatly appreciates any sort of support that helps facilitate its sweep. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. Lead Meowscarada also makes for an effective teammate due to its ability to reliably set up Spikes while both disrupting passive threats like Toxapex and Clodsire, drastically limiting Grimmsnarl leads, and preventing setup from offensive staples like Dragonite, Kingambit, and opposing Volcarona with its fast Taunt. In return, Volcarona can threaten Corviknight, preventing its Defog from removing their entry hazards. Volcarona greatly appreciates Dual Screens support from Grimmsnarl and Shed Tail support from Orthworm to open up more setup opportunities and to allow it to set up multiple Quiver Dances (again is anything lost here by cutting “allow it to set up multiple QDs” when you’ve mentioned giving it setup time already?). Orthworm in particular completely walls Clodsire, turning it into free opportunities to use Shed Tail. Iron Valiant, Choice Band Breloom, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially-(RH) defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run; Tera Fairy Volcarona appreciates strong Ground-type attacks from Great Tusk and Garchomp to remove Clodsire, Skeledirge, and Toxapex, while Tera Grass and Tera Ground Volcarona appreciate Choice Band Dragapult's ability to pressure Dragon-types like Dragonite and Garchomp, as well as opposing Volcarona, with Dragon Darts. Other sweepers like Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to beat strong (consider a synonym like “powerful” just for redundancy with prior “strong”) physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. In cases where Volcarona itself cannot sweep, it can still use its power and coverage to enable another teammate's sweep. For example, Iron Valiant appreciates Tera Ground and Tera Psychic Volcarona's ability to wear down or eliminate Toxapex and Clodsire, allowing it to more freely spam its powerful Moonblast lategame, (AC) while Dragonite appreciates Volcarona's ability to deal with Corviknight.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Dreadfury, 408271]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [royalfluxh, 493260], [autumn, 384270]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[autumn]

1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Flamethrower / Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast / Substitute / Giga Drain
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Grass / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk

[SET COMMENTS]
Offensive Volcarona is an extremely threatening lategame late-game sweeper due to its access to Quiver Dance alongside its powerful STAB moves, great offensive coverage, and excellent utilization of Terastalization Terastallization both defensively and offensively to dramatically limit its counterplay. Flamethrower is a strong, consistent STAB move with more PP than Fiery Dance and that can always OHKO offensive Great Tusk after a Quiver Dance, but Fiery Dance can allow Volcarona to quickly snowball should it accrue additional boosts with it. Bug Buzz is a similarly consistent attack that hits Ting-Lu and Roaring Moon super effectively and offers strong neutral coverage against threats like Garchomp and Dondozo. Bug Buzz also has the added benefit of bypassing bypasses opposing Substitutes, which improves its matchup against teams that rely on Orthworm's Shed Tail. Giga Drain grants Volcarona some additional longevity and allows it to hit Water-types like Dondozo, Azumarill, and Quaquaval very hard. Tera Blast offers powerful, diverse coverage depending on Volcarona's choice of Tera type of choice (“of choice” sounds to me like what you say when suggesting one type is best, where here you’re saying there’s multiple options). Substitute is worth considering to block status effects from the likes of Toxapex and Nuzzle Hatterene, prevent revenge killing attempts, or and ease setup opportunities, especially against teams featuring Sucker Punch users like Kingambit and Meowscarada. Moreover, Substitute alongside Giga Drain and Tera Grass allows Volcarona to reliably beat Clodsire one-on-one, as Clodsire cannot break Volcarona's Substitute with a single Earthquake and Giga Drain outheals damage taken from Substitute. Heavy-Duty Boots is almost mandatory to run on Volcarona, as the item removes its otherwise-crippling weakness to all forms of entry hazards, especially Stealth Rock. Flame Body improves Volcarona's defensive utility by deterring contact moves from Meowscarada, Great Tusk, and Kingambit. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity and turns its crippling Rock weakness into a resistance while giving Volcarona's Tera Blast Ground-type coverage to deal with Toxapex, Clodsire, and opposing Fire-types like Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Tera Fire Kingambit. Alternatively, (AC) Tera Fairy provides a Dragon immunity and an overall strong defensive typing (RC) and allows Volcarona's Tera Blast to threaten Dragon-types like Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Dragonite, and Garchomp as well as Fighting-types like Quaquaval and Iron Hands. If it opts to drop Tera Blast or Substitute and Giga Drain, Volcarona can utilize many other Tera types;: (semicolon didn’t work because the remainder of the sentence isn’t an independent clause, so colon fixes it) Tera Fire or Bug to strengthen its existing STAB moves, Tera Psychic alongside Psychic to enable maximum damage against Toxapex and Fighting-types and offering offer a significant chance to 2HKO Clodsire compared to a super effective Tera Blast (this feels a little wordy, is anything lost by dropping “compared to” onward?) (ou qc, removed), Tera Steel for an immunity to Poison with and a generally strong defensive profile, and even Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast to lure in and eliminate opposing Volcarona while still hitting Iron Moth, Skeledirge, and Dragonite super effectively.

Volcarona is a very powerful win condition for offensive teams and greatly appreciates any sort of support that helps facilitate its sweep. Offensive Great Tusk, Garchomp, and Glimmora are fantastic teammates for Volcarona. Great Tusk and Garchomp provide entry hazard support and can wear down checks like Garganacl and Clodsire, while Glimmora trades immediate power for the ability to stack multiple entry hazards. Lead Meowscarada also makes for an effective teammate due to its ability to reliably set up Spikes while both disrupting passive threats like Toxapex and Clodsire, drastically limiting Grimmsnarl leads, and preventing setup from offensive staples like Dragonite, Kingambit, and opposing Volcarona with its fast Taunt. In return, Volcarona can threaten Corviknight, preventing its Defog from removing their entry hazards. Volcarona greatly appreciates Dual Screens dual screens support from Grimmsnarl and Shed Tail support from Orthworm to open up more setup opportunities and to allow it to set up multiple Quiver Dances (again is anything lost here by cutting “allow it to set up multiple QDs” when you’ve mentioned giving it setup time already?) (seems pretty redundant, removed). Orthworm in particular completely walls Clodsire, turning it into free opportunities to use Shed Tail. Iron Valiant, Choice Band Breloom, and Choice Band Dragapult can help wear down or remove walls like Clodsire, specially-(RH) defensive Skeledirge, and Garganacl, allowing Volcarona to more easily finish the job against them or to sweep outright. Volcarona is very limited by its moveslots and therefore appreciates teammates that provide the coverage Volcarona itself cannot always run; Tera Fairy Volcarona appreciates strong Ground-type attacks from Great Tusk and Garchomp to remove Clodsire, Skeledirge, and Toxapex, while Tera Grass and Tera Ground Volcarona appreciate Choice Band Dragapult's ability to pressure Dragon-types like Dragonite and Garchomp, as well as opposing Volcarona, with Dragon Darts. Other sweepers like Kingambit and Tera Normal Dragonite are effective teammates for offensive Volcarona, as they can use their great bulk and strong priority to beat strong (consider a synonym like “powerful” just for redundancy with prior “strong”) physical attackers like Dragapult, Baxcalibur, or and Cinderace that Volcarona itself may not be able to set up against or eliminate. In cases where Volcarona itself cannot sweep, it can still use its power and coverage to enable another teammate's sweep. For example, Iron Valiant appreciates Tera Ground and Tera Psychic Volcarona's ability to wear down or eliminate Toxapex and Clodsire, allowing it to more freely spam its powerful Moonblast lategame late-game, (AC) while Dragonite appreciates Volcarona's ability to deal with Corviknight.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Dreadfury, 408271]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [royalfluxh, 493260], [autumn, 384270]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Dreadfury]

Implemented and implemented! Credited both of you for the GP checks.

And with that, Offensive Volcarona is now finished!