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Quality Control On Mighty Wings, Assault Vest Slither Wing [QC 0/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
Slither Wing @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel
Adamant Nature
- First Impression
- Close Combat
- U-turn
- Earthquake/Flare Blitz

[SET COMMENTS]
With an excellent base 135 Attack stat, STAB on the revenge killing machine First Impression, and the momentum generating U-turn complimented by Close Combat, Slither Wing establishes itself as an excellent choice on sun teams as a pivot and a revenge killer. With First Impression, Slither Wing can OHKO Roaring Moon, Darkrai, Ogerpon-W, Rillaboom, and other chipped threats. U-turn allows Slither Wing to capitalize on predictable switches or a potential Tera that Slither Wing forces on the likes of Garganacl or chipping slower Pokemon to offer Close Combat is a simple yet powerful STAB that is boosted further with Protosynthesis that lets Slither Wing in sun 2HKOing Great Tusk, and Raging Bolt while also OHKOing Kyurem and Garganacl. The last slot is a choice between Earthquake and Flare Blitz; Flare Blitz is boosted by the sun that Slither Wing is almost always paired with, enabling OHKOs on Corviknight and Gholdengo at the cost of recoil damage that adds up over time hurting Slither Wing's longevity as a pivot. Earthquake is a safer option that hits Ground-weak Pokemon such as Galarian Slowking, Gholdengo without Air Balloon, and Iron Treads, without any downside, however, it no longer threatens Corviknight and Air Balloon Corviknight and loses out various ranges such as an OHKO on Iron Treads. Assault Vest leverages Slither Wing’s excellent natural special bulk allowing it to tank hits from faster special attackers such as Darkrai, Offensive Gholdengo, and Glimmora so that teammates can safely come in. Assault Vest can also save Slither Wing from OHKOs such as Iron Moth’s Fiery Dance even when sun is up, opposing Walking Wake’s Draco Meteor under sun, and even standard unboosted Iron Valiant and Enamorus’ Moonblast 252 Attack with an Adamant nature maximizes damage on all Slither Wing’s moves allowing it to reliably hit the ranges mentioned throughout this analysis while 252 Speed allows it to outspeed various bulky attackers, most notably Modest Raging Bolt, Primarina, and Adamant Dragonite. Tera Steel allows Slither Wing to resist Roaring Moon Acrobatics, and various Fairy and Psychic moves that normally threaten it such as Moonblasts from Iron Valiant and Enamorus, and Psyshock from Iron Crown, and Stealth Rock damage enhancing its pivot abilities further.


This Slither Wing set is almost exclusively found on sun teams that appreciate its unique traits as a sun beneficiary. Torkoal provides Stealth Rock and Rapid Spins away the hazards that cut into Slither Wing's HP every time it comes in and in turn, Slither Wing threatens Ogerpon-W and Hisuian Samurott who are great dangers to Torkoal. Ninetales offers a faster partner who can take KOs with the chip Slither Wing forces around and appreciates the slower pivoting Slither Wing provides to give safe entry for Ninetales. Walking Wake loves the pivoting Slither Wing provides and appreciates Slither Wing's ability to take care of Walking Wake’s checks such as Ogerpon-W and Blissey via First Impression. In turn, Walking Wake's sheer power obliterates Gliscor, Moltres, Dondozo, Cinderace, and Landorus-T which Slither Wing would otherwise struggle to dent. Like Torkoal, Great Tusk spins away hazards that threaten Slither Wing and provides a solid check to many Dragonite sets after Slither Wing U-turns to break Multiscale. In general, sun Teams love Slither Wing's ability to pivot, revenge kill for their many sun abusers, and threaten difficult matchups such as Garganacl, Roaring Moon, Kyurem, Kingambit,and Galarian Slowking, meanwhile, Slither Wing appreciates sun Pokemon capitalizing on the momentum it generates and covering the things Slither Wing can't threaten such as Dragonite, and Moltres.

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When done lmk so I can look it over, then it will be QC 1/2.
[SET]
Slither Wing @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Steel
Adamant Nature
- First Impression
- Close Combat
- U-turn
- Earthquake/Flare Blitz

[SET COMMENTS]
With an excellent base 135 Attack stat, STAB on the revenge killing machine, (rc) First Impression, and the momentum generating U-turn complimented by with the dangerous too much, just say close combat Close Combat., Started the line with "With", should be a comma not a period. Slither Wing establishes itself as an excellent choice on sun teams as a pivot and a revenge killer. With First Impression, Slither Wing can stop Roaring Moon, Darkrai, Ogerpon-W, Rillaboom, and other chipped threats dead in their tracks I would prefer this reworded to emphasize that it OHKOs the listed mons. Stop is vague, OHKO is objective.. U-turn allows Slither Wing to capitalize on predictable switches or a potential Tera that Slither Wing forces on the likes of Garganacl and Ting-Lu or chipping slower Pokemon that Slither Wing may struggle to defeat such as Dondozo, Clefable, and Hatterene while dealing chip damage Ting wouldn't stay in vs this even if it teras since it can't do much back. It's mostly for chip and forcing things out to get in breakers. Remove ting and reword it.. Close Combat is a simple yet powerful STAB that is boosted further with Protosynthesis that lets Slither Wing, (rc) under in sun 2HKO a majority of Great Tusks, and Raging Bolts while also OHKOing almost every single relevant fighting weak Pokemon and is still greatly threatening outside of sun what is the majority of tusk and bolt? Does it 2hko max hp, does it 2hko offensive? Be exact. Generic mention of ohkoing every fighting weak isn't super useful, half of them die to uturn anyway. Mention say garg, kyurem, etc.. The last slot is a choice between Earthquake and Flare Blitz,; Flare Blitz is boosted by the sun that Slither Wing is almost always paired with, enabling and OHKOs on Corviknight and Gholdengo but comes at the cost of dealing recoil damage that adds up over time hurting Slither Wing's longevity as a pivot. Earthquake is a safer option that hits gGround-weak Pokemon such as Galarian Slowking, and Gholdengo without Air Balloon, and Iron Treads, and the like without any downside, however, due to not being boosted by sun or being STAB, Earthquake will sometimes fail to KO the Pokemon mentioned above Be more specific, it can't immediately threaten balloon dengo and it can fail to ohko treads, but above you mentioned corv which it now can't hit at all.. Assault Vest leverages Slither Wing’s excellent natural special bulk allowing it to tank hits from faster special attackers such as Darkrai, Offensive Gholdengo, and Glimmora so that teammates can safely come in. Assault Vest can also save Slither Wing from OHKOs such as Iron Moth’s Fiery Dance even when sun is up, opposing Walking Wake’s Draco Meteor under sun, and even standard unboosted Iron Valiant and Enamorus’ Moonblasts. This does not mean that Slither Wing is like a Blissey that can eat special attacks all day but instead, it can tank a majority of special attacks and then U-turn out for a safe switch into a teammate doesn't really say much, trimming. 252 Attack with an Adamant nature maximizes damage on all Slither Wing’s moves allowing it to reliably hit the ranges mentioned throughout this analysis while 252 Speed allows it to outspeed various bulky attackers, most notably Modest Raging Bolt, Primarina, and Adamant Dragonite Normally max max spreads don't need explanation, but the speed tiers here can be useful if you want to include those still.. Tera Steel allows Slither Wing to resist Roaring Moon Acrobatics, and various Fairy and Psychic moves that normally threaten it, Like?(ac) and allowing it to take less chip damage from Stealth Rock damage enhancing its pivot abilities even more further.

This particular subspecies of Slither Wing set it sounds nice but it's not clear is almost exclusively found on sun teams that appreciate its unique traits as a sun beneficiary. Torkoal provides Stealth Rock and Rapid Spins away the hazards that cut into Slither Wing's HP every time it comes in and in turn, Slither Wing threatens Ogerpon-W and Hisuian Samurott who are great dangers to Torkoal. Ninetales offers a faster partner who can take KOs with the chip Slither Wing forces around and appreciates the slower pivoting Slither Wing provides to give safe entry for Ninetales. The mandatory Walking Wake on sun realistically walking wake should be on sun but it's definitely not mandatory, just reword that it's a great teammate that also makes use of sun loves the pivoting Slither Wing provides and appreciates Slither Wing's ability to take care of faster opponents via First Impression what faster pokemon really threaten walke? wake in sun is already really fast, it more has issues with waterpon and spdef water resists which slither is good at punishing.. In turn, Walking Wake's sheer power obliterates Gliscor, Moltres, Dondozo, Cinderace, and Landorus-T which Slither Wing would otherwise struggle to dent. Like Torkoal, Great Tusk spins away hazards that threaten Slither Wing and provides a solid check to many Dragonite sets after Slither Wing U-turns to break Multiscale. In general, sun Teams love Slither Wing's ability to pivot, revenge kill for their many sun abusers, and threaten difficult matchups such as Garganacl, Roaring Moon, and Galarian Slowking, (ac) meanwhile Slither Wing appreciates sun Pokemon capitalizing on the momentum it generates and covering the things Slither Wing can't threaten such as Dragonite and Moltres. I would also add somewhere in here that it provides a good gambit check and that it helps vs kyurem since both have a habit of causing issues for sun.


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