OU Kyurem

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Kyurem @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Freeze-Dry
- Earth Power
- Roost

With significant threats such as Cinderace and Magearna banished from the tier, Kyurem is back in the spotlight and looks to terrorize OU once again. Pressure, Heavy-Duty Boots, Freeze-Dry, and it's impressive bulk, elevate Kyurem's status as a threat within the tier. Freeze-Dry deals with Pokemon like Slowking, Toxapex, and Rotom-W. Earth Power deals with foes that resist Freeze Dry such as Heatran and Melmetal. Substitute allows Kyurem to take advantage of passive Pokemon like Slowking and Toxapex while also letting it waste their PPs more effectively. Roost provides much needed longevity, while Heavy-Duty Boots ameliorates Kyurem's unfortunate weakness to Stealth Rock. Kyurem appreciates teammates like Swords Dance Landorus-T and Swords Dance Scizor that can overpower Corviknight. Pokemon that can effectively pressure Clefable like Zeraora and Dragapult also pair up well with Kyurem.
 
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Katy

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Since Dragapult is rising in usage and status spreading is pretty common I would mention Tapu Fini as a great partner for Kyurem and the rest of the teams to disrupt status with Misty Terrain and is also a way to help against Dragapult. Also Kyurem and Tapu Fini share great synergy with each other.
 
:SS/kyurem:

Kyurem @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Freeze-Dry
- Earth Power
- Roost

With significant threats such as Cinderace and Magearna banished from the tier, Kyurem is back in the spotlight and looks to terrorize OU once again. Pressure, Heavy-Duty Boots, new found access to Freeze Dry, and it's impressive bulk, all of which elevate Kyurem's status as a threat within the tier. Freeze Dry deals with prominent Water-, Flying-, Ground-, and Dragon-types this is all unnecessary; describing the type chart is genuinely insulting, so just mention that you're using it because you're hitting slowking / pex / rotom-w super effectively. like Toxapex, Zapdos, Swampert, and Hydreigon. Earth Power is prominent in dealing with Steel- and Fire-type Pokemon that resist Freeze Dry this is such an unnecessarily complicated way of saying "epower hits ice resists" such as Heatran and Melmetal. Substitute allows Kyurem to take advantage of passive Pokemon like Toxapex add mentions of slowking here; make king the first example. while also further enhancing its role as an effective pressure staller I'd avoid using terminology like this since we don't really refer to shit like that in general + it causes problems with gp and the general social media audience so to save you the trouble, I want you to rephrase that into something like "while also letting it waste pp more effectively". Roost provides much needed longevity while Heavy-Duty Boots ameliorates Kyurem's unfortunate Stealth Rock matchup. Magnezone acts as a great teammate alongside Kyurem due to its ability to trap and deal with troublesome Steel-type Pokemon like Corviknight that threaten Kyurem. Magnezone is also capable of dealing with Fairy-types like Clefable that prove to be threatening for Kyurem.
If you have the room, I'd like to see some mentions of partners that can overload corviknight like sd lando or sd scizor since zone isn't necessarily the most practical partner. Honestly you could also just drop the zone mention and add mentions of mons that can also pressure clef alongside kyurem, like zera, pult, clef, w/e since realistically that's way more important than exclusively trapping corvi.



Good work. QC 1/1

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Kyurem @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Freeze-Dry
- Earth Power
- Roost

With significant threats such as Cinderace and Magearna banished from the tier, Kyurem is back in the spotlight and looks to terrorize OU once again. Pressure, Heavy-Duty Boots, new found access to Freeze-Dry(AH), and it's its impressive bulk,(RC) all of which elevate Kyurem's status as a threat within the tier. Freeze-Dry(AH) deals with Pokemon like Slowking, Toxapex, and Rotom-W. Earth Power is prominent in dealing deals with Freeze Dry resists foes that resist Freeze-Dry such as Heatran and Melmetal. Substitute allows Kyurem to take advantage of passive Pokemon like Slowking and Toxapex while also letting it waste their PPs more effectievly effectively. Roost provides much needed longevity,(AC) while Heavy-Duty Boots ameliorates Kyurem's unfortunate weakness to Stealth Rock matchup. Kyurem appreciates teammates like Swords Dance Landorus-T and Swords Dance Scizor that can threaten Corviknight. Pokemon that can effectively pressure Clefable like Zeraora and Dragapult also pair up well with Kyurem.
 

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