NU Perrserker (Assault Vest) [QC 1/1] [GP 1/1]

[Stories]

[SET]
name: Assault Vest Pivot
move 1: Iron Head
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Close Combat / Seed Bomb
move 4: Fake Out
item: Assault Vest
ability: Tough Claws
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
tera type: Ghost

[SET COMMENTS]

Perrserker's Steel typing and access to U-turn make it an excellent defensive pivot. With an Assault Vest, Perrserker can sponge a hit from special attackers like Appletun, Jolteon, and Zoroark and retaliate back with Tough Claws-boosted moves. Close Combat hits staples like Chansey and Jolteon, as well as Tera Steel users like Appletun and Eelektross. Seed Bomb hits Sandaconda without worrying about Rocky Helmet, as well as Water-types like Bruxish and Vaporeon. Tough Claws-boosted Fake Out is a great contingency against setup sweepers, allowing Perrserker to get free damage against them by pivoting in and out until Fake Out KOes. Perrserker uses Tera Ghost to turn the tables on Fighting-types like Passimian and Toxicroak, but Tera Fighting or Grass can be used to boost its coverage move. Perrserker's ability to pivot effectively means powerful breakers that appreciate free entry like Bruxish and Clawitzer make for great partners; these two in particular also greatly threaten common Perrserker checks like Sandaconda and Oricorio. Perrserker also works effectively with other pivots like Rotom and Scyther to create strong VoltTurn cores.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[Rabia]

move the Tera sentence to NOT come after the teammates; it's just better organization that way to have set comments -> team comments

maybe look to address the wording of how well exactly Perrserker is tanking these hits? because really Perrserker can only take on some of the Pokemon you mentioned in the second sentence in an ideal one-on-one encounter. it can't actually switch into Zoroark's spammable Dark Pulse without being swiftly 2HKOed, and something like Jolteon can always just Volt Switch as you enter

qc 1/1 when that's done, mon simple

 

[Stories]

GP Team

 

[Sabelette]

GP 1/1 GP Team done

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

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[SET]
name: Assault Vest Pivot
move 1: Iron Head
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Close Combat / Seed Bomb
move 4: Fake Out
item: Assault Vest
ability: Tough Claws
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
tera type: Ghost

[SET COMMENTS]

Perrserker's Steel-typing (RH) and access to U-turn make it an excellent defensive pivot. With an Assault Vest, Perrserker can sponge a hit from special attackers like Appletun, Jolteon, and Zoroark and retaliate back with Tough Claws-boosted moves. Close Combat hits common staples (redundant) like Chansey, (RC) and Jolteon, and as well as Tera Steel users like Appletun and Eelektross (this seems like they should be separated but ignore these changes if you're saying Tera Steel Appletun/Eelektross are staples of the metagame). Seed Bomb hits Sandaconda without worrying about Rocky Helmet, (RC) as well as Water-types like Bruxish and Vaporeon. Tough Claws-boosted Fake Out is a great contingency against setup sweepers, allowing Perrserker to getting free damage against them which can be repeated by pivoting in and out until Fake Out KOes. Perrserker uses Tera Ghost to turn the tables on Fighting-types like Passimian and Toxicroak, but Tera Fighting or Grass could can be used to boost its coverage move. Perrserker's ability to pivot effectively means powerful breakers that appreciate free entry like Bruxish and Clawitzer make for great partners; these two in particular also greatly threaten common Perrserker checks like Sandaconda and Oricorio (add forme letter to the end) . Perrserker also works effectively with other pivots like Rotom and Scyther to create strong VoltTurn cores.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sabelette.583793/