Overview
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- Strong duck robot
- Great abilities and a good movepool
- Boosting moves Agility NP
- Weak STAB, outside Adaptability
- Bad typing, offensively and defensively
- Can annoy its own counters on a choice set due to access to Trick
Double Dance
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name: Double Dance
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Nasty Plot
move 4: Agility
ability: Adaptability
item: Life Orb
evs: 80 HP / 252 SAtk / 176 Spe
nature: Modest
Moves
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- Tri Attack is a strong STAB boosted by Adaptability
- Dark Pulse provides perfect 2 move coverage
- Nasty Plot against defensive teams
- Agility against offensive teams
Set Details
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- All the Speed you'll want after an Agility (ScarfApe) while still outspeeding most walls unboosted
- Life Orb boosts all attacks consistently
- Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Lum/Silk Scarf
Usage Tips
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- Choose what and when to set up based on the opposing team. Stall gets destroyed by NP while frail offense or just weakened teams get cleaned up after an Agility
- Try bluffing a choice set early game if not much risk is involved, which will allow you to set up easier late game
- Dark Pulse never outdamages Tri Attack except against Ghost and Psychic types if running Adaptability, making it the safer move to spam on predicted switches
Team Options
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- U-turn/Volt Switch
- Something to remove annoying MAggron
- Wallbreakers that let P-Z clean up
Choice Specs
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name: Choice Specs
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Thunderbolt
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Dark Pulse / Trick
ability: Adaptability / Download
item: Choice Specs
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spd
nature: Modest / Timid
Moves
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- Tri Attack is STAB
- Thunderbolt hits Pokemon like Suicune on the switch for more damage than Tri Attack
- Ice Beam hits Noivern, Hydreigon and the rest harder
- Dark Pulse for perfect coverage
- Trick to mess with a wall switching in for the rest of the battle
Set Details
========
- Choice Specs makes Porygon-Z extremely strong, making it incredibly hard to switch in to
Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Download is a risky extra boost to all special attacks
- Modest gives you more power but you now to lose to Jolly Heracross and Timid Nidoking
- Timid beats them at the cost of power
Usage Tips
========
- Just break walls, that's really it
- Bluff a Scarf and force something out, then hit the switch for a lot more damage
- Trick requires prediction but can really mess with something like Snorlax, but is also a 1 time thing, so make sure you do it at the right time
Team Options
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- Physical wallbreakers such as Heracross
- Something to remove Steel types and to a lesser extent Ghosts so Choiced P-Z can spam Tri Attack
- Any form of Speed control. Paralysis/Sticky Web/Tailwind
Choice Scarf
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name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Thunderbolt / Trick
move 4: Ice Beam
ability: Adaptability / Download
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
nature: Modest
Moves
========
- Tri Attack is STAB boosted by Adaptability
- Dark Pulse for perfect coverage
- Thunderbolt hits Pokemon like Suicune on the switch for more damage than Tri Attack
- Ice Beam hits Noivern, Hydreigon and the rest harder
- Trick to mess with a wall switching in for the rest of the battle
Set Details
========
- Choice Specs makes Porygon-Z extremely strong, making it incredibly hard to switch in to
Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Download is a risky extra boost to all special attacks
- Modest because Hera is gone and Scarf King is bad
Usage Tips
========
- Just break walls, that's really it
- Use as a revenge killer, but keep in mind the things it commonly revenges it can never switch in to, so if you suspect the opponent will switch out then act on it, as Porygon-Z will likely 2HKO anything not named Snorlax
- Trick requires prediction but can really mess with something like Snorlax, but is also a 1 time thing, so make sure you do it at the right time
Team Options
========
- Physical wallbreakers to help clean up
- Fire/Fighting/Ground types to remove Steels so P-Z only needs to worry about Tri Attack. Pursuit helps here too
- It's a Scarfer so you can't really throw too many specifics besides certain cores
Other Options
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- Obviously Hyper Beam
- Analytic on any set not running Agility
- Hidden Power Fighting
- Break Florges and whatever with a mixed set
Checks & Counters
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This thing has almost no counters because of Trick and a ton of power but has a ton of checks
- Special walls: Blissey, P2, Florges, Umbreon, Roar Empoleon, Sableye etc but they all hate Trick. Mega Aggron gets a special note as even though its SpDef isn't great it resists Tri Attack and can't be Tricked
- Revenge killers for anything besides an Agility set: Hydra, Darmanitan, Mienshao, and any Scarfer. Priority from Pokemon like Infernape too
^ I'll update C+C in the write up
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- Strong duck robot
- Great abilities and a good movepool
- Boosting moves Agility NP
- Weak STAB, outside Adaptability
- Bad typing, offensively and defensively
- Can annoy its own counters on a choice set due to access to Trick
Double Dance
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name: Double Dance
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Nasty Plot
move 4: Agility
ability: Adaptability
item: Life Orb
evs: 80 HP / 252 SAtk / 176 Spe
nature: Modest
Moves
========
- Tri Attack is a strong STAB boosted by Adaptability
- Dark Pulse provides perfect 2 move coverage
- Nasty Plot against defensive teams
- Agility against offensive teams
Set Details
========
- All the Speed you'll want after an Agility (ScarfApe) while still outspeeding most walls unboosted
- Life Orb boosts all attacks consistently
- Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Lum/Silk Scarf
Usage Tips
========
- Choose what and when to set up based on the opposing team. Stall gets destroyed by NP while frail offense or just weakened teams get cleaned up after an Agility
- Try bluffing a choice set early game if not much risk is involved, which will allow you to set up easier late game
- Dark Pulse never outdamages Tri Attack except against Ghost and Psychic types if running Adaptability, making it the safer move to spam on predicted switches
Team Options
========
- U-turn/Volt Switch
- Something to remove annoying MAggron
- Wallbreakers that let P-Z clean up
Choice Specs
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name: Choice Specs
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Thunderbolt
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Dark Pulse / Trick
ability: Adaptability / Download
item: Choice Specs
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spd
nature: Modest / Timid
Moves
========
- Tri Attack is STAB
- Thunderbolt hits Pokemon like Suicune on the switch for more damage than Tri Attack
- Ice Beam hits Noivern, Hydreigon and the rest harder
- Dark Pulse for perfect coverage
- Trick to mess with a wall switching in for the rest of the battle
Set Details
========
- Choice Specs makes Porygon-Z extremely strong, making it incredibly hard to switch in to
Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Download is a risky extra boost to all special attacks
- Modest gives you more power but you now to lose to Jolly Heracross and Timid Nidoking
- Timid beats them at the cost of power
Usage Tips
========
- Just break walls, that's really it
- Bluff a Scarf and force something out, then hit the switch for a lot more damage
- Trick requires prediction but can really mess with something like Snorlax, but is also a 1 time thing, so make sure you do it at the right time
Team Options
========
- Physical wallbreakers such as Heracross
- Something to remove Steel types and to a lesser extent Ghosts so Choiced P-Z can spam Tri Attack
- Any form of Speed control. Paralysis/Sticky Web/Tailwind
Choice Scarf
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name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Tri Attack
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Thunderbolt / Trick
move 4: Ice Beam
ability: Adaptability / Download
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
nature: Modest
Moves
========
- Tri Attack is STAB boosted by Adaptability
- Dark Pulse for perfect coverage
- Thunderbolt hits Pokemon like Suicune on the switch for more damage than Tri Attack
- Ice Beam hits Noivern, Hydreigon and the rest harder
- Trick to mess with a wall switching in for the rest of the battle
Set Details
========
- Choice Specs makes Porygon-Z extremely strong, making it incredibly hard to switch in to
Adaptability boosts Tri Attack consistently
- Download is a risky extra boost to all special attacks
- Modest because Hera is gone and Scarf King is bad
Usage Tips
========
- Just break walls, that's really it
- Use as a revenge killer, but keep in mind the things it commonly revenges it can never switch in to, so if you suspect the opponent will switch out then act on it, as Porygon-Z will likely 2HKO anything not named Snorlax
- Trick requires prediction but can really mess with something like Snorlax, but is also a 1 time thing, so make sure you do it at the right time
Team Options
========
- Physical wallbreakers to help clean up
- Fire/Fighting/Ground types to remove Steels so P-Z only needs to worry about Tri Attack. Pursuit helps here too
- It's a Scarfer so you can't really throw too many specifics besides certain cores
Other Options
########
- Obviously Hyper Beam
- Analytic on any set not running Agility
- Hidden Power Fighting
- Break Florges and whatever with a mixed set
Checks & Counters
########
This thing has almost no counters because of Trick and a ton of power but has a ton of checks
- Special walls: Blissey, P2, Florges, Umbreon, Roar Empoleon, Sableye etc but they all hate Trick. Mega Aggron gets a special note as even though its SpDef isn't great it resists Tri Attack and can't be Tricked
- Revenge killers for anything besides an Agility set: Hydra, Darmanitan, Mienshao, and any Scarfer. Priority from Pokemon like Infernape too
^ I'll update C+C in the write up
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