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Primarina @ Leftovers
Ability: Liquid Voice
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonblast
- Hyper Voice
- Protect

Primarina is the next singer up in Doubles OU! Primarina's good defensive typing, especially against Chien-Pao and Roaring Moon, and bulk allow it to set up with Calm Mind. Tera Dragon allows Primarina to resist Grass-type attacks from the Ogerpon formes without becoming weak to their Ivy Cudgels. Rillaboom and Incineroar provide Fake Out support, healing via Grassy Surge, and damage reduction with Intimidate, making it easier for Primarina to set up. Primarina appreciates support from Roaring Moon, as it can compensate for Primarina's low Speed by setting Tailwind, remove Iron Hands's Assault Vest with Knock Off, and further reduce foes' Attack with Breaking Swipe. Espathra can support Primarina similarly by passing it boosts with Baton Pass. Other offensive teammates like Glimmora, Ogerpon-H, Chien-Pao, and Dragonite help to remove problematic Pokemon that can offensively threaten Primarina. Rillaboom and Choice Band Dragonite can both be problematic for Primarina when they're paired with Chien-Pao, as Primarina cannot Terastallize to survive Rillaboom's Grass-type attacks, while Dragonite is immune to Intimidate and Fake Out from Primarina's partners.
 
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Ready for qc at 939 characters, some things I'd like to get another pair of eyes on are specific mons that can overwhelm Prim offensively and a wider range of structures that Prim fits on as I haven't seen it on too many different variations.
 
Hey, to address the points you mentioned:
- While prim has traditionally been pretty restricted to the roaring moon balance cores that you described (fey vs Sea week 6 SCL), there have been some more niche uses of it on Espathra based teams due to being a good pass target, as well as trick room cores (See SCL week 9, Jello vs Ann, or pao offense teams Akaru vs Nails, Week 9 SCL). Since it has been used on these structures, I think you could briefly mention it, or maybe feature one of the replays.
- I think that noting that it can get overwhelmed by ogerpon is important, which you cover pretty adequately. Rillaboom, as well as Choice Band Dragonite w/ assistance from sword of ruin are worth noting because they can overwhelm prim fairly reliably.
- One thing to note is that prim is often run due to the rise of roaring moon, as well as its positive matchup into Chien pao. I believe this should be included somewhere.

Once implemented, can mark 1/1. Good work
 
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Primarina @ Leftovers
Ability: Liquid Voice
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Hyper Voice
- Calm Mind
- Protect

Primarina is the next singer up in Doubles OU! Primarina's good defensive typing and bulk allow it to setup with Calm Mind, especially when paired with Rillaboom and Incineroar who provide Fake Out support, healing with Grassy Surge, and damage reduction with Intimidate. Tera Dragon allows Primarina to resist Grass-Type attacks from the Ogerpon formes without becoming weak to their Ivy Cudgels. Primarina also appreciates support from Roaring Moon, as it can compensate for Primarina's low Speed by setting Tailwind, remove Assault Vest from Iron Hands with Knock Off, and further reduce foes Attack with Breaking Swipe. In general, Primarina does best into teams without Encore or Taunt users like Alolan Ninetales or Ogerpon-W, as it can easily get one or two Calm Mind boosts and start attacking. I think this sentence can be removed, as it goes for most setup attackers in the format in general and is not specific to primarina. Other offensive teammates like Glimmora or Ogerpon-H help to remove problematic Pokemon that can get in the way of Primarina setting up offensively threaten Primarina (less characters, same idea). Rillaboom and Choice Band Dragonite can both be problematic for Primarina when paired with Chien-Pao, as Primarina cannot Terastalize out of Rillaboom's Grass-type attacks, while Dragonite is immune to Intimidate and Fake Out from Primarina's partners.
Hopefully this helps, I don't remember the exact rules with spotlight characters on including replays but if I recall correctly they do not count towards your overall character count. Let me know if you need anymore assistance.
 
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Primarina @ Leftovers
Ability: Liquid Voice
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Hyper Voice
- Calm Mind
- Protect

Primarina is the next singer up in Doubles OU! Primarina's good defensive typing, especially into against Chien-Pao and Roaring Moon, and bulk allow it to setup set up with Calm Mind. Tera Dragon allows Primarina to resist Grass-type attacks from the Ogerpon formes without becoming weak to their Ivy Cudgels. (AP) (Moved the Tera sentence up here, since the next sentence seems to start the teammates section off.) Rillaboom and Incineroar provide Fake Out support, healing with via Grassy Surge, and damage reduction with Intimidate, making it easier for Primarina to setup with Calm Mind set up. Tera Dragon allows Primarina to resist Grass-Type attacks from Ogerpon formes without becoming weak to their Ivy Cudgels. Primarina also appreciates support from Roaring Moon, as it can compensate for Primarina's low Speed by setting Tailwind, remove Iron Hand's Hands's Assault Vest with Knock Off, and further reduce foes' (apostrophe) Attack with Breaking Swipe. Espathra can support Primarina similarly by passing it boosts with Baton Pass. Other offensive teammates like Glimmora, Ogerpon-H, Chien-Pao, and Dragonite (RC) help to remove problematic Pokemon that can offensively threaten Primarina. Rillaboom and Choice Band Dragonite can both be problematic for Primarina when they're paired with Chien-Pao, as Primarina cannot Terastalize out of Terastallize to survive Rillaboom's Grass-type attacks, while Dragonite is immune to Intimidate and Fake Out from Primarina's partners.

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