Quality Control [QC: 1/2] Giraffe (Farigiraf)

[Bella]

[SET]
name: Offensive Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Nasty Plot
move 3: Psyshock / Psychic
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Leftovers
ability: Armor Tail
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
ivs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
tera type: Fairy / Fire / Electric

[SET COMMENTS]
Farigiraf is a relatively niche, but potentially very lethal Trick Room sweeper in PU. Although suffering stiff competition from other, more reliable offensive Psychic-types such as Espeon, Hoopa, and Hisuian Braviary, Farigiraf makes up for it thanks to having incredible bulk, solid typing giving it opening to set up on Pokemon like Hoopa, Espeon, and Palossand, and most notably Armor Tail, allowing it to completely bypass Sucker Punch attempts from the likes of Skuntank, Zoroark, and Brute Bonnet, as well as other priority from Pawmot and Arcanine. Psyshock allows Farigarif to be able to muscle through specially defensive threats like Goodra and Florges easier. An alternative can be Psychic, which trades off a tougher matchup against special walls in exchange for allowing Farigiraf to hit Rhydon without Terastallizing, as well as a stronger hit on Amoonguss and Qwilfish. With Tera Blast, Farigiraf has a stab move before Terastalizing. Tera Fairy allows Farigiraf to resist Knock Off while also slamming Pokemon like Bombirdier and Tatsugiri with Tera Blast. An alternative is Tera Fire, allowing Farigiraf to target otherwise reliable checks like Alolan Sandslash and Orthworm. Finally, Electric is a more specialized option that allows Farigiraf to hit Milotic and Cramorant.

Farigiraf is a solid option on offense and hyper offense teams looking for a late game setup sweeper that can turn the tables on an opposing team thanks to Trick Room. Farigiraf can often struggle to take down two of the most common defensive Pokemon in the tier, Milotic and Rhydon. As such, teammates who threaten these two like Brute Bonnett and Hisuian Decidueye or have shared checks with them like Arcanine and Delphox can be useful to get these Pokemon worn down to allow Farigiraf to sweep. Having pivots like Bruxish and Jolteon can help Farigiraf find safe positions to set up for a sweep vs Pokemon like Espeon, non Encore Alolan Ninetales, and Rotom-H. Knock Off resists like Paldean Tauros-F and Skuntank can be helpful to have due to Farigiraf's extreme weakness to the move, and can chip down its checks like Goodra and Alolan Sandslash into range for Farigiraf.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bella.567483/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/yunie.414072/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/

 

[Yunie]

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[SET]
name: Offensive Trick Room
move 1: Trick Room
move 2: Nasty Plot
move 3: Psyshock / Psychic
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Leftovers
ability: Armor Tail
nature: Quiet
evs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
ivs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
tera type: Fairy / Fire / Electric

[SET COMMENTS]
Farigiraf is a relatively niche, but potentially very lethal Trick Room sweeper in PU. Although suffering stiff competition from other, more reliable offensive Psychic-types such as Espeon, Hoopa, and Hisuian Braviary, Farigiraf makes up for it thanks to having incredible bulk (as well as a solid defensive typing that gives it openings on mons like?), a great 110 Special Attack in tandem with Nasty Plot (this is fluff, if you really want to mention how strong it is, shorten this part or mention its stab combination instead which is only resisted by hoopa, alolan sandslash, and orthworm), and most notably Armor Tail, allowing it to completely bypass Sucker Punch attempts from the likes of Skuntank, Zoroark, and Brute Bonnet, as well as other priority from Pawmot and Arcanine. Psyshock allows Farigarif to be able to muscle through Specially Defensive (this should be lowercase) threats like Goodra and Florges easier. An alternative can be Psychic, which trades off a tougher matchup against Special (this should be lowercase) walls in exchange for allowing Farigiraf to hit Rhydon without Terastallizing (is there another relevant psychic target? you're not really selling me on this). With Tera Blast, Farigiraf has a stab move before Terastalizing, allowing it to hit Dark-types. Farigiraf has a variety of viable Tera Types depending on what it wants to beat. (fluff) Tera Fairy allows Farigiraf to resist Knock Off while also slamming Pokemon like Bombirdier and Tatsugiri with Tera Blast. An alternative is Tera Fire, allowing Farigiraf to target otherwise reliable checks like Alolan Sandslash and Orthworm. Finally, Electric is a more specialized option that allows Farigiraf to hit Milotic and Cramorant for super-effective damage. (fluff)

Farigiraf is a solid option on offense and hyper offense teams looking for a late game setup sweeper that can turn the tables on an opposing team thanks to Trick Room. Farigiraf can often struggle to take down two of the most common defensive Pokemon in the tier, Milotic and Rhydon. As such, teammates who threaten these two like Brute Bonnett and Hisuian Decidueye or have shared checks with them like Arcanine and Delphox can be useful to get these Pokemon worn down to allow Farigiraf to sweep. Having pivots like Bruxish and Jolteon can help Farigiraf find safe positions to set up for a sweep (versus pokemon like?). Knock Off resists like Paldean Tauros-F and Skuntank can be helpful to have due to Farigiraf's extreme weakness to the move. (what else do they do for farigiraf?)

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bella.567483/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/yunie.414072/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/

qc 1/2!