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Rillaboom @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Superpower

Rillaboom's excellent ability in Grassy Surge, good coverage, and new addition in Grassy Glide make it a stellar wallbreaker and revenge killer that can threaten common Pokemon such as Toxapex, Clefable, and Excadrill. Grassy Glide revenge kills otherwise faster threats like Garchomp, Spectrier, Nidoking, and offensive Landorus-T. U-turn pivots out of Rillaboom's checks like Mandibuzz and Zapdos, and Knock Off removes items from switch-ins such as Mandibuzz, Zapdos, and Tornadus-T. Superpower catches Ferrothorn, Heatran, and weakened Melmetal instead. Teammates like Heatran, Magnezone, and Magearna are able to take advantage of checks to Rillaboom such as Zapdos, Corviknight, and Mandibuzz. In return, these teammates benefit from Rillaboom's Grassy Terrain, U-turn, and Knock Off support. Hawlucha especially appreciates Grassy Terrain on hyper offense teams, as it activates Unburden for it, and it can be brought in safely by U-turn so it can possibly set up. Cinderace can weaken Rillaboom's checks like Corviknight and Zapdos, while Rillaboom can weaken Cinderace's checks like Suicune and Hippowdon.

 

[ausma]

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Rillaboom @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Superpower

Rillaboom's combination of an excellent ability in Grassy Surge, good coverage, and the addition of Grassy Glide make it a stellar wallbreaker with Choice Band, revenge killer, and support Pokemon. Thanks to this, it can threaten a few common Pokemon such as Toxapex, Clefable, Blissey, Slowbro, Excadrill, and Tapu Fini. Grassy Glide is an extremely important move that hits otherwise significantly faster threats like Garchomp, Spectrier, and Nidoking. I suggest redoing your explanation on Grassy Glide to better highlight that it is for revenge killing purposes. I would mention offensive Lando-T as well. U-Turn turns Rillaboom into a pivot as well that pivots on what?, while Knock Off is a useful utility move that removes items like Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon such as Mandibuzz, Zapdos, and Tornadus-T on the switch. Superpower catches Ferrothorn and Heatran instead. Superpower also beats down Melmetal once it is chipped. Teammates like Heatran, Magnezone, and Garchomp Garchomp doesn't really pair very well with it given Grassy Terrain weakens its Earthquake, and both Rillaboom and Garchomp struggle against relatively similar things. I would on the other hand mention Magearna, which uses a majority of the soon-to-be-mentioned Pokemon barring Moltres as setup fodder/a wallbreaking opportunity. are able to take advantage of checks to Rillaboom such as Tangrowth, Amoonguss, Mandibuzz, Moltres, and Zapdos. A bit too many examples. I would reduce it to Zapdos and Mandibuzz, and add Corviknight. In return, these teammates benefit from Rillaboom's Grassy Surge giving them extra turns of healing mention that Earthquake is weakened in terrain, as this is a pretty important detail in Magearna's case as well as U-Turn and Knock Off support. Hawlucha especially appreciates Grassy Surge on hyper offense teams, as it activates Unburden for it. Elaborate on this point. Hawlucha pairs well with it in part to how it can be facilitated with U-turn and Knock Off support on bulkier targets. Also add Cinderace as an example for an offensive partner.

I would probably take one more look at what examples you use for targets and order them more methodically for each teammate you mention, too.

add these revisions and i'll take one more look

 

[ausma]

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Rillaboom @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Superpower

Rillaboom's combination of an excellent ability in Grassy Surge, good coverage, and the addition of Grassy Glide make it a stellar wallbreaker with Choice Band and revenge killer, and support Pokemon. Thanks to this, it can threaten a few common Pokemon such as Toxapex, Clefable, Blissey, Slowbro, Excadrill, and Tapu Fini. Cut down on examples; probably keep it to Toxapex, Clefable, and Excadrill as more prominent ones. Ones with Grass-type weaknesses or poop defense (Blissey) are obvious. Grassy Glide is used so Rillaboom can revenge kill otherwise faster threats like Garchomp, Spectrier, Nidoking, and offensive Landorus-T. U-Turn can pivot out of Rillaboom's checks like Mandibuzz and Zapdos, and Knock Off is a useful utility move that removes items like Heavy-Duty Boots from switch-ins Pokemon such as Mandibuzz, Zapdos, and Tornadus-T on the switch. Superpower catches Ferrothorn, Heatran, and weakened Melmetal instead. Teammates like Heatran, Magnezone, and Magearna are able to take advantage of checks to Rillaboom such as Zapdos, Corviknight, and Mandibuzz. In return, these teammates benefit from Rillaboom's Grassy Surge giving them extra turns of healing as well as U-Turn and Knock Off support. Magearna likes Earthquake being weakened in Grassy Terrain as well, as it can have more room to set up on foes like Landorus-T, Garchomp, and Excadrill. This may not be needed in the spotlight; just the previous mention of Magearna should be fine. Hawlucha especially appreciates Grassy Surge on hyper offense teams, as it activates Unburden for it, while having bulkier foes dismantled with U-Turn and Knock Off. Dismantled isn't the word I'd use here. Focus more on the facilitation of Hawlucha with U-turn more than anything else; Knock Off probably doesn't need to be mentioned either. Cinderace forms a potent offensive core with Rillaboom, as they both can weaken and pivot around each other's checks like Corviknight, Suicune, Hippowdon, and Swampert Confusing wording makes it difficult to tell what checks what, hopefully should reduce your character count a bit too if you do so. and consistently pivot with U-Turn.

Tried to remove some of the fluff that may not be necessary to mention, but if it's still over the character limit I would advise rewording some things. GP should help you assess grammatical stuff, so don't worry too much about that.

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[Adeleine]

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Rillaboom @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Grassy Glide
- U-turn
- Knock Off / Superpower

Rillaboom's combination of an excellent ability in Grassy Surge, good coverage, and the new addition of in Grassy Glide make it a stellar wallbreaker and revenge killer (remove period) Thanks to this, it that can threaten a few common Pokemon such as Toxapex, Clefable, and Excadrill. Grassy Glide revenge kills otherwise faster threats like Garchomp, Spectrier, Nidoking, and offensive Landorus-T. U-turn (was "U-Turn") pivots out of Rillaboom's checks like Mandibuzz and Zapdos, and Knock Off removes items from switch-ins such as Mandibuzz, Zapdos, and Tornadus-T. Superpower catches Ferrothorn, Heatran, and weakened Melmetal instead. Teammates like Heatran, Magnezone, and Magearna are able to take advantage of checks to Rillaboom such as Zapdos, Corviknight, and Mandibuzz. In return, these teammates benefit from Rillaboom's Grassy Surge Terrain, U-Turn, and Knock Off support. Hawlucha especially appreciates Grassy Surge Terrain on hyper offense teams, as it activates Unburden for it, while being and it can be brought in safely by U-Turn so it can possibly set up. Cinderace can weaken Rillaboom's checks like Corviknight and Zapdos, while Rillaboom can weaken Cinderace's checks like and Suicune and Hippowdon.

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[Eisenherz]