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[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Volt Switch
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Will-O-Wisp
item: Leftovers
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
tera type: Ghost / Fairy

[SET COMMENTS]

Rotom takes advantage of common Pokemon such as Sandaconda and Chansey that typically can't threaten it to set up. Will-O-Wisp eases setup and helps weaken checks such as Eelektross and Appletun. Tera Ghost helps Rotom get by Eelektross and Muk while retaining its Fighting immunity, whereas Tera Fairy can catch Dark-type revenge killers like Zoroark and Choice Scarf Mabosstiff off guard.

Rotom's quite customizable: Substitute / Nasty Plot / Thunderbolt or Discharge / Shadow Ball limits revenge killers and makes it easier to choose an offensive Tera type. Protect can be used instead of Will-O-Wisp to scout Choice item revenge killers like Zoroark, Passimian, and Bruxish. These options lack the same consistency as the listed set, though.

Pivots like Passimian, Scyther, and Oricorio formes are great to bring Rotom in against Sandaconda and Chansey, affording it easy setup opportunities. If Rotom is running Volt Switch, pair it with physical wallbreakers such as Bruxish and Toxicroak that can take on blanket special walls like Muk and Umbreon that commonly try to check it.

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[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Thunderbolt / Discharge (i think para is still so valuable in this meta, if not slashed a mention?)
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Substitute / Volt Switch / Will-O-Wisp (re: discussion we had on discord + eases setup like discharge aims to do)
item: Leftovers
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
tera type: Ghost / Electric

[SET COMMENTS]

Rotom takes advantage of common Pokemon such as Sandaconda and Chansey that typically can't threaten it to set up. It can use Substitute to be safe against revenge killers like Zoroark, Sucker Punch Toxicroak, and Choice Scarf Haunter or Volt Switch for general utility and to avoid ceding momentum to foes like Umbreon and Appletun. Tera Ghost helps Rotom get by Eelektross and Muk while retaining its Fighting immunity, whereas Tera Electric is better against Umbreon and removes Rotom's Sucker Punch weakness.

Croak should almost always gunk tbh, you can replace it with knock passimian or sucker honch?

Pivots like Passimian, Scyther, and Oricorio are great to bring Rotom in against Sandaconda and Chansey, affording it easy setup opportunities. If Rotom is running Volt Switch, pair it with physical wallbreakers such as Bruxish and Toxicroak that can take on blanket special walls like Muk and Umbreon that commonly try to check it.

[CREDITS]
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GP 1/1 GP Team done

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

[SET]
name: Nasty Plot
move 1: Nasty Plot
move 2: Volt Switch
move 3: Shadow Ball
move 4: Will-O-Wisp
item: Leftovers
ability: Levitate
nature: Timid
evs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
tera type: Ghost / Fairy

[SET COMMENTS]

Rotom takes advantage of common Pokemon such as Sandaconda and Chansey, (AC) that which typically can't threaten it, (AC) (up to your discretion but I think this would be a nonrestrictive clause, which would make "which" + commas correct) to set up. Will-O-Wisp eases setup and helps weaken checks such as Eelektross and Appletun. Tera Ghost helps Rotom get by Eelektross and Muk while retaining its Fighting immunity, whereas Tera Fairy can catch Dark-type revenge killers like Zoroark and Choice Scarf Mabosstiff off guard.

Rotom's quite customizable: Substitute / Nasty Plot / Thunderbolt or Discharge / Shadow Ball limits revenge killers and makes it easier to choose an offensive Tera type. Protect can be used instead of Will-O-Wisp to scout Choice item revenge killers like Zoroark, Passimian, and Bruxish. These options lack the same consistency as the listed set, though.

Pivots like Passimian, Scyther, and Oricorio (i believe you have to specify the forme, do we have a rule on lumping together multiple formes?) are great to bring Rotom in against Sandaconda and Chansey, affording it easy setup opportunities. If Rotom is running Volt Switch, pair it with physical wallbreakers such as Bruxish and Toxicroak that can take on blanket special walls like Muk and Umbreon that commonly try to check it.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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