[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 4 onwards
**Price Range**: 14-15 points
**Overview**: Salamence has quite a few things going for it. For one, it has access to Dragon Dance along with Moxie, making it a potent cleaner when chosen as a Tera Captain. It also possesses high Base Power moves and good coverage, allowing it to use its strong offensive stats to break through teams. Its access to reliable recovery and the ability Intimidate give it a use as a defensive Pokemon as well, though its common weaknesses, including a 4x weakness to Ice, hold it back defensively, especially if it does not have the option to terastalize. In addition, Salamence's average Speed means
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Role 1**: (1-2 sentences about the role and how it is used)
**Role 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: (List all relevant moves, separated by commas)
**Setup Moves**:
**Utility Moves**:
**Coverage**:
Niche Moves
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**Niche move 1**: (Brief sentence about when and why the niche move is usable)
**Niche move 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Common Items
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**Common item 1**: (Brief sentence explaining why the item useful and what roles should consider it. Order items by relevance)
**Common item 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Niche Items
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**Niche item 1**:
**Niche item 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Tera
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(Explain if this Pokemon should be a Tera Captain, and if yes, what types are relevant)
Draft Strategy
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1-2 sentence highlight of draft strategy (how it helps teams, what it looks for in teammates, etc). Then go into specifics in bullet points below.
**Role 1**: (Explain how the role and the Pokemon work well together, and give 2-3 examples of Pokemon)
**Role 2**: etc.
(repeat as necessary)
Checks and Counters
========
**Common check 1**: (Explain why it checks the Pokemon, and give 2-3 examples of Pokemon)
**Common check 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
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**Draft Order**: Round 4 onwards
**Price Range**: 14-15 points
**Overview**: Salamence has quite a few things going for it. For one, it has access to Dragon Dance along with Moxie, making it a potent cleaner when chosen as a Tera Captain. It also possesses high Base Power moves and good coverage, allowing it to use its strong offensive stats to break through teams. Its access to reliable recovery and the ability Intimidate give it a use as a defensive Pokemon as well, though its common weaknesses, including a 4x weakness to Ice, hold it back defensively, especially if it does not have the option to terastalize. In addition, Salamence's average Speed means
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Role 1**: (1-2 sentences about the role and how it is used)
**Role 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: (List all relevant moves, separated by commas)
**Setup Moves**:
**Utility Moves**:
**Coverage**:
Niche Moves
========
**Niche move 1**: (Brief sentence about when and why the niche move is usable)
**Niche move 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Common Items
========
**Common item 1**: (Brief sentence explaining why the item useful and what roles should consider it. Order items by relevance)
**Common item 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Niche Items
========
**Niche item 1**:
**Niche item 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
Tera
========
(Explain if this Pokemon should be a Tera Captain, and if yes, what types are relevant)
Draft Strategy
========
1-2 sentence highlight of draft strategy (how it helps teams, what it looks for in teammates, etc). Then go into specifics in bullet points below.
**Role 1**: (Explain how the role and the Pokemon work well together, and give 2-3 examples of Pokemon)
**Role 2**: etc.
(repeat as necessary)
Checks and Counters
========
**Common check 1**: (Explain why it checks the Pokemon, and give 2-3 examples of Pokemon)
**Common check 2**:
(repeat as necessary)
[credits]
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