Quality Control Scarf Volcanion [QC 0/2]

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[SET]
Choice Scarf (Volcanion) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 84 HP / 68 Def / 104 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Overheat
- Steam Eruption
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
* Overheat is Volcanion's strongest STAB move allowing it to pick up quick KOs versus Steel-, Grass-, and Ice-types like Corviknight, non-Specially Defensive Iron Crown, Zarude, Rillaboom, and Alolan Ninetales. It can also get wins on some frailer Pokemon like
* Steam Eruption is a powerful Water-type STAB option allowing Volcanion to be very consistent into Ground-types like both Landorus formes and Fire-types like Volcarona and Entei. The 30% burn chance also can also be very useful in neutering physical attackers like Choice Band Hoopa-U.
* Sludge Wave is a great poison-type move that provides coverage into many Fairy-Types like Primarina and Sylveon.
* Focus Blast is a strong coverage option that can hit some Dark-types like Urshifu-S.
* 84 HP and 68 Defense EVs let Volcanion live Adamant Choice Band Chien-Pao's Giga Impact.
* 252 Speed EVs and a Choice Scarf let Volcanion outspeed Serperior, and the remaining EVs are placed in Special Attack to maximize damage with a Modest Nature.
* Although Choice Scarf Volcanion is great against Ground-type Pokemon, it sacrifices a lot of power and can still struggle with Assault Vest sets from Landorus-T and Ursaluna.
* It also struggles versus other Specially Defensive Pokemon like Hisuian Goodra or Assault Vest sets like on Hoopa-U.
* Ground-types like Ursaluna pair really well Choice Scarf Volcanion as they can hit Electric-types like Raging Bolt.

[SET CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bo_bobson27.546922/ & https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/stravench.561084/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lost-heros.316445/

Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[Itchy]

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[SET]
Choice Scarf (Volcanion) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 84 HP / 68 Def / 104 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Overheat
- Steam Eruption
- Sludge Wave
- Focus Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
* Overheat is Volcanion's strongest STAB move allowing it to pick up quick KOs versus Steel-, Grass-, and Ice-types like Corviknight, non-Specially Defensive Iron Crown, Zarude, Rillaboom, and Alolan Ninetales. It can also get wins on some frailer Pokemon like insert examples, this didn't get finished oops
* Steam Eruption is a powerful Water-type STAB option allowing Volcanion to be very consistent into Ground-types like both Landorus formes this gets contradicted later, maybe rephrase slightly and Fire-types like Volcarona and Entei. The 30% burn chance also can also be very useful in neutering physical attackers like Choice Band Hoopa-U. hoopa is probably not the best example because of set diversity, could replace
* Sludge Wave is a great poison-type Poison-type move that provides coverage into many Fairy-Types Fairy-types like Primarina and Sylveon.
* Focus Blast is a strong coverage option that can hit some Dark-types like Urshifu-S.
*is there any merit to earth power as a slash option (it might be helpful say in the mirror at the very least)*
* 84 HP and 68 Defense EVs let Volcanion live Adamant Choice Band Chien-Pao's Giga Impact.
* 252 Speed EVs and a Choice Scarf let Volcanion outspeed Serperior, and the remaining EVs are placed in Special Attack to maximize damage with a Modest Nature.
* Although Choice Scarf Volcanion is great against some Ground-type Pokemon, it sacrifices a lot of power and can still struggle with Assault Vest sets from Landorus-T and Ursaluna.
* It also struggles versus other Specially Defensive Pokemon like Hisuian Goodra or Assault Vest sets like on Hoopa-U.
* Ground-types like Ursaluna pair really well Choice Scarf Volcanion as they can hit Electric-types like Raging Bolt.
common teammates section should probably be fleshed out a bit more, this is really simple and short. canion is a great glue and its common partners section should reflect that. maybe focus on what it can do for urshifu-s or iron valiant and the like on top of simple type core things
could also add a bullet being more explicit about this set catching faster targets off-guard (like lando-i and probably some more common pokemon as well) since that's the whole thing with scarf canion. it's implied but not directly stated rn
choiced -> losing to encore disable val is a notable tradeoff for the speed too, could be a usage tip

[SET CREDITS]
Set(s) by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bo_bobson27.546922/ & https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/stravench.561084/

Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lost-heros.316445/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/itchy.518399/

Grammar checked by:
[insert user link]

I'll want to double check after but I will give 1/2 in advance and follow up on discord. I rambled a lot in the comments for this one