[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 7 onward
**Price Range**: 7-8 points
**Overview**: Scrafty is a versatile Pokemon with 3 solid abilities and a wide movepool that can help it fill many roles, whether that is sweeping with Dragon Dance and Moxie, being a utility tank who absorbs hits with its high defenses, Intimidate, and can provide utility with the likes of Knock Off and Encore, or being a useful status absorber with Shed Skin Scrafty can almost always find a role. However Scrafty's low Speed, low HP, and relatively low Attack mean it can have difficulty in all of these roles and needs a lot of support to find success.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Tank**: With its high defenses Scarfty can switch into many attacks and threaten foes out with moves like Close Combat, is also has access to Knock Off to help deal with items, Super Fang for flat damage allowing it to maximize its defensive capabilities, and useful utility moves like Taunt and Encore.
**Setup Sweeper**: With Dragon Dance and its naturally high defenses Scrafty can become a threatening sweeper if not answered properly. Alternatively Bulk Up and Swords Dance can be used on sets aiming to outlive opponents instead of outspeed them.
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: Close Combat, Drain Punch, Knock Off, Crunch, Low Kick
**Setup Moves**: Dragon Dance, Swords Dance, Bulk Up
**Utility Moves**: Rest, taunt, Encore, Substitute, Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Super Fang, Roar
**Coverage**: Dragon Claw, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Iron Head, Head Smash, Poison Jab, Stone edge, Thunder Punch, Zen Headbutt
Niche Moves
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**Upper Hand**: While priority is usually not necessary to move first vs Scrafty Upper Hand can catch choice locked foes, or foes without better options off guard.
Common Items
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**Leftovers**: Scrafty values longevity in most games and Leftovers helps Scrafty stay on the field longer.
**Heavy Duty Boots**: Ignoring hazard damage allows Scrafty to switch in more which can help in games where it is forced out easily.
**Rocky Helmet**: Rocky Helmet allows Scraft to punish foes using physical attacks, and Scrafty makes a good switch in to Knock Off so being able to get some extra chip is nice
**Assault Vest** With its wide array of coverage moves Scrafty can make good use of Assault Vest to be even tankier specially without losing much value.
Niche Items
========
**Resist Berries**: Scrafty usually needs to take a hit or two while setting up and resist Berries can make that much easier
**Other Damage Boosting Items**: While Scrafty usually values the longevity provided by other items with its wide array of coverage moves it can make good use of Expert Belt, and Life Orb can boost its damage output when longevity is less necessary.
Tera
========
Scrafty can make a versatile secondary tera captain shedding its weakness riddled Dark and Fighting-types for a more defensively sound type like Water or Fairy can do wonders for it. Alternatively on offensive sets can benefit from using tera Steel or Poison to flip matchups on foes and boost the power of its coverage moves. However, its mediocre stats means Terastallization cannot solve all of its shortcomings.
Draft Strategy
========
Scrafty can do many things but should be an auxiliary piece on a solid draft and should not be a necessary part of a plan, that being said it appreciates teammates that can bring it in safely and help chip down foes.
**Pivots**: Scrafty benefits greatly from teammates like Tornadus-Therian and Rotom-Wash who can scout foes moves and bring it in safely.
**Hazard Setters**: Whether setting up or filling a more defensive role Scrafty forces switches and removes Heavy Duty Boots from foes so keeping hazards up with teammates like Gliscor and Glimmora can make good progress throughout a game.
**Fairy-type resists**: Scrafty's 4x weakness to Fairy-type moves, and inability to hit them very hard means it can allow opposing Fairy-type Pokemon in easily. Pokemon like Iron Treads or Galarian Slowking make good partners for switching into the Fairy-type attacks Scrafty baits out.
**Sweepers**: With its ability to click Knock Off many times throughout a game Scrafty can remove Heavy Duty Boots and other pesky items that make it easier for sweepers like Greninja and Iron Valiant to do their job.
Checks and Counters
========
**Fairy-types**: Fairy-types resist Scrafty's Dark and Fighting-type moves and hit it for 4x damage so Pokemon like Enamorus, and even Pokemon using Tera Fairy like Raging Bolt, make very hard for Scrafty to stick around for long.
**Physically Defensive Foes**: While Scrafty has many setup options and a decent defensive profile its low base Attack mean Pokemon like Great Tusk and Corviknight can switch into it with relative ease and force it out.
**Disruption**: With its low Speed it can be very east for opponents to Encore Scrafty into useless moves or use Taunt before Scrafty can use its status moves.
**Status Moves**: While Scrafty gets access to Shed Skin which can help in some matchups, on sets not using Shed Skin status like Burn and Paralysis can be quite annoying to deal with.
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**Draft Order**: Round 7 onward
**Price Range**: 7-8 points
**Overview**: Scrafty is a versatile Pokemon with 3 solid abilities and a wide movepool that can help it fill many roles, whether that is sweeping with Dragon Dance and Moxie, being a utility tank who absorbs hits with its high defenses, Intimidate, and can provide utility with the likes of Knock Off and Encore, or being a useful status absorber with Shed Skin Scrafty can almost always find a role. However Scrafty's low Speed, low HP, and relatively low Attack mean it can have difficulty in all of these roles and needs a lot of support to find success.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Tank**: With its high defenses Scarfty can switch into many attacks and threaten foes out with moves like Close Combat, is also has access to Knock Off to help deal with items, Super Fang for flat damage allowing it to maximize its defensive capabilities, and useful utility moves like Taunt and Encore.
**Setup Sweeper**: With Dragon Dance and its naturally high defenses Scrafty can become a threatening sweeper if not answered properly. Alternatively Bulk Up and Swords Dance can be used on sets aiming to outlive opponents instead of outspeed them.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Close Combat, Drain Punch, Knock Off, Crunch, Low Kick
**Setup Moves**: Dragon Dance, Swords Dance, Bulk Up
**Utility Moves**: Rest, taunt, Encore, Substitute, Brick Break, Dragon Tail, Super Fang, Roar
**Coverage**: Dragon Claw, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Iron Head, Head Smash, Poison Jab, Stone edge, Thunder Punch, Zen Headbutt
Niche Moves
========
**Upper Hand**: While priority is usually not necessary to move first vs Scrafty Upper Hand can catch choice locked foes, or foes without better options off guard.
Common Items
========
**Leftovers**: Scrafty values longevity in most games and Leftovers helps Scrafty stay on the field longer.
**Heavy Duty Boots**: Ignoring hazard damage allows Scrafty to switch in more which can help in games where it is forced out easily.
**Rocky Helmet**: Rocky Helmet allows Scraft to punish foes using physical attacks, and Scrafty makes a good switch in to Knock Off so being able to get some extra chip is nice
**Assault Vest** With its wide array of coverage moves Scrafty can make good use of Assault Vest to be even tankier specially without losing much value.
Niche Items
========
**Resist Berries**: Scrafty usually needs to take a hit or two while setting up and resist Berries can make that much easier
**Other Damage Boosting Items**: While Scrafty usually values the longevity provided by other items with its wide array of coverage moves it can make good use of Expert Belt, and Life Orb can boost its damage output when longevity is less necessary.
Tera
========
Scrafty can make a versatile secondary tera captain shedding its weakness riddled Dark and Fighting-types for a more defensively sound type like Water or Fairy can do wonders for it. Alternatively on offensive sets can benefit from using tera Steel or Poison to flip matchups on foes and boost the power of its coverage moves. However, its mediocre stats means Terastallization cannot solve all of its shortcomings.
Draft Strategy
========
Scrafty can do many things but should be an auxiliary piece on a solid draft and should not be a necessary part of a plan, that being said it appreciates teammates that can bring it in safely and help chip down foes.
**Pivots**: Scrafty benefits greatly from teammates like Tornadus-Therian and Rotom-Wash who can scout foes moves and bring it in safely.
**Hazard Setters**: Whether setting up or filling a more defensive role Scrafty forces switches and removes Heavy Duty Boots from foes so keeping hazards up with teammates like Gliscor and Glimmora can make good progress throughout a game.
**Fairy-type resists**: Scrafty's 4x weakness to Fairy-type moves, and inability to hit them very hard means it can allow opposing Fairy-type Pokemon in easily. Pokemon like Iron Treads or Galarian Slowking make good partners for switching into the Fairy-type attacks Scrafty baits out.
**Sweepers**: With its ability to click Knock Off many times throughout a game Scrafty can remove Heavy Duty Boots and other pesky items that make it easier for sweepers like Greninja and Iron Valiant to do their job.
Checks and Counters
========
**Fairy-types**: Fairy-types resist Scrafty's Dark and Fighting-type moves and hit it for 4x damage so Pokemon like Enamorus, and even Pokemon using Tera Fairy like Raging Bolt, make very hard for Scrafty to stick around for long.
**Physically Defensive Foes**: While Scrafty has many setup options and a decent defensive profile its low base Attack mean Pokemon like Great Tusk and Corviknight can switch into it with relative ease and force it out.
**Disruption**: With its low Speed it can be very east for opponents to Encore Scrafty into useless moves or use Taunt before Scrafty can use its status moves.
**Status Moves**: While Scrafty gets access to Shed Skin which can help in some matchups, on sets not using Shed Skin status like Burn and Paralysis can be quite annoying to deal with.
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