BH Setup Mega Garchomp [Done]

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[SET]
Setup Sweeper (Garchomp-Mega) @ Life Orb
Ability: Tough Claws / Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe or 252 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Headlong Rush / Precipice Blades
- Glaive Rush
- Bolt Strike / Electro Drift / V-create

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear helps patch up Mega Garchomp's low Speed, and, unlike Tidy Up, it allows Adamant Mega Garchomp to outspeed Mega Alakazam after a boost. Precipice Blades is an option over Headlong Rush to avoid Burning Bulwark mind games. Bolt Strike and Electro Drift hit numerous targets, notably Celesteela and Fur Coat Mega Slowbro, with Bolt Strike being stronger against Levitate Steel-types, while Electro Drift OHKOes Mega Slowbro and Fur Coat Celesteela with the Life Orb boost. Alternatively, V-create also hits Celesteela while OHKOing Levitate Steel-types like Arceus-Steel but has the drawback of reducing Mega Garchomp's Speed, leaving it more susceptible to being revenge killed. Tough Claws should be used with Headlong Rush or Electro Drift, while Sword of Ruin should be used with Precipice Blades. Life Orb offers a crucial damage bonus, letting Mega Garchomp hit benchmarks like OHKOing Ho-Oh and Primal Kyogre unboosted as well as OHKOing non-Fur Coat Arceus formes at +1. 132 Defense EVs is an option for Tough Claws sets to ensure that Eviolite Imposter is always OHKOed at +1.

Setup Mega Garchomp has limited longevity considering its reliance on Life Orb, making it more suited to be used as a cleaner when opposing walls have been conditioned to be broken through. Mega Garchomp can soften up walls for itself in the earlier stages, but support from teammates is necessary due to its lack of sustain. Teammates that can greatly limit Strength Sap healing like Chansey, Blissey, and Magic Bounce users such as Arceus-Poison and Clodsire are almost mandatory to keep physical walls chipped, and in return Mega Garchomp serves as a decent offensive Imposter-proof for the mentioned Pokemon. Entry hazard support from the likes of Arceus-Ghost, Flutter Mane, and RegenVest users also help chip Fur Coat Pokemon into range of being KOed. RegenVest users can also provide Knock Off and Nuzzle support; the latter is particularly useful to neutralize Imposter users and provide potential setup opportunities. Mega Garchomp can be Imposter-proofed by most Fur Coat users that carry Strength Sap or Topsy-Turvy and are not weak to its moves, such as Arceus-Fairy, Zamazenta, Yveltal, and if it is not running an Electric-type move, Water-types like Mega Slowbro and Dondozo.

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[SET]
Setup Sweeper (Garchomp-Mega) @ Life Orb
Ability: Tough Claws / Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe or 252 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Headlong Rush / Precipice Blades
- Glaive Rush
- Bolt Strike / Electro Drift / V-create

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear is the setup move of choice, helping patch up Mega Garchomp's low Speed, and unlike Tidy Up it allows Adamant Mega Garchomp to run lol outspeed Mega Alakazam after a boost. Precipice Blades is an option over Headlong Rush to avoid Burning Bulwark mind games. Could also mention that it avoids rocky helmet and / or beak blast, tho ig beak blast is really only ever ran on steela so probably not Bolt Strike and Electro Drift hit numerous targets, notably Celesteela and Fur Coat Yveltal and Mega Slowbro, with Bolt Strike being stronger into Levitate Steel-types while Electro Drift OHKOes Mega Slowbro and Fur Coat Celesteela. Feel like you should specify that this is in tandem with lo Alternatively, V-create also hits Celesteela while OHKOing Levitate Steel-types like Arceus-Steel, but has the drawback of reducing Mega Garchomp's Speed and defenses, leaving it more susceptible to revenge killing. Tough Claws should be used with Headlong Rush or Electro Drift, while Sword of Ruin should be used with Precipice Blades. Life Orb offers a crucial damage bonus, letting Mega Garchomp hit benchmarks like OHKOing Ho-Oh and Primal Kyogre unboosted and OHKOing Arceus formes at +1. 132 Defense EVs is an option for Tough Claws sets to ensure that Eviolite Imposter is always OHKOed at +1.

Setup Mega Garchomp has limited longevity considering its reliance on Life Orb, making it more suited to be used as a cleaner when the opposing walls have been conditioned to be able to be broken through. Mega Garchomp can soften up walls for itself in the earlier stages, but support from teammates is necessary due to its lack of sustain. Teammates that can greatly limit Strength Sap healing like Chansey, Blissey, and Magic Bounce users such as Arceus-Poison and Clodsire are almost mandatory to keep physical walls chipped, and in return Mega Garchomp serves as a decent offensive Imposter-proof for the mentioned Pokemon. Entry hazard support from the likes of Arceus-Ghost, Flutter Mane, and RegenVest users also help chip Fur Coat Pokemon in range. RegenVest users can also provide Knock Off and Nuzzle support, the latter is particularly useful to neutralize Imposter users and provide potential setup opportunities. Mega Garchomp can be Imposter-proofed by most Fur Coat users that are not weak to its moves, such as Arceus-Fairy, Zamazenta, Ting-Lu, and depending on coverage Water-types like Mega Slowbro and Dondozo. Would take away lu and add ghostceus (if there's taboo for two arceus formes, then like yveltal? just anything that isn't lu since fc lu is kinda bad rn), and specify that bro / dozo work if chomper is running v-create instead of the electric moves. Also, could add that they would need some kind of setup cope if imp starts clicking shift gear (or just that your improofers should be sap since that always improofs sg)

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QC 1/2 ofc let me know if you have anything you want to discuss
 
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[SET]
Setup Sweeper (Garchomp-Mega) @ Life Orb
Ability: Tough Claws / Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe or 252 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Headlong Rush / Precipice Blades
- Glaive Rush
- Bolt Strike / Electro Drift / V-create

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear is the setup move of choice, helping patch up Mega Garchomp's low Speed, and unlike Tidy Up it allows Adamant Mega Garchomp to outspeed Mega Alakazam after a boost. Precipice Blades is an option over Headlong Rush to avoid Burning Bulwark mind games + pp altho its not that relevant unless if you have wish support. Bolt Strike and Electro Drift hit numerous targets, notably Celesteela and Fur Coat Yveltal and Mega Slowbro do we rly need 3 whole examples? i think 2 is enough, with Bolt Strike being stronger into Levitate Steel-types while Electro Drift OHKOes Mega Slowbro and Fur Coat Celesteela with Life Orb boost. Alternatively, V-create also hits Celesteela while OHKOing Levitate Steel-types like Arceus-Steel, but has the drawback of reducing Mega Garchomp's Speed and defenses just spe drop is more relevant imo, headlong already drops def and glaive has the glaive thing, leaving it more susceptible to revenge killing. Tough Claws should be used with Headlong Rush or Electro Drift, while Sword of Ruin should be used with Precipice Blades. Life Orb offers a crucial damage bonus, letting Mega Garchomp hit benchmarks like OHKOing Ho-Oh and Primal Kyogre unboosted and OHKOing non-fc Arceus formes at +1. 132 Defense EVs is an option for Tough Claws sets to ensure that Eviolite Imposter is always OHKOed at +1. i dont think this will ever be relevant considering imposter is never staying in if u boost on the switch or you have to win the speed tie which is not ideal anyways. also it dies after very minor chip regardless so like i dont see the point

Setup Mega Garchomp has limited longevity considering its reliance on Life Orb, making it more suited to be used as a cleaner when the opposing walls have been conditioned to be able to be broken through. Mega Garchomp can soften up walls for itself in the earlier stages, but support from teammates is necessary due to its lack of sustain. Teammates that can greatly limit Strength Sap healing like Chansey, Blissey, and Magic Bounce users such as Arceus-Poison and Clodsire are almost mandatory to keep physical walls chipped, and in return Mega Garchomp serves as a decent offensive Imposter-proof for the mentioned Pokemon. Entry hazard support from the likes of Arceus-Ghost, Flutter Mane, and RegenVest users also help chip Fur Coat Pokemon in range. RegenVest users can also provide Knock Off and Nuzzle support, the latter is particularly useful to neutralize Imposter users and provide potential setup opportunities. Mega Garchomp can be Imposter-proofed by most Fur Coat users that are not weak to its moves and carrying Strength Sap or Topsy-Turvy, such as Arceus-Fairy, Zamazenta, Yveltal, and if it is not running an Electric-type move, Water-types like Mega Slowbro and Dondozo.

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qc 2/2
 
add remove comment GP Team done n_n
[SET]
Setup Sweeper (Garchomp-Mega) @ Life Orb
Ability: Tough Claws / Sword of Ruin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe or 252 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Def / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shift Gear
- Headlong Rush / Precipice Blades
- Glaive Rush
- Bolt Strike / Electro Drift / V-create

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear is the setup move of choice, helping helps (cut filler) patch up Mega Garchomp's low Speed, and, (AC) unlike Tidy Up, (AC) it allows Adamant Mega Garchomp to outspeed Mega Alakazam after a boost. Precipice Blades is an option over Headlong Rush to avoid Burning Bulwark mind games. Bolt Strike and Electro Drift hit numerous targets, notably Celesteela and Fur Coat Mega Slowbro, with Bolt Strike being stronger into against Levitate Steel-types, (AC) while Electro Drift OHKOes Mega Slowbro and Fur Coat Celesteela with the Life Orb boost. Alternatively, V-create also hits Celesteela while OHKOing Levitate Steel-types like Arceus-Steel (RC) but has the drawback of reducing Mega Garchomp's Speed, leaving it more susceptible to being revenge killing killed. Tough Claws should be used with Headlong Rush or Electro Drift, while Sword of Ruin should be used with Precipice Blades. Life Orb offers a crucial damage bonus, letting Mega Garchomp hit benchmarks like OHKOing Ho-Oh and Primal Kyogre unboosted and as well as (changed to prevent successive repetition of "and") OHKOing non-Fur Coat Arceus formes at +1. 132 Defense EVs is an option for Tough Claws sets to ensure that Eviolite Imposter is always OHKOed at +1. (think you missed the QC change to remove this sentence + the related EV spread?)

Setup Mega Garchomp has limited longevity considering its reliance on Life Orb, making it more suited to be used as a cleaner when the opposing walls have been conditioned to be able to be broken through. Mega Garchomp can soften up walls for itself in the earlier stages, but support from teammates is necessary due to its lack of sustain. Teammates that can greatly limit Strength Sap healing like Chansey, Blissey, and Magic Bounce users such as Arceus-Poison and Clodsire are almost mandatory to keep physical walls chipped, and in return Mega Garchomp serves as a decent offensive Imposter-proof for the mentioned Pokemon. Entry hazard support from the likes of Arceus-Ghost, Flutter Mane, and RegenVest users also help chip Fur Coat Pokemon in into range of being KOed. RegenVest users can also provide Knock Off and Nuzzle support (RC); (ASC) the latter is particularly useful to neutralize Imposter users and provide potential setup opportunities. Mega Garchomp can be Imposter-proofed by most Fur Coat users that carry Strength Sap or Topsy-Turvy and are not weak to its moves and carrying Strength Sap or Topsy-Turvy, (reword to improve readability) such as Arceus-Fairy, Zamazenta, Yveltal, and if it is not running an Electric-type move, Water-types like Mega Slowbro and Dondozo.

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