Quality Control shadow honse (Sash Calyrex-S) [QC 1/2]

[Pengu]

[SET]
Glass Cannon (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Focus Sash
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Astral Barrage
- Psychic
- Encore / Disable / Nasty Plot
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
Set Details
========
- Focus Sash Calyrex-S is a strong attacker and disruptor capable in swinging games around, threatening many common Pokemon such as both Calyrex formes, Amoonguss, and Koraidon.
- Encore is great in scaring off many moves such as Fake Out from Rillaboom and Incineroar, Calm Mind from Terapagos, Protect, and much more. Disable, on the other hand, is useful to shut down powerful moves that can easily stop Calyrex-S, most notably Wide Guard from the likes of Lunala and Zamazenta-C. Nasty Plot can boost Calyrex-S's sweeping power, letting it OHKO Assault Vest Iron Hands with Psychic.
- Focus Sash increases Calyrex-S's survivability, aiding it from the many attacks that can OHKO it such as Moongeist Beam from Lunala and Electro Drift from Miraidon.
- Tera Ghost boosts the power of Astral Barrage, letting Calyrex-S always OHKO Tera Ghost Incineroar and Ursaluna while also OHKOing Lunala most of the time.

Teambuilding
=========
- Dark-types like Incineroar and Chi-Yu are issues for Calyrex-S, as Calyrex-S has no good way of breaking through them. Farigiraf is another struggle for Calyrex-S thanks to Farigiraf's immunity to Astral Barrage and access to Foul Play. Even with Disable, Zamazenta-C and Lunala are still bothersome for Calyrex-S, with both using Wide Guard and Lunala in particular threatening huge damage into Calyrex-S with Moongeist Beam. Urshifu-R can threaten Calyrex-S, using Tera Water or Tera Stellar to OHKO Calyrex-S with Surging Strikes.
- Fighting-type Pokemon such as Urshifu-R and Zamazenta-C are great partners for Calyrex-S, providing good coverage into Dark-types while also threatening opposing Zamazenta-C. Calyrex-S is able to help these Fighting-type Pokemon by using Astral Barrage to break through Ghost-types like Flutter Mane.
- Dark-type Pokemon like Chi-Yu and Incineroar are able to break down Farigiraf and Lunala with Dark Pulse and Knock Off, respectively. Chi-Yu has the added benefit of threatening Zamazenta-C thanks to Overheat. Additionally, Chi-Yu's Beads of Ruins allows Calyrex-S to OHKO Leech Seed Calyrex-I with Tera Ghost Astral Barrage and 2HKO Zamazenta-C with Psychic or Astral Barrage. Calyrex-S, in return, can threaten Pokemon like Iron Hands and Urshifu-R, which normally scare off the aforementioned Dark-types.
- Rillaboom is a good partner to beat down Urshifu-R while also providing Fake Out support. Rillaboom can also use U-turn to chip down Lunala and Farigiraf, notably breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/pengu.650323/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rausakura.589964/
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[RauSakura]

Nice job, you may mark as 1/2 after implementing

Copyedit

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[SET]
Glass Cannon (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Focus Sash
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Astral Barrage
- Psychic / Encore / Disable I would remove this, it looks quite messy
- Encore / Disable / Nasty Plot
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
Set Details
========
- The role that the Pokemon plays and its good match ups: Focus Sash Calyrex-S is a strong attacker and disruptor capable in swinging games around, threatening many common Pokemon such as both Calyrex formes, Amoonguss, and Koraidon.
- Encore is great in beating down many moves Weird word choice GP probably will get you to change this such as Fake Out from Rillaboom and Incineroar, Calm Mind from Terapagos, Protect, and much more. Disable, on the other hand, is useful to shut down powerful moves that can easily stop Calyrex-S, most notably Wide Guard from the likes of Lunala and Zamazenta-C. Nasty Plot can boost Calyrex-S's sweeping power, letting it OHKO Assault Vest Iron Hands with Psychic.
- Focus Sash increases Calyrex-S's survivability, aiding it from the many attacks that can OHKO it such as Moongeist Beam from Lunala and Electro Drift from Miraidon.
- Tera Ghost boosts the power of Astral Barrage, letting Calyrex-S always OHKO Tera Ghost Incineroar and Ursaluna while also OHKOing Electric Seed Pretty sure the meteor beam set runs similar special bulk so don't need to specify Lunala most of the time.

Teambuilding
=========
- Dark-types like Incineroar and Chi-Yu are issues for Calyrex-S, as Calyrex-S has no good way of breaking through them. Farigiraf is another struggle for Calyrex-S thanks to Farigiraf's immunity to Astral Barrage and access to Foul Play. Even with Disable, Zamazenta-C and Lunala are still bothersome for Calyrex-S, with both using Wide Guard and Lunala in particular threatening huge damage into Calyrex-S with Moongeist Beam. Both Choice Scarf and Focus Sash Don't need to specify this since they should be doing similar damage Urshifu-R can threaten Calyrex-S, using Tera Water and Tera Stellar, respectively, to OHKO Calyrex-S with Surging Strikes.
- Fighting-type Pokemon such as Urshifu-R and Zamazenta-C are great partners for Calyrex-S, providing good coverage into Dark-types while also threatening opposing Zamazenta-C. Calyrex-S is able to help these Fighting-type Pokemon by using Astral Barrage to break through Ghost- and Psychic-types like Flutter Mane and opposing Calyrex-S. I don't like Calyrex-S as a Psychic-type example here, mention something else or just mention Ghost-types
- Dark-type Pokemon like Chi-Yu and Incineroar are able to break down Farigiraf and Lunala with Dark Pulse and Knock Off, respectively. Chi-Yu has the added benefit of threatening Zamazenta-C thanks to Overheat. Could expand this point about Chi-Yu further mentioning any KOs Beads of Ruin helps Calyrex-S achieve Calyrex-S can threaten Pokemon like Iron Hands and Urshifu-R, which normally scare off the aforementioned Dark-types.
- Rillaboom is a good partner to beat down Urshifu-R while also providing Fake Out support. Rillaboom can also use U-turn to chip down Lunala and Farigiraf, notably breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield. Up to you but could add Grassy Terrain helps Calyrex-S's Focus Sash remain intact

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/pengu.650323/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rausakura.589964/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/

 

[Carrotman]

View attachment 742560

[SET]
Glass Cannon (Calyrex-Shadow) @ Focus Sash
Ability: As One (Spectrier)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Astral Barrage
- Psychic
- Encore / Disable / Nasty Plot
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]
Set Details
========
- Focus Sash Calyrex-S is a strong attacker and disruptor capable in swinging games around, threatening many common Pokemon such as both Calyrex formes, Amoonguss, and Koraidon.
- Encore is great in scaring off many moves such as Fake Out from Rillaboom and Incineroar, Calm Mind from Terapagos, Protect, and much more. Disable, on the other hand, is useful to shut down powerful moves that can easily stop Calyrex-S, most notably Wide Guard from the likes of Lunala and Zamazenta-C. Nasty Plot can boost Calyrex-S's sweeping power, letting it OHKO Assault Vest Iron Hands with Psychic.
- Focus Sash increases Calyrex-S's survivability, aiding it from the many attacks that can OHKO it such as Moongeist Beam from Lunala and Electro Drift from Miraidon. against Pokémon that would threatan an OHKO on it, such as examples (would include sucker punch pao in here as well, because it ohko's it before it can even move)
- Tera Ghost boosts the power of Astral Barrage, letting Calyrex-S always OHKO Tera Ghost Incineroar and Ursaluna while also OHKOing Lunala most of the time.

Teambuilding
=========
- Dark-types like Incineroar and Chi-Yu are issues for Calyrex-S, as Calyrex-S has no good way of breaking through them. Farigiraf is another struggle for Calyrex-S thanks to Farigiraf's immunity to Astral Barrage and access to Foul Play. Even with Disable, Zamazenta-C and Lunala are still bothersome for Calyrex-S, with both using Wide Guard and Lunala in particular threatening huge damage into Calyrex-S with Moongeist Beam. Urshifu-R can threaten Calyrex-S, using Tera Water or Tera Stellar to OHKO Calyrex-S with Surging Strikes.
- Fighting-type Pokemon such as Urshifu-R and Zamazenta-C are great partners for Calyrex-S, providing good coverage into Dark-types while also threatening opposing Zamazenta-C. Calyrex-S is able to help these Fighting-type Pokemon by using Astral Barrage to break through Ghost-types like Flutter Mane.
- Dark-type Pokemon like Chi-Yu and Incineroar are able to break down Farigiraf and Lunala with Dark Pulse and Knock Off, respectively. Chi-Yu has the added benefit of threatening Zamazenta-C thanks to Overheat. Additionally, Chi-Yu's Beads of Ruins allows Calyrex-S to OHKO Leech Seed bulky Calyrex-I with Tera Ghost Astral Barrage and 2HKO Zamazenta-C with Psychic or Astral Barrage. Calyrex-S, in return, can threaten Pokemon like Iron Hands and Urshifu-R, which normally scare off the aforementioned Dark-types.
- Rillaboom is a good partner to beat down Urshifu-R while also providing Fake Out support. Rillaboom can also use U-turn to chip down Lunala and Farigiraf, notably breaking Lunala's Shadow Shield.

i would mention redirection (mainly cornerstone), helping vs shifu with both follow me and a grass move, and protecting it from priority once it's taken down to sash

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/pengu.650323/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rausakura.589964/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/

AMQC
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