[SET]
Swords Dance (Iron Boulder) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sharpness
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Mighty Cleave
- Psycho Cut
- Sacred Sword / Earthquake / Throat Chop
[SET COMMENTS]
Paragraph 1:
Iron Boulder is a solid sweeper, sporting one of the highest natural speed stats in the tier, allowing it to threaten out many Pokemon and in turn find opportunities to setup a Swords Dance to sweep or cleanup teams with it's extremely strong Sharpness boosted Mighty Cleaves and Psycho Cuts. Sacred Sword gives Iron Boulder a way to take down Ting-Lu and Iron Treads who otherwise wall both of it's STAB moves, Earthquake let's Iron Boulder still hit Iron Treads while also taking down non Ground-Immune Gholdengo, and Throat Chop mainly allows for Iron Boulder to take down Ground-Immune Gholdengo; although it is important to note that most Ground-Immune Gholdengo sets use Colbur Berry and can survive a Swords Dance boosted Throat Chop, so removing the Coulbur Berry off of Gholdengo ahead of time is advised.
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Iron Boulder provides great support for slower wallbreakers such as Kingambit, Mamoswine, and Slither Wing, with Iron Boulder either being able to weaken or take down their checks such as Great Tusk and Manaphy, taking on pokemon faster than them like Roaring Moon and Cobalion, or just being able to cleanup after they've weakened everything on the opponents team. Iron Boulder struggles to not only find a way onto the battlefield but also struggles to deal with most of the pokemon faster than it such as Chien-Pao, Barraskweda, and Zamazenta so having defensive pokemon that can check them like Manaphy, Corviknight, and Pecharunt while also providing entrances for Iron Boulder through pivoting is very appreciated.
[SET CREDITS]
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Swords Dance (Iron Boulder) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sharpness
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Mighty Cleave
- Psycho Cut
- Sacred Sword / Earthquake / Throat Chop
[SET COMMENTS]
Paragraph 1:
Iron Boulder is a solid sweeper, sporting one of the highest natural speed stats in the tier, allowing it to threaten out many Pokemon and in turn find opportunities to setup a Swords Dance to sweep or cleanup teams with it's extremely strong Sharpness boosted Mighty Cleaves and Psycho Cuts. Sacred Sword gives Iron Boulder a way to take down Ting-Lu and Iron Treads who otherwise wall both of it's STAB moves, Earthquake let's Iron Boulder still hit Iron Treads while also taking down non Ground-Immune Gholdengo, and Throat Chop mainly allows for Iron Boulder to take down Ground-Immune Gholdengo; although it is important to note that most Ground-Immune Gholdengo sets use Colbur Berry and can survive a Swords Dance boosted Throat Chop, so removing the Coulbur Berry off of Gholdengo ahead of time is advised.
Paragraph 2:
Iron Boulder provides great support for slower wallbreakers such as Kingambit, Mamoswine, and Slither Wing, with Iron Boulder either being able to weaken or take down their checks such as Great Tusk and Manaphy, taking on pokemon faster than them like Roaring Moon and Cobalion, or just being able to cleanup after they've weakened everything on the opponents team. Iron Boulder struggles to not only find a way onto the battlefield but also struggles to deal with most of the pokemon faster than it such as Chien-Pao, Barraskweda, and Zamazenta so having defensive pokemon that can check them like Manaphy, Corviknight, and Pecharunt while also providing entrances for Iron Boulder through pivoting is very appreciated.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/hiusi-guy.603640/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user3.102/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/