UU Shift Gear Toxtricity

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[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in UU thanks to Punk Rock-boosted Boomburst and Overdrive doing a lot of damage after a Throat Spray boost, but it still means Toxtricity requires two turns—one using Shift Gear and another using a sound-based move—to reach its full power. Toxtricity can start sweeping once its checks, mainly Gigalith and Rhyperior, have been weakened enough. Boomburst and Overdrive are Toxtricity's strongest attacks, and Sludge Bomb can be used for more damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity one-on-one with Mystical Fire, as well as hitting Gardevoir after it gains Punk Rock due to Trace. Meanwhile, Protect is a useful option for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. A Modest nature is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower while still being able to outspeed Choice Scarf Flygon and Darmanitan after a Shift Gear. Toxtricity should use its typing to set up on the likes of Cobalion, Noivern lacking Draco Meteor, Roserade, and Milotic.

Good partners for Toxtricity include dual screens setters like Xatu and Espeon that can give it and its teammates an easier time setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers, including Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar, can be useful on teams like these so that they piggyback off of each other breaking down foes and can pave the way for one another. All of these Pokemon are also effective at breaking the main roadblocks for Toxtricity in Rhyperior, Gigalith, and Bronzong. Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense build with pivots like Incineroar and Noivern providing valuable VoltTurn support for it and helping wear down or remove Rhyperior and Gigalith. Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds and are useful for the same reasons. Since Toxtricity will likely be saved until late-game to sweep, having Pokemon like Celebi, Machamp, and SubToxic Araquanid to pressure Water-types is important. All three can also pressure Rhyperior, Copperajah, and Gigalith, which can give Toxtricity some headaches.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[lyd, 303291]]
- Quality checked by: [[Estarossa, 461329], [Twillight, 344575]]
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[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in the UU tier. Throat Spray gives it a +1 boost after using a sound-based move, making it likely to clean up after the opposing team has been weakened enough. I'd explicitly mention the main checks you want weakened enough here, ie. Gigalith and Rhyperior. Boomburst and Overdrive are your strongest attacks, and the remaining slot can be either Sludge Bomb for more immediate damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity 1v1 with Mystical Fire. Meanwhile Protect is useful for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. Modest is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower, while still being able to outspeed Scarf Flygon and Celebi. Scarf Celebi isn't really v relevant. If you want another example here, you could use Scarf Darmanitan.

Give a mention to some targets you can try and set up Shift Gear against, such as Cobalion, non-Draco Noivern. Also mention as a downside how because it needs an extra turn after setting up to reach full power, it can sometimes struggle to set up on a lot of Pokemon without having them sufficiently weakened first, and leaves pokemon like Scarf Flygon able to hard switch into it because Toxtricity can't kill it until after Throat Spray is activated.

Good teammates include Dual Screens setters like Xatu or Espeon that can give Toxtricity and its teammates support to ease setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers can be useful on teams like these, so that they piggyback off of each other's breaking and can pave the way for one another. Good examples include Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar. you can go into some more detail on SD Incin here, since its also very effective at breaking Gigalith and Rhyperior for Toxtricity. Necrozma and Haxorus especially get a special mention for being able to pressure Rhyperior. Also talk about these mons ability to pressure Bronzong for Toxtricity Shift Gear Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense backgrounds, with pivots like Rotom-W, Incineroar, Noivern providing valuable Volt-Turn support explicitly mention some targets Toxtricity can pressure for them for Toxtricity. Mention how Noivern can help weaken Rhyperior and Gigalith for Toxtricity, Incineroar cripple them, and Rotom-Wash pressure them. Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds, and are useful for the same reasons.

In your Bulky Offense section, talk about a few partners that can help pressur bulky Waters, as shift gear Toxtricity doesn't pressure them well compared to Specs sets, especially because it will often not want to activate its Throat Spray before the late game. Machamp would be a great choice, since it also pressures Gigalith/Rhyperior/Bronzong.
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[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in the UU tier. Throat Spray gives it a +1 boost after using a sound-based move, making it likely to clean up after the opposing team has been weakened enough, especially checks like Gigalith and Rhyperior, but it still means Toxtricity requires two turns, one using Shift Gear, and another using a sound-based move, to reach its full power. i think you kinda need to re-order this (idk if this counts as more of a gp change though). as of rn it's kind of all over the place with the throat spray mention in the first line. something like "SG Tox is a good sweeper in the uu tier thanks to its strong attacks that allow it to easily clean up weakened teams. Once its checks like Rhyperior and Gigalith have been weakened, it can use Shift Gear to boost its speed and start sweeping<...>" you get the idea here, but lmk on discord if im being unclear and i can try to explain better Boomburst and Overdrive are your strongest attacks, and the remaining slot can be either Sludge Bomb for more immediate damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity 1v1 with Mystical Fire idk if immediate is the right word here, you should probably just say it gives it an easier time breaking sylveon. it also allows it to deal with grass types not named rose more reliably and deal with gardevoir that has traced punk rock, so mention those. Meanwhile Protect is useful for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. Modest is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower, while still being able to outspeed Scarf Flygon and Darmanitan. Toxtricity should use it's typing to set up on the likes of Cobalion, Noivern lacking Draco Meteor, opposing Toxtricity, etc. not rly a fan of the "etc" thing here, nor the tox mention since you lose to opposing tox 1v1 unless it's already weakened a bunch. mention stuff like roserade, milotic etc. instead

Good teammates include Dual Screens setters like Xatu or Espeon that can give Toxtricity and its teammates support to ease setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers can be useful on teams like these, so that they piggyback off of each other's breaking and can pave the way for one another. Good examples include Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar. Incineroar deserves a special mention due to being able to dent Rhyperior and Gigalith for Toxtricity, or vice verse. Necrozma and Haxorus also get a special mention for being able to pressure Rhyperior and Bronzong. linoone also puts pressure on all three of giga, rhyp and zong, particularly seed bomb variants, so i'd mention that Shift Gear Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense backgrounds, with pivots like Rotom-W, Incineroar, Noivern providing valuable Volt-Turn support for Toxtricity, and helping the Rhyperior and Gigalith matchup, Rotom-W can pressure them, Incineroar can cripple them with a status move, and Noivern can wear them down, especially Draco Meteor variants. idk how i feel about mentioning rotom-w as a teammate, sg tox is already really hard to fit on bulky offenses and stacking -another- electric with is pretty awkward. instead i'd mention shuca cobalion, which can come in on gigalith and rhyp and threaten them out to get up rocks Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds, and are useful for the same reasons. Since Toxtricity will likely be saved until late game to sweep, having something to pressure Water-types is important. Celebi, Machamp, and Roserade come to mind. dunno abt the rose mention for the same reasons as rotom, it's a pretty awkward teammate to fit All three can also pressure Rhyperior and Gigalith that give Toxtricity some headaches.

i know this looks like a lot but that's pretty much just because of how wordy i am, whoops! gj :3
 
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[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in the UU tier. Throat Spray gives it a +1 boost after using a sound-based move, making it likely to clean up after the opposing team has been weakened enough, especially checks like Gigalith and Rhyperior, but it still means Toxtricity requires two turns, one using Shift Gear, and another using a sound-based move, to reach its full power. i think you kinda need to re-order this (idk if this counts as more of a gp change though). as of rn it's kind of all over the place with the throat spray mention in the first line. something like "SG Tox is a good sweeper in the uu tier thanks to its strong attacks that allow it to easily clean up weakened teams. Once its checks like Rhyperior and Gigalith have been weakened, it can use Shift Gear to boost its speed and start sweeping<...>" you get the idea here, but lmk on discord if im being unclear and i can try to explain better Boomburst and Overdrive are your strongest attacks, and the remaining slot can be either Sludge Bomb for more immediate damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity 1v1 with Mystical Fire idk if immediate is the right word here, you should probably just say it gives it an easier time breaking sylveon. it also allows it to deal with grass types not named rose more reliably and deal with gardevoir that has traced punk rock, so mention those. Meanwhile Protect is useful for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. Modest is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower, while still being able to outspeed Scarf Flygon and Darmanitan. Toxtricity should use it's typing to set up on the likes of Cobalion, Noivern lacking Draco Meteor, opposing Toxtricity, etc. not rly a fan of the "etc" thing here, nor the tox mention since you lose to opposing tox 1v1 unless it's already weakened a bunch. mention stuff like roserade, milotic etc. instead You're going to be made to remove etc. when this goes into GP so do so now. Implement everything else

Good teammates include Dual Screens setters like Xatu or Espeon that can give Toxtricity and its teammates support to ease setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers can be useful on teams like these, so that they piggyback off of each other's breaking and can pave the way for one another. Good examples include Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar. Incineroar deserves a special mention due to being able to dent Rhyperior and Gigalith for Toxtricity, or vice verse. Necrozma and Haxorus also get a special mention for being able to pressure Rhyperior and Bronzong. linoone also puts pressure on all three of giga, rhyp and zong, particularly seed bomb variants, so i'd mention that I don't see the point in you splitting the Incin and Hax/Necro lines when they all weaken or outright remove these same examples. Even Barb does this and as Lily said, so does Linoone. I would just generalize the point to be about how all of these Pokemon can break past Pokemon like Giga, Rhyp, and Bronzong allowing Tox to sweep easier late-game. Shift Gear Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense backgrounds, with pivots like Rotom-W, Incineroar, Noivern providing valuable Volt-Turn support for Toxtricity, and helping wear down or remove the Rhyperior and Gigalith matchup, Rotom-W can pressure them, Incineroar can cripple them with a status move, and Noivern can wear them down, especially Draco Meteor variants. idk how i feel about mentioning rotom-w as a teammate, sg tox is already really hard to fit on bulky offenses and stacking -another- electric with is pretty awkward. instead i'd mention shuca cobalion, which can come in on gigalith and rhyp and threaten them out to get up rocks Do this and there also isn't much point in this last line, it's literally just filler. Simply saying they can wear down/cripple or remove these Pokemon is enough to sum this up than unnecessarily going into more detail for all 3. Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds, and are useful for the same reasons. Since Toxtricity will likely be saved until late game to sweep, having something to pressure Water-types is important. Celebi, Machamp, and Roserade come to mind. dunno abt the rose mention for the same reasons as rotom, it's a pretty awkward teammate to fit You can opt for SubToxic Araq instead All three can also pressure Rhyperior, Copperajah, and Gigalith that give Toxtricity some headaches.[/SPOILER]

i know this looks like a lot but that's pretty much just because of how wordy i am, whoops! gj :3
2/2 when done. My comments are in blue because Lily chose to use pink, which makes my normal Purple not stand out as well :puff:
Good AM check, basically implement everything she said
 
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I really like how unique your writing is, but watch out for general grammar rules (e.g. punctuation.) Great work hehe :>

[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in the UU tier thanks to Punk Rock-boosted (AH) Boomburst and Overdrive doing a lot of damage after a Throat Spray boost, (AC) but it still means Toxtricity requires two turns&mdash;one using Shift Gear (RC) and another using a sound-based move&mdash;to (mdashes are optional, but they fit better imo in the context of explaining what the phrase directly follows) reach its full power. Toxtricity can start sweeping once its checks, mainly Gigalith and Rhyperior, have been weakened enough. Boomburst and Overdrive are your Toxtricity's strongest attacks, and the remaining slot can be either (you have to add the other option here to say either :]) Sludge Bomb can be used for more damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity 1v1 one-on-one with Mystical Fire, as well as hitting Gardevoir after Tracing Punk Rock. Meanwhile, (AC) Protect is a useful option for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. Modest is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower (RC) while still being able to outspeed Choice Scarf Flygon and ("Choice Scarf"? It's not mandatory given the parallelism, but it's clearer) Darmanitan after a Shift Gear. Toxtricity should use it's its typing to set up on the likes of Cobalion, Noivern lacking Draco Meteor, Roserade, and Milotic.

Good teammates partners (rep) include Dual Screens dual screens setters like Xatu or and Espeon that can give Toxtricity and its teammates support to ease setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers, including Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar, can be useful on teams like these (RC) so that they piggyback off of each other's breaking and can pave the way for one another. Good examples include Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar. All of these are also effective at breaking the main roadblocks for Toxtricity (RC) in Rhyperior, Gigalith, and Bronzong. Shift Gear Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense backgrounds (RC) with pivots like Incineroar and Noivern providing valuable VoltTurn (RH) support for Toxtricity, it and helping wear down or remove Rhyperior and Gigalith. Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds (RC) and are useful for the same reasons. Since Toxtricity will likely be saved until late-game (AH) to sweep, having something Pokemon like Celebi, Machamp, and SubToxic Araquanid to pressure Water-types is important. Celebi, Machamp, and SubToxic Araquanid come to mind. All three can also pressure Rhyperior, Copperajah, and Gigalith, (AC) that which give Toxtricity some headaches.
 
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[SET]
name: Shift Gear
move 1: Boomburst
move 2: Overdrive
move 3: Sludge Bomb / Protect
move 4: Shift Gear
item: Throat Spray
ability: Punk Rock
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shift Gear Toxtricity is a terrifying sweeper in UU thanks to Punk Rock-boosted Boomburst and Overdrive doing a lot of damage after a Throat Spray boost, but it still means Toxtricity requires two turns&mdash;one using Shift Gear and another using a sound-based move&mdash;to reach its full power. Toxtricity can start sweeping once its checks, mainly Gigalith and Rhyperior, have been weakened enough. Boomburst and Overdrive are Toxtricity's strongest attacks, and Sludge Bomb can be used for more damage on Sylveon, which can stomach a Boomburst and beat Toxtricity one-on-one with Mystical Fire, as well as hitting Gardevoir after Tracing it gains Punk Rock due to Trace. Meanwhile, Protect is a useful option for shielding against First Impression users like Haxorus, Golisopod, and Sirfetch'd. A Modest nature is preferred thanks to the stronger firepower while still being able to outspeed Choice Scarf Flygon and Darmanitan after a Shift Gear. Toxtricity should use its typing to set up on the likes of Cobalion, Noivern lacking Draco Meteor, Roserade, and Milotic.

Good partners for Toxtricity include dual screens setters like Xatu and Espeon that can give Toxtricity it and its teammates support to ease an easier time setting up. Stacking other setup sweepers, including Necrozma, Haxorus, Barbaracle, Linoone, and Flame Charge Incineroar, can be useful on teams like these so that they piggyback off of each other's breaking down foes and can pave the way for one another. All of these Pokemon are also effective at breaking the main roadblocks for Toxtricity in Rhyperior, Gigalith, and Bronzong. Shift Gear Toxtricity can also be used in more bulky offense backgrounds build (consistency) with pivots like Incineroar and Noivern providing valuable VoltTurn support for it and helping wear down or remove Rhyperior and Gigalith. Necrozma and Haxorus also work on these more bulky offense builds and are useful for the same reasons. Since Toxtricity will likely be saved until late-game to sweep, having Pokemon like Celebi, Machamp, and SubToxic Araquanid to pressure Water-types is important. All three can also pressure Rhyperior, Copperajah, and Gigalith, which can give Toxtricity some headaches.
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