ZU Shiftry [done]

[Tuthur]

[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing letting it threaten common walls such as Uxie, Wishiwashi, and Cofagrigus. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry pick off faster attackers that have been weakened, such as Rotom, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke, heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a late-game cleaner by empowering its Sucker Punch and also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and Garbodor that have been weakened after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defogger and takes advantage of Shiftry's good matchup against common entry hazard setters such as Rhydon and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall matchup. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that punish U-turn with Rocky Helmet; in return, Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes by removing Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Centiskorch with Knock Off. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn support from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom, which can safely bring it onto the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch, like Sawk and Alolan Persian, are able to consistently force out Shiftry; therefore, checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun, outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and it can easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is not up. Sun-boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves, such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a staple on sun teams due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. The former two can even safely bring Shiftry onto the field with U-turn. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor can also take advantage of sun and form a Grass spam core with Shiftry, weakening each other's checks. Fire-types like Ninetales, Centiskorch, and Rapidash can also utilize sun to boost their STAB moves and weaken Shiftry's checks like opposing Fire-types, Piloswine, and Gurdurr.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variants can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, better dealing with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, Leaf Blade is worse at wallbreaking in the early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomach a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark-resistant Pokemon**: Dark-resistant foes such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective moves. However, most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm, which can heavily damage them, and are obliterated by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's 4x weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to common U-turn users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it is not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore, faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Articuno, and Rotom-S can force Shiftry out.

**Priority Moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other priority moves such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out, which can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy, as they need significantly less chip damage to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[DC, 449990]]

 

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[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Sivally-Ghost, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late game with stronger Sucker Punch but also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and Garbodor after a Swords Dance. (Phys def Garbador lives +2 Knock Off, so mention that it needs slight chip)Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger and uses Shiftry's good match-up versus common hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off removing Heavy Duty Boots off Pokemon. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Dragon, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can bring it safely on the field. Mention that Shiftry also appreciates partners that check Pokemon such as Persian-A and Sawk that outspeed Shiftry and resist Sucker Punch such as Poliwrath and Rotom-S.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. and having a Shiftry's deadly STAB combination that lets it OHKO most of the tier with its STAB after a Swords Dance or Growth boost. (First line runs on and should be split into two sentences imo. For the underlined portion, I'd say something like "OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth". Say this because usually Shiftry is firing off attacks rather than focusing on setup) Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off. Sun boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela. Swords Dance and Growth have to be used according to Shiftry's fourth move, even if you can run the opposite to bait the opponent. (Last line isn't really necessary imo because the slashes are implied for physical vs mixed)

Shiftry is a sun staple due to it raw power being almost unwallable and unrevengekillable in lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor and Leafeon take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together, weakening each other checks.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variant can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm which heavily damage them and are obliterate by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Dragon, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Sneasel can force it out. (Vanilluxe also outspeeds neutral Speed Shiftry and shuts down sun)

**Priority moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Sneasel's Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy as they need significantly less chip to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

nice work qc 1/2

 

[Tuthur]

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[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Sivally-Ghost, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late game with stronger Sucker Punch but also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and Garbodor after a Swords Dance. (Phys def Garbador lives +2 Knock Off, so mention that it needs slight chip)Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger and uses Shiftry's good match-up versus common hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off removing Heavy Duty Boots off Pokemon. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Dragon, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can bring it safely on the field. Mention that Shiftry also appreciates partners that check Pokemon such as Persian-A and Sawk that outspeed Shiftry and resist Sucker Punch such as Poliwrath and Rotom-S.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. and having a Shiftry's deadly STAB combination that lets it OHKO most of the tier with its STAB after a Swords Dance or Growth boost. (First line runs on and should be split into two sentences imo. For the underlined portion, I'd say something like "OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth". Say this because usually Shiftry is firing off attacks rather than focusing on setup) Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off. Sun boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela. Swords Dance and Growth have to be used according to Shiftry's fourth move, even if you can run the opposite to bait the opponent. (Last line isn't really necessary imo because the slashes are implied for physical vs mixed)

Shiftry is a sun staple due to it raw power being almost unwallable and unrevengekillable in lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor and Leafeon take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together, weakening each other checks.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variant can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm which heavily damage them and are obliterate by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Dragon, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Sneasel can force it out. (Vanilluxe also outspeeds neutral Speed Shiftry and shuts down sun)

**Priority moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Sneasel's Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy as they need significantly less chip to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

nice work qc 1/2

Ty, implemented

 

[BloodAce]

QC 2/2, good job on this!

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[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Sivally-Ghost, Cinccino, and Basculin. Many Silv-Ghost variants can play around Sucker Punch with Sub so another example like Rotom would be better. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late game with stronger Sucker Punch but also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and chipped Garbodor after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger and uses Shiftry's good match-up versus common hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off removing Heavy Duty Boots off Pokemon like Altaria. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can bring it safely on the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch like Sawk and Alolan Persian are able to consistently force out Shiftry, therefore checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off. Sun boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a sun staple due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. (Mention that Uxie and Liepard can bring it in with U-Turn) Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor and Leafeon (vr relevancy) take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together, weakening each other checks. (Mention other Pokemon that abuse Sun and weakenen Shiftry's checks like Fire-types such as Rapidash.)

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variant can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm which heavily damage them and are obliterate by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Sneasel Rotom-S can force it out. Vanilluxe is a noteworthy threat as it shuts down Sun, making it always able to outspeed Shiftry.

**Priority moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy as they need significantly less chip to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Tuthur]

QC 2/2, good job on this!

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[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Sivally-Ghost, Cinccino, and Basculin. Many Silv-Ghost variants can play around Sucker Punch with Sub so another example like Rotom would be better. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late game with stronger Sucker Punch but also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and chipped Garbodor after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger and uses Shiftry's good match-up versus common hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off removing Heavy Duty Boots off Pokemon like Altaria. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can bring it safely on the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch like Sawk and Alolan Persian are able to consistently force out Shiftry, therefore checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off. Sun boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a sun staple due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. (Mention that Uxie and Liepard can bring it in with U-Turn) Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor and Leafeon (vr relevancy) take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together, weakening each other checks. (Mention other Pokemon that abuse Sun and weakenen Shiftry's checks like Fire-types such as Rapidash.)

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variant can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm which heavily damage them and are obliterate by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Sneasel Rotom-S can force it out. Vanilluxe is a noteworthy threat as it shuts down Sun, making it always able to outspeed Shiftry.

**Priority moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy as they need significantly less chip to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Implemented, ty.

 

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[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing,(AC) letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Rotom, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke,(AC) heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late-(AH)game with stronger by empowering its Sucker Punch but and also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and chipped Garbodor that have been weakened after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger Defogger and uses takes advantage of Shiftry's good match-(RH)up versus common entry hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-(RH)up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off by removing Heavy-(AH)Duty Boots off from Pokemon like Centiskorch with Knock Off. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn support from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can safely bring it safely onto the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch like Sawk and Alolan Persian are able to consistently force out Shiftry;(comma to semicolon) therefore,(AC) checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun,(AC) outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and it can easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off not up. Sun-(AH)boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a staple on sun staple teams due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. The former two can even safely bring Exeggutor(did you mean shiftry?) safely onto the field thanks to with U-turn. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor can also take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together with Shiftry, weakening each other's checks. Fire-types like Ninetales, Centiskorch, and Rapidash can also abuse utilize sun to boost their STAB moves and can weaken Shiftry's checks like opposing Fire-types, Piloswine, and Gurdurr. (abuse is meant to be used in a negative term)

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variants can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's it is worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache stomach a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark-(AH)resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark Dark-resistant foes such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off,(AC) which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams,(AC) and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However,(AC) most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm,(AC) which can heavily damage them,(AC) and are obliterated by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness 4x weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's it is not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore,(AC) faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Rotom-S can force it out. Vanilluxe is a noteworthy threat,(AC) as it shuts down Sun,(RC) making it always is able to remove sun and outspeed Shiftry.

**Priority Moves(capitalize)**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other priority moves such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy,(AC) as they need significantly less chip damage to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

GP 1/2. [DC, 449990] No Stamp yet, so enjoy a Corgi GIF!

 

[Tuthur]

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Leaf Ninja

[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing,(AC) letting it threaten common walls such as Palossand, Poliwrath, and Carbink. Sucker Punch is a powerful priority move that lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers such as Rotom, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke,(AC) heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late-(AH)game with stronger by empowering its Sucker Punch but and also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and chipped Garbodor that have been weakened after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defoger Defogger and uses takes advantage of Shiftry's good match-(RH)up versus common entry hazard setters such as Rhydon, Palossand, and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall match-(RH)up. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet, while Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes thanks to Knock Off by removing Heavy-(AH)Duty Boots off from Pokemon like Centiskorch with Knock Off. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn support from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom that can safely bring it safely onto the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch like Sawk and Alolan Persian are able to consistently force out Shiftry;(comma to semicolon) therefore,(AC) checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun,(AC) outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and it can easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is off not up. Sun-(AH)boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a staple on sun staple teams due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. The former two can even safely bring Exeggutor(did you mean shiftry?) safely onto the field thanks to with U-turn. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor can also take advantage of the sun as well and can form a Grass spam core together with Shiftry, weakening each other's checks. Fire-types like Ninetales, Centiskorch, and Rapidash can also abuse utilize sun to boost their STAB moves and can weaken Shiftry's checks like opposing Fire-types, Piloswine, and Gurdurr. (abuse is meant to be used in a negative term)

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variants can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it's it is worse at wallbreaking in early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomache stomach a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark-(AH)resistant Pokemon**: Pokemon that resists Dark Dark-resistant foes such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off,(AC) which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams,(AC) and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective move. However,(AC) most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm,(AC) which can heavily damage them,(AC) and are obliterated by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's quad-weakness 4x weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to the very common U-turn move which lets the opponent easily grab momentum verus Shiftry with users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it's it is not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore,(AC) faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Lycanroc, and Rotom-S can force it out. Vanilluxe is a noteworthy threat,(AC) as it shuts down Sun,(RC) making it always is able to remove sun and outspeed Shiftry.

**Priority Moves(capitalize)**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other priority moves such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out and Lycanroc's Accelerock that can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy,(AC) as they need significantly less chip damage to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

GP 1/2. [DC, 449990] No Stamp yet, so enjoy a Corgi GIF!

ty, implemented.

 

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Leaf Ninja

[SET]
name: Mixed Attacker
move 1: Knock Off
move 2: Sucker Punch
move 3: Leaf Storm
move 4: Swords Dance / Defog
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Lonely
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerful mixed attacker and stallbreaker thanks to its amazing offensive typing,(RC) letting it threaten common walls such as Uxie, Wishiwashi, and Cofagrigus. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry pick off weakened faster attackers that have been weakened,(AC) such as Rotom, Cinccino, and Basculin. Leaf Storm acts as a powerful special nuke, heavily damaging physical walls such as Qwilfish, Gurdurr, and Cofagrigus. Swords Dance lets Shiftry act as a cleaner late-game cleaner by empowering its Sucker Punch and also lets it wallbreak more easily with Knock Off, OHKOing Altaria and Garbodor that have been weakened after a Swords Dance. Defog is an alternative if the team lacks a Defogger and takes advantage of Shiftry's good matchup versus against common entry hazard setters such as Rhydon and Uxie.

Shiftry is a good pick for any offensive team looking for a strong wallbreaker with a great stall matchup. Garbodor and Qwilfish are amazing partners that can punish U-turn with their Rocky Helmet;(comma to semicolon) while in return,(AC) Shiftry improves the effectiveness of their Spikes by removing Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Centiskorch with Knock Off. Other physical wallbreakers such as Silvally-Ghost, Sawk, and Cinccino appreciate Shiftry weakening physical walls such as Tangela with the combination of Knock Off and Leaf Storm. Shiftry also appreciate VoltTurn support from users such as Basculin, Uxie, and Rotom,(AC) that which can safely bring it onto the field. Faster threats that resist Sucker Punch,(AC) like Sawk and Alolan Persian,(AC) are able to consistently force out Shiftry; therefore, checks to them like Rotom-S and Poliwrath are appreciated.

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper
move 1: Swords Dance / Growth
move 2: Solar Blade
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Sucker Punch / Heat Wave
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Adamant / Naughty
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Shiftry is a powerhouse in sun, outspeeding the whole unboosted metagame and most Choice Scarf users. Shiftry's deadly STAB combination lets it OHKO most Pokemon it outspeeds, and it can easily break through defensive teams after a Swords Dance or Growth. Sucker Punch lets Shiftry revenge kill faster attackers when sun is not up. Sun-boosted Heat Wave lets Shiftry OHKO strong physical walls that can take its other moves,(AC) such as Ferroseed, Mawile, and Tangela.

Shiftry is a staple on sun teams due to it raw power and lack of offensive and defensive checks under sun. Sun setters such as Uxie, Liepard, and Exeggutor make for great partners that enables Shiftry to wallbreak or sweep. The former two can even safely bring Shiftry onto the field(removed space) with U-turn. Other Chlorophyll users such as Exeggutor can also take advantage of sun and form a Grass spam core with Shiftry, weakening each other's checks. Fire-types like Ninetales, Centiskorch, and Rapidash can also utilize sun to boost their STAB moves and weaken Shiftry's checks like opposing Fire-types, Piloswine, and Gurdurr.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Swords Dance variants can run Leaf Blade over Leaf Storm to have a more consistent Grass STAB move to clean, dealing better dealing with walls such as Poliwrath and Carbink. However, it Leaf Blade is worse at wallbreaking in the early- and mid-game because it lacks raw power and relies on Swords Dance.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Colbur Berry**: Thanks to their Colbur Berry, Uxie and Cofagrigus can stomach a boosted Knock Off from Shiftry and OHKO it back with U-turn and Body Press respectively.

**Dark-resistant Pokemon**: Dark-resistant foes such as Silvally-Dark, Gurdurr, and Alcremie can comfortably take Shiftry's Knock Off,(RC) which is its most spammable STAB move outside of Sun teams,(RC) and OHKO Shiftry with their super effective moves. However, most of these Pokemon have to watch out for Shiftry's less spammable Leaf Storm, which can heavily damage them, and are obliterated by a boosted Solar Blade.

**U-turn**: Shiftry's(removed space) 4x weakness to Bug makes it extremely susceptible to(removed space) common U-turn users such as Silvally-Ground, Liepard, and Cinccino.

**Faster Attackers**: While Shiftry's Sucker Punch is very powerful and able to easily clean teams after a single Swords Dance, it is not strong enough to threaten faster Pokemon when unboosted. Therefore, faster attackers such as Silvally-Ground, Articuno, and Rotom-S can force it Shiftry out.

**Priority Moves**: While Shiftry resists Thwackey's Grassy Glide and opposing Shiftry's Sucker Punch, it takes heavy damage from other priority moves such as Kangaskhan's Fake Out,(AC) that which can pick off a very weakened Shiftry in sun. Froslass's and Piloswine's Ice Shard and Gurdurr's Mach Punch are noteworthy, as they need significantly less chip damage to take out Shiftry.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Tuthur, 369076]]
- Quality checked by: [[5gen, 296755], [BloodAce, 435539]]
- Grammar checked by: [[DC, 449990], [username1, userid1]]

TDP said I could recheck 1/2 analyses and stamp them, so consider this as 1/1. Please be sure to give this a re-read and fix some spacing errors that I might not have noticed before uploading.

 

[Tuthur]

ty for the GP.

https://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/pokemon/shiftry/zu/