PU Special Attacker Charizard

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[SET]
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Flamethrower / Fire Blast
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: Focus Blast / Tera Blast
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Air Slash
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Blaze
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Flying / Dragon / Fire / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

Charizard is a threatening special attacker with great typing and solid bulk. It also outspeeds a majority of the metagame's threats like Rotom-F, Houndoom, and non-Scarf Sawsbuck, which makes it even more difficult to deal with. Fire Blast can be slotted over Flamethrower for a more powerful STAB move, although there are accuracy problems for both of it STAB moves. Focus Blast is great coverage with the ability to OHKO the likes of Lycanroc-N, Alolan Persian, and Vigoroth, whereas its STAB moves do not. Tera Blast Steel can be picked over Focus Blast to target counters that Charizard struggles with like Carbink and Daschbun. Will-O-Wisp helps cripple opposing physical attackers, which can safely come in on Charizard like Gabite, Vigoroth, and specially defensive Skuntank. However, Air Slash can be chosen over Will-O-Wisp for a more consistent Flying-type STAB alongside the somewhat inaccurate Hurricane. Tera Flying is for greatly boosting Hurricanes power, allowing it to pick up the 2HKO on bulky Gabite sets, Camerupt, and Dachsbun and the OHKO on the threatening Basculin. Defensively, Tera Dragon is the best choice for Charizard. It turns its weaknesses to Electric- and Water-type moves into resistances while still keeping its previous resistances to Grass and Fire and turning Rock-type moves turn into neutral hits. This allows it to take hits from its many threats like Raichu, Golduck, and Lycanroc-N. Tera Fire helps Flamethrower make up for the loss of power when chosen over Fire Blast, especially if it g'ets into Blaze range. It allows Charizard to 2HKO bulky Pokemon it otherwise wouldn't like Articuno and Tinkatuff. Deciding to Terastallize into either of its offensive types helps relieve its quad weakness to Rock, allowing it to live a hit from Gogoat, Gabite, and Alolan Persian.

Special Charizard works well on balance and offensive teams that are looking for a fast and powerful attacker. Charizard does great when paired with a physical breaker like Perrserker, Basculin, or Lycanroc-N to help with the special walls like Carbink and Dachsbun that it struggles to get through. On the other hand, it does great at breaking through the physically defensive Pokemon that physical attackers like Perrserker, Gogoat, and defensive setup sweeper Carbink have trouble with such as Dartrix, Misdreavus, and Leafeon. Charizard appreciates being paired with the likes of Quaxwell, Mareanie, and Lumineon to take hits for it from Golduck, Basculin, and opposing Lumineon. Although, its most glaring issue is the 4x weakness to Rock, which Lycanroc-N, Dugtrio, and Gabite can take advantage of. There are also other Pokemon like Misdreavus, Gogoat, and Alolan Persian that can slot Rock-type moves to catch Charizard switching in. This is why Charizard appreciates the presence of Whiscash and its own Gabite to handle these issues. Charizard only has one full counter, which is Carbink, barring Tera Blast Steel; however, there are a few other options using Tera such as using Tera Steel Dachsbun, Tera Rock Misdreavus, and Tera Rock Gogoat that can check it in a pinch. Although, the likes of Gabite, Perrserker, and Golduck can help come in and remove them after they Terastallize. Skuntank, Sawsbuck, and Flapple appreciate Charizard for helping them handle Perrserker. It is also worth mentioning that it prefers to be on the same team as a Knock Off absorber like Alolan Persian or Skuntank, because losing Heavy-Duty Boots greatly impacts its longevity.

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sleid said:
[SET]
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Flamethrower / Fire Blast
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: Focus Blast / Tera Blast
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Air Slash
item: Heavy Duty Boots
ability: Blaze
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Flying / Dragon / Fire / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

Charizard is a threatening special attacker with great typing and solid bulk. It also outspeeds majority of the metagame, which makes it even more difficult to deal with. (give some examples of threats it outspeeds.) Fire Blast can be slotted over Flamethrower for a more powerful STAB move, although you lose some accuracy. Focus Blast is great coverage for the ability to OHKO the likes of Lycanroc, Alolan Persian, Houndoom, Pyroar, and Tauros, (five examples is too many, keep any three of them.) whereas its STAB moves do not. Tera Blast can be picked over Focus Blast to target certain counters that Charizard struggles with. Tera Blast Steel helps break past Carbink and Daschbun, while Tera Blast Dragon can help with Gabite, Dragonair, and Drakloak. (tera blast is for when you go tera steel only, hurricane/air slash is enough to chip at dragons. tera dragon is for the water/elec resists while keeping your grass and fire resistances.) Will-O-Wisp helps cripple opposing physical attackers who can safely come in on Charizard like Gabite, Quaxwell, (quaxwell takes a lot from hurricane, wouldn't say it comes in safely.) and special defensive Skuntank. However, you could opt for Air Slash over Will-O-Wisp for a more consistent Flying-type STAB alongside the somewhat inaccurate Hurricane. (explain what each of the tera types listed do here.)

Special Charizard works well on balance and offensive teams that are looking for a fast and powerful attacker. Charizard pairs well with Rock-types like Lycanroc and Carbink to counter their weaknesses to Grass-, Fighting-, and Steel-type moves. It also helps the Steel-types such as Perrserker and Tinkatuff since it covers their weaknesses to Fire-, Fighting-, and Ground-type moves. Charizard really appreciates teammates like Gabite, Tinkatuff, and Perrserker to cover its Rock-type weakness, as well as Water- and Grass-types like Quaxwell, Lumineon, Gogoat, and Lilligant to help with its Water-type weakness. Charizard also thrives when paired with a physical breaker like Perrserker, Basculin, or Lycanroc to help with the special walls like Carbink and Daschbun that it struggles to get through. It is also worth mentioning that it prefers to be on the same team as a Knock Off absorber because losing Heavy Duty Boots greatly impacts its longevity.

a lot of this second paragraph is spent going over type chart stuff, which reads like dex info. it would be better if, for instance, you gave specific examples of rock-types that charizard is threatened by rather than leaving it at the fact that charizard is weak to rock-types.

i think you should mention that backup checks to pokemon like misdreavus and gogoat are good to run alongside charizard, since they can threaten it with rock-type coverage or by terastallizing.

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lmk when you implement this and i'll give it another look :)
 
There's definitely better targets to mention outspeeding than basculin and zangoose because they have to be under the conditions where priority won't be threatening a KO ie banded/tera aqua jet or +2 tera quick attack, I think rotom-f and lilligant are better mentions given how they can be potentially ruinous under any other condition
 
sleid said:
[SET]
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Flamethrower / Fire Blast
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: Focus Blast / Tera Blast
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Air Slash
item: Heavy Duty Boots
ability: Blaze
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Flying / Dragon / Fire / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

Charizard is a threatening special attacker with great typing and solid bulk. It also outspeeds majority of the metagames threats like Rotom-F, Houndoom, and Sawsbuck, (specify non scarf)which makes it even more difficult to deal with. Fire Blast can be slotted over Flamethrower for a more powerful STAB move, although you lose some accuracy. (and you already have to worry about that with hurricane)Focus Blast is great coverage for the ability to OHKO the likes of Lycanroc, Alolan Persian, and Tauros, whereas its STAB moves do not. Tera Blast can be picked over Focus Blast to target certain counters that Charizard struggles with. Tera Blast is only for when you run Tera Steel to break past Carbink and Dachsbun. (these two sentences can easily be merged)Will-O-Wisp helps cripple opposing physical attackers who can safely come in on Charizard like Gabite, Vigoroth, and special defensive Skuntank. However, you could opt for Air Slash over Will-O-Wisp for a more consistent Flying-type STAB alongside the somewhat inaccurate Hurricane. Tera Flying is for greatly boosting Hurricanes power, allowing it to pick up the 2HKO on bulky Gabite sets, Camperupt, and Dachsbun, and the OHKO on the threatening Basculin-B. Tera Fire makes Flamethrower even more threatening, especially if it gets into Blaze range. It allows it to 2HKO bulky Pokemon it otherwise wouldn't like Articuno and Tinkatuff. Deciding to Tera into either of its offensive types helps relieve its quad weakness to Rock-type moves, allowing it to live a hit from Gogoat, Gabite, and Alolan Persian.(also basculin's aqua jet) Defensively, Tera Dragon is the best choice for Charizard. It turns its weaknesses to Electric- and Water-type moves into resistances, while still keeping its previous resistances to Grass- and Fire-types and turning Rock-type moves turn into neutral hits. This allows it to take hits from its many threats like Raichu, Golduck, and Lycanroc-N.

Special Charizard works well on balance and offensive teams that are looking for a fast and powerful attacker. Charizard does great when paired with a physical breaker like Perrserker, Basculin-B, or Lycanroc-N to help with the special walls like Carbink and Dachsbun that it struggles to get through. On the other hand, it does great at breaking through the physically defensive Pokemon that physical attackers like Perrserker, Dragon Dance Whiscash, and Offensive Carbink have trouble with such as Dartrix, Misdreavus, and Leafeon. Charizard appreciates being paired with the likes of Quaxwell, Mareanie, and Lumineon to take hits for it from Golduck, Basculin, and opposing Lumineon. Although, its most glaring issue is the 4x weak Rock-type that can come from Lycanroc, Dugtrio, and Gabite. There are also other Pokemon like Misdreavus, Gogoat, and Alolan Persian that can slot Rock-type moves to catch Charizard coming in on a switch in. This is why Charizard appreciates the presence of Misdreavus, Whiscash, and its own Gabite to handle these issues. Charizard is objectively difficult to handle, suppressing the metagame with its one full counter being Carbink barring Tera Blast Steel, however, there are a few other options using Tera such as using Tera Steel Dachsbun, Tera Rock Misdreavus, and Tera Rock Gogoat that can check it in a pinch. Although, the likes of Gabite, Perrserker, and Golduck can help come in and remove them. These counters are very limited because of the movepool Charizard boasts and other soft checks, like Vigoroth, Houndoom and Whiscash, are either outsped or don't have enough fire power to OHKO back after a switch in. Skuntank, Sawsbuck, and Flapple appreciate Charizard for helping them handle Perrserker and Swalot. It is also worth mentioning that it prefers to be on the same team as a Knock Off absorber because losing Heavy Duty Boots greatly impacts its longevity.
there were mons mentioned as good teammates in multiple sections
i think you should try to compress this more, a lotta it feels like filler
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sleid said:
[SET]
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Flamethrower / Fire Blast
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: Focus Blast / Tera Blast
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Air Slash
item: Heavy Duty Boots
ability: Blaze
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Flying / Dragon / Fire / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

Charizard is a threatening special attacker with great typing and solid bulk. It also outspeeds majority of the metagames threats like Rotom-F, Houndoom, and non-Scarf Sawsbuck, which makes it even more difficult to deal with. Fire Blast can be slotted over Flamethrower for a more powerful STAB move, although you have accuracy problems for both of it STAB moves. Focus Blast is great coverage for the ability to OHKO the likes of Lycanroc-N, Alolan Persian, and Vigoroth, whereas its STAB moves do not. Tera Blast Steel can be picked over Focus Blast to target counters that Charizard struggles with like Carbink and Daschbun. Will-O-Wisp helps cripple opposing physical attackers who can safely come in on Charizard like Gabite, Vigoroth, and special defensive Skuntank. However, you could opt for Air Slash over Will-O-Wisp for a more consistent Flying-type STAB alongside the somewhat inaccurate Hurricane. Tera Flying is for greatly boosting Hurricanes power, allowing it to pick up the 2HKO on bulky Gabite sets, Camperupt, and Dachsbun, and the OHKO on the threatening Basculin-B. Tera Fire makes Flamethrower even more threatening, especially if it gets into Blaze range. (i think it might be worth mentioning that tera fire makes up for the power loss that comes from using flamethrower over fire blast, esp since flamethrower is slashed first.) It allows it to 2HKO bulky Pokemon it otherwise wouldn't like Articuno and Tinkatuff. Deciding to Tera into either of its offensive types helps relieve its quad weakness to Rock-type moves, allowing it to live a hit from Gogoat, Gabite, and Alolan Persian. Defensively, Tera Dragon is the best choice for Charizard. It turns its weaknesses to Electric- and Water-type moves into resistances, while still keeping its previous resistances to Grass- and Fire-types and turning Rock-type moves turn into neutral hits. This allows it to take hits from its many threats like Raichu, Golduck, and Lycanroc-N. (make sure the order here matches how the tera types are slashed, i see fire explained before dragon.)

Special Charizard works well on balance and offensive teams that are looking for a fast and powerful attacker. Charizard does great when paired with a physical breaker like Perrserker, Basculin-B (Basculin), or Lycanroc-N to help with the special walls like Carbink and Dachsbun that it struggles to get through. On the other hand, it does great at breaking through the physically defensive Pokemon that physical attackers like Perrserker, Dragon Dance Whiscash (use a different example, this isn't used commonly enough to reference.), and Offensive Carbink (wouldn't really call it "offensive," it's a defensive setup sweeper.) have trouble with such as Dartrix, Misdreavus, and Leafeon. Charizard appreciates being paired with the likes of Quaxwell, Mareanie, and Lumineon to take hits for it from Golduck, Basculin, and opposing Lumineon. Although, its most glaring issue is the 4x weak Rock-type that can come from Lycanroc, Dugtrio, and Gabite. There are also other Pokemon like Misdreavus, Gogoat, and Alolan Persian that can slot Rock-type moves to catch Charizard coming in on a switch in. This is why Charizard appreciates the presence of Whiscash and its own Gabite to handle these issues. Charizard only has one full counter being Carbink barring Tera Blast Steel, however, there are a few other options using Tera such as using Tera Steel Dachsbun, Tera Rock Misdreavus, and Tera Rock Gogoat that can check it in a pinch. Although, the likes of Gabite, Perrserker, and Golduck can help come in and remove them after they Tera. Skuntank, Sawsbuck, and Flapple appreciate Charizard for helping them handle Perrserker. It is also worth mentioning that it prefers to be on the same team as a Knock Off absorber because losing Heavy Duty Boots greatly impacts its longevity. (mention at least one example of a knock off user.)

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[SET]
name: Special Attacker
move 1: Flamethrower / Fire Blast
move 2: Hurricane
move 3: Focus Blast / Tera Blast
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Air Slash
item: Heavy Duty Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Blaze
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
tera type: Flying / Dragon / Fire / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

Charizard is a threatening special attacker with great typing and solid bulk. It also outspeeds a majority of the metagame's added apostrophe threats like Rotom-F, Houndoom, and non-Scarf Sawsbuck, which makes it even more difficult to deal with. Fire Blast can be slotted over Flamethrower for a more powerful STAB move, although you have there are keeping the passage/sentence in the same POV (third) accuracy problems for both of its STAB moves. Focus Blast is great coverage for with the ability to OHKO the likes of Lycanroc-N, Alolan Persian, and Vigoroth, whereas its STAB moves do not. Tera Blast Steel can be picked over Focus Blast to target counters that Charizard struggles with like Carbink and Daschbun. Will-O-Wisp helps cripple opposing physical attackers, (ac) which who can safely come in on Charizard like Gabite, Vigoroth, and specially defensive Skuntank. However, you could opt for Air Slash can be chosen over Will-O-Wisp for a more consistent Flying-type STAB alongside the somewhat inaccurate Hurricane. Tera Flying is for greatly boosting Hurricane's apostrophe power, allowing it to pick up the 2HKO on bulky Gabite sets, Camperupt Camerupt, and Dachsbun (rc) and the OHKO on the threatening Basculin-B. Defensively, Tera Dragon is the best choice for Charizard. It turns its weaknesses to Electric- and Water-type moves into resistances (rc) while still keeping its previous resistances to Grass (rh) and Fire-types and turning Rock-type moves turn into neutral hits. This allows it to take hits from its many threats like Raichu, Golduck, and Lycanroc-N. Tera Fire makes helps Flamethrower can help make up for the loss of power when running chosen over Fire Blast, especially if it gets into Blaze range. It allows it Charizard to 2HKO bulky Pokemon it otherwise wouldn't like Articuno and Tinkatuff. Deciding to Terastallize into either of its offensive types helps relieve its quad weakness to Rock-type moves, allowing it to live a hit from Gogoat, Gabite, and Alolan Persian.

Special Charizard works well on balance and offensive teams that are looking for a fast and powerful attacker. Charizard does great when paired with a physical breaker like Perrserker, Basculin, or Lycanroc-N to help with the special walls like Carbink and Dachsbun that it struggles to get through. On the other hand, it does great at breaking through the physically defensive Pokemon that physical attackers like Perrserker, Gogoat, and defensive setup sweeper Carbink have trouble with such as Dartrix, Misdreavus, and Leafeon. Charizard appreciates being paired with the likes of Quaxwell, Mareanie, and Lumineon to take hits for it from Golduck, Basculin, and opposing Lumineon. Although, its most glaring issue is the 4x weakness to Rock, (ac) -type that can come from which Lycanroc-N, Dugtrio, and Gabite can take advantage of. There are also other Pokemon like Misdreavus, Gogoat, and Alolan Persian that can slot Rock-type moves to catch Charizard coming in on a switch in switching in. This is why Charizard appreciates the presence of Whiscash and its own Gabite to handle these issues. Charizard only has one full counter, (ac) which is being Carbink, (ac) barring Tera Blast Steel; (rc, add semicolon) however, there are a few other options using Tera such as using Tera Steel Dachsbun, Tera Rock Misdreavus, and Tera Rock Gogoat that can check it in a pinch. Although, the likes of Gabite, Perrserker, and Golduck can help come in and remove them after they Terastallize. Skuntank, Sawsbuck, and Flapple appreciate Charizard for helping them handle Perrserker. It is also worth mentioning that it prefers to be on the same team as a Knock Off absorber like Alolan Persian or Skuntank, (ac) because losing Heavy Duty Heavy-Duty Boots greatly impacts its longevity.

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