ZU SS Lilligant

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[SET]
name: Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Giga Drain
move 3: Pollen Puff
move 4: Sleep Powder
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lilligant is a niche Quiver Dance sweeper that capitalizes on Sleep Powder generating one or two free turns to boost and break through the opposing team. Pollen Puff nails opposing Grass-types such as Appletun, Exeggutor, and Tangela. Life Orb gives Lilligant more firepower, which it desperately needs; however, Leftovers provides Lilligant with passive recovery, which can help it acquire Quiver Dance boosts against more passive foes such as Galarian Stunfisk. While this set isn't intended to take advantage of Chlorophyll, Lilligant provides some counterplay versus opposing sun sweepers, notably Shiftry.

Fighting-types such as Sawk and Gurdurr do a fantastic job of scaring out Klinklang, one of Lilligant's biggest checks, and can remove Heavy-Duty Boots from Flying-types such as Articuno and Altaria. Similarly, Ice-types such as Jynx and Froslass force out opposing Flying-types and can help Lilligant chip away at Klinklang and Fire-types like Rapidash and Ninetales. Both examples of offensive partners, however, result in overlapping weaknesses, limiting Lilligant's use to only offensive teams. Entry hazard setters such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Froslass can provide Lilligant with the necessary chip damage needed to whittle down foes it struggles against. Pokemon such as Silvally-Dark and Choice Scarf Kabutops can also offensively pressure common Defog users for Lilligant.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Lilligant can utilize Choice Specs to dish out strong Petal Dances without the fear of confusion due to Own Tempo. Choice Specs Lilligant also has a free moveslot for Healing Wish, one of the best support moves in the game. However, Lilligant still struggles to break through the same Grass-resistant Pokemon it did before and cannot incapacitate them with sleep.

Checks and Counters
===================
**Flying-types**: Articuno and Altaria counter Lilligant due to their superb special bulk and, in Altaria’s case, its 4x resistance to Grass and Natural Cure. Other Flying-types such as Silvally-Flying and Rotom-S still fair quite well, although they are more prone to being overwhelmed by Lilligant due to their lack of longevity and, in the case of Silvally-Flying, its lack of Heavy-Duty Boots.

**Fire- and Poison-types**: Fire- and Poison-types such as Rapidash, Ninetales, and Silvally-Poison resist both Giga Drain and Pollen Puff. However, Lilligant is able to overwhelm them with a few Quiver Dance boots.

**Klinklang**: Klinklang also resists all of Lilligant’s attacks and is an excellent sleep absorber on Choice sets that utilize Sleep Talk as a fourth move. Klinklang doesn’t have any reliable recovery options, so it must be kept reasonably healthy to reliably check Lilligant.

**Sap Sipper**: Sap Sipper Miltank and Bouffalant are immune to Lilligant’s Grass moves and can either put Lilligant on a timer with Toxic or outright KO it.

**Revenge Killers**: Lilligant is slower than most Choice Scarf users such as Manectric, Gourgeist-S, and Jynx after a Quiver Dance and is prone to being easily revenge killed.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Aaronboyer, 239454]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [Corthius, 484079]]
- Grammar checked by: [[UT, 523866]]
 
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[SET]
name: Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Giga Drain
move 3: Pollen Puff
move 4: Sleep Powder
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lilligant is a niche Quiver Dance sweeper that capitalizes on Sleep Powder generating free turns to acquire enough boosts to break through the opposing team. this is a bit misleading, Sleep Powder allows to get one or two boosts usually, not more. Giga Drain is relatively strong and provides Lilligant offensive health recovery, while (no need to explain stab moves) Pollen Puff nails opposing Dark-, Psychic-, and most importantly Grass-types such as Silvally-Dark, Morpeko, Uxie, Appletun, Exeggutor, and Tangela (hitting psychic and dark types is just a bonus, they are not the reason you run this move). While Giga Drain and Pollen Puff provide sufficient coverage and can even drop Pollen Puff for Nature Power, Lilligant still struggles to break through Steel- and Flying-types such as Klinklang, Articuno, and Altaria. Lilligant is also slower than most Choice Scarf users such as Basculin, Manectric, Rotom, and Jynx after only one Quiver Dance and is prone to being easily revenge-killed. these lines belong to check and counters. Talk about leftovers vs life orb, and why chlorophyll is the best ability.

Fighting-types such as Sawk and Gurdurr do a fantastic job of scaring out Klinklang and can remove Heavy Duty Boots from Flying-types such as Rotom-S, and the aforementioned Articuno, and Altaria. Similarly, Ice-types such as Jynx and Froslass force out opposing Flying-types and can help Lilligant chip away at Klinklang and Fire-types like Rapidash and Ninetales. Both examples of offensive partners for Lilligant, however, result in overlapping weaknesses, and as a result Lilligant is only used on select teams. Entry hazard setters such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Froslass can provide Lilligant was the necessary chip damage needed to whittle down foes it struggles against. Pokemon such as Silvally-Dark and Choice Scarf Kabutops can also offensively pressure common Defog users for Lilligant.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Lilligant can utilize Choice Specs to dish out strong Petal Dances without fear of confusion due to Own Tempo. Being unable to capitalize on Quiver Dance on choiced sets also opens up a moveslot for Healing Wish, one of the best support moves in the game. However, Lilligant still struggles to break through the same Grass-resistant Pokemon it did before and cannot incapacitate them with sleep. Choice Specs Lilligant also typically drops Giga Drain for Nature Power’s better type coverage, and desperately misses out on Giga Drain’s pseudo-reliable recovery. Nature Power is an option on the main set, talk about it.

Checks and Counters
===================
**Flying-types**: Articuno and Altaria completely counter Lilligant due to their superb special bulk and in Altaria’s case it’s quadruple resistance to Grass and ability Natural Cure. Other Flying-types such as Silvally-Flying and Rotom-S still fair quite well, although they are more prone then Altaria and Articuno to being overwhelmed by Lilligant when it’s acquired more than two or three Quiver Dance boosts.

** Fire- and Poison-types**: Fire- and Poison-types such as Rapidash, Ninetales, and Silvally-Poison resist both Giga Drain and Pollen Puff but don’t require as many Quiver Dance boosts and turns of sleep to break through as most Flying-types.

**Klinklang**: Klinklang also resist all of Lilligant’s attacks including the uncommon Nature Power. Klinklang is also an excellent sleep absorber on choiced sets that run Sleep Talk as a fourth move. Klinklang doesn’t have any reliable recovery options, so it must be kept reasonably healthy, above half health, to be able to reliably check Lilligant.

**Sap Sipper**: Sap Sipper Miltank and Bouffalant are immune to Lilligant’s Grass moves including Sleep Powder and can either put Lilligant on a timer with Toxic in Miltank’s case or outright KO Lilligant in Bouffalant’s case.

**Revenge killers** that's where you say it is slower than most scarfers and also talk about other way of revenge killing it.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Aaronboyer, 239454]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
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[SET]
name: Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Giga Drain
move 3: Pollen Puff
move 4: Sleep Powder
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lilligant is a niche Quiver Dance sweeper that capitalizes on Sleep Powder generating one or two turns to freely boost and break through the opposing team. Pollen Puff nails opposing Grass-types such as Appletun, Exeggutor, and Tangela. Life Orb gives Lilligant more firepower which it desperately needs; however, Leftovers provides Lilligant with passive recovery which can help it acquire Quiver Dance boosts against more passive foes such as Galarian Stunfisk. While it isn't attempting to abuse Chlorophyll itself, it provides some counterplay versus opposing sun sweepers, notably Shiftry.

Fighting-types such as Sawk and Gurdurr do a fantastic job of scaring out Klinklang and can remove Heavy Duty Boots from Flying-types such as Rotom-S, and the aforementioned I assume they were mentioned before you implemented the 1st QC; I'd personally only mention Cuno and Alt due to relevancy in the metagame Articuno and Altaria. Similarly, Ice-types such as Jynx and Froslass force out opposing Flying-types and can help Lilligant chip away at Klinklang and Fire-types like Rapidash and Ninetales. Both examples of offensive partners for Lilligant, however, result in overlapping weaknesses, and as a result Lilligant is only used on select teams. Entry hazard setters such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Froslass can provide Lilligant was with the necessary chip damage needed to whittle down foes it struggles against. Pokemon such as Silvally-Dark and Choice Scarf Kabutops can also offensively pressure common Defog users for Lilligant.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Lilligant can utilize Choice Specs to dish out strong Petal Dances without the fear of confusion due to Own Tempo. Being unable to capitalize on Quiver Dance on choiced sets also opens up a moveslot for Healing Wish, one of the best support moves in the game. However, Lilligant still struggles to break through the same Grass-resistant Pokemon it did before and cannot incapacitate them with sleep.

Checks and Counters
===================
**Flying-types**: Articuno and Altaria completely counter Lilligant due to their superb special bulk and in Altaria’s case it’s quadruple resistance to Grass and ability Natural Cure. Other Flying-types such as Silvally-Flying and Rotom-S still fair quite well, although they are more prone then Altaria and Articuno No need to mention them again to being overwhelmed by Lilligant when it’s acquired more than two or three Quiver Dance boosts. I'd simply say due to their lack of longevity (and in vallys case lack of boots)

**Fire- and Poison-types**: Fire- and Poison-types such as Rapidash, Ninetales, and Silvally-Poison resist both Giga Drain and Pollen Puff but don’t require as many Quiver Dance boosts and turns of sleep to break through as most Flying-types. Sounds a bit weirdly phrased to me. I'd split it in two, with the first sentence mentioning the resists and the second saying smth like 'but they dont need many boosts to get overwhelmed'

**Klinklang**: Klinklang also resist all of Lilligant’s attacks including the uncommon Nature Power. I'd only mention Nature Power if you did so in OO, you can add it there if you want or remove it here but this feels so out of the open Klinklang is also an excellent sleep absorber on choiced sets that run Sleep Talk as a fourth move. Klinklang doesn’t have any reliable recovery options, so it must be kept reasonably healthy, above half health, This is too detailed to be able to reliably check Lilligant.

**Sap Sipper**: Sap Sipper Miltank and Bouffalant are immune to Lilligant’s Grass moves including Sleep Powder The reader knows Sleep Powder is a Grass move and can either put Lilligant on a timer with Toxic in Miltank’s case or outright KO Lilligant in Bouffalant’s case.

**Revenge Killers**: Lilligant is slower than most Choice Scarf users such as Manectric, Gourgeist-S, Rotom, Doesn't really revenge Lilli unless it is really low and Jynx after only one Quiver Dance and is prone to being easily revenge-killed.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Aaronboyer, 239454]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
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[SET]
name: Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Giga Drain
move 3: Pollen Puff
move 4: Sleep Powder
item: Life Orb / Leftovers
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Lilligant is a niche Quiver Dance sweeper that capitalizes on Sleep Powder generating one or two turns to freely free turns to boost and break through the opposing team. Pollen Puff nails opposing Grass-types such as Appletun, Exeggutor, and Tangela. Life Orb gives Lilligant more firepower, which it desperately needs; however, Leftovers provides Lilligant with passive recovery, which can help it acquire Quiver Dance boosts against more passive foes such as Galarian Stunfisk. While it isn't attempting to abuse this set isn't intended to take advantage of Chlorophyll itself, Lilligant provides some counterplay versus opposing sun sweepers, notably Shiftry.

Fighting-types such as Sawk and Gurdurr do a fantastic job of scaring out Klinklang, one of Lilligant's biggest checks, I assume and can remove Heavy Duty Heavy-Duty Boots from Flying-types such as Articuno and Altaria. Similarly, Ice-types such as Jynx and Froslass force out opposing Flying-types and can help Lilligant chip away at Klinklang and Fire-types like Rapidash and Ninetales. Both examples of offensive partners, however, result in overlapping weaknesses, therefore limiting Lilligant's use for only select teams to only offensive teams I assume, be more specific about what "select" is otherwise. Entry hazard setters such as Uxie, Qwilfish, and Froslass can provide Lilligant with the necessary chip damage needed to whittle down foes it struggles against. Pokemon such as Silvally-Dark and Choice Scarf Kabutops can also offensively pressure common Defog users for Lilligant.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Lilligant can utilize Choice Specs to dish out strong Petal Dances without the fear of confusion due to Own Tempo. Being unable to capitalize on Quiver Dance on choice-locked sets also opens up a Choice Specs Lilligant also has a free moveslot for Healing Wish, one of the best support moves in the game. However, Lilligant still struggles to break through the same Grass-resistant Pokemon it did before and cannot incapacitate them with sleep.

Checks and Counters
===================
**Flying-types**: Articuno and Altaria completely counter Lilligant due to their superb special bulk and, in Altaria’s case, its quadruple 4x resistance to Grass and ability Natural Cure. Other Flying-types such as Silvally-Flying and Rotom-S still fair quite well, although they are more prone to being overwhelmed by Lilligant due to their lack of longevity and, in the case of Silvally-Flying, its lack of Heavy Duty Heavy-Duty Boots.

**Fire- and Poison-types**: Fire- and Poison-types such as Rapidash, Ninetales, and Silvally-Poison resist both Giga Drain and Pollen Puff. However, Lilligant doesn’t require as many Quiver Dance boosts as most Flying-types for them to become overwhelmed is able to overwhelm them with a few Quiver Dance boots.

**Klinklang**: Klinklang also resists all of Lilligant’s attacks and is an excellent sleep absorber on choice-locked Choice sets that utilize Sleep Talk as a fourth move. Klinklang doesn’t have any reliable recovery options, so it must be kept reasonably healthy to reliably check Lilligant.

**Sap Sipper**: Sap Sipper Miltank and Bouffalant are immune to Lilligant’s Grass moves and can either put Lilligant on a timer with Toxic or outright KO it.

**Revenge Killers**: Lilligant is slower than most Choice Scarf users such as Manectric, Gourgeist-S, and Jynx after only one a Quiver Dance and is prone to being easily revenge-killed revenge killed.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Aaronboyer, 239454]]
- Quality checked by: [[Tuthur, 369076], [Corthius, 484079]]
- Grammar checked by: [[UT, 523866]]
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