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[SET]
Stealth Rock (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Salt Cure
- Protect
- Recover
- Stealth Rock / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Garganacl is an amazing defensive Pokemon, with access to it's amazing ability in Purifying Salt, while also boasting it's naturally high bulk, it is really good at walling some of the metagame staples in Charizard-Y, Terapagos, Volcarona and Zapdos. Salt Cure helps it handle Pokemon with no recovery options, like the former two. Also Salt Cure allows it to slowly chip the annoying steel types in Mega Scizor, Gholdengo, and water types like Toxapex. Additionally, Protect synergizes well with Salt Cure, allowing further chip damage, and also helping in scouting super effective Z-Moves from the likes of Kyurem and Heatran. Garganacl is an effective Stealth Rock setter, since it is exceptional at outlasting common removal options like Landorus-T, Great Tusk, Terapagos and Corvinknight. Stealth Rock makes a good use of Garganacl, as mentioned above, but Ice Punch can also be ran to hit Gliscor and Landorus-T and only when the team has another Stealth Rock setter. Heavy-Duty Boots is also an option on teams with little to no hazard removal, at the cost of cruical leftovers recovery. 52 Defense EVs allow Garganacl to survive a Power Whip from Ogerpon-W at full health.

Garganacl fits best on balance or bulkier teams, which make good use of it's utility and role compression with setting hazards. Partners like Kingambit and Kyurem appreciate Garganacl chipping down Pokemon like Corviknight, Landorus-T and Great Tusk for the former, and Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Melmetal for the latter. In return, they pressure Garganacl's switchins like Clefable, Gliscor and Galarian Slowking. Gholdengo is also a great partner, being also to block rapid spin from the likes of Great Tusk and Terapagos, keeping up hazards which Garganacl set up. Knock Off users like Clefable and Weavile make excellent partners by removing crucial items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Landorus-T, Torndaus-T, Zapdos and many more. In return, Garganacl can setup Stealth Rock and annoy opposing Pokemon with Salt Cure. It also makes a valuable Flying-type resist, on teams with Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Ferrothorn which do not prefer facing Pokemon like Offensive Zapdos and Tornadus-T. Garganacl has a weak base typing in Rock, being weak to common types like Water, Fighting and Ground, which can be seen as common picks in the metagame in Hisuian Samurott, Zamazenta, Landorus-T and many more. Slowbro makes a great partner, walling the aforementioned Fighting and Water types while also being able to pivot into Gargnacl, making it more effective. Additionally, Flying-types like Zapdos also make great partners being immune to Ground-type attacks. Ultimately, Garganacl makes a great pick on the aforementioned Balance archetypes only if the precise support is given.
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[SET]
Stealth Rock (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Salt Cure
- Stealth Rock / Ice Punch
- Protect
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]
Garganacl is an amazing defensive Pokemon, having it's high defenses with access to it's amazing ability in Purifying Salt. i would combine these 2 sentences Boasting it's high bulk prob typing asw caus thats what lets it beat these, Garganacl is really good at walling some of the metagame staples in Charizard-Y, Terapagos, Volcarona and Zapdos. Garganacl is a great Stealth Rock setter, since it is exceptional at outlasting common removal options like Landorus-T, Great Tusk, Terapagos and Corvinknight. should be after salt cure mention, but before protect Salt Cure helps it handle Pokemon with no recovery options, like the former two.<- I would put this at the end of the next sentence Also Salt Cure allows it to slowly chip the annoying steel types in Mega Scizor, Gholdengo, and water types like Toxapex and Alomomola. Protect synergizes well with Salt Cure, allowing further chip damage, and also helping in scouting super effective Z-Moves from the likes of Kyurem and Heatran maybe mention coverage and examples? up to you though. Stealth Rock makes a good use of Garganacl, as mentioned above, but Ice Punch can also be ran to hit Gliscor and Landorus-T should be after rocks mention and before tect. Heavy-Duty Boots is also an option on teams with little to no hazard removal, at the cost of cruical leftovers recovery. the 52 Defense investment lets Garganacl live a Power Whip from Ogerpon-W. 52 Defense EVs allow Garganacl to survive a Power Whip from Ogerpon-W at full health.

Garganacl fits best on balance or bulkier teams, which make good use of it's utility and role compression with setting hazards. Partners like Kingambit and Kyurem appreciate Garganacl chipping down Pokemon like Corviknight, Skarmory, Lanodrus-T and Great Tusk for the former, and Pokemon like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor and Melmetal for the latter wayyy too many examples, cut it down to a few shared checks that garg chips. In return, they pressure Garganacl's switchins like Clefable, Gliscor and Slowking=Galar Galarian Slowking. Gholdengo is also a great partner, being also to block rapid spin from the likes of Great Tusk and Terapagos. Additionally, Gholdengo fits well with Spikes setters like Gliscor and Samurott-Hisui to form a great hazard stacking core not really relevant to garg way youve phrased it, should say garg fits well with spikes setters to form hstack core, not dengo. Knock Off users like Clefable and Weavile make execellent partners by removing crucial items like leftovers, and Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Landorus-T, Torndaus-T, Zapdos and many more garg doesnt struggle with these? again feels more like for the archetype than garg itself. Garganacl has a very weak base typing, making it vulnerable to lot of common threats in the metagame. Thus, partners like Dragonite, Corviknight and Ogerpon-W make great partners why?. super vague, in this case im assuming your talking abt being vulnerable to ground-types so say that explicitly and give examples of ground types

- Would mention vulnerability to water types and what helps with that + what garg does back
- right now I feel your focusing very heavily on garg setting rocks and what helps with / is helped by that and not really its defensive traits, maybe mention flying-resist, fire-resist
- probably also fighting resists would like a mention somewhere + what garg does back

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Would like to see again before giving 1/2, structure of the first paragraph needs changing to be in order of slashes and a bit more detail is needed, but good content on the most part, hit me up on disc if you have any questions!
 
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[SET]
Stealth Rock (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Salt Cure
- Protect
- Recover
- Stealth Rock / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Garganacl is an amazing defensive Pokemon, with access to it's amazing ability in Purifying Salt, while also boasting it's naturally high bulk, it is really good at walling some of the metagame staples in Charizard-Y, Terapagos, Volcarona and Zapdos. Garganacl is a great Stealth Rock setter, since it is exceptional at outlasting common removal options like Landorus-T, Great Tusk, Terapagos and Corvinknight. Salt Cure helps it handle Pokemon with no recovery options, like the former two. Also Salt Cure allows it to slowly chip the annoying steel types in Mega Scizor, Gholdengo, and water types like Toxapex and Alomomola i mean mola can js flip id prob use a diff example. Additionally, Protect synergizes well with Salt Cure, allowing further chip damage, and also helping in scouting super effective Z-Moves from the likes of Kyurem and Heatran. Garganacl is an effective Stealth Rock setter, since it is exceptional at outlasting common removal options like Landorus-T, Great Tusk, Terapagos and Corvinknight. this is regurgitating basically word for word what u said in sentence 2, u can prob get rid of the first one. Stealth Rock makes a good use of Garganacl, as mentioned above, but Ice Punch can also be ran to hit Gliscor and Landorus-T. mention lefties here Heavy-Duty Boots is also an option on teams with little to no hazard removal, at the cost of cruical leftovers recovery. 52 Defense EVs allow Garganacl to survive a Power Whip from Ogerpon-W at full health.

Garganacl fits best on balance or bulkier teams, which make good use of it's utility and role compression with setting hazards. Partners like Kingambit and Kyurem appreciate Garganacl chipping down Pokemon like Corviknight, Landorus-T and Great Tusk for the former, and Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Melmetal for the latter. In return, they pressure Garganacl's switchins like Clefable, Gliscor and Galarian Slowking. Gholdengo is also a great partner, being also to block rapid spin from the likes of Great Tusk and Terapagos. can garg do anything back? Knock Off users like Clefable and Weavile make excellent partners by removing crucial items like leftovers from who? or if u mean lefties and heavy duty boots as 1 idea u dont need comma, and Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Landorus-T, Torndaus-T, Zapdos and many more. All these traits in conjunction make Garganacl a good pick on Hazard Stacking teams fluff, talk abt what garg does for the knock users. Garganacl also makes a valuable Flying-type resist, on teams which do not prefer facing Pokemon like Offensive Zapdos and Tornadus-T vague; what mons dont like offzap and torn, and what can they do back for garg. Garganacl has a weak base typing in Rock, making it weak to common metagame threats like Ogerpon-W, Garchomp, Hisuian Samurott, Melmetal, Zamazenta etc. Thus, teammates like Dragonite, Corviknight and Slowbro make great partners. feels like this bit was a little bit rushed, you can mention water and fight resists in seperate sentences and what garg can do back for them, right now its just a lot of examples without anything specific and then some mons that dont check all of them, so its better just to split the mentions up into smaller sections so everything works / has more detail

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flames-of-elixir.674261/
Quality checked by:
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Largely implemented well, but I feel the comments at the end of the second paragraph were slightly rushed. Would like to take a small check over this when implemented, but overall good stuff!
 
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[SET]
Stealth Rock (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Salt Cure
- Protect
- Recover
- Stealth Rock / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Garganacl is an amazing I think this is overselling what is overall a pretty niche pick, maybe say something like "interesting" or "viable" defensive Pokemon, with access to it's amazing ability in Purifying Salt, while also boasting it's naturally high bulk, it is really good at walling some of the metagame staples in Charizard-Y, Terapagos, Volcarona and Zapdos. Salt Cure helps it handle Pokemon with no recovery options, like the former two. Also Salt Cure allows it to slowly chip the annoying steel types in Mega Scizor, Gholdengo, and water types like Toxapex. Additionally, Protect synergizes well with Salt Cure, allowing further chip damage, and also helping in scouting super effective Z-Moves from the likes of Kyurem and Heatran. Garganacl is an effective Stealth Rock setter, since it is exceptional at outlasting common removal options like Landorus-T, Great Tusk, Terapagos and Corvinknight. Definitely mention that most removal options hate switching into salt cure or straight up don't matchup well vs Garg Stealth Rock makes a good use of Garganacl, as mentioned above, but Ice Punch can also be ran to hit Gliscor and Landorus-T and only when the team has another Stealth Rock setter. Heavy-Duty Boots is also an option on teams with little to no hazard removal, at the cost of cruical leftovers recovery. idk man lefties is super useful to garg, if we're gonna mention this you have to play up how useful lefties are in practice and what you miss out on if you go with HDB. 52 Defense EVs allow Garganacl to survive a Power Whip from Ogerpon-W at full health.

Garganacl fits best on balance or bulkier teams, which make good use of it's utility and role compression with setting hazards. Definitely mention that these teams can provide it with teammates that can work around its bad typing. Partners like Kingambit and Kyurem appreciate Garganacl chipping down Pokemon like Corviknight, Landorus-T and Great Tusk for the former, and Pokemon like Ferrothorn and Melmetal for the latter. In return, they pressure Garganacl's switchins like Clefable, Gliscor and Galarian Slowking. Gholdengo is also a great partner, being also to block rapid spin from the likes of Great Tusk and Terapagos, keeping up hazards which Garganacl set up. Knock Off users like Clefable and Weavile make excellent partners by removing crucial items like Leftovers and Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Landorus-T, Torndaus-T, Zapdos and many more. In return, Garganacl can setup Stealth Rock and annoy opposing Pokemon with Salt Cure. This is kinda just filler, instead explicitly say that Garg takes advantage of this by setting up Rocks and using Salt Cure to chip stuff down after these lose their items. It also makes a valuable Flying-type resist, on teams with Pokemon like Ogerpon-W and Ferrothorn which do not prefer facing Pokemon like Offensive Zapdos and Tornadus-T. Garganacl has a weak base typing in Rock, being weak to common types like Water, Fighting and Ground, which can be seen as common picks in the metagame in Hisuian Samurott, Zamazenta, Landorus-T and many more. Slowbro makes a great partner, walling the aforementioned Fighting and Water types while also being able to pivot into Gargnacl, making it more effective. Additionally, Flying-types like Zapdos also make great partners being immune to Ground-type attacks. Ultimately, Garganacl makes a great pick on the aforementioned Balance archetypes only if the precise support is given. filler
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flames-of-elixir.674261/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/medasus.632421/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/username.XXXXXX/
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Good stuff, would just like another look before we send it off.
 
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