Sub-Bulkup Bewear (Normal)

[Fírnen]

[SET]
name: Substitue + Bulk up (Normal)
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Bulk up
move 3: Drain Punch
move 4: Darkest Lariat
item: Leftovers
ability: Fluffy
nature: Impish
evs: 80 Atk / 252 Def / 176 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Bewear is a dangerous physical setup sweeper, with impressive bulk in part thanks to its ability Fluffy, it has multiple chances to set up throughout the match. Bewear helps Normal teams in a many matchups such as against Steel-, Fighting-, Ice-, and the Dark-type. This is because Bewear can take on Pokemon such as Bisharp, Terrakion, Weavile, and Urshifu-S for Normal teams which otherwise can be difficult to handle for Normal teams. Drain Punch is Bewear's main STAB attack and also allows it to regain health throughout the match. Substitute allow Bewear to avoid status such as against Galarian Corsola and give it more opportunities to use Bulk Up. Darkest Lariat is helpfull to hit Ghost Pokémon ans allows it to nail Bulk Up users such as Corviknight and Zeraora. Bulk Up allows Bewear to boost its Attack and Defense, allowing it to more easily break through Pokemon such as Excadrill, Crawdaunt, Gyarados, Barraskewda, physical Aegislash and more easily take on Pokemon such as Bisharp, Tyranitar. With its spread, Bewear outspeeds 80Speed based: Goodra, Mandibuzz and Corviknight with some invest in speed, defensive Aegislash (to force it to move with the Bewear Substitue to win its dual against it. With its speed Bewear's EVs in HP and Defense, alongside its Impish nature, and ability Fluffy allow it to can take on Pokemon such as Terrakion, which it would otherwise lose to without its Defense investment. The rest of Bewear's EVs are placed in Attack to allow it to hit with more power. Leftovers are the perfect item to raise its staying power and to maximize benefits Substitute gives. Bewear has multiples opportunities in front of Steel type to place a substitute (Ferrothorn, Bisharp mainly) and sweep.

Bewear's impressive physical bulk allows it to not be swept by Choice Scarf Terrakion, Urshifu-S and Bisharp then OHKO it with Drain Punch. Bewear can also act as a switch in to Knock Off for its teammates such as Chansey, Heliolisk, Indeedee, and Porygon2. Chansey is an ideal partner for Bewear as it can wall special attackers such as Chandelure and Noivern. Chansey can also bring in Bewear safely with Teleport. Additionally, it can set Stealth Rock up for Bewear, allowing it to break Pokemon such as x and y easier. All of Bewear's teammates benefit from its physical bulk and can be used as pivot against Choice Scarf Jirachi's Iron Head. Ditto appreciates Bewear's ability to break Mimikyu's Disguise as it allows it to safely revenge kill Mimikyu. Heliolisk and Indeedee are good offensive special sweeper teammates and help against great physicall wall with Roar/Whirlwind like Skarmory and Hippowdon preventing Bewear to set up. In addition of that Heliolisk can breaks water and flying types and paralyze Pokemon with Glare to have easier to set up with Bewear, Indeedee can Trick to help the set up too. Obstagoon is really good to help Bewear against Mew wallbreaker (Taunt + Will-o-wisp) and against Psychic type in general, in addition of helping against special faster ghost Pokemon (Chandelure). Diggersby helps a lot against the Poison match-up and gives a good priority move. Chansey and Obstagoon can absorbs psychic moves. Braviary is another teammate helping Bewear against Fighting Pokemon and can be used as pivot with U-Turn to come back with Bewear.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fírnen, 210076 ]]
- Normal analysis by: [[Fírnen, 210076 ]]
- Quality checked by: [[ maroon, 305839 ], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ]]

 

[Fírnen]

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[Moosical]

Hi Fírnen, analyses have a specific format that they need to be written in (ie, paragraphs), you'll need to reformat your analysis as such before someone QC's it. Please check out some of the other threads in this subforum for how you'll need to write the analysis.

 

[maroon]

hi so there is a lot to go over here, please bare along with me and try to use these tips for future analysis. also its bad if you have to hear this from me, but your grammar is well not good, please check out the gp standards thread and try to fix up your analysis with this check, here it is: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spelling-and-grammar-standards.3656658/

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Bewear is dangerous physical sweeper and has a great physical bulk which is one of the best in the meta with Avalugg, Hippowdon, Ferrothorn,...
- hi so the first line of analysis wants to give like a quick overview of the pokemon. try to sum up in one sentence what the pokemon does for the type. an example would be 'Bewear finds its place on Normal teams as x, y, z. also when you write an analysis do not try to compare what bewear does on normal to what other pokemon do for different types similarly. only focus on what that pokemon does for the type.

This Pokemon helps a lot normal type in some matchup, like against Steel, Fighting, Ice, Dark types, useless in some others like against Fairy and Poison, and neutral for the rest: It explains why it isn't always played in normal type
- try to focus on what this pokemon does rather than matchups that it doesn't, you want to inform the reader what bewear does. only time you would include something like this is if the pokemon competes with another Pokemon on the type for a similar role and it does it better in that matchup

Drain Punch coupled to Substitute allow Bewear to have a decent staying power. Darkest Lariat is helpfull to hit Ghost type and against Corviknight Bulk up, which is predominant in the current meta.
- do not smush together attacks on its set in the same sentence. take one sentence to explain each moves ad what it does exactly for this set. for example, substitute allows bewear to take on bulky pokemon and dodge status attacks allowing it to set up on them easier. I'm not saying to use this exact line for bulk up but something along those lines. please do something similar for each attack.

With its spread, Bewear outspeeds 80Speed based with less than 20EV in speed, by example: Goodra, Mandibuzz and Corviknight with some invest in speed to win its dual against it.
- ok so this is all wrong, you never add random speed creep on analysis to Pokemon. Speed creep is only acceptable for 0 speed evs on x Pokemon or max speed on that pokemon. anything inbetween is a random guess at best and while can work in battle, is something you try to avoid in analysis. also it would be something like Bewear can outpace base 80 Speed Pokemon such as x with 20 Speed EVs. however again analysis do not cover random creep.

The combination between 252EVs in Defense, Impish nature and Fluffy ability make Bewear really bulky.
- give an example of what bewear can tank because of this spread that it could not with no investment

The rest of EVs are put in Atk to be more dangerous and less passive at the start.
- Just say exactly this, The rest of Bewear's EVs are placed in Attack to allow it to hit with more power. you dont need to give an example since the evs are not for anything specific, though if there is something specific that 80 Attack EVs hit I would mention it here

But this set has some weaknesses: Toxapex Haze, infiltrator Pokemon like Dragapult, Noivern and in some cases Chandelure are Pokemon destroying it because of Infiltrator and fire and flying coverage, special sweepers when Bewear isn't behind a substitute, faster Pokemon with Taunt.
- this type of information flat out is not included in mini analysis. this is checks & counters info which is only on full analysis and is specifically placed at the bottom of analysis. the first paragraph should do exactly this: Talk about the Pokemons main role on the type, talk about each of its attacks in around one sentence each, and then explain its set details like its item, evs, or ability

All of Bewear's teammates benefit its physical bulk and may sometimes used as pivot.
- give an example of what bewear can pivot into for its teammates

Like it was said above, Bewear presence gives the opportunity to not be sweeped by Terrakion Scarf and 0HKO it with Drain Punch.
- this info should only be stated in the end of the first paragraph not with team options.

not going to go over the rest of the team options, instead ill tell you exactly how to write them and check it when you have redone this paragraph

qc note: for analysis team sections, when you are talking about teammates for the pokemon you are doing an analysis for try to only focus on what they do for each other, not the overall team. you can talk about the analysis mons benefit to all teammates in the beginning of the 2nd paragraph. try to keep this type of logic when you are writing the teammates section from now on.

for its team options specifically please include these pokemon:
- Ditto
- Indeedee & if you want you can mention Indeedee-F for healing wish support
- Snorlax
- Diggersby
- Heliolisk
- Obstagoon

this is not a qc stamp. please implement everything i have said above, then tag me in this thread. I will then take another look at this and hopefully be able to drop a stamp!

 

[Havens]

Fírnen has maroon's information been implemented? If not, that's okay; we'll work with you on it cause this needs to be updated w/ post-DLC information as well, tag us again once you have.

 

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[SET]
name: Sub-Bulkup Substitute + Bulk Up (Normal)
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Bulk up
move 3: Drain Punch
move 4: Darkest Lariat
item: Leftovers
ability: Fluffy
nature: Impish
evs: 80 (space) Atk / 252 Def / 176 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Bewear is dangerous physical sweeper and has one of the best physical bulk in the current meta. Bewear is a dangerous physical setup sweeper, with impressive bulk in part thanks to its ability Fluffy, it has multiple chances to set up throughout the match. (reworded this and added a part about its physical bulk.) This Pokemon helps a lot normal type in some matchup, like against Steel, Fighting, Ice, Dark types. Bewear helps Normal teams in a many matchups such as against Steel-, Fighting-, Ice-, and the Dark-type. (also again reworded & added some new info in the next line.) This is because Bewear can take on Pokemon such as Bisharp, Terrakion, Weavile, and Urshifu-S for Normal teams which otherwise can be difficult to handle for Normal teams. Drain Punch is its fighting stab move here, useful to recover and rise its staying power. Drain Punch is Bewear's main STAB attack and also allows it to regain health throughout the match. (reworded it again) Substitute allows Bewear to have avoid status such as against Galarian Corsola statuts and give it more opportunities to use Bulk Up rise its staying power. Darkest Lariat is helpfull to hit Ghost-type Pokemon and against Corviknight Bulk up, which is predominant in the current meta allows it to nail Bulk Up users such as Corviknight and Zeraora. (fixed up the part about corviknight to make it more clear and added another bulk up attacker.) Bulk up is its set up move to be bulkier physically and stronger and like this, not being passive. Bulk Up allows Bewear to boost its Attack and Defense, allowing it to more easily break through Pokemon such as x and more easily take on Pokemon such as y. (fixed up the sentence to talk about bulk up being a boosting move & reworded it. also where the x and y are add examples of what Pokemon it can beat more easily offensively for x and defensively for y.) With its spread, Bewear outspeeds 80Speed based: Goodra, Mandibuzz and Corviknight with some invest in speed to win its dual against it. (ok so a few notes for this sentence, first of all mandibuzz & goodra always runs at minimum 200 base speed. next on corviknight you really arent allowed to randomly creep in analysis and being 197 and corviknight as ur main example isnt good. either change the spread to creep corviknight or fix bewear to run 200 speed (outspeed ada 252 azumarill. you can also talk about defensive aegislash as an example of something it can substitute on.) With its speed, it outspeeds Aegislash, place a sub and use Darkest Lariat next to kill the blade form. (removed the aegislash example from here and added it to the previous sentence. main reason being is that offensive aegislash, like the specs set definetly outspeeds this bewear. so its not a good example imo.) The combination between 252EVs in Defense, Impish nature and Fluffy ability make Bewear really bulky, without EVs in Def, it's 2HKO easily by Fighting sweepers like Terrakion by example. (again i just reworded it) Bewear's EVs in HP and Defense, alongside its Impish nature, and ability Fluffy allow it to can take on Pokemon such as Terrakion, which it would otherwise lose to without its Defense investment. The rest of Bewear's EVs are placed in Attack to allow it to hit with more power. Leftovers are the perfect item to raise its staying power and to maximize benefits Substitute gives. Add a line about Bewear beating Steel-type Pokemon here. (as stated in paragraph 2 you seemed adamant about having this in the paragraph, so I moved it up here. a more appropriate place for a usage tip as the second paragraph is strictly the team section.)

Bewear's impressive physical bulk allows it presence gives the opportunity to not be swept sweeped by Choice Scarf Terrakion and Bisharp Scarf then 0OHKO it with Drain Punch. Bewear can also act as a switch in to Knock Off for its teammates such as Chansey, Heliolisk, Indeedee, and Porygon2. (moved and reworded from below.) Bewear has some weaknesses: Toxapex Haze, infiltrator Pokemon like Dragapult, Noivern and in some cases Chandelure are Pokemon destroying it because of Infiltrator and fire and flying coverage, special sweepers when Bewear isn't behind a substitute, faster Pokemon with Taunt, that's why Chansey is its best teammate here, it absorbs special moves easily. Chansey is an ideal partner for Bewear as it can wall special attackers such as Chandelure and Noivern. Chansey can also bring in Bewear safely with Teleport. Additionally, it can set Stealth Rock up for Bewear, allowing it to break Pokemon such as x and y easier. (ok so a few notes here. chansey does not really do anything against faster taunt users aside seismic toss, so its not really a good example of something to do vs taunt. rest seems ok but i wanted to reword it. i also added a line about teleport and stealth rock, since bewear likes both) All of Bewear's teammates benefit from its physical bulk and may sometimes can be used as pivot, by example, against Choice Scarf Jirachi's Iron Head Jirachi scarf Iron head. Normal type has some issues with Steel type and especially Bisharp, Bewear is the Pokemon to play to destroy Steel here. (gonna move this to paragraph1 and make it a usage tip.) In addition of that, Bewear can take +2 LO Play Rough from Mimikyu, so it's a good way to break its disguise and revenge kill with Ditto. Ditto appreciates Bewear's ability to break Mimikyu's Disguise as it allows it to safely revenge kill Mimikyu. Talking about Ghost Pokémon, Bewear has a good feeling against Corsola-G to Sub freely and starts to bulk up or use Darkest Lariat anticipating a switch. (moved this up to the substitute example in the first paragraph.) It allows to have a switch against Knock Off and help like this Indeedee, Heliolisk and Eviolite users like Chansey and Porygon2. (move this up towards the top of the 2nd paragraph.) As unable to break Poison Pokemon, Indeedee and Diggersby are good teammates to break these Pokemon. Obstagoon and Chansey are good options to stop Psychic moves and absorbs burn. Heliolisk with Glare can help bewear to make it outspeed some Pokemon it couldn't before, and absorbs water moves which annoy Dracovish and other water choiced users. (ok so lastly, move special attackers into one sentence. talk about how Indeedee and Heliolisk can break down physically defensive walls for Bewear, give some examples. For Obstagoon and Diggersby talk about how all three of them can wear down some of their shared checks. You can keep some of the individual points like obstagoon and chansey being able to switch into Indeedee for Bewear. Heliolisk breaks Water-, Flying-, and Ground-type Pokemon for Bewear, talk about which pokemon on those typings bewear can not beat that it appreciates heliolisk doing. also add porygon2 & braviary as teammates.)

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fírnen, 210076]]
- Normal analysis by: [[Fírnen, 210076]]
- Quality checked by: [[maroon, 305839], [, ]]
- Grammar checked by: [[, ]]

most of the content was fine so a large part was fixing up the sentences. I tried to fix up some of the writing here! Fírnen pm me on discord if you have any questions about my check. once it is fully implemented I will stamp this analysis!

edit: QC 1/2