OU Substitute + 3 Attacks Iron Moth

[sufys]

[SET]
name: Substitute + 3 Attacks
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Fiery Dance
move 3: Sludge Wave
move 4: Energy Ball / Tera Blast
item: Booster Energy
tera type: Grass / Water / Ground
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Timid
evs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its high Special Attack and Speed stats, as well as its range of coverage options, Iron Moth is a very threatening cleaner. Substitute allows Iron Moth to take advantage of forced switches for an opportunity to ease prediction, as well as granting a favorable matchup against Kingambit through avoiding Sucker Punch. In conjunction with Terastallization, Substitute can also be used to generate a free turn versus Garganacl using Salt Cure. Energy Ball allows Iron Moth to hit Hisuian Samurott and Tera Water Garganacl super effectively. Alternatively, Tera Blast Ground allows Iron Moth to deal considerable damage to a wide array of its checks, such as Heatran, Skeledirge, Galarian Slowking, Toxapex, and opposing Iron Moth. Tera Blast Water still allows Iron Moth to deal substantial damage to the majority of these threats, most notably missing out on Galarian Slowking. In exchange, with Tera Water, Iron Moth's defensive profile improves, allowing it to avoid being revenge killed by Aqua Jet from Azumarill and Hisuian Samurott, and Water Shuriken from Greninja. Tera Grass boosts the power of Energy Ball, allowing Iron Moth to comfortably 2HKO Tera Water Garganacl while also avoiding being revenge killed by Water-type priority moves. Iron Moth's EV spread allows it to get a Speed boost from Booster Energy, facilitating its role as a cleaner, and enabling it to function as one-time speed control. The remaining EVs are placed in Defense, notably making Iron Moth work as an emergency check to Swords Dance Iron Valiant from full. With its role as a cleaner, Iron Moth is well suited to hyper offense teams. As a result, Iron Valiant is a good partner, as both it and Iron Moth appreciate each other's efforts in wearing down shared checks such as Skeledirge, Toxapex and Galarian Slowking. Iron Moth's high susceptibility to entry hazards makes Great Tusk a good teammate, as it provides a means of hazard control. Iron Moth wants its checks weakened in order to effectively sweep the opposing team; teammates such as Glimmora and Hisuian Samurott can provide hazards, facilitating this aim. Iron Moth struggles somewhat with foes such as Dragapult and Baxcalibur; Kingambit handles these threats fairly well while also being capable of wallbreaking to weaken the opposing team for Iron Moth late-game. Additionally, Kingambit appreciates Iron Moth's ability to soft check Iron Valiant. Iron Moth especially finds difficulty in breaking down Ting-Lu. Teammates that take advantage of Ting-Lu, such as Baxcalibur, Hisuian Samurott, Greninja, and Enamorus are appreciated.

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[SetsuSetsuna]

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1/2 after implemented. Everything is great content wise, just remember to mention the moves in the right order. Substitute is the first move that should be mentioned. Tera Grass should "in theory" be mentioned before the other 2 teras but its a bit trickier since you have Tera Blast, so I left it as is

sufys12, post: 9742742, member: 477404

[SET]
name: Substitute + 3 Attacks
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Fiery Dance
move 3: Sludge Wave
move 4: Energy Ball / Tera Blast
item: Booster Energy
tera type: Grass / Water / Ground
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Timid
evs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its high Special Attack and Speed stats, as well as its range of coverage options, Iron Moth is a very threatening cleaner in the metagame. Substitute allows Iron Moth to take advantage of forced switches, using them as an opportunity to ease prediction. Additionally, Substitute grants Iron Moth a favourable matchup against Kingambit through avoiding Sucker Punch. In conjunction with Tera, Substitute can also be used to generate a free turn versus Garganacl using Salt Cure. (Move this part up here. In the Garganacl part you should mention the free turns are only granted if Iron Moth is Terastallized as otherwise Salt Cure breaks the sub) Energy Ball allows Iron Moth to super effectively hit Samurott-H and Tera Water Garganacl. Alternatively, at the cost of its Tera, Tera Blast Ground allows Iron Moth to deal considerable damage to a wide array of its checks, such as Heatran, Skeledirge, Slowking-Galar, Toxapex, as well as opposing Iron Moth. Tera Blast Water allows Iron Moth to deal substantial damage to the majority of these threats, most notably excluding Slowking-Galar. In exchange, with Tera Water, Iron Moth's defensive profile improves, allowing it to avoid being revenge killed by priority Aqua Jet from Azumarill and Samurott-Hisui, and Water Shuriken from Greninja. Tera Grass boosts the power of Energy Ball, allowing Iron Moth to comfortably 2HKO Tera Water Garganacl, while also avoiding being revenge killed by Water-type priority moves. Iron Moth's EV spread allows it to get a Speed boost from Booster Energy, facilitating its role as a cleaner, and enabling it to function as one-time speed control. The remaining EVs are placed in Defense, notably making Iron Moth work as an emergency check to Swords Dance Iron Valiant from full. Iron Moth, with its role as a cleaner, is well-suited to hyper offense teams. As a result, Iron Valiant is a good partner as it appreciates Iron Moth's efforts in wearing down shared checks such as Skeledirge and Toxapex. Likewise, Iron Moth appreciates Iron Valiant wearing down these same checks. (Maybe you can rework this into a single sentence instead of 2, something like "as both appreciate each other's efforts in wearing down...". You could also add Galarian Slowking as a shared check) Iron Moth is very susceptible to hazards. As such, Great Tusk is a good teammate as it provides a means of hazard control. Iron Moth wants its checks weakened in order to effectively sweep the opposing team; teammates such as Glimmora and Samurott-H can provide hazards, facilitating this aim. Iron Moth struggles somewhat with foes such as Dragapult and Baxcalibur. Consequently, Kingambit is a good teammate as it handles these threats fairly well, while also being capable of wallbreaking to weaken the opposing team for Iron Moth late-game. Additionally, Kingambit appreciates Iron Moth's ability to soft check Iron Valiant. You could perhaps mention Pokemon that cover Iron Moth's weaknesses. For example Baxcalibur and Hisuian Samurott are Water resists that also double down as Ting-Lu checks. If you dont want to focus on the weakness part then at least making more emphasis on Ting-Lu would be good, hence you could mention Enamorus and Greninja as well.

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[hamiltonion]

This looks great. I think Setsu got everything, I have no changes! QC 2/2

 

[sufys]

GP Team

 

[Lumari]

remove add / fix (comments); (AC=add comma; RC=remove comma; SC=semicolon)
GP 1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
name: Substitute + 3 Attacks
move 1: Substitute
move 2: Fiery Dance
move 3: Sludge Wave
move 4: Energy Ball / Tera Blast
item: Booster Energy
tera type: Grass / Water / Ground
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Timid
evs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to its high Special Attack and Speed stats, as well as its range of coverage options, Iron Moth is a very threatening cleaner in the metagame. Substitute allows Iron Moth to take advantage of forced switches, using them as for an opportunity to ease prediction, (comma) Additionally, Substitute grants Iron Moth as well as granting a favourable favorable matchup against Kingambit through avoiding Sucker Punch. In conjunction with Terastallization, Substitute can also be used to generate a free turn versus Garganacl using Salt Cure. Energy Ball allows Iron Moth to super effectively hit Hisuian Samurott-H and Tera Water Garganacl super effectively. Alternatively, at the cost of its Tera, Tera Blast Ground allows Iron Moth to deal considerable damage to a wide array of its checks, such as Heatran, Skeledirge, Galarian Slowking-Galar, Toxapex, as well as and opposing Iron Moth. Tera Blast Water still allows Iron Moth to deal substantial damage to the majority of these threats, most notably excluding missing out on Galarian Slowking-Galar. In exchange, with Tera Water, Iron Moth's defensive profile improves, allowing it to avoid being revenge killed by priority Aqua Jet from Azumarill and Hisuian Samurott-Hisui, (RH) and Water Shuriken from Greninja. Tera Grass boosts the power of Energy Ball, allowing Iron Moth to comfortably 2HKO Tera Water Garganacl (RC) while also avoiding being revenge killed by Water-type priority moves. Iron Moth's EV spread allows it to get a Speed boost from Booster Energy, facilitating its role as a cleaner, and enabling it to function as one-time speed control. The remaining EVs are placed in Defense, notably making Iron Moth work as an emergency check to Swords Dance Iron Valiant from full. Iron Moth, With its role as a cleaner, Iron Moth (repetitive structure) is well suited (RH) to hyper offense teams. As a result, Iron Valiant is a good partner, (AC) as both it and Iron Moth appreciate each other's efforts in wearing down shared checks such as Skeledirge, Toxapex and Galarian Slowking-Galar. Iron Moth's high susceptibility is very susceptible to entry hazards. As such, makes Great Tusk is a good teammate, (AC) as it provides a means of hazard control. Iron Moth wants its checks weakened in order to effectively sweep the opposing team; teammates such as Glimmora and Hisuian Samurott-H can provide hazards, facilitating this aim. Iron Moth struggles somewhat with foes such as Dragapult and Baxcalibur; (SC) Consequently, Kingambit is a good teammate as it handles these threats fairly well (RC) while also being capable of wallbreaking to weaken the opposing team for Iron Moth late-game. Additionally, Kingambit appreciates Iron Moth's ability to soft check Iron Valiant. Iron Moth especially finds difficulty in breaking down Ting-Lu. Teammates that take advantage of Ting-Lu, such as Baxcalibur, Hisuian Samurott-H, Greninja, (AC) and Enamorus are appreciated.

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