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[SET]
Swords Dance (Iron Valiant) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark / Steel
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer mainly seen on hyper offense teams. Its high Speed combined with Booster Energy allows it to outspeed +1 setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona, as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of specially offensive Iron Valiant can allow this set to catch opponents off guard and give it a free opportunity to use Swords Dance against foes like Galarian Slowking. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to dangerous levels, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting like Corviknight and Alomomola with a favorable roll or minor chip damage. Knock Off provides valuable coverage for Psychic-types like Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown, and it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore can lock physically defensive walls like Alomomola and Landorus-T into recovery moves or status moves like Defog, which can give Iron Valiant a good chance to set up. Ice Punch is an alternative to Encore for Landorus-T and Dragonite. Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to foes like Galarian Slowking and Zapdos. Tera Steel, on the other hand, provides Iron Valiant with resistances to common priority moves like Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor, Ice Shard from Weavile, and Extreme Speed from Dragonite, which can prevent it from being revenge killed. Tera Steel can also be paired with Encore to take advantage of Sludge Bomb from Galarian Slowking and Toxic from foes like Alomomola. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Dragonite, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very fragile to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effects of Close Combat, so Tapu Lele's Psychic Surge can protect it from priority moves and allow it to safely sweep. In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of each other's checks. Iron Valiant can break Galarian Slowking and Heatran, while Tapu Lele gives physical walls like Dondozo a hard time. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help wear down Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers.

[SET CREDITS]
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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i almost forgot that this got approval from Sulo (1/1)
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Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark i personally have lost SO MANY TIMES to tera steel sd val, slash it cos it flips matchups easily e.g. defensive torn, toxic users, crown etc. since fly psy fairy steel poison ALL become resist/immune
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch for lando glisc dnite (make sure to reflect in writing)

Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, mainly seen in hyper offense teams. Its high speed stats, combining with Booster Energy, allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona although outspeed, cant really do too much to volc and afraid of burn at +1, as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of special offensive sets can often add some surprise and give Iron Valiant a free Swords Dance opportunity against what foes? think of stuff that wall cm but scared of SD so like pinkblobs crown etc. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting type like Corviknight and Alomomola with a roll or minor chip. Knock Off provides valuable coverage to Psychic-types like Slowking-Galar and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore prevents opponents to set up and provides a good chance for Iron Valiant to set itself up. reword this sentence to talk about how ival can take advantage of passive mons by locking them into like defog or stuff Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to opponents like Slowking-Galar and Zapdos. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Skeledirge dirge isnt so good vs waterpon w/o tera so maybe something like dnite instead, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very fragile to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effect of Close Combat, so teammates like Tapu Lele can help it safely sweep briefly explain why (psysurge). In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of their checks such as? for each other. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help worn out Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge wear out how? mention removing boots and leftys.
 
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red fintans said:
i almost forgot that this got approval from Sulo (1/1)
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Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark i personally have lost SO MANY TIMES to tera steel sd val, slash it cos it flips matchups easily e.g. defensive torn, toxic users, crown etc. since fly psy fairy steel poison ALL become resist/immune
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch for lando glisc dnite (make sure to reflect in writing)

Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, mainly seen in hyper offense teams. Its high speed stats, combining with Booster Energy, allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona although outspeed, cant really do too much to volc and afraid of burn at +1, as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of special offensive sets can often add some surprise and give Iron Valiant a free Swords Dance opportunity against what foes? think of stuff that wall cm but scared of SD so like pinkblobs crown etc. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting type like Corviknight and Alomomola with a roll or minor chip. Knock Off provides valuable coverage to Psychic-types like Slowking-Galar and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore prevents opponents to set up and provides a good chance for Iron Valiant to set itself up. reword this sentence to talk about how ival can take advantage of passive mons by locking them into like defog or stuff Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to opponents like Slowking-Galar and Zapdos. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Skeledirge dirge isnt so good vs waterpon w/o tera so maybe something like dnite instead, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very fragile to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effect of Close Combat, so teammates like Tapu Lele can help it safely sweep briefly explain why (psysurge). In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of their checks such as? for each other. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help worn out Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge wear out how? mention removing boots and leftys.
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just state the users of the priority mentioned in that part about tera steel (e.g. msciz bpunch > bpunch) and then move it to GP will do
 
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[SET]
Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Name: Swords Dance
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark / Steel
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, mainly seen in on (not really wrong but "on teams" tends is more conventional in American English) hyper offense teams. Its high speed stats Speed, (RC) combining combined with Booster Energy, (RC) allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona at +1, as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of special specially offensive Iron Valiant sets can often add some surprise allow this set to catch opponents off guard (subjective but reworded for clarity; can leave if you disagree) and give Iron Valiant a free Swords Dance opportunity against opponents foes like Galar Galarian Slowking. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting type like Corviknight and Alomomola with a roll or minor chip. Knock Off provides valuable coverage to for Psychic-types like Slowking-Galar Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, (RC) it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore can lock defensive walls like Alomomola and Landorus-T into recovery moves or status moves like Defog, which can give Iron Valiant a good chance to set up. Ice Punch is an alternative to Encore for an advantage against (presume this is what you meant) Landorus-T and Dragonite. Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to opponents foes like Slowking-Galar Galarian Slowking and Zapdos. Tera Steel, on the other hand, provides Iron Valiant with resistance resistances to common priority moves like Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor, Ice Shard from Weavile, and Extreme Speed from Dragonite, which can prevent it from being revenge killed. It Tera Steel can also be paired with Encore to take advantage of Sludge Bomb from Galar Galarian Slowking and Toxic from opponents like Alomomola. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Dragonite, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very fragile weak to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effect effects of Close Combat, so teammates like Tapu Lele with Psychic Surge (can just change this to "so Tapu Lele's Psychic Surge" if it's the only viable mon in the tier with it) can protect it from priority moves and allow it to safely sweep. In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of their checks for each other other's checks. Iron Valiant can break Galar Galarian Slowking and Heatran, while Tapu Lele gives physical walls like Dondozo a hard time. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help worn out wear down Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers.

[CREDITS] (Shouldn't this be [SET CREDITS]?)
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
Grammar checked by:
 
TheRealBigC said:
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[SET]
Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Name: Swords Dance
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark / Steel
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, mainly seen in on (not really wrong but "on teams" tends is more conventional in American English) hyper offense teams. Its high speed stats Speed, (RC) combining combined with Booster Energy, (RC) allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona at +1, as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of special specially offensive Iron Valiant sets can often add some surprise allow this set to catch opponents off guard (subjective but reworded for clarity; can leave if you disagree) and give Iron Valiant a free Swords Dance opportunity against opponents foes like Galar Galarian Slowking. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting type like Corviknight and Alomomola with a roll or minor chip. Knock Off provides valuable coverage to for Psychic-types like Slowking-Galar Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, (RC) it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore can lock defensive walls like Alomomola and Landorus-T into recovery moves or status moves like Defog, which can give Iron Valiant a good chance to set up. Ice Punch is an alternative to Encore for an advantage against (presume this is what you meant) Landorus-T and Dragonite. Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to opponents foes like Slowking-Galar Galarian Slowking and Zapdos. Tera Steel, on the other hand, provides Iron Valiant with resistance resistances to common priority moves like Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor, Ice Shard from Weavile, and Extreme Speed from Dragonite, which can prevent it from being revenge killed. It Tera Steel can also be paired with Encore to take advantage of Sludge Bomb from Galar Galarian Slowking and Toxic from opponents like Alomomola. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Dragonite, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very fragile weak to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effect effects of Close Combat, so teammates like Tapu Lele with Psychic Surge (can just change this to "so Tapu Lele's Psychic Surge" if it's the only viable mon in the tier with it) can protect it from priority moves and allow it to safely sweep. In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of their checks for each other other's checks. Iron Valiant can break Galar Galarian Slowking and Heatran, while Tapu Lele gives physical walls like Dondozo a hard time. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help worn out wear down Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers.

[CREDITS] (Shouldn't this be [SET CREDITS]?)
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
Grammar checked by:
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[SET]
Swords Dance (Iron Valiant) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark / Steel
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, (comma) mainly seen on hyper offense teams. Its high Speed combined with Booster Energy allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona at +1, (if you mean the setup sweepers are at +1, change this to "+1 setup sweepers like...") as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of specially offensive Iron Valiant sets can allow this set to catch opponents off guard and give Iron Valiant it a free opportunity to use Swords Dance opportunity against foes like Galarian Slowking. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level dangerous levels, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting like Corviknight and Alomomola with a favorable roll or minor chip damage. Knock Off provides valuable coverage for Psychic-types like Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore can lock defensive (I'd specify if you mean physically defensive walls; otherwise, just describing a wall as defensive is redundant) walls like Alomomola and Landorus-T into recovery moves or status moves like Defog, which can give Iron Valiant a good chance to set up. Ice Punch is an alternative to Encore for an advantage against (keep if you want) Landorus-T and Dragonite. Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to foes like Galarian Slowking and Zapdos. Tera Steel, on the other hand, provides Iron Valiant with resistances to common priority moves like Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor, Ice Shard from Weavile, and Extreme Speed from Dragonite, which can prevent it from being revenge killed. Tera Steel can also be paired with Encore to take advantage of Sludge Bomb from Galarian Slowking and Toxic from opponents foes like Alomomola. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Dragonite, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very weak (can revert to fragile if you want) to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effects of Close Combat, so Tapu Lele's Psychic Surge can protect it from priority moves and allow it to safely sweep. In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of each other's checks.. (second period) Iron Valiant can break Galarian Slowking and Heatran, while Tapu Lele gives physical walls like Dondozo a hard time. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help wear down Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/therealbigc.532450/

- The writer fixed this, but when using the PS! teambuilder formatting for sets, the set name is added on the same line as the Pokemon/item in non-Monotype analyses (e.g., "Swords Dance (Iron Valiant) @ Booster Energy").
- Saying that "[Pokemon One] outspeeds [other Pokemon] at +1" is saying that Pokemon One is the one at +1, which is probably not what the writer meant here.
- Use "opportunity to use [move]" instead of "[move] opportunity".
- The phrase is boost to dangerous levels, not a dangerous level.
- Saying a move is "for (hitting) a Pokemon" is fine.
- You missed an instance of "opponents" where it should've been "foes". I'm assuming you know the difference given you caught the other one, but just in case: opponent = the player you are battling, and foe = an opposing Pokemon.
- Saying something is fragile to something is fine.

1/1 GP Team done
Crediting TheRealBigC was fine here, but for future reference, you shouldn't credit AM checkers unless the GP checker tells you too.
 
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[SET]
Swords Dance (Iron Valiant) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Dark / Steel
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Knock Off
- Encore / Ice Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Iron Valiant is both a powerful sweeper and revenge killer, (comma) mainly seen on hyper offense teams. Its high Speed combined with Booster Energy allows it to outspeed setup sweepers like Mega Gyarados, Gouging Fire, and Volcarona at +1, (if you mean the setup sweepers are at +1, change this to "+1 setup sweepers like...") as well as naturally fast targets like Mega Lopunny and Darkrai. The popularity of specially offensive Iron Valiant sets can allow this set to catch opponents off guard and give Iron Valiant it a free opportunity to use Swords Dance opportunity against foes like Galarian Slowking. Swords Dance boosts Iron Valiant's power to a dangerous level dangerous levels, enabling it to OHKO foes neutral to Fighting like Corviknight and Alomomola with a favorable roll or minor chip damage. Knock Off provides valuable coverage for Psychic-types like Galarian Slowking and Iron Crown, and meanwhile, it can also take down walls like Ferrothorn and Garganacl after they use Tera Ghost. Encore can lock defensive (I'd specify if you mean physically defensive walls; otherwise, just describing a wall as defensive is redundant) walls like Alomomola and Landorus-T into recovery moves or status moves like Defog, which can give Iron Valiant a good chance to set up. Ice Punch is an alternative to Encore for an advantage against (keep if you want) Landorus-T and Dragonite. Tera Dark gives Knock Off a STAB boost, allowing it to do more damage to foes like Galarian Slowking and Zapdos. Tera Steel, on the other hand, provides Iron Valiant with resistances to common priority moves like Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor, Ice Shard from Weavile, and Extreme Speed from Dragonite, which can prevent it from being revenge killed. Tera Steel can also be paired with Encore to take advantage of Sludge Bomb from Galarian Slowking and Toxic from opponents foes like Alomomola. Iron Valiant pairs well with teammates like Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-W, and Raging Bolt, since they can pressure common checks for it, such as Zapdos, Dragonite, and Dondozo. Iron Valiant is very weak (can revert to fragile if you want) to priority moves due to its low bulk and the side effects of Close Combat, so Tapu Lele's Psychic Surge can protect it from priority moves and allow it to safely sweep. In addition, Tapu Lele and Iron Valiant can take care of each other's checks.. (second period) Iron Valiant can break Galarian Slowking and Heatran, while Tapu Lele gives physical walls like Dondozo a hard time. Iron Valiant also appreciates other Knock Off users on its team to help wear down Unaware users like Dondozo and Skeledirge by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots and Leftovers.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/red-fintans.637479/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/therealbigc.532450/

- The writer fixed this, but when using the PS! teambuilder formatting for sets, the set name is added on the same line as the Pokemon/item in non-Monotype analyses (e.g., "Swords Dance (Iron Valiant) @ Booster Energy").
- Saying that "[Pokemon One] outspeeds [other Pokemon] at +1" is saying that Pokemon One is the one at +1, which is probably not what the writer meant here.
- Use "opportunity to use [move]" instead of "[move] opportunity".
- The phrase is boost to dangerous levels, not a dangerous level.
- Saying a move is "for (hitting) a Pokemon" is fine.
- You missed an instance of "opponents" where it should've been "foes". I'm assuming you know the difference given you caught the other one, but just in case: opponent = the player you are battling, and foe = an opposing Pokemon.
- Saying something is fragile to something is fine.

1/1 GP Team done
Crediting TheRealBigC was fine here, but for future reference, you shouldn't credit AM checkers unless the GP checker tells you too.
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thank you! I'll pay attention to these
 
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