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Swords Dance Chien-Pao (Chien-Pao) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Sword of Ruin
Tera Type: Dark / Fire / Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Crunch
- Sucker Punch / Sacred Sword / Tera Blast
- Swords Dance

[SET COMMENTS]
Swords Dance Chien-Pao is one of the strongest cleaners in the tier, easily finding opportunities to set up with how many switches it forces. Sucker Punch can be used to beat out the few Pokemon that can revenge kill Chien-Pao such as Deoxys and Palafin. Sacred Sword and Tera Blast Fire or Ground are niche coverage options that can be used to deal with Zamazenta-C and Magearna. Tera Dark boosts Chien-Pao's Crunch and Sucker Punch to astronomical levels of power, while Tera Fire and Tera Ground can award Chien-Pao with further setup opportunities by providing immunities to Will-O-Wisp and Thunder Wave, respectively. Swords Dance Chien-Pao appreciates wallbreakers such as Mewtwo, Palafin, and Palkia-O that can tear holes in the opponent's team, paving the way for a late-game sweep. Chien-Pao particularly dislikes Fairy-types such as Magearna and Zacian; some strong options that can deal with them are Landorus-T, Chi-Yu, and Arceus-Poison. Chien-Pao also greatly appreciates entry hazard setters and bulky pivots that can help chip down the opponent's team and safely bring it in. For this reason, Magearna and Landorus-T pair very well with it.

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[SET]
Chien-Pao @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Sword of Ruin
Tera Type: Dark / Fire / Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Crunch
- Sucker Punch / Ice Shard / Sacred Sword / Tera Blast
- Swords Dance

[SET COMMENTS]
Chien-Pao's Swords Dance set is one of the strongest cleaners in the tier, easily finding opportunities to pull off a Swords Dance with how many switches it forces. Outside of Icicle Crash, Crunch, and Swords Dance, Chien-Pao has a variety of moves it can use in its last slot. Sucker Punch can be used to beat out the few pokemon that outspeed Chien-Pao, such as Deoxys, Zacian, and Choice Scarf Chi-Yu; Deoxys always dies to Sucker Punch, Chi-Yu has a 50% chance to get KOed by +2 Sucker Punch after Stealth Rock, and +2 Tera Dark Sucker Punch can even KO Zacian provided that Zacian has been heavily chipped. (Probably rephrase and simply this sentence, like saying how it can KO them after cheap damage. Also mention Palafin's Jet punch as something that Sucker Punch can beat). Ice shard can also be used as a more consistent form of priority than Sucker Punch, albeit doing far less damage (You should mention the difference in typing, as in it hits Tera Ground Zacian and Landorus for super effective damage while struggling to put a dent in Palafin). Sacred Sword and Tera Blast Fire / Ground are coverage options that can be used to deal with Zamazenta-C and Magearna, provided that they too are chipped. Tera Dark boosts Chien-Pao's Crunch and Sucker Punch to astronomical levels of power, While Tera Fire and Tera Ground can award Chien-Pao with further setup opportunities by providing an immunity to will-o-wisp and thunder wave respectively and the ability to break past previous checks. Tera Fire provides Chien-Pao with an immunity to Will-O-Wisp from the likes of Arceus-Dark, a resistance to Fairy Type moves from Magearna, and also the ability use Tera Blast to beat its defensive checks. Tera Ground provides an immunity to Thunder-Wave from Magearna, as well as being able to use Tera Blast in the same way that Tera Fire does while also hitting Toxapex for super effective damage. Swords Dance Chien-Pao appreciates strong breakers such as Mewtwo, Landorus, and Ogerpon-Hearthflame that can tear holes in the opponent's team, paving the way for a late game sweep. Chien-Pao strongly dislikes Magearna and Zacian in particular, and a strong option that can deal with both Pokemon is Rocky Helmet Landorus-Therian. You should probably mention pivots that can bring it into the game, shed tail support, hazard support (spikes, stealth rock) and maybe Dugtrio? That last one is fine if you don't include it but the other three are definitely necessary.

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Swords Dance (Chien-Pao) Chien-Pao @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Sword of Ruin
Tera Type: Dark / Fire / Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Crunch
- Sucker Punch / Ice Shard / Sacred Sword / Tera Blast
- Swords Dance
(fixing formatting & Shard is ass IMO)
[SET COMMENTS]
Chien-Pao's Swords Dance set is one of the strongest cleaners in the tier, easily finding opportunities to pull off a Swords Dance with how many switches it forces. Outside of Icicle Crash, Crunch, and Swords Dance, Chien-Pao has a variety of moves it can use in its last slot. Sucker Punch can be used to beat out the few pokemon that can revenge kill Chien-Pao such as Deoxys and Palafin. Ice shard can also be used as a more consistent form of priority than Sucker Punch, albeit doing far less damage. (resisted Tdark Sucker does more than Shard, and barely does less even if you don't tera. Shard Sux) Sacred Sword and Tera Blast Fire / Ground are coverage options that can be used to deal with Zamazenta-C and Magearna. (dunno if you really need to mention TB, it's pretty ass on pao. Ultimately up to you.)Tera Dark boosts Chien-Pao's Crunch and Sucker Punch to astronomical levels of power, While Tera Fire and Tera Ground can award Chien-Pao with further setup opportunities by providing an immunity to will-o-wisp Will-O-Wisp and thunder wave Thunder Wave respectively, and the ability to break past previous checks(either cut this since you already mentioned it, or say which checks). Swords Dance Chien-Pao appreciates strong breakers such as Mewtwo, Landorus, and Ogerpon-Hearthflame (I feel like there are better examples than these ones, Oger is hard to fit and the same can be said of Lando. Lando also isn't all that strong of a breaker so make sure to mention LO lando, since scarf is the standard. Maybe Palafin in the place of one of them?) that can tear holes in the opponent's team, paving the way for a late game sweep. Chien-Pao strongly dislikes Magearna and Zacian in particular, (honestly you could just say "It dislikes Fairy-types like Zacian and Magearna". I think that would be better too! You're the writer though.) and a strong option that can deal with both Pokemon is Rocky Helmet Landorus-T(there's more than just Lando-T who can handle both. Get creative! Palafin, Chi-Yu, Arc-Poison, etc can all be great answers to both.) . Chien-Pao also greatly appreciates hazard setters and bulky pivots that can help chip down the opponent's team, and safely bring in Chien-Pao. For this reason, Magearna and Landorus-T pair very well, as they both have pivoting moves and can set Spikes and Stealth Rock respectively.

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[SET]
Swords Dance (Chien-Pao) @ Heavy-Duty Boots (or whatever else you want the name to be)
Ability: Sword of Ruin
Tera Type: Dark / Fire / Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Crunch
- Sucker Punch / Sacred Sword / Tera Blast
- Swords Dance

[SET COMMENTS]
Chien-Pao's Swords Dance set Swords Dance Chien-Pao is one of the strongest cleaners in the tier, easily finding opportunities to pull off a Swords Dance set up with how many switches it forces. Outside of Icicle Crash, Crunch, and Swords Dance, Chien-Pao has a variety of moves it can use in its last slot. Sucker Punch can be used to beat out the few pokemon Pokemon that can revenge kill Chien-Pao such as Deoxys and Palafin. Sacred Sword and Tera Blast Fire / Ground Fire or Ground are niche coverage options that can be used to deal with Zamazenta-C and Magearna. Tera Dark boosts Chien-Pao's Crunch and Sucker Punch to astronomical levels of power, While while Tera Fire and Tera Ground can award Chien-Pao with further setup opportunities by providing an immunity immunities to Will-O-Wisp and Thunder Wave, (comma) respectively. Swords Dance Chien-Pao appreciates strong breakers wallbreakers such as Mewtwo, Palafin, and Palkia-O that can tear holes in the opponent's team, paving the way for a late game late-game sweep. Chien-Pao particularly dislikes Fairy types Fairy-types such as Magearna and Zacian, Zacian; some strong options that can deal with them are Landorus-T, Chi-Yu, and Arceus-Poison. Chien-Pao also greatly appreciates entry hazard setters and bulky pivots that can help chip down the opponent's team, (comma) and safely bring in Chien-Pao it in. For this reason, Magearna and Landorus-T pair very well with it, (comma) as they both have pivoting moves and can set Spikes and Stealth Rock respectively. (implied)

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