Doubles Tapu Lele

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Tapu Lele @ Pixie Plate
Ability: Psychic Surge
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Psychic
- Taunt
- Protect

The guardian deity of Akala island serves as an anchor for Psychic spam teams in DOU! One of two Pokemon with access to Psychic Surge, it plays more offensively than the support-oriented Indeedee-F. As a result, Necrozma is a natural partner since it is significantly more threatening under Psychic Terrain and appreciates Tapu Lele's Moonblast threatening Mew and Incineroar, which are two common checks to Necrozma. Moonblast also deals a good amount of damage outside of Psychic Terrain, allowing it to weaken opposing Terrain setters like Rillaboom and Tapu Fini. Tapu Lele's offensive nature allows it to function well on more aggressive archetypes, where its ability to block Fake Out is appreciated by common attackers on those teams like Urshifu-R and Dragon Dance Kyurem-B. Tapu Lele enjoys Landorus and Heatran as partners due to both of them handling Steel-types with relative ease, while Tailwind support from the likes of Naganadel and Zapdos is helpful to beat Pokemon who would otherwise outspeed and threaten Tapu Lele such as Urshifu-R and Dragapult.
 
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  • The parts where you say that it's one of two Psychic Surge mons, competes with the more supportive Ind-F, and is more offensively oriented can be condensed to have less fluff. Take off obvious stuff like Psychic Surge being important or psychic spam, and try to write more efficiently.
  • Considering Tapu Lele's better fit into faster, more aggressive archetypes, mention Psychic Surge blocking Fake Out as this can be significant for stuff found in those teams like Naganadel, Ursh, and DD KB
  • Put the part about it working well with Necrozma more towards the front, ideally before you get to mention Expanding Force.
  • Tailwind support.
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Tapu Lele @ Pixie Plate
Ability: Psychic Surge
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonblast
- Psychic
- Taunt
- Protect

The guardian deity of Akala island serves as an anchor for psychic Psychic spam teams in DOU! It's one of the two Pokemon with access to Psychic Surge and being a more offensive counterpart to the other, Indeedee-F One of two Pokemon with access to Psychic Surge, it plays more offensively than the support-oriented Indeedee-F. As a result of that, Necrozma is a natural partner due to it needing Psychic Terrain to act as a potent offensive threat while Tapu Lele can provide essential chip on Mew and Incineroar, two common psychic resists, with Moonblast since it is significantly more threatening under Psychic Terrain and appreciates Tapu Lele's Moonblast threatening Mew and Incineroar, which are two common checks to Necrozma. Moonblast also allows Tapu Lele to deal deals a good amount of damage even when Psychic Terrain isn't active outside of Psychic Terrain, allowing it to weaken opposing terrain Terrain setters like Rillaboom and Tapu Fini much easier. Tapu Lele's more offensive nature also allows it to function well on more aggressive archetypes, where its ability to block Fake Out is appreciated by helps common attackers on those teams like Urshifu-R and Dragon Dance Kyurem-B and Urshifu-R just makes it a little more clear you don't mean Dragon Dance Urshifu. Tapu Lele enjoys Landorus just checking, is this supposed to be Landorus-T? if you meant I, then this is correct and Heatran as partners due to both of them handling Steel-types with relative ease, while Tailwind support from the likes of Naganadel or and Zapdos is helpful in beating to beat Pokemon who would otherwise outspeed and threaten Tapu Lele such as Urshifu-R or and Dragapult.

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