[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Gunk Shot
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Life Orb
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
tera type: Dark / Fighting
[SET COMMENTS]
Toxicroak stands out as a very potent late-game sweeper thanks to Swords Dance and Dry Skin, which allow it to switch in and set up on common Water-types like Vaporeon and Qwilfish. Its access to Sucker Punch allows it to revenge kill threats like Choice Scarf Medicham, Bruxish, and Rotom, though it has to be aware of the former two's Tera Fighting and Fairy and the latter's Will-O-Wisp. Tera Dark gives it a useful Psychic immunity to better the odds versus opposing Bruxish while increasing the power of Sucker Punch at the same time. Alternatively, Tera Fighting Toxicroak is able to OHKO Sandaconda, which usually checks it, after a Swords Dance. Toxicroak struggles against the aforementioned Drifblim and Rotom, and without Tera Fighting, Sandaconda, so teammates such as Vaporeon, Eelektross, and Rotom can switch in on its checks as well as bring Toxicroak into battle safely. Pokemon that appreciate Toxicroak's presence include Oricorio, Clawitzer, and Bruxish, as they struggle against bulky Pokemon that lose to Toxicroak like Vaporeon, Umbreon, and Chansey.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lucario, 189361]]
- Quality checked by: [[Pokeslice, 509790]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Lumii, 493772], [UT, 523866]]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Gunk Shot
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Life Orb
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
tera type: Dark / Fighting
[SET COMMENTS]
Toxicroak stands out as a very potent late-game sweeper thanks to Swords Dance and Dry Skin, which allow it to switch in and set up on common Water-types like Vaporeon and Qwilfish. Its access to Sucker Punch allows it to revenge kill threats like Choice Scarf Medicham, Bruxish, and Rotom, though it has to be aware of the former two's Tera Fighting and Fairy and the latter's Will-O-Wisp. Tera Dark gives it a useful Psychic immunity to better the odds versus opposing Bruxish while increasing the power of Sucker Punch at the same time. Alternatively, Tera Fighting Toxicroak is able to OHKO Sandaconda, which usually checks it, after a Swords Dance. Toxicroak struggles against the aforementioned Drifblim and Rotom, and without Tera Fighting, Sandaconda, so teammates such as Vaporeon, Eelektross, and Rotom can switch in on its checks as well as bring Toxicroak into battle safely. Pokemon that appreciate Toxicroak's presence include Oricorio, Clawitzer, and Bruxish, as they struggle against bulky Pokemon that lose to Toxicroak like Vaporeon, Umbreon, and Chansey.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Lucario, 189361]]
- Quality checked by: [[Pokeslice, 509790]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Lumii, 493772], [UT, 523866]]
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