OU Tyranitar

[Ruft]

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Heavy Slam
move 4: Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Despite having many weaknesses, Tyranitar's typing is stellar offensively, which, in tandem with its great Attack stat and strong coverage options, makes it a fearsome wallbreaker, especially with a Choice Band. Additionally, its sand-boosted Special Defense allows it to serve as a decent check to certain special threats like Rotom-H, Togekiss, Gengar, and Chandelure. Heavy Slam allows it to reliably deal with Clefable, while Fire Punch threatens Ferrothorn, Bisharp, and Corviknight, as Stone Edge's shaky accuracy and low PP can hold it back from reliably threatening the latter otherwise. Alternatively, Ice Punch is an option to threaten Kommo-o and Hippowdon, while Earthquake can be considered to hit Toxapex and incoming Fighting-types like Terrakion and Conkeldurr harder.

Sand Rush Excadrill is an exceptional partner for Tyranitar, as sand allows it to outspeed almost the entire metagame, enabling it to clean up after Tyranitar has blown holes in the opposing team. However, they can have a hard time dealing with Fighting-types like Kommo-o and Conkeldurr, making switch-ins like Clefable and Hippowdon excellent teammates. The former can provide Wish support and bring in Tyranitar safely with Teleport, while the latter can provide additional sand support for Excadrill. Togekiss covers these Fighting-types offensively and can deal with Hippowdon, which is another solid check to both Tyranitar and Excadrill. Finally, Rotom-H is another great partner, as it covers Hippowdon, Corviknight, and Ferrothorn.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Ruft, 295110]]
- Quality checked by: [[Jordy, 395754], [curiosity, 443485]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Estronic, 240732]]

 

[Jordy]

comments in purple things to remove in red

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Heavy Slam
move 4: Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Despite having many weaknesses, Tyranitar's typing is stellar offensively, which in tandem with its great Attack stat, spammable STAB moves, and strong coverage options makes it a fearsome wallbreaker, especially when armed with a Choice Band. I don't really agree that its STAB moves are spammable right now; there are plenty of ways to pivot around Tyranitar. Additionally, its sand-boosted Special Defense allows it to serve as a decent check to certain special threats like Rotom-Heat, Togekiss, and Gengar lacking Focus Blast. Heavy Slam takes out the most ubiquitous Pokemon in the metagame, Clefable, while Fire Punch deals with Ferrothorn and Bisharp. It's definitely worth highlighting that it reliably deals with Clefable, the way this is currently phrased doesn't really show how Heavy Slam is functionally different from Stone Edge. Alternatively, Ice Punch is an option to threaten Kommo-o and Hippowdon, while Earthquake can be considered to hit Toxapex and incoming Fighting-types like Terrakion and Conkeldurr harder.

Sand Rush Excadrill is an exceptional partner to Tyranitar, as sand allows it to outspeed almost the entire metagame, enabling it to clean up after Tyranitar blows holes in the opposing team. They can have a hard time dealing with Fighting-types like Kommo-o and Conkeldurr, making switch-ins like Clefable and Hippowdon excellent teammates. The former can provide Wish support and bring in Tyranitar safely with Teleport, while the latter can provide additional sand support for Excadrill. Togekiss and Dragapult cover these Fighting-types offensively and can deal with Hippowdon, which is another solid check to both Tyranitar and Excadrill. This implies that Dragapult can deal with Hippowdon, but it's really not a matchup the Dragapult user will often want to engage in. Finally, Rotom-Heat is another great partner as it covers both Hippowdon and Corviknight. Its ability to deal with Ferrothorn's very useful too.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Ruft, 295110]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Good job, 1/2.

 

[Ruft]

Implemented, ready for next check

 

[curiosity]

This looks pretty solid, only things I'd like you to consider is adding Corviknight to the list of Fire Punch targets; It's definitely worth mentioning the shoddy accuracy and the considerably low PP of Stone Edge. I also think that there's no need to mention Focus Blast on Gengar considering that it has much better options to chose from in this meta. If you disagree with that, then i'd say replace it with Chandelure, which is equally as painful to switch into as Gengar. Rest looks great!

QC 2/2

 

[Ruft]

Implemented, ready for GP

 

[Milak]

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[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Heavy Slam
move 4: Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Despite having many weaknesses, Tyranitar's typing is stellar offensively,(RC) which and in tandem with its great Attack stat and strong coverage options it makes it Tyranitar a fearsome wallbreaker, especially when armed with a Choice Band. Additionally, its sand-boosted Special Defense allows it to serve as a decent check to certain special threats like Rotom-Heat, Togekiss, Gengar, and Chandelure. Heavy Slam allows it to reliably deal with Clefable, while Fire Punch threatens Ferrothorn, Bisharp, and Corviknight, as Stone Edge's shaky accuracy and low PP can hold it back from reliably threatening the latter otherwise. Alternatively, Ice Punch is an option to threaten Kommo-o and Hippowdon, while Earthquake can be considered to hit Toxapex and incoming Fighting-types like Terrakion and Conkeldurr harder.

Sand Rush Excadrill is an exceptional partner to Tyranitar, as sand allows it to outspeed almost the entire metagame, enabling it and to clean up after Tyranitar blows has blown holes in the opposing team. However,(AC) Tthey can have a hard time dealing with Fighting-types like Kommo-o and Conkeldurr, making switch-ins like Clefable and Hippowdon excellent teammates. The former can provide Wish support and bring in Tyranitar safely with Teleport, while the latter can provide additional sand support for Excadrill. Togekiss covers these Fighting-types offensively and can deal with Hippowdon, which is another solid check to both Tyranitar and Excadrill. Finally, Rotom-Heat is another great partner, as it covers Hippowdon, Corviknight, and Ferrothorn.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Ruft, 295110]]
- Quality checked by: [[Jordy, 395754], [curiosity, 443485]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Astra]

borrowing some changes from the above check
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[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Stone Edge
move 2: Crunch
move 3: Heavy Slam
move 4: Fire Punch
item: Choice Band
ability: Sand Stream
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Despite having many weaknesses, Tyranitar's typing is stellar offensively, which, (AC) in tandem with its great Attack stat and strong coverage options, (AC) makes it a fearsome wallbreaker, especially when armed with a Choice Band. Additionally, its sand-boosted Special Defense allows it to serve as a decent check to certain special threats like Rotom-Heat, Togekiss, Gengar, and Chandelure. Heavy Slam allows it to reliably deal with Clefable, while Fire Punch threatens Ferrothorn, Bisharp, and Corviknight, as Stone Edge's shaky accuracy and low PP can hold it back from reliably threatening the latter otherwise. Alternatively, Ice Punch is an option to threaten Kommo-o and Hippowdon, while Earthquake can be considered to hit Toxapex and incoming Fighting-types like Terrakion and Conkeldurr harder.

Sand Rush Excadrill is an exceptional partner to for Tyranitar, as sand allows it to outspeed almost the entire metagame, enabling it to clean up after Tyranitar blows has blown holes in the opposing team. They However, (AC) they can have a hard time dealing with Fighting-types like Kommo-o and Conkeldurr, making switch-ins like Clefable and Hippowdon excellent teammates. The former can provide Wish support and bring in Tyranitar safely with Teleport, while the latter can provide additional sand support for Excadrill. Togekiss covers these Fighting-types offensively and can deal with Hippowdon, which is another solid check to both Tyranitar and Excadrill. Finally, Rotom-Heat is another great partner, as it covers Hippowdon, Corviknight, and Ferrothorn.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Ruft, 295110]]
- Quality checked by: [[Jordy, 395754], [curiosity, 443485]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

1/1

 

[Ruft]

Done!