Urshifu (Dark) [QC: 0/2]

[AA]

[SET]
name: Choice Band (Dark)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Wicked Blow
move 3: Iron Head
move 4: U-turn
item: Choice Band
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
With Urshifu's powerful move wicked blow a move that always crits and other coverage options along with choice band. Urshifu has very few switch-ins and acts as a powerful breaker being able to 2hko most of the meta including Toxapex and Celesteela. Close Combat is able to hit dark- types that resist wicked blow notably being able to 2hko max defense Mandibuzz while just missing out on the ohko on Porygon2 and guaranteed ohko on Ferrothorn. Iron Head is for fairy- type pokemon who resit both of Urshifu stab while doing neutral damage to Tapu Fini and Azumarill. U-turn lets it pivot out of situations that aren't ideal such as risking a roll or getting statsed and just being able to generate momentum for Urshifu's teammates is very useful. Full investment in attack and speed lets Urshifu hit hard and fast maximizing its offensive pressure, jolly nature lets Urshifu outspeed none scarf Tapu Lele and Mimikyu. Urshifu's ability Unseen Fist hit through protect which forces the opponents to guess which move Urshifu is going to for, this allows Urshifu to break through the steel immunity core.

Greninja is a great teammate being able to break Flying-, Dragon-, Ground-, and Water-type Pokemon for Urshifu-S with its coverage in Ice Beam, Grass Knot, and Hidden Power Electric such as Tornadus-T, Garchomp, Landorus, and Mega Swampert. Urshifu can in return break special walls such as Blissey for Greninja. Mandibuzz to tank physical hits from Terrakion, Lopunny-Mega, and Cinderace while utilizing U-turn to bring in Urshifu so it can threaten Tyranitar, Tapu Lele, and Weavile which are huge threats for Mandibuzz. Tyranitar to swap into special hits and crippling faster threats with thunder wave for Urshifu and setting up stealth rocks along with having strong rock stab to threaten Ninetales-Alola, Charizard-Mega-Y, and Volcarona.


[SET]
name: Bulk Up (Dark)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Wicked Blow
move 3: Bulk Up
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Black Glasses
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu's powerful move wicked blow that always crits makes Urshifu a powerful wall breaker with Bulk Up allows Urshifu to hit as hard as Choice Band sets while still having fighting coverage and a priority move at its disposal. Close Combat is one of Urshifu's powerful STAB moves of choice to hit defensive walls such as Ferrothorn and Mandibuzz along with other Steel, Dark, Rock, and Normal types. Wicked blow is used as Urshifu's main attack and covers Urshifu fighting STAB as it covers most types that resist or are immune to close combat such as Psychic, Ghost, and Poison. Buk Up allows Urshifu to hit harder than it normally would be able to with a Choice Band as Urshifu forces switch it is able to set up for free in most cases along with Urshifu natural defensive bulk allowing it to tank most physical hits after a bulk up. Sucker Punch lets Urshifu revenge kill faster mons that have taken chip or if Urshifu has got enough Bulk Up's it may just outright OHKO them making room for Urshifu's teammates to win late game. Maximum investment in speed and attack with a Jolly nature lets Urshifu outspeed threats such as none scarf Tapu Lele and Mimikyu and OHKO them back. Urshifu's ability Unseen Fist lets it hit throw protect which makes Mu such as steel very easy as the steel user must correctly predict what move you have selected.

Urshifu's is a massive benefit to all dark teams by breaking walls early game for its teammates or sweeping late game. Urshifu allows Hydreigon to run other sets besides sub Nasty plot as it breaks the similar types letting Hydreigon run Scarf, Taunt roost, and Specs sets. As Urshifu is 4x weak to fairy Urshifu and all 3 coverage moves are uneffective to fairys teammates such as Bisharp, Drapion, and Gunk Shot Greninja are appreciated. Along with Mandibuzz and Tyranitar to cover Urshifu's other weaknesses. Urshifu great apprshaits Grimmsnarl to set up dual screens so it can set up with less pressure from the opposing pokemon.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Dark

For Urshifu's Choice Band sets Poison Jab and Sucker Punch can be used over Iron Head and U-turn respectively. Urshifu's Bulk Up set's can run Drain Punch over Close Combat along with Leftovers over Black Glasses. A third set that Urshifu can also run is Choice Scarf but it's not used as Dark has superior Choice Scarfers such as Hydreigon or Weavile.

Checks and Counters
===================

Dark

**Super-Effective Attackers** Pokemon with power super effective moves especially strong special attackers are able to OHKO Urshifu's such as Mega Diancie or Keldeo

**Fairy-types** Fairy types pokemon that resist both of Urshifu's STAB are quite hard and will most likely OHKO Urshifu.

**Strong Special Attackers** Pokemon with powerful STAB coverage and outspeed Urshifu are a huge threat to it and will have no trouble OHKO Urshifu.

**Fighting-types** Fast and powerful fighting types such as Zapdos-Galar and Buzzwole will easily OHKO Urshifu with their STAB coverage.

**Flying-types** With strong STAB are able to do weaken outright OHKO Urshifu such as Tornadus-Therian or Zapdos-Galar.

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[Rei]

AM QC Check only add what you agree with or wait for QC to say so. Side nide Urshifu when referring to the Dark-type one is Urshifu-S, and I see a bit of typos and lower case moves please read https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/spelling-and-grammar-standards.3656658/ to learn how to fix these. Add delete comments

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[SET]
name: Choice Band (Dark)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Wicked Blow
move 3: Iron Head
move 4: U-turn
item: Choice Band
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
With Urshifu's powerful move wicked blow a move that always crits and other coverage options along with choice band. This seems like an incomplete sentence, i think the best way to go with this is to merge the ideas from the first two sentences together to something like Urshifu is a powerful wallbreaker due to its great Attack stat, decent Speed, coverage options and Wicked Blow always landing a critical hit, allowing it to have very few switchin-ins, and 2HKO most of the metagame such as Toxapex and Celesteela. Urshifu has very few switch-ins and acts as a powerful breaker being able to 2hko most of the meta including Toxapex and Celesteela. Close Combat is able to hit dark- types that resist wicked blow notably being able to 2hko max defense Mandibuzz while just missing out on the ohko on Porygon2 you could say instead after some chip damage and guaranteed ohko on Ferrothorn. Iron Head is for fairy- type pokemon who resit both of Urshifu stab like Tapu Bulu and Clefable while doing neutral damage to Tapu Fini and Azumarill. U-turn lets it pivot out of situations that aren't ideal such as risking a roll or getting statsed and just being able to generate momentum for Urshifu's teammates is very useful. Full investment in attack and speed lets Urshifu hit hard and fast maximizing its offensive pressure, jolly nature lets Urshifu outspeed none scarf Tapu Lele and Mimikyu. Urshifu's ability Unseen Fist hit through protect which forces the opponents to guess which move Urshifu is going to for, this allows Urshifu to break through the steel immunity core. I feel like this is dex info which you want to avoid, but you could say Unseen Fist allows Urshifu-S to break though the common Steel-type core of Aegislash, Heatran, and Celesteela due to having to guess what move Urshifu-S is going to click.

Greninja is a great teammate being able to break Flying-, Dragon-, Ground-, and Water-type Pokemon for Urshifu-S with its coverage in Ice Beam, Grass Knot, and Hidden Power Electric such as Tornadus-T, Garchomp, Landorus, and Mega Swampert. While this is true I would put more infomration on how it can take care of bulky Water core of Swampert, Toxapex and Mantine with the ebelt set and how it can flip the Ground- and Flying-type mu in the Dark teams favor. I would mention Choice Scarf being more useful in the Dragon-type matchup and how it can clean up late-game. Urshifu can in return for Greninja, can break special walls such as Blissey for Greninja. Mandibuzz is a great teammate for Urshifu-S as it can to tank physical hits from Terrakion, Lopunny-Mega, and Cinderace while utilizing U-turn to bring in Urshifu so it can threaten Tyranitar, Tapu Lele, and Weavile which are huge threats condensing for Mandibuzz. Tyranitar to swap into special hits and crippling faster threats with thunder wave for Urshifu and setting up stealth rocks along with having strong rock stab to threaten Ninetales-Alola, Charizard-Mega-Y, and Volcarona. You could mention on how it can get rid of Rain or Sun with Sand Stream as well. Add Hydreigon as it forms a great Steel-type breaking core. Add Mega Tyranitar and how it can greatly help with the Dragon-, Ice-, and Flying-type matchup with Stone Edge + Ice Punch. Mention Mega Sableye for being able to come in against Fighting-types such as Terrakion and how it can scare it out with Will-O-Wisp. I would also mention how Magic Bounce can keep harzards from coming down and Knock Off is great for getting rid of Heavy-Duty Boots from Pokemon like Tornadus-T, Zapdos etc. I would also add Weavile as a partner due io it greatly helping in the Flying- and Dragon-type matchup with taking down Torn-T, Landorus-T, and Garchomp.


[SET]
name: Bulk Up (Dark)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Wicked Blow
move 3: Bulk Up
move 4: Sucker Punch
item: Black Glasses
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu's powerful move wicked blow that always crits makes Urshifu a powerful wall breaker with Bulk Up allows Urshifu to hit as hard as Choice Band sets while still having fighting coverage and a priority move at its disposal. Avoid cross-refrecing sets, and this flows a bit awkardly. I would reword this to say Urshifu is a a good setup attacker with Bulk up thanks to its good attack, decent Speed, prority in Sucker Punch , Wicked Blow allowing it to always land a critial hit. Close Combat is one of Urshifu's powerful STAB moves of choice to hit defensive walls such as Ferrothorn and Mandibuzz along with other Steel, Dark, Rock, and Normal types. I would give examples here of Pokemon it can beat from those types, ie Porygon2, Tyranitar etc Wicked blow is used as Urshifu's main attack that allows it to do major damage to Pokemon such as (give examples) and covers Urshifu fighting STAB as it covers most types that resist or are immune to close combat such as Psychic, Ghost, and Poison. This isnt needed, this is going into the type chart. Buk Up allows Urshifu to hit harder than it normally would be able to with a Choice Band as Urshifu forces switch from what Pokemon and what can it set up on and what does the def boost help it live? it is able to set up for free in most cases along with Urshifu natural defensive bulk allowing it to tank most physical hits after a bulk up. Sucker Punch lets Urshifu revenge kill faster mons Give some examples like Victini, Gengar, Latios etc that have taken chip or if Urshifu has got enough Bulk Up's it may just outright OHKO them making room for Urshifu's teammates to win late game. I think i get the general point here, but explain what it can OHKO with a boosted Sucker Punch that it cant without it. Maximum investment in speed and attack with a Jolly nature lets Urshifu outspeed threats such as none scarf Tapu Lele and Mimikyu and OHKO them back. Urshifu's ability Unseen Fist lets it hit throw go though protect which makes Mu such as steel very easy as the steel user must correctly predict what move you have selected. which makes the breaking the common Steel-type team core of Ferrothorn, Celesteela, and Heatran much easier to beat.

Urshifu's is a massive benefit to all dark teams by breaking walls early game for its teammates or sweeping late game. Urshifu allows Hydreigon to run other sets besides sub Nasty plot as it breaks the similar types letting Hydreigon run Scarf, Taunt roost, and Specs sets. For Hydreigon point I would focus on running Choice Specs and what it can beat for Urshifu-S and what Urshifu-S can do in return for Hydreigon. As Urshifu is 4x weak to fairy Urshifu and all 3 coverage moves are uneffective to fairys teammates such as Bisharp, Drapion, and Gunk Shot Greninja are appreciated. I would go into more detail here, maybe split this up since Drapion is the only one really coming in on Fairy-type attacks. I would drop the Bisharp mention, and explain what Drapion does in the fairy mu sets Toxic Spikes, takes care of Tapu Koko, Tapu Bulu and Tapu Lele with Poison Jab. Then I would go into Greninja explain how Choice Scarf Gunk Shot OHKOs Tapu Koko and Tapu Lele, and then talk about how it can help greatly in the Dragon-type matchup late game and check a +1 Dragon Dance Mega Altaria. Along with Mandibuzz and Tyranitar to cover Urshifu's other weaknesses. Break these two up explain that Mandibuzz can come in on strong physical Fighting-type attacks from Mega Lopunny and Terrakion and can safely bring Urshifu-S in with U-turn. Then explain Tyranitar and how it can use Thunder Wave to slow down Pokemon to enable Urshifu-S to outpace them, then how Stealth Rock can help wear down Pokemon to make them easier to beat, then explain how its high Special Defesive allows it to come in against Tapu Koko and Hatterance and wear these down with Heavy Slam. You could mention on how it can get rid of Rain or Sun with Sand Stream as well. Urshifu great apprshaits Grimmsnarl to set up dual screens so it can set up with less pressure from the opposing pokemon. Mention Weavile as it helps greatly in the Flying- and Dragon-type mu with Tornadus-T, Zapdos, and Mega Latias. I would also mention Mega Sableye as it can use Magic Bounce to bounce back hazards, come in on Fighting-type attacks and use Knock Off to get rid of Heavy-Duty Boosts. Mega Tyranitar can also use a mention as it helps a lot in the Flying-type mu with Ice Punch, Stone Edge, and Dragon Dance.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

Dark

For Urshifu's Choice Band sets Poison Jab and Sucker Punch can be used over Iron Head and U-turn respectively. Urshifu's Bulk Up set's can run Drain Punch over Close Combat along with Leftovers over Black Glasses. A third set that Urshifu can also run is Choice Scarf but it's not used as Dark has superior Choice Scarfers such as Hydreigon or Weavile. Explain the downsides of running these over one of the sets or moves above.

Checks and Counters
===================

Dark

**Super-Effective Attackers** Pokemon with power super effective moves especially strong special attackers are able to OHKO Urshifu's such as Mega Diancie or Keldeo This needs to be reworded, say something like Pokemon such as Keldeo and Terrakion can OHKO Urshifu-S due to their super-effective attacks. I am also thinking we can make this one Fighting, since Fairy-types is another section below.

**Fairy-types** Fairy types pokemon that resist both of Urshifu's STAB are quite hard and will most likely OHKO Urshifu. I would reword this as well, as it is hard to read and lacks examples. Say Fairy-types such as Mega Diancie and Tapu Koko outpace Urshifu-S and OHKO Urshifu-S.

**Strong Special Attackers** Pokemon with powerful STAB coverage and outspeed Urshifu are a huge threat to it and will have no trouble OHKO Urshifu. I dont get what this is, give examples im thinking like Volcarona.

**Fighting-types** Fast and powerful fighting types such as Zapdos-Galar and Buzzwole will easily OHKO Urshifu with their STAB coverage. Merge this point with the first one.

**Flying-types** With strong STAB are able to do weaken outright OHKO Urshifu such as Tornadus-Therian or Zapdos-Galar. Reword this to Tornadus-T and Zapdos-G can take care of Urshifu-S thanks to Hurricune and Brave Bird respectfully.

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