VGC 21 Urshifu-R [QC 1/1] [GP 1/1]

[Namuko Pro]

[SET]
name: Offensive
move 1: Surging Strikes
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Detect
item: Focus Sash
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
in-battle alt: Gmax

[SET COMMENTS]

Urshifu-R has strong stats and an excellent offensive movepool, enabling it to function as perhaps the lone non-Restricted offensive Water-type that is not dependent on Dynamax in Series 11. Unseen Fist is a fantastic ability for an offensive Pokemon in VGC due to the ubiquity of Protect, and consequently Urshifu-R is able to put tremendous pressure on opposing teams that have limited options of mitigating Urshifu-R's damage output. Surging Strikes is Urshifu-R's best move, as being able to guarantee critical hits is fantastic in a metagame inundated with Intimidate users and screens setters, being able to OHKO Landorus-T and do heavy damage to or outright OHKO Incineroar. Close Combat offers a powerful secondary STAB move and can target Water-types and other Pokemon that resist Surging Strikes. Aqua Jet is a useful move to finish off weakened Pokemon and is oftentimes used to activate a partner Pokemon's Weakness Policy, such as Coalossal. Despite not Dynamaxing often, Urshifu-R opts to use its Gigantamax forme due to its ability to take out important Pokemon like Coalossal through Max Guard. Focus Sash is Urshifu-R's most common item and is useful to mitigate its mediocre bulk and defensive drops from Close Combat. However, while less common, Urshifu-R can run other items such as Mystic Water, Choice Band, and Choice Scarf to boost damage output or Speed and will opt for U-turn over Detect on Choice item sets.

In Series 11, Urshifu-R is most commonly used as an offensive support Pokemon on Coalossal teams, as it can utilize Aqua Jet to activate Coalossal's Weakness Policy and offer strong damage output to KO Pokemon weakened by G-Max Vocalith damage. The pair also have strong synergy, as Coalossal and Urshifu-R can threaten each other's most common checks, such as Landorus-T for Coalossal and Grass-types like Venusaur for Urshifu-R. The best choice for a Restricted Pokemon on these teams tends to be Zacian-C or Yveltal, and the rest of the team is typically filled out with Dragapult, Incineroar, and one of either Amoonguss or Rillaboom. However, Urshifu-R can also be a strong Pokemon on other teams that don't use Coalossal, as it still offers stellar offensive pressure that can compliment many Pokemon.


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- Written by: [[Namuko Pro, 426995]]
- Quality checked by: [[Yourwelcomethanku, 541847]]
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I'd like to see some of the highlighted wording changes so just ping me on Discord about those. Also if you can please fix your grammar a bit more. Note you used "and" a lot.
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name: Offensive
move 1: Surging Strikes
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Detect
item: Focus Sash
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
in-battle alt: Gmax

[SET COMMENTS]

Urshifu-R has strong stats and an excellent offensive movepool, which enables it to function as perhaps the lone non-Restricted offensive water-type(Removed space) that is not dependent on Dynamax in Series 11. Unseen Fist is a fantastic ability for an offensive Pokemon in VGC due to the ubiquity of Protect, and consequently Urshifu-R is able to put tremendous pressure on opposing teams who have limited options of mitigating Urshifu-R's damage output. Surging Strikes is Urshifu-R's best move, as being able to guarantee a critical hit is fantastic, especially in a metagame inundated with Intimidate users and Screens setters like S11. Surging Strikes also has the ability to OHKO both common Intimidate users in Incineroar (depending on item choice) and Landorus-T, giving increased synergy with Surging Strikes' ability to bypass Intimidate drops. (Reads pretty clunkily. I don't think you need to take 2 sentences explaining Surging Strikes, so try and condense these 2, while removing some of the less essential/fluffy information.) Close Combat offers a powerful secondary STAB move, and can target Water-types and other Pokemon that resist Surging Strikes. Aqua Jet is a useful move to finish off weakened Pokemon that have been taken to low HP by Urshifu-R's other strong attacks,(Pokemon can be weakened in more ways than Urshifu-R's attacks.) and its also oftentimes used to activate a partner Pokemon's Weakness Policy(I advise you to instead specifically mention Coalossal, unless I am missing something important.). Detect is used in the final moveslot, and allows Urshifu-R to take advantage of opponent's trying to focus it down and take it out quickly. (Detect does not need to be explained.) Despite not Dynamaxing often, Urshifu-R opts to use its Gigantamax form, due to its ability to take out important Pokemon like Coalossal through Protect and Max Guard, as well as Surging Strikes only giving a 90 BP Max Move Max Geyser in base Dynamax,(AC) form but a 130 BP Max Move in Gigantamax. Focus Sash is Urshifu-R's most common item, and its useful to mitigate Urshifu-R's mediocre bulk and defensive drops from Close Combat. However, wWhile less common in S11, Urshifu-R can run other items such as Mystic Water, Choice Band, and Choice Scarf to boost its damage output or speed, and it will opt for U-turn over Detect on Choiced sets.

In Series 11, Urshifu-R is most commonly used as an offensive support Pokemon on Coalossal teams, as it can utilize Aqua Jet to activate Coalossal's Weakness Policy and offer strong damage output to KO Pokemon weakened by Gmax Vocalith damage. The most common Restricted Pokemon on these teams are Zacian and Yveltal, (Yveltal is actually way less common so I advise you to change the wording, perhaps "best"?)and the rest of the team is typically filled out with Dragapult, Incineroar, and a one of the Grass-types like Amoonguss or Rillaboom. (Feel free to change the wording back, but are you really running a none amoonguss or rillaboom grass?) However, Urshifu-R can also be a strong Pokemon on other teams that don't use Coalossal, as it still offers stellar damage output and offensive pressure that can compliment many Pokemon.
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[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Namuko Pro, 426995]]
- Quality checked by: [[Yourwelcomethanku, 541847]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

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[SET]
name: Offensive
move 1: Surging Strikes
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Detect
item: Focus Sash
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
in-battle alt: Gmax

[SET COMMENTS]

Urshifu-R has strong stats and an excellent offensive movepool, which enables it to function as perhaps the lone non-Restricted offensive water type Water-type that is not dependent on Dynamax in Series 11. Unseen Fist is a fantastic ability for an offensive Pokemon in VGC due to the ubiquity of Protect, and consequently Urshifu-R is able to put tremendous pressure on opposing teams who have limited options of mitigating Urshifu-R's damage output. Surging Strikes is Urshifu-R's best move, as being able to guarantee a critical hit(could change this to ‘critical hits’ and remove the ‘a’, surging strikes hits multiple times) is fantastic, especially in a metagame inundated with Intimidate users and Screens screens setters like S11, with Surging Strikes being able to OHKO Landorus-T and do heavy damage to or outright OHKO Incineroar. Close Combat offers a powerful secondary STAB move, and can target Water-types and other Pokemon that resist Surging Strikes. Aqua Jet is a useful move to finish off weakened Pokemon, and is also oftentimes used to activate a partner Pokemon's Weakness Policy, such as Coalossal. Despite not Dynamaxing often, Urshifu-R opts to use its Gigantamax form, due to its ability to take out important Pokemon like Coalossal through Protect and Max Guard, as well as the fact that Surging Strikes becomes a 90 BP Max Geyser in Dynamax but becomes a 130 BP Max move G-Max Rapid Flow in Gigantamax. Focus Sash is Urshifu-R's most common item, and is useful to mitigate Urshifu-R's mediocre bulk and defensive drops from Close Combat. However, while less common, Urshifu-R can run other items such as Mystic Water, Choice Band, and Choice Scarf to boost damage output or speed, and will opt for U-turn over Detect on Choiced sets.

In Series 11, Urshifu-R is most commonly used as an offensive support Pokemon on Coalossal teams, as it can utilize Aqua Jet to activate Coalossal's Weakness Policy and offer strong damage output to KO Pokemon weakened by G-(AH)mMax Vocalith damage. The pair also have strong synergy as Coalossal and Urshifu-R can threaten each others' most common checks, such as Landorus-T for Coalossal and Grass types like Venusaur for Urshifu-R. The most Restricted choice on these teams tends to be Zacian(if you mean zacian crowned, put a -C after the ‘zacian’) or Yveltal, and the rest of the team is typically filled out with Dragapult, Incineroar, and one of either Amoonguss or Rillaboom. However, Urshifu-R can also be a strong Pokemon on other teams that don't use Coalossal, as it still offers stellar offensive pressure that can compliment many Pokemon.


[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Namuko Pro, 426995]]
- Quality checked by: [[Yourwelcomethanku, 541847]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

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[SET]
name: Offensive
move 1: Surging Strikes
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Aqua Jet
move 4: Detect
item: Focus Sash
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
in-battle alt: Gmax

[SET COMMENTS]

Urshifu-R has strong stats and an excellent offensive movepool, which enables enabling it to function as perhaps the lone non-Restricted offensive Water-type that is not dependent on Dynamax in Series 11. Unseen Fist is a fantastic ability for an offensive Pokemon in VGC due to the ubiquity of Protect, and consequently Urshifu-R is able to put tremendous pressure on opposing teams who that have limited options of mitigating Urshifu-R's damage output. Surging Strikes is Urshifu-R's best move, as being able to guarantee critical hits is fantastic, (RC) especially in a metagame inundated with Intimidate users and screens setters like S11, with Surging Strikes being able to OHKO Landorus-T and do heavy damage to or outright OHKO Incineroar. Close Combat offers a powerful secondary STAB move, (RC) and can target Water-types and other Pokemon that resist Surging Strikes. Aqua Jet is a useful move to finish off weakened Pokemon, (RC) and is oftentimes used to activate a partner Pokemon's Weakness Policy, such as Coalossal. Despite not Dynamaxing often, Urshifu-R opts to use its Gigantamax forme, (RC) due to its ability to take out important Pokemon like Coalossal through Protect and Max Guard, as well as the fact that Surging Strikes becomes a 90 BP Max Geyser in Dynamax but becomes a 130 BP G-Max Rapid Flow in under Gigantamax rather than a 90 BP Max Geyser under Dynamax. Focus Sash is Urshifu-R's most common item, (RC) and is useful to mitigate Urshifu-R's its mediocre bulk and defensive drops from Close Combat. However, while less common, Urshifu-R can run other items such as Mystic Water, Choice Band, and Choice Scarf to boost damage output or Speed, (RC) and will opt for U-turn over Detect on Choiced item sets.

In Series 11, Urshifu-R is most commonly used as an offensive support Pokemon on Coalossal teams, as it can utilize Aqua Jet to activate Coalossal's Weakness Policy and offer strong damage output to KO Pokemon weakened by G-Max Vocalith damage. The pair also have strong synergy, (AC) as Coalossal and Urshifu-R can threaten each others' other's most common checks, such as Landorus-T for Coalossal and Grass-types (AH) like Venusaur for Urshifu-R. The best choice for a Restricted choice Pokemon on these teams tends to be Zacian-C or Yveltal, and the rest of the team is typically filled out with Dragapult, Incineroar, and one of either Amoonguss or Rillaboom. However, Urshifu-R can also be a strong Pokemon on other teams that don't use Coalossal, as it still offers stellar offensive pressure that can compliment many Pokemon.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Namuko Pro, 426995]]
- Quality checked by: [[Yourwelcomethanku, 541847]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

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