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**Draft Order**: Round 4 onwards

**Price Range**: 12-13 points

**Overview**: Walking Wake is a premier threat on sun teams and a somewhat fast special attacker with strong STAB options in Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor. These traits can be boosted further by activating Protosynthesis with sun-setting teammates or Booster Energy. However, Walking Wake's shallow movepool, substantial price, and one-dimensional playstyle, often necessitating sun to unlock its fullest potential, lead to difficulty fitting it onto most rosters in favor of more flexible options.

[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Wallbreaker**: Walking Wake boasts fantastic raw power in the sun and can use both Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor alongside damage-boosting items to greatly dent opposing teams and force KOs.

**Late-game Cleaner**: Walking Wake can use Speed Booster Energy or Agility in tandem with Special Attack Booster Energy to become faster than the vast majority of Pokemon. By utilizing its strong STAB combination and offensive stats, especially alongside sun setters like Ninetales and Torkoal, Walking Wake can pick up KOs on weakened foes or clean up against the opposing team.

**Offensive Utility**: Walking Wake has access to some great utility options in Flip Turn, Knock Off, and Scald. These options allow it to support its team by maintaining some offensive prowess even when faced with Pokemon that can wall it.

Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB moves**: Hydro Steam, Hydro Pump, Surf, Scald, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse

**Setup moves**: Agility

**Utility moves**: Flip Turn, Knock Off, Substitute

**Coverage**: Flamethrower, Weather Ball, Hurricane

Niche Moves
========
**Dragon Dance / Physical Moves**: Walking Wake can use Dragon Dance to surprise checks that are anticipating strong special attacks, adequately boosting its physical STAB options and coverage to wallbreak or clean games.

**Sunny Day**: With Sunny Day, Walking Wake can set sun in emergencies to activate its own Protosynthesis and attempt to clean.

**Aqua Jet**: Despite Walking Wake's relatively low Attack, Aqua Jet can be useful in providing emergency speed control for scenarios where an opposing Pokemon is weakened.

**Roar**: Roar can be used as an emergency option to phaze boosting sweepers.

Common Items
========
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs is Walking Wake's strongest and most consistent form of boosting its damage output, working extremely well with a Protosynthesis Speed boost.

**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy is a great option on late-game cleaner sets, enabling it to cleave through the remnants of the opposing team.

**Life Orb**: Life Orb provides Walking Wake less damage output than Choice Specs would but grants it the benefit to change up moves.

Niche Items
========
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Walking Wake to outspeed most Pokemon, making it a good offensive utility move user or a revenge killer, and also has some use on a late-game cleaner set. However, Walking Wake can use Protosynthesis or Booster Energy to gain Speed for a similar effect and still be able to swap moves.

**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Heavy-Duty Boots enables Walking Wake to hit the field much more often, which is especially useful against entry hazards. It also helps pivot and utility sets proportionally more.

**Eject Pack**: With Eject Pack, Draco Meteor can be used on offensive utility sets as a nuclear one-time pivot option in certain matchups.

**Other Damage-boosting Items**: Items that increase overall damage, such as Mystic Water, Dragon Fang, and Expert Belt can be used as an alternative to Choice Specs on wallbreaking sets that want the freedom to swap moves.

**Leftovers**: Leftovers gives Walking Wake slightly more longevity and is a good fit on utility or Substitute sets.

**Assault Vest**: Assault Vest increases Walking Wake's special bulk while allowing it to maintain some offensive presence and is therefore a decent fit on offensive utility sets.

**Resistance Berries**: One-time resistance Berries can be used to let Walking Wake take a super effective attack from a strong foe and knock it out in return or set up with Agility.

Tera
========
Walking Wake is an effective Tera Captain on sun teams, being able to boost both STAB options to ludicrous levels of damage if allowed to use Tera Water or Dragon. Terastallization can also sometimes be used to hit a few of Walking Wake's checks with Tera Blast or to gain some survivability via defensive types like Steel and Fairy.

Draft Strategy
========
Walking Wake is a good option that complements an offensive sun core. Without sun, Walking Wake is extremely reliant on Booster Energy, loses out on a boosted Hydro Steam, and lacks most of the tools that make it worth drafting for its price.

**Sun Setter**: Walking Wake appreciates being paired with Torkoal or Ninetales to activate Protosynthesis.

**Entry Hazard Control**: Walking Wake appreciates entry hazards set by Deoxys-S, Sandy Shocks, and Ting-Lu to chip its checks, particularly those using Assault Vest into range of a KO. Hazard removal, typically from Great Tusk, can also allow Walking Wake to remain healthy in longer games. Cinderace is another solid choice to help sun teams manage hazards.

**Other Strong Wallbreakers**: Pokemon that synergize with Walking Wake's strong offensive profile can help increase the pressure it exerts. Pokemon like Hisuian Lilligant, Ogerpon-H, Gouging Fire, and Iron Moth can either help enable a late-game sweep or benefit from Walking Wake punching holes in the opposing team. In particular, other Protosynthesis or Chlorophyll Pokemon have great synergy with Walking Wake, as they also benefit from sun.

**Speed Control**: Despite being fast, Walking Wake is just slower than Pokemon with base 110 Speed, so having faster Pokemon, such as Darkrai, Cyclizar, and Meowscarada, are appreciated as speed control.

**Momentum**: Pokemon with access to pivot moves such as Pecharunt, Corviknight, and Roaring Moon can help bring Walking Wake in safely while putting foes in KO range.

Checks and Counters
========
**Specially Defensive Foes**: Pokemon such as Primarina, Empoleon, and Galarian Slowking can equip an Assault Vest or invest in Special Defense to punish Walking Wake with status or a strong attack after taking a hit.

**Faster Threats**: Choice Scarf users or Speed Booster Energy threats like Iron Valiant, Iron Bundle, and Latios can outspeed and knock it out, even if Walking Wake is using Speed Booster Energy itself or has a Choice Scarf.

**Chip Damage**: Walking Wake dislikes entry hazards and other forms of chip damage such as poison, burns, and Life Orb recoil, as they limit the amount of opportunities it has to wallbreak.

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I don't even like sun, but it's AMQC time!
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**Draft order**: Round 3 onwards

**Price range**: 12-13 13-14 points

**Overview**: Walking Wake is a strong and somewhat fast Special Attacker, with strong STAB options in Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor, further boosted by Protosynthesis with a great pivoting option in Flip Turn to bring in teammates. However, Walking Wake’s shallow movepool and one-dimensional playstyle, often necessitating Sun to unlock its fullest potential, lead to difficulty fitting Walking Wake on most rosters in favor of more diverse options.

I'd start the overview by stating that Walking Wake is "a premiere threat on sun teams" or something, this guy barely gets drafted outside of sun but he's the best guy in there

[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
why did you get rid of the "Sun Sweeper" role?

**Wallbreaker**: Walking Wake can position itself to break holes in opposing teams using its strong STAB options, often softening checks to aid its teammates in sweeping later. I could use this exact same sentence to describe any other wallbreaker. Talk about what sets Walking Wake apart for other guys (read: Hydro Steam)

**Offensive Utility**: Walking Wake can provide utility via Knock Off and Flip Turn to support teammates if walking Wake’s STAB options look unfavorable. move it to the bottom and mention Scald as well as Walking Wake's decent bulk and lack of weaknesses

**Late-game cleaner**: Walking Wake can use Booster Energy Speed or Agility in tandem with Booster Energy Special Attack to become faster than the vast majority of Pokemon. did Ninetales kill your grandfather? Why won't you mention sun on the #1 sun dude more often? By utilizing its good coverage strong STAB combination and offensive stats, Walking Wake can pick up KOs on weakened foes or clean up against the opposing team.

Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB moves**: Hydro Steam, Hydro Pump, Surf, Scald, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse

**Setup moves**: Agility

**Utility moves**: Flip Turn, Knock Off, Substitute Roar... maybe?

**Coverage**: Flamethrower, Weather Ball, Hurricane, Low Kick

Niche Moves
========
**Dragon Dance**: I've seen this quite a few times actually

**Sunny Day**: Walking Wake can set weather for the team in emergency situations or to activate its own Protosynthesis.

**Aqua Jet**: Despite Walking Wake's relatively low Attack, Aqua Jet can be useful in providing emergency speed control for scenarios where an opposing Pokemon is weakened.

Common Items
========
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs is Waling Wake’s highest and most consistent form of boosting its damage output.

**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy is a great option on late-game cleaner sets, enabling it to cleave through the remnants of the opposing team.

**Life Orb**:

Niche Items
========
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Walking Wake to outspeed most Pokemon, making it a good offensive utility move user or a revenge killer, and also has some use on a late-game cleaner set. I agree this is niche solely because Walking Wake is usually drafted on sun, but you don't emphasize this enough so it just comes off as weird since Walking Wake looks like a great scarf user on face value. Discuss how Walking Wake can just go Proto Speed in sun most of the time, making Choice Scarf useless unless it's not in sun or needs to super outspeed something

**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Heavy-Duty Boots enables Walking Wake to hit the field much more often, which is especially useful against entry hazards. It also helps pivot and utility sets proportionally more.

**Resistance Berries**: One-time resistance Berries can be used to take a super effective attack from a strong foe and knock them out in return or set up with Agility. bottom of niche

**Eject Pack**: Eject Pack in combination with Draco Meteor can be used as a one-time nuke and pivot option in certain matchups on offensive utility sets.

**Other damage-boosting items**: Items that increase overall damage such as? can be used as an alternative to Choice Specs on wallbreaking sets that want the freedom to swap moves.

**Leftovers**: Leftovers gives Walking Wake slightly more longevity and is a good fit on utility or Substitute sets.

**Assault Vest**: Assault Vest increases Walking Wake's special bulk while allowing it to maintain some offensive presence and is therefore a decent fit on offensive utility sets.

**White Herb**:

Tera
========
Walking Wake is an extremely effective Tera Captain, being able to boost both STAB options to ludicrous levels of damage if given the opportunity to use Tera Water or Dragon. Tera also grants Walking Wake additional coverage options to muscle through its checks, such as Tera Electric and Fairy Fire. Walking Wake isn't running Fairy for Tera Blast. Fairy is a good defensive type for it tho, keep the mention but in a different context

Draft Strategy
========
Walking Wake is a good early draft option that compliments an offensive core which greatly benefits from the Sun archetype. again, Walking Wake is pretty rare outside of sun teams, I'd stress that a little more here

**Weather setter**: Walking Wake appreciates Pokemon that can set sun like Torkoal and Ninetales to activate Protosynthesis.

**Hazard Control**: Walking Wake appreciates hazards set by Deoxys-S and Ting-Lu to chip its checks into range of a KO, as well as hazard removal from pokemon such as Great Tusk and Iron Treads come up with a third example to allow Walking Wake to remain healthy.

**Other Strong Breakers**: Pokemon that synergize with Walking Wake's strong offensive profile can help increase the pressure it exerts. Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Great Tusk, and Iron Moth can either help enable a late-game sweep or benefit from Walking Wake punching holes in the opposing team. In particular, other Protosynthesis Pokemon have great synergy with Walking Wake, as they also benefit from sun.

**Speed Control**: Despite being fast, Walking Wake is just slower than Pokemon with base 110 Speed, so having faster Pokemon, such as Darkrai, Tornadus-T, and Meowscarada, are appreciated as speed control.

**Momentum**: While Walking Wake is great at grabbing momentum with Flip Turn, other Pokemon with access to pivot moves such as Pecharunt and Roaring Moon can help bring Walking Wake in safely.

Checks and Counters
========
**Bulky Resists**: Pokemon such as Primarina, Galarian Slowking did Poison always resist Water?, and Ogerpon-W can take one hit and punish Walking Wake with status or a strong attack in return.

**Faster Threats**: Although Walking Wake is fast, Choice Scarf users or Booster Energy Speed threats like Iron Valiant, Iron Bundle, and Latios can outspeed and knock it out, even if Walking Wake itself is Booster Energy Speed or Choice Scarf.

**Entry Hazards**: Walking Wake dislikes hazards set by pokemon such as Ogerpon and Garchomp, due to limiting the amount of opportunities it has to break.

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**Draft order**: Round 3 4 onwards

**Price range**: 13-14 12-13 points

**Overview**: Walking Wake is a premier threat on Sun teams and somewhat fast Special Attacker with strong STAB options in Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor. These traits can be boosted further by Protosynthesis activated by fellow Sun-setting teammates or by Booster Energy, alongside a great pivoting move in Flip Turn to keep up momentum. it wants to attack to take advantage of sun turns & flip turn is a waste on booster sets However, Walking Wake’s shallow movepool, high price, and one-dimensional playstyle, often necessitating and reliance on Sun to unlock its fullest potential, lead to difficulty fitting Walking Wake on most rosters in favor of more diverse options.

[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Sun Sweeper**: Walking Wake becomes an extremely scary wallbreaker and sweeper under Sun thanks to Protosynthesis. This can either grant Walking Wake a boost to its Special Attack, increasing pressure on would-be walls, or Speed, thwarting faster threats and revenge-KOing them. this just fits under both wallbreaker & late game cleaner - just mention its sun sets there first, and then you can say "it can also work without sun by ..."

**Wallbreaker**: Walking Wake boasts fantastic raw power in the Sun and can use both Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor alongside damage-boosting items to greatly dent opposing teams or forcing KOs.

**Late-game Cleaner**: Walking Wake can use Booster Energy Speed or Agility in tandem with Booster Energy Special Attack to become faster than the vast majority of Pokemon. By utilizing its strong STAB combination and offensive stats, especially alongside Sun-setters like Ninetales or Torkoal, Walking Wake can pick up KOs on weakened foes or clean up against the opposing team.

**Offensive Utility**: Walking Wake has access to some great utility options in Flip Turn, Knock Off, and Scald. These options allow it to support its team with item removal, pivoting, and threatening Burn while maintaining some offensive prowess while investing more in its defensive profile. leaning towards removing this, itd rather be clicking buttons under sun, can see what qc2 says though

Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB moves**: Hydro Steam, Hydro Pump, Surf, Scald, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse

**Setup moves**: Agility

**Utility moves**: Flip Turn, Knock Off, Substitute, Roar

**Coverage**: Flamethrower, Weather Ball, Hurricane, Low Kick

Niche Moves
========
**Dragon Dance / Physical Moves**: Walking Wake can use Dragon Dance to surprise checks that are anticipating strong Special Attacks, boosting its physical STAB options and coverage to acceptable levels to wallbreak or clean games.

**Sunny Day**: With Sunny Day, Walking Wake can set weather for the team sun in emergency situations or to activate its own Protosynthesis.

**Aqua Jet**: Despite Walking Wake's relatively low Attack , Aqua Jet can be useful in providing emergency speed control for scenarios where an opposing Pokemon is weakened.

Common Items
========
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs is Waling Wake’s highest and most consistent form of boosting its damage output. mention that it works especially well with proto speed boost

**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy is a great option on late-game cleaner sets, enabling it to cleave through the remnants of the opposing team.

**Life Orb**: Life Orb provides Walking Wake less damage output than Choice Specs, but with the added benefit to change up moves.

Niche Items
========
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Walking Wake to outspeed most Pokemon, making it a good offensive utility move user or a revenge killer, and also has some use on a late-game cleaner set. However, Walking Wake can use Protosynthesis or Booster Energy to gain Speed for similar effect and still be able to swap moves.

**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Heavy-Duty Boots enables Walking Wake to hit the field much more often, which is especially useful against entry hazards. It also helps pivot and utility sets proportionally more.

**Eject Pack**: Eject Pack in combination with Draco Meteor can be used as a one-time nuke and pivot option in certain matchups on offensive utility sets.

**Other damage-boosting items**: Items that increase overall damage, such as Mystic Water, Dragon Fang, or Expert Belt can be used as an alternative to Choice Specs on wallbreaking sets that want the freedom to swap moves.

**Leftovers**: Leftovers gives Walking Wake slightly more longevity and is a good fit on utility or Substitute sets.

**Assault Vest**: Assault Vest increases Walking Wake's special bulk while allowing it to maintain some offensive presence and is therefore a decent fit on offensive utility sets.

**White Herb**: Walking Wake can use a White Herb to reset its Special Attack after one use of Draco Meteor to prevent opportunities for foes to take advantage of its lowered damage after taking a KO. no

**Resistance Berries**: One-time resistance Berries can be used to take a super effective attack from a strong foe and knock them out in return or set up with Agility.

Tera
========
Walking Wake is an extremely effective Tera Captain on sun teams, being able to boost both STAB options to ludicrous levels of damage if given the opportunity to use Tera Water or Dragon. Tera also grants Walking Wake additional defensive versatility with options such as Fairy or Steel and makes great use of Tera Electric, Grass, and Fire as ways to muscle through its checks offensively.

Draft Strategy
========
Walking Wake is a good early draft option that compliments an offensive sun core which greatly benefits from the Sun archetype. Without Sun, Walking Wake is extremely reliant on Booster Energy, loses out on boosted Hydro Steam, and lacks most of the tools that make it worth drafting for its price.

**Weather Sun setter**: Walking Wake appreciates Pokemon that can set sun like being paired with Torkoal and or Ninetales to activate Protosynthesis. its basically just those two

**Hazard Control**: Walking Wake appreciates hazards set by Deoxys-S and Ting-Lu to chip its checks into range of a KO, as well as hazard removal from pokemon such as Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Terapagos to allow Walking Wake to remain healthy.

**Other Strong Breakers**: Pokemon that synergize with Walking Wake's strong offensive profile can help increase the pressure it exerts. Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Great Tusk Gouging Fire, tusk already mentioned above & gouging can work well even with double dragon and Iron Moth can either help enable a late-game sweep or benefit from Walking Wake punching holes in the opposing team. In particular, other Protosynthesis or Chlorophyll Pokemon have great synergy with Walking Wake, as they also benefit from Sun.

**Speed Control**: Despite being fast, Walking Wake is just slower than Pokemon with base 110 Speed, so having faster Pokemon, such as Darkrai, Tornadus-T Cyclizar torn is bad on sun teams & wake kinda wants tera, and Meowscarada, are appreciated as speed control.

**Momentum**: While Walking Wake is great at grabbing momentum with Flip Turn, other it's not Pokemon with access to pivot moves such as Pecharunt and Roaring Moon can help bring Walking Wake in safely while putting the foes in KO range.

Checks and Counters
========
**Bulky Resists**: Pokemon such as Primarina, Tinkaton, and Ogerpon-W can take one hit and punish Walking Wake with status or a strong attack in return. just change to specially defensive foes, & you can mention assault vest too

**Faster Threats**: Although Walking Wake is fast, Choice Scarf users or Booster Energy Speed threats like Iron Valiant, Iron Bundle, and Latios can outspeed and knock it out, even if Walking Wake itself is Booster Energy Speed or Choice Scarf.

**Entry Hazards**: Walking Wake dislikes hazards set by pokemon such as Ogerpon and Garchomp, due to limiting the amount of opportunities it has to break. change to chip damage, can also mention poison, life orb chip, etc

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2/2 still counting pharma's though
**Draft order**: Round 4 onwards

**Price range**: 12-13 points

**Overview**: Walking Wake is a premier threat on Sun teams and somewhat fast Special Attacker with strong STAB options in Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor. These traits can be boosted further by Protosynthesis activated by fellow Sun-setting teammates or by Booster Energy. However, Walking Wake’s shallow movepool, high substantial price, and one-dimensional playstyle, often necessitating Sun to unlock its fullest potential, lead to difficulty fitting Walking Wake on most rosters in favor of more diverse flexible options.

[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Wallbreaker**: Walking Wake boasts fantastic raw power in the Sun and can use both Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor alongside damage-boosting items to greatly dent opposing teams or forcing and force KOs.

**Late-game Cleaner**: Walking Wake can use Booster Energy Speed or Agility in tandem with Booster Energy Special Attack to become faster than the vast majority of Pokemon. By utilizing its strong STAB combination and offensive stats, especially alongside Sun-setters like Ninetales or Torkoal, Walking Wake can pick up KOs on weakened foes or clean up against the opposing team.

**Offensive Utility**: Walking Wake has access to some great utility options in Flip Turn, Knock Off, and Scald. These options allow it to support its team with item removal, pivoting, and threatening Burn while maintaining by maintaining some offensive prowess while investing more in its defensive profile. even when faced with Pokemon that can wall it.

Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB moves**: Hydro Steam, Hydro Pump, Surf, Scald, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse

**Setup moves**: Agility

**Utility moves**: Flip Turn, Knock Off, Substitute, Roar (move to niche)

**Coverage**: Flamethrower, Weather Ball, Hurricane

Niche Moves
========
**Dragon Dance / Physical Moves**: Walking Wake can use Dragon Dance to surprise checks that are anticipating strong Special Attacks, boosting its physical STAB options and coverage to acceptable levels to wallbreak or clean games.

**Sunny Day**: With Sunny Day, Walking Wake can set sun in emergency situations to activate its own Protosynthesis and attempt to clean.

**Aqua Jet**: Despite Walking Wake's relatively low Attack, Aqua Jet can be useful in providing emergency speed control for scenarios where an opposing Pokemon is weakened.

Common Items
========
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs is Waling Wake’s highest and most consistent form of boosting its damage output, working extremely well with a Protosynthesis Speed boost.

**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy is a great option on late-game cleaner sets, enabling it to cleave through the remnants of the opposing team.

**Life Orb**: Life Orb provides Walking Wake less damage output than Choice Specs, but with the added benefit to change up moves.

Niche Items
========
**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Walking Wake to outspeed most Pokemon, making it a good offensive utility move user or a revenge killer, and also has some use on a late-game cleaner set. However, Walking Wake can use Protosynthesis or Booster Energy to gain Speed for similar effect and still be able to swap moves.

**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Heavy-Duty Boots enables Walking Wake to hit the field much more often, which is especially useful against entry hazards. It also helps pivot and utility sets proportionally more.

**Eject Pack**: Eject Pack in combination with Draco Meteor can be used as a one-time nuke and pivot option in certain matchups on offensive utility sets.

**Other damage-boosting items**: Items that increase overall damage, such as Mystic Water, Dragon Fang, or Expert Belt can be used as an alternative to Choice Specs on wallbreaking sets that want the freedom to swap moves.

**Leftovers**: Leftovers gives Walking Wake slightly more longevity and is a good fit on utility or Substitute sets.

**Assault Vest**: Assault Vest increases Walking Wake's special bulk while allowing it to maintain some offensive presence and is therefore a decent fit on offensive utility sets.

**Resistance Berries**: One-time resistance Berries can be used to take a super effective attack from a strong foe and knock them out in return or set up with Agility.

Tera
========
Walking Wake is an effective Tera Captain on sun teams, being able to boost both STAB options to ludicrous levels of damage if given the opportunity to use Tera Water or Dragon. Tera also grants Walking Wake additional defensive versatility with options such as Fairy or Steel and makes great use of Tera Electric, Grass, and Fire as ways to muscle through its checks offensively. Tera can also sometimes be used to hit a few of Walking Wake's checks with Tera Blast or to gain some survivability via defensive types like Steel and Fairy.

Draft Strategy
========
Walking Wake is a good option that compliments an offensive sun core. Without sun, Walking Wake is extremely reliant on Booster Energy, loses out on boosted Hydro Steam, and lacks most of the tools that make it worth drafting for its price.

**Sun setter**: Walking Wake appreciates being paired with Torkoal or Ninetales to activate Protosynthesis.

**Hazard Control**: Walking Wake appreciates hazards set by Deoxys-S, Sandy Shocks, and Ting-Lu to chip its checks into range of a KO, particularly those using Assault Vest. as well as h Hazard removal from Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Iron Treads, and Terapagos to allow Walking Wake to remain healthy., typically from Great Tusk, can also allow Walking Wake to remain healthy in longer games. Cinderace is another solid choice to help sun teams manage entry hazards.

**Other Strong Breakers**: Pokemon that synergize with Walking Wake's strong offensive profile can help increase the pressure it exerts. Pokemon like Iron Valiant, Hisuian Lilligant, Ogerpon-H, Gouging Fire, and Iron Moth can either help enable a late-game sweep or benefit from Walking Wake punching holes in the opposing team. In particular, other Protosynthesis or Chlorophyll Pokemon have great synergy with Walking Wake, as they also benefit from Sun.

**Speed Control**: Despite being fast, Walking Wake is just slower than Pokemon with base 110 Speed, so having faster Pokemon, such as Darkrai, Cyclizar, and Meowscarada, are appreciated as speed control.

**Momentum**: Pokemon with access to pivot moves such as Pecharunt, Corviknight, and Roaring Moon can help bring Walking Wake in safely while putting foes in KO range.

Checks and Counters
========
**Specially Defensive Foes**: Pokemon such as Primarina, Empoleon, and Galarian Slowking or Tinkaton, can equip an Assault Vest or invest in Special Defense to punish Walking Wake with status or a strong attack after taking a hit.

**Faster Threats**: Choice Scarf users or Booster Energy Speed threats like Iron Valiant, Iron Bundle, and Latios can outspeed and knock it out, even if Walking Wake itself is Booster Energy Speed or Choice Scarf.

**Chip Damage**: Walking Wake dislikes entry hazards set by Pokemon such as Ogerpon and Garchomp, and other forms of chip damage such as Poison, Burn, or Life Orb recoil due to limiting the amount of opportunities it has to break.

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**Draft Order**: Round 4 onwards

**Price Range**: 12-13 points

**Overview**: Walking Wake is a premier threat on sun teams and a somewhat fast special attacker with strong STAB options in Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor. These traits can be boosted further by activating Protosynthesis activated by fellow Sun-setting with sun-setting teammates or by Booster Energy. However, Walking Wake’s Wake's (curly → ASCII apostrophe) shallow movepool, substantial price, and one-dimensional playstyle, often necessitating sun to unlock its fullest potential, lead to difficulty fitting Walking Wake on it onto most rosters in favor of more flexible options.

[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Wallbreaker**: Walking Wake boasts fantastic raw power in the sun and can use both Hydro Steam and Draco Meteor alongside damage-boosting items to greatly dent opposing teams and force KOs.

**Late-game Cleaner**: Walking Wake can use Speed Booster Energy Speed or Agility in tandem with Special Attack Booster Energy Special Attack to become faster than the vast majority of Pokemon. By utilizing its strong STAB combination and offensive stats, especially alongside Sun-setters sun setters like Ninetales or and Torkoal, Walking Wake can pick up KOs on weakened foes or clean up against the opposing team.

**Offensive Utility**: Walking Wake has access to some great utility options in Flip Turn, Knock Off, and Scald. These options allow it to support its team by maintaining some offensive prowess even when faced with Pokemon that can wall it.

Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB moves**: Hydro Steam, Hydro Pump, Surf, Scald, Draco Meteor, Dragon Pulse

**Setup moves**: Agility

**Utility moves**: Flip Turn, Knock Off, Substitute

**Coverage**: Flamethrower, Weather Ball, Hurricane

Niche Moves
========
**Dragon Dance / Physical Moves**: Walking Wake can use Dragon Dance to surprise checks that are anticipating strong special attacks, adequately boosting its physical STAB options and coverage to acceptable levels to wallbreak or clean games.

**Sunny Day**: With Sunny Day, Walking Wake can set sun in emergencies to activate its own Protosynthesis and attempt to clean.

**Aqua Jet**: Despite Walking Wake's relatively low Attack, Aqua Jet can be useful in providing emergency speed control for scenarios where an opposing Pokemon is weakened.

**Roar**: Roar can be used as an emergency option to phase out phaze boosting sweepers.

Common Items
========
**Choice Specs**: Choice Specs is Waling Wake’s highest Walking Wake's strongest and most consistent form of boosting its damage output, working extremely well with a Protosynthesis Speed boost.

**Booster Energy**: Booster Energy is a great option on late-game cleaner sets, enabling it to cleave through the remnants of the opposing team.

**Life Orb**: Life Orb provides Walking Wake less damage output than Choice Specs (RC) with would but grants it the added benefit to change up moves.

Niche Items
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**Choice Scarf**: Choice Scarf allows Walking Wake to outspeed most Pokemon, making it a good offensive utility move user or a revenge killer, and also has some use on a late-game cleaner set. However, Walking Wake can use Protosynthesis or Booster Energy to gain Speed for a similar effect and still be able to swap moves.

**Heavy-Duty Boots**: Heavy-Duty Boots enable enables Walking Wake to hit the field much more often, which is especially useful against entry hazards. It also helps pivot and utility sets proportionally more.

**Eject Pack**: With Eject Pack, in combination with Draco Meteor (RC) can be used on offensive utility sets as a nuclear one-time nuke and pivot option in certain matchups on offensive utility sets.

**Other Damage-boosting Items**: Items that increase overall damage, such as Mystic Water, Dragon Fang, or and Expert Belt can be used as an alternative to Choice Specs on wallbreaking sets that want the freedom to swap moves.

**Leftovers**: Leftovers gives Walking Wake slightly more longevity and is a good fit on utility or Substitute sets.

**Assault Vest**: Assault Vest increases Walking Wake's special bulk while allowing it to maintain some offensive presence and is therefore a decent fit on offensive utility sets.

**Resistance Berries**: One-time resistance Berries can be used to let Walking Wake take a super effective attack from a strong foe and knock them it out in return or set up with Agility.

Tera
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Walking Wake is an effective Tera Captain on sun teams, being able to boost both STAB options to ludicrous levels of damage if allowed to use Tera Water or Dragon. Tera Terastallization can also sometimes be used to hit a few of Walking Wake's checks with Tera Blast or to gain some survivability via defensive types like Steel and Fairy.

Draft Strategy
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Walking Wake is a good option that complements an offensive sun core. Without sun, Walking Wake is extremely reliant on Booster Energy, loses out on a boosted Hydro Steam, and lacks most of the tools that make it worth drafting for its price.

**Sun Setter**: Walking Wake appreciates being paired with Torkoal or Ninetales to activate Protosynthesis.

**Entry Hazard Control**: Walking Wake appreciates entry hazards set by Deoxys-S, Sandy Shocks, and Ting-Lu to chip its checks, (AC) particularly those using Assault Vest into range of a KO, particularly those using Assault Vest into range of a KO. Hazard removal, typically from Great Tusk, can also allow Walking Wake to remain healthy in longer games. Cinderace is another solid choice to help sun teams manage entry hazards.

**Other Strong Wallbreakers**: Pokemon that synergize with Walking Wake's strong offensive profile can help increase the pressure it exerts. Pokemon like Hisuian Lilligant, Ogerpon-H, Gouging Fire, and Iron Moth can either help enable a late-game sweep or benefit from Walking Wake punching holes in the opposing team. In particular, other Protosynthesis or Chlorophyll Pokemon have great synergy with Walking Wake, as they also benefit from sun.

**Speed Control**: Despite being fast, Walking Wake is just slower than Pokemon with base 110 Speed, so having faster Pokemon, such as Darkrai, Cyclizar, and Meowscarada, are appreciated as speed control.

**Momentum**: Pokemon with access to pivot moves such as Pecharunt, Corviknight, and Roaring Moon can help bring Walking Wake in safely while putting foes in KO range.

Checks and Counters
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**Specially Defensive Foes**: Pokemon such as Primarina, Empoleon, and Galarian Slowking can equip an Assault Vest or invest in Special Defense to punish Walking Wake with status or a strong attack after taking a hit.

**Faster Threats**: Choice Scarf users or Speed Booster Energy Speed threats like Iron Valiant, Iron Bundle, and Latios can outspeed and knock it out, even if Walking Wake itself is using Speed Booster Energy Speed itself or has a Choice Scarf.

**Chip Damage**: Walking Wake dislikes entry hazards and other forms of chip damage such as poison, Burn burns, or and Life Orb recoil, (AC) as they limit due to limiting the amount of opportunities it has to break wallbreak.

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