Published [ZU] Appletun

[Akotelette]

Appletun @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Apple Acid
- Dragon Pulse
- Dragon Tail / Gyro Ball
- Recover

An apple a day keeps the doctor away! Appletun's great HP stat, solid special bulk, and reliable recovery let it act as a strong specially defensive wall in the ZU metagame. Apple Acid weakens switch-ins such as Orthworm, Camerupt, and defensive Venusaur by lowering their Special Defense, making them increasingly vulnerable to Appletun and its teammates. Dragon Pulse serves a similar role against Pokemon that don't care much about Apple Acid's Special Defense drops. Dragon Tail lets Appletun phaze Pokemon that would otherwise sit on it indefinitely or use it as setup fodder due to its passivity, such as Articuno, Orthworm, and Toxicroak. Despite Appletun's poor Attack stat, its very low Speed still allows Gyro Ball to 2HKO Whimsicott, offensive Tera Fairy Mesprit, and Cryogonal. Gyro Ball also synergizes with Tera Steel, boosting its damage and turning Appletun's weaknesses to Ice-, Flying-, Poison-, Bug-, Dragon-, and Fairy-type moves into resistances while keeping Fire-type damage neutral thanks to Thick Fat. Appletun is best utilized on balance team as an answer to some setup Pokemon and most offensive Fire-types in the tier, taking advantage of the entry hazards from teammates such as defensive Froslass.

 

[diego]

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Appletun @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Apple Acid
- Dragon Pulse
- Dragon Tail / Gyro Ball
- Recover



One apple a day keeps the doctor away!

Appletun's great HP stat, solid special bulk, and reliable recovery allow it to act as a strong specially defensive wall in the ZU metagame. Apple Acid is the main attacking move, allowing Appletun to progressively weaken common switch-ins such as Orthworm, Camerupt, and defensive Venusaur by lowering their Special Defense. This makes them increasingly vulnerable to Appletun itself or to its teammates.

Dragon Pulse serves a similar role, allowing Appletun to weaken Pokemon that would otherwise not care much about Apple Acid's Special Defense drops. Dragon Tail allows Appletun to act as a great phazer and punish Pokémon that would otherwise sit on it indefinitely due to its passivity add examples.

Gyro Ball is an option over Dragon Tail despite Appletun's overall poor physical Attack stat. Thanks to its very low Speed, Gyro Ball can still deal significant damage, allowing Appletun to 2HKO Whimsicott and offensive Tera Fairy Mesprit and cryo, which can otherwise take advantage of it.

add a sentence on what tera steel does for it defensively (you can also mention boosting gyro damage but mostly focus on the defensive applications)

Appletun is best utilized on a balanced team, allowing it to act as an answer to some setup Pokémon and most offensive Fire-types in the tier. It can also take advantage of the entry hazards that teammates such as defensive Froslass can set up beforehand.

pm me on discord when implemented

 

[Akotelette]

GP Team

 

[Rahul]

this was wayyy over the limit (1312 characters) i've brought it down to 1018. i haven't cut out any important metagame information it was mostly just grammar stuff but tagging y'all to have a good look again Akotelette diego. if all looks good this is ready to implement otherwise ping me again thanks.
1/1 GP Team done

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Appletun @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Apple Acid
- Dragon Pulse
- Dragon Tail / Gyro Ball
- Recover

One An apple a day keeps the doctor away! Appletun's great HP stat, solid special bulk, and reliable recovery allow let it to act as a strong specially defensive wall in the ZU metagame. Apple Acid is the main attacking move, allowing Appletun to progressively weaken common weakens switch-ins such as Orthworm, Camerupt, and defensive Venusaur by lowering their Special Defense (RP) This makes , (AC) making them increasingly vulnerable to Appletun itself or to and its teammates. Dragon Pulse serves a similar role (RC) allowing Appletun to weaken Pokémon against Pokemon that would otherwise not don't care much about Apple Acid's Special Defense drops. Dragon Tail allows lets Appletun to act as a great phazer and punish Pokémon phaze Pokemon that would otherwise sit on it indefinitely or use it as setup fodder due to its passivity, such as Articuno, Orthworm, (AC) and Toxicroak. Gyro Ball is an option over Dragon Tail despite Despite Appletun's overall poor physical Attack stat (RP), (AC) Thanks to its very low Speed (RC) Gyro Ball can still deal significant damage, allowing Appletun allows Gyro Ball to 2HKO Whimsicott, offensive Tera Fairy Mesprit, and Cryogonal (RC) which can otherwise take advantage of it. It . (AP) Gyro Ball also synergizes with Tera Steel, boosting Gyro Ball's its damage and turning its Appletun's weaknesses to Ice-, Flying-, Poison-, Bug-, Dragon-, and Fairy Fairy-type moves into resistances (RC) while keeping Fire-type damage neutral thanks to Thick Fat. Appletun is best utilized on a balanced team, allowing it to act balance teams as an answer to some setup Pokémon Pokemon and most offensive Fire-types in the tier (RP) It can also take , (AC) taking advantage of the entry hazards that from teammates such as defensive Froslass can set up beforehand.

 

[diego]

i’d just keep the “some” before “setup pokemon” in the last sentence since it in fact does not answer all setup mons but just some of them