LC Zubat

Fiend

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[OVERVIEW]
Zubat has abysmal stats and a movepool that is not much better. Zubat is impressively weak even with Brave Bird, and it is so frail that even switching into Fighting-types and their coverage moves is difficult. Similarly, despite being a Poison-type, Zubat struggles to even beat Snubbull and Spritzee, as it lacks a viable Poison-type STAB move. With Vullaby, Doduo, and Rufflet available in the tier, there is no reason to attempt to use Zubat, as they are all much stronger.

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Brave Bird
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Defog
move 4: Pursuit
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Jolly
evs: 36 HP / 236 Atk / 236 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Scarf takes advantage of the only positive traits Zubat has: 16 Speed and U-turn. This gives Zubat some ability to be useful in a match, though Vullaby and Rufflet serve essentially the same purpose with their vastly superior stats and coverage.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fiend, 208173]]
- Quality checked by: [[Merritt, 213064], [Nineage, 195129]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Estronic, 240732]]
 
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Merritt

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[OVERVIEW]
I'd suggest rephrasing the bit about Fairy-types to make it clearer that despite Zubat being a Poison-type it's unable to effectively fight the viable Fairy-types in LC because right now it reads almost like Spritzee and Snubbull are ideal counters/are directly responsible for Zubat being bad.

[SET]
good

[SET COMMENTS]
yep

[CREDITS]
Get rid of the [/QUOTE] you have hanging around in there, make sure that grammar check has the second ] at the end

1/2
 

Nineage

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Instead of saying "alright speed" in the set comments, I would actually specify the Speed it hits. Usually this is too much information for a pseudo, but I think if you are selling it as the only decent trait it makes sense to include it here. Otherwise this is good, 2/2.
 

Astra

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[OVERVIEW]
Zubat has abysmal stats and a movepool which that is not much better. Zubat is impressively weak even with Brave Bird, and it is so frail that even switching into Fighting-types (do you mean fighting-type moves? specify if this is referring to moves if so) is difficult. Similarly, despite being a Poison-type, Zubat struggles to even beat Snubbull and Spritzee, (AC) as it lacks a viable Poison-stab Poison-type STAB move. With Vullaby, Doduo, or and Rufflet available in the tier, there is no reason to even (you can replace this with a similar word or just remove it altogether; you used even a lot in here so this helps to reduce repetition) attempt to use Zubat, as they are all much stronger.

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Brave Bird
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Defog
move 4: Pursuit
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Inner Focus
nature: Jolly
evs: 36 HP / 236 Atk / 236 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Scarf takes advantage of the only positive traits Zubat has: 16 Speed and U-turn. This gives Zubat some ability to be useful in a match, though again Vullaby or and Rufflet serve essentially the same purpose with their vastly superior stats and coverage.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fiend, 208173]]
- Quality checked by: [[Merritt, 213064], [Nineage, 195129]]
- Grammar checked by: [[<username1>, <userid1>]]
1/1 :blobthumbsup:
 

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